... Chapter IV The Physical Mind and Sadhana The Activity of the Physical Mind Activity of the physical mind is not a new thing that needs to take root. It has been there very well rooted since you began your human evolution in the primaeval forests. What you have now seen and describe in your letter is the ordinary activity of the physical mind which is full of ordinary habitual... perfection of the physical mind ] can come only by farther development and the activity of another kind of knowledge communicating itself to the physical and taking up gradually the functions of the mind in all its parts. The Unsteadiness of the Physical Mind The unsteadiness you speak of is the nature of the human physical mind—almost everybody has it, for the physical mind goes after all sorts... short time because it is contrary to the habits of the physical mind. Perseverance is necessary. At the same time there should be a call for the help of the Divine Power above the mind; for if one can open to that, the process can be more rapid. The Obscurity of the Physical Mind What you felt was the obscurity of the external physical mind and nature (the centre in the throat is the centre of ...
... (Question:) So what is perturbed if not the body? Oh, it's the physical mind, this idiotic mind! That's what causes no end of trouble. But then what suffers? It's also through this physical mind, for if we calm that individual we no longer suffer! That's exactly what happened to me. You see, this physical mind makes use of the nervous substance; if we withdraw it from the nervous substance... is the physical mind. The first “mentalization” of matter. It is the barrier. And at the same time, it is the way toward an even more radical discovery, an even deeper layer: that of the cellular mind which not only contains the power to undo our old habits of misfortune, but to undo the typal habit of each species, and finally the old habit of dying. 5 The Physical Mind This... prevent you from feeling the pain while you would normally start screaming, or they make you do “impossible” things contrary to all our “you-can'ts” — they abolish this physical mind for a moment. In fact, all doctors act on this physical mind — sometimes to heal but more often to fix the illness. In our higher consciousness, we make fun of this repetitious, timorous caricature, we scoff at it and send it ...
... doubts of their physical mind; or, having once had those experiences, forgetting, minimising or denying them altogether afterwards. If only they knew the secret of silencing or transcending the physical mind, faith would return as naturally as dawn returns after the night; but they cling to its obscurity which they mistake for light. And when the reasoning mind is allied to the physical mind, we have the... light into the physical mind. Once the rays of the soul penetrate and permeate the physical mind, it will tend to lose its habitual tendency to doubt and depression, and develop the capacity for sustained aspiration, Page 274 devotion and self-offering. There is another remedy which may prove more immediately effective: it is to step back from the unpurified physical mind, which is the... which disarms all fear of incomprehension in those who have the will, a subtle and flexible intelligence, and the necessary concentration to follow him in his expositions. THE PHYSICAL MIND The physical mind is that part of our mind which is linked to our physical and nervous organism through the brain and preoccupied with the gross objects of sense. It is the lowest and most materialised ...
... a broad use of the term "physical mind" in two talks of hers and to a vague reference in them to some writing or letter of Sri Aurobindo's in the past. She says on 18 December 1971: "I heard something written by Sri Aurobindo saying that for the Supramental to manifest upon earth the physical mind must receive it and manifest it - and it is just the physical mind, that is to say, the body... intelligence" (pp. 326-27). We may consider the "physical mental", which Sri Aurobindo designates "the true physical mind" (p. 328), as the high part of the physical mind, and the "mental physical" at its best operation as the low one. Page 63 Another "part of the physical mind" (p.329), a "much' lower action of the mental physical" (p.327), is "the mechanical mind...which, left... immortality of the body, but the consciousness of immortality in the body; that can come with the descent of Overmind into Matter or even into the physical mind, or with the touch of the modified Supramental Light on the general physical mind-consciousness. These are preliminary openings, but they are not the Supramental fulfilment in Matter." ³ We may now formulate the whole negative position ...
... much to quiet the physical mind and give it an inward source of deeper action. In the human physical mind there is always a tendency not to understand or to misunderstand and to interpret according to its own notions. That can only be removed by the Light in the mind and the power everywhere which refuses to accept suggestions of disturbance. It is the physical mind that finds it difficult... Yes, it [ the physical mind ] reasons, but on the basis of external data mostly—on things as they appear to the outer mind and senses or the habitual ideas to which it is accustomed or to a purely external knowledge. That part of the being [ the physical mind ] has no reason except its whims, its habits or an inclination to be tamasic. The physical mind is in the habit of observing... movements, desires etc. and its ideas and judgments are not pure. In physical mind there can be an action of intelligent reasoning and coordination which is a delegation from the Buddhi Page 169 and would perhaps not be attributed to the Manas by the old psychology. Still the larger part of the action of physical mind corresponds to that of Manas, but it comprises also much of what we would ...
... removed my control and Page 94 left the control to the physical mind - it is the physical mind which doubts. So I made the following experiment: I went into a room, then came out of the room and closed the door. I had decided to close the door; and when I came to another room this mind, the material mind, the physical mind, you see, said, 'Are you sure you have locked the door?' Now, I did... due to a too active physical mind, seeing too Page 95 many things or too many ideas at a time." 12 From what has been stated above regarding the disturbances of the physical mind, it should be apparent that the obsessive-compulsive neurosis - characterized by obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviour, indecision, etc. - is related chiefly to the physical mind. Disturbances... of the characteristics of physical consciousness Page 86 when these manifest through the "physical mind" (part of the mind interfused with physical consciousness) or through the "physical vital" (part of the vital which is interfused with physical consciousness). The terms "physical mind" and "physical vital" will become clearer when we describe the psychological disturbances pertaining ...
... greatest obstacle.¹ This pessimism is repeated constantly in the operations of the physical mind, and since the physical mind is like a layer on the mind of the cells, it covers up the normal dumb occult consciousness of the cellular mind; the cellular mind, too, under the magic spell of the physical mind betrays a reflected pessimism. But as Mother discovered, pessimism and the resultant illness... disturbed if not the body? Oh, it's the physical mind, this stupid mind! It makes all the trouble, always. It isn't the body at all? No! The body is VERY enduring. Then what suffers? Suffering also comes through the physical mind, because if this entity is calmed down, we no longer suffer—exactly what happened to me! The physical mind, you see, makes use of the nervous substance;... and repetitive as the physical. The cellular mind is the mind of the cells, the mind which is overtly active in the animals, but which has been overlaid in our human psychology by the physical mind. The physical mind, as a product of evolution, evolved in Matter under the pressure of difficulties, even, of suffering; hence, there is in it an imprint of pessimism and defeatism. As Mother pointed out: ...
... in the physical mind which is accustomed to such thoughts and so readily receives them from any force that chooses to put them in. Sometimes a part of me gets drawn into noting how the Mother puts her hand on a sadhak's head at pranam and also how long she keeps it there. This seems a stupid movement of the physical mind. Why does it go on? The physical mind is in the... beginning. Is the physical mind right in thinking that I should not write to you about the usual wrong reactions of the outer being? It may be better, provided that does not mean allowing the reactions to grow and get worse. Is it really the physical mind that says so? Is it then not true that the normal physical mind would rather enjoy such reactions... the inner mind centre and the seventh centre (sahasradal padma). It must be the physical mind interfering and preventing the free ascension. Page 224 Why is my physical mind not happy with your answers to what I write? Something in your physical mind stiffens and begins to defend its views. It is better to wait till it is more supple and plastic ...
... first of all, you realize that it is the physical Mind that furiously magnifies the reaction, flails about, panics, imagines things, writhes every which way and tries to block the current as much as possible, which naturally feels obstructed and opens up its own passage... painfully, through the howling negation of the physical Mind. Because for the physical Mind, everything is a catastrophe—it would... Mother, "what is disturbed if it's not the body?" Oh, its the physical mind, this stupid mind! It makes all the trouble, always. "It's not the body?" I insisted. No! "But then what suffers?" Suffering also comes through the physical mind, because if this entity is calmed down, we no longer suffer—exactly what happened to me! The physical mind, you see, makes use of the nervous substance; if we withdraw... envelops the cells of the body. The black glue of the physical Mind.... And one begins to get out of the cage. One begins, very slightly and imperceptibly, to lift up the veil of death. One begins to touch the real body, to touch true Matter. Because this discovery is far more prodigious than we think, let us repeat once more: it is "the physical mind that gives the perception of sensation"—hence all ...
... be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light." Face to face with such a clear-cut statement our sole task is to use as exegesis on its conjunction of physical mind, Supermind and Mind of Light... Aurobindo we must seize the meaning of the words, "physical mind", employed by the Mother. Elucidation of them will also elucidate those two other terms of hers: "the mind" and "the vital". Evidently these terms denote parts of our nature that are to be distinguished from the physical mind and the physical vital. After the physical mind, the physical vital is what has to receive the s... not subliminal is the physical mind. Likewise the physical vital, broadly speaking, is all that functioning of the life-force which is not subliminal vitality: the outward-thrown energy of the mighty creators, destroyers, achievers no less than the body-confined organic process and desire-play is then the physical vital. The physical vital and the physical mind are not only life-force ...
... The Throat Centre The throat centre is the centre of the physical mind, the external will and the expression. Yes [ the throat centre is the physical mind centre ]. It is the centre of externalisation,—speech, expression, the power to deal mentally with physical things etc. Its opening brings the power to open the physical mind to the light of the divine consciousness instead of remaining... g (physical) mind, the heart is the emotional mind and beginning of the higher vital. If the heart centre is dominated by the physical mind to any extent, it will necessarily be open to the outer attacks that affect the physical and nervous consciousness. The heart has to be in connection with the psychic and the higher consciousness. The centre in the throat is that of the physical mind and... commands the lower vital (physical desires, small greeds, passions etc.). The throat centre is not the vital—it is the physical mind, the expressive externalising consciousness. What you feel may be the vital taking hold of the physical mind and using it for expression. The physical mind centre is in the throat and mouth—the vital physical is between the two lowest centres—the material consciousness ...
... wholly material mind. The other, the physical mind, was organised long ago. Then what is the difference between this material mind and the physical mind? The physical mind is the mind of the physical personality formed by the body. It grows with the body, but it is not the mind of Matter: it is the mind of the physical being. For example, it is this physical mind which gives the character—the bodily... discipline of this physical mind. More than sixty years ago I did it. But then, for example, this mind which is spontaneously defeatist, having all sorts of fears, apprehensions, always seeing the worst, repeating always the same things, is it the physical mind or the material mind? That is the most unconscious part of the physical mind and that is the link joining the physical mind and this material... future. It came to it, as if to tell it: "It will be like that." If that remains, it is evident immortality. How do you define this physical mind which was made the object of the transfer of power? It is not the physical mind. It is long since the physical mind has changed.... It is the material mind—not even the material mind: it is the mind of Matter . It is the mental substance which belongs ...
... persisted. 2 That's the mind I mean, that completely material mind. The other one, the physical mind, has been organized for a long time. So what is the difference between this material mind and the physical mind? How would you define the physical mind in contrast with this material mind? The physical mind is the mind of the physical personality formed by the body. It grows with the body, but... this physical mind. I have done it for more than sixty years. Page 229 But then, that mind, for instance, which is spontaneously defeatist, which has all sorts of fears and worries, which sees the worst, repeats the same things forever, is that the physical mind or the material mind? It is the most unconscious part of the physical mind, and that's what connects the physical mind with... ( Regarding the conversations of August 21 and August 28 on the "transfer of power": ) How do you define this physical mind, the one that underwent the transfer of power? That isn't the physical mind. The physical mind, it's a long time since... It is the material mind—not even the material mind: the mind OF MATTER. 1 It is the mental substance that belongs ...
... You ask whether the mind and vital do not come in the way as well as the physical. Yes, but when I speak of the physical consciousness, I mean the physical mind and the physical vital as well as the body consciousness proper. This physical mind and physical vital are concerned with the small ordinary movements of life and are governed by a very external view of things and by habitual small reactions... the present stage. These experiences, however passing, are meant to prepare and do prepare the different parts of the nature. They [ the physical mind and vital physical ] are very near to it [ the Inconscient ]—except that part of the physical mind which is trained to deal with physical objects and affairs. But that is agile and active and competent only in its own limits. When it has to deal... formations of them in its own province. Therefore we have a physical mind as well as a vital mind and the mind proper; we have a vital physical part in us—the nervous being—as well as the vital proper; and both are largely conditioned by the gross material bodily part which is almost entirely subconscient to our experience. The physical mind is that which is fixed on physical objects and happenings ...
... charlatanism of the vital being but would not by itself amount to madness, though it may sometimes seem to go very near it. Ordinarily if the physical mind is strong it either rejects or else keeps these demonstrations within certain bounds. But in this case the physical mind also broke down. The coarse kind of violence exhibited is due to the rough and coarse character of the physical being. So much I see... truth is that all these thoughts and activities are Nature's and come, into us or pass through us as waves from the Universal Nature. It is our egoism and our limitation in the body and individual physical mind which prevent us from feeling and experiencing this truth. It is a great step to be able to see and feel the truths as he is now doing. This is of course the complete knowledge. As the knowledge... safety and is here very indispensable. 2) GIRIN. "An intellectual and philosophic temperament but there is something heavy below." I think that the heaviness is in the vital being and the physical mind and may cause considerable obstruction but if these two can be cleared and illuminated there may be behind a fund of conservative energy and steadiness which will be useful. 3) JAGATPRASANNA ...
... charlatanism of the vital being but would not by itself amount to madness, though it may sometimes seem to go very near it. Ordinarily if the physical mind is strong it either rejects or else keeps these demonstrations within certain bounds. But in this case the physical mind also broke down. The coarse kind of violence exhibited is due to the rough and coarse character of the physical being,—so much I see... truth is that all these thoughts and activities are Nature's and come into us or pass through us as waves from the universal Nature. It is our egoism and our limitation in the body and individual physical mind which prevent us from feeling and experiencing this truth. It is a great step to be able to see and feel the truth as he is now doing. This is not of course the complete knowledge. As the knowledge... safety and is here very indispensable. 2) Girin "An intellectual and philosophic temperament but there is something heavy below." I think that the heaviness is in the vital being and the physical mind and may cause considerable obstruction but if these two can be cleared and illuminated there may be behind a fund of conservative energy and steadiness which will be useful. 3) Jagat Prasanna ...
... charlatanism of the vital being but would not by itself amount to madness, though it may sometimes seem to go very near it. Ordinarily if the physical mind is strong it either rejects or else keeps these demonstrations within certain bounds. But in this case the physical mind also broke down. The coarse kind of violence exhibited is due to the rough and coarse character of the physical being. So much I see... truth is that all these thoughts and activities are Nature's and come into us or pass through us as waves from the Universal Nature. It is our egoism and our limitation in the body and individual physical mind which prevent us from feeling and experiencing this truth. It is a great step to be able to see and feel the truths as he is now doing. This is of course the complete knowledge. As the knowledge... safety and is here very indispensable. 2) GIRIN. “An intellectual and philosophic temperament but there is something heavy below.” I think that the heaviness is in the vital being and the physical mind and may cause considerable obstruction but if these two can be cleared and illuminated there may be behind a fund of conservative energy and steadiness which will be useful. 3) JAGAT PRASANNA ...
... use, satisfaction and entertainment of his physical and sensational existence. For the physical mind takes its stand on matter and the material world, on the body and the bodily life, on sense-experience and on a normal practical mentality and its experience. All that is not of this order, the physical mind builds up as a restricted superstructure dependent upon the external sense-mentality. Even... has to bring into the mind and make active in mind, life and body the spiritual principle. The Life Divine, pp. 717-20 The Physical Mind The true thinking mind does not belong to the physical, it is a separate power. The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with the physical things only — it depends on the sense-mind, sees only objects, external actions... power for progress or only for a material progress. It is our first mental status, but the mental being cannot remain always at this lowest rung of the human evolutionary ladder. Above physical mind and deeper within than physical sensation, there is what we may call an intelligence of the life-mind, dynamic, vital.... The vital man... is the man of desire and sensation, the man of force ...
... It is probably because the physical mind has come up into activity and finds difficulty in receiving the knowledge. But even when the physical mind is quiescent and there is only silence, still the knowledge does not come. It is still the stuff of the physical mind which must receive it and, as that physical mind is too obscure, it does not come. ... emptiness, one can last in it for years together, - it is because the vital is restless and full of desires (not empty) that it is like that. Also the physical mind is by no means at rest. If the desires were thrown out and the ego less active and the physical mind at rest knowledge would come from above in place of the physical mind's stupidities, the vital mind would be calm and quiet and the Mother's Force... When what you write is correct, I say nothing - when it is your physical mind that brings in wrong ideas, I correct. Formerly you had to correct hardly anything I wrote! Why this difference between now and then? It is because you have come down from the mental into the physical - therefore the physical mind comes across the knowledge. Page 202 ...
... It is not by a general descent that people come out of the physical mind. If one chooses to remain in the physical mind, one million descents can come down and make no difference to him. Page 58 My physical mind often insists on mental questions and guidance. That insistence of your physical mind comes up very strongly whenever the sadhana is interrupted. It... get rid of what is in it? The question is whether they merely act upon it or act within it and occupy that plane of the nature. Page 57 PHYSICAL MIND Are not the physical mind and the intellect two separate parts of our being? They are closely connected and act together. At times suggestions come: "You meditate for so long and... When I tried to resume my French lessons, the mind proper was completely absent. The physical mind found the activity too difficult to support. Some parts of the being wanted to read stories, but I continued to study. It is what people usually do in life - they control the physical mind and don't allow it to do whatever it likes. What is lacking in your French study is ...
... ten years. Not that the Mind of the cells had not tried, many times, to supplant the physical Mind, but each time it was as if engulfed again or, at best, it passively obeyed the higher Mind and the spiritual Vision, like a baby somewhat crushed by its parents of Light. Even when released from the sordid physical Mind, it shyly turned to the “higher” Light so as to “do its best”⎯but that best was worth... that the union, the fusion, the identification with the Supreme Presence [or the Power, the “other thing,” the great Current] without that, WITHOUT THIS PHYSICAL MIND, by annulling it, caused fainting 4 . Which means that the physical Mind was a kind of link, of connector between Matter (or the body) and the Power that drives, animates Matter⎯ suppress it and nothing holds the Current anymore... sanctified and purified, the whole old improved evolutionary jumble. It took the radical cleanup of 1968 for those cells to be freed from the “good” of the higher Mind as well as the “evil” of the physical Mind⎯for them to be themselves, purely. And this was when the miracle truly started. It is the secret that every “man” of the next species will have to discover⎯and which will probably be easier to discover ...
... get in those fits. These thoughts have no light in them and no truth, for the physical mind which engenders this routine wheel of suggestions is shut up in surface appearances and knows nothing of deeper truth or the things of the spirit. There is plenty of "increment", but with this superficial part of the physical mind it is not likely or possible that you can see it. Your impression of the dwindling... of time does not come in the way as there is no day on which I do not devote some time to thinking of you and concentrating for you. The difficulty lies in the removal of the obstruction in the physical mind, what you feel as the impasse. But it will go if you persevere. I have seen only today, as well as often recently, how what seemed to be denied and impossible for years (bringing about a state of... musicians and artists to receive things—they can even be received complete and direct, though oftenest with some working of the individual mind and consequent alteration—from a plane above the physical mind, a vital world of creative art and beauty in which these things are prepared and come down through the fit channel. The Page 282 musician, poet or artist, if he is conscious, may ...
... Physical Consciousness One of the chief functions of the physical mind is to doubt. If you listen to it, it will always find a thousand reasons for doubting. But you must know that the physical mind is working in ignorance and full of falsehoods. The Mother Words of the Mother - II: The Mind Sweet Mother, is the physical mind the same as the mechanical mind? Almost. You see, there... there is just a little difference, but not much. The mechanical mind is still more stupid than the physical mind. The physical mind is what we spoke about one day, that which is never sure of anything. I told you the story of the closed door, you remember. Well, that is the nature of the physical mind. The mechanical mind is at a lower level still, because it doesn’t even listen to the possibility of... separate power. The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with the physical things only—it depends on the sense mind, sees only objects, external actions, draws its ideas from the data given by external things, infers from them only and knows no other Truth—until it is enlightened from above. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Mind The physical mind is that which is ...
... and thoughts that are reflexes to the touch of external things. The physical mind can deal only with outward Page 23 things. One has to think and decide in other things with the mind itself (buddhi), not with the physical part of it. This morning the mind — the physical mind, most probably — became very obstinate and refused to concentrate or to receive... troubled. What exactly is it that gets caught? That is the physical mind. The physical and the mechanical mind are closely connected. Repetition is the habit of the mental physical — it is not the true thinking mind that does like that, it is the mental physical or else the lowest part of the physical mind. From this morning to this evening, I was in a somewhat passive... and ignorant guide. What is the function of the physical thoughts? They are concerned with physical things, ordinary external experiences, habitual thought and action. The physical mind looks at these things from a superficial point of view, taking things as they seem and dealing with them in what appears to it to be a practical ordinary way. When the mind is psychicised ...
... justify them are, I repeat, notions only of the physical mind, not true things—e.g. the notion that you cannot understand a given idea (intellectually accepting or not accepting is another matter); for it is perfectly certain that your thinking intelligence is quite trained enough to understand anything that is put before it. It is only the physical mind that is limited even in the most intelligent... the usual stupidity of the physical mind—if it were so, it is not you who would be unfit for the Yoga, but myself who would be unfit to be in the search for the Divine Truth anybody's guide. For one can lead through lesser to greater Truth, but not through falsehood to Truth. As for your fitness or unfitness for the Yoga, it is not a question on which your physical mind can be an unerring judge—it... physical and subconscient always takes a long time as it is a thing of habits and constant repetitions of the old movements, obscure and stiff and not plastic, yielding only little by little. The physical mind can be more easily opened and converted than the rest, but the vital physical and material physical are obstinate. The old things are always recurring there without reason and by force of habit ...
... up after it has once stopped troubling? Now it is the physical mind that is active in you and the Page 26 physical mind gives a value and therefore a power to the lower vital which it did not have before. It is the physical consciousness that has to change, so that the physical mind and physical vital may also change. When the physical... of Sri Aurobindo's, written to another disciple. However, it should be noted that here he speaks only of one mind, the physical mind, and not of the mechanical and subconscient minds which are much more difficult to manage and master: "It is the nature of the physical mind to be obstinate. Physical nature exists by constant repetition of the same thing — only a constant presentation of different... have an aspiration in the inner being, if the inner being keeps its separateness. This difficulty is due to old habits of the physical mind and vital, which still have the power to repeat themselves by rising from the subconscient and as your physical mind and vital still respond you are not able to stop the disquietude. When they respond no longer, then there will be no disquietude. ...
... receive all the consequences Page 97 of these vibrations. Because of its ingrained fear, the physical mind constantly puts us in contact with the direst possibilities; it always contemplates the worst. This obsession has little importance in ordinary life, where the activities of the physical mind are lost in the general hubbub, and where we are, in fact, protected by our very lack of receptivity... ions for all our desires and impulses, and then a "physical mind" that repeats the same incidents a thousand times over like a broken record. But there is a deeper layer still, a mental bedrock, as it were, that Sri Aurobindo calls the cellular mind . This is actually a mind of the cells or of groups of cells, very similar to the physical mind in its inexhaustible capacity for repeating the same... layers had to be silenced: a thinking mind , which makes up our regular reasoning process; a vital mind , which justifies our desires, feelings and impulses; there is also a far more troublesome physical mind , whose conquest is as important for physical mastery as the conquest of the thinking mind and the vital mind are for mental and vital mastery. It would indeed seem that the mind is the scapegoat ...
... surrender on the part of the physical mind and the vital-physical part. For instance, I am told that you had not asked the Mother to grant you an interview on the eve of your departure from here. Your physical mind drew back from this self-offering, thinking that the Mother would Herself grant it without its asking. Don't mind, please, if I say that it was the ego in the physical mind that misled you. Be like... (physical) mentality. So far as I can see it was neither written from nor for the physical mind. It is a message of the Divine, sprung from the Divine consciousness, and addressed to the intelligence of Arjuna. No spiritual gospel has ever come from the physical mind, nor has it ever been addressed to the physical mind of man. Arjun was a highly developed Sattwa-rajasic man with great possibilities... and told you about it. But, as you know, whenever a definite progress is made in sadhana, there is invariably a sudden raid of adverse forces to oppose or obstruct it. In your case, it was your physical mind that got loose and began to judge and criticise the work done in the Ashram. I am sure you have seen enough of our Ashram life to realise that it is not the human mind, even at its best, that conducts ...
... another or from a Guru to his disciple or from myself to my disciples is possible. It is therefore not really a doubt arising from the reason but one that comes from the vital and physical mind that is troubling you. The physical mind doubts all that it has not itself experienced and even it doubts what it has itself experienced if that experience is no longer there or immediately palpable to it—the vital... do some hard work in the opposite direction. The help (I am not speaking of a divine intervention from above but of my help and the Mother's) will be there. It can be effective in spite of your physical mind, but it will be more effective if this steady working will of which I speak is there as its instrument. There are always two elements in spiritual success—one's own steady will and endeavour and... sceptical about what I find myself doubting, e.g. the subjective and elusive and vague character of spiritual experiences and their seeming so far away to us mortals. When I think on these lines (the physical mind alas!), I justify such doubts and think it legitimate to have some translation of these in the world of hard reality. But when I find Tagore and Rolland and Russell express the same kind of doubts ...
... inevitable physical Mind, the remarkable something that was formed with man and caused the transition from animal to man. There is no physical mind in animals; there is only a cellular mind. The cage exists only for us. The "Inconscient," which every tradition places at the beginning of time like a kind of primal rock, is in fact a human phenomenon. It is a phenomenon of the physical Mind: it is the... 13. The Paths of Universalization The web was not going to be undone in a day and the pure cellular mind simply appear, released from the hypnotism of the physical mind. That would have to wait until 1965. The true body has to be wrested from the night of the world, from the whole world. For the obstacles that prevent one from getting "over there" are not unfortunate... The Secret is to know what is missing, not to know what is here. There is a sort of veil to be lifted somewhere in our consciousness. We are always wondering if this veil is not the famous physical mind: the "deformation's spell" Sri Aurobindo spoke of. A cellular spell. True Matter When the meshes of the web loosen a little as a result of the impersonalization, as well as from the hammering ...
... g, and this physical mind has developed in quite an extraordinary way. It has become... (what should I say?) far more conscious, first of all, far more organized and methodical in its work. So if it's your physical mind, something can be done—I'll try. I can try to do something at night. The mind, I can't do anything about it anymore, I no longer have a mind; but the physical mind, I can. It... regularly, and that was the time when you would tell me that you were completely unconscious! ( Mother laughs ) I feel that the key I lack is the key of the physical mind. Physical? Physical, yes. If I could get a grip on this physical mind so as to make it work spontaneously on true things rather than work on stupid things, if it worked automatically, then even at night it would be... Yes... No, not at all. I have to put pressure on it. That's right. Page 235 But how to get hold of it, I don't know. ( after a silence ) Oh, but if it's the physical mind... Because it's the physical mind that's now developing 2 [in Mother] out of all proportions foreseen as possible, while Sri Aurobindo himself thought it wasn't possible; he said it's better to get rid of it ...
... these things as what they really are, incursions of dark forces from outside taking advantage of certain openings in the physical mind or the vital part, but not a real part of oneself or spontaneous creation in one's own nature. To create a confusion and darkness in the physical mind and throw into it or awake in it mistaken ideas, dark thoughts, false impressions is a favourite method of these assailants... untrained mind like X 's cannot be expected to realise the secret machinery of the movements of his own consciousness. The vital mind is part of the mind. If mind (mental mind, vital mind, physical mind, subconscient mind) does not respond to Page 185 outer things, depression is impossible. The self at one end, the stone at the other never get into depression. In between them, the true... insisted on the difficulty of the sadhana. I have never said that to overcome doubt is easy; I have said on the contrary that it was difficult because it was the nature of something in the human physical mind to cling to doubt for its own sake. I have never said that to overcome grief, depression, gloom and suffering was easy; I have said that it was difficult because something in the human vital clings ...
... things as what they really are, incursions of dark forces from outside taking advantage of certain openings in the physical mind or the vital part, but not a real part of oneself or spontaneous creation in one’s own nature to create a confusion and darkness in the physical mind and to throw into it or awake in it mistaken ideas, dark thoughts, false impressions is a favourite method of these... temporary, even if persistent, condition which would disappear with the removal of its cause. I may point out that this condition which tries to justify itself by the facts it sees – for the physical mind is always strong on apparent facts and triumphantly appeals to them and its inferences from them as conclusive and irrefutable – almost always sees wrongly or imperfectly and, even when the facts... As to the experience, certainly Janak Kumari’s call for help did reach the Mother, even though all the details she relates in her letter might not have been present to the Mother’s physical mind. Always calls of this kind are coming to the Mother, sometimes a hundred close upon each other and always the answer is given. The occasions are of all kinds, but whatever the need that occasions ...
... the brain, expressing those elements of the physical mind that refuse to be transformed. 6 April 1935 I think that one gets the psychic consciousness only when the psychic comes to the surface. Or when one can go deep enough inside to enter into contact with one's psychic being. So what should I do about the resistance of the physical mind? It is preventing me from studying and giving... never tried to judge me. It is in calm that one can unify one's being around the highest aspiration. 14 February 1935 I would like to know which parts try to judge You. A part of the physical mind and the most material vital. 15 February 1935 O Mother, when will I become humble? It will come soon, I think, since you have recognised your mistake. 15 February 1935 I... must be an inner change, and until then, calm, aspiration. Yes, that is right. You must constantly aspire for the inner change, you must have the will for the light to come into the obscure physical mind, and you must calmly wait for the result of this aspiration and will. 11 October 1935 I don't understand the difference between willing and aspiring, or how to do both things at once. ...
... already begun in his time. The second thing is that our physical mind is not well developed. Being a dependent nation we have no scope for large action and therefore the development of our physical minds is poor. There must be something positive in the physical mind, an element that grasps at the Reality. In its own nature, the physical mind refuses to believe anything else except Matter to be real... where was the defect in him ? Sri Aurobindo : The defect was in the physical mind. There was also weakness in the physical nervous system. I cannot be sure whether that was due to something in the very material constitution of the body itself. The Power that he pulled into himself was too much for the physical mind and the nerves. His physical being also is very weak. When the higher Power... diseases are cured – by that the harmony is again restored. 19-9-1926 (There was a discussion between two Disciples – one of them was a doctor. The doctor's idea was that in samadhi the physical mind is still, and if we look only to the physical body, then it seems that the veinous blood collects in the brain and brings about a sort of anaesthesia of the brain. When the brain is thus completely ...
... like Mother's vision! The physical Mind sleeps (dozing in meditation) and is not aware of the river, and you cross it perfectly. You wake up (or come out of your meditation) and you become aware of the river—and you have to swim across it, or take a boat, a device: the millions of devices and gadgets that the physical Mind has built in its cage. It is the physical Mind that is aware of the difficulty... suddenly said: Material knowledge, I think—I mean the higher use of the physical Mind, which keeps you from entering the true room. Because I simply kept repeating, "I WANT TO GO THERE" (in other words, it was a crystal clear, imperative will).... "I have to say: I WANT TO GO—not that, not your methods!" 6 The physical Mind that makes you tilt into the mortal room. And immediately I was reminded... an octopus. So now, the "one must die to death" makes perfectly good sense—all this must cease to have any meaning. But the meaning has to be undone in the body, this sort of hypnotism of the physical Mind that imprisons the free and clear consciousness of the cellular Mind for which all this simply does not exist. One goes into the other room, and it no longer exists. Another life in life ...
... we cannot get back from the physical mind to the higher planes or degrees of consciousness without receding from the waking state, without going in and away from it and losing touch with the material world. Hence to those who desire to have the experience of these higher degrees, trance becomes a desirable thing, a means of escape from the limitations of the physical mind and nature. Samadhi or Yogic... between Samadhi and normal sleep, between the dream-state of Yoga and the physical state of dream. The latter belongs to the physical mind; in the former the mind proper and subtle is at work liberated from the immixture of the physical mentality. The dreams of the physical mind are an incoherent jumble made up partly of responses to vague touches from the physical world round which the lower mind-faculties... the experience of the normal physical mind with regard to planes in which it is not at home. It is not the truth that the Self in the third status called perfect sleep, suṣupti , is in a state of slumber. The sleep self is on the contrary described as Prajna, the Master of Wisdom and Knowledge, Self of the Gnosis, and as Ishwara, the Lord of being. To the physical mind a sleep, it is to our wider and ...
... Page 51 —especially the questions about why and how which your physical mind so persistently puts. It is the physical mind that raises all these questions and cannot understand or give the right answer. The real knowledge and understanding can only come if you stop questioning with the small physical mind and allow a deeper and wider consciousness which is there within you to come... the peace and the force work. As for understanding, it is your physical mind that wants to understand, but the physical mind is incapable of understanding these things by itself—for it has no knowledge of them and no means of knowledge. Its standards also are quite different from the standards of the true knowledge. All the physical mind can do is to be quiet and allow the light to come into it, accepting... of consciousness. Even the same thought-substance can take higher or lower vibrations according to the plane of consciousness through which the thoughts come in (e.g., thinking mind, vital mind, physical mind, subconscient mind) or the power of consciousness which catches them and pushes them into one man or another. Moreover there is a stuff of mind in each man and the incoming thought uses that for ...
... and taking, growth and expansion, etc. The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with physical things only; limited by the physical view and experience of things, it mentalises the experience brought by the contact of outward life and things, but does not go beyond that. The mechanical mind, closely connected with the physical mind, goes on repeating without use whatever has happened... other Nature." (Sri Aurobindo); see also* Purusha. prāṇamaya puruṣa —soul in life; the (true) vital being. the physical (being) —not the body alone, but the whole physical mind, vital, material nature. physical mind —See under mind . physical vital —the part of the vital that is turned entirely upon physical things, full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical... life-nature (the life) —see the Vital . manomaya puruṣa (Manomaya Purusha) —mental Person, the mental being. mechanical mind —a part of the mind closely connected with the physical mind; its nature is to go on repeating without use whatever has happened—recent events, impressions, old habitual thoughts or ways of thinking and feeling. mind (the mental) —"mind" and "mental" ...
... earlier—similar, I will tell you in what. To begin with, last time I told you that this physical mind is being transformed; and three or four days ago, that is, before our last conversation, early in the morning I woke up abruptly in the middle of a sort of vision and activity, precisely in this physical mind. Which isn't at all usual for me. I was here in this room, everything was exactly as it is... looked, and didn't see anything. Through your letter and your words I looked, but didn't see anything. And I had the feeling it was this same physical mind that made contact with a formation—a malicious formation, because such is the habit of the physical mind. Now that the work is to rectify our way of being, we realize what it is!... It's really disgusting. It works constantly and is constantly... offered it all to the Lord and stopped thinking about Page 191 it. And when I received your letter, I thought, "It's the same thing!" The same thing, it's a sort of unhealthy need this physical mind has to seek the violent shock of emotions and catastrophes to awaken its tamas. Only, in the case of A. breaking his head, I waited two days, thinking, "Let us see if it happens to be true." But ...
... small indestructible, universal vibration. And as I did not understand very well back then what this new Mind was, I asked Mother: “How do you define this physical Mind, that which was subject to this transfer of power?”— That isn’t the physical Mind. It is the material Mind—not even the material Mind: the mind OF MATTER. It is the mental substance that belongs to Matter itself, to the cells. That’s what... vision, had entered Matter—but it is not really “entered,” it is all the opaque layers of consciousness to be traversed: it is only “at the end,” “over there,” on the other side of the sleep of our physical Mind. Once the curtain crossed, it is there , with one’s eyes wide-open, as “objective” as the table or the chair, and even more objective because it has more content of consciousness than a table or... “contagion” is in that Oneness. 90 An experience that is sufficiently contagious. But it is the whole experience of Sri Aurobindo and Mother: the collective wearing down of the veil of this physical Mind. If it is worn down in their bodies, it must be worn down in the body of the world. And sometimes Mother thought that She had caught the “tail of the solution,” as She would say. A sort of knowledge ...
... it clear that the obstruction in the throat is not physical, it is the obstruction of a formation of obscure force in the physical mind,—for the throat is the centre of the physical mind. In your other parts of the mental there is not any opposition, but here in the physical mind there is probably a habitual form of old external ideas which are rejected but something of them remains. It is this that... body consciousness, so that the body alone feels the pain, the mind and the vital are not affected. It is a detachment of even the physical mind from the pain that makes one able to go on as if nothing were there, but this detachment of the physical mind is not easy to acquire. It is by an attack on your physical consciousness that the old forces are bringing back the wrong condition... mind accepts it, it becomes clouded and confused and has to struggle back into harmony and clearness. It is so with the body consciousness and illness. You must not accept but reject it with your physical mind and so help the body consciousness to throw off the suggestion. If necessary, make a counter-suggestion, "No, I shall be well; I am and shall be all right." And in any case call in the Mother's ...
... মায়ের শিশু বলে নিজেকে চেনে, মায়ের কাছে, মায়ের কোলে থাকে – physical mind সেই কথা ভাবতে সেই সত্য উপলব্ধি করতে সহজে পারে না ৷ সেই জন্য সর্বদা গভীরে psychicএ থাকতে হয় ৷ যা ভিতরে তােমার soul জানে তা বাহির থেকে physical mind দিয়ে খোঁজা দরকার কি? যখন বাহিরের মনে সম্পূর্ণ আলাে আসবে তখন সেও জানবে ৷ 6.11.35 হ্যা, সমস্ত সত্তাকে (physical mind ও physical vital পৰ্য্যন্ত) একদিকেই ফিরাতে হয় ৷ তারাও যখন... ঊর্ধের দিকে উঠে যাচ্ছে ৷ উ: সে হচ্ছে প্রাণ ও দেহের শক্তি ঊর্দ্ধ সত্যের সঙ্গে মিলিত হবার জন্যে উঠে যাচ্ছে ৷ 7.3.34 ন: মা, যতই তােমার শক্তির শান্ত চাপ পড়ছে, ততই দেখি মাথা কামড়াছে ৷ উ: Physical mind খুল্লে সেরকম মাথা কামড়ান আর হবে না ৷ 7.3.34 ন: মা, ভেতরে যেসব সুন্দর অনুভূতি হয়, তাতে মনে করি যে এবার থেকে আমি এইরকম সুন্দরভাবেই সবসময় থাকব ৷ কিন্তু বহিঃপ্রকৃতিতে ও চেতনায় আসলে সব... উজ্জ্বল এক রূপ বার হয়ে আমাকে শান্ত আলােকিত করছে ৷ উ: এই হচ্ছে psychicএর সত্য অনুভূতি, খুব ভাল লক্ষণ ৷ ইহাই চাই ৷ 25.6.34 বাজে চিন্তা কে না করে – সব সময় মাকেই স্মরণ করে, কেহই পারে physical mind relax করে ৷ উদ্ধৃ চৈতন্য সম্পূর্ণ নামলে, তার পর হয় ৷ 26.6.34 স্বর্ণ = সত্য জ্ঞানময় চেতনা – রূপা = অধ্যাত্ম চেতনা ৷ 27.6.34 [ন’এর পত্রের “সাদা আলাে” এবং “অগ্নির মত আলাে” কথা ...
... help me. So, when I identified with him the other day during our meditation, I realized that he wanted to give silence, control and perfect peace to the physical mind. My own 'trick,' if you will, is to have as little relationship with the physical mind as possible, to go up above and stay there—this ( Mother indicates her forehead ), silent, motionless, turned upwards, while That ( gesture above the... the head ) sees, acts, knows, decides—all is done from there. Only there can you feel at ease. Page 417 Along the way, I once went down into this physical mind for awhile to try to set it right, to organize it a little (it was done rather quickly, I didn't stay there long). So when I went inside X, I saw ... It was rather curious, for it's the opposite of the method we follow. In his material... material consciousness (physical and vital), he has trained himself to be impersonal, open, limitless, in communication with all the universal forces. In the physical mind, silence, immobility. But in the speculative mind, the one there at the very top of the head ... what an organization, phew! ... All the tradition in its most superb organization, but such a ri-gi-dity! And it had a pretty quality of ...
... some resistance in the body itself. But what is a little unusual is the resistance of the physical mind, at this stage. Generally it comes at a later stage, and when it comes it is very obstinate. But in your case, it seems to rise now; this may be due to the fact that we all are working in the physical mind and the resistance is there. All rises at the same time. You have to wear it out. That is all... mind, that part which is busy with the form and the collection of forms, acquiring, dealing with objects, etc. YES, but that ought not to interfere with anything. This part of the mind, the physical mind, is useful and has to do its work. It is not bad unless it tries to impose its desire. But I suppose that is not so. What do you feel exactly? And you said you feel the force outside your-self;... vitality of the limbs retires in deep meditation and as I am not yet accustomed I feel a little pain — or there is an obstacle in the path of the force. There is an obstacle in the form of the physical mind. It is often the case with minds accustomed to be too active. They are not plastic enough, and they must wear out till they become fully passive to the divine force. Gradually this opposition will ...
... hypothesis or conceivable conjecture. It should be evident that this demand for physical valid proof of a supraphysical fact is irrational and illogical; it is an irrelevant attitude of the physical mind which assumes that only the objective and physical is fundamentally real and puts aside all else as merely subjective. A supraphysical fact may impinge on the physical world and produce physical... objectivisation to the outer sense, subtle-sense contacts, mind contacts, life contacts, contacts through the subliminal in special states of consciousness exceeding our ordinary range. Our physical mind is not the whole of us nor, even though it dominates almost the whole of our surface consciousness, the best or greatest part of us; reality cannot be restricted to a sole field of this narrowness... ary and miraculous or supernatural at its face-value, this may be admitted: but error is not the prerogative of the inner subjective or subliminal parts of us, it is also an appanage of the physical mind and its objective methods and standards, and such liability to error cannot be a reason for shutting out a large and important domain of experience; it is a reason rather for scrutinising it and ...
... through the outer instrument. But one cannot say that the physical mind knows God, for the very way of knowing that is characteristic of the mind is foreign to the Divine; one could even say that it is contrary to it. The physical mind itself can receive the divine influence and be transformed by it, but so long as it remains the physical mind, it can neither understand nor explain God, much less know... know Him; for to know God one must be identified with Him and for that the physical mind must cease to be what it is now, and consequently cease to be the physical mind. The capacity to know God can be achieved in the lower triplicity—the mind, the vital and the physical—only with the supramental transformation, and this comes only just before the ultimate realisation which consists in becoming divine... see how I can tell Him what He ought to be. For what is the standard by which we can judge Him? These judgments are the follies of our egoism. Is it possible to know God, even with one's physical mind, once one has experienced identification? After consciously identifying itself with the Divine, the entire being even in its external parts—mental, vital and physical—undergoes the consequences ...
... come back, they are not conscious of having dreamed. In the sleep the consciousness goes into other planes and has experiences there and when these are translated perfectly or imperfectly by the physical mind, they are called dreams. All the time of sleep such dreams take place, but sometimes one remembers and at other times does not at all remember. Sometimes also one goes low down into the subconscient... experiences you had there (of the Mother coming in the heart and telling you) were psychic in character, not of the vital dream kind. The difficulty you have in sadhana may come from the vital or physical mind becoming active. That often happens after the first experiences of calm and silence. One has to detach oneself from these activities in meditation as a witness and call down the original calm into... As for the bad dreams, you should not allow them to upset you, but reject them as untrue. How do you say that vital dreams have no link or reason? They have their own coherence, only the physical mind cannot always get at the clue by following which the coherence would unroll itself. For that matter the sequences of physical existence are coherent to us only because we are accustomed to it and ...
... make the nature of the supramental sense understood to a mentality not yet familiar with it by enlarged experience, because our idea of sense action is governed by the limiting experience of the physical mind and we suppose that the fundamental thing in it is the impression made by an external object on the physical organ of sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and that the business of the mind, the... under the head of psychical phenomena. In a certain sense it is an awakening of the psyche, the inner soul now hidden, clogged wholly or partially covered up by the superficial activity of the physical mind and senses that brings to the surface the submerged or subliminal inner vital consciousness and also an inner or subliminal mental consciousness and sense capable of perceiving and experiencing... suggestions and images, false and distorted Page 874 intuitions and inspirations and impulses, the latter often even depraved and perverse, and vitiated too by the interference of the physical mind and its obscurities. This is an inferior activity to which clairvoyants, psychists, spiritists, occultists, seekers of powers and siddhis are very liable and to which all the warnings against the ...
... abeyance is the waking activities, what is at rest is the surface mind and the normal conscious action of the bodily part of us..." (The Life Divine, p. 422) In fact, during this dormancy of our physical mind, our consciousness withdraws from its surface preoccupation and becomes instead awake and active in regions of our being as widely distinct as they are disparate in their consequences. Thus the... experiences of the wandering inner consciousness get transmitted to the obscure layer floating over the deep subconscience in which our physical being seems submerged for the time being, and our physical mind, in a state of sleep-wakefulness, receives and records and translates them more or less imperfectly, more or less coherently, depending on the state of development of our being, we are said to have... 'sleep state', and finally tunya transcending these all. "... the waking state is the consciousness of the material universe which we normally possess in this embodied existence dominated by the physical mind. The dream state is a consciousness corresponding to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane behind.... The sleep state is a consciousness corresponding to the supramental plane proper to the gnosis ...
... The laws no longer hold. They cease to exist. 200 That is how the cyclone could not enter Sri Aurobindo's room. A kind of immobility in the physical Mind: nothing reacts there. There, at the cellular threshold, beneath the coating of the Physical Mind, the laws of the false world end—the laws of false matter. And we cross the river very easily, we go through the shower of stones, and swamps full... fire in a volcano. Mother had loosened the threads of the web and that Power—a tremendous Power—in Matter, from the other side of the enveloping veil, or rather the other side of the Wall of the physical Mind, was beginning to infiltrate and invade our Matter from within. A tremendous, invisible revolution within Matter. And as the years went by, the phenomenon became more extraordinarily striking:... repeats the individual cellular phenomenon. The obscure periphery enveloping the cells, this veil of mud that has been slowly deposited and hardened through evolution, this solid screen of the physical Mind that has created our cage and the laws of our cage—this veil of illusion really that covers the earth as it covers our cells—is being shattered, or dissolved, under the Pressure of the evolutionary ...
... kind of mind-like activity in Matter [the physical Mind] interfering it is sordid. I haven’t yet been able to eliminate it completely. There are moments when it’s brought to a dead halt. Oh, sometimes while I walk for the japa, everything is held like this, inflexibly. 22 [And Mother made a gesture as if She were suddenly immobilized: the physical Mind stops and it is the instantaneous opening... swallowed up by the old one? The Central Experience Now, there is an experience, repeated thousands and tens of thousands of times during those years since the first exit from the web of the physical Mind in 1962, that tended to take on a new depth, as if deep down underneath thousands of forms or faces, we were always in front of the same Experience, the same Reality, which unveils what it is little... have the power to change the physical fact. And once again it is remarkable to observe that this first change of position of the consciousness coincided with the first attempt to traverse the physical Mind. On the other side of the cage, another time begins, another material time, not a spiritual one (unless the Spirit rejoins Matter). A massive time. Because I asked Mother, practical and materialistic ...
... expansion, etc. The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with physical things only; limited by the physical view and experience of things, it mentalises the experience brought by the contact of outward life and things, but does not go Page 411 beyond that. The mechanical mind, closely connected with the physical mind, goes on repeating without... things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc. that are part of man's intelligence. The ordinary mind has three main parts: mind proper, vital mind, and physical mind. The mind proper is divided into three parts: the thinking mind or intellect, concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right; the dynamic mind, concerned with the putting... guṇas. Overmind — see under Gradations Between Mind and Supermind. Page 412 par ā tparam —the Supreme beyond the Most High, the supreme of the Supreme. Physical mind — see under mind. Prajna — 1. (prajñā) —the all-wise Intelligence. 2. (prājña) — the Self situated in deep sleep (su ṣ upti), the lord and creator of things; the Master of Wisdom ...
... written about it) is a continuance of the physical mind which sets going with a constant repetitionary whirl of its fixed ideas whenever there is any touch of depression. One of these ideas is that you don’t progress, will not progress and can never progress, the old thing that used to say “Yoga is not for the likes of me “ etc. The activity of the physical mind (next to the wrong activity of the vital)... the cause of the happenings, which is the inner movement itself. That is one reason why I like to see the physical mind occupied in poetry and music etc. and other salubrious activities which help the inner growth and in which the bhakti can express itself, for that keeps the physical mind busy, unoccupied with the mechanical rotatory movement and allows and helps the inner growth. The rotatory... gift of vision. Mostly they take place on the vital plane, though sometimes on the mental and psychic – the vital is freest in its play and it does not at all follow the preconceptions of the physical mind. As for meanings, they vary infinitely; much depends on the character of the vision. B) The next experience: on the 21 st February, as she gazed at you at darshan she saw through you ...
... inner experience— as so often happens in the Yoga,—try constantly to fix in your brain. They want to have a fixed mental formation there, so that whenever you make the attempt there will be in the physical mind an expectation of difficulty, a dwelling on the idea of difficulty and unsuccess and incapacity, if not always in the front of the mind, yet at the back and by that they hope to prevent the experience... described and has tangible results. But it is invisible—not like a blow given or the rush of a motor car knocking somebody down which the physical senses can at once perceive. How is the mere physical mind to know that it is there and working? By its results? But how can it know that the results was that of the yogic force and not of something else? One of two things it must be. Either it must allow... visible in the exterior consciousness. But neither can be done if one insists always on the extrovert attitude, the external concrete only and refuses to join to it the internal concrete—or if the physical mind at every step raises a dance of doubts which refuses to allow the nascent experience to develop. Even the Scientist carrying on a new experiment would never succeed if he allowed his mind to behave ...
... 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 the replacement of the old lower vital satisfactions by other joys and pleasures as something quite legitimate; but... because they have no true ground in reality. They are ready enough to seize in some (usually trifling) outward appearances and twist them this way or that in order to convince the easily deceived physical mind; they will even create circumstances and make them appear to have that colour. But if they cannot find or create, they will go on just as merrily with no other ground than imaginations or impressions... , these feelings and all the cycle in future the moment they try to come. Never mind, what circumstances or justifications they may allege. Nothing is more dangerous than the inferences of the physical mind trying to build up conclusions upon outward appearances—they have nine chances out of ten of being false. One must learn to distrust hasty conclusions from surface appearances—is not that the first ...
... hypothesis or conceivable conjecture. It should be evident that this demand for physically valid proof of a supraphysical fact is irrational and illogical; it is an irrelevant attitude of the physical mind which assumes that only the objective and physical is fundamentally real and puts aside all else as merely subjective. A supraphysical fact may impinge on the physical world and produce physical... them; objectivisation to the outer sense, subtle-sense contacts, mind contacts, life contacts, contacts through the subliminal in special states of consciousness exceeding our ordinary range. Our physical mind is not the whole of us nor, even though it dominates almost the whole of our surface consciousness, the best or greatest part of us; reality cannot be restricted to a sole field of this narrowness... extraordinary and miraculous or supernatural at its face value, this may be admitted: but error is not the prerogative of the inner subjective or subliminal parts of us, it is also an appanage of the physical mind and its objective methods and standards, and such liability to error cannot be a reason for shutting out a large and important domain of experience; it is a reason rather for scrutinising it and ...
... below the feet, but the influence of the subconscious is not confined there—it is spread in the body. In the waking state it is overpowered by the conscious thinking mind and vital and conscious physical mind, but in the sleep state it comes on the surface. Habits and the Subconscient The subconscient is a thing of habits and memories and repeats persistently or whenever it can old suppressed reactions... invaded by what rises up from the subconscient or comes in from outside and owing to a renewed vibration of the past habit can respond—but that does not mean that the will of the vital or of the physical mind is for these things. If there was anything in them normally on the side Page 600 of sex or violence, then you could say the impurities were there. But if it were so, there would be more... the new consciousness, Peace and Power at the same time, then this outward pressure is felt but can no longer disturb and finally it recedes to a distance (no longer pressing immediately on the physical mind or body) and either gradually or rapidly disappears. By environmental consciousness I mean something that each man carries around him, outside his body, even when he is not aware of it,—by which ...
... Mother, is the physical mind the same as the mechanical mind? Almost. You see, there is just a little difference, but not much. The mechanical mind is still more stupid than the physical mind. The physical mind is what we spoke about one day, that which is never sure of anything. I told you the story of the closed door, you remember. Well, that is the nature of the physical mind. The mechanical... "vital mind" mean? Well, you see, naturally these words are used for classification in order to make oneself understood; but truly, each part of the being is itself divided into four. There is a physical mind, a physical vital and a physical physical, and there is even a physical psychic which is behind. Well, there is a vital mind, a vital vital, a vital physical and also a vital psychic which is behind ...
... resolution not to allow it. Detachment is only a first step. But something in the vital wants it, therefore your will is lazy about throwing it out. When I am near women my vital or physical mind takes careful note of their gait, hair or dress. I do not know what the mind means by that. But these perceptions are supported only by the mechanical and restless parts of the surface mind,... hardly connected with my fly-toxing work, and that it was the superficial notion of "Mother's room" that moved me to do his personal work, etc. These are the wrong suggestions from the physical mind - work done with the thought of the Mother and not for oneself cannot be egoistic. How was the idea of the "Mother's room" superficial? It was on the contrary a suggestion that could only come to... concentration by the cessation of the writing which helps to concentrate you - or else because you are invaded by the general atmosphere which is full of inertia and the small movements of the little physical mind and physical vital. In the morning, after getting up from sleep, I find it difficult to get back to the higher consciousness or to bring about the same intensity as during the day ...
... descent seems to have stopped at the throat centre (the physical mind centre). If it has stopped there, it must be because there is not sufficient plasticity and surrender in the physical mental to let it through. The descent will come when it is possible for it to come down. Meanwhile, more quietness and fortitude in the physical mind and consciousness would perhaps be helpful. ... lies supine. Also if some bait is held out to the vital ego, then it can become enthusiastic and active. The vital struggle comes from a wrong attitude in the vital itself and in the physical mind, an absence of quietude resulting. In this Yoga, desires are not to be suppressed but conquered. Page 81 But to dissolve them is not easy - when no... itself never get depressed? It is only when the mind creates outer reasons that vital depression is possible? The vital mind is part of the vital. If the mind (mental mind, vital mind, physical mind, subconscient mind) does not respond to outer things, depression is impossible. The self at one end, the stone at the other never get into depression. In between, the true mind, true vital, true ...
... if it brought the Force down, but the passivity is too tamasic to do that. The difficulty is due to old habits of the physical mind and vital which still have the power to repeat themselves by rising from the subconscient and as your physical mind and vital still respond you are not able to stop the disquietude. Page 122 When they respond no longer then there... with the action of the Mother's Force? It is always the same — the lower nature admitting the contrary pressure from below. There was some restlessness in the physical mind, so I started studying. Then the pressure came from above. It pulled my concentration away from studying and put it on the physical. I don't understand why it did so. Afterwards there was so much... that is poised, calm, open, refusing to let the Nature forces disturb their settled inner attitude, clear mind and will and strong balance. Also a prominent psychic with a quiet vital and a clear physical mind will ensure a calm progress. How to be free from these difficulties? If the peace of the higher self and the force from these higher levels or the Knowledge that ...
... "quite naturally" the transformation of the physical mind? Returning to the theme on 22 December, the Mother explained: [The Supramental] must enter and settle itself in the physical mind. It is the work which is being done in me for months now: the mind has been withdrawn and the physical mind has taken its place... I have noticed that this physical mind, the mind that is in the body, became wide... distortion. Thus the Mother's consciousness was now in things; it did not draw things to itself. 38 Page 797 On 18 December, the Mother recalled Sri Aurobindo's saying that it was the physical mind that must receive ,the Supramental and manifest it, and added it was just this physical or body-mind, that now remained in her, since it was being converted or developed under the supramental Influence ...
... miracle, unless it happens to be the miracle of Matter. The physical mind, said Sri Aurobindo, always comes in with its fixed line of the present and “No farther” and when the fixed line of the present is unfixed and overpassed, it again erects a new line and cries “No farther.” If an “elemental” who had attained to the physical mind had been present at the different stages of the earth-history... spiritualist: we are trying to understand the phenomenon. The phenomenon is that of a body, or more exactly of the cells of a certain body, that have lost their habit of coiling in the way that the physical Mind had fixed in its grooves, but which have not lost their habit of being: to be means to beat, vibrate, tend towards ... perhaps to want, but without very well knowing what it wants nor where it is... experience of the supramental twelve years earlier, in 1958, when She descended to the rock-bottom of this “Inconscient,” that is, (as I can now understand) when She pierced through the crust of the physical Mind: the rock of the Rishis. A powdering like an atomic dust, but with an extremely intense vibration, 45 she said. And it could well be that our very atoms are a first covering or coiling of this ...
... taking, growth and expansion, etc. The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with physical things only; limited by the physical view and experience of things, it mentalises the experience brought by the contact of outward life and things, but does not go beyond that. The mechanical mind, closely connected with the physical mind, goes on repeating without use whatever has happened... egoistic action and mentality). Page 124 Overmind — see under spiritualised mind. the physical (being) — not the body alone, but the whole physical mind, vital, material nature, physical mind — see under mind. Prakriti — Nature; Nature-Force. "Existence is composed of Prakriti and Purusha, the consciousness that sees and the consciousness that executes... to things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc. that are part of man's intelligence. The ordinary mind has three main parts: mind proper, vital mind, and physical mind. The mind proper is divided into three parts: the thinking mind or intellect, concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right; the dynamic mind, concerned with the putting out of mental ...
... Supramental to manifest upon earth the physical mind must receive it and manifest it—and it is just the physical mind, that is to say, the body-mind, the only thing that remains in me now. And then, the reason why only this part has remained became quite clear to me. It is on the way to being converted in a very rapid and interesting manner. This physical mind is being developed under the supramental... if the physical mind were transformed, the transformation of the body would follow quite naturally . We shall see. But could you give me a key or a lever to bring about this radical change? Ah! I do not know, because for me everything has simply been taken away from me—the mind has left completely. If you like, in appearance I became stupid, I knew nothing. And it is the physical mind that developed ...
... in order for the Supermind to manifest on earth, the physical mind has to receive and manifest it. And the physical mind, I mean the bodily mind, mine, is precisely the only one I have left now. And so it came to me very clearly that that is why that one alone was left. And it is being converted very rapidly and interestingly. The physical mind 3 is developing under the supramental influence. And... said that if the physical mind is transformed, the body's transformation will follow quite NATURALLY. We'll see. But could you give me a key or a lever to effect the radical change? Ah, I don't know, because for me everything was simply taken away—the mind is completely gone. If you like, in appearance I had become an idiot, I didn't know anything. And it's the physical mind that developed, slowly ...
... samadhi today continuous vangmaya and ideal ideation was established, the habit of fatigue in the physical mind which demanded cessation or intermission being denied its claim and dismissed. The habit of simultaneous action of the two which has hitherto been violently or obstinately resisted by the physical mind, was firmly founded and illustrated by a rich continuity of simultaneous action. Initially the... less definitive. Ideal ideation is driving out the dull habit of intellectual thought in the samadhi along with the physical fatigue; it has been busy with its electric needleplay modifying the physical mind, in its sukshma brain-stuff even when no definite ideation was at work. Page 1044 The same movement has begun in the outward waking mind; it is extending first to a confident play of... of all by the sthula sounds of the material world. Darshana is only of the pranic akasha and two or three of its objects, and that too imperfectly developed. Another attack from the external physical mind, but this was unable to take the old form of a lethargy of the tapas, relapse into inactive shama and prolonged cessation of the siddhi. It shaped into an upheaval of the lower ideal-intellectual ...
... offer too one who had failed him utterly and deliberately. "I never said," he wrote back, "that to overcome doubts was easy, it is difficult because it is the nature of something in the human physical mind to cling to doubt for its own sake. It is not easy to overcome gloom, depression, grief and suffering because something in the human vital clings to it and almost needs it as part of the dramas... argue with me once again for the hundredth time: As to the statement about drama and something in you liking . to suffer, nobody doubts that your external consciousness dislikes suffering. The physical mind and consciousness of man hates its own suffering and, if left to itself, dislikes also to see others suffer. But if you will try to fathom the significance of your own admission of liking drama... them is that the mind of the sadhaka should co-operate with the Truth and that his will should co-operate with the Divine power which, however slow its action may seem to the vital or to the physical mind, is uplifting the nature towards the Light. When that co-operation is complete the progress can be rapid enough; but the sadhaka should not grudge the time and the labour needed to make that ...
... or the mental consciousness: it's a corporeal consciousness. ( silence ) And this physical mind, which Sri Aurobindo said was an impossibility, that it was something that goes round in circles and would go on turning round forever, without consciousness, precisely, like a sort of machine, this physical mind has been converted, it has fallen silent, and in silence it has received inspiration from... slowly, slowly emerging. It began with that burst of Love right at the top, from the extreme, supreme altitude; then, little by little, little by little, it came down to the body. Then that sort of physical mind, that is, something totally and completely idiotic going round and round in circles, forever repeating the same thing over and over again, became clear little by little and grew conscious, organized... vital. I mean that when I am shaving in front of the mirror, if, within myself I don't apply the mantra or an aspiration from the heart, well, it's an inert chunk shaving, and on top of it the physical mind keeps running. But if I apply a mantra or a mental will... No! It's THE BODY that ends up saying the mantra spontaneously! So spontaneously that even if you happen to be thinking of something ...
... Page 213 sleep, between the dream-state of Yoga and the physical state of dream. The latter belongs to the physical mind; in the former the mind proper and subtle is at work liberated from the immixture of the physical mentality. The dreams of the physical mind are an incoherent jumble made up partly of responses to vague touches from the physical world round which the lower mind... experience of the normal physical mind with regard to planes in which it is not at home. It is not the truth that the Self in the third status called perfect sleep, suṣupti, is in a state of slumber. The sleep self is on the contrary described as Prajna, the Master of Wisdom and Knowledge, Self of the Gnosis, and as Ishwara, the Lord of being. To the physical mind a sleep, it is to our wider... examine the phraseology of the old books, we shall find that the waking state is the consciousness of the material universe which we normally possess in this embodied existence dominated by the physical mind. The dream state is a consciousness corresponding to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane behind, which to us, even when we get intimations of them, have not the same concrete reality as the ...
... te of dream. The ordinary dream-state belongs to the physical mind; in the dream-state of yoga the mind proper and inner mind are at work liberated from the immixture of the physical mentality. In the yogic dream-state, the mind is in a clear position of itself, and stands in contrast with the incoherent jumble of the dreams of the physical mind; there is coherence in the yogic dream-state. As Sri... Sri Aurobindo points out: "The dreams of the physical mind are an incoherent jumble made up partly of responses to vague touches from the physical world round which the lower mind-faculties disconnected from the will and reason, the buddhi, weave a web of wandering phantasy, partly of disordered associations from the brain-memory, partly of reflections from the soul travelling on the mental plane... 31 According to the Mandukya Upanishad, there is, apart from the waking and dream-state, the sleep-state. The description of this state makes it clear that it is not the sleep-state of the physical mind but the yogic sleep-state. The Upanishad states: "When one sleeps and yearns not with any desire, nor sees any dream, that is the perfect slumber. He whose place is the' perfect slumber, who has ...
... open the body. It is only so that these things can be got rid of or at least neutralised. It is a detachment of even the physical mind from the pain that makes one able to go on as if nothing were there. But this detachment of the physical mind is not so easy to acquire. 1 Even when the soul docs not identify itself with the nature-parts, why arc there so many ... why do so many fall sick in the Ashram? It is part of the physical struggle. Does not my throat pain denote a strong resistance of the physical mind, the throat being the centre of the physical mind? Evidently, in its origin it must be due to that. I sometimes despair because of the constant weakness of the body which, even when there is no... I follow the move- offering it to the Mother by a remembrance of the disease. To take away even the thought of the illness from the physical mind was a powerful help. This mind is a very important medium for both getting and curing illnesses. Page 50 ment of the sadhana? Mother does not believe much in ...
... of the Europeans are, really, babies in spiritual life. To combine the inner development with the outer would be ideal. Science, for instance, steadies reason arid gives a firm grounding to the physical mind. Art – I mean the appreciation of beauty pure and simple, without the sensual grasping at the object – trains up the aesthetic side of the mind. The true artist has always the pure love of beauty... higher working in them. A Disciple related the yogic experience of a student. Sri Aurobindo : - It is no use hurrying about psychic experiences and realisations. One must prepare the physical mind, the intelligence by common knowledge as well as knowledge pertaining to yoga. One must understand Page 75 what comes to him. Sometimes one does not even know what has come to... He used to say that what he had got was the Supermind ! When I told him it was not the Super mind, he would again say "Yes", but go on in his own way. His only salvation was in his coming to the physical mind and behaving like an ordinary man. Disciple : Can you not make him feel that he is not sincere ? Sri Aurobindo : No. He does not want to know ; I can give him the experience of what ...
... Eleusis and Dante, who have seen and described them; any person at all conscious and developed has seen his "dead" friends after their death (in sleep, generally, precisely when the web of the physical Mind gives way), and each one has made his own "translation into mental language" of the experience he had on the other side (to make you think, however, that there are 100,000 other sides, as if each... cross the river and cannot... for the memory everything is "you-cannot." So naturally you cannot. It is the memory of the cage. It is what has hardened, frozen and made our matter opaque. It is the physical Mind, the first mentalization of Matter. And that is also what makes the "I'm living," "they're dead," "it's here," "it's over there"—we have lost the memory of freedom. The journey of Mother and Sri... A More Complete World Progressively, through the years, Mother's experience took shape, with a kind of obvious concreteness growing more palpable as the web, that obscure sheath of the physical Mind, grew thinner. It was as if, slowly, what seemed to be on two different sides, like two very close but nevertheless separate worlds, were merging into a single world, which was our material world ...
... lay hold of (or is already laying hold of) all bodies unbeknown to them, whether they think well, ill or nothing at all of it, and will work on them secretly from the other side of the web of the physical Mind, on the cellular level, and will wear away, undermine, pound this fortress of sickness and death and unchanging laws to make them suddenly or progressively emerge into Matter delivered from mental... lives only in its head, and our microscopes are only the perfected eyes of that head. But the cells know. They are precisely reaching the point of their evolution when, freed from the cage of the physical Mind, this first body of fear, they will be able to become aware in their direct manner of the material universe, and discover their own means of locomotion. It is a new species that is forming itself... prayers, its vibrations of call in the great rout of the old body. One morning of 1962, just a few months after the experience of the great “pulsations,” after her exit from the first web of the physical Mind, when Mother had altogether ceased leaving her upstairs room, I found her with a sort of disconcerted, dumbfounded expression, like someone faced with an incomprehensible problem. Some rather strange ...
... 30:12:1995 The Mother told me: "I worked through the physical mind centre." The work was going on all the while. I do not know what work, but it was going on all the while. She told me this afterwards, that it was through the physical mind centre the work was going on. Page 49 Where is it, this physical mind centre? Cannot say, but perhaps the brain-cells. Must... I do not know; but it must be the latter. I can't distinguish these, must be the subconscient. It was directed to go there, my spirit. There is the experience of delight even in the physical. Mind well, it is not the delight of existence, but delight in the physical. It is happening. It happened yesterday. 08:11:1994 It was our new year day, a few days back, I had gone ...
... these things as what they really are: incursions of dark forces from outside taking advantage of certain openings in the physical mind or vital part, but not a real p art of oneself or spontaneous creation in one's own nature. To create a confusion and darkness in the physical mind and to throw into it or awaken in it mistaken ideas, dark thoughts, false impressions is a favourite method of these ... personal preferences, clinging to old ideas and associations, its obstinate doubts and its maintaining these things as a wall of obstruction and opposition to the larger light. This activity of the physical mind is what people call intellect and reason although it is only the turning of a machine in a circle of mental habits and is very different from the true and free reason, the higher buddhi, which... absorbed into their gulf), finally becoming their witness of the phenomena and understanding them and refusing the mind's sanction even when the vital is still tossed in the whirl or the most outward physical mind still reflects the adverse suggestions. In the end these attacks lose their power and fall away from the nature; the recurrence becomes feeble or has no power to last; even, if the detachment is ...
... written by Sri Aurobindo saying that for the supramental to manifest upon earth the physical mind must receive it and manifest it—and it is just the physical mind, that is to say, the body mind, the only thing that remains in me now... It is on the way to being converted in a very rapid and interesting manner. This physical mind is being developed under the supramental Influence. And it is just what Sri ... l can manifest itself permanently upon earth. So, it is going on well—but it is not easy (Mother laughs)... "To what extent would it be able to change? Sri Aurobindo has said that if the physical mind were transformed the transformation of the body would follow quite naturally. We shall see.... "The mind that is in the body had become wide; it had a global view of things and the entire ...
... its cosmic action,—if indeed soul or spirit has any existence. All that is not physical and objective has a lesser reality dependent on the physical and objective; it has to justify itself to the physical mind by objective evidence or a recognisable and verifiable relation to the truth of physical and external things before it can be given a passport of reality. But it is evident that this solution cannot... therefore inwardly real to myself, but the invisible life of others has only an indirect reality to me except in so far as it impinges on my own mind, life and senses. This is the limitation of the physical mind of man, and it creates in him a habit of believing entirely only in the physical and of doubting or challenging all that does not come into accord with his own experience or his own scope of un... the exclusion of what is supernormal or beyond the average intelligence. In its extreme, this claim of the individual to be the judge of everything is an egoistic illusion, a superstition of the physical mind, in the mass a gross and vulgar error. The truth behind it is that each man has to think for himself, know for himself according to his capacity, but his judgment can be valid only on condition ...
... not made too rigid and cutting a formula. For things run very much into each other and a synthetical sense of these powers is as necessary as the analysis. Mind for instance is everywhere. The physical mind is technically placed below the vital and yet it is a prolongation of the mind proper and can act in its own sphere by direct touch with the higher mental intelligence. And there is too an obscure... Mental Vital or Vital Mind It is the mental part of the vital that is there between the throat and the heart. The place of the mind is from the crown of the head to the throat (where is the physical mind); from below the throat to the heart is the emotional heart or the [ higher ] vital (mental emotional, emotional feelings); the navel and abdomen [ are the seats of ] the middle and lower vital... same source from which come all the fine imaginations and long stories which men tell themselves in which they are the heroes and do great things or they come from little entities attached to the physical mind which pick up any random suggestion anywhere and present it to the mind just to see whether it will be accepted. If one watches oneself closely one can find the most queer and extraordinary or ...
... monuments or still survives into the present, the future is not yet at all in existence. It must be noted however that if our knowledge of the present were not limited by our dependence on the physical mind and sense, this result would not be altogether inevitable. If we could be aware of all the present, all the action of physical, vital, mental energies at work in the moment, it is conceivable that... the possibility of another kind of time consciousness than we have at present and of a triple time knowledge rests upon the possibility of developing another consciousness than that proper to the physical mind and sense and breaking our imprisonment in the moment and in the mind of ignorance with its limitation to sensation, memory, inference and conjecture. Actually man is not content solely with... variable, fluid and elusive, the second infinite and inscrutably imperative, bound, if at all, only by itself and the Will in the Infinite. It is therefore only by going back from the surface physical mind to the psychic and spiritual consciousness that a vision and knowledge of the triple time, a transcendence of our limitation to the standpoint and view range of the moment, can be wholly possible ...
... from a fundamental ignorance and has no hold on assured truth; all the truths on which it relies for a time are found to be partial, incomplete and questionable. At the outset man lives in his physical mind which perceives the actual, the physical, the objective and accepts it as fact and this fact as self-evident truth beyond question; whatever is not actual, not physical, not objective it regards... enjoy them also. It is not satisfied with the physical and objective only, but seeks too a subjective, an imaginative, a purely emotive satisfaction and pleasure. If there were not this factor, the physical mind of man left to itself would live like the animal, accepting his first actual physical life and its limits as his whole possibility, moving in material Nature's established order and asking for nothing... a settled reality of its own certitudes and convictions, an established foundation or firm formation of its idea of existence. At a certain point of this constant unrest and travail even the physical mind loses its conviction of objective certitude and enters into an agnosticism which questions all its own standards of life and knowledge, doubts whether all this is real or else whether all, even ...
... it) is a continuance of the physical mind which sets going with a constant repetitionary whirl of its fixed ideas whenever there is any touch of depression. One of these ideas is that you don't progress, will not progress and can never progress, the old thing Page 353 that used to say, "Yoga is not for the likes of me" etc. The activity of the physical mind (next to the wrong activity of... the cause of the happenings, which is the inner movement itself. That is one reason why I like to see the physical mind occupied in poetry and music etc. and other salubrious activities which help the inner growth and in which the inner bhakti can express itself, for that keeps the physical mind busy, unoccupied with the mechanical rotatory movement and allows and helps the inner growth. The rotatory ...
... for something untoward to occur. Do as well as you can, and for the rest let the higher consciousness grow till it can enlighten all the movements of the physical mind. Skill in works will come when there is the opening in the physical mind and the body. There is no need to be anxious about that now. Do your best and do not be anxious about it. Page 285 Compliments and Criticism ... temporary advantage over the superior sattwic nature. Avoiding Disturbance Whenever anything untoward happens, it is essential not to allow any vibrations of disturbance or unrest in either the physical mind or the nerves. One must remain calm and open to the Light and Force, then one will be able to act in the right way. From the point of view of sadhana—you must not allow yourself to be in... remember to let your mind work only when its action is needed, the strain will lessen and disappear. This is indeed the transitional movement before the supramental working takes possession of the physical mind and brings into it the spontaneous action of the Light. Dealing with Physical Things Material things are not to be despised—without them there can be no manifestation in the material world ...
... or from a Guru to his disciples or from myself to my disciples is possible. It is therefore not really a doubt arising from the reason but one that comes from the vital and physical mind that is troubling you. The physical mind doubts all that it has not itself experienced and even it doubts what it has itself experienced if that experience is no longer there or immediately palpable to it—the vital... do some hard work in the opposite direction. The help (I am not speaking of a divine intervention from above but of my help and the Mother's) will be there. It can be effective in spite of your physical mind, but it will be more Page 122 effective if this steady working will of which I speak is there as its instrument. There are always two elements in spiritual success—one's own steady will... you. I trust you will recover soon your ease of mind and peace. I will try to give you all the help possible. 23 January 1935 The Mother and I will do all to get rid of the cloud which the physical mind presents against the permanent consciousness of your soul's connection with the Mother; but let your thinking mind be firm in its will to be rid of it and to call the aid of our Force. 6 February ...
... gave it no special value. As for vague and dreamlike, you feel it so because you are looking at them and at everything that happens in you from the standpoint of Page 18 the outward physical mind and intellect which can take only physical things as real and important and vivid and to it inward phenomena are something unreal, vague and truthless. The spiritual experience does not even despise... experiences of the subtle consciousness and the trance consciousness, how is the waking consciousness to expand out of the narrow prison of the body and the body-mind and the senses? For, to the physical mind untouched by the inner awakened consciousness, even the experience of the cosmic consciousness or the Eternal Self might very well seem merely subjective and unconvincing. It would think, "Curious... does that, then one begins to see that there is here a wide field of truth and knowledge, in which one can move from discovery to discovery to reach the supreme discovery of all. But the outer physical mind, if it has any ideas about the Divine and spirituality at all, has only hasty a priori ideas miles away from the solid ground of inner truth and experience. I have not left myself time to deal ...
... or from a Guru to his disciples or from myself to my disciples is possible. It is therefore not really a doubt arising from the reason but one that comes from the vital and physical mind that is troubling you. The physical mind doubts all that it has not itself experienced and even it doubts what it has itself experienced if that experience is no longer there or immediately palpable to it—the vital... do some hard work in the opposite direction. The help (I am not speaking of a divine intervention from above but of my help and the Mother's) will be there. It can be effective in spite of your physical mind, but it will be more effective if this steady working will of which I speak is there as its instrument. There are always two elements in spiritual success—one's own steady will and endeavour and... upadeśa but by inner influence. To state your condition, experiences etc. and open to the help is far more important than question-asking—especially the questions about why and how which your physical mind so persistently puts. I have realised that if we surrender ourselves to you once and open inwardly, you pour into us as much knowledge as we can hold. Page 448 What I write usually ...
... falsehood. One of the chief functions of the physical mind is to doubt. If you listen to it, it will always find a thousand reasons for doubting. But you must know that the physical mind is working in ignorance and full of falsehoods. It is only love that can understand and get at the secrets of the Divine Working. The mind, the physical mind especially, is incapable of seeing correctly and... the Divine. Power of mental expression has no value unless it is in the service of the Divine. Page 339 Reason: an excellent instrument when at the Divine's service. Physical mind becomes a good instrument of action when it is content to be that alone. When the mind turns towards the Divine, it becomes a powerful instrument. Work of the enlightened mind: it ...
... three, the mental, the vital and the physical, are interrelated in the complexity of our being. As a result, there is in us what Sri Aurobindo calls the mental-vital (vital mind), mental-physical (physical mind), vital-mental, vital-physical and physical-vital. The mental-vital or the vital mind is the mind which is at the service of vital desires and vital emotions. It is a sort of mediator between vital... The body-energy is a manifestation of material forces supported by a vital-physical energy which is the vital energy precipitated into matter and conditioned by it. The mental-physical or the physical Mind is the mind at the service of the physical. It is the mind conditioned by the physical, and it is fixed on physical objects and happenings, sees and understands these only and deals with them according... respond to the higher forces. Left to itself, it is sceptical of the existence of the supra-physical things, of which it has no direct experience and to which it can find no clue. To enlighten the physical mind by the consciousness of the higher spiritual and supramental planes is one of the important objects of the integral Yoga, just as to enlighten it by the power of the higher vital and higher mental ...
... three, the mental, the vital and the physical, are interrelated in the complexity of our being. As a result, there is in us what Sri Aurobindo calls the mental-vital (vital mind), mental-physical (physical mind), vital-mental, vital-physical and physical-vital; all these distinctions are necessary because the aim of total transformation implies detailed working in every nook and corner of our nature so... which is the vital energy precipitated into matter and conditioned by it. Mental-Physical and Material Mind (Mind of the Cells) 31 The mental-physical (which is the same as the physical Mind) is a mind at the service of the physical. It is the mind conditioned by the physical, and it is fixed on physical objects and happenings; it sees and understands these only and deals with them... with difficulty responds to the higher forces. Left to itself, it is skeptical of the supra-physical things, of which it has no direct experience and to which it can find no clue. To enlighten the physical mind by the psychic consciousness and the consciousness of the higher spiritual and supramental planes is one of the important objects of the integral Yoga, just as to enlighten it by the power of the ...
... clear that they regard the whole universe vibrant with a secret Will-Force, of which physical fire is only one outer manifestation, which can be used as a symbol in-an attempt to bring the physical mind nearer to a sense and feeling for something that is deeply and profoundly present and dynamic in the universe. Agni, according to the Vedic knowledge, is also the force of evolution, which... midst of which this great and surprising Vedic phenomenon took place were evidently primitive and infra-rational, dominated by the needs of the body and limited to the engrossing demands of the physical mind. What was important for this mass of people was the Vedic ritualism, its ceremonies and the institution of sacrifice. In due course of time, this ritualism grew and developed 'into an elaborate... and profundest spiritual knowledge, and thus they were not a mere artifice or a misleading or imprisoning super-structure. They provided, on the contrary, a meaningful gate of entry for the physical mind of man to undertake the long journey of a true and balanced spiritual-material culture. The great achievement of the Vedic period was indeed the marvellous training that it provided to the physical ...
... the mental, the vital and the physical, are interrelated in the complexity of our being. As a result, there is in us what Sri Aurobindo calls the mental-vital (vital mind), mentalphysical (physical mind), vital-mental, vital-physical and physical-vital. The mental-vital or the vital mind is the mind which is at the service of vital desires and vital emotions. It is a so-t of mediator between vital... body-energy is a manifestation of material forces supported by a vital-physical energy which is the vital energy precipitated into matter and conditioned by it. The mental-physical or the physical Mind is the mind at the service of the physical. It is the mind conditioned by the physical, and it is fixed on physical objects and happenings, sees and understands these only and deals with them according... respond to the higher forces. Left to itself, it is sceptical of the existence of supra-physical things, of which is has no direct experience and to which it can find no clue. To enlighten the physical mind by the consciousness of the higher spiritual and supramental planes is one of the important objects of the integral Yoga, just as to enlighten it by the power of the higher vital and higher mental ...
... of power over me: my head is above and I blow on it all and it is over. But it is in that physical Mind that it holds on tightly and shakes everything with all its innate “virulence.” That is where these people’s power lies and actually that is where the Power of Falsehood lies; it is in the physical Mind. So, everything helps the work. Satprem November 8, 1977 (Note from Sujata) I... particularly for the last few days, I have been soaking in a bath of “undiluted” Counouma. I have never before done such a tapasya . But I well understand that all this is taking place in the pure physical Mind, that is where I receive their sticky, slimy and vicious waves one after the other. So I am made to work in this area, I have to go through this area or rather this layer of mud to reach the... consciousnesses — they are sincere, devoted, they believe me, love me, but there is a question. It is subconscious, not even formulated, but it is exactly the field of the adverse forces: the physical Mind, the suggestion, medical or whatever it may be, which sticks and sticks. You can say what you want, you can believe, love and know in your clear and awakened consciousness, but it is below and ...
... I made one day. I removed my control and left the control to the physical mind—it is the physical mind which doubts. So I made the following experiment: I went into a room, then came out of the room and closed the door. I had decided to close the door; and when I came to another room, this mind, the material mind, the physical mind, you see, said, "Are you sure you have locked the door?" Now, I did... ( Laughter ) One knows that something is true but still doubts. Why does one doubt the truth? The usual answer, it is because one is foolish! ( Laughter ) But the truth is that the physical mind is truly completely stupid! You can prove it very easily. It is constructed probably as a kind of control, and in order to make sure that things are done as they ought to be. I think that this is ...
... sensitive in any way, it may become effective upon him. That is why such thoughts should be avoided altogether. The reason why quietness is not yet fixed and anger returns is that you allow your physical mind to become active. In regard to the sadhana it begins to think there is this defect in you and that defect and therefore the sadhana does not become immediately effective and perfect. This makes... These things belong to the old mind you are trying to leave and therefore stand in the way of concentration and quietude. They should be stopped at their root by rejecting the suggestions of the physical mind as soon as they begin. A new consciousness is coming based upon inner silence and quietude. You must wait quietly for that to develop. True knowledge, Page 268 true perceptions of people... course it is the going inward that most helps to deliver the nature. If the anger did not come, it must be because the vital force of the attack is diminishing and it must be more in the physical mind and the external (physical) vital that it acts. You have a great strength for action; as for the inner growth and action of the sadhana you have a strength there too of the psychic and the vital ...
... . The question was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. The physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light.” 18 Sri Aurobindo’s leaving the body meant a traumatic... K.D. Sethna: The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo , p. 105. Here again we have a glimpse of the formation of what the Mother has called the “overman”. The supramental transformation of the physical mind, although enormously important in itself, was still far from the total transformation of the body, but it was a considerable first step in the formation of the overman, the intermediary between ...
... The question was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light.” 4 After all we have learned in the previous chapter... with the Mind of Light, this new definition of the Mind of Light comes as a surprise. For as far as we know, in The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Sri Aurobindo never even mentioned the physical mind, surely not in this context. The Mind of Light, he wrote, was “the last in a series of descending planes of consciousness in which the Supermind veils itself by a self-chosen limitation or modi ...
... more precisely, you had once spoken to me about the problem in your physical mind—that it keeps on turning interminably—and you had told me that it happens during your japa. So last night I told you, 'I would like you to do your japa for a few minutes with me one day so that I may see what goes on inside you, in your physical mind.' But I wasn't speaking to you with words ... Everything I see at... something like time that exists here—what a shame! But it is very good. And it shouldn't be difficult to keep that all the time. I didn't notice you being bothered by these things of the physical mind you had mentioned. However, I had first done this ( gesture of cleansing the atmosphere ), right at the beginning, so that nothing would come to disturb us ... Did you feel anything? I felt... It was very ... how should I put it? ... very pleasant for me. It feels comfortable, a bit removed from all this porridge! I was very glad. If you want to prevent these disturbances in your physical mind, then when you sit for japa ... You know my Force, don't you? Well then, wrap it around you, like this, twelve times, from top to bottom. × ...
... vital mind. There is also a part of the mind which is interfused with the physical, called the physical mind. Similar subdivisions exist within the vital and the physical. Two of these subdivisions which generally play a prominent role in most human beings are the vital mind and the physical mind. The vital mind is the part of the mind which is intermixed and dominated by impulses,... impulses and desires of the vital. The physical mind is the part of the mind which is intermingled with and partakes of the characteristics of the physical consciousness. Some of the chief characteristics of the physical, namely, inertia, obscurity, mechanical repetitiveness, automatism, constriction and chaotic activity are reflected in the physical mind in the form of mental torpor, doubt, mechanical ...
... what she means by having imaginations. When one is living in the physical mind, the only way to escape from it is imagination (incidentally, that is why poetry Page 183 and art, etc. have so strong a hold), but these imaginations are really shadows of supraphysical experience and once the barrier of the physical mind is broken or even swung a little open, there come the experiences... teaching. The verifiable historicity gives us very little of that, yet it is that only that matters. So it seems to me that Krishnaprem is fundamentally right in what he says of the symbols. To the physical mind only the words and facts and acts of a man matter; to the inner mind it is the spiritual happenings in him that matter. Even the teachings of Buddha and Christ are spiritually true not as mere... painful and irrational circle. It must be thrown away for good: these movements go round in a circular repetitionary way characteristic of these things. It is lent force by the reasonings of the physical mind which are specious but of no value. It is not true of spiritual things that experience must come within a certain number of years or not at all. There are some who begin to succeed after a few years ...
... feeling. December 27, 1933 I read your dream with great interest. It seems to me that it was, as the Mother told you, one part of your physical mind (your grandfather's part, so to speak) conversing with another part of the physical mind, your original own—the turn of the conversation being conditioned by the sorrowful mood in which you were. Dreams of this kind are sometimes, if properly... lights. I sent him because vivid reports were sent to me by Nolini and Amiya herself about her bad condition of health and nocturnal sufferings. I knew of course that it was the nerves but for the physical mind the appearance of medical Authority on the spot is sometimes indispensable. Nothing was recommended about any maunavrata [vow of silence] being necessary, nor had I any intention of imposing anything... a rush even—but in a workmanlike way and not according to Faerie. However I will try to explain all that as far as possible— in principle only of course—as far as it can be explained to the physical mind which has not yet any vision of what the supramental is. For the rest, I will try to meet the points you make. November 15, 1933 I find there is no chance of finishing any long letter ...
... not the same as we find on the vital or the mental plane. But you can't deny that there is mind in it. It is that which performs the mechanical operations of the body with such a precision. The physical mind is the mind which sees only the physical and material aspect of things and refuses to see any other aspect. Disciple : That is the ordinary mind. Sri Aurobindo : Most mind is nothing... means the intelligence with the will. It finds out the truth or tries to find it out and then decides to act according to it. Then there is the mental-physical which is not the same thing as the physical-mind. It is not this which is behind matter and supports it. It is certain habitual, mental movements repeating themselves without any act of pure reasoning. Even if there is reasoning in it, it is... citta which is the higher consciousness. There is, for instance, pr āna ā kā sa and citta- ā kāsa. Page 231 Then there is the Physical being. There you have the physical mind, which most men have got. It observes and accepts the physical things around us but does not go beyond them. It accepts them as they are, and though we can't say it "thinks" about them, yet it is ...
... very long ago - into the mind and even into the vital: it was working in the physical also but indirectly.... The direct action of the Supermind in the physical... could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light....' - Sep 20 'When I am compelled to work in an atmosphere of dissatisfaction, despondency, doubt, misunderstanding and bad will, then each step forward represents... ly since the 1st... a kind of bombardment of adverse forces - a fury' on her body. But, she adds, 'it is not a higher intervention that will change it, it is... from within', by putting in the physical mind 'a Peace which acts directly in this material vibration.' - Jan 26 Hindi becomes the official language of India. Later says: 'Hindi is good only for those who belong to a Hindi-speaking... Sees 'a total vision of this effort of the earth towards its divinisation'. Sri Aurobindo tells her, 'Yes, the time of proclamations, of revelations is gone - now to action.' -Nov 22 Her 'physical mind... has been converted, has become silent... received the inspiration of the Consciousness. And it has begun again to pray.... But since it is happening in one body, it can happen in all bodies! ...
... with it. To confront it means to enter into the skin of a black pygmy. For Mother, who had known all the great expanses of consciousness above for eighty years, it was... suffocating. Because the physical mind is not only a driveling fool, an endlessly repetitive parrot that makes you check ten times to see if you have properly locked the door when you know full well you have locked it, but it drivels... Matter, the effect can be equally magical; only, as our false matter is thick and sticky and repetitive, a lot of tenacity is needed. The same repetitive and parrot-like virtue of Matter and of the physical mind can be used in the other direction also and, "miraculously," it can start repeating a true sound instead of going on with its usual mortal rut—insofar as it can do it without traumatic consequences... Stupidity no longer exists. Stupidity is the screen; death is the screen. There is no reality of stupidity, no reality of illness, no reality of death: there is a REALITY of the screen. The physical mind is the screen. Remove the screen, and there is no more death. What makes up the screen is what makes death. Impersonalization is immediate universalization and immediate clarification, ...
... showed me the various radiances. The periphery was the most opaque [and we wonder if this opacity is not in fact the beginning of the web, the coating of the cell, the obscure envelope of the physical Mind]; the deeper inside, the more luminous it became; and the center was wholly luminous, it was bright, that is, RADIATING. Then there were different colors—not very intense, but different colors... never seen the lights of the cell. Democritus and Lucretius had never seen atoms, and yet they were the first atomists. The Turning But first, She had to get out of the dark coating of the physical Mind, the thick crust that veils all the pure functioning and partitions everything off in its cage. Mother was "learning the lesson," as She said. She was opening all the little closed doors: in daily... . What on earth can miracles in the Mind be?... And Mother answered, He would bring into the mental consciousness (the mental consciousness that governs all material movements [that is, the physical mind]) a supramental formation, or power, or force, that instantly ALTERED THE ORGANIZATION. With immediate results... that appear illogical because the process doesn't follow the course set by mental ...
... grows larger and transfers its accumulated, stereotyped push to you more and more: a pull, not a push. The great pull of the Future at every second. A Mind that would be the exact opposite of the physical Mind and would take its place⎯and was beginning to take its place in Mother’s body. Another Vibration takes the place of this small mortal trepidation which, as if panic-stricken by the rush of life... agent of the coagulation of Matter into a particular form, the very support or deep vibration of each molecule of DNA or amino acid. A new mantra of Matter, instead of the old malefic mantra of the physical Mind which repeats and repeats its mortal refrain. A new agent of coagulation of Matter. We say that the molecules of protein are what gives shape to bodies (a giraffe, a mouse, a man) but it is the... the superficial, external translation, the material covering of a certain vibratory quality. If the vibration changes, the type of coagulation or materialization changes. If the physical Mind, which collects or perpetuates this vibratory mode changes, the whole organization of Matter must change. This was the phenomenon that occurred in Mother’s body. Cells that spontaneously repeat the mantra ...
... The question now was about the, direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. The physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light."—Note received from the Mother.) The core of a ...
... The question now was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. The physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light." — Note received from the Mother) The core of a ...
... Sri Aurobindo speaks of three main parts of the ordinary mind: mind proper, which is chiefly the thinking mind or intellect; the vital or desire mind; and the physical mind. The physical mind is the part of the mind that is concerned with physical things only and is limited by the physical view and experience of things. Closely connected with it is the mechanical mind, which... being at its service, not its master. ... It is only the minority of men who live in the mind or in the psychic 19 or try to live in the spiritual plane. 20 ... most men live in their physical mind 21 and vital, except a few saints and a rather larger number of intellectuals. That is why, as it is now discovered, humanity has made little progress in the last three thousand years, except ...
... creation is followed by the instinct of a thinking sense. An animal experiment then begins. In it all is done to satisfy the body's wants and survival of the fittest becomes the law. But with the physical mind opening to higher Light the possibility of transformation becomes distinct. Presently an instrument personality is born and all is dictated by habits. Everything looks species-based and repetitive;... Across the land of sensuous beauty are the realms of observation and understanding. Now in the play of Nature has been set into motion another faculty, that of the early mind. First appears the physical mind, marking the beginning of the thinking mind. It is tied to habits and it toils in ignorance. Soon arrives Reason. She has come and made great inventions, built philosophies and rational disciplines... has to step into the inner countries and meet its dread before she can make progress. There all the elemental energies swarm around her and there are the vital godheads, and the agents of the physical mind with their tenacity in ignorance, and the leviathan creatures of the fallen life, and the shady questioning beings, and the thinkers fixed in their own rigid thoughts and notions and beliefs ...
... thinking mind or impellent; the vitrify mind. which is a mind of dynamic will, ace ion and desire; and the physical mind, which is concerned with physical things only and is limi1 end to the physical view and experience of things. Closely connected with the physical mind is the mechanical mind. which goes on repealing whatever has happened. ... spoken about more often than perhaps any other teacher is the chatter or mental noise that takes place in the head almost all the time, a broader aspect of what Sri Aurobindo calls "the buzz of the physical mind." 17 Eckhart compares this affliction of the mind to pressing the accelerator with the gear in neutral: one burns fuel without going anywhere. This description of mental noise as a drainer ...
... smiled and blessed me. She had made in me a wide opening. I opened out into a sense of Sri Aurobindo's vastness and divineness. Something in the physical mind seemed broken and to make room for the higher and wider Consciousness. Later, the physical mind attempted a strong come-back and I passed through a whole afternoon of Page 22 severe conflict. Should I accept the Mother's... ding attitudes and truly grant that Sri Aurobindo might have been nothing more than polite and compassionate in considering all my suggestions to him. Then my ego would be thrown out and my physical mind become clear and grow receptive to the vast divine Consciousness of both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. I chose to take without any question her words, however contrary they might appear to my ...
... comfort, use, satisfaction and entertainment of his physical and sensational existence. For the physical mind takes its stand on matter and the material world, on the body and the bodily life, on sense-experience and on a normal practical mentality and its experience. All that is not of this order, the physical mind builds up as a restricted superstructure dependent upon the external sense-mentality. Even... is no power for progress or only for a material progress. It is our first mental status, but the mental being cannot remain always at this lowest rung of the human evolutionary ladder. Above physical mind and deeper within than physical sensation, there is what we may call an intelligence of the life-mind, dynamic, vital, nervous, more open, though still obscurely, to the psychic, capable of a first ...
... tamas of the physical Page 585 mind which finds it difficult to transcribe the inspiration. 29 August 1933 Mind Fatigue Jyoti wants to know why or how the mind-fag has come in and by what attitude or process it can quickly pass off. There is nothing serious in it. Very often when the mind has been doing something for a long time (I mean of course the physical mind), something... the process? Was it simply the writing that helped establish the contact with the Grace? The call for the Force is very often sufficient, not absolutely necessary that it should reach my physical mind first. Many get as soon as they write—or, (if they are outside), when the letter reaches the atmosphere. Yes, it is the success in establishing the contact that is important. It is a sort of ...
... doubts and misbeliefs were such as are always suggested to everybody when this kind of Influence envelops—the part of the mind which responds to them is the physical mind—for the other parts are covered over at such times and the physical mind left to itself naturally doubts everything supraphysical and believes only in its own domain. Mental faith is very helpful, but it is a thing that can always... inner experience—as so often happens in the Yoga—try constantly to fix in your brain. They want to have a fixed mental formation there, so that whenever you make the attempt there will be in the physical mind an expectation of difficulty, a dwelling on the idea of difficulty and unsuccess and incapacity, if not always in the front of the mind, yet at the back and by that they hope to prevent the experience ...
... instincts, needs, blind conservative attachments, settled grooves of nature, its doubt and disbelief in all that is beyond itself, its faith in the inevitability of the fixed functionings of the physical mind, the physical life and the body, that they may be replaced by a new power which establishes its own greater law and functioning in form and force of Matter. Even the inconscient and subconscient... sensation so that our vital and physical being can contact and meet concretely, quite as intensely as the mind and emotion can conceive and perceive and feel, the Divine in all things; it throws on the physical mind a transforming light that breaks its limitations, its conservative inertia, replaces its narrow thought-power and its doubts by sight and pours luminosity and consciousness into the very cells of... region isolated from the rest of the being; the mind action is penetrated by the action of the vital and physical parts, and in those parts themselves are lower formations of mind, a vital mind, a physical mind, and these have to be changed before there can be an entire transformation of the mental being. The higher transforming power has, therefore, to descend, as soon as may be and without waiting for ...
... competence and on a very restricted vital force; it is separated from the rest of cosmic mind and shut out from the thoughts of other mental beings whose inner workings are a sealed book to man's physical mind except in so far as he can read them by the analogy of his own mentality and by their insufficient bodily signs and self-expressions. His consciousness is always falling back towards the inconscience... as well as the positive of all its experience, this world contains not only the possibility of large or intense Page 452 or continuous enjoyments almost inconceivable to the limited physical mind, but also the possibility of equally enormous sufferings. It is here therefore that there are situated the lowest heavens and all the hells with the tradition and imagination of which the human... influencing and in an occult manner determining our surface existence. It is because we use, normally, only our corporeal senses and live almost wholly in the body and the physical vitality and the physical mind, and it is not directly through these that the life-world enters into relations with us. That is done through other sheaths of our being,—so they are termed in the Upanishads,—other bodies, as they ...
... so strong in it that it responds in spite of itself , and for a time it is unable to recover its balance. This happens in all parts of the being, but it is especially true of the physical parts—physical mind yielding to habitual thoughts, physical vital yielding to habitual desires and impulsions etc., body yielding to habitual sensations, illnesses etc. etc. Often sadhaks write, "But I don't want these... being and from there they spread to mind and vital and physical. It is in the outer physical consciousness that the difficulty still tries to persist and brings the restlessness sometimes into the physical mind, sometimes into the nerves, sometimes in the shape of bodily trouble into the body. But all these things can and must go. Even the illnesses can go entirely with the growth of peace and power in... is already there in you preparing to come out. Have the faith therefore that it is sure to come—and when the physical comes and covers with the old movements try to remember that and remind the physical mind that it is only by this change in yourself and all that things can change. What is needed now is all should make this psychic change their main object, each for himself. If some develop it, then ...
... not made any real attempt to control his tongue as yet. Talk—of the usual kind—does very easily disperse or bring down the inner condition because it usually comes out of the lower vital and the physical mind only and expresses that part of the consciousness—it has a tendency to externalise the being. That is of course why so many Yogis take refuge in silence. Talking and Fatigue Everyone who lives... imaginations, inferences, exaggerations, false interpretations, even gross inventions is one of the universal Page 87 illnesses of the Asram. It is a disease of the vital aided by the physical mind which makes itself an instrument of the pleasure taken in this barren and harmful pursuit of the vital. Control of the speech, refusal of this disease and the itch of the vital is very necessary... externalising mind that has to be disciplined so that it may not leap too soon to conclusions or rush immediately from thought to speech and action. That (thinking over what was talked) is a physical mind habit which should in course of time wear out. The mind should be free to shut off immediately as soon as the talk is done. Page 95 × ...
... mental (I do not speak of the speculative mind or the independent vital, I am speaking of the mental and vital parts of the body , because there is a physical vital and a physical mind; there is a physical mind and this physical mind is the worst of all, it is that which goes on all the time and you have the utmost difficulty in stopping it: it goes on and on and on); well, if there is a dispute between ...
... settle itself in the physical mind. 1 It is this work which is being done in me for months now: the mind has been withdrawn and the physical mind has taken its place, and precisely, for some time, I have noticed that it was... (I was telling you that it was seeing everything in a different way, that its relation with things was different), I have noticed that this physical mind, the mind that is in ...
... something conscious, wholly conscious. A consciousness that is independent, not depending at all upon the vital or the mental consciousness: it is a bodily consciousness. ( Silence ) And this physical mind of which Sri Aurobindo said that it was an impossibility, that it was something that turns round and round and will always turn round and round, precisely without consciousness, like a kind of machine... slowly, slowly. That started with a burst of the Love from the highest summit, the last supreme altitude, and then little by little, little by little, it came down into the body. And then this physical mind, that is to say, something altogether, altogether stupid, which used to turn round and round, repeating always the same thing, a hundred Page 94 times the same thing, little by little... to say that when I am before the mirror for shaving, if I do not put within me the mantra or an aspiration coming from the heart, well, it is an inert block that is shaving, and add to that the physical mind whirling. But if I put a mantra or a mental will... But no! It is the body that ends by saying the mantra! Spontaneously, so spontaneously that even if you by chance think of other things ...
... absolute, the physical mind starts up—it grabs at anything, anything at all, any word, fact or event that comes along, and it starts turning, turning. If you stop it, if you put some pressure on it, then it springs back up two minutes later ... And there is no inner consent at all. It chews on words, it chews on ideas or feelings—interminably. What should I do? Yes, it's the physical mind. The japa... japa is made precisely to control the physical mind. I myself use it for a very special reason, because ... You see, I invoke (the words are a bit strange) ... the Lord of Tomorrow. Not the unmanifest Lord, but the Lord as he will manifest 'tomorrow,' or in Sri Aurobindo's words, the divine manifestation in its supramental form. So the first sound of my mantra is the call to that, the evocation. ...
... disturbed if not the body? Oh, it's the physical mind, this stupid mind! It makes all the trouble, always. It isn't the body at all? No! The body is VERY enduring. Then what suffers? Suffering also comes through the physical mind, because if this entity is calmed down, we no longer suffer—exactly what happened to me! The physical mind, you see, makes use of the nervous substance; ...
... state of tension to give you the feeling that this is going wrong, that is going wrong, and this and that.... And if by ill luck there is a vague hint of mental collaboration (from that famous physical mind), then things go awry, they become something really unpleasant. But it's not inescapable. It's not inescapable and it's not real—what I call "real" is something that comes from the supreme Will... particularly keen to sit down! ( silence ) What is that treatment? It's the treatment prescribed in those cases. Yes, yes, the classic thing... I can tell you (if it helps your physical mind) that in Japan I had a sort of measles (which had its own rather deep reasons) and that the Japanese doctor (who, besides, had studied in Germany, anyway he was a doctor through and through) told... anything, I hadn't taken any medicine or any precaution. Only, I had told Sri Aurobindo about it, who had looked at me and smiled. Well, I am convinced that's how it is, that's all. But the physical mind doesn't believe in that. It believes that that's all very well in the higher realms, but when we are in Matter things follow a law of Matter and are material and mechanical, and there is a mechanism ...
... The question now was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light." 1 It is because the Mother as his supreme collaborator ...
... and settle in the physical mind.² And that's just the work being done in me for months now: the mind had been removed, and the physical mind is taking its place, and for some time I had noticed that it was... (I told you that it was seeing everything in a different way, that its relationship with things was different), I have been noticing these past few day; that the physical mind, the mind that is ...
... have been rather clumsy in expressing my thoughts. Somehow I feel a great resistance and words simply won't come. The same resistance everywhere! It is the negative resistance mostly of the physical mind and vital physical—a resistance of inertia, of অপ্রকাশ 13 and অপ্রবৃত্তি 14 against any idea of any possibility of being other than they are. It often comes when the keenness of the vital... must be patient and persevering, or one can rely on the Divine with a constant call and aspiration. But then the reliance has to be a true one not insisting on immediate fruit. All that is the physical mind refusing to take the trouble of the labour and struggle necessary for the spiritual achievement. It wants to get the highest, but desires a smooth course all the way. "Who the devil is going to... said he too had a similar feeling. I don't know whether such a feeling arose out of the association with the puja on that day, or quite independently of it. All that is the silliness of the physical mind which thinks itself very clever in explaining away the inner feeling or perception. One can't take such feelings very seriously (perhaps you will rebuke me for it) because they are so vague ...
... means both wine and moon) as delight and ecstasy, the sky as infinity or transcendence. And so on. Indeed, that is the hiatus, the inadequacy that still cripples and stultifies the mind, the physical mind in its attempt to seize other realities beyond. It is the mind which gives the formal structure, the pattern of expression in the material frame. The mind being bound to the life of the ignorant... and miraculous synthesis negating neither, giving the full value to each, for the two are united, concentrated in its substance. Thus is found the golden bridge uniting earth and heaven. The physical mind, with its satellite, the human speech, must indeed be rescued from the thraldom of the animal life, the life of the ordinary senses. They should be put under the regimen of the new consciousness... ous, the higher not totally rejecting the lower or primitive formula, the lower not altogether englobing and swallowing the higher. The mantra of Savitri wields a language and expresses a physical mind that already shows how the alchemy will be done or is being done: the transmutation of the ordinary experience into a supra-sensuous or the supra-sensuous embodying itself in the sensuous. The process ...
... rushes from a still lower region, the vital, the source of passions and prejudices. It is the lower mind, the physical mind as it is called, which is the one obstacle that shuts out the light Page 405 of true consciousness. The source of all doubt is here. The physical mind has its own role, a truer role; for it is the instrumental consciousness that formulates things, gives a form... bounds when it chooses by itself the things to formulate, instead it should formulate only things presented to it, presented by a higher consciousness, presented, in other words, by faith. The physical mind doubts, because it has not the criterion by which it can find and judge the reality, it must perforce seek the support of a higher faculty that can furnish or reveal the object to which it should ...
... ascending peaks. A somewhat similar method or process of working is noticeable in the path shown here by Rishi Sanatkumara to Narada. At the beginning of the series is the physical mind, at the end is the spiritual mind. The physical mind is the slave of sense) the spiritual mind is to become centred in God. The first series ends with Knowledge, Knowledge again begins the last series. It seems that the... enter upon a new stage of its progress. This was in the realm of the inner being. In this stage, there was gained the acquaintance and control of the functions and powers that work from behind the physical mind. From here there is the ascent to the fourth step while still keeping behind the veil, on to the gates of the spiritual consciousness, crossing beyond the Page 149 limits of ...
... Infinite and the Invisible, they derive the calculus of destiny. To the physical mind of man, this deeper and higher aspect of the working of gods is not known. All the living elements that enter into the constitution of the cosmos lose their inmost significance; robbed of their wonder, they become mechanical and drab to the physical mind. This spontaneous movement of higher consciousness was reduced to... was intended to be a search for an ungrasped omniscience. This search of the human spirit for the Highest knowledge was helped by "A dwarf three-bodied trinity". These three dwarf's were the physical mind, the mind of desire and the reasoning mind. The first of them was "A pigmy Thought needing to live in bounds "Absorbed and cabined in external sight". Everything to it appears to ...
... to know whether a movement takes place in the vital mind or in the physical mind ? Sri Aurobindo : You can always know it by this test : if it goes on repeating almost mechanically one and the the same thing without creating any new movement, then it is in the physical mind. If the movement is rooted in the physical mind the best thing is not to give it any importance. The physical is very ...
... "sleep" and "trance" and "meditation" and ((concentration," simply to be able to get through the mesh of the physical Mind. When the physical Mind "sleeps," the cage opens up and everything is here. So it looks like the "other side" to us, a "dream," but it is only the other side of the physical Mind, the more or less hazy or distorted "dream" of the old body trying to recall what it saw and lived through ...
... we encounter all the ordinary sensations that form the very fabric of our being. And if we go right down to the bottom of these sensations, we find what Sri Aurobindo and Mother called the "physical mind." That is truly like the PRIMARY mind of matter. That is to say, a sort of relentless memory endlessly repeating whatever habit it has acquired. If it bumps into something, it will remember it... .." It creates its tumor. A small accident happened and, stupidly, it fell into its habit: one layer of skin after another... It's just a habit. But after going through that layer of the physical mind with its fears, apprehensions and... all the tiny habits being constantly woven in us – "Oh, this must be..." (it's all microscopic, but engraved nevertheless) – if we can get through that layer... think I understood (afterward) what had physically happened.... In fact, this is the "other state," the other state of pure cellular matter, free of its coverings – that ever-present layer of the physical mind with its anxieties, its fears, its... habit of reacting – all that covers us, that covers our body and our existence, that attracts death, attracts every accident. For we constantly live in fear ...
... philosophy and practice of a divine life for man. We arrive at the conception and at the knowledge of a divine existence by exceeding the evidence of the senses and piercing beyond the walls of the physical mind. So long as we confine ourselves to sense-evidence and the physical consciousness, we can conceive nothing and know nothing except the material world and its phenomena. But certain faculties in... appearances and images of things other than those which belong to the organisation of our material environment. All these extensions of faculty, though received with hesitation and incredulity by the physical mind because they are abnormal to the habitual scheme of our ordinary life and experience, difficult to set in action, still more difficult to systematise so as to be able to make of them an orderly... reason in its turn was supplanted for a time by the mixed action of the reason which lives on our plains and lower elevations and does not in its view exceed the horizon of the experience that the physical mind and senses or such aids as we can invent for them can bring to us. And this process which seems to be a descent, is really a circle of progress. For in each case the lower faculty is compelled to ...
... which are based on impulses and desires of the vital. Another subdivision is the physical mind, which is the part of the mind that is intermixed with the physical, and partakes of the characteristics of the physical consciousness such as inertia, obscurity and mechanical repetitiveness which manifest in the physical mind as mental torpor and conservatism, doubt, and obsessive thoughts. The part of the... which operates in the involuntary functionings of the various bodily organs and physiological systems. Body-consciousness is only part of the physical consciousness. The latter includes also the physical mind and the physical vital which will be presently explained. Though separate and distinct, the three main divisions of the outer being just mentioned are interconnected and interact on one another ...
... years together,—it is because the vital is restless and full of desires (not empty) that it is like that [ difficult to remain empty ]. Also the physical mind is by no means at rest. If the desires were thrown out and the ego less active and the physical mind at rest knowledge would come from above; in place of the physical mind's stupidities, Page 73 the vital mind could be calm and quiet... nature at different times. You had your former experiences because the mind and higher vital were sufficiently emptied and quiet to receive some experiences of a new consciousness. Now it is the physical mind, physical vital and body that have to be emptied—these always take longer than the others because the physical is more full of old habits, more obstinate in keeping and always repeating them, more ...
... that is to say, of the physical mind dealing with the apparent law of physical process and seeing no farther. It has also been used to dismiss ideas and beliefs not in agreement with one's own idea of what is the rational norm of supraphysical truths as well. For many ages man cherished beliefs that implied a force behind which acted on principles unknown to the physical mind and beyond the witness... as a first step and are not considered as realisation—they must be confirmed by being translated into and justified by experience. As to the value of the experience itself, it is doubted by the physical mind because it is subjective, not objective. But has the distinction much value? Is not all knowledge and experience subjective at bottom? Objective external physical things are seen very much in the ...
... and dispersion of the energies. It can be got rid of in two ways, by rejecting it and pushing it out, till it remains as an outside force only—by bringing down the higher peace and light into the physical mind. It is the Light or the Force which comes from beyond the mind that keeps the mind truly concentrated. Otherwise the mind is naturally restless, unfixed, constantly changing from one thing... the mind—it can be dissolved and cease to recur. It will help if you can cease to regard them as creations of your own mind—they are not, they are foreign matter thrown on it from outside. The physical mind which they attack has to learn to see and feel them as something foreign and refuse to accept them. Then they will go. For that you will receive my help and the Mother's. Keep yourself inwardly... that to arrive at a more positive new consciousness. When the mind thus falls quiet the thoughts of the past, all sorts of repetitive or mechanical thoughts begin to rise up—these come from the physical mind or the subconscient. One has to refuse them and let them pass away, aspiring for the complete mental quietude in which the new consciousness can reveal itself little by little. Remain firm and quiet ...
... dulled because at its lower basis is the physical mind with its principle of tamas or inertia—for in matter inertia is the fundamental principle. A constant or long continuity of higher experiences produces in this part of the mind a sense of exhaustion or reaction of unease or dullness. Trance or samādhi is a way of escape—the body is made quiet, the physical mind is in a state of torpor, the inner ... and says just the opposite. I get communications for instance from X in which for several pages he writes wise and perfect things about the sadhana—suddenly without transition he drops into his physical mind and peevishly and complainingly says—well, things ignorant and quite incompatible with all that wisdom. X is not insincere when he does that—he is simply giving voice to two parts of his nature ...
... attack which you got rid of after coming into the body. This part of the head from the ears down to the neck is the seat of the physical mind—the centre of the physical or externalising mind is in the throat joining the spine at the back. It was an attack on the physical mind. Going Out in the Vital Body It looks as if it were an exteriorisation 1 in which she goes out in Page 206 ... experiences and this must be overcome; as the inner mental, vital, physical consciousness opens to things behind the thick physical veil all kinds of experiences may happen that are strange to the physical mind and its tendency to be apprehensive or nervous at these things must disappear. It must be able to face even formidable things without fear. A feeling like that of the shock and the stopping ...
... character of the physical resistance and conquer it however often it may rise. It is the price of the transformation of the earth-consciousness. Page 360 It is the nature of the physical mind to be obstinate. Physical nature exists by constant repetition of the same thing—only a constant presentation of different forms of itself. This obstinate recurrence is therefore part of its nature... sadhana is to bring down the higher light and power and peace and Ananda into the body consciousness, to get rid of the inertia of the physical, the doubts, limitations, external tendency of the physical mind, the defective energies of the vital physical (nerves) and bring in instead the true consciousness there so that the physical may be a perfect instrument for the Divine Will. The food and care for... external sounds and external bodily sensations", "no control to drop the ordinary consciousness at will", "the whole tendency of the being away from Yoga"—all that is unmistakably applicable to the physical mind and the physical consciousness when they isolate themselves, as it were, and take up the whole front, pushing the rest into the background. When a part of the being is brought forward to be worked ...
... larger workings. We can become aware of the existence and presence of the universal Shakti in the various forms of her power. At present we are conscious only of the power as formulated in our physical mind, nervous being and corporeal case sustaining our various activities. But if we can once get beyond this first formation by some liberation of the hidden, recondite, subliminal parts of our existence... in us and not according to the law of the highest spiritual existence. The ordinary power by which we govern the pranic energy is that of the embodied mind. But when we get clear above the physical mind, we can get too above the pranic force to the consciousness of a pure mental energy which is a higher formulation of the Shakti. There we are aware of a universal mind consciousness closely associated... clearly to distinguish them or get a full hold of the one on the other and so control effectively the lower by the higher and more understanding principle. But when we take our station above the physical mind, we are able then to separate clearly the two forms of energy, the two levels of our being, disentangle their action and act with a clearer and more potent self-knowledge and an enlightened and ...
... and settle in the physical mind. 2 And that's just the work being done in me for months now: the mind has been removed, and the physical mind is taking its place, and for some time I had noticed that it was... (I told you that it was seeing everything in a different way, that its relationship with things was different), I have been noticing these past few days that the physical mind, the mind that ...
... The question was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light." Amal Kiran writes apropos of the full circumstances ...
... The question was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light.’ 8 This needs some elucidation. The Supermind is the ...
... The question was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light.” 25 These words of the Mother need some explanation ...
... remarked more than once, our body's sleep does not entail the sleep of our whole being nor for that matter indicate a total abeyance of all consciousness. In fact, during the dormancy of our physical mind, our consciousness withdraws from its surface preoccupation and becomes instead awake and active in regions of our being as widely distinct as they are disparate in their consequences. ... or sleep state, and finally turīya transcending these all. "The waking state is consciousness of the material universe which we normally possess in this embodied existence dominated by the physical mind. The dream state is a consciousness corresponding to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane behind.... The sleep state is a consciousness corresponding to the supramental plane proper to the gnosis... volitions, sense-suggestions and urges to action, streaming down from above or surging forward from behind. Now, it is impossible for us in our normal consciousness to get back from our physical mind into these sublimer planes of consciousness without at the same time receding from the waking state and going in and away from its hold. This fact explains the tremendous importance generally ...
... The question was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light.’ 63 The transmission of the Mind of Light from Sri ...
... question was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical Page 62 mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light. 1 29 June 1953 As soon as Sri Aurobindo ...
... that this japa automatically triggered the physical mind into a great activity. The physical mind! Yes, that is to say, when I begin the japa, I am assailed by a number of material questions, tiny little material things that happened during the day and come back. Uninteresting things. The japa seems to act on that mind, on that bit of physical mind. Yes, it WANTS to act there. That's why ...
... last stage is that the body should forget it has been ill; that's very important. Very difficult. It's very important. I am constantly struggling against pernicious suggestions. This physical mind gives me a lot of trouble—a lot of trouble. It has terrible apprehensions and fears. Oh, absolutely. You understand, it has received so many blows... Exactly! ...that it lives in... (without being conscious of it), and when all those terrible things 2 happened to you, there was something that remained conscious, but those things "cultivated" the pessimism—that pessimism of the physical mind. And now you have to undo all that work. And what a work it is, phew!... Page 231 You understand, it was IMPOSSIBLE, impossible for me to believe in ("believe"—even understand) all... And in fact, the only way to erase the imprint is to make contact with the Truth. There is no other way—all reasoning, all intelligence, all understanding, all that is totally useless with this physical mind. The only thing is to make contact. That's just what the cells value: the possibility of making contact. Making contact. On the material level, japa is very good for that. When your head is ...
... The question now was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light." In view of all this I hazarded the guess that 1938 — the ...
... the Mother because Sri Aurobindo I didn't know, while the Mother I had seen again and again. I knelt down at her feet, she blessed me; then I went to Sri Aurobindo's feet and looked at him. My physical mind came right to the front: Page 12 "What sort of a person is Sri Aurobindo? How does he look?" I saw him sitting very grandly, with an aquiline nose, smallish eyes, fine moustaches... you had a good face." (laughter) Here was a piquant situation. When I was examining him, he was examining me — on the same level, it seems, (laughter) He had come down, as it were, to meet my physical mind. I didn't think the compliment he had paid me was very satisfying or quite sufficient. Only a good face? Then I asked myself: "What did you require of Sri Aurobindo? That he should have a good face... also happened to the Mother. She has told me that as soon as Sri Aurobindo left his body what he had termed the Mind of Light got realised in her. And the Mind of Light she has described as the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light. So the individual fixation of the Supermind in a conscious part of the gross physical took place in 1950. The other years in the same series are 1962, 1974, 1986 ...
... The question was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the Supramental light; the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light.' Sri Aurobindo's withdrawal from the body has therefore ...
... The question was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the Sacramental light; the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the Sacramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light. Two months after Sri Aurobindo withdrawal from the ...
... rational process familiar to the ordinary physical mind from a suprarational thing like Yoga. Yoga has its processes, but they can only be understood and detected by those who have Yogic experience. But you refuse to accept that experience as valid; you want everything to be explained according to your own field of reason which is that of the ignorant physical mind. If you persist in that you will remain... saying that his ailments don't ever improve after reporting to you. Please see that this report gives some response, otherwise another factor will be added to his depression! The attitude of his physical mind prevents any result—fo it is so unwilling to recognize anything as the result of the Force that his subconscient works in the direction of preventing any result coming—and it is the subconscient ...
... ascending peaks. A somewhat similar method or process of working is noticeable in the path shown here by Rishi Sanatkumara to Narada. At the beginning of the series is the physical mind, at the end is the spiritual mind. The physical mind is the slave of sense, the spiritual mind is to become centred in God. The first series ends with Knowledge, Knowledge again begins the last series. It seems that the... enter upon a new stage of its progress. This was in the realm of the inner being. In this stage, there was gained the acquaintance and control of the functions and powers that work from behind the physical mind. From here there is the ascent to the fourth step while still keeping behind the veil, on to the gates of the spiritual consciousness, crossing beyond the Page 35 limits of our ...
... means both wine and moon) as delight and ecstasy, the sky as infinity or transcendence. And so on. Indeed, that is the hiatus, the inadequacy that still cripples and stultifies the mind, the physical mind in its attempt to seize other realities beyond. It is the mind which gives the formal structure, the pattern of expression in the material frame. The mind being bound to the life of the ignorant... miraculous synthesis negating neither, giving the full value to each, for the two are united, concentrated in its substance. Thus is found the golden bridge uniting earth and heaven. The physical mind, with its satellite, the human speech, must indeed be rescued from the thraldom of the animal life, the life of the ordinary senses. They should be put under the regimen of the new consciousness... s, the higher not totally rejecting the lower or primitive formula, the lower not altogether englobing and swallowing the higher. The mantra of Savitri wields a language and expresses a physical mind that already shows how the alchemy will be done or is being done: the transmutation of the ordinary experience into a suprasensuous or the supra-sensuous embodying itself in the sensuous. The process ...
... What is the difference between the physical mind and the material mind ? Sri Aurobindo : The material mind is a part of the physical Disciple : What is the physical? Sri Aurobindo : As I have not got the same inspiration of the subject, I shall ask X. to explain it { a pause ). I spoke about four things in the physical : (1) physical mind, (2) Physical Vital, (3) Matter proper... proper and (4) The Supermind in the physical. The "physical mind" is, so to say, that end of mental being which comes in contact with the physical world. It is mind limited by matter, working without the help of ideas, looking only to the physical aspect of the world and taking things as they are. It does not go beyond that view. It depends upon the evidence and knowledge of the physical plane or ...
... rest obstructive denial or successful resistance are paramount, denial in 8 and 9, resistance in the Arogya. The half smarana is now often reduced to a minimum of attention chiefly in the physical mind or even the mind of the body and the dependence of the Ananda on the attention begins to be replaced by the involuntary Ananda forcing the attention. But this is only occasionally. Usually greater... times when the whole action of the mentality becomes vijnanamaya with a long continuity; afterwards there is a fall into a confused tamasic condition of the receiving brain, when the unredeemed physical mind tries to work; after a struggle the light of the vijnana reappears in whole or in part action. [28] September 1917 No definite movement during the last few days except the preparation of ...
... Nature. But even in its external or exoteric side the Vedic religion did not limit itself to this acceptance and regulation of the first Page 199 religious notions of the natural physical mind of man. The Vedic Rishis gave a psychic function to the godheads worshipped by the people; they spoke to them of a higher Truth, Right, Law of which the gods were the guardians, of the necessity... much for the same reason as Catholic Christianity replaced the mysteries and sacrifices of the early Pagan religions. For in both cases the outward basis of the early religion spoke to the outward physical mind of the people and took that as the starting-point of its appeal. But the new evolution tried to awaken a more inner mind even in the common man, to lay hold on his inner vital and emotional nature ...
... they become a great asset to the spiritual nature. 22 December 1923 B.G: What is the way to eliminate this mechanical play of the mind? How to do away with it? Sri Aurobindo: The physical mind must remain as the instrument to act here on the material plane, only its play, its movements will be transformed and its stuff too. Only withdrawal from the lower movements won't do. When you rise... Religious faith which is stupidity. (e) Faith may be due to the absence of intellectual development; intellect which sees all possibilities gives prominence to each. (f) Doubt may be due to the physical mind having positive side. We have to see, what is the source of faith. There is no absolute rule or law. 2) Spiritual being is Sachchidananda, which can be realised on the mental plane. One need ...
... either in the waking state when the control by itself cannot eradicate anything entirely out of the being. The subconscient in the ordinary man includes the larger part of the vital being and the physical mind and also the secret body-consciousness. In order to make a true and complete change, one has to make all these conscious, to see clearly what is still there and to reject them from one layer after... and more external, all assent refused until they weaken and fade away. Not only the Chitta and Buddhi must refuse consent but also the lower parts of the being, the vital and the physicovital, physical mind and the body consciousness. (5) The defect of the receiving mind and the discriminating Buddhi spoken of are general defects of the intellect and cannot be entirely got rid of so long as the ...
... Comparisons Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo Parts of the Ordinary Mind The different parts of the ordinary mind (the thinking mind, the vital mind, and the physical mind) have been previously alluded to (Chapter 1, p. 12, fn. 17; and Chapter 5, p. 85, fn 21). Eckhart regards any and all activity of the mind as mental noise. One gets the impression that, according... of no-mind and stillness, the mind ceases to exist. Sri Aurobindo, on the other hand, describes as "buzz" the activity, particularly of the mechanical mind, that is closely connected with the physical mind. Silence, he says, has to be established in all parts of the ordinary mind so that the higher consciousness may manifest. However, he considers the mind to be as indispensable an instrument as ...
... impressed itself upon the body-consciousness. Letters on Yoga, p. 353 The subconscient in the ordinary man includes the larger part of Page 33 the vital being and the physical mind and also the secret body-consciousness. Letters on Yoga, p. 898 The subconscient is universal as well as individual like all the other main parts of the Nature. But there are different... is being changed, 1 the chief resistance comes from the subconscient. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of intelligence which afflict the physical mind and vital or the obscure fears, desires, angers, lusts of the physical vital, or the illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the body-nature is prone.... Page 35 ...
... number of people having moods; none can say when these moods will come—they come without any reason. Moods are all over the Ashram—they come from the obscurity and bad will of the physical mind. When the physical mind will consent to open to the light all these moods will disappear. With love and blessings always 11 May 1935 ...
... the universes? Or even on this earth, e.g. what Lloyd George 93 had for dinner yesterday?’ asked Sri Aurobindo. ‘Questions of consciousness, of course, she always knows even with her outmost physical mind. Material facts she can know but is not bound to do it. What would be true to say, is that she can know if she concentrates or if her attention is called to it and she decides to know. I often know... her arrangements in this matter are therefore dictated by quite other reasons than those which are attributed to her.’ 42 Sometimes Sri Aurobindo was forced to put matters bluntly: ‘Your physical mind cannot understand what the Mother does, its values and standards and ideas are not hers.’ And: ‘If people want to understand why the Mother does things, let them get into the same inner consciousness ...
... purest acme of native capacity. An ideal and spiritual poetry revealing the spirit in itself and in things, the unseen in the seen or above and behind it, unveiling ranges of existence which the physical mind ignores, pointing man himself to capacities of godhead in being, truth, beauty, power, joy which are beyond the highest of his common or his yet realised values of existence, is the last potentiality... however elementarily on the whole, in its own right, with an explicitness of spiritual substance and style,an immediate self-expression of the supra-intellectual, rather than in terms proper to the physical mind, vital mind, intellectual mind: that is the reason for considering the significance of Romantic poetry paramount. In this poetry both the content and the form, such as the bardic urge throughout ...
... would have meant a series of brilliant sallies in all directions without striking on the central road. So a different mode of operation was adopted. The Gurus came down to the level of the physical mind and worked from there, calling the descent of the Supramental Consciousness into that level. At the same time they started digging the Subconscient and the Inconscient. And, all the while, they... came with the passing of Sri Aurobindo. A breakthrough which would have taken long if he had remained within his body was achieved at one drastic stroke by his leaving it. The Mind of Light, the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light, was established in the Mother the moment Sri Aurobindo made his stupendous self-sacrifice. Sri Aurobindo's physical absence created indeed a gap in our Yogic lives ...
... and taught me how Indians do pranam.'" (laughter) Sri Aurobindo was much amused. c) I knelt down at her feet, she blessed me; then I went to Sri Aurobindo's feet and looked at him. My physical mind came right to the front: "What sort of a person is Sri Aurobindo? How does he look?" I saw him sitting very Page 38 grandly, with an aquiline nose, smallish eyes, fine ... you had a good face." (laughter) Here was a piquant situation. When I was examining him, he was examining me - on the same level, it seems, ( laughter ) He had come down, as it were, to meet my physical mind. d) Indeed Dara was quite a character - a very extraordinary character with a lot of eccentricity. He was also a poet, of course: at that time poets were budding all over the place. But ...
... dulled because at its lower bases is the physical mind with its principle of tamas or inertia—for in matter Inertia is the fundamental principle. A constant or long continuity of higher experiences produces in this part of the mind a sense of exhaustion or of unease or dullness. Trance or Samadhi is a way of escape—the body is made quiet, the physical mind is in a state of torpor, the inner con ...
... is not immortality of the body, but the consciousness of immortality in the body that can come with the descent of Overmind into Matter or even into the physical mind or with the touch of the modified Supramental Light on the physical mind-consciousness. These are preliminary openings, but they are not the supramental fulfilment in Matter. Involution and Evolution The involution is of the ...
... have been accomplished, still urged against their successors. The physical mind always comes in with its fixed line Page 263 of the present and "No farther" and when the fixed line of the present is unfixed and overpassed, it again erects a new line and cries "No farther". If an "elemental" who had attained to the physical mind had been present at the different stages of the earth-history he ...
... progress—in the Knowledge, the Truth-creation, the law is that of a constant unfolding without any Pralaya. It is not by a general descent that people come out of the physical mind. If one chooses to remain in the physical mind, one million descents can come down and make no difference to him. The Supermind coming down on earth will change nothing in a man if he clings to the ego. Page ...
... observation that the difficulty is only in the head and throat and mainly in the latter is very significant. These are the mental centres and it is evident therefore that the difficulty comes from the physical mind. The higher part of the mind belongs to the thinking mind proper, the buddhi, that which understands and observes and guides; the throat is the centre of the externalising mind, that which deals... makes creation more difficult, but in the last result justifies the labour. Each plane of consciousness contains the others in itself in principle. In the physical consciousness there is a physical mind, a vital force and action which we call the vital physical, and the physical proper or material. Mind has its own realms and life has its own realms just as matter has. In the mental realms ...
... reason. The first character of this change is a complete reversal, a turning over, one might almost say, upside down of the whole activity. At present we live in the mind and mostly in the physical mind, but still not entirely involved like the animal in the physical, vital and sensational workings. On the contrary we have attained to a certain mental elevation from which we can look down on the... natures: but when we advance in self-knowledge, we find that all our thought and will originate from above though formed in the mind and there first overtly active. If we release the knots of the physical mind which binds us to the brain instrument and identifies us with the bodily consciousness and can move in the pure mentality, this becomes constantly clear to the perception. The development of ...
... be to extinguish the impulse of life by a quietistic asceticism. But the real motive power of the life of the soul is Will; desire is only a deformation of will in the dominant bodily life and physical mind. The essential turn of the soul to possession and enjoyment of the world consists in a will to delight, and the enjoyment of the satisfaction of craving is only a vital and physical degradation... corresponding nervous-mental accompaniment, and we often find that when the heart is freed of any will to the dualities, there still survives a root of disturbance of nervous mind, or a memory in physical mind which falls more and more away to a quite physical character, the more it is repelled by the will in the buddhi. It becomes finally a mere suggestion from outside to which the nervous chords of ...
... great a precision at present in my communications. The tendencies of the present I can see and floating images of the future; but as the real body of the psychic worlds is not present to the physical mind, but only appears like a dream or Page 1415 imagination, so to my psychic mind is the body of the material world. This presents a difficulty which most who do this writing do not appreciate... me by seeing in vision the form of what I was renewed though changed in the form of my new body. A seer with knowledge can know the identity of one he sees even though not known before to the physical mind. It will be begun. That is not necessary. That I should be directly descended. No; I have not the physical vision. It is not always easy to see from a distance, and if I depend on any of ...
... transcript of his inner mind or mental life. It is obvious that his vital cast, his character may have very little to do with his writing, it may be its very opposite. His physical mind also does not determine it; the physical mind of a romantic poet or artist may very well be that of a commonplace respectable bourgeois. One who in his fiction is a benevolent philanthropist and reformer full of sentimental ...
... feels always oneself a wide consciousness not limited by any feeling of the body. You felt something of this wideness of your being in the second experience when the Mother's foot pressed down your physical mind (head) till it went below and left room for this sense of an infinite Self. This wide consciousness not dependent on the body or limited by it is what is called in Yoga the Atman or Self. You are... and there is nothing in it to fear. If these were imaginations, you would be able to reproduce them exactly each time you thought of them. The idea that it is imagination comes from the physical mind which cannot believe in anything supraphysical. This opening of the chest into the void (not really the void, but the infinite Akash of the Chit universal and illimitable) is always the sign ...
... dream is symbolic, the falling of teeth means the disappearance of old fixed mental habits belonging to the physical mind. Page 163 The breaking or falling of teeth [ in dream ] is symbolic usually of the breaking or falling off of habitual formations or sanskaras in the physical mind. Flesh The piece of flesh indicates something restless in the physical being which stands by its ...
... going on in you, you had periods when you had this right attitude and could get glimpses of the true happiness and dedication. But the physical mind became active and with it there began the period of obscuration and trouble. The physical Page 315 mind must become quiet and the heart open and the psychic become again active. It is for this you should aspire always and in time it will come ...
... yourself from the mind also. You have to feel yourself even in the mental, vital, physical levels (not only above) a consciousness that is neither mind, life, nor body. For the buzz of the physical mind, reject it quietly, without getting disturbed, till it feels discouraged and retires shaking its head and saying, "This fellow is too calm and strong for me." There are always two things that can... for the quiet and peace of the mind to remain undisturbed by this action even if it occurs. If the peace and silence continue to come down, they usually become so intense as to seize the physical mind also after a time. You are probably paying too much attention to them [ mechanical thoughts ]. It is quite possible to concentrate and let the mechanical activity pass unnoticed. The ...
... victory in the mind of the inner light over the outer ignorance. The difficulty in giving up habits is common to the physical mind in all people; nothing is more difficult to it. The fire you feel must be what we call Agni, the fire of purification acting on this physical mind to change it. The bridge you saw was the symbol of transition from the ordinary to the spiritual consciousness; the wide ...
... personal preferences, clinging to old ideas and associations, its obstinate doubts and its maintaining these things as a wall of obstruction and opposition to the larger light. This activity of the physical mind is what people call intellect and reason, although it is only the turning of a machine in a circle of mental habits and is very different from the true and free reason, the higher Buddhi which is... the hostile forces. Everybody gets these suggestions, but they ought not to be allowed to enter inside, especially in the heart, or to be accepted by the vital. Evidently, they enter through the physical mind (from the throat upwards means that) and affect the surface vital and emotional being. You must get the power to reject them from there by a constant and steady denial and refusal of their suggestions ...
... not mean that it is open so wholly that it is already divine and is not feeling pride or other wrong movements. As for the nervous being, it is part of the physical consciousness, below the physical mind and not above it—the nerves are part of the body. The attitude which he describes, if he keeps it correctly, is the right one. It brought him at first the beginning of a true experience,... be founded and settled. Descent into the Physical Consciousness and Body This is a very great progress—to be able to receive the higher consciousness while doing external things with the physical mind and body—it shows that the physical consciousness is fast opening. What you feel is indeed the Grace coming down and bringing the higher divine or spiritual consciousness with it with all that is ...
... confused movements. That is why I am always pressing on you to open and keep in touch with the Force—for it is your inner being that feels naturally in touch with it,—it is only the external and physical mind and vital that feel it is as if it were not real, not truly connected etc. etc. This you have experienced yourself more than once when the inner being came into the front. 3 November 1932 ... connection between you and the Mother is there and has always existed. Inside it is very evident and, when you are in the psychic condition, that which is inside begins to work. It is only the physical mind that suggests the idea to the contrary because outward circumstances are still inharmonious and unfavourable. Do not allow these suggestions to sway you. Seek the connection within you in your psychic ...
... her in practical life? I still make mistakes and do not always get the right inspiration. That depends on the physical mind. It has to learn to stop listening to itself and following its own ideas and to call seriously and persistently for the inspiration of the Mother—your physical mind has to become a portion of hers, answering at once and accurately to whatever comes from her. 27 December 1933 ...
... because they have no true ground in reality. They are ready enough to seize on some (usually trifling) outward appearances and twist them this way or that in order to convince the easily deceived physical mind; they will even create circumstances and make them appear to have that colour. But if they cannot find or create, they will go on just as merrily with no other ground than imaginations or impressions... suggestion, these feelings and all the cycle in future the moment they try to come. Never mind what circumstances or justifications they may allege. Nothing is more dangerous than the inferences of the physical mind trying to build up conclusions upon outward appearances—they have nine chances out of ten of being false. One must learn to distrust hasty conclusions from surface appearances—is not that the first ...
... surface consciousness. In our Yoga we adopt a different classification based on the Yoga experience. What answers to this movement of the Manas there would be two separate things—a part of the physical mind communicating with the physical vital. It receives from the physical senses and transmits to the Buddhi—i.e. to some part or other of the Thought-Mind; it receives back from the Buddhi and transmits... it—for example the occult vital forces that are used to produce kāya siddhi in Hathayoga? The physical Nature does not mean the body alone but the phrase includes the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature—not by imposing siddhis on them, but by Page 108 creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the supramental being in a new evolution. I am ...
... of my forehead downwards between the eyebrows. What is the reason for this? X 's reasonings are not very sound; yours are better if not altogether flawless. The Mother is not limited by the physical mind, so even if she has "more important" work to do, that would not in the least stand in the way of her listening to a call from the wilderness or anywhere else. Also spiritual things do not go ... 15 January 1937 As to the experience, certainly X 's call for help did reach the Mother, even though all the details she relates in her letter might not have been present to the Mother's physical mind. Always calls of this kind are coming to the Mother, sometimes a hundred close upon each other and always the answer is given. The occasions are of all kinds, but whatever the need that occasions ...
... disturbed, remembering the Mother always and trusting in her action upon you. 25 June 1932 When there is obscurity or habitual thoughts, the narrowness of the physical mind becomes prominent. But now and then, the physical mind seems to become limitless, thoughtless and without obscurity. Is this a true feeling? Page 203 Yes. All the parts that have to be changed must widen like ...
... the Mother knows all our insignificant thoughts at all times, or only when she concentrates? It is said that the Mother is always present and looking at you. That does not mean that in her physical mind she is thinking of you always and seeing your thoughts. There is no need of that, since she is everywhere and acts everywhere out of her universal knowledge. It seems to me that the more we... business in her embodiment is to know the working of the universal forces and use them for her work; for the rest she knows what she needs to know, sometimes with her inner self, sometimes with her physical mind. All knowledge is available in her universal self to her, but she brings forward only what is meant to be brought forward so that the work may be done. 13 August 1933 I had a dream in which ...
... have described and has tangible results. But it is invisible—not like a blow given or the rush of a motor car knocking somebody down which the physical senses can at once perceive. How is the mere physical mind to know that it is there and working? By its results? but how can it know that the results were that of the Yoga-force and not of something else? One of two things it must do. Either it must allow... sensible in the exterior consciousness. But neither can be done if one insists always on the extrovert attitude, the external concrete only and refuses to join to it the internal concrete—or if the physical Mind at every step raises a dance of doubts which refuses to allow the nascent experience to develop. Even the scientist carrying out a new experiment would never succeed if he allowed his mind to behave ...
... read in it and learn anything they choose. But this region must not be mistaken for the supramental levels. And yet to reach even there you must be able to silence the movements of the material or physical mind; you must be able to leave aside all your sensations and put a stop to your ordinary mental movements, whatever they are; you must get out of the vital; you must become free from the slavery of... June 1929 ) You have said that in order to go to the place where all mental movements belonging to earthly life are recorded and preserved, one must silence the movements of the material and physical mind... and put a stop to ordinary mental movements. If the movements are stopped, what is going to happen? We have to do something or other the whole day long. No, just for that moment. Not permanently ...
... you must give it a good deal of tranquillity, a good deal of rest. The difficulty is that I am very much absorbed by the condition of this body, it takes away much of my consciousness—the physical mind, for example, invades me completely. Yes, I know it very well. But that is always the difficulty, the difficulty of everyone. That is why in the past they used to tell you, "Get away! Leave... a monkey, if you could put there... it is a Peace which acts directly in this material vibration—a Peace in which everything relaxes. Do not think, do not think of trying to transform this physical mind or to silence it or abolish it; all that is still activity. Simply let it go on, but... put the Peace, feel the Peace, live the Peace, know the Peace—the Peace, the Peace. That is the only thing ...
... who live more in sensations or feelings, have rather psychological movements, movements of inner feelings or sensations—it depends on each one. Those who have an active and particularly formative physical mind, see images, but everybody does not experience the same thing. If you ask the person next to you, for instance... ( To the next child ) When I give a subject, do you see images like that? Sometimes... frequently a sensation—I mean generally—more frequently a sensation or a feeling than an image. The image always comes to those who have a formative Page 378 mental power, an active physical mind. It is an indication that one is active in one's mental consciousness. (The child who had asked the first question) But is this right? But everything is right if it has a result! Any means ...
... in order to cure the misdeeds of that physical mind, it's not bad to become... we could say in jest, vegetarian in the sense of becoming a plant—the peaceful life of a plant, like that ( gesture, stretched out in the sun ). Yes, there is a kind of vegetative immobility which is excellent for overcoming the agitation—the frantic agitation—of that physical mind.... Oh, look, it's the sensation of a ...
... Supramental Consciousness to take its place. The Truth-Consciousness must pervade all the being, dominate all the movements and quiet the restless physical mind. These are the preliminary conditions for the manifestation. Wisdom in the physical mind: a first step towards the supramental manifestation upon earth. ( Message for the fourth anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth ...
... line of action; and because of what he is himself, his line of action is located in a relatively very material domain: the physical, the immediate vital and the physical mind—not the higher, speculative or intellectual mind, no: the physical mind, the one that has an action on Matter, then the vital with all the vital's entities (he always mentions them, and he also gives the ways of mastering Page ...
... some approach or other in the past to his ideal. But he is explicit about the basic divergence even where an apparent similarity may be discerned. He 22 speaks of "the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature — not by imposing siddhis [= abnormal faculties] on them, but by creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the supramental being in a new evolution... achievement" — and then the following "some yogis have achieved it, I believe". His meaning is not quite clear. What "this achievement" signifies is most probably "the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature" spoken of in the other letter, as a result of "siddhis" imposed by "mental or vital occult power". The term "transformation" can cover many Yogic changes. A supramental ...
... It would be wiser to talk about it when it's done! Once things are established, then.... For the moment, it's... ( oscillating gesture from one side to the other ). This taming of the physical mind is.... I don't know how to tackle it, I find it very difficult. Very difficult. It's very difficult. First, one must be able to obtain silence at will—at any time at all, to obtain silence... opens her hands upwards in a gesture of offering and immobile contemplation ). ( silence ) The type of concentration itself must change, then. Yes. Because when you try to tame the physical mind and it rushes off here and there, it's mentally that you concentrate and restore the silence. So each time you use the mind to enforce discipline.... Ah! The trouble is, the second you relax ...
... some approach or other in the past to his ideal. But he is explicit about the basic divergence even where an apparent similarity may be discerned. He 22 speaks of "the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature - not by imposing siddhis [=abnormal faculties] on them, but by creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the supra-mental being in a new evolution"... achievement" - and then the following "some yogis have achieved it, I believe". His meaning is not quite clear. What "this achievement" signifies is most probably "the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature" spoken of in the other letter, as a result of "siddhis" imposed by "mental or vital occult power". The term "transformation" can cover many Yogic changes. A supramental ...
... end of the human mental development, men represent more or less animal consciousness and are almost on the same mental plane with the animals of developed intelligence. These men represent the physical mind and belong in the terminology of the Gita to the class of tamasic type. Tamas is the principle of inertia and ignorance and-these men have no higher objectives in life than those demanded by the... the centre and diversity only at the surface of the manifestation of the One Spirit. Spiritual consciousness thus lies at the summit of and beyond mental consciousness which begins with the physical mind and ends with the purely mental or sattwic mind with the rajasic development in the middle. This, in short, is the course of evolutionary development of human mental consciousness. We regard ...
... s of the majority of men, starting with his material body and culminating in Reason, the highest faculty, passing through the different rungs such as "little life", "greater life", "heart", "physical mind", "little mind", "greater mind", "intellect", "thought", etc. Here are a few verses in each case: Page 50 (a) Matter's Sight : (1)"Out of the inconscient and... Page 52 (e) Imagination's Sight : (1)"The dreaming deities look beyond the seen" (601) (2)"A joy of light, a joy of sudden sight" (38) (f) Sight in the "Physical Mind" : (1)"That strange observing Power imposed its sight. It forced on flux a limit and a shape, It gave its stream a lower narrow bank" (148) (2)"It had no inward look, no ...
... done much to prepare a great possibility for the future. The significance of the third stage lies in its message that the spiritualization of the collective life cannot be achieved if only the physical mind of the common man is trained as in the Vedic Age or even if a greater effort is made to train the psychic-emotional part of common man's nature, as was attempted in the Purano-Tantric Age. What... existence; consequently, there came about a general decline in science, philosophy, and all other domains of life. On the other hand, the previous training provided under the Vedic religion to the physical mind and under the post-Vedic and Purano-Tantric religion to the inner faculties had created favourable conditions for the growth and development of multisided religious and spiritual movements. These ...
... and complexity; this mixed action of the reason explored the domains of experimental and pragmatic knowledge, and this afforded extreme possibilities of the development of the experiences of the physical mind and senses. This process can be seen as a circle of progress, since the results of the Age of Intuition came to be critically examined and assimilated by the Age of Pure Reason, and similarly the... the results of metaphysical philosophy came to be critically tested by the experiences and experiments that were meant to meet the demands of the mixed action of Reason and the physical mind and senses. In retrospect, it can be said that this succession and this attempt to separate assimilation enlarged the scope of inquiry and prevented the exclusive domination of any particular part of human consciousness ...
... and complexity; this mixed action of the reason explored the domains of experimental and pragmatic knowledge, and this afforded extreme possibilities of the development of the experiences of the physical mind and senses. This process can be seen as a circle of progress, since the results of the Age of Intuition came to be critically examined and assimilated by the Age of Pure Reason, and similarly... similarly the results of metaphysical philosophy came to be critically tested by the experiences and experiments that were meant to meet the demands of the mixed action of Reason and the physical mind and senses. In retrospect, it can be said that this succession and this attempt to separate assimilation enlarged the scope of inquiry and prevented the exclusive domination of any particular part of human c ...
... Page 55 not only prevented the sadhana, but created a disorder in the body. It has affected my head, stomach, eyes and caused a resistance in the throat, which means the physical mind. I want to get out from this mess immediately and prepare myself for the coming occasion (15th August Darshan). Whatever it may be — the power of illness to prevent the sadhana ought... getting in? Something in the physical admitted it. It seems several people caught the same cold suddenly yesterday evening. Was there then any general attack on the physical mind? There may have been. Attacks are always going about and sometimes several people become susceptible to them at a time. If several people together become sensitive ...
... everything is broken and destroyed, the mind comes and presses down and tries to put things together and organise some kind of harmony. Therefore the man who wants to hold them ought to have a sound physical mind which knows the contingencies of the physical plane and also has got the light of the Supermind. If the Supermind itself came it would be a different thing, because it knows everything, and if... allow it to organise your being and transform it. Then you can think of action. Therefore I say, it would be foolish to expect m to go to the Bengal Council and work there. But per haps your physical mind thinks that going and working in the Council is, perhaps, more important than anything else ! But your inmost being may have much more important work to do than that. Disciple : You said ...
... again, I took them out, he brought them in — and so on for seven hours!!... Enough to drive you mad. And I was not sleeping! And I was not able to get out of it either! It seems that it is the physical mind. But what crazy gymnastics! And why do I do all that, or why do I live all that? As if I were only going through an awful negativity, without ever seeing the positive side of these various nightmares... Gone, volatilized? But wouldn't it be better if one (= you) could rest without needing an illness as an excuse? But curiously enough, I have seen that most of the time and for most people this physical mind of ours cannot let go of worries; it needs the body to be ill in order to leave the being in peace. Curious. I can see the same phenomenon in Satprem. I am going to tell you. On March ...
... You see, things are going too fast and at the same time there is a resistance of the old nature—encouraged by the doctors and habits. 30 This is what we always forget: the hypnotism of the physical Mind. We will never know to what extent the substance (including Mother’s substance) is hypnotized by those “do’s and don’ts.” Mother would struggle until the end, and until the end they would throw... be found. 48 She so desperately strove to bring the moment of the other thing into this Matter. And all of the difficulty, truly the Screen, hung only to that nasty little vibration of the physical Mind that could not prevent itself from wanting and foreseeing and concocting its old death, in every detail⎯all right, it was necessary to churn and knead this old Matter, but.… The fight between the ...
... of "stretching" that pain out, as it were, of flowing through it and dissolving it by not associating with it any reaction of "it hurts"—and it would go away whenever a particular thought of the physical Mind that made the "it hurts" went away. In any case, "me" is the pain. It is the great disorder. It is the cage. So the false sensations fell away, the false reactions fell away, the false "me versus... because it made them happy. With disastrous results to her consciousness. A drug means of course an instantaneous veil over the cellular consciousness. It is the return of the possession by the physical Mind —in other words, the return of the possession by death. But the problem was there, becoming more and more frequent and pressing: I constantly find myself facing this problem, which is utterly ...
... the usual stupidity of the physical mind — if it were so, it is not you who would be unfit for the Yoga, but myself who would be unfit to be in the search for the Divine Truth anybody’s guide. For one can lead through lesser to greater Truth, but not through falsehood to Truth. As for your fitness or unfitness for the Yoga, it is not a question on which your physical mind can be an unerring judge — ...
... time overcome. As for the feelings about the Mother and that her love is only given for a return in work or to those who can do sadhana well, that is the usual senseless idea of the vital-physical mind and has no value. There is nothing wrong in taking care of the body in regard to health and, if the liver has gone wrong, the instinct to refuse too sweet or greasy or heavy foods is aright... higher vital are convinced of that, but something in the physical consciousness and the sub-terranean vital is not, it still goes back by habit to the old movements and that is why the mechanical physical mind goes on dwelling on these ideas or rather these accustomed mind-movements. You must—since it has risen up from below the surface — press quietly but firmly on these parts the light and knowledge ...
... of the world where the living and the dead go around together as if there were nothing to it. So it becomes evident that what makes the veil between the two worlds is the physical Mind and what makes death is the physical Mind—one and the same thing. A coating of false matter or of fossilized Matter on ... an immortal physical reality. Death is not on the other side, it is we who are on the mortal ...
... and strengthens. If you have confidence, He shall do everything for you. *** The truth-consciousness must penetrate the entire being, command all the movements and pacify the agitated physical mind. These are the preliminary conditions of the manifestation. *** It is only when we are not troubled that we can always do the right thing, at the right moment and in the right manner.... justice were to manifest, they will be few who would be able to stand up in front of Her. *** Love alone can understand and enter into the secrets of divine action, the mind, especially the physical mind is incapable of seeing correctly, and yet it always wants to judge. *** Only a true and sincere humility in the mind which allows the psychic to govern the being, can save human beings ...
... view of things; always take your time, concentrate and decide only in quietness. * The Truth-Consciousness must pervade all the being, dominate all the movements and quiet the restless physical mind. These are the preliminary conditions for the manifestation. * The quite mind one gets through meditation is indeed of short duration, for as soon asyou come out from meditation you come... and death — Concentration on the Divine alone brings life and growth and realisation. * It is only love that can understand and get at the secrets of the Divine Working. The mind, the physical mind especially, is incapable of seeing correctly and yet it always wants to judge... It is only a true, sincere humility in the mind allowing the psychic to rule the being that can save human beings ...
... this one..." This is all childishness. So there you are. Au revoir , my children. Page 216 × "This physical mind is usually in a kind of alliance with the lower vital consciousness and its movements; when the lower vital manifests certain desires and impulses, the more material mind comes to its aid and justifies... explanations and reasonings and excuses." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 26 May 1929 ) × "This physical mind is usually in a kind of alliance with the lower vital consciousness and its movements; when the lower vital manifests certain desires and impulses, the more material mind comes to its aid and justifies ...
... with the knowledge the power to handle them for the purposes of life and of Yoga. In your case what is strong in your nature is especially the dynamic mind, the vital force and the practical physical mind. The thinking mind in you in spite of the interest it has taken in religion and philosophy is not easily open to a true illumination. The other parts mentioned above could more easily accept the... emotional nature, dried up your surface mind and choked up with much rubbish the psychic fire. If once it can awaken entirely and come in front, it can transform the dynamic mental, the vital and the physical mind and through them make you an illumined instrument for the physical realisation of the Truth upon earth. This, as you can see from what has been said above about Mira's force, makes your nature one ...
... she sees little of them—some have a less close personal relation, yet for one reason or another may see her much oftener or longer. To apply the silly mathematical rules of the physical mind here is absurd—your physical mind cannot understand what the Mother does; its values and standards and ideas are not hers. It is still worse to make your personal vital demand or desire the measure of what she ought ...
... have brought the old state of things back and put an end to the Asram. 7 January 1937 Certainly, I cannot say that the ideas you put forward in this letter are true. They are errors of the physical mind which seldom gets hold of the real truth of things. It is not a fact that the Mother got displeased and frowned on you every time you wrote about X . That is the kind of thing the sadhaks are always... that what I say is untrue. So I will only say that your idea is mistaken. It is also not a fact that you cannot do sadhana, for you were doing it for a time and doing it very well. But your physical mind came across and took you outside and is trying to keep you outside instead of allowing you to go and remain within. That is why I have been trying to persuade you to go within and not live in these ...
... Brahmic hole. 13 February 1936 The experience of a concrete presence of the Mother in the photograph and the immediate effect on the health are things of the subtle physical acting on the physical mind and body—such things can happen only when the physical consciousness has begun to open—that is why I said it was a sign. Of course the full effects of the spiritual experiences can only come when... those who are not sadhaks or others who do not know her come, but they are not aware of it. The vital plane is a supraphysical plane—the vital moves about in its own plane and is not limited by the physical mind or its consciousness or experience. 13 July 1937 Kindly enlighten me as to what is the object and what the result of my coming to the Mother on the vital plane during sleep or dream. ...
... has progressed sufficiently, supermind is a far-off thing and people need not think of it at all. 124 * It is the supramental alone that can transform the material being, but the physical mind and the physical vital can be very much changed by the action of the psychic and of the overmind. The entire change however is made only when there is the supramental influence. But for the present... instincts, needs, blind conservative attachments, settled grooves of nature, its doubt and disbelief in all that is beyond itself, its faith in the inevitability of the fixed functionings of the physical mind, the physical life and the body, that they may be replaced by a new power which establishes its own greater law and functioning in form and force of Matter. Even the inconscient and subconscient ...
... be touched or penetrated by the vital forces. The mind-plane that belongs to the physical world, the physical mind, as we usually call it, is more material in its structure and movement than the true mind and it is very much under the sway of the vital world and the hostile forces. This physical mind is usually in a kind of alliance with the lower vital consciousness and its movements; when the lower ...
... But it would be wiser to speak of it when it has been done! When it has been installed, then... For the moment... ( gesture of swinging from one side to another ). This discipline of the physical mind is... I do not know by which end to catch it. I find it very difficult. Very difficult. It is very difficult. You must begin by obtaining the silence at will. To obtain the silence at any... silent... ( Mother opens her hands upward in a gesture of offering ). ( Silence ) It is the type of concentration that must change. Yes. Because when you follow this discipline of the physical mind and when it thus escapes you to the right and to the left, you always resume the concentration mentally and mentally re-establish silence. So each time it is through the mind that you practise the ...
... the progress towards the psychic opening and realisation. That will bring surely and without doubt the fuller faith and the love which you seek. I repeat what I said before (though your physical mind does not yet believe) that these experiences show at once that your inner being is a Yogi capable of trance, ecstasy, intensest bhakti, fully aware of Yoga and Yoga consciousness, and showing himself... prevalent everywhere. It is also probably necessary that this should be faced and overcome before any supramental realisation is possible in the earth-consciousness—for it is the attitude of the physical mind to spiritual things and as it is in the physical that the resistance has to be overcome before the mind can be overpassed in the way required for this Yoga, the strongest possible representation ...
... Interest is another matter. Imagined Experiences When one is living in the physical mind, the only way to escape from it is by imagination. Incidentally, that is why poetry and art etc. have so strong a hold. But these imaginations are often really shadows of supraphysical experience and once the barrier of the physical mind is broken or even swung a little open, there come the experiences themselves ...
... them by a quiet rejection and disuse. Page 133 It is not true that you cannot or will never be put right. It is what appears to you when your lower vital is restless or else your physical mind comes uppermost. Only it is true that if you could keep yourself always in that part of you which is in contact, the thing would be done sooner and with much less difficulty and trouble. ... revolt or opposition. If the inner will insists and forbids revolt or opposition, the vital unwillingness may often take the form of depression and dejection accompanied by a resistance in the physical mind which supports the repetition of old ideas, habits, movements or actions which the body consciousness suffers from an apprehension or fear of the called for change, a drawing back from it or a dullness ...
... establish mental peace. The difficulty is in that part of the vital being which is not sufficiently open and confident and not sufficiently strong and Page 125 courageous and in the physical mind which lends its support to these things. To get the supramental light and calm and strength and intensity down there is what you need. You may have all the mental knowledge in the world and yet... without one's knowing it, and brings up the old ordinary or external consciousness in such a way that the inner mind gets covered up and all the old thoughts and feelings return for a time. It is the physical mind that becomes active and gives its assent. If the whole mind remains quiet and detached observing the vital movement, but not giving its assent, then to reject it becomes more easy. This established ...
... If it is a feeling of a covering being perforated, then that is a sensation one often has when the Force is opening a way for itself through some resistance—here it must be in some part of the physical mind. Keep full reliance on the Mother. When one does that, the victory even if delayed, is sure. Vibration An entire silence and inactivity of the mind cannot come at first—what is possible... which helps to join the higher with the lower consciousness. As a result came the feeling of identity with myself in your body. The cough shows probably some difficulty against concentration in the physical mind. The best is not to force concentration, but to remain quiet and call and let things work themselves out through the force of the Mother. Page 478 ...
... 6 It [ the perception of an intuitivised mind ] is when, instead of seeing things as they appear to the external mind and senses, one begins to see things about them with a subtler physical mind and sense—e.g. seeing intuitively what is to be done, how to do it, what the object (even so-called inanimate objects) wants or needs, what is likely to happen next (or sometimes sure to happen)... condition, is ready to serve it without reserve or refusal. It is the psychic being also that can at once feel and reject all imitations of the Truth, all shows, all pretences. In the West the physical mind is too dominant, so that the psychic does not so easily get a chance—except of course in exceptional people. Page 8 It is the thoughts of the outer mind that have to be refused, ...
... fully within the protection and can be moved by the Mother's force. The other parts are divided and can be carried away by the wrong movements of the ordinary nature. Especially if you trust your physical mind and mistake its ideas and suggestions for the true inspiration, you are liable to fall into serious errors both in your attitude and your choice of action and may lose the results of the protection... be understood that the vital mind is no longer dominant—for the nature of the vital mind is always to cloud the true mind's perception and drive it towards action. Neither the vital mind nor the physical mind are things that have to be got rid of, but they must be quietened, purified, controlled and transformed. That will take place fully when the thinking mind becomes fully conscious and when the psychic ...
... concentration on the Mother. When there is the concentration on the Mother, then the progress can be smooth and continuous; when there is a failure of the concentration, you come into the outward physical mind and at once there is a conflict between the growing quietude and the inner psychic fire and the physical consciousness. The quietude seeks to hold and control the physical consciousness and the... psychic when sufficiently developed can be strong enough to make the preliminary clearance [ of the lower vital ]. It is the supramental alone that can transform the material being, but the physical mind and physical vital can be very much changed by the action of the psychic and of the overmind. The entire change however is made only when there is the supramental influence. But for the present ...
... capable of giving itself to the Mother and living and growing in the Truth; but your lower vital being has been full of attachments and sanskaras and an impure movement of desire and your external physical mind was not able to shake off its ignorant ideas and habits and open to the Truth. That was the reason why you were unable to progress, because you were keeping up an element and movements which could... for they were the exact opposite of what has to be established in a divine life. The Mother can only free you from these things, if you really want it, not only in your psychic being, but in your physical mind and all your vital nature. The sign will be that you no longer cherish or insist on your personal notions, attachments or desires, and that whatever the distance or wherever you may be, you will ...
... stigmatised as no true evolution of consciousness but rather a sublimated crudity of ignorance deviating from the true human evolution, which should be solely an evolution of life-power, the practical physical mind, the reason governing thought and conduct and the discovering and organising intelligence. In this epoch religion was pushed aside as an out-of-date superstition Page 915 and spiritual... perception of the material as alone real and the outward life as alone of importance. But apart from this extreme materialistic view of things, it can be and is still held by the intellect and the physical mind eager for human life-fulfilment,—and that is the prevalent mentality, the dominant modern trend,—that the spiritual tendency in humanity has come to very little; it has not solved the problem of ...
... emerging from the basic consciousness, which makes up the whole essentiality of what we call sense. Sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch are really properties of the mind, not of the body; but the physical mind which we ordinarily use, limits itself to a translation into sense of so much of the outer impacts as it receives through the nervous system and the physical organs. But the inner Manas has also... constitutes all the elements of the phenomena, but it is the first supporting means of intercourse, communication and response, though much of the actual operation belongs to an inner Buddhi. Mind physical, mind supraphysical,—we have and can use this double sense mentality. Buddhi is a construction of conscious being which quite exceeds its beginnings in the basic chitta; it is the intelligence with ...
... the powers of being or the powers of its becoming, dynamic symbols of itself, creations of the embodied spirit, its means of discovering or formulating what it seeks to be. The tendency of man's physical mind is to see otherwise and to turn the true method of things upside down, because it takes as essential or fundamental the surface forces or appearances of Nature; it accepts her creation by a visible... or subtlety and expansion of the mental existence. A silence, an entry into a wide or even immense or infinite emptiness is part of the inner spiritual experience; of this silence and void the physical mind has a certain fear, the small superficially active thinking or vital mind a shrinking from it or dislike,—for it confuses the silence with mental and vital incapacity and the void with cessation ...
... its bliss, power and infinity secret but still present here, or by losing its separate sense of substance and existence in the Self within or without it. The result is a glorified sleep of the physical mind in which the physical being forgets itself in a kind of conscious Nirvana or else moves about like a thing inert in the hands of Nature, jaḍavat , like a leaf in the wind, or otherwise a state... alternately, successively or at once. Or he may transform the lower forms into manifestations of the higher state; he may draw upward the childlikeness or the inert irresponsibility of the free physical mind or the free vital mind's divine madness and carelessness of all rules, proprieties, harmonies and colour or disguise with them the ecstasy of the saint or the solitary liberty of the wandering eremite ...
... the spiritual knowledge, "he sees"; and of the Self conceiving the idea of creation, where we should expect "he thought", it says instead "he saw". It is to the spirit what the eyes are to the physical mind and one has the sense of having passed through a subtly analogous process. As the physical sight can present to us the actual body of things of which the thought had only possessed an indication... ranges seeingly through the future: not shut in the limiting ego and personal mind, but lives in the freedom of the universal, in God and in all beings and all things; not in the dull density of the physical mind, but in the light of the self and the infinity of the spirit. He sees soul and mind only as a power and a movement and matter only as a resultant form of the spirit. All his thought will be of a ...
... Aurobindonian yoga has never been plenarily envisaged. On 11.9.1936 he wrote to a disciple: "The physical Nature does not mean the body alone but the phrase includes the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature - not by imposing Siddhis on them, but by creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the Supramental being in a new evolution. I am not aware that this... in him, not materially in essence, but in that extended spiritual conception of self-being of which our too rigid notion of a material and etheric space is only a rendering in the terms of the physical mind and senses. In reality all even here is spiritual co-existence, identity and coincidence; but that is a fundamental truth which we cannot apply until we get back to the supreme consciousness ...
... Sri Aurobindo speaks of inspiration touching the mind at different levels, we should more correctly say that man's poetry usually comes from the subtle-physical mind or the vital mind or the intellectual mind. The last is the mind proper, the first two are the mind functioning as what we may broadly term "sense" and ... even as he does not typify the plane of the Life-force - or, rather, since man is characteristically a mental being, we should say that Homer's is the subtle-physical mind and not the vital mind or the mind proper. But, as Sri Aurobindo observes, poetry "can reach great heights in this kind of mental mould, can see the physical forms ...
... tion. It is the beginning of the final process in the luminous ideal reason. Sharira Ananda is again reviving, but as yet only in the basic Ananda. A strong invasion of Tamas in body and physical mind dispelled by the drashtri vijnana which it failed to suspend or lower in character. There is now an invasion of confused luminous lower ideality, and this fails to suspend, but tends to dilute and... proceeds in a few outbreaks in the midst of this tamas, and it is only yesterday that the Tapas has turned with an equal determination to get rid of the physical disability. The atmosphere of the physical mind is no longer allowed to give for long a sanction to it; but it still holds strongly to the atmosphere of the physical and to some extent of the psychic prana, and this effects a siege and retardation ...
... gnosis. The invaders could bring in no intellectual suggestion which was not given its luminous ideal translation whether into truth of mentality or gnosis. Even the suggestions of the subconscious physical mind are thus translated into light of gnosis. The lipi therefore which fixed the 5ᵗʰ & 7ᵗʰ as crucial dates for the gnostic siddhi, is amply justified in fact and in detail. The full conversion to the... distraction, a habit and not a necessity of the system. This gained in the evening, was brought out in full and prevented the complete actual continuity. It is assisted by the old desire of the physical mind for release from tapas, rest by inertia. Sleep also, not transformed towards samadhi, is a positive interruption. The highest logistic ideality in assured possession of the thought, preparing ...
... and remains absorbed ) Could we say: It is only when the supramental manifests in the physical mind that its presence can be permanent. Do you think it will do? Yes, Mother! Page 59 We should say "in the body-mind." Well, we could add "and body-mind": in the physical mind and body-mind...? Yes, but then it seems as if there were two of them—there aren't two. 3 ...
... mingling with his outermost centre of consciousness rather than indirectly through his mental and vital being. But the problem was to fix it there, a permanent light in what we may pinpoint as the physical mind, so that an immediate and settled action of the Supramental Consciousness instead of a come-and-go of it might develop in the material being. Only in 1950 — when 12 years again had elapsed... discolouration. The Mother has said in private that as soon as Sri Aurobindo left his body what he had called the Mind of Light was realised in her — and she has defined the Mind of Light as the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light. Thus we may say that the "change" which occurred in Sri Aurobindo's life in 1950 established permanently the Supermind, as a starting-point, in the most external ...
... the immortality of the body, but the consciousness of immortality in the body; that can come with the descent of overmind into matter or even into the physical mind, or with the touch of the modified Supramental Light on the general physical mind-consciousness. These are preliminary openings, but they are not the Supramental fulfilment in matter. Sri Aurobindo ...
... he made a mistake when he stopped the visions that were coming. Vision and hallucination are not the same thing. The inner vision is an open door on higher planes of consciousness beyond the physical mind which gives room for a wider truth and experience to enter and act upon the mind. It is not the only or the most important door, but it is one which comes readiest to very many if not most and... personal preferences, clinging to old ideas and associations, its obstinate doubts and its maintaining these things as a wall of obstruction and opposition to the larger light. This activity of the physical mind is what people call intellect and reason, although it is only the turning of a machine in a circle of mental habits and is very different from the true and free reason, the higher Buddhi, which ...
... experiences of the wandering inner consciousness get transmitted to the obscure layer floating over the deep subconscience in which our physical being seems submerged for the time being and our physical mind, 1 Letters on Yoga, p. 1500. Page 198 in a state of sleep-wakefulness, receives and records and translates them more or less perfectly, more or less coherently... not. In fact, what is sometimes erroneously called dreamless slumber is very often a state of dream-consciousness of which all record has been wiped away from the memory of the waking physical mind. And this obliteration may be due to any one of the following reasons. Sachchidananda immobility : Given the most favourable circumstances, one passes in sleep through a succession ...
... Nripendra. × The physical mind. × Mother is alluding in particular to the physical mind ('this kind of mind-like activity in matter'). ...
... solution had been caught. 1 Now, naturally, we must work it out . Anyway, there is some hope. I had always been under the impression of what Sri Aurobindo said: "This instrument [the physical mind] is useless, it can only Page 187 be got rid of...." 2 It was very difficult to get rid of it because it was so intimately linked to the aggregate of the physical body and its present... when I tried and a deeper consciousness tried to manifest, it used to cause fainting. I mean that the union, the fusion, the identification with the Supreme Presence without that, without this physical mind, by annulling it, caused fainting. I didn't know what to do. Now that it's collaborating, and collaborating consciously (and with a great power in the sensation, it seems), maybe things are going ...
... much of the body, one should give it a lot of peace and quiet, a lot of rest. My difficulty is that I'm very absorbed by this body. It absorbs me, it absorbs a lot of my consciousness. The physical mind, for instance, invades me completely. Yes, I know very well! But that's always the difficulty, it's everyone's difficulty. That's why in the past you were told, "Get away from it all! Let it... that doesn't come through the higher mind: it's a Peace that acts DIRECTLY in this material vibration—a Peace in which everything relaxes. Don't think—don't think you have to transform this physical mind or oblige it to fall silent or abolish it: all that is still activity. Simply let it run, but... bring the Peace, feel the Peace, live the Peace, know the Peace—the Peace, the Peace, the Peace. ...
... the saviour Name, Savitri walked through this world for long hours before she arrived at the country of the of the physical mind. Here a greater danger awaited her, for she confronted giant head of vast and tumultuous life, uncontrolled by mind or soul. Released by the physical mind, a torrent of the blind life-force denuded the stillness of her silent self. It cried to her listening spirit ...
... is it by the body and bodily life and the limitations of the nerve-system and the physical organs. But the subliminal self has a true mentality superior to these limitations; it exceeds the physical mind and physical organs although it is aware of them and their works and is, indeed, in a large degree their cause or creator. It is only subconscious in the sense of not bringing all or most of ... powerful for creation in the material universe. The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 861-63 Sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch are really properties of the mind, not of the body; but the physical mind which we ordinarily use, limits itself to a translation into sense of so much of the outer impacts as it receives through the nervous system and the physical organs. But the inner Manas has also ...
... begins with the little mind. The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind 47a Here he sees mind in its three aspects, the physical mind, the vital mind and the rational mind. Each of these has its own truths and also its limitations. The physical mind is very limited in scope but it has been of particular value in the evolution of man. It has tried to bring stability and order to man's ...
... understanding that the falling of teeth in a dream meant the breaking of the physical mind's habits of thought, I felt a great release—a fine sense all over me of openness to you. Of course the physical mind brought back certain retarding considerations—but surely, Mother, something has been done. I should like to have some words from you.) "I am happy at your resolution and I hope you will keep... a lot of grey matter, putting before you argument after argument. But you have not argued back. You are quite happily unconcerned.) "All the reasonings in your letter come from the external physical mind. You cannot expect me to come down to that level and discuss with you from there. I see things from another plane and in a different way." (19-7-1942) * * * Page 75 ...
... immediately', you will have to choose a new at each moment between the falsehood and the Truth. One of the chief functions of the physical mind is to doubt. If you listen to it, it will always find a thousand reasons for doubting. But you must know that the physical mind is working in ignorance and full of falsehood. The Divine Love is the essence of Truth and cannot be affected by the human confusions ...
... immediately, 1 you will have to choose anew at each moment between the falsehood and the Truth. One of the chief functions of the physical mind is to doubt. If you listen to it it will always find a thousand reasons for doubting. But you must know that the physical mind is working in ignorance and full of falsehoods. The Divine Love is the essence of Truth and cannot be affected by the human confusions ...
... provided for the unripe which, however, prepared the physical mind of the masses to turn to the deeper resources of knowledge. In the Purano-Tantric age, the heights of the Veda and the Upanishads were not surpassed but depths were further deepened and subtleties further subtilised and methods were discovered and developed whereby not only the physical mind but even the inner mind, inner vital, and larger ...
... sensation so that our vital and physical being can contact and meet concretely, quite as intensely as the mind and emotion can conceive and perceive and feel, the Divine in all things; it throws on the physical mind a transforming light that breaks its limitations, its conservative inertia, replaces its narrow thought-power and its doubts by sight and pours luminosity and consciousness into the very cells of... states: "If we can feel ourselves thinking no longer with the brain but from above and outside the head in the subtle body, that is a sure physical sign of a release from the limitations of the physical mind, and though this will not be complete at once nor of itself bring a supramental action, for the subtle body is mental and not supramental, still it is a subtle and pure mentality and makes an easier ...
... and one with the exterior being." (Ibid., pp. 148-49) "For, as a rule, the physical mind and the physical vital dissolve with the death of the organism: they disintegrate and return to the universal Nature and nothing remains of their experiences." (Ibid., p. 149) "Not until they [the physical mind and the physical vital] have become united with the psychic, so that there are not two ...
... clear and steady and yet forceful and self-poised. Again, the mind has its physical element too: the physical mind is the mind controlled by the senses, the impressions of the senses; its structure is patterned according to the impact of the physical and material objects. A clear, free physical mind embodies the pattern of the movements of the higher consciousness, not of the sense-dominated consciousness ...
... get tired — also it cannot assimilate much at a time. But it is not always the Divine who takes away the pressure; the lower consciousness itself loses it or gives it up. Why is the physical mind so much open to the vital suggestions and forces? Page 54 The physical depends on the vital, at every step— it could not do anything without the help of the vital— so... to make one with the peace and silence — these being so strong that nothing will be able to touch or cover the inner being. The year 1934 There is a doubt in the physical mind whether, when the mental proper and the vital are not totally quieted, the purification of the physical can begin. Does it imagine that everything is done by sections? All the parts ...
... experiences of force, peace, etc. come easily to those who begin the Yoga in the mind or vital. Those who begin in the physical mind have a tremendous tussle. Experiences don't take place in them so easily and they come only after a long time. NIRODBARAN: Then I must be in the physical mind. (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: But those who open their mind or vital first are not very safe. I have seen many ...
... clear and steady and yet forceful and selfpoised. Again, the mind has its physical element too: the physical mind is the mind controlled by the senses, the impressions of the senses; its structure is patterned according to the impact of the physical and material objects. A clear, free physical mind embodies the pattern of the movements of the higher consciousness, not of the sense-dominated consciousness ...
... kind of recital that written History usually gave. If one cultivated the talent to enter the occult domain of the physical mind, one could find entry into its inner countries and read the entire past as from a printed book: In the mental world... there is a domain of the physical mind which is related to physical things and keeps the memory of physical happenings upon earth... if you want to know ...
... her embodiment is to know the workings of the universal forces and use them for her works; for the rest she knows what she needs to know, sometimes with her inner self, sometimes with her physical mind. All knowledge is available in her universal self, but she brings forward only what is needed to be brought forward so that the working is done.¹ 13-8-1933 The Mother's consciousness... Mother never acts on these supraphysical intimations unless there is physical confirmation like the letter itself in this case. For nobody would understand her action – the Sadhaks living in the physical mind would state her action unfounded, and those affected would deny loudly – as many have done in the past – their secret thoughts, feelings and actions. I tell you all this in confidence so that you ...
... suffocating. But it is coming, the joyous, final suffocation that will shatter all those little legal windmills. We have only to reach the right dose. Now, as soon as the world of impossibility of the physical Mind had been crossed, Mother discovered a world that was so totally flexible that it was amazing⎯frightening, too (it is the other side of the difficulty, the one we were not expecting). As if that... were only the Matter of our fear. Mother had been telling me that for years, but I could not completely understand her (because like my fellow human brothers, I am singularly saddled with my own physical Mind), until the day a small experience cleared up the whole “problem” (we should rather say: “deflated the problem”). It concerned the beginning of a tumour in someone’s neck. And Mother explained: ...
... am putting only a little bit of it. I can feel what is the real function of the mind. And I feel that what generally people call mind or intellect is only the movement of the physical mind (because only the physical mind creates doubts — is it not so, Mother?) not the clear passive and silent mind or the higher or intuitive mind which can be the true expression of the higher things and the seat of ...
... more conscious and more aware of themselves and more perfect. But it is necessary for the mind too to grow in perfection and this it can do best when it depends less on the fallible intellect of physical mind, when it is not limited even by the more orderly and accurate working of the reason and can grow in intuition and acquire a wider, deeper and closer seeing and the more luminous drive of energy ...
... intellectual overstress, false choice, false valuation, false interpretation. Trikaldrishti is gradually strengthening itself, but is still occasional and uncertain because usually rendered by the physical mind intellectually and not ideally. Re परिष्कृतस्य रसिन इयमासुतिश्र्चारुर्मदाय पत्यते Page 919 The Ananda purified felt a little afterwards flowing through the sukshma body like a sweet ...
... the lipi. Thought and T³ in the thought are moving constantly to the same perfection. The action is free in concentration, but there are still the intrusive or untransformed elements of the physical mind. Except for this defect it is established in the first vijnana. The representative vijnana with all its three elements (representative, interpretative, imperative) is seeking to fix itself in the ...
... stages; while a third has taken its initial steps and is the destiny of her future. The early Vedic was the first stage: then religion took its outward formal stand on the natural approach of the physical mind of man to the Godhead in the universe, but the initiates guarded the sacrificial fire of a greater spiritual truth behind the form. The Purano-Tantric was the second stage: then religion took its ...
... goddesses conceal from the profane by their physical aspect their psychic and spiritual significance. The Puranic trinity and the forms of its female energies have on the contrary no meaning to the physical mind or imagination, but are philosophic and psychic conceptions and embodiments of the unity and multiplicity of the all-manifesting Godhead. The Puranic cults have been characterised as a degradation ...
... could have done with the same awakening aptness and vivid poetical force. The Bull and Cow of the Veda, the shining herds of the Sun lying hidden in the cave are strange enough creatures to the physical mind, but they do not belong to the earth and in their own plane they are at once images and actual things and full of life and significance. It is in this way that throughout we must interpret and receive ...
... would do much better not to dabble in religion and philosophy, but rather make the best he can of the ephemeral littleness of his life and body. That is a negation natural enough to the vital and physical mind, but it rests on the assumption that man can only be what he is at the moment, and Page 231 there is nothing greater in him which it is his business to evolve; such a negation has no ...
... laboured after by the dynamic will; all these are there together and impinge upon the absolute, the imperative of possession and pleasure and safe embodied existence insisted on by the vital and physical mind. And the human intelligence, since it is not able to realise entirely any of these things, much less all of them together, erects in each sphere many standards and dharmas, standards of truth and ...
... Poetry". The Future Poetry would not be written from the usual sources of the world's literature—the levels of consciousness which, according to Sri Aurobindo, may be classified: subtle-physical mind (as in Homer and Chaucer, where the inner imaginative response is mostly to external gesture, movement and action); vital mind (as in Kalidasa and Shakespeare, where the vibrant play, delicate or ...
... evening walk and asked him about this serious matter. His entourage also got curious. It took him only some moments to recollect that he had asked the Mother about it and she had said that the physical mind receiving the supramental light was called by Sri Aurobindo the Mind of Light. This answer dispelled my confusion. Back home, after dinner, I tried to locate the answer in the Mother's writ- ...
... done anything so stupendously creative as his own passing from the body! Later I learned from the Mother that the moment he had left his body what he had termed the Mind of Light, the physical mind receiving the supramental Light, had been realised in her. The strange golden light that many saw upon his body that lay without a touch of discolouration or decay for five days was a sign of the ...
... followed out bring a constant growth of the being and the consciousness and its richness of experience and its scope.. The inner vision is an open door on higher planes of consciousness beyond the physical mind which gives room for a wider truth and experience to enter and act upon the mind. These first seeings are only an outer fringe—behind lie whole worlds of experience which fill what seems to the ...
... present, real, concrete as a physical object to the physical eye, that we possess in knowledge; for we have seen." 42 This sight or drsti is to the Spirit what the eyes are to the physical mind and, Sri Aurobindo emphasises, "one has the sense of having passed through a subtly analogous process." 43 The ancient sages of India highly valued this power of internal spiritual vision; ...
... opposed to each other, when there is a fundamental incompatibility between the two? Granting for a moment that she can at all dream of it, it shall prove to be a dream bearing the stamp of her physical mind which is nothing but a product of the working of Matter in the inconscient creation. So, finally, all becomes a play in the hands of Death, a universe for his own manifestation. Hidden behind this ...
... generally levelled against Blake's poetry: "His occasional obscurity — he is more often in his best poems lucid and crystal clear — is due to his writing of things which are not familiar to the physical mind and writing them with fidelity instead of accommodating them to the latter." Even then, the pantheon — Ore, Los, Urizen, Enitharmon, Tharmas, Enion, a dozen of them, and their sons and daughters ...
... and desire. Mind, on its own plane "archangel of a white transcending realm" emerges in man as a "dwarf three-bodied trinity"—and who but Sri Aurobindo could flesh out such abstract concepts as physical mind, desire mind and reasoning mind, giving each a body, an appearance and human characteristics that are immediately recognisable? We know these manifestations of mind; they are people we have met ...
... Mind to begin with, and this creates a new action of thought and perception which replaces the ordinary mental. It does that first in the thinking mind, but afterwards also in the vital mind and physical mind, so that all these begin to go through a transformation. This kind of thought is not random and restless, but precise and purposeful—it comes only when needed or called for and does not disturb ...
... Let gold be turned to the service of the Divine. So it will get purified and take its true place in Krishna's play in the material*. 26.4.1930 Surrender all falsehood ; your physical mind will be converted and a mental victory won. 1.5.1930 ...
... to retain the lesson. Your mistake was to interfere with your ignorant mind in a matter which had been decided by the Mother, as if it could know better than she did. As usually happens when the physical mind acts in this way, it made wrong reasoning and foolish blunder. It was as if you gave Haribhai a choice between giving money or giving the clothes and other articles. He was to give both and there ...
... Religious faith which is stupidity. (e) Faith may be due to the absence of intellectual development; intellect which sees all possibilities gives prominence to each. (f) Doubt may be due to the physical mind having positive side. We have to see, what is the source of faith. There is no absolute rule of law. 2) Spiritual being is Sachchidananda, which can be realised on the mental plane. One need ...
... so that our vital and physical being can contact and meet concretely, quite as intensely as the mind and emotion can conceive and perceive and feel, the Divine in all things; it throws on the physical mind a transforming light that breaks its limitations, its conservative inertia, replaces its narrow thought-power and its doubts Page 148 by sight and pours luminosity and consciousness ...
... and act there. Letters on Yoga, p. 1504 In the sleep the consciousness goes into other planes and has experiences there and when these are translated perfectly or imperfectly by the physical mind, they are called dreams. All the time of sleep such dreams take place, but sometimes one remembers and at other times does not at all remember. Sometimes also one goes low down into the subconscient ...
... oftenest, though by no means necessarily, during sleep or trance and the setting up of relations or communication by various means with the denizens of another plane of existence. ...The physical mind is only a little part of us and there is a much more considerable range of our being in which the presence, influence and powers of the other planes are active upon us and help to shape our external ...
... removed or else in sleep. Mental control by itself cannot eradicate anything entirely out of the being. The subconscient in the ordinary man includes the larger part of the vital being and the physical mind and also the secret body-consciousness." 21 "When something is thrown out of the vital or physical, it very usually goes down into the subconscient and remains there as if in seed and comes ...
... perception 91-92 hurry 99-100, 153 identification 69-70,73-74, 75,76-77 illness is a disharmony 109-10 influence at conception 107-08 inner immobility 150 physical mind 92, 93, 94-95 positive peace 146 psychic openness 83-84 source of anxiety 88-90 tamas 102 vibrations 158-59, 160 widening of consciousness 74 Motivation ...
... “It depends on something”. It depends on what? I think it was not recently that Mother said that but a long time ago. She meant that it was the bondage to the physical consciousness movements (physical mind, physical vital) which prevented the response in the body and only the rule of the psychic that could remove them. 4.7.1935 Sri Aurobindo ...
... indeed is the happy merit of all spiritual writings. Their language is always what Sri Aurobindo calls the overhead language, language that comes from planes above our limited ratiocinative or physical mind. The more we climb the summits of this language the more it reveals the secret truths that are waiting to take form, waiting to bestow on our life the boons of their sweetness and charm, their beauty ...
... them with the actual phenomena they pretend to decipher." Page 28 In another letter he wrote commenting on an experience of mine: " I repeat what I have said before — though your physical mind does not yet believe — that these experiences show at once that your inner being is a Yogi capable of trance, ecstasy, intensest bhakti, fully aware of Yoga and Yogic consciousness and showing ...
... supreme importance for the human spirit to be free to sound the depths of inner or subliminal reality, of spiritual and of what is still superconscient reality, and not to immure itself in the physical mind and its narrow domain of objective external solidities; for in that way alone can there come liberation from the Ignorance in which our mentality dwells and a release into a complete consciousness ...
... of consciousness. Even the same thought-substance can take higher or lower vibrations according to the plane of consciousness through which the thoughts come in (e.g. thinking mind, vital mind, physical mind, subconscient mind) or the power of consciousness which catches them and pushes them into one man or another. Moreover there is a stuff of mind in each man and the incoming thought uses that for ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 19 January 1936 My dear Mother, It seems that the physical mind has now seen how to stand back during attacks in calmness, quietness and peace, given to the Divine alone. I wish it would put into practice what it has seen. Yes, when it has understood clearly it is bound to ...
... personal preferences, clinging to old ideas and associations, its obstinate doubts and its maintaining these things as a wall of obstruction and opposition to the larger light. This activity of the physical mind is what people call intellect and reason although it is only the turning of a machine in a circle of mental habits and is very different from the true and free reason, Page 362 ...
... of time does not come in the way as there is no day on which I do not devote some time to thinking of you and concentrating for you. The difficulty lies in the removal of the obstruction in the physical mind — what you feel as the impasse. But it will go if you persevere. What seemed to me denied and impossible for years (bringing about a state of helpless stagnation and hopelessness and disbelief in ...
... law of its being and it is a hard job to get it to change at all except under a strong pressure of circumstances. Page 204 Especially in the physical parts, the body, the physical mind, the physical life movements, there is this resistance; the tamasic element in Nature is powerful there, what the Gita describes as aprakasa, absence of light, and apravrtti, a tendency ...
... surface [of the cells]. All started with that burst of Love from the highest summit, the upper supreme height, and then little by little, little by little it came down into the body. And then the physical mind – which is something completely, utterly idiotic, which used to turn round and round in circles, always repeating the same, a hundred times the same – little by little became illumined, it became ...
... in your effort. What is it? The body consciousness.’ 50 What is the body consciousness? ‘… The physical consciousness as a whole. But in this physical consciousness as a whole there is the physical mind – a mind that is occupied with all the ordinary things and responds to everything around you. There is also the vital consciousness, which is the awareness of sensations, impulses, enthusiasms and ...
... body's absorption of all hostile destructive forces in order to clear for the Mother and thus for the future world the way of the descending Supermind. The Mother defined to me the new state as "the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light". In a poem which I wrote a few years later she found the first two lines to be a perfect revelation while the rest were an imaginative reconstruction. These lines ...
... world's evolution towards the Supermind. The immediate result was the establishment of the "Mind of Light" in the Mother on December 5,1950— the permanent reception of the Supramental Light by the physical mind. This result has been described, according to the Mother's estimate, with revelatory accuracy in the opening lines of a poem by a disciple: The core of a deathless Sun is now the brain ...
... complaining thus and weeping inwardly near Your body which lay in state in the Meditation Hall, I felt a strong Force pulling me deep within myself until I lost all sense of time and space. My physical mind, which is usually very active, ceased its noise. My body, which was full of pain and discomfort after a long and tiring journey, became so quiet that I was hardly aware of its presence. Then ...
... advantages can be farther secured and emphasised by other subsidiary processes open to the Hathayogin. The results of Hathayoga are thus striking to the eye and impose easily on the vulgar or physical mind. And yet at the end we may ask what we have gained at the end of all this stupendous labour. The object of physical Nature, the preservation of the mere physical life, its highest perfection, even ...
... teaching. The verifiable historicity gives us very little of that, yet it is that only that matters. So it seems to me that Krishnaprem is fundamentally right in what he says of the symbols. To the physical mind only the words and facts and acts of a man matter; to the inner mind it is the spiritual happenings in him that matter. Even the teachings of Christ and Buddha are spiritually true not as mere mental ...
... Emanations, although the full Divine is behind each of them. Of course, the gods exist—that is to say, there are Powers that stand above the world and transmit the divine workings. It is the physical mind which believes only in what is physical that denies them. There are also beings of other worlds—gods and Asuras etc. There are Gods everywhere on all the planes. The Gods are in the ...
... experiences point to, if they do not exactly denote, the physical transformation. The physical Nature does not mean the body alone but the phrase includes the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature—not by imposing siddhis on them, but by creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the supramental being in a new evolution. I am not aware that this ...
... Blake stands out among the mystic poets of Europe. His occasional obscurity,—he is more often in his best poems lucid and crystal clear,—is due to his writing of things that are not familiar to the physical mind and writing them with fidelity instead of accommodating them to the latter. In reading such writing the inner being has to feel first, then only the mind can catch what is behind. 27 July 1936 ...
... of many difficulties and attacks. It is, I suppose, because of the feeling "I do not want to do anything" that you have not been able to receive the help, but that is a temporary inertia of the physical mind and will. I do not see the use of your going back for a few months to a life which could not now satisfy you. The only course is to shake off the inertia of the will and persevere. So long ...
... to have them at once. A work has to be done in you and is being done; help it to be done by keeping an attitude of firm faith and confidence. Doubts rise in all, they are natural to the human physical mind—reject them. Impatience and overeagerness for the result at once are natural to the human vital; it is by firm confidence in the Mother that they will disappear. The love, the belief in her as the ...
... assimilate, his downward propensity and earthward gaze, his vital and physical subjection to his heredity, all these and more are his heritage from the subhuman origins of his life and body and physical mind. It is because of this heritage that he finds self-exceeding the most difficult of lessons and the most painful of endeavours. Yet it is by exceeding of the lower self that Nature accomplishes the ...
... right, more luminous, natural and normal to the deepest divine interplay of Purusha and Prakriti although supernatural and supernormal to our present imperfect nature. The body conditioning the physical mind insists no longer on its tamasic inertia that repeats always the same ignorant movement: it becomes a passive field and instrument of a greater force and light, it responds to every demand of the ...
... conscious soul or being, seems to be limited, conditioned and given some shape by the mechanical Prakriti. The soul flows into whatever moulds of intellectual, ethical, aesthetic, dynamic, vital and physical mind and type the developing nature takes and can act only in the way this formed Prakriti lays on it and move in its narrow groove or relatively wider circle. The man is then sattwic, rajasic or tamasic ...
... conditioned is it by the body and bodily life and the limitations of the nerve-system and the physical organs. But the subliminal self has a true mentality superior to these limitations; it exceeds the physical mind and physical organs although it is aware of them and their works and is, indeed, in a large degree their cause or creator. It is only subconscious in the sense of not bringing all or most of itself ...
... the being towards its destined self-unfolding in Nature. This brings us to another element of the ordinary conception of rebirth which is not acceptable, since it is an obvious error of the physical mind,—the idea of the soul itself as a limited personality which survives unchanged from one birth to another. This too simple and superficial idea of the soul and personality is born of the physical ...
... essential freedom from any true disturbance of the samata-shanti-sukham. This morning opens with the same conditions. It appears that for the first time in these few months a lower strain of the physical mind in the external swabhava yet surcharged with the anritam & avidya has been upheaved and its devatas let loose on the adhara. The trikaldrishti labours for correctness of minute circumstance & ...
... now well founded except in the adeshasiddhi. The faith in rapidity is really part of the faith in the adeshsiddhi, its condition and foundation. The relics of the egoistic outlook & inlook in the physical mind have also to be expelled. The basis of effectiveness in knowledge has been laid, the centre of true sight, ritam in satyam, has been revealed in action perfectly removing anrita suggestions, ...
... ing existence" of the next verse, which are screened off from our ordinary physical consciousness. Trita is the god or Rishi of the third plane, full of luminous mental kingdoms unknown to the physical mind. × In these new worlds of life the divine movement is now fulfilled there and ranges unpierced ...
... first expressing negation & then making namaskara. Rupa Stable dense rupa, imperfect, is trying to manifest in the daylight. Script The denial of finality in the samata of the physical mind, that is its continued response to touches forcibly imposed upon it from outside, is the constant triumph of the Asiddhi. It is evident how artificial, how little really penetrative are these touches ...
... to the waking self, is asleep. When we are in deep sleep we think that nothing is going on in us; but that is a mistake. Consciousness is active all the time. But no report comes from it to the physical mind. In Sushupta Samadhi, one can get to the very limit of human consciousness, even [to] 18 the superconscient. Everything which we cannot attain in the waking state is there in us in the dream-self ...
... non-existent but unmanifest to our mortal senses, its death is a return to that unmanifest world or condition and out of it it will again appear in the physical manifestation. The to-do made by the physical mind and senses about death and the horror of death whether on the sick-bed or the battlefield, is the most ignorant of nervous clamours. Our sorrow for the death of men is an ignorant grieving for those ...
... was it not there, must it not have been there from the first beginnings, even though asleep or, as we may say, somnambulist in matter? If man were only a superior animal with a greater range of physical mind, we might conceivably say that there was no soul or spirit, but only three successive powers of Energy in a series of the forms of matter. But in this human intelligence there does appear at its ...
... musicians and artists to receive things—they can even be received complete and direct, though oftenest with some working of the individual mind and consequent alteration—from a plane above the physical mind, a vital world of creative art and beauty in which these things are prepared and come down through the fit channel. The musician, poet or artist, if he is conscious, may be quite aware and sensitive ...
... Diamond blue is Krishna's light in the overmind—lavender blue in intuitive mind. There is the whitish moonlight blue of Krishna's light—lavender blue of devotion, deep blue of the physical mind, sapphire blue of the higher mind and many others. All blue is not Krishna's light. Blue is also the Radha colour. Violet Light The violet is the light of the Divine grace and ...
... which it considers its property and field of expression. Your ego does come up from time to time without your seeing that it is the ego. It comes up not in your higher parts but in your physical mind and consciousness and you think that because your higher parts are clear this also is clear. Ego, whatever its basis, can reproduce itself in different parts of the being, e.g. a vital ego ...
... it is only a state in which the surface sleep consciousness which is a subtle prolongation of the outer still left active in sleep itself is unable to record the dreams and transmit them to the physical mind. As a matter of fact the whole sleep is full of dreams. It is only during the brief time in which one is in the Brahmaloka that the dreams cease. Getting Good Sleep The sleep before 12 is ...
... Illness marks some imperfection or weakness or else opening to adverse touches in the physical nature and is often connected also with some obscurity or disharmony in the lower vital or the physical mind or elsewhere. It is very good if one can get rid of illness entirely by faith and Yoga-power or the influx of the Divine Force. But very often this is not altogether possible, because the whole ...
... Indecision and Instability The first [ case ] is vital indecision—the other is vital instability. 1 Those who can't choose, have the vital indecision and it is usually due to a too active physical mind, seeing too many things or too many sides at a time. The other rises from a lack of control and too much impulse. It [ failure in whatever one tries to do ] usually comes from a certain ...
... always, that is an immense gain. The something in you which does not always feel it, which remains half way, undecided, must also now take the step of complete surrender. It is only a part of your physical mind that does not understand, that receives back the old ideas—that must be converted. It does Page 793 not matter about the weakness and incapacities—when the full peace and Power is there ...
... difficulties and external obstacles and incertitudes always come to the seeker. Neither the difficulties in yourself or the obstacles presented by life are as insurmountable as they seem to your physical mind when they are pressing upon it. Remember also that although here the conditions would be more favourable, yet even at a distance the grace and help can be there with you. Only fix yourself on the ...
... The real reason of the difficulty and the constant alternation is the struggle between the veiled true being within and the outer nature, especially the lower vital full of desires and the physical mind full of obscurity and ignorance. This struggle is inevitable in human nature and no sadhak escapes it; everyone has to deal with that obscurity and resistance and its obstinacy and constant ...
... disposed to think them the very law of its being and it is a hard job to get it to change at all except under a strong pressure of circumstances. Especially in the physical parts, the body, the physical mind, the physical life movements, there is this resistance; the tamasic element in Nature is powerful there, what the Gita describes as aprakāśa , absence of light, and apravṛtti , a tendency to inertia ...
... and dispersion of the energies. It can be got rid of in two ways, by rejecting it and pushing it out, till it remains as an outside force only—by bringing down the higher peace and light into the physical mind. Concentration, Meditation and Prayer What you felt before was in your mental being and consciousness; after coming here you have evidently come out into your external and physical consciousness ...
... down, entering and occupying, or surrounding the personal consciousness which then tends to merge itself in the vast impersonal silence. To get rid of the random thoughts of the surface physical mind is not easy. It is sometimes done by a sudden miracle as in my own case, but that is rare. Some get it done by a slow process of concentration, but that may take a very long time. It is easier to ...
... more you will be able to receive from above. The Shakti will be able to descend and bring strength and light as well as peace into the system. What you feel as narrow and limited in you is the physical mind; it can only widen if this wider consciousness and the light come down and possess the nature. The physical inertia from which you suffer is likely to lessen and disappear only when strength ...
... 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 the replacement of the old lower vital satisfactions by other joys and pleasures as something quite legitimate; but joys ...
... order, neither do they rise above the mind. It is only the minority of men who live in the mind or in the psychic or try to live on the spiritual plane. Of course most men live in their physical mind and vital, except a few saints and a rather larger number of intellectuals. That is why, as it is now discovered, humanity has made little progress in the last three thousand years, except in i ...
... answers, giving you knowledge of what you should know, trying to lead you forward with love and care. Why should all this have been done, if we put no value on you? You know these things but your physical mind has become too active and clouded your perception for a time. You must get back from it into your inner self. 30 August 1936 I cannot keep quiet and clear due to the hurt feelings within ...
... improbable that all the twelve crores of Mahomedans should be left quite out of contact with the Yoga. These things that rise in you are certainly desires of the physical vital or else ideas of the physical mind giving a mental shape to desires. The sadhak has to see them when they rise and note them for what they are, but not allow them to move him to action. If one is meant to be an intermediary between ...
... felt that Mother did not smile at me, and then there was a very slight feeling of resistance to her somewhere. Is this what you meant when you wrote about the hostiles throwing inertia into the physical mind? Page 536 At the time it so happened that the Mother gave you a smile of welcome and approval, but she felt someone saying, "He will not notice that you have smiled"—it was the hostile ...
... 1 September 1936 As for the feelings about the Mother and that her love is only given for a return in work or to those who can do sadhana well, that is the usual senseless idea of the vital-physical mind and has no value. 17 January 1937 It is not Mother who makes you cry. It is forces from the vital Nature that make you sorrowful and think of dying and of the past. What comes from Mother ...
... whole day depend upon the Pranam, the whole inner attitude depend on the most outer aspect of the outer contact is to turn the whole thing topsy-turvy. It is the fundamental mistake made by the physical mind and vital which is the cause of the whole trouble. 16 March 1935 My psychic knows that whatever our condition—full of inertia, attacks and difficulties—all must disappear when one gets the ...
... This is the one real issue that your recent development has raised between us. The rising of some doubts would in itself have been of little importance; doubt is the very nature of the ignorant physical mind. But yours have very evidently risen because you have taken a turn away from the path to the Page 391 supramental realisation along which the Mother was helping you and admitted another ...
... felt through the photograph by one who regards it with devotion towards her. It was her true presence that was there, her subtle physical presence and all you felt was true. It shows that your physical mind is opening to the true consciousness. It is quite sure that this will grow and the remnants of the old movements are bound to disappear. 2 May 1936 ...
... military operations, the man who saved Bolshevism in history was Trotsky who organised the Red Army, created it out of nothing and directed its operations. Stalin was not so much the vital as the physical mind working out details; after Lenin's death he took charge and arranged everything by this faculty. 25 January 1937 Edward Windsor Edward VIII is becoming a plain-clothes sentinel now (once ...
... the mind, so to judge her action with the mind is futile. But why should X or anyone assume that Y will have no profit for her spiritual future from her stay here? 5 May 1936 Can the physical mind have a correct understanding of the Mother's dealings? Not until it is enlightened by the true consciousness and knowledge from above. 4 July 1936 Why should the Mother be obliged to treat ...
... tolerating all the mistakes of the sadhaks and only bringing an inner pressure, supporting all with her force as much as they will allow her. This has been so for a considerable time past—but the physical mind of the sadhaks does not find it easy to accept the change and they seek for expressions and interpretations that are not there. This is farther complicated by the fact that now the Mother has little ...
... there can be no mistake, for she was specially conscious of her action and purpose today. What must have happened was that something must have felt the pressure and intervened and persuaded your physical mind by suggestion that it was you she was pushing away, not the difficulty. This is a very clear instance of how easy it is for the sadhaks to make a wrong inference and think that the Mother is doing ...
... downs, of light followed by darkness followed by a greater light—but nobody is better pleased than myself when a disciple can arrive out of all that to the smooth and clear path which the human physical mind quite rightly yearns for. 24 December 1935 Stoppage of Sadhana The worst thing for sadhana is to get into a morbid condition, always thinking of "lower forces, attacks etc." If the sadhana ...
... read in it and learn anything they choose. But this region must not be mistaken for the supramental levels. And yet to reach even there you must be able to silence the movements of the material or physical mind; you must be able to leave aside all your sensations and put a stop to your ordinary mental movements, whatever they are; you must get out of the vital; you must become free from the slavery of ...
... upon the earth is true, simply because it is there. What it calls Nature is for it the final reality, and its aim is to build up a theory to explain the workings of it. So it climbs as high as the physical mind can go and tries to find out the causes of what it assumes to be the true, the real world. But in fact it adapts "causes" to "effects", for it has already taken that which is for the true, the real ...
... upon the earth is true, simply because it is there. What it calls Nature is for it the final reality, and its aim is to build up a theory to explain the workings of it. So it climbs as high as the physical mind can go and tries to find out the causes of what it assumes to be the true, the real world. Hut in fact it adapts "causes" to "effects", for it has already taken that which is for the true, the real ...
... objects and movements and forces. This physical consciousness plane receives from the other planes their powers and influences and makes formations of them in its own province. Therefore we have a physical mind as well as a vital mind and the mind proper; we have a vital physical part in us—the nervous being—as well as the vital proper; and both are largely conditioned by the gross material bodily part ...
... influencing and in an occult manner determining our surface existence. It is because we use, normally, only our corporeal senses and live almost wholly in the body and the physical vitality and the physical mind, and it is not directly through these that the life-world enters into relations with us. That is done through other sheaths of our being,—so they are termed in the Upanishads,—other bodies, as they ...
... the new consciousness, Peace and Power at the same time, then this outward pressure is felt but can no longer disturb and finally it recedes to a distance (no longer pressing immediately on the physical mind or body) and either gradually or rapidly disappears. By environmental consciousness I mean something that each man carries around him, outside his body, even when he is not aware of it,—by which ...
... apart from a few exceptions, the action takes place first in the mental field, then becomes vital, then physical. I want to make it clear that it is not a question of the pure mind here, but of the physical mind; for in the physical consciousness itself there is a mental activity, a vital activity and a purely material activity, and all that takes place in your physical consciousness, in your body consciousness ...
... physical, there is a special resistance of the physical. Where is the greatest resistance?... In your head. ( Laughter ) This is not a special case. Most often what refuses most to change is the physical mind—so obstinate, isn't it, in the conviction of its own competence, ooh!... In the love it has for its own ignorance, its own way of thinking, its own way of seeing, its own way of not knowing. ...
... a sort of sensation of contact with what is happening at a very great distance. You must not forget that in the physical consciousness there are several levels; there is a physical vital and a physical mind which are not solely corporeal. Foresight on the material plane is also one of the physical senses.... We have, then, something that sees at a short distance, something that sees at a long distance ...
... there are personalities! But these are powers. People who are individualised in that world are either heroes or devils! And now, in the mind... ( Silence ) If only you become conscious of your physical mind in itself.... Some people have called it a public square, because everything comes there, goes across, passes, comes back.... All ideas go there, they enter at one place, leave by another, some ...
... thing that's new, so in occultism you may try for years together and not have the least experience. And that becomes very monotonous and hardly interesting; and there is always in man that kind of physical mind, practical and positive, which keeps on telling you, "Why are you trying? You see quite well there is nothing in it, these are all stories people tell you; why are you working for nothing? You are ...
... a first step and are not considered as realisation --they must be confirmed by being translated into and justified by experience. As to the value of the experience itself, it is doubted by the physical mind because it is subjective, not Page 23 objective. But has the distinction much value? Is not all knowledge and experience subjective at bottom? Objective external physical ...
... there are personalities! But these are powers. People who are individualised in that world are either heroes or devils! And now, in the mind… ( Silence ) If only you become conscious of your physical mind in itself…. Some people have called it a public square, because everything comes there, goes across, passes, comes back…. All ideas go there, they enter at one place, leave by another, some are ...
... quite a lot of grey matter, putting before you argument after argument. But you have not argued back. You are quite happily unconcerned. All the reasonings in your letter come from the external physical mind. You cannot expect me to come down to that level and discuss with you from there. I see things from another plane and in a different way. 19 July 1942 It is quite inexact that in my ...
... come to the fore that it carries and preserves definite memories, but certainly not of all the details of life unless it is constantly in front and one with the exterior being. For, as a rule, the physical mind and the physical vital dissolve Page 79 with the death of the organism: they disintegrate and return to the universal Nature and nothing remains of their experiences. Not until ...
... and when they do succeed in finding superficial "shortcomings" they are greatly pleased. But they forget that if they confront even the Divine, when its presence is on the earth, with their crude physical mind they are bound to meet only what is crude. They cannot hope to see what they are themselves incapable of seeing or unwilling to see. They are sure to misjudge the Divine if they consider the su ...
... in some mental or other domain. There are artistic, literary, poetic domains, domains of action, scientific domains, all belonging to the mind—not a very high and abstract mind, a mind above the physical mind which, without our knowing it, pours out constantly through the individual and collective mind to manifest in action. Some people, through a special faculty, are in contact with these domains ...
... curve. Better to reach the end. It is too early to speak. ( After a silence ) The movements of the body almost in their totality are habitual movements. Behind, there is the consciousness of the physical mind (what I call the "cellular mind"), which is itself constantly conscious of the divine Presence and is keen on accepting nothing but That; so a whole work is going on for changing, shifting the origin ...
... it has agreed not to do it any more, but to accept on the contrary: "Well, if it is dissolution, it is dissolution"—but it accepts whatever will be. In the mind, when the thing happens in the physical mind (it was years ago, but I had observed it even then), it is this which makes people feel that they are going mad, which frightens them; and with the fright things come to pass, and then they hustle ...
... must be the continuation of that experience the other day. I was beginning to find the key. What does this "big brother" represent? Material knowledge, I think—I mean the higher use of the physical mind, which keeps you from entering the true room. 2 Because I simply kept repeating, "I have to say: I WANT TO GO Page 188 THERE..." (in other words, it was a crystal clear, imperative ...
... know. But there must be something fundamentally wrong. What is it, Mother? Nothing special to you. It is the same difficulty that exists for all human beings: the pride and blindness of the physical mind. 8 July 1935 There is an old Hindu belief that one should not lie down or sleep with one's head towards the North. Has it got any real significance, Mother? Many things have been said ...
... would be wrong of you to complain about it. The whole world is against me and I am in despair. Why do you want to think the whole world is against you? This is childish. My physical mind is not yet convinced that human life is capable of overcoming all suffering and even death. It may be that human life is indeed incapable of it; but for the divine life nothing is impossible ...
... was conscious that all one does is the expression of the indwelling Divine Will. But it is the Divine Will AT THE VERY CENTER of oneself, although for a while there remained an activity in the physical mind. But this was stilled two or three days after I saw Sri Aurobindo for the first time in 1914, Page 163 and it never started up again. Silence settled. And the consciousness was established ...
... is important. The circumstances relating to the work of transformation make the physical vibration important. I feel it, for as soon as I want to do something with someone on the physical plane (physical, mind you), it all comes into the body. And the body is simply seized ... I see that absolutely physical vibrations are being used all the time. It's really so different. All the work which is done at ...
... × Later, Mother added the following: 'In this regard—I don't know where, but somewhere—Sri Aurobindo spoke of this physical mind, and he said that there was nothing you could do with it; it must only be destroyed.' Mother may be alluding to the following passage from The Synthesis of Yoga : 'There is nothing to be done ...
... of each month. × Mother later discovered that this world of complications is the symbol of the physical mind. × Mother later narrated the end of her 'dream' with X: 'It was his house, and it was rather ...
... heavenly wideness of a Godhead's gaze." 14 What does "the triple cord of mind" mean? The cords symbolise the limitations of the mind; and there are three of them because there is a physical mind, a vital mind and a mental mind. 9 November 1968 Page 386 "The days were travellers on a destined road, The nights companions of his musing spirit." 15 Yes, there ...
... finished at the beginning of next month. Good. Au revoir, mon petit. Page 79 × In other words, the physical mind, creator of the medical, gravitational and mortal cage we live in. × Later, Mother repeated the ...
... step of the mind towards transformation. Mental prayer: spontaneous in a mind aspiring for transformation. Thirst to understand: very useful for transformation. Honesty in the physical mind: preliminary indispensable condition for transformation. Page 88 Integral offering of the vital: an important stage towards transformation. Renunciation of emotional desires: ...
... consciousness. What is the body consciousness? The vital consciousness, of course—the physical consciousness as a whole. But then, in this physical consciousness as a whole, there is the physical mind—a mind that is occupied with all the ordinary things and responds to everything around you. There is also the vital consciousness, which is the awareness of sensations, impulses, enthusiasms and ...
... canyons as I did every evening, I decided to force the Mantra into the body. ) Would you like to.... [meditate]? Or do you have something to say? I'm endeavoring to force the Mantra into the physical mind. ( Mother starts repeating the Mantra aloud—thirteen times—until her voice is nothing but a halting breath, like a child's whimper. 1 ) OM Namo Bhagavateh OM Namo Bhagavateh OM Namo ...
... August 14, 1964 Last night, and maybe the night before, oh, you and I talked for a very, very long time about all sorts of subjects, and I became aware that there is a place, somewhere in the physical Mind, but very close to the earth, where people must almost inevitably go at night. There are sorts of big meeting rooms where people come and discuss all kinds of problems: they meet, work out programs ...
... when the hour of the Divine draws near 4 But when the hour of the Divine draws near... × "It" = the physical mind. × Aphorism 102: "To the senses it is always true that the sun moves round the earth; this is ...
... body has been persuaded not to do it any more and on the contrary to accept, "Well, if it's dissolution, let it be dissolution." But it accepts what will be. Mentally, when that happens in the physical mind (it was years ago, but I had observed that), it's what gives people the feeling that they're going insane, and they get frightened (and with fear things Page 29 happen), so they rush ...
... mediumistic manner, which means that when it is X who speaks, it's something quite ordinary, but the Force can come through him. But curiously enough, that "yantram" seems to exasperate the physical mind. Doesn't it set something at rest in your mind? Generally, it makes the most material mind extremely active. Extremely active...? I have great difficulty keeping a hold on it. A ...
... aberration when you have once TOUCHED—touched, experienced the True Thing?" It's as if the body were being dealt with like a child who has to be educated. Because that mind I am talking about is the physical mind, the material mind (not the speculative mind: the vibration isn't the same at all), it's the mind OF THE EARTH, the mind of everyday life, the mind you carry along in your every movement and which ...
... form of a feeling, not even of a sensation, even less of a thought; so if you aren't very attentive, you don't notice it. But, for instance, when I repeat the mantra, it's repeated by that famous physical mind, which is so stupid (the mantra is the only thing that can keep a rein on it), and now it has become so identified that the mantra is its whole life, it is like a pulsation of its being; but then ...
... it's because the body left to itself has so much more practical common sense.... I don't know how to explain. An extraordinary STABILITY. The only thing in it that was a little morbid was this physical mind, the body-mind, which Sri Aurobindo regarded as impossible to change—it was very stubborn, but you see, it's the one that has done the work, it has worked out the change. It had that habit of i ...
... Aurobindo about the difference between occult powers and the supramental realization. ) "The physical Nature does not mean the body alone but the phrase includes the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature—not by imposing Siddhis [occult powers] on them, but by creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the supramental being in a new evolution. I am not ...
... the dream of teeth falling is given its de-terrifying significance which has even a subliming touch: "The falling of teeth means disappearance of old or fixed mental habits belonging to the physical mind." 7 Finally, here are two bits of "inlook" achieved effortlessly. First, on how Knowledge can by itself be Power: "Knowledge, when it goes to the root of our troubles, has in itself a ...
... essential badge is an ignorant and externalised turn of consciousness, verily a state of sleep for the illumined (prabuddha), just as the superior planes are but planes of sleep to our ignorant physical mind which is not at all at home in these planes ? 1 As a matter of fact, our apparent waking from a physical slumber is not a true waking at all; it is merely a full emergence into a gross ...
... becomes more conscious and more aware of itself and more perfect. But it is necessary for the mind too to grow in perfection and this it can do best when it depends less on the fallible intellect of physical mind, when it is not limited even by the more orderly and accurate working of the reason and can grow in intuition and acquire a wider, deeper and closer seeing and the more luminous drive of energy ...
... will bring it. It is not even necessary that I should know the case or anything about it. The Force can use your knowledge and apply itself at the necessary point. It is not even necessary that my physical mind should know you have called. The call, if it is of the right kind, is self-effective. February 29, 1936 × ...
... there in parts of the being, absent in others. Now, if K behaves in this way and X can leave the Asram after 8 years, two opposites—what about us? Opposites, but for the same reasons—a physical mind clinging like a leech to its own wrong ideas of traditional sadhana and a vital that does not want to surrender, to lose independence and its own way of satisfaction. What have you kept in store ...
... has come in and by what attitude or process it can quickly pass off ... There is nothing serious in it. Very often when the mind has been doing something for a long time (I mean of course the physical mind), something which demands intensity of work or action, not what can be done as a routine, it finds itself unable to do it well any longer. That means that it is strained, needs rest so that the ...
... anything, especially as one gets to meditate; one thought after another surges up ... All efforts are useless, useless! 308 So He writes back, rebuking me: All that is the physical mind, refusing to take the trouble of the labour and struggle necessary for the spiritual achievement. It wants to get the highest, but desires a smooth course all the way, 'Who the devil is going ...
... (Experience of the vacant Infinite), 7 1904 (Turned decisively to yoga),5 1904 (Practice of Pranayama), 7-8 1905 (Partition of Bengal), 1 1906 (Left for Bengal), 1 Physical mind, 132-4, 141, 172, 180,212 1907 (Realisation of undefinable reality beyond space and time), 9 Pondicherry, 14-5, 17, 23, 39, 49 1908 (Alipore Jail experiences), 2, 11-3 Prakriti ...
... not quite sure whether she had heard my call, even if it had not been sincere. She affirmed: I always hear your call and answer at once. But no, I was not convinced of this. The little physical mind doubted everything. I was too opaque to receive and accept anything she bestowed on me. And that was the tragedy. I wrote a letter to the Mother in French. It is translated in English: ...
... self-being. But what are the essential traits of these four statuses? The Waking State : Our waking consciousness, the consciousness that we normally possess and that is dominated by the physical mind, is a limping surface consciousness shut up in the body limitation and within the confines of the little bit of personal mind. We are ordinarily aware only of our surface selves and quite ignorant ...
... us content ourselves with the following words of Sri Aurobindo: "...this luminous seizing and contact that is the spiritual vision, d ṛṣṭ i,... is to the spirit what the eyes are to the physical mind and one has the sense of having passed through a subtly analogous process. As the physical sight can present to us the actual body of things of which the thought had only possessed an indication ...
... this discussion on consciousness is that a particular "seer" focussing his attention on a given object with the employment of a particular level of consciousness different from that of the normal physical mind will have a different kind of sight of the object in view. This vision of the "seer" is bound to vary widely and naturally with the change in the quality and grade of the "seeing" consciousness ...
... possible organ of vision and all sight has to depend on the proper employment of this physical eye. But this assumption too is not true to fact. Being governed by the overpowering experience of our physical mind we easily suppose that the fundamental thing in any "seeing operation" is the impression made by an external object on the physical organ of sight and that the only business of our mind which happens ...
... the physical eye, that we possess in knowledge; for we have seen." (The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 291) (italics author's) This sight or drsti is to the spirit what the eyes are to the physical mind and, Sri Aurobindo emphasises, "one has the sense of having passed through a subtly analogous process." (Ibid., p. 803) The ancient sages of India highly valued this power of internal ...
... India's future. Page 460 The early Vedic was the first stage; the Purano-Tantric was the second stage. 2 In the former, an attempt was made to approach the mass-mind through the physical mind of man and make it familiar with the Godhead in the universe through the symbol of the sacrificial fire (yajna). In the latter, deeper approaches of man's inner mind and life to the Divine in ...
... matter 15, 23, 25, 36, 37, 43, 57, 79, 93, 94, 95, 99, 100; modifications of 24 matter planes, subtle 54 M ā y ā v ā da 9 meditation, intensive 9 mental-physical (physical mind) 56,57, 58 mental-vital (vital mind) 56 mind 11,98,99,100; dynamic 55, 56,57; externalising 55; higher 23, 33, 66, 67; illumined 23, 33, 66, 67, 68; intuitive 23-4, 33, 66, 67, 68; thinking ...
... all the planes and in all the universes? Or even on this earth—e.g. what Lloyd George had for dinner yesterday? Questions of consciousness of course she always knows even with her outermost physical mind. Material facts she can know but is not bound to do it. The matter however is too complex for answer in a short space. What would be true to say, is that she can know if she concentrates or if ...
... to hinder the proper finish. Will you tell me where the defect lies—little mastery over language, style, or insufficient inspiration? All writers have the difficulty—it is the tamas of the physical mind which finds it difficult to transcribe the inspiration. Is it bad for our sadhana to think much about the rhymes, words and ideas of these poems? But I find this a wonderful escape from the ...
... meaning and your mind is not familiar with the images, symbols, experiences that are peculiar to this realm. Each realm of experience has its own figures, its own language, its own vision and the physical mind not catching the link finds it all absurd. At the same time the main idea in yesterday's poem is quite clear. The heart of day evolving from clay and night is obviously the upward luminous movement ...
... accepted it like that and would not have understood. Your ego does come up from time to time without your seeing that it is the ego. It comes up not in your higher parts but in your physical mind and consciousness and you think that because your higher parts are clear, this also is clear. That is very true. Not only did I think but I believed it to be so! And that was ...
... I miss real delight and joy in my life? Because of the lower vital which wants other joys and does not care for these (true delight and inner joy). And being now very much in the physical mind, you are giving a value and therefore a voice to this vital which it had not before. Should I take this period as a necessary condition for arriving at the true Ananda, leaving ...
... rejection, you said that it had remained in the physical vital. What does the "physical vital" mean? I think I said it was left in the subconscient part of the physical vital. As there is a physical mind, so there is a physical vital — a vital turned entirely upon physical things, full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane. Has the vital any connection ...
... of sadhana, some capacity for introspection and experience. The year 1934 From the beginning the power of my intellect has been very weak. I generally live in the physical mind only. Is not the growth of intellect important to our Yoga? If your sadhana develops, knowledge will come with it and there will be the necessary development. In connection ...
... ignorant about it as is the vital? By knowing I do not mean mental ideas about it — I mean it has not the consciousness and feeling of what these things are. What my physical mind considers as emptiness or nothingness — is it not a pure working of the higher consciousness? Yes. Page 156 ...
... personalities there too! But they are Powers. They who have individualised themselves in such a world are either heroes or demons! And then in the mind, if you become conscious only of the physical mind, apart from what belongs to the brain, independent of the head, you will see that it is Page 133 really a market place, as it has been called: everything enters here, all kinds ...
... means, 'to bring out.' Plato also pointed to the same truth when he said that education is remembrance. You remember what is imbedded or secreted within, you bring to the light, the light of your physical mind, what you have within, what you already possess in your being and inner consciousness. Acquisition is not education. Indeed a miser is not a rich man, rich is he who knows how to utilise his wealth ...
... is that he has tested these truths attained by an inner knowledge, verified them, arranged them clearly in proper order, and proved their genuineness by practical demonstration by means of the physical mind and intellect, through the medium of the senses, with the help of material instruments. In this latter respect too – in the invention and employment of the physical instruments and processes – he ...
... consideration the fourth or the spiritual (including the psychic). Not only so, in each level or plane all the others are also involved i.e. lie secreted. Thus, in the mind there is a vital mind and a physical mind, in the vital there is a mental vital and a physical vital. So, in the physical too there are these three grades: (l) physical physical, (2) vital physical and (3) mental physical. Page 292 ...
... too can be turned inward or upward, made a receptive organ or instrument. When turned round, when it is the Mind of the mind, then there begins to appear the true knowledge. Then even this physical mind remains no more ignorant or obscure, it becomes transparent and luminous: it is able to bring its own gift, it can serve with its own contribution to the real knowledge; for it is the mind ...
... especial working carried out here. The brain thus is the controller-general of the whole physical system of the human body. In particular, however, it is the controller and regulator of the physical mind and the senses (the six indriyas of Indian psychology). This is the province of the basic earth principle, this range of material matter over which the Fire is the presiding deity. There are, however ...
... and personalities there too! But they are Powers. They who have individualised themselves in such a world are either heroes or demons! And then in the mind, if you become conscious only of the physical mind, apart from what belongs to the brain, independent of the head, you will see that it is really a market place, as it has been called: everything enters here, all kinds of ideas and notions cross ...
... fruit, although it has done much to prepare a great possibility for the future. The message of the third stage is that the spiritualisation of the collective life cannot be achieved if only the physical mind of man is trained or even if a greater effort is made to train the psychic- emotional part of man's nature. What is needed is to turn the entirety of mental, psychical and physical living of the ...
... occult vision by which a man is able to see the subtle worlds. The process of television gives to it not only a great sense of concreteness but of a convincing reality by bringing to the doubting physical mind a process of scientific invention which seems to render the impossible possible. The suggestion is that if television can make distant objects visible and near, why should not there be an inner ...
... anywhere by the body, from around, below or above. The order of the planes is in reference to each other, not in reference to the body. In reference to each other, the vital physical is below the physical mind, but above the material; but at the same time these powers interpenetrate each other."11 ( iv) SUBCONSCIENT " In our yoga we mean by the subconscient that quite ...
... fine material Paradise" because he had to rise to other higher and greater worlds. Page 172 CANTO III THE GLORY AND FALL OF LIFE Having left the limits of the physical mind Aswapathy entered the world of life, the plane of vital being. To this plane belong change, doubt, adventure, toil without repose. Life pursues a goal which seems to recede like a mirage as it ...
... existence into an impermanent scene. But he did not know the nature of this impalpable Reality. His attitude towards it varied according to his experience and culminated, at times, in doubt in his physical mind. Page 228 At times it was an indescribable Vast "Or was a subtle kernel in the soul:" at other times, it was a distant greatness or a mystic closeness, while at other times, it appeared ...
... and fixed it "upon the saviour Name". "Then all grew still and empty;"—all the sense-impulses disappeared, and "she was free". She experienced peace. But now a greater danger faced her,—"the physical mind". It released "a torrent of the speed of Life", "it drowned its banks, a Page 314 mountain of climbing waves". This great flood demanded "God's submission to chainless Force". ...
... right. Disciple : Is it because there is something in the nature of environmental influence that doubt comes and one does not get the same result as before? Sri Aurobindo : Both; the physical mind has these things, doubt, etc. and they come up at one time or the other. And by contact with other people also faith gets obscured. I knew a shocking instance in the Ashram. A truthful man came ...
... n now. Disciple : Was X brilliant before he began Yoga? Sri Aurobindo : No. But after beginning it he showed mental capacity. Evidently, something opened up in him and his physical mind was not able to bear it. He might have been trying to set things right but when the uprush came he could not distinguish between the higher and the lower movements. A letter from Y was ...
... dated 24th March 1949: "As to her experience, certainly her call for help did reach Mother even though all the details she relates in her letter might not have been present to the Mother's physical mind. Always calls of this kind are coming to the Mother, sometimes a hundred close upon each other and always the answer is given. The occasions are of all kinds, but whatever the need that occasions ...
... 35 And again in 1972, one day, She made this very significant remark (all the more significant than it was about the Mind of the cells): It is only when the Supramental manifests in the physical Mind that its presence can be permanent. 36 And as I did not understand what had “to be done” (we always have the impression that one has to do!) in order to engage the Mantra in the body’s cells ...
... body becoming impersonal 784-5 change from a 'diamond look' to the 'Infinitude' 794 'I have changed very much...' 794, 798 nestling in the Divine 796, 804, 816 transformation of her physical mind 798 body's choice: its only prayer 798, 807 her birthday as everyone's 804 bears 'a frightful pressure' 804-5 vision of her changed body: 'younger than most of you' 805 experiences ...
... s correspondence with his disciples in the thirties was lit up with frequent references to the near possibility of the supramental manifestation; and on 5 December 1950, the Mind of Light, the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light, was realised in the Mother. All through, Savitri, imaging the dynamic and conquering power of the Supermind in the personality of the heroine was abroad, emanating ...
... of pessimism "appeared to them as a kind of disease... which did not form part of their development", and then, at that moment, there was born a kind of lower power to act upon... (this physical mind)... a material power to separate itself from that and reject it. And it is after that that there was this turning point.... as if something truly decisive had happened. 3 And she felt an ...
... physical and the subconscient takes a long time as it is a thing of habits and constant repetition of the old movements, obscure and stiff and not plastic, yielding only little by little. The physical mind can be more easily opened and converted than the rest, but the vital-physical and the material-physical are obstinate. The old things are always recurring there without reason and by force of ...
... heavenly wideness of a Godhead's gaze." 2 What does "the triple cord of mind " mean? The cords symbolise the limitations of the mind; and there are three of them because there is a physical mind, it vital mind and a mental mind. 9.11.1968 "The days were travelers on a destined road, The nights companions of his musing spirit.' 3 Yes, there comes a time when nothing, ...
... objective. Even in 1938, the Mother used to see the Supermind descending into Sri Aurobindo, but it couldn't be settled for good in the earth-consciousness, especially in the physical or the physical mind. In the series of articles included in The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, Sri Aurobindo introduced, as we have seen earlier, the "realm between" - the Mind of Light - a limited or delegated ...
... understand! It's not just like a sick person who has to be cured once and for all: no, it's a training of the cells, to teach them... to live. 16 Mother however added: All that atmosphere of the physical mind is full of every possible stupidity. You have to be permanently on your guard and sweep it all away—the doctors' opinions, the example of other people, that whole... really, that whole terrible ...
... that is showing itself insistently — the want of control of the tongue especially, — don’t get upset, — observe yourself and keep the will steady — it is not merely the vital but the habit of the physical mind and the body. (2.11.32) ...
... I sit for it all right but float on the surface. Whenever I concentrate to go deep inside, I come out bounding like a spring. This is what is now going on. When I shut my eyes to meditate, the physical mind becomes active and pushes me always to the surface and I feel a kind of heaviness near the forehead, as if some movement were going on there. Before, I used to have good meditation; what has ...
... appearance. As for the fear of madness, it is only a nervous impression which you should throw away. It is not vital weakness that leads to such upsettings — it is an obscurity and weakness in the physical mind accompanied by movements of an exaggerated vital nature ( e . g . exaggerated spiritual ambition) which are too strong for the mind to bear. That is not your case. You have had long experience of ...
... in this mental transparency, Mirra was going to uncover yet another, deeper layer, well hidden beneath the thinking racket of the first one, which She would not so easily penetrate. It is the “physical mind.” The last barrier before the cellular mind, our next evolutionary secret: a liberation, yes—but a genetic one. It would take her years, and the presence of Sri Aurobindo, to cross this next barrier ...
... lives with the true vibration. But that's rare.... And with her ever cheerful irony, She added: Probably there aren't many things worth seeing ! 18 This veil resembles strangely that of the physical Mind, which envelops the cells, each and every cell, in a dark cocoon, because as She gradually emerged from the web, the other vision—what She called "the next way"—became not only natural, spontaneous ...
... impossibilities⎯were precisely difficulties that we thought . All that was before , they were the impossibilities and “laws” of the first web, Matter according to our heads and the laws of our physical mind; when we reach the second web and that cellular substance freed from its phantoms, the difficulty is the reverse of the old Wall that we have crossed: the difficulty is precisely that there are ...
... Aurobindo 05 May 1933 MYSELF: I am very well in most respects by your Grace, only a pull is there of the old habit of inquisitiveness and curiosity of the physical mind. I was able to separate myself from this movement (of habit) as something which was passing through me, and I was simply looking at it without paying any attention, but the pull of which I have ...
... remnants of the past? Should the memory always be in bondage even after understanding all this? SRI AUROBINDO: It is because the old habitual ways of thinking and feeling have still roots in the physical mind and vital and subconscious; you have either to root them out or to work them out. (22.5.33) ...
... Mother 3 February 1938 Mon cher petit, It is not that you cannot do the yoga; you were doing it all right at one time. The difficulty is only in the physical mind where the resistance you speak of has a strong hold. If you can keep very quiet, not upset or discouraged and allow our force to work from behind the mind it will after a time eliminate the obstacle ...
... it is the processus of the creative Infinite; it is the long and multiform way of the progression of the individual and the cosmic soul in Nature. Its complexities cannot be unravelled by our physical mind ever bound up in the superficial appearance, nor by our vital mind of desire stumbling Page 428 forward in the cloud of its own instincts and longings and rash determinations through ...
... machine. An egoistic will of desire supported by the desire-soul is the dominant instrument of the rajasic worker. An Page 500 ignorant instinct or the unenlightened impulsion of the physical mind and the crude vital nature is the chief instrumental force of the tamasic doer of action. The instrument of the liberated man is a greater spiritual light and power, far higher than the highest ...
... primarily ideative. It is direct experience and as real, vivid, near, constant, effective, intimate as to the mind its sensuous seeing and feeling of images, objects and persons. It is only the physical mind that thinks of God and spirit as an abstract conception which it cannot visualise or represent Page 368 to itself except by words and names and symbolic images and fictions. Spirit sees ...
... in him, not materially in essence, but in that extended spiritual conception of self-being of which our too rigid notion of a material and etheric space is only a rendering in the terms of the physical mind and senses. In reality all even here is spiritual coexistence, identity and coincidence; but that is a fundamental truth which we cannot apply until we get back to the supreme consciousness. Till ...
... from the habit of the cosmic consciousness and its sight and imagination and activity of experience. Another difference is that the terrestrial life is not seen realistically just as it is to the physical mind but constantly in relation to the much that is behind it, the human action is surrounded and influenced by great powers and forces, Daivic, Asuric and Rakshasic, and the greater human figures are ...
... all. The mind can argue like that about anything not yet actually realised and established beyond dispute and without flaw. But what one has to lean on in Yoga is not the reasonings of the physical mind, but faith in the soul and the secret certitude of the Spirit. I want to have the Yogic consciousness at all times and never lose it. This constant moving between light and darkness, peace and ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Turning to the Mother for Help It is the physical mind that feels too inert—but if some part of the being turns to the Mother, that is enough to bring the help. 25 January 1934 I feel a sense of tiredness, depression, sadness, but all the same I stick to you. I am quiet sometimes ...
... association with the Puja on that day, or quite independently of it. But one cannot take such feelings seriously (perhaps you will rebuke me for saying that) ... All that is the silliness of the physical mind which thinks itself very clever in explaining away the inner feeling or perception. because these feelings are so vague, abstract and momentary! What else do you expect the first touches ...
... the nature, ridding you of ego etc. Observe that in yourself and it will be sufficient. 5 December 1935 When what you write is correct, I say nothing—when it is your Page 465 physical mind that brings in wrong ideas, I correct. 10 May 1936 Sir, you say you keep no files, throw none of my regal documents into the waste paper basket; where then is the last dream-hewn epistle ...
... other lives. The best thing is to make up your mind once for all and train your vital to run the race here while you are in the body and, if possible, win it. You are sure to win provided your physical mind reforms itself and helps the vital to change, instead of playing the role of a robber who holds down his victim while his accomplice makes a haul of the victim's property. The condition of your ...
... come to the fore that it carries and preserves definite memories, but certainly not of all the details of life unless it is constantly in front and one with the exterior being. For, as a rule, the physical mind and the physical vital dissolve with the death of the organism: they disintegrate and return to the universal Nature and nothing remains of their experiences. Not until they have become united with ...
... but people come to speak to you in a florid style and tell you stories—all that is in wandering imaginations. If one could see, that is, if you could see this mental atmosphere, that of the physical mind, which is circulating everywhere, making you move, making you feel, making you think, making you act, oh, good heave! You would lose many Page 107 of your illusions about your personality ...
... had to develop it before being able to go beyond it. It has taken a long time but we have all the same come to something. It is quite obvious that from the purely mental point of view, of the physical mind, well, we have come a long way since the Stone Age. It is said that we haven't made much progress because there's something else which has not been much developed; just because we were much too ...
... with a rush even—but in a workmanlike way and not according to fancy. However I will try to explain all that as far as possible—in principle only of course—as far as it can be explained to the physical mind which has not yet any notion of what the supramental is. For the rest, I will try to meet the points you make. 14 November 1933 As the moment of the possibility of the supramental Descent ...
... for you anywhere. I can give only a last advice. Throw away the foolish arrogance and vanity that have been the cause of your illness, consent to become like an ordinary man living in the normal physical mind. Now that is your only means of being saved from your illness. × This letter-draft and those numbered [5], ...
... Mother never acts on these supraphysical intimations, unless there is a physical confirmation like the letter itself in this case. For nobody would understand her action—the sadhaks living in the physical mind would state her action unfounded and those affected would deny loudly—as many have done in the past—their secret thoughts, feelings and actions. I tell you all this in confidence so that you may ...
... quiet from the pressure on my head. I must be patient and keep faith—then you will make me conscious. Quietude first; with it confidence in the Mother's Force that is working on you. When the physical mind is obliged to be quiet, it has this impression of inactivity and dullness at first. When it opens more and more to the Force, that impression will disappear. 12 November 1932 If one gives ...
... the part of my external nature which was not accepting the Mother as divine is now being convinced of her divinity. But why do I forget her divinity when I actually come before her? It is the physical mind in its most external action that sees physical things as only physical. 15 August 1937 How to convince the mind that the Mother is the Divine and that her workings are not human? It is ...
... 25 July 1932 I don't know where to draw the line between the egoistic will and the divine Will. Can there really be anything like the will of the instrument in the practical field? As the physical mind would put it: Since only the Divine's Will is done, what is the need of your creating instruments for the divine creation? As long as there is egoism, the egoistic will is there. And so long ...
... be done as a part of sadhana and help the sadhana—but sadhana "through" poetry is a quite different matter. 23 May 1938 Mental Silence To get rid of the random thoughts of the surface physical mind is not easy. It is sometimes done by a sudden miracle as in my own case, but that is rare. Some get it done by a slow process of concentration, but that may take a very long time. It is easier to ...
... in a class. All these ideas are absolutely absurd, trivial and unspiritual. The Asram is not a schoolboys' class nor is the Yoga a competitive examination. All this is the creation of the narrow physical mind and vital ego and desire. If the sadhaks want to get a true basis and make true progress, they must get these ideas out of their minds altogether. Yet they cling obstinately to it in spite of all ...
... is not liberated or spiritualised even by the Overmind? There is an inner liberation and a strong spiritualisation of the mind and vital and a partial effect on the physical especially the physical mind, but mostly subjective. A mixture of the Ignorance, or at the very least a limitation of the active Knowledge, power, Ananda etc. remains always. At the same time if one withdraws from the outward ...
... The chest action is rather curious, because it is the vital mind that is there and the Romans always spoke of the mind as if it were in the heart. But memory and reading would rather be in the physical mind. But anyhow the brain is a conveying instrument for all these activities and can feel the strain if there is any. The best relief for the brain is when the thinking takes place outside the body ...
... other lives. The best thing is to make up your mind once for all and train your vital to run the race here while you are in the body and, if possible, win it. You are sure to win provided your physical mind reforms itself and helps the vital to change, instead of playing the role of a robber who holds down his victim while his accomplice makes a haul of the victim's property. The condition of ...
... But there are others—and they are many—that can be touched or penetrated by the vital forces." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 26 May ) Which mental plane are you speaking of? Of the physical mind. Certainly not of the higher mind, for there are no adverse forces there. The reference is to the mind that deals with material things. Are there beings in the mental worlds? Yes, many. ...
... you get tired, exhausted, you can no longer do anything. And all of a sudden this becomes worse, for I must tell you that the mind is very friendly with the vital—not the reasoning mind but the physical mind is very, very friendly with the vital; so, as soon as the vital begins to say, "I have nothing to do with that, I have been badly treated, I won't have anything to do with it", the mind naturally ...
... you will have the "memory" of all things—not only of things of the past, but of things to come. For everything is recorded there. In the mental world, for instance, there is a domain of the physical mind which is related to physical things and keeps the memory of physical happenings upon earth. It is as though you were entering into innumerable vaults, one following another indefinitely, and these ...
... attitude of discernment, you will be turned into a mental battlefield. If you know how to rise to a higher level, simply into a region of the speculative mind which is not quite the ordinary physical mind, you can see all this play and all this struggle, all this conflict, all these contradictions as a curiosity which does not touch or affect you. If you rise a step higher still and see the goal ...
... small worthless functionings, needs, cares, occupations, pains, pleasures that lead to nothing beyond themselves and bear the stamp of an ignorance that knows not its own why and whither. This physical mind of inertia believes in no divinity other than its small earth-gods; it aspires perhaps to a greater fort, order, pleasure, but asks for no uplifting and no spiritual deliverance. At the centre we ...
... their purity, often their beauty, and their effectiveness, for its action is blind, ignorant and very egoistic. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 19 September 1956 As there is a physical mind, so there is a physical vital—a vital turned entirely upon physical things, full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The ...
... find out the reason for things? If we try to do it with the mind, will it not be yet another illusion screening the Truth? There are many planes or zones of the mind, from the plane of the physical mind, the lower zone of ordinary thoughts, full of error and ignorance and falsehood, to the plane of the higher mind which receives, in the form of intuitions, the rays of the supramental truth. Between ...
... or something which did not form a normal part of their development and which was imposed upon them). Then, at that moment , there was born a kind of lower power to act upon these things (this physical mind); that has given a material power to separate itself from that and reject it. And it is after that that there was this turning of which I spoke just now, the turning in the circumstances as a ...
... always as a basis for the right movement of the whole nature. It is the same peace [ in the physical as in the vital ]—but is felt materially in the material substance, concretely in the physical mind and nervous being, as well as psychologically in the mind and vital or subtly in the subtle body. I presume that [ feeling peace concretely between the lobes of the brain ] would mean that ...
... passion. What is needed is a patient increasing of the power of concentration and steady aspiration so that the silence you speak of may fix in the heart and spread to the other members. Then the physical mind and subconscient can be cleared and quieted. The asanas are one means for control of the body, as is Pranayam for the life-forces, but neither is indispensable. Mother thinks that ...
... emergence of a richer and profounder face of itself the more it gets inward and upward from the less to the more occult powers of its revelation. This finer soul of delight throws itself out on the physical mind and being, takes up its experiences and turns them by its own innate and peculiar power into things of beauty, fuses into itself the experiences of the life soul and transmutes to beauty their power ...
... of the life and the body and give ourselves a first freedom to turn to a greater and higher reach of the fullness of existence. And that higher reach we gain when we get above the limited crude physical mind, above the vital power and its forceful thought and self-vision, above the intellect and its pondering and measuring reason, and tread the illumined realm of an intuitive and spiritual thinking ...
... often comes of itself and brings the language and connection of ideas with it. For all these things are quite ready behind somewhere and it is only a matter of reception and transmission—it is the physical mind and brain that make the difficulty. 2 February 1934 Imperfect Rhymes These [ "life" and "cliff", "smile" and "will" ] are called in English imperfect rhymes and can be freely but not too ...
... is less well done. In work like cooking one does not directly and vividly feel the inspiration, only a brightness and perceptiveness and confidence perhaps—so also one does not notice when the physical mind becomes active. In a thing like poetry one can break off till the inspiration comes again, but in cooking one can't do that, the work has to be finished there and then. I suppose this can be remedied ...
... must all be due to some part of the physical consciousness that is still not open to the Light—probably something in the vital physical and the material subconscient which stands in the way of the physical mind being in its mass free and responsive. There is no harm in raising the aspiration from below to meet the power from above. All that you have to be careful about is not to raise up the difficulty ...
... expect something. You are far from the limit yet—so no reason to despair. Do not be over-eager for experience,—for experiences you can always get, having once broken the barrier between the physical mind and the subtle planes. What you have to aspire for most is the improved quality of the recipient consciousness in you—discrimination in the mind, the unattached impersonal Witness look on all that ...
... you expect anything so obtuse and forgetful as the physical consciousness to have the effect if the experiences are not repeated? It is as when you learn a lesson, you have to repeat it till the physical mind gets hold of it—otherwise it does not become a part of consciousness. Variations during the Day It happens to most sadhaks that in particular parts of the day they feel concentrated and get ...
... Evidently, he made a mistake when he stopped the visions that were coming. Vision and hallucination are not the same thing. The inner vision is an open door on higher planes of consciousness beyond the physical mind which gives room for a wider truth and experience to enter and act upon the mind. It is not the only or the most important door, but it is one which comes readiest to very many if not most and can ...
... vital and physical, that does not want the Higher Consciousness because it will have to change and it has no intention of changing. When this pressure acts, it gets at once a fear and shakes the physical mind and system by its fear. You will have then to get rid of this—till then it will not be safe for you to go farther. These experiences are symbolic in their character, so there is no reason ...
... subtle body. If we can feel ourselves thinking no longer with the brain but from above and outside the head in the subtle body, that is a sure physical sign of a release from the limitations of the physical mind, and though this will not be complete at once nor of itself bring the supramental action, for the subtle body is mental and not supramental, still it is a subtle and pure mentality and makes an ...
... and perishes quickly or decays slowly. That is the fate which overtakes all attempts of the vitalistic, the intellectual and mental, the spiritual endeavour to deal with material man through his physical mind chiefly or alone; the endeavour is overpowered by the machinery it creates and becomes the slave and victim of the machine. That is the revenge which our material Nature, herself mechanical, takes ...
... labour. This is because the idea of humanity has been obliged in an intellectual age to mask its true character of a religion and a thing of the soul and the spirit and to appeal to the vital and physical mind of man rather than his inner being. It has limited his effort to the attempt to revolutionise political and social institutions and to bring about such a modification of the ideas and sentiments ...
... purest zenith of native force. An ideal and spiritual poetry revealing the spirit in itself and in things, showing to us the unseen present in the seen, unveiling ranges of existence which the physical mind ignores, pointing man himself to undreamed capacities of godhead, future heights of being, truth, beauty, power, joy which are beyond the highest of his common or his now realised values of existence ...
... meaning and your mind is not familiar with the images, symbols, experiences that are peculiar to this realm. Each realm of experience has its own figures, its own language, its own vision and the physical mind not catching the link finds it all absurd. At the same time the main idea in yesterday's is quite clear. The heart of day evolving from clay and night is obviously the upward luminous movement of ...
... consciousness is being changed, the chief resistance comes from the subconscient. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of intelligence which afflict the physical mind and vital or the obscure fears, desires, angers, lusts of the physical vital, or the illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the body-nature is prone. If light, strength, the Mother's ...
... not the consciousness of its separate existence. The intellect can rise above its ordinary movements and feel itself as a separate power no longer working under the limitations of the vital and physical mind and the senses. It then begins to reflect something of the action of the higher mind but without the full freedom and greater light and truth of the higher mind. Page 165 ...
... One can feel its influence or get something from it, but bringing down means much more than that. The supermind is a harmonious whole—it is not a mixture of light and ignorance. If the physical mind is not supramentalised, Page 302 then there will be in mind a mixture of ignorance, but then it will not be supermind there, but something else. So also with the vital. All that can ...
... parts of the body indicate for this purpose different parts of the nature. The head is the seat of the mind (buddhi) and the lower part of the mouth, chin, neck are the seat of the external or physical mind. It indicates that the force is working there to change and prepare this part of the mind and get rid of resistance and wrong mental habits. The Cerebellum Yes, it [ the cerebellum ] has some ...
... sadhaka. It is what Shakespeare described as the Devil quoting Scripture for his own purpose. At present what they are most doing is to try to raise up the obscurity and weakness of the most physical mind, vital, material parts to prevent the progress or fulfilment of the sadhana. As to Asuras, not many of them have shown signs of repentance or possibility of conversion up to now. It is not ...
... the fulfilment of the harmonised T³ Perfect T³ as the result of the above combination; it cannot yet be steadily applied because of defect of energy in the physical prana and of faith in the physical mind. It is indicated by the Vani that telepathy must become trikaldrishti and trikaldrishti turn into Tapas = Chit-Tapas. Already the perfect examples of telepathy turned trikaldrishti are being ...
... important for those who want that union with the Divine without which the transformation is impossible. The aspiration could not be realised if you remained bound by your external self, tied to the physical mind and its petty movements. It is not the outer being which is the source of the spiritual urge; the outer being only undergoes the inner drive from behind the veil. It is the inner psychic being in ...
... - IV Chapter III The Power of Expression and Yoga Verbal Expression It is the thinking mind that works out ideas, the externalising mental or physical mind that gives them form in words. Probably you have not developed this part sufficiently—the gift of verbal expression is besides comparatively rare. Most people are either clumsy in expression or ...
... surface vital into the largeness of the true or inner vital being which can at once open to the Higher Consciousness, its power, light and Ananda. There is also begun a similar breaking of the small physical mind and sense into the wideness of the inner physical consciousness. The inner planes are always wide and open into the Universal while the outer surface parts of the being are shut up in themselves ...
... At such times one often feels as if there were no head and no body but all were a wide self and its consciousness, or else the head or the body is only a circumstance in that. The body or the physical mind is sometimes startled or alarmed at these experiences because they are abnormal to it; but there is no ground for alarm,—these are usual experiences in the Yoga. There is a Yoga Shakti lying ...
... The sadhak becomes restless under the Force only if he resists it—otherwise it brings peace and calm and happiness and strength. It is probably some other part of the mind—the vital mind or physical mind—it is these usually that resist. Usually the descent in the head helps to quiet the mind. If you mean the descent of the higher consciousness, that is felt in the heart region, not ...
... only makes them recur without a solution and keeps up by brooding the persistent tangle. It is from something above and outside the perplexities that the solution must come. The difficulty of the physical mind—not the true thinking intelligence—is that it does not want to believe in this larger consciousness outside itself because it is not aware of it; and it remains shut like a box in itself, not admitting ...
... Divine Force or Power If there is no personal effort, if the sadhak is too indolent and tamasic to try, why should the Grace act? All that [ thinking one's efforts are useless ] is the physical mind refusing to take the trouble of the labour and struggle necessary for the spiritual achievement. It wants to get the highest, but desires a smooth course all the way. "Who the devil is going to ...
... weakness, but rather as if nothing had happened. It is not at all inevitable that one should feel weakness after a dream of this kind and a discharge; it is only by a habitual association in the physical mind that these forces can bring these reactions of nervous weakness. As for preventing the discharge, it can be done by becoming more conscious in sleep. You were conscious of all that happened, ...
... inner mind is something very wide projecting itself into the infinite and finally identifying itself with the infinity of universal Mind. When we break out of the narrow limits of the external physical mind we begin to see inwardly and to feel this wideness, in the end this universality and infinity of the mental self-space. Thoughts are not the essence of mind-being, they are only an activity of mental ...
... experience. I suppose it has to be written, but I have not yet found the necessary form or the necessary leisure. 19 November 1931 There will always be doubts, upsettings and confusion of the physical mind and vital, so long as the vital approaches the Page 45 Mother from the wrong standpoint,—e.g. if it insists on judging her by her response to its demands and ideas of what she ought ...
... mind mostly, but partly from the vital—the vital was often dissatisfied with my answers, so I ceased answering to it and wrote only what would help your higher mind and psychic. Now it is from the physical mind and vital that you often write and so my answers must be to them and they feel they are not given the answers they want or in the tone of indulgence they would like. But to satisfy and indulge them ...
... had for dinner yesterday? Others maintain that she knows when the question of consciousness is involved ... Questions of consciousness of course she always knows even with her outermost physical mind. Material facts she can know but is not bound to do it. The matter however is too complex for answer in a short space. but as for material details, she does not know. What would be true ...
... Mother's presence and her regard on you, the reference in what you think and do to her with the idea of her approval or disapproval, are signs that the psychic is acting in your lower vital and physical mind and increasing its rule over their movements. The forms that came before your eyes are sometimes glimpses of the things on other planes, sometimes symbols; e.g., the golden water, golden tree ...
... the curds and the grain, the milk being that of the luminous cows, the curds the fixation of their yield in the intellectual mind and the grain the formulation of the light in the force of the physical mind. These symbolic senses are indicated by the double meaning of the words used, go, dadhi and yava . × ...
... governed by a force of passion and activity, kinetic, rajasic; that which is cast in the mould of the sattwic principle of light, harmony, balance. The tamasic intelligence has its seat in the physical mind: it is inert to ideas,—except to those which it receives inertly, blindly, passively from a recognised source or authority,—obscure in their reception, unwilling to enlarge itself, recalcitrant ...
... small worthless functionings, needs, cares, occupations, pains, pleasures that lead to nothing beyond themselves and bear the stamp of an ignorance that knows not its own why and whither. This physical mind of inertia believes in no divinity other than its own small earth-gods; it aspires perhaps to a greater comfort, order, pleasure, but asks for no uplifting and no spiritual deliverance. At the centre ...
... the real enjoyment of existence is an inward spiritual Ananda, not partial and troubled like that of our vital, emotional or mental pleasure, degraded as they are now by the predominance of the physical mind, but universal, profound, a massed concentration of spiritual bliss possessed in a calm ecstasy of self and all existence. Possession is its function, by possession comes the soul's enjoyment of ...
... the calm of equality increases, deepens, becomes more essential and compact, ghana , they disappear, cease to colour the mental and vital substance or occur only as touches on the most external physical mind, are unable to penetrate within, and at last even that recurrence, that appearance at the outer gates of mind ceases. Then there can come the living reality of the perception that all in us is done ...
... and by inference or derivative perception based upon their external signs of speech, action, etc., which our minds translate into the terms of our own subjectivity. When we break out from ego and physical mind into the infinity of the spirit, we still see the world and others as the mind has accustomed us to see them, as names and forms; only in our new experience of the direct and superior reality of ...
... outflowing, the expressive manifestation of the Spirit. When the gnostic Force can act in the body, these things can be established; for their opposites come from a pressure of external forces on the physical mind, on the nervous and material life, on the body organism, from an ignorance that does not know how to meet these forces or is not able to meet them rightly or with power, and from some obscurity ...
... and himself is to change the "programming" of the cells and reveal the Supermind in them by a certain inner process? Except for an endeavour to silence the intellect, the vital being and the physical mind, no sadhana is required. It is as if the numberless spiritual experiences which lay behind the final stage of the Mother's sadhana for the world were of no importance and could be bypassed. What ...
... done anything so stupendously creative as his own passing from the body! Later I learned from the Mother that the moment he had left his body what he had termed the Mind of Light, the physical mind receiving the supramental Light, had been realised in her. The strange golden light that many saw upon his body that lay without a touch of discoloration or decay for five days was a sign ...
... (extreme uraemia, in medical parlance) in order to win by the self-sacrifice a long-awaited boon. For, the Mind of Light has been defined by the Mother in a note I got in Bombay from Nolini as "the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light". Some years later these words sparked off a poem whose two opening lines the Mother pronounced to be a sheer Mantra exactly revealing what had happened in her body ...
... the body. These forces can do miracles under the right conditions; and now they are quite strong enough to produce miraculous results on the subjective plane, in the physical consciousness, the physical mind and the vital physical, but the most material is not yet ready. The attempt was therefore premature. In order that it should succeed, one of two things was necessary, either a right entire knowledge ...
... to manifest in the material universe. There is not only this material plane of being that we see, there is a physical life plane proper to the vital physical operation of Nature. There is a physical mind plane proper to a mental physical operation of Nature. There is a physical supermind plane proper to the supramental physical operation of Nature. There is too a plane of physical spirit power or ...
... omnipresent, involved, a hidden cause of action. But spirit is not dependent on the evolution of supermind for its manifestation; it can appear to our mentality, to our life-consciousness, even to our physical mind. The true nature and rationale of this priority appear in the descending scale. There we see the true development of the universe. Spirit of self-being develops self of conscious energy which ...
... mind and whatever in us is limited and that by which we enter into a larger deeper consciousness than is ordinarily ours. This consciousness is aware of external things not only through the physical mind and senses but by other though often similar means of Mind, an inner sense or senses, an inner tact or feeling such as a projective or responsive awareness of things at a slight or great distance ...
... for ever our petty human pain and pleasure. Still even what can be done within the limits of our human consciousness brings a great liberation. But even to do that little is not easy to the physical mind of man, even when his higher mind and will consent and demand it. There is something in us wedded to ignorance, eternally in revolt against all surrender, attached to its own blind activity, its ...
... of force, aishwarya-bodha, hasya and ҫraddha in the immediate action of the Shakti. None of these defects are real, but imposed on the system from outside by a shadow of the old habit of the physical mind. These defects have now to be finally excised. There is already a commencement of the conversion of the surrounding activity to the ideal terms. The first two chatusthayas cannot be ...
... result of past intentions and tendencies, but do not correspond to any actually accomplished event. Strong and successful secondary utthapana of position. It is remarkable that fatigue of the physical mind and will, or rather the mind and will of the body, was not at all in question; for from the first it was as if already eliminated, except for a few ineffective attempts at return. Only at the end ...
... Being in its rigorously mechanical economy of existence. It takes only the phenomenon of a constant becoming and elevates that from the physical to the psychical level. As there is evident to our physical mind an Energy, action, motion, capable of creating by its material forces the forms and powers of the material universe, so there is for the Buddhistic vision of things an Energy, action, Karma, creating ...
... sentence. ) "...Everything was simply taken away from me—the mind is completely gone. If you like, in appearance, I Page 51 had become an idiot. I didn't know anything. And it's the physical mind that developed little by little, little by little..." ( Mother comments in English ) One shouldn't repeat "little by little." It is not little by little. It was rapid because it took place ...
... all this isn't just the mind! It's an enlightened mind. It receives. I mean that the Force expressed itself through the mind, while now... You know, Sri Aurobindo had said that the physical mind (that is, the body-mind) was hopeless —he had tried. And I am sure that as long as the real mind is there, this body-mind doesn't budge, doesn't progress. But since the mind was driven away, this ...
... nature at different times. You had your former experiences because the mind and higher vital were sufficiently emptied and quiet to receive some experiences of a new consciousness. Now it is the physical mind, physical vital and body that have to be emptied—these always take longer than the others because the physical is more full of old habits, more slow to receive anything Page 164 new ...
... conscious of the "Moment" in the History of the earth, he feels all that. So he wants to participate in the Work. ( after a silence ) What is it that speaks in him, then? Is it his mind or his physical mind? I think he's inspired. Because the first day, when I spent three hours and a half with him, the first hour (he's very slow to get started), it took a long time, he was groping for words, trying ...
... Agenda 1971 August 21, 1971 Do you have something to ask? I am wondering a lot what would have power over the physical mind. How do you mean? For instance, you set the mantra going and it repeats itself for a certain time, and then whoosh! it goes off on a tangent and you get going on something else. I can't ...
... difficult. A permanence of what? Consciousness? Yes, consciousness. Page 218 But consciousness is permanent. Yes, but the external consciousness isn't permanent. 1 The physical mind, for instance, may go on repeating all sorts of useless things. Oh!... And on the other hand, the mantra gives me a feeling of a mental imposition, you understand? It's not something that ...
... it's a frightful anguish, hard to bear. That's why they all said, "Flee, flee, flee—leave it all, stop bothering about that, there's no getting out." ( silence ) It is the work in the physical mind we spoke of the other day—the material mind. ( silence ) It was very strange because I was in that state all the time, saying to myself, "I must find something, I must find something, there's ...
... voices. Yet the sound was very clear, I was dumbfounded: very clear. The sound of the mantra. But is this the mind the Tantrics use? For instance, when you speak of the "deep blue light" in the physical mind, is it the same cellular mind? I don't think so. Because it's also through japa, mantras, the awakening of the physical consciousness, that the Tantric power operates. I think their ...
... any personal reaction, nothing; there was nothing but the consciousness of the Supreme Action. It was the only thing existing. And of course, the whole ordinary and higher mind (as well as the physical mind, it goes without saying, for that must be abolished before going into trance), everything here in the head, above the head, around the head—absolutely immobile. After all that, towards the end ...
... sensation so that our vital and physical being can contact and meet concretely, quite as intensely as the mind and emotion can conceive and perceive and feel, the Divine in all things; it throws on the physical mind a transforming light that breaks its limitations, its conservative inertia, replaces its narrow thought-power and its doubts by sight and pours luminosity and consciousness into the very cells of ...
... business in her embodiment is to know the workings of the universal forces and use them for her works; for the rest she knows what she needs to know, sometimes with her inner self, sometimes with her physical mind. All knowledge is available in her universal self, but she brings forward only what is needed to be brought forward so that the working is done.’ 49 The Mother herself had more than once ...
... the Spirit February 20, 1932 Q. I can become one with the Mother and you both even in cells of the body which was not possible before. Was not the physical mind standing in the way when the experience was not possible? 2) Is it not that after a course of purification and liberation of the physical consciousness that this intimacy and union were made ...
... the Spirit November 12, 1932 … Do not be overeager for experiences;—for experiences you can always get, having once broken the barrier between the physical mind and the subtle planes. What you have to aspire for most is the improved quality of the recipient consciousness in you—discrimination in the mind, the unattached impersonal witness look on all that ...
... faith; may the intensity which is inside come out and remain in the exterior being. Yes, the truth consciousness must pervade all the being, dominate all the movements and quiet the restless physical mind. These are the preliminary conditions for the manifestation. Always with you 13 December 1935 ...
... May I get more peace and quietness under all circumstances and push forward vigilantly and patiently. Yes, my dear child, let the peace settle more and more in you, especially in your physical mind and rely more and more on my love and blessings. 12 November 1935 ...
... only indicate that something crucial was about to happen, for better or worse. Sometimes one senses this in the Entretiens. ‘It is quite evident that from the purely mental point of view, of the physical mind, we have come a long way since the Stone Age,’ she said on 5 October 1955. ‘It is said that we haven’t made much progress because there’s something else [i.e. the inner life] which has not been ...
... turned outwards, active only or mainly on and from the surface (vikṣipta); the whole gaze of his consciousness is externally orientated (bahirāvṛttacak ṣ u ḥ ). And the habitual trend of the physical mind whenever it gets divorced Page 155 from the immediate contact with physical things is to fall into the torpor of sleep. For, this is the only type of inner consciousness to ...
... responsible for this ineffability of mystic knowledge. (A) Reality is not exhausted by the domain of objective external solidities seized by our normal senses and erroneously considered by our physical mind to be the only order of reality possible. There are different orders of reality of which the so-called objective and physical is only one and a most minor one at that. Our subjective spiritual ...
... and absolute knowledge of the spiritual verities. This luminous seizing and contact, this internal spiritual sight, d ṛṣ ti or d ṛ k- ś akti, "is to the spirit what the eyes are to the physical mind and one has the sense of having passed through a subtly analogous process. As the physical sight can present to us the actual body of things of which the thought had only possessed an indication ...
... says the opposite. I get communications for instance from X in which for several pages he writes wise and perfect things about the sadhana; then, suddenly without transition, he drops into his physical mind and peevishly and complainingly says, well, things ignorant and incompatible with all that wisdom. X is not insincere when he does that — he is simply giving voice to two parts of his nature. Nobody ...
... exterior being, may the mind be filled with quietness and trust in You, in Your words and actions. It is only love that can understand and get at the secrets of the Divine Working. The mind, the physical mind especially, is incapable of seeing correctly and yet it always wants to judge. It is only a true sincere humility in the mind allowing the psychic to rule the being, that can save human beings from ...
... remain happy and peaceful in the Ashram, do three things: do not hear, do not speak and do not see. This she showed me with gestures. In 1972 she instructed me to do her last vision of the "physical mind". I painted it. The description of her vision has appeared in the Bulletin August issue 1972. ...
... you if it is good for me to devote more time to meditation than I am doing at present. I spend about two hours, morning and evening together. I am as yet not quite successful in meditation. My physical mind disturbs me a lot. I pray to you that it may become quiet and my psychic being may come out. It is so painful to find the mind working like a mad machine and the heart sleeping like a stone. Mother ...
... distance creates (I'm thinking in English and speaking in French) ... disturbances . 8 Anyway, now all this has been SEEN. But I know in an absolute way that once this whole mass of the physical mind is mastered and the Brahmic consciousness is brought into it in a continuous way, you CAN ... you become the MASTER of your health. This is why I tell people (not that I expect them to do it ...
... am seeing you more and more frequently during the night, and in the world where we meet together we have established a kind of companionship in work. Although it is still in a region of the physical mind, it is a mind striving towards a luminous organization and clearly aspiring to rise towards the higher realms. Page 393 And last night especially I had a very positive impression (a ...
... body, I would be in bliss! And it would happen in the best possible way. Only now am I beginning to understand what Sri Aurobindo has written in The Synthesis of Yoga ! And the human mind, the physical mind, appears so stupid, so stupid! ...
... precision that black magic is at the root of all this ( Mother is speaking of both general and personal difficulties, in the Ashram and in her body ). First of all, on the mental plane (the physical-mind, the material mind) I saw an individual.... I am not entirely certain of his identity (when I saw him last night I didn't associate him with anyone in particular) but from his outer appearance he ...
... a curve—it's better to reach the end. It's too early to speak. ( After a silence ) The near totality of the body's movements are movements of habit. Behind, there is the consciousness of the physical mind (what I call the "cellular mind") which is constantly conscious of the divine Presence and anxious to allow nothing but That; then a whole work is going on to change, to shift the origin of movements ...
... dream-vision about your crushed head is strange but not without meaning. The particles of your brain being all separate but at the same time golden suggests that the Divine Light has touched your physical mind but its effects are not yet integrated. Their floating in water seems to imply that the God-touched particles are separate because your outer mentality is affected very much by the vital element ...
... mental immobility), and let it penetrate you, but without concentrating all your being on it: allow the rest of your activity to unfold as usual in an infinity. It's only the vibrations of the physical mind that you should keep in that stability. It's difficult to put it into words. But if you are able to do that, it could do you good, it could be restful. My experience, you see, is that his ...
... ) But, as a whole, it gives a sense of treading a very sharp ridge between two precipices. ( long silence ) It's impossible to say.... And this field of experience also includes the physical mind—all the mental constructions that have a direct action on life and on the body; there is there an almost unlimited field of experiences. And everything takes the form not of a speculation or a thought ...
... interesting. But constantly (I make the problem more precise for the sake of clarity), there are constantly in the atmosphere, as I have always said, all the suggestions, all that atmosphere of the physical mind which is full of every possible stupidity. You have to be permanently on your guard and sweep it all away: "Go away, don't interfere." The doctors' opinions, the example of other people, that whole ...
... prevalent everywhere. It is also probably necessary that this should be faced and overcome before any supramental realisation is possible in the earth-consciousness—for it is the attitude of the physical mind to spiritual things and as it is in the physical that the resistance has to be overcome before the mind can be overpassed in the way required for this yoga, the strongest possible representation ...
... Certain troubles had indeed recurred, which Satprem had not even mentioned to Mother. × The physical mind. ...
... Mother could confide to me subsequently: "As soon as Sri Aurobindo left his body what he had called the Mind of Light was realised in me." The Mind of Light, as she defined it afterwards, is the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light. The nature of the victory won may be gauged from the two opening lines of the poem I wrote in 1954, lines which the Mother declared to be absolutely revelatory ...
... the subtle-physical plane? We have also the Mother's statement that the moment Sri Aurobindo left his body the Mind of Light was realised in her - the consciousness which she has defined as the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light - an experience which, according to her, has been revelatorily expressed in the two opening lines of a poem by me: The core of a deathless sun is now the brain ...
... rhythm. It was a fine sight — that gentle semi-circular swaying with a deeply absorbed face. The moment his eyes were closed, his consciousness seemed to get outside the fixed poise of the common physical mind. Perhaps the most dynamic meditation was of a person who did not sway in a semi-circle but who, losing 1 It is now many years since Purushottam kicked off the dust of the Ashram ...
... first time. What could not be done then was to fix it there. In 1950 Sri Aurobindo gave up his body in a strategic self-sacrifice and the Supramental Light was drawn for good and fixed in the physical mind of the Mother, constituting what he had called the Mind of Light. We have learnt from the Mother that Sri Aurobindo, in leaving his body, sacrificed his own personal fulfilment in order ...
... truth is that all these thoughts and activities are Nature's and come into us or pass through us as waves from the universal Nature. It is our egoism and our limitation in the body and individual physical mind which prevent us from feeling and experiencing this truth. 146 The error comes from thinking that your thoughts are your own and that you are their maker and if you do not create thoughts ...
... 23 Ibid.,p.269. 24 Ibid., pp. 61-64. Page 235 A fifth variety of reflective style is seen in the allegorical presentation of the three serfs of Mind: Physical Mind, Vital Mind and Reason. Then there is the expository or analytical style which communicates facts or states of the higher or lower consciousness: superconscience or inconscience. This is ...
... assimilate, his downward propensity and earthward gaze, his vital and physical subjection to his heredity, all these and more are his heritage from the subhuman origins of his life and body and physical mind. It is because of this heritage that he finds self-exceeding the most difficult of lessons and the most painful of endeavours. Yet it is by exceeding of the lower self that Nature accomplishes ...
... of grey matter putting before you argument after argument. But you have not argued back. You are quite happily unconcerned. Amal, All the reasonings in your letter come from the external physical mind. You cannot expect me to come down to that level and discuss with you from there. I see things from another plane and in a different way. 19 July 1942 ...
... 27 June 1955 Mother, I beg of you to grant me a short interview in the room at the Playground: ten minutes or so. I feel so troubled. Something in the physical mind often blocks me up terribly, though the higher intellect and the inner being are unshaken. A little talk with you and your close presence will dissolve the miserable disturbance. You looked ...
... first step and are not considered as realisation — they must be confirmed by being translated into and justified by experience. As to the value of the experience itself, it is doubted by the physical mind because it is subjective, not objective. But has the distinction much value? Is not all knowledge and experience subjective at bottom? Objective external physical things are seen very much ...
... right, more luminous, natural and normal to the deepest divine interplay of Purusha and Prakriti although supernatural and supernormal to our present imperfect nature. The body conditioning the physical mind insists no longer on its tamasic inertia that repeats always the same ignorant movement: it becomes a passive field and instrument of a greater force and light, it responds to every demand of ...
... see Psychic being and real Individuality, 136 soul-personality, see Psychic being stages of development, 17-19 Philistine, the (the sensational man), 275-78 Physical mind, see under Mind Physical vital, see under Vital (being), the Physical (being, outer, surface), the, 67-71, 337 vital-physical, 64 Prajna, 23, 209, 215, 297 Prakriti ...
... 30-31. Page 45 What does "the triple cord of mind" mean? The Mother: The cords stand for the limitations of the mind, and there are three of them because there is a physical mind, a vital mind and a mental mind. The days were travellers on a destined road, the nights companions of his musing spirit. 8 I see the need of continuous sadhana day and night ...
... elements are transformed, they become a great asset to the spiritual nature. 16 April 1923 What is the way to eliminate this mechanical play of the mind? How to do away with it? The physical mind must remain as the instrument to act here on the material plane, only its play, its movements will be transformed and its stuff too. Only withdrawal from the lower movements won't do. When you rise ...
... discovered a secret Will-Force to be constantly vibrant in the whole universe. According to them, physical fire is only one outer manifestation, which can be used as symbol in an attempt to bring the physical mind nearer to a sense and feeling for something that is deeply, profoundly and supra- physically present and dynamic in the universe. Agni, according to the Vedic knowledge, is also the force of ...
... subtle faculties that one can gain various kinds of evidence of the existence of other planes of beings and communication with them. It is then that one becomes Page 98 aware that our physical mind and our physical senses are not the whole of us or the best or greatest part of us; and one begins to realize that reality cannot be restricted to a sole field of narrowness of the physical world ...
... be the destiny of India's future. The early Vedic was the first stage; the Purano-Tantric was the second stage. 2 In the former, an attempt was made to approach the mass-mind through the physical mind of man and make it familiar with the Godhead in the universe through the symbol of the sacrificial fire (yajna). In the latter, deeper approaches of man's inner mind and life to the Divine in ...
... reason in its turn was supplanted for a time by the mixed action of the reason which lives on our plains and lower elevations and does not in its view exceed the horizon of the experience that the physical mind and senses or such aids as we can invent for them can bring to us. And this process which seems to be a descent, is really a circle of progress. For in each case the lower faculty is compelled ...
... is through those subtle faculties that one can gain various kinds of evidence of the existence of other planes of beings and communication with them. It is then that one becomes aware that our physical mind and our physical senses are not the whole of us or the best or greatest part of us; and one begins to realize that reality cannot be restricted to a sole field of narrowness of the physical world ...
... sublimated crudity of ignorance deviating from the true human evolution. It may be contended that the right direction of human evolution should be solely an evolution of life-power, the practical physical mind, the reason governing thought and conduct and the discovery and organizing intelligence. In the contrast of our present celebration of the life of the mind in Matter, spiritual realization and ...
... done during 1933 to 1938 by Kamala is given below. The names of the flowers in the paintings refer to the significances as given by the Mother to those flowers. Krishna's Light in the physical mind Tenderness Integral purity Child's hand The vital opening to Divine Love Power of expression Ananda A la promenade - Out walking (7.8.33) Offering The Lotus The bouquet The Child ...
... was conscious that all one does is the expression of the indwelling Divine Will. But it is the Divine Will AT THE VERY CENTRE of oneself, although for a while there remained an activity in the physical mind. But this was stilled two or three days after I saw Sri Aurobindo for the first time in 1914, and it never started up again. Silence settled. And the consciousness was established above the head ...
... Would it be good for me to devote more time to meditation than I am giving at present. I spend about two hours, morning and evening together. I am as yet not quite successful in meditation. My physical mind disturbs me a lot. It is so painful to find the mind working like a mad machine and the heart sleeping like a stone. Mother, let me feel your presence within my heart always. The increase of ...
... intrusion of figures and details from the subconscient. These are dreams on the vital plane or excursions into the vital world of which the happenings are rendered in terms familiar to the physical mind — e.g. shopkeeper, police etc. though arranged in a different way from the physical. I cannot say they are clear and precise in significance as the mental dreams are. The dream is a seeing ...
... or get something of it but Page 262 bringing down means much more than that. The Supermind is a luminous whole — it is not a mixture of light and ignorance. If the physical mind is not supramentalised, then there will be in mind a mixture of ignorance, but then it will not be Supermind there, but something else, — so also with the vital. All that can manifest in the mind ...
... the subject of inertia, she went on, "When we were working in the physical cells, Sri Aurobindo realised the difficulty of transforming the mind of the physical cells. I am not speaking of the physical mind or physical consciousness. He thought of leaving the mind of the physical cells alone. Then I saw that their refusal to change was not due to any bad will but to ignorance. The cells have a great ...
... or 8 or thereabouts. This one I must have got only after 10 p.m. But that makes no difference. The call for the Force is very often sufficient; not absolutely necessary that it should reach my physical mind first. Many get as soon as they write—or (if they are outside), when the letter reaches the atmosphere. Simply the writing has helped to establish the contact with the Force, whereas my constant ...
... vision. Or do they have no link or reason at all, and come in just as vital dreams come in? How do you say that vital dreams have no link or reason? They have their own coherence, only the physical mind cannot always get at the clue by following which the coherence would unroll itself. For that matter the sequences of physical existence are coherent to us only because we are accustomed to it and ...
... to escape from them. Reject the thoughts and remember the Mother and ask for consciousness of her force doing the work. While working I become too weak to stop the physical mind from thinking all sorts of useless things. Page 192 That is very usual. The really active part of the mind is engaged in the work. It is the mechanical mind that is left ...
... say that the Force descends or ascends into a centre. Page 9 What are the fifth and sixth centres? The throat centre (externalising, expressing mind, the physical mind) and the 'ajnachakra' between the eyebrows, centre of inner thought, will and vision. Are our higher levels — Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition, Overmind, Supermind—automatically ...
... sufficient for that, provided it is complete in all parts of the being. The descent will come down when it is possible for it to come down. Meanwhile more quietness and fortitude in the physical mind and consciousness would perhaps be helpful. You spoke of the restlessness, impatience etc. Were they only in the outer being or also in the inner being? I have already said ...
... When I am in the Purusha consciousness there are no sex sensations, but the thoughts do trespass. Where do you then locate the defect in me? It must be either the vital or physical mind that brings them in. If the sexual thoughts also come from outside, how is it that I do not feel them as such, in the way I feel other kinds of thoughts, and why are they in a ...
... ion the fourth or the spiritual (including the psychic). Not only so, in each level or plane all the others are also involved i.e. lie secreted. Thus, in the mind there is a vital mind and a physical mind, in the vital there is a mental vital and a physical vital. So, in the physical too there are these three grades: (1) physical physical, (2) vital physical and (3) mental physical. We ...
... means, 'to bring out.' Plato also pointed to the same truth when he said that education is remembrance. You remember what is imbedded or secreted within, you bring to the light, the light of your physical mind, what you have within, what you already possess in your being and inner consciousness. Acquisition is not education. Indeed a miser is not a rich man, rich is he who knows how to utilise his ...
... cosmos of order and harmony, though lacking "the sole timeless word", Aswapati crosses to the world of subtle material existence where "dwell earth-nature's shining origins". This is the world of physical mind, or, in other words, the world of matter shot through by the mind: The golden issue of mind's labyrinth plots, The riches unfound or still uncaught by our lives, ...
... too can be turned inward or upward, made a receptive organ or instrument. When turned round, when it is the Mind of the mind, then there begins to appear the true knowledge. Then even this physical mind remains no more ignorant or obscure, it be- comes transparent and luminous: it is able to bring its own gift, it can serve with its own contribution to the real knowledge; for it is the mind that ...
... what it has taken a fancy for, to that it clings, and if the body has not what it prescribes, it throws the suggestion into the body that it will become sick. The same with the mental factor. The physical mind has its own notions and schemes, pet ideas and plans (perhaps from what has been read in books or heard from persons) in respect of the body's needs; it thinks that if a certain prescription is ...
... mind too can be turned inward or upward, made a receptive organ or instrument. When turned round, when it is the Mind of the mind, then there begins to appear the true knowledge. Then even this physical mind remains no more ignorant or obscure, it becomes trans-parept and luminous: it is able to bring its own gift, it can serve with its own contribution to the real knowledge; for it is the mind that ...
... working carried out here. The brain thus is the controller-general of the whole physical system of the human body. In particular, however, it is the controller and regulator of the physical mind and the senses (the six indriyas of Indian psychology). This is the province of the basic earth principle, this range of material matter over which the Fire is the presiding deity. There are, ...
... that matter can Page 44 exist and does exist as anti-matter? Not in vain has the mad, bad and sad poet sung: Mais o ù sont done les neiges d'antan? 1 The physical mind has to be taught, it must learn its lesson, that at every step something new, something unforeseen unpredicted and unpredictable is waiting in front to confound it. And it must gain the perception ...
... g skill than to build a material bridge. You may have very wonderful experiences in sleep, but you forget them all; perhaps you remember, as I have said, the last one, the one nearest to the physical mind. The Page 79 best way then to remember and become conscious of the whole night is to begin at the end and go backward. Catch hold of the last image that still persists in your ...
... vital-physical being. It is really the vital-physical that lays hold on the material object and deals with it. Disciple : One can understand a case in which there is intervention of another physical mind, say in the case of mesmerism. Sri Aurobindo : In mesmerism one uses the same energy. If one has sufficient force the same can be used to work directly on an object. Disciple : You ...
... you anywhere. I can give only a last advice : Throw away the foolish arrogance and vanity that have been the cause of your illness, consent to become like an ordinary man living in the normal physical mind. Now that is your only means of being saved from your illness. Sri Aurobindo " There was a letter from Y. In reply Sri Aurobindo said : "Her experience indicates the nature of the ob ...
... right. DR. MANILAL: Is it because there is something in our nature or in the surrounding atmosphere that doubts come and the results are not as before? SRI AUROBINDO: For both reasons. The physical mind has doubts inherent in it and they come up at one time or another. By contact with other people also, the faith gets obscured. I know one or two shocking instances in the Ashram itself. Once a truthful ...
... what it has been accustomed to, what it has taken a fancy for, to that it clings, and if the body has not what it prescribes, it throws the suggestion into the body that it will fall ill. The physical mind has its own notions and schemes, pet ideas and plans (perhaps from what has been read in books or heard from persons) in respect of the body's needs; it thinks that if a certain prescription is ...
... engineering skill than to build a material bridge. You may have very wonderful experiences in sleep, but you forget them all; perhaps you remember, as I have said, the last one, the one nearest to the physical mind. The best way then to remember and become conscious of the whole night is to begin at the end and go backward. Catch hold of the last image that still persists in your memory, like the loose end ...
... means, 'to bring out.' Plato also pointed to the same truth when he said that education is remembrance. You remember what is imbedded or secreted with in, you bring to the light, the light of your physical mind, what you have within, what you already possess in your being and inner consciousness. Acquisition is not education. Indeed a miser is not a rich man, rich is he who knows how to utilise his wealth ...
... apply on the physical. DR. MANILAL: What does that mean, Sir? SRI AUROBINDO: You have to read The Life Divine for that. DR. MANILAL: How could he have this fall? SRI AUROBINDO: The physical mind. ...
... are the worst enemies. They don't bite, it is true, like their cousins, the mosquitoes, but they are carriers of all kinds of infection! When they don't bite, they stick like the habits of our physical mind. So a vigorous crusade had to be taken up. 'Fly leaves' began to hang in all houses. Another effective contrivance trapped swarms in its box with continuous rolling wheels. The queen of the flies ...
... would walk on the moon? And can you believe now that matter can exist and does exist as anti-matter? Not in vain has the mad, bad and sad poet sung: Mais ou sont done les neiges d' antan?¹ The physical mind has to be taught, it must learn its lesson, that at every step something new, something unforeseen unpredicted and unpredictable is waiting in front to confound it. And it must gain the perception ...
... suggestions from the adverse forces certainly come from without; but they could, if not decisively thrown out, colonise a place within and operate securely from there. Even the lower mind - or the physical mind which is in alliance with the lower vital consciousness and its movements - can be infected by the hostile forces and degraded to their level of perversity and evil. What is our armour against ...
... inner individual consciousness - most often the psychic or the mental (but the mind has been silent since long) But now this material mind is busy organising itself...." Significantly, unlike the physical mind, the new material mind "learns to keep quiet, keep silent and allow the supreme Force to act without interfering". Several times since the 15th, and for a while even on the morning of the talk, ...
... continue to help the growth of our being and consciousness, if it surrenders to intuition and opens to the higher light. The more it emancipates itself from the yoke of Page 210 the physical mind, the more it can expand and brighten up with an unwonted light. But it finds it very difficult to do so —the knot of the ego is strongest in the intellectual mind. An exaggerated development ...
... true being, our psychic, that helps us to know things; it is when the mind is influenced by the psychic consciously or unconsciously, that the true discrimination can be done, otherwise if the physical mind is left alone, however great it may be, it always confuses things and prevents them from being seen in the true way .” Sri Aurobindo’s reply: “To see the Truth does not ...
... pointed to her left eye just stricken with a hemorrhage], it may have that kind of result, but that's because... because you allowed it to happen. 29 "Concrete" reality is only the concrete of the physical Mind which has changed the world into a fatal illness, because it has enclosed the world in its cage, then it has devised the laws of its cage and decided: this is how the world is. "But listen, it's ...
... other is gloriously, visibly there But in fact we have these organs: the cells see, the cells know, and we have thousands and billions of cells; they are simply covered, veiled by the web of the physical Mind that superimposes its painful, sad reality, its old habit of suffering, being sick, dying, its innumerable grey illusion which envelops each gesture and each step of its fears, apprehensions, laws ...
... contact with the mechanical mind whose nature is to go on turning round in a circle on the thoughts that come into it. This sometimes happens when the thinking mind is quiet. This is part of the physical mind and you should not be disturbed or alarmed by its rising up but see what it is and quiet it down, or get control of its movements. The one serious difficulty is about the sleeplessness — that must ...
... in due time be overcome. As for the feelings about the Mother and that her love is only given for a return in work to those who can do sadhana well, that is the usual senseless idea of the vital-physical mind and has no value.... I hope you will be all right soon. If the body does not right itself, you must keep me informed from time to time. (17.1.37) (1b) Try to keep yourself open to our ...
... of M and others; they went on turning in my head. I can see clearly the matter. I have been neither hurt nor shocked by it. I could see rather calmly and straightforwardly the movement. Only the physical mind was making too much noise over the matter. SRI AUROBINDO: That should not happen. Once a subject or thought is dealt with by the perception, you must have the power to drop it altogether out ...
... useless thoughts and then again getting collected — so, there is a tendency for the movement to get externalised. Am I right in my observation? SRI AUROBINDO: That is the present nature of the physical mind — its motion is outward. (9.12.33) ...
... reject life; we have to bring a new consciousness into the external work. ... So far as I am concerned, I have got my work... immediately at present we have to bring down a change in the physical mind, the nervous being, and the vital mind, so that they may become fit instruments of the Truth. That is a big enough work.... 52 On 13 July, he said that, for bringing down any higher spiritual ...
... energies (intelligence, dynamic mind, physical perceptive mind); the vital—1st emotional vital with all the emotional movements in it; 2nd the central vital (the larger desires, passions, ambitions, forces of work, possession, conquest); 3rd the lower vital (all the small egoistic movements of desire, enjoyment, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, vanity etc. etc.); 4th the physical energies concerned with the... planes are planes of consciousness and its powers—in the Page 166 mind there is a mind of Knowledge (higher mind), a mind of will (dynamic mind) and a mind of thought (intellect) which are one above the other and it is these you probably mean. They easily get covered when their forces come down into the ordinary mind—covered by the lower consciousness. It is not possible to give a name... accurately in a few words; but roughly thoughts are of the mind, emotions are of the heart, desires are of the vital. On the surface they are all mixed together, but behind they come from separate parts of the being. The Adhara The Adhara is that in which the consciousness is now contained—mind-life-body. The Adhar means the mind, life and body as instruments of the expression of the being—the ...
... ordinarily necessary because the mass of men live in their physical minds, cannot realise anything except by the force of a physical symbol and cannot feel that they are living anything except by the force of a physical action. We might apply here the Tantric gradation of sādhana , which makes the way of the paśu , the herd, the animal or physical being, the lowest stage of its discipline, and say that... this is the attempt to fix the mind on the object of adoration,—for naturally the restless human mind is occupied with other objects and, even when it is directed upwards, constantly drawn away by the world,—so that in the end it habitually thinks of him and all else is only secondary and thought of only in relation to him. This is done often with the aid of a physical image or, more intimately and... than religion,—only begins when this quite outward worship corresponds to something really felt within the mind, some genuine submission, awe or spiritual aspiration, to which it becomes an aid, an outward expression and also a sort of periodical or constant reminder helping to draw back the mind to it from the preoccupations of ordinary life. But so long as it is only an idea of the Godhead to which ...
... Page 22 ( A little later, Mother made the following remark concerning the Agenda of December 13, 1960 , where she speaks of the physical Mind's. 'disbelief' and defeatist reactions as intimately linked to the body's illnesses. ) This defeatist Mind is still functioning—and in full swing! When we get out of that.... I want to be able to act directly without its help—do what Sri Aurobindo... explosion; for the earth is not supple enough or receptive enough to widen to the measure of this Love. The earth must not only open itself but become wide and supple. Matter—not just physical Matter, but the substance of the physical consciousness as well—is still much too rigid. Wouldn't it be better if each time you answered these questions on the Aphorisms verbally? Ah, that's always better ...
... history, particularly of one who claims himself to be a historian, he mixing up two significantly different periods of time. After 1938 with the establishment of the Mind of Light in his physical, the physical’s mind, the mind of the physical opening to the supramental Light and Force, Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga took a decisive positive upward turn and things had started happening in rapid succession; it is... first-hand accounts of Sri Aurobindo’s sadhana after 1941. One is tempted to mine Savitri to make up for the lack. Sri Aurobindo’s accounts of Aswapathy’s voyage through the worlds of matter, life, and mind before reaching 'the kingdoms of the greater knowledge,' and Savitri’s transit through the 'inner countries' until she reaches the inmost soul certainly are based on his life and the Mother’s experiences;... privilege of entering into concrete touch with Savitri the Power through Savitri the book and growing by its grace have found by experience the validity of the fact that Savitri cannot be approached by just mind or by even the sharpest of intellectual pursuit.” As Sri Aurobindo writes about understanding Savitri —"If one has faith and openness that is enough. Besides, there are two kinds of understandi ...
... from outside that amuse themselves by creating small accidents of that kind, taking advantage of some inattention or forgetfulness etc. You are right about the accidents. It is chiefly the physical mind's unconsciousness that makes these accidents or interventions of mischievous forces easy. It has often been seen that when an accident takes place at a particular spot, there is a tendency... condition and a wrong attitude. Your ailment is evidently in its foundation an illness of the nerves, not an ordinary physical disease. These maladies are a creation of the pressure of hostile forces; they increase if anything in you assents to them and accepts, and the more the mind gives value to them and dwells on them, the more they grow. The only way is to remain quiet, dissociate yourself and... develop. Epilepsy is itself a sign of vital attack, even if there is a physical cause for it—the attacking force not being able to disturb the mental and vital (proper) falls on the body and uses some physical cause (latent or growing) for the base of its action. For everything manifested in the physical must have a physical support or means for its expression. I don't think—I know it is so ...
... phenomenon that seemed to accompany and almost characterize the state of overlife was a change of time. We saw it emerge and develop at the cellular level, as if the pure cells, freed from the physical Mind’s web, were endowed with another time, just as they were endowed with universality and so swift a movement of consciousness that it was as if instantly everywhere. It is the time of true Matter,... of its hole. And I told Mother, trying to understand: “It must be the thickness of consciousnesses that you feel?” It's the air—it's in the air. 5 Of course, her physical air was made of something else. There was another physical air. Another way of breathing in which death, illness and pain did not exist, could not come in. They were an impossibility there . There was a true Matter beneath the... the tissues, the bones, the nerves … the earth. Then nothing is impossible. A change of position in the physical consciousness. Something that annuls the distorting little vibration. But through what mechanism? How does the axolotl in its hole manage to breathe the other air? Another Physical Rhythm As usual, the remedy lay in the contradiction itself. Mother was living the solution, it was ...
... intimate is the method of our dynamic part of mind associating itself with our sensations, feelings and desires: but in this association too the thinking mind can intervene and exercise a separative dissociated observation and control over both the dynamic self-associating part of mind and the vital or physical movement. All the observable movements of our physical being also are known and controlled by us... deficiencies of his sense instrumentation, the fallibility of his physical mind's perceptions and the paucity of its interpretation of its data. Our world-knowledge is therefore a difficult structure made up of the imperfect documentation of the sense image, an intuitional interpretation of it by perceptive mind, life-mind and sense-mind, and a supplementary filling up, correction, addition of supplementary... psyche , the soul, the inmost entity in us, but only with the inner mind, the inner vital, the subtle-physical parts Page 556 of our subliminal being; but the results cannot be conclusive or sufficiently ample because they are sought for by methods of inquiry and experiment and standards of proof proper to the surface mind and its system of knowledge by indirect contact. Under these conditions ...
... ordinarily necessary because the mass of men live in their physical minds, cannot realise anything except by the force of a physical symbol and cannot feel that they are living anything except by the force of a physical action. We might apply here the Tantric gradation of sadhana, which makes the way of the pasu, the herd, the animal or physical being, the lowest stage of its discipline, and say that... this is the attempt to fix the mind on the object of adoration, — for naturally the restless human mind is occupied with other objects and, even when it is directed upwards, constantly drawn away by the world, — so that in the end it habitually thinks of him and all else is only secondary and thought of only in relation to him. This is done often with the aid of a physical image or, more intimately and... the tongue of human speech to tell all the utter unity and all the eternal variety of the Ananda of divine love. Our higher and our lower members are both flooded with it, the mind and life no less than the soul: even the physical body takes its share of the joy, feels the touch, is filled in all its limbs, veins, nerves with the flowing of the wine of the ecstasy, amrta. Love and Ananda are the last ...
... whole real foundation and regards human mind as only a subtle development from the life and the body. That may be the actual truth of the Page 623 animal side of human nature and of the human mind in so far as it is limited and conditioned by the physical part of our being. But the whole difference between man and the animal is that the animal mind, as we know it, cannot get for one moment... spirit in its own native reality. Page 625 Life is an energy of spirit subordinated to action of mind and body, which fulfils itself through mentality and physicality and acts as a link between them. It has its own characteristic operation but nowhere works independently of mind and body. All energy of the spirit in action works in the two terms of existence and consciousness, for the ... material nature; and, though in this matter life and mind have developed their own energies, yet they are limited and bound up in the action of the lower material, which is to the ignorance of his practical surface consciousness his original principle. Mind in him, though he is an embodied mental being, has to bear the control of the body and the physical life and can only by some more or less considerable ...
... indications—not felt directly by the physical being—of vital impact and relation. Equally is it ignorant of itself; for it knows of its self only through a movement in Page 180 Time and a succession of lives in which it has used its variously embodied energies. As our physical instrumental mind has the illusion of the body, so this subconscious dynamic mind has the illusion of life. In that... life and body but of mind; it is that 2 which, when we get back to it, we sometimes mistake for the pure spirit as we mistake the dynamic mind for the soul. This higher mind is able to perceive and deal with other souls as other forms of its pure self; it is capable of sensing them by pure mental impact and communication and no longer only by vital and nervous impact and physical indication; it conceives... what this physical machinery gives to it to get back from it to its own pure workings; those are to it mostly subconscious. Still we can conceive a life mind or life being which has got beyond the evolutionary necessity of this absorption and is able to see and even experience itself assuming body after body and not created separately in each body and ending with it; for it is only the physical impress ...
... like you children do, and he grew a tummy like that of Ganesh. Over and above that, as he was a painter, he used to just sit cross-legged and paint, day in and day out. All this with no physical exercises, mind you. Then I told him, I prophesied: "Look here, Kobi (I call him 'Kobi'), if you go on in this way, you'll have another disease called diabetes, I warn you." And my prophecy came true. On... man can be happy 260Oh Mother, Oh Father! - in Bengali. 261A lower garment worn mostly by Indian men, similar to the dhoti. Page 205 in spite of all troubles - and physical troubles are the most difficult in the world to bear, you know that. One day, he told us that he was going to the Lake Estate. His ulcer was bleeding, blood was flowing, he could feel it... his own food and room. I can't accept him." Poor fellow, but he was not discouraged. He took a room somewhere, a very dingy, small room full of mosquitoes and perhaps a bed full of bugs, but he didn't mind it at all. So he stayed on, cooking for himself. Then Dilip Kumar Roy came to know about it; that such and such a great poet has come here from Shantiniketan; he had made a name for himself in the outside ...
... pregnant period of European knowledge when physical Science, turned suddenly towards its full strength, was preparing to open for itself the new views, new paths and new instruments of discovery which have led to the astonishing results of the nineteenth century, an opportunity was offered to the European mind for a similar mastery of sciences other than physical. The Sanscrit language was discovered.... have been not rigid enough and yet too rigid. They have been too rigid in not allowing for the flexibility of mind movements. They have sought for the same invariable sequence which we observe in the physical world and admitted a law only where such sequence seemed to occur. The laws of physical formation follow a fixed line and their variations even are after a fixed fashion. But with the growth of life... been far less notable than in the pure physical domain. Mind brings with [it] a still freer play, a still more elusive principle and flexible application. A general law always obtains, but the application, the particular processes vary more subtly and are more numerous.Science, not taking into account this law of increasing freedom, has in the domain of mind accomplished little or nothing.When we deal ...
... is restored. It has to be restored in the trikaldrishti in an enlarged movement. Sudden & strong attack of the old kind of Asamata, leaving vibrations behind in the outer parts of the physical heart & mind.— The day has been for the most part dull and inactive. This inactivity is a preparation for a greater passivity of the instrument and a more intense normality of the tertiary dasya &... References point both to the idea of the continual progression in the Yoga, not stopping short with an imperfect result. Lipi 1) telos trikaldrishti tapassiddhi. The physical passivity is now complete; that of the mind & heart must follow. Samadhi Jagrat Antardrishta 1) Stable developed forms (books, reel) 2) Human group. Swapna Activity of organised drishti.. (not... the opposition. It increases close about & within the adhara bringing with it the Ananda; it is becoming more & more illuminated in the physical consciousness which increases in peace & joy. Page 802 It is applying itself unperceived to the minds of all and overcoming the opposition of the littleness, besieging the mentality of the world with the Truth. All this is justified by ...
... scientists who say or used to say there is no such thing as mind or thought independent of the physical brain. Mind and thought are only names for brain quiverings. Or that there is no such thing as vital Force because all the movements of life depend upon chemicals, glands and what not. These things and the germs also are only a minor physical instrumentation for something supraphysical. Or do the... dangerous at all, there are others that are physical. But the description is necessary in order to distinguish. He says he can't read or write. Lies down quietly for a time, but all on a sudden the thing descends and produces the sensation. Fears if something may happen at night. The difficulty is that he has got the fear and the association in his mind of the descent with the disturbance. ... a genius, though it would agree with the immortal theory ,of Lombroso that genius is madness or at least always tied to abnormality and mental and physical unsoundness. It may have been the result of our constant pouring of force into him to keep his mind bright and coherent and clear. His touchiness seems to have come from an inferiority complex, the cause of all his trouble. Don't believe ...
... potential faculties. Page 484 A good pupil realizes that both body and mind should be developed vigorously and rigorously. He discovers that the qualities needed in physical education contribute a great deal to the development of an integrated personality. For example, the sporting spirit, valued most in physical education, includes good humour and tolerance and consideration for all, a right... the practice under the guidance of a guru. It is important that they realize the following important truths : *That there is something in life besides the body and physical objects. *That happiness is more a state of mind than the state of our bank balance. Page 405 * That whether we are happy or unhappy is largely in our own hands. * That life is a journey with a well-defined... The students are led to examine how they keep the plate balanced, to see what state of mind or heart influences the activity. In the course of the activity they will naturally explore the roles of breathing and concentration Page 417 and relaxation; they will become acquainted with their own physical structure and its inter-relation with gravity, and they may become aware of tensions or ...
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