... ess of someone . Who or what is conscious in us? Where is the center, the master? Are we merely the puppets of some universal Being, who is our true center, since all the mental, vital and physical activities Page 77 are in fact universal ones? The truth is twofold, but in no way are we puppets, except when we insist on mistaking the frontal being for our self, for it is a puppet. We... psychic Master that carries its memories from one life to another, and on the degree of our psychic development. If our psychic has remained buried all our life beneath our mental, vital, and physical activities, it has no memories whatsoever to take with it; it returns to earth again and again, in order precisely to break out on the surface of our being and to become openly conscious. To remember, we... particular point – from cold, hunger, pain, etc. Secondly, an independence from the senses: since the consciousness-force is now released from its immediate absorption in our mental, vital and physical activities, it can extend beyond the bodily frame and, through a kind of inner projection, contact things, beings, and events at a distance. Generally, we have to be in a state of sleep or hypnosis to be ...
... in it; and perhaps this is the most effective way of all but also the most difficult. For most aspirants the way of meditation, concentration, withdrawal from physical life, rejection of physical activities is certainly easier than the way of action. But they leave the physical consciousness just as it is, without ever changing it, and unless one becomes like a sadhu or an ascetic who leaves behind... Sri Aurobindo has recommended as the most direct and most total way is surrender to the Divine—a surrender made more and more integral, progressively, comprising the physical consciousness and physical activities. And if one succeeds in this, then the physical, instead of being an obstacle, becomes a help. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 19 September 1956 ...
... in it; and perhaps this is the most effective way of all but also the most difficult. For most aspirants the way of meditation, concentration, withdrawal from physical life, rejection of physical activities is certainly easier than the way of action. But they leave the physical consciousness just as it is, without ever changing it, and unless one becomes like a sadhu or an ascetic who leaves behind... Sri Aurobindo has recommended as the most direct and most total way is surrender to the Divine—a surrender made more and more integral, progressively, comprising the physical consciousness and physical activities. And if one succeeds in this, then the physical, instead of being an obstacle, becomes a help. What does this sentence mean: "Look life in the face from the soul's inner strength and become ...
... people who completely lack control over their physical being. And to realise the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo the control of one's body is a first indispensable step. Those who despise physical activities are people who won't be able to take a single step on the true path of integral yoga, unless they first get rid of their contempt. Control of the body in all its forms is an indispensable basis... so-called grandeur look down on material things, but one who is not master in his own home is a slave. ( Silence ) No questions over there? No? Mother, one of the problems that arises in physical activities is that in order to be perfect at one game or one particular activity, one needs to concentrate only on that game or activity. That is quite wrong. In the very first issue of the Bulletin ...
... late afternoon and evening hours with those who took part in the physical activities. She herself played tennis regularly and those of us who played with her could see that in her younger days she must have had the makings of a champion. The sadhaks and the sadhikas too were encouraged in every way to take part in these physical activities. At first there was some resistance but soon most of us were ...
... unchangeable making transformation impossible. This is because the human body even at its best seems only to be driven by an energy of life which has its own limits and is debased in its smaller physical activities by much that is petty or coarse or evil; the body in itself is burdened with the inertia and inconscience of Matter, only partly awake and, although quickened and animated by a nervous activity ...
... diversion in this connection. Sisir-da, our late Headmaster, did the same. He too came and spent the H-Group “Marching time” in the Playground. Like Bihari-da he too was not very interested in physical activities. Unlike Bihari-da he had old comrades with whom he could, and did, indulge in some conversation. I asked why he came. He replied “Nolinibabu bolechhen ashte.” (Nolini-babu has told me to come ...
... Rajangam (and maybe with others). So he returned, armed with a tennis racket to redeem a part of himself. Rajangam and some others like Anilbaran, Bansidhar, Madanlal of D.R., etc. took to some physical activities with unexpected zeal. Rajangam specialised in two items — Mass Exercises and Tennis. The Mass Exercises for the 2nd December Demonstration. The Mass Exercises was, and hopefully will remain, ...
... kindled and when it mounts to heaven a new transformation takes place in the person as much in the soul of the aspirant. The darkness of Nature is left behind and thought and feeling and the physical activities become suddenly spirit-charged; occult invisible domains of light and force open out. The deathless Flame aspires to reach "the Being's absolutes." In a veiled Nature's hallowed secrecies ...
... sprout up at any moment. Letters on Yoga, pp. 354-55 The subconscient is a concealed and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below all our conscious physical Page 34 activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body-consciousness and ...
... its “integral affirmation,” is that all is That. “Brahman is the Alpha and the Omega. Brahman is the One besides whom there is nothing else existent.” 15 “All action, all mental, vital, physical activities in the world are the operation of a universal Energy, a Consciousness-Force which is the power of the Cosmic Spirit working out the cosmic and individual truth in things.” Therefore “in reality ...
... conscious participation in the action of universal Nature, is a marked character, it is indeed a logical consequence, of the evolutionary principle and process. All action, all mental, vital, physical activities in the world are the operation of a universal Energy, a Consciousness-Force which is the power of the Cosmic Spirit working out the cosmic and individual truth of things. But since this creative ...
... knowledge. The state of knowledge, the consciousness other than this temporal that we must attain is Nirvana, an extinction of ego, a cessation of all mental, vital Page 287 and physical activities, of all activities whatsoever, a supreme illumined quiescence, the pure bliss of an impersonal tranquillity self-absorbed and ineffable. The means are meditation, a concentration excluding all ...
... movements and workings of the universe. This universal Power is apparent to us first on the lower levels of existence as a mental, vital and material cosmic energy of which all our mental, vital and physical activities are the operations. It is necessary for our sadhana that we should thoroughly realise this truth in order to escape from the pressure of the limiting ego view and universalise ourselves even ...
... through which the Spirit blows but which is laid aside after the tune is over or it may be an active power having some say even in the surface Page 110 mental composition and vital and physical activities of the total composite creature. In that general possibility there is room for a hundred degrees and variations and no rule can be laid down that covers all possible or actual cases. 7 November ...
... supramental life in the material world. But, as Sri Aurobindo says, before this can be done, it is good to utilise all that we have in order to increase and make more exact the control of physical activities. It is very obvious that those who practise physical culture scientifically and with coordination acquire a control over their bodies that's unimaginable for ordinary people. When the Russian ...
... very slow poisons taken by people (they think, with impunity, because the effect is so slow that they cannot discern it easily), but if one wants to succeed in becoming entirely master of one's physical activities and capable of putting the light into the reflexes of one's body, then one must abstain from these things—but not for moral reasons: for altogether practical reasons, from the point of view of ...
... Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Subconscient and the Inconscient The subconscient is a concealed and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below all our conscious physical activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body consciousness and things come up ...
... be able to develop our body in every possible way and thus become ready to participate in the great work of integral transformation. We have been teaching games, sports and all sorts of physical activities for several years, but we find that most of our students cannot grasp the fundamental spirit. They are usually distracted by amusement, excitement, impulsive moods and all kinds of likes and ...
... a superhuman body capable of expressing a being higher than man. And this certainly cannot happen if Page 336 we neglect it. It is by an enlightened physical culture and by using physical activities―the activities of the body―not for little personal needs and satisfactions, but to make the body more capable of expressing a higher beauty and consciousness. And for that, physical education ...
... presence in work, studies and sports. Once I had some pain in my stomach and I went to our doctor Nripenda and after examining me he told me that I have hernia and I must immediately stop all physical activities like football, volley ball, badminton, etc. So, at that age, I was very depressed and I went and informed Mother all that the doctor had told me. Mother smiled and told me not to be discouraged ...
... unchangeable making transformation impossible. This is because the human body even at its best seems only to be driven by an energy of life which has its own limits and is debased in its smaller physical activities by much that is petty or coarse or evil, the body in itself is burdened with the inertia and inconscience of Matter, only partly awake and, although quickened and animated by a nervous activity ...
... dangers, in whatever situation of life you are, He is sure to come to you, either visibly or invisibly . It is not only in spiritual life that He helps, remember that. Even in your physical activities, in games, in sports, in studies, He is there to help you. As I told you just now, in my poetry, in my art, in my writing, all the time, that help is there. Try it, make an experiment, you'll ...
... in pictures at least, a big tummy, and it is, they believe, the store-house of vital strength. This does not mean that r advise you to develop a big paunch, on the contrary. However, even in physical activities, more than the mere physical strength, the vital strength is necessary. Yes, the Japanese have a vital, strong, controlled, ordered, sensitive. You may remember one or two Prayers of the Mother ...
... physical lies the subtle physical, behind which again is the vital physical and then the various grades of the vital. Indeed the vital or life energy as a whole is the real dynamism of all our physical activities and if it usually acts through its bodily instruments, it can act independently of them too; normally, too, it often acts in this way, only we are not conscious or observant enough to notice ...
... physical lies the subtle physical, behind which again is the vital physical and then the various grades of the vital. Indeed the vital or life energy as a whole is the real dynamism of all our physical activities and if it usually acts through its bodily instruments, it can act independently of them too; normally too it often acts in this way, Page 45 only we are not conscious or observant ...
... Beyond and hold both together in one consciousness. The process is somewhat like this: you withdraw the consciousness from the world outside and turn inward; you withdraw even from your own physical activities and physical perceptions; you withdraw further in this way step by step through all the grades of life movements and mental movements, go deep inward and high upward till you reach the highest ...
... looking for some work after your heart. It will not be possible for you to find the work of your choice until inner attitude changes. I don't mean that you must for good remain tied to the same physical activities as at present. What I mean is that to change work, to change the surroundings is not the one thing needful. Of course, these things may serve some purpose and may be useful to some extent, but ...
... 146 ( The following three pieces were also written originally in English) The following qualities are essential for good performance in all the different branches of physical activities. 1. Good technique 2. Physical strength 3. Endurance 4. Improvement of those parts of the body that are lagging behind the others in strength, shape and development ...
... liberated Mother. It is this that inspired me to have Mother sit in the Playground in front of the map of India while we marched past her to the accompaniment of the band or did other types of physical activities. On Tejen-da's encouragement and active initiation we made up the map on the Play ground wall first with small leaves and then with cement. Before we started working with cement Mother drew ...
... Trying to show off before the Mother! * The marching went on for a few days. Then some new work came up before the Mother. Things happened successively after a few days’ interval. Now physical activities started in a regular way at the Playground in the evenings. There were also various cultural activities like dance and music in between. The Mother was present in all of these. We just followed ...
... Once the activities in the physical education department took a more organised form, Mother decided to introduce Group uniforms since children often appeared for sports in clothes unsuited for physical activities. The Group uniforms were of different colours for different Groups. Khaki shirt and shorts were assigned to all the captains. The colour of the uniform for Group A was green. It was in 1949 ...
... able to develop our bodies in every possible way and thus become ready to participate in the great work of integral transformation. We have been teaching games, sports and all sorts of physical activities for several years, but we find that most of our students cannot catch the fundamental spirit. They are usually distracted by amusement, excitement, impulsive moods and all kinds of likes and ...
... out of the ethereal heavens into the earth. Yet these were not merely symbols. The Vedic Mystics held, it is clear, a close connection and effective parallelism to exist between psychical and physical activities, between the action of Light, for instance, and the phenomena of mental illumination; fire Page 223 was to them at once the luminous divine energy, the Seer-Will of the universal ...
... life of licence and unrule. On the contrary, you submit here to a rule which is much more severe than all social rules, for it does not tolerate any hypocrisy, it demands perfect sincerity. All physical activities should be organised in such a way as to make the body grow in balance and strength and beauty. With this end in view oue must abstain from all pleasure seeking, including the sexual pleasure ...
... must become a superhuman body capable of expressing a being higher than man, and this certainly cannot happen if we neglect it: this can be by an enlightened physical education and by using physical activities—the activities of the body—not for little personal needs and satisfactions, but to make the body more capable of expressing a higher beauty and consciousness. And for that, physical education ...
... I believe I have already explained this to you once. If it were a question of leading what till today was considered the true spiritual life, that is, of giving up altogether all physical Page 365 activities in order to unite with the supreme divine Reality and remain in this union, of leaving life and all outer expression and going away into Nirvana, into an identity which not only will ...
... different from what you were, with a peace, a certitude, an inner calm, an unchanging force, something which never gives way Source Control of the Body Those who despise physical activities are people who won't be able to take a single step on the true path of integral yoga, unless they first get rid of their contempt. Control of the body in all its forms is an indispensable basis ...
... making transformation impossible. This is because the human body even at its best seems only to be driven by an energy of life which has its own limits and is debased in its smaller physical activities by much that is petty or coarse or evil, the body in itself is burdened with the inertia and inconscience of Matter, only partly awake and, although quickened and animated by a nervous activity ...
... interest in the development of the Physical Education Department and helped to shape its programme. For years she spent her late afternoon and evening hours with those who took part in the various physical activities. Page 255 Youth Youth does not depend on the small number of years one has lived, but on the capacity to grow and progress. To grow is to increase one's pot ...
... favourite occupation, that is, games, sports and physical exercises. I was also doing well as a coach. Many of my students were showing wonderful results in different events of games, sports and physical activities. Seeing my success as a teacher of physical education and because I liked games and sports so much that I did not want to lose touch with them, I thought of taking up this teaching as my life's ...
... occupying there the vitalised mind consciousness which is man's present centre of activity & bringing into it the mightier bliss of the rapturous middle world to support & enlarge even the vital and physical activities & enjoyments of our earthly existence. He sits there in the human sacrifice, full of eternal youth and vigour, yuvá, in possession of the ideal truth & knowledge, in possession of the unerring ...
... are in consonance with what we are to be or not preventive of it at least. The subconscient is a concealed and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below all our conscious physical activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body consciousness and things come up ...
... proportion as the soul becomes again the knower, it gets the capacity of becoming also the controller of the action whether by spiritual force alone or by that force figuring itself in mental and physical activities. There may be in our soul life a perfect spiritual knowledge and understanding Page 433 not only of all our internal activities but of all the unrolling of things, events, human, ...
... December till the 2nd of December the following year, the day of Demonstration at Sports Ground. It (the Mass Exercises) was at once a challenge, a mantra, a ritual that guided and shadowed his physical activities in the evenings. Bhola-da himself quickly learned the 16 or so figures of Mass Exercises. He had to , for he had a small band of shishyas (disciples) waiting to learn from him. One is tempted ...
... “Mother, Mother, give a net for mosquitoes — else I’ll burn my little toes!” The Mother gave him a large blue net. He was so glad! He showed it off to whomsoever he met. I mentioned that Dara’s physical activities were near non-existent. But it appears he did tend to some plants — watering them with cans, carried to and fro from a tank — no pump, no hose, — that too, he, a large man, on a pair of “khadams” ...
... impending cultural changes and political action.” 653 All depends on what one considers the “fantasies” which can achieve a causal status to be. One might legitimately ask if, excepting the physical activities of Nature, there has been and is anything else but “fantasies” determining the acts of humans. What, in the present times, is not recognised as “scientific fact” may be classified as “fantasy” ...
... life of licence and unrule. On the contrary, you submit here to a rule which is much more severe than all social rules, for it does not tolerate any hypocrisy, it demands perfect sincerity. All physical activities should be organized in such a way as to make the body grow in balance and strength and beauty. With this end in view one must abstain from all pleasure-seeking, including the sexual pleasure ...
... The subconscient is throwing its dirt on many parts of the being. Is it because a detachment from the mind itself is necessary that the difficulty seems greater than that of vital and physical activities? Certainly, without detachment from the mind that movement would be difficult to get rid of. The outer parts of my being that were protesting and resisting all ...
... Force acting within it. Even the external consciousness can work separately under the motion of the Force while the rest of the consciousness is in concentration. During all my physical activities, there is probably a quietness but not the same inner contact or experience as during meditation. That comes with more difficulty in the outer activity than in the inward concentration ...
... in pictures at least), a big tummy, and it is, they believe, the storehouse of vital strength. This does not mean that I advise you to develop a big paunch, on the contrary. However, even in physical activities, more than mere physical strength, vital strength is necessary. Yes, the Japanese have a vital that is strong, controlled, ordered, sensitive. You may remember one or two prayers of the ...
... stupendous task, some would say impossible; but it is very far removed from quietism or passivism. Sri Aurobindo is in retirement, but it is a retirement only from the outward field of present physical activities and their apparent actualities, not from the true forces and action of life. It is the retreat necessary to one who has to go back into himself to conquer a new plane of creative power ...
... physical consciousness may be centred anywhere. The fact that it is in connection with the throat centre is a common one. It is the centre of speech and of formulation and most of the vital and physical activities are connected there. I see the difference. From mulddhara the force proceeds downwards towards the legs and feet or permeates the whole physical consciousness. But the centre of consciousness ...
... stupendous task, some would say impossible; but it is very far removed from quietism or passivism. Sri Aurobindo is in retirement, but it is a retirement only from the outward field of present physical activities and their apparent actualities, not from the true forces and action of life. It is the retreat necessary to one who has to go back into himself to conquer a new plane of creative power, – an ...
... inertia and inconscience, and each cell will then imbibe the higher light. It is good to utilise the qualities Page 34 we have in order to increase and make more exact the control of physical activities. It is very obvious that those who practise physical culture scientifically and with coordination acquire a control over their bodies that's unimaginable for ordinary people." Udita said, ...
... Beyond and hold both together in one consciousness. The process is some-what like this: you withdraw the consciousness from the world outside and turn inward; you withdraw even from your own physical activities and physical perceptions; you with-draw further in this way step by step through all the grades of life movements and mental movements, go deep inward and high upward till you reach the highest ...
... What I Have Learnt From The Mother Essential Qualities The following qualities are essential for good performance in all the different branches of physical activities. 1.Good technique 2.Physical strength 3.Endurance 4.Improvement of those parts of the body that are lagging behind the others in strength, shape and development 5.Physical ...
... become another person when I see these scenes. Not mad exactly... but I become someone else! As if I was no more in this present existence. The other day, this happened to me in the middle of my physical activities in the Sports-ground. I had to tell the captain and leave the ground and sit out for a while. The captain and some other girls began wondering what had happened to me. I could not tell them anything ...
... the beginning and at the end of every physical education lesson. for a few moments, and the same should be done before the class disperses. “Safety first” should be the watch-word for all physical activities. ...
... limitations, all that veils our knowledge and obscures our understanding. I am athirst for Thy consciousness, I am athirst for an integral union with Thee, not in inaction and a flight from physical activity but in a complete, absolute, perfect accomplishment of Thy will. The splendour of Thy supreme light must spring forth from all the darkness that has swept down upon the earth. Page 220 ...
... Ji and Vishnu Ji joined the physical education activities and started teaching grown up girls and boys, skills like Lathi, Lakadi patta, Lezium, and other Indian sports in which they were experts. They had started many youth clubs (akhadas) in Gujarat. In fact, our Ambubhai Purani Ji and his elder brother, Chhotu Bhai Purani, are still recognised as the pioneers of physical education in Gujarat of the... discipline. They would also be responsible for the apparatus: to fetch whatever apparatus was required for that day and at the end of the physical education lesson, put everything back exactly where it belonged. This leadership training was part of our physical education activity right from the beginning. By 1948, we were probably about 20 to 25 children in Group B, and a slightly lesser number in Group A.... the 20th century. Everyone enjoyed themselves, no matter what kind of physical activity was being taught, whether it was games, drills, Boxing, Lathi or free play. Gradually things started taking an organised shape and we were divided into different age Groups. The youngest, Group A consisted of children up to ten years of age; then we had Group B, for boys and girls probably between ten to twelve ...
... trifles. Physical activity, 4½ hours in the morning, 1½ hours in the afternoon & from 5 to 11.30 with half an hour's interval in the evening & night, 12 hours in all. The violent insistence of defect of anima became ineffective in the last period, but is still present in a modified form on the morning of the 20th. Sleep 6 hours. 20 December 1912 Ph. Act. [Physical Activity] 6 to 7.15 am... work & equipment. Physical [activity]. 6.12 to 12.12, 1 to 4 [p.m.] 14 ([Written] Dec 23) Afterwards the trikaldrishti resumed suddenly a normal continuous action, which as far as could be tested in a great number of minute instances was perfectly & invariably accurate so far as it went. Thought & lipi have also resumed their activities. Proof of the successful activity of the Will outside... advance in samadhi. Physical activity for twelve hours, four hours in the morning (1 + 3), two & three-quarters in the afternoon, the rest in the evening & night (5.15 pm to 9 & 9.20 to 11). There was no reaction to speak of in the morning & the fatigue that occasionally came was always easily thrown off. Kama Ananda is resisted, but tends to become the atmosphere of the physical experiences. 12 ...
... will on whatever subject or activity one chooses from the most spiritual to the most material, without losing anything of the fullness of the power,—for instance, in the physical field, transferring the use of the power from one game to another or one activity to another so as to succeed equally in all. This extreme attention concentrated on a game or a physical activity like lifting, vaulting, punching... especially interested in a game or an activity and its happening escapes all control, decision or will. Yet by a proper training of concentrated attention one can obtain the phenomenon at will, on command, so to say, and the resulting perfection in the execution of any activity follows inevitably. This is exactly what we want to try in our Department of Physical Education. By this process the result... Messages, Letters and Conversations Messages, Letters and Conversations Sri Aurobindo Ashram Department of Physical Education On Education Concentration and Dispersion In sporting activities those who want to be successful choose a certain line or subject which appeals more to them and suits their nature; they concentrate on their choice and take great ...
... infusing that Power I feet, that Force, that Truth into everyday physical activity. I find it quite difficult.... Yet when I stop all activity, the contact is instantly made, and very powerful and REAL it is, but the minute I go back to being active, everything recedes into the background. Aah!... Personally I am not engaged in activity. Matter seems to feel it as something imposed, not coming... .. (it's an "almost" which sometimes is beyond almost, you understand: the extreme limit of "almost") almost as well with my eyes closed as with my eyes open. See, really SEE ( Mother touches her physical eyes ). When I have difficulty writing, for example, instead of peering and straining, I shut my eyes. And then... I see. And the same for everything, for all the senses. To swallow food, if I ...
... truth that has come forward in our consciousness, make it real on the physical plane, embody it in our external activity: in other words whatever you do you do the truth, whatever you speak you speak the truth; the Truth first appears in your mind, in your mental consciousness, then it realises itself in your physical activity. Number seven has a special meaning. The number seven gives the scheme ...
... recognize the exceptional. This disbelief is the bedrock of the consciousness. And it comes Page 491 with a ... ('thought' is too big a word for such an ordinary thing) a mental-physical activity which makes you... (I am forced to use the word) 'think' things and which always foresees, imagines or draws conclusions (depending on the case) in a way which I myself call DEFEATIST. In other... other words, it automatically leads you to imagine all the bad things that can happen. And this occurs in a realm which is absolutely run-of-the-mill, in the most ordinary, restricted, banal activities of life—such as eating, moving... in short, the coarsest of things. It's fairly easy to manage and control this in the realm of thought, but when it comes to those reactions that rise up from the very... last days, I was face to face with a problem as old as the world which had taken on an extraordinary intensity. It's what Sri Aurobindo calls disbelief , and it's located in the most material physical consciousness—it isn't doubt (which mainly belongs to the mind), it is almost like a refusal to accept the obvious as soon as it doesn't belong to the little daily routine of ordinary sensations and ...
... Mother’s Responses To infer anything from Mother's apparent behaviour often turns out to be quite contrary to the truth. For instance when physical education activities such as marching, drills and exercises were started in the Playground, those who wanted to participate had to give their names to Mother. One sadhak who had given his name went and met her ...
... attention on the physical activity one is doing, it automatically stops all mental activity and this increases the efficiency of the body. This is true provided the concentration is total which is rather rare. Blessings. 2 June 1949 ( A captain, who had begun teaching athletics to a group of children ten to eleven years of age, asked Mother if he should make a plan of activities. She replied:... in my right knee and thrice I have recovered from it. Ma, grant that I may not be injured once again and miss my group activities. Be more conscious and you will no more be injured. 8 July 1968 Mother, I have seen that I am not able to force my physical body to do a little better than my actual capacity. I would like to know how I can force it. But, Mother, is it good to force... Messages, Letters and Conversations Messages, Letters and Conversations Sri Aurobindo Ashram Department of Physical Education On Education General Messages and Letters Become Master of your body—this will lead you to Freedom. Physical culture is the best way of developing the consciousness of the body, and the more the body is conscious, the more ...
... write out the lessons in a notebook everyday and Usha and I would teach the Group. He would stand near by to watch and correct us when necessary. Around 1947, when we were all pursuing physical education activities very enthusiastically, Pranab Da wanted us to learn to march smartly. The Mother contacted the governor of Pondicherry who then sent us a French Military officer to teach us marching. Naturally... captain. This small gesture of recognition has remained with me for the rest of my life and I am always alert when things are not taken care of or when they are out of place. Activities were getting more organised in the physical education department and facilities were being expanded. The body building Gym had already started in a small way. The Tennis Courts, the Basketball and Volleyball Courts, the... for playing Tennis. Pranab Da was always Mother’s partner during the Mother’s game of Tennis. Since She played from 4:30 p.m. which was also the physical education time of Group A, Usha and I were again left completely to ourselves for conducting the activities of the youngest Group. Our training as captains comprised mostly of selfdiscipline. We had to come punctually ten or fifteen minutes before ...
... of all physical activity due to the absence of the energy source, or soul." "The actual fact of death makes me think of an experience in which one is projected with increasing force into space." Mother wrote to the class:) I read what you sent with interest. And here is my reply: Death is the phenomenon of decentralisation and dispersion of the cells which make up the physical body.... 5 June 1968 Page 342 When the will of the physical being abdicates without reason, is it without any physical reason or without any reason at all? The physical consciousness is conscious only physically; the will of the physical being can abdicate without any reason of which it is aware. What causes the physical being's disgust with continuing the effort of coordination and... the physical being? Mankind, nearly all of mankind, is conscious only of the physical being. With education, the number of men who are conscious of their vital and mind is increasing. As for the human beings who are conscious of their psychic being, they are relatively few. If you mean, "How does one awaken the consciousness of the physical being?", that is precisely the aim of physical education ...
... Peace and purity may come from the psychic also. How is one to remain quiet within even while carrying on all kinds of activities? By having a separate consciousness calm and silent within, separate from the mental, vital or physical activity. You have spoken of "a separate consciousness calm and silent." Is not that the Purusha consciousness? Page... may be if the physical being feels the pressure for quietude but turns it into mere inactivity — but that cannot be called exactly a descent — at least not a complete one, since the physical does not share in it. The Peace is not of the nature of inertia, but the inertia of tamas is a degradation of peace or rest as rajas is a degradation of divine Force. So when the physical is invited to... by noon-time my being gets tired, so I give it rest for a quiet assimilation. It is so difficult to keep up the intense state all the time. It is often like that — the period of intense activity is limited to a particular part of the day and then the rest of the time there is a lull. Your deeper experiences are only just beginning — these ups and downs are common at that period ...
... first, a series of activities or visions (but those visions are always activities at the same time: both activities and visions) in the subconscious domain, showing in a very living and objective way the Falsehood that has to be removed (transformed or removed). At first, I took them as adverse attacks, but now I see they are "states of falsehood" to which certain elements in the physical being are linked... something I left unsaid: an urgent need to cease all material activity in order to enable the body to receive fully—as fully as possible—the divine Force that will replace what has been removed. There is something absolute about that need: to stay totally still, quiet, letting the Force descend—permeate the body, rather. All physical activity must be suspended in some way, and if the material organization... solid, that it was even putting on weight (!), which is almost abnormal. Then, I had a first vision (not vision: an activity, but very clear), then another, and then a third. Last night, I was fed a subtle food, as if to tell me that I would need it because I wouldn't take any physical food 2 (not that I thought about it, I simply noticed I had been fed, given certain foods). And with the visions ...
... in the same place where we have the map of undivided India. One by one, the groups would file past Her. This action had a profound and deep significance. She also supervised the other physical education activities. The Mother has explained what she tried to do during the March Past. She says: "...the March Past ...is... a way of opening oneself to the energy, the universal energy, to prepare... realisation. It is based upon something which is expressed in all kinds of ways; but it is a kind of admiration... a spontaneous and also charming admiration for heroism, which is in the most material physical consciousness." ( CWM , Vol. 7, p. 259) After the exercises all the groups would stand in attention, in a formation around the Mother who stood in front of the map. This was the 'conc ...
... faith in the divine Grace? It can be in the physical, it can be in the vital, it can be in the psychic, and it can be in this part or that, or this activity or that other. There are people, for example, who have absolutely a kind of mental realisation of contact with the Grace, of faith in the Grace; and then, as soon as they are in their vital or physical consciousness, there is nothing any more. There... divine Grace? Yes. Yes! Good, that's already good. And where then, in which part of your being? Is it in your thought, is it in your feelings, is it in your sensations, is it in your physical activity? If it is everywhere at the same time, you are perfect beings, and I congratulate you. Sensations. Sensations? You have a sensation of this? Then you are a very rare person! ( Laughter... April April Questions and Answers (1955) 6 April 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 5, "Physical Consciousness, etc.". What is this psychoanalysis of Freud, Sweet Mother? Ah, my child, it is something that was in vogue, very much in vogue at the beginning of the century... no, in the middle of the century! ( Mother ...
... entire potential energy. 6 It is the completely varied all-ensphering, all-energising mental illumination with its full perfection of being, power, bliss, knowledge, mentality, vital force, physical activity that he desires. For, this attained, the subconscient is compelled to yield up all its hidden possibilities at the will of the perfected mind for the rich and abundant movement of the perfected... hands the seven natural activities corresponding to the seven principles. "Triply bound"—bound in the mind, bound in the life-energies, bound in the body—"the Bull roars aloud; great is the Divinity that has entered into mortals." For the "ghritam", the clear light of the mentality reflecting the Truth, has been hidden by the Panis, the lords of the lower sense-activity, and shut up in the subconscient;... the ancient Mystics life was considered to be a great force pervading all material existence and the condition of all its activities. It is this idea that was formulated later on in the conception of the Prana, the universal breath of life. All the vital and nervous activities of the human being fall within the definition of Prana, and belong to the domain of Vayu. Yet this great deity has comparatively ...
... in which one is thrust into space and soars up." Amusing! I found it very amusing. She is the only one, besides, the others are quite practical. 1 Dilip: "A cessation of all physical activity caused by the absence of a source of energy (or soul)." Page 132 It's not clear.... The other two are quite practical (!) Anand: "When the brain stops functioning and the... I'll tell them this ( Mother reads with difficulty ): "Death is the phenomenon of decentralization and scattering of the cells making up the physical body. "Consciousness is, in its very nature, immortal, and in order to manifest in the physical world, it clothes itself in material forms that are durable to a greater or lesser degree. "The material substance is in process of transformation... note again ). You see, in my state of consciousness, I would have said (as the nearest approximation to the thing): "Consciousness is, in its very nature, immortal, and in order to manifest in the physical world, it CONDENSES into material forms, etc. And there came insistently, "No, CLOTHES ITSELF in forms." But my spontaneous impulse was to say "condenses into forms," because I saw that movement: ...
... or complete quiescence of Prana brings with it the partial or complete quiescence of physical activity, the resumption of its functions by Prana is inevitably attended by Page 253 the resumption of physical activity. The second outstanding fact is the peculiar effect of Pranayam and Yoga on mental activity. The first condition of Yogic exercises is, as has been said, the stillness of the... found in the habit of gathering Prana or vitality into the mind-organ. Ordinarily the psychical life is overlaid and hampered by the physical life, the activity of Prana in the physical body. As soon as this activity becomes even partially quiescent, the gross physical obstruction of Anna and Prana is rarefied and mind becomes more self-luminous, shining out through the clouds that concealed it; vital... operate with perfect freedom and detachment from physical matter. Here again we see that just as Prana, differentiated and working physically, was the basis of all physical activity, so Prana, intermediate and working psycho-physically, is at the basis of all mental activity, and Prana, pure and working psychically is at the basis of all psychical activity. The third outstanding fact of Yoga is that ...
... longer than building a physical bridge.... Very few people want to and know how to do it. They may have had magnificent activities, they do not remember them or sometimes only the last, the nearest, the most physical activity, with an uncoordinated movement—dreams having no sense. But there are as many different kinds of nights and sleep as there are different days and activities. There are not many... on between the subtle physical and the physical is established—very rarely is there no communication. Now, dreams are mostly forgotten because you have a dream while in a certain state and then pass into another. For instance, when you sleep, your body is asleep, your vital is asleep, but your mind is still active. So your mind begins to have dreams, that is, its activity is more or less coordinated... after death; all the rest is dissolved, goes to pieces, scattered here and there, the Page 32 individuality exists no longer. Now, how often in the physical life does the psychic being take part consciously in what the physical being does?... I am not speaking of people who do yoga and are a little disciplined; I am speaking of average people who have a psychic capacity in the sense that ...
... with the youngest children of the Ashram. During these years, She met them to teach French. It is interesting how these classes started. We, the captains of Group A who supervised the physical education activities of the children, of ages four to twelve, usually spoke to the children in English or ‘Ashram Hindi’. But sometimes we spoke in French, for that was not only the Mother’s native language... attitudes and always aiming towards progress and a higher aim of life. She has time and again shown us that by regularity and discipline one can achieve everything without disturbing the routine activities of the day. *It is quite interesting to note the date on which the Mother started classes for the Green group and the last date of the class. She started on 17th November 1950 (17th November was... organise things but also to take care of all material objects without wasting anything and to remain always conscious of the need to progress at all levels and at all times. Remaining close to Her physical presence for long periods daily, brought out spontaneously the best in our inner and outer beings. By the time She had finished four of these lessons in the children’s French class, the Mother ...
... sexual infirmities turn him towards aphrodisiacs or self-abuse, sense of sin converts him to church-going or charity. When none of these steps are taken nor any "sublimating" mental or physical activity initiated to pull him somewhat out of himself, there is a smouldering despair which renders him a pest or a drunkard or a listless melancholic or at the worst a suicide. Sometimes he develops... much greater which does not discard ethics but floods it with a more-than-human light. Even apart from my friend's case, I should opine that ethical endeavours by themselves are not the highest activity possible to a man who wants to do good to the world. If Prof. K were an atheist he might rank them above attempts at God-realisation, though of course he would be hard put to it to produce from... the Divine - except in the weak and watery way of popular religion. If God exists, to refuse to be mystically united with Him can be no less a shortcoming than to refuse a share in His world's activity. To say this is not to recommend entranced isolation; it is but to rectify the wrong emphasis laid by Prof. K on the world to the neglect of what is greater than the world. The balanced harmonious ...
... &, indeed, already active by which a part of the manas activity has detached itself to attend to the sensation of the ananda while the main energy is otherwise concerned. By this movement, which has yet to be perfected, the ananda has been enabled not only to possess, but to become sovereign of the body in both the states of physical activity and of mental abstraction; once this sovereignty is well... repeat the last fragments of the last ailments that Page 234 were left unexpelled when the final movement of the siddhi began. Always, therefore, it is an attempt to keep in activity the almost dead physical sanskaras, the grooves of imperfect movement to which the body was finally accustomed. 6 February 1913 These two days have been of an old type long discontinued, in which the siddhi... 1912-1920 Record of Yoga 1912-1920 Record of Yoga 1 - 14 February 1913 1 February 1913 Sat or Substance is now everywhere vyakta, Tapas is in activity, Ananda emergent, Vijnana in process of organisation. The first day of February has been outwardly a day of retardation, almost of relapse; for the trikaldrishti once more lapsed into a state of murky ...
... dictated by the inexorable "must" of physical effects from physical causes without the intervention of any "ought". There need have been no reasoning at all: the conclusions had to be what they are by a blind physical necessity, not a seeing logical obligation. So it is meaningless to speak of beliefs logically true arising from a brain-process or any material activity by itself. Mrs. Knight does... but that instructive analogies can still be drawn between them. "Towards the end of his letter Mr. Sethna says that 'truth... is absolutely irrelevant to... a brain-process or any other physical activity by itself.' If Mr. Sethna means by this that a brain-process cannot be true (or false), this statement is indisputable. But if he means that a brain-process cannot give rise to beliefs that... question is, there can be no talk about beliefs logically true or false. I am puzzled why Mrs. Knight has quoted me as saying truth...is absolutely irrelevant to...a brain-process or any other physical activity by itself." Quoted thus, I seem to supply the ground for a possible difference between saying that a brain-process cannot be true (or false) and saying that a "rain-process cannot give rise to ...
... remember, have not perceived, are not informed of anything else,—that we came into existence first by our physical birth into this life and shall cease to exist by the death of this body and the cessation of this brief physical activity. But while this is true of our physical mentality and physical vitality, our corporeal sheath, for they have been constituted at our birth and are dissolved by death,... motion, the mental awareness which we enjoy; if there is mind in it, it is mind involved and implicit in the body and in the physical life: there is no organised self-consciousness, but only a sense of action and reaction, movement, impulse and desire, need, necessary activities imposed by Nature, hunger, instinct, pain, insensibility and pleasure. Although thus inferior, it has this awareness obscure... mentality, so involved, bound, hampered, 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 ...
... played table tennis and when the tennis courts were ready in 1948, She started playing tennis. After playing, She would watch the various physical education activities. Sometime in 1949, the Mother extended the duration of Her stay in the Playground. After the activities were over, She would sit on a bench and watch Pranab (whom I began calling Dada) do his exercises. A very ordinary bench painted in green... From 1953, whatever She said was tape-recorded. Portions of Her talks were first published in the Bulletin of physical education and later as a series of books titled Questions and Answers . These Wednesday classes continued until December 1958 when the Mother stopped all Her activities at the playground. After December 1958, the Mother did not see us often, but whenever I went to see Her, She... accompanied the Mother wherever She went in the Playground sat on the floor at Her feet. I lived in “Dortoir”, a children’s boarding house adjacent to the Playground. As soon as the session of our physical education ended, I would run to the boarding house, take a shower, gulp down my dinner and return to the Playground. Timidly, I would stand behind the others and watch Dada’s training. I was not even ...
... features about it. The first thing to note is this. All those who take part in physical exercise are, no doubt, already familiar, or they have to get familiar, with the truth that relaxation is not merely an end-product of exercise, it has a place in. exercise itself. Let me explain. In all physical-culture activities and in every exercise, one has to pay particular attention to one thing, for success... call to plunge into the activities of our Playground. I was then perhaps the oldest among the inmates, and had long passed the fifty year limit once set by the ancients for repairing to the forest, pañcāśordhe vanam vrajet; I was in fact in my early sixties. For at least twenty years previous to that, we had been taking it rather easy and were doing very little physical work or exercise. That... not the faintest notion that one day I would develop into a regular athlete, that is to say, undergo all kinds of training and exercise. I told you once about the difference between the physical training activities here and the way we used to set about them in our. time. This is an age of science and those were the days of untrained skill. Let me illustrate from an experience I had in football. We ...
... originally arranged with a particular purpose in view. The students used to prepare themselves collectively for a many-sided cultural programme on the 1st December and a demonstration of physical education activities the very next day, on the 2nd. Almost all the students stayed back in the Ashram during this period and there was no interruption in their life-style. And then things began to change... herself held the reins. The students and the teachers, the parents and the guardians, all understood sufficiently well the aims and the mission of this unique Centre of Education. But after the Mother's physical withdrawal from the scene, a distinct change has come in on all fronts, slowly and imperceptibly at first but markedly and quite fast in recent years. Let us try to understand how this state of affairs ...
... power to arrive at what seems to us an absolute passivity or immobility of our consciousness in which we cease from all mental and physical activity. There seem, then, to be an active consciousness in which consciousness works as an energy throwing up knowledge and activity out of itself and of which therefore Tapas is the character, and a passive consciousness in which consciousness does not act as an... which is the sole thing that maintains their apparent stability. It is a concentration of Tapas in movement of force on the form maintaining it in being which sets up the physical basis of division. But all things in the activity are, we Page 600 have seen, a concentration of Tapas in movement of force upon its object. The origin of the Ignorance must then be sought for in some self-absorbed... all the cosmic activity and all its multiply concentrated movement,—and this could not be if, so long as any activity continued, the concentrated passivity did not exist supporting it and within it. Integral Brahman possesses both the passivity and the activity simultaneously and does not pass alternately from one to the other as from a sleep to a waking: it is only some partial activity in us which seems ...
... brother (Promesse) has started working in the Sports Ground at night along with some other boys. I do not know if this is all right for him after all the studies during the day and the physical education activities in the afternoon. He does not even take rest after lunch. He says he does not feel tired. Last night he returned from the Sports Ground at midnight, but he says that in future he will return... with it? I often dream of Narendra and usually these dreams are very vivid. Is it because there is a contact with him, or does it come from my subconscious? Most probably these are subconscious activities which have risen to the surface during your sleep. The psychic rest is inactive, by definition. But if you remember any of your dreams very exactly, you can tell me and I will see. Blessings ...
... normal physical nature's activity - a power to keep off disease and ward off death. The absolutely automatic immunity would come only with the total establishment of the Supermind in the body, the absolute transformation or supramentalisation of all bodily functions, but a capacity to sustain and prolong the body indefinitely could be there even before. Whatever signs of age and whatever physical ailments... to say the least, transcended the physical body-formula. Mystical experience brings to light several "sheaths" other than the physical. The Yogi is awake in them at the same time he lives in the latter, and he can at any moment put his body in a state of trance and move out in them. Death, in the common connotation, is to him merely a permanent leaving of the physical sheath so that, unconnected with... ultimate processes of physical Nature strains the understanding immensely. All this is really as it should be, for when we get down to the Page 152 infinitesimal or stretch our minds towards the infinite "we break out of the world to which we are generally accustomed. The pure mathematician may cope in his own way with the basic problems of the physical universe, but his way ...
... the last century the Mother introduced in Sri Aurobindo Ashram a full-fledged programme of physical education, ostensibly for the young school children but actually open to all the inmates of the Ashram, even to the veteran sadhakas and sadhikas of quite an advanced age. Sports and Physical education activities in Sri Aurobindo Ashram? What an anomaly! And Sri Aurobindo supporting the Mother in her new... victory which he has assigned to himself in the human creature.... The mental and physical sciences which examine into the laws and forms and processes of things, those which concern the life of men and animals, the social, political, linguistic and historical and those which seek to know and control the labours and activities by which man subdues and utilises his world and environment, and the noble and... explained patiently in letter after letter the genesis and the development of physical culture in the Ashram. He even wrote two long highly luminous articles on physical education and justified its appearance in his spiritual Ashram: These articles were published at that time in the Ashram Journal, Bulletin of Physical Education. Interested readers may look through these two articles and gain much ...
... call to plunge into the activities of our Playground. I was then perhaps the oldest among the inmates, and had long passed the fifty-year limit once set by the ancients for repairing to the forest, pañcāsordhe vanam vrajet; I was in fact in my early sixties. For at least twenty years previous to that, we had been taking it rather easy and were doing very little physical work or exercise. That... not the faintest notion that one day I would develop into a regular athlete, that is to say, undergo all kinds of training and exercise. I told you once about the difference between the physical training activities here and the way we used to set about them in our time. This is an age of science and those were the days of untrained skill. Let me illustrate from an experience I had in football. We... correctly in practice. But that is not what is now meant by "training". "Training" implies a special preparation of the body, making it apt for a special kind of activity. First of all, one has to acquire a general all-round physical fitness. Next, one has to find out which particular parts of the body and which of the muscles are specially called into action in any particular movement and these ...
... the Tennis Ground in 1948 and our physical education programme got widened. Mother started playing tennis every day. At 4 p.m. she came out from the Ashram main building to go for her tennis. Then she came to the Playground to see the physical education activities; attend to training and competitions; distribute roasted ground-nuts to all members of physical education; censor films before they... in 1986. Why was Comer House created? When I came here and started physical education work I felt that the three meals served from the Ashram Dining Room were all right for the grown-ups and sadhaks but they were not sufficient for the growing young children engaged in physical education activities. Mother supported my view. She once said that somebody must take interest and busy... to defend themselves should physical and moral dangers come from unexpected quarters. In what sort of sports activities did Mother participate? As far as I know, Mother played tennis and did cycling in her youth. She did a "tour de France" on her cycle. In her childhood she had done plenty of skipping, played croquet, took part in rhythmic activities and childhood games. Mother ...
... 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... [ 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... external objects and activities. What used to trouble you before was the vital mind which is different,—for that is always occupied with emotions, passions, desires, reactions of all kinds to the contacts of life and the behaviour of others. The physical mind also can be responsive to these things but in a different way—its nature is less that of desire than of habitual activity, small common interests ...
... categorically excluding everything that causes exhaustion and leads in the end to physical decline and disintegration. A physical culture which aims at building a body capable of serving as a fit instrument for a higher consciousness demands very austere habits: a great regularity in sleep, food, exercise and every activity. By a scrupulous study of one's own bodily needs—for they vary with each individual—a... can in the best possible way. The tapasya or discipline of beauty will lead us, through austerity in physical life, to freedom in action. Its basic programme will be to build a body that is beautiful in form, harmonious in posture, supple and agile in its movements, powerful in its activities and robust in its health and organic functioning. To achieve these results, it will be good, as a general... a calm and peaceful sleep comes the austerity of a day which is sensibly organised; its activities will be divided between the progressive and skilfully graded exercises required for the culture of the Page 52 body, and work of some kind or other. For both can and ought to form part of the physical tapasya. With regard to exercises, each one will choose the ones best suited to his body ...
... better world. (65) A long time back, some boys and girls requested me to speak about the Physical Education Department. I have included here the text of what I told them. Brothers, Sisters and Friends, Like many other activities of the Ashram, the organisation of Physical Education here, as you see it now in your daily routine, has had a long history of development behind it... as our present condition permits us, catering to an all-round physical perfection. 4. Our programme of Physical Education is conducted round the year, during all the three hundred and sixty five days in a year. 5. We offer boys and girls the same programme and facilities and do not stop the girls from participating in any activity simply because they are girls. A friend of mine once asked... Medicine and Research Section. There is another open terrace here for certain activities. In the year 1986 we took up the complete renovation of our swimming pool which we had been using since Page 280 Mother distributing groundnuts to Group members after their physical education activities on 23/24.4.50 Page 281 1957. After finishing this work we ...
... of its collective sadhana. On 2 December, the anniversary of the School, there was the usual physical demonstration at the Ashram Sports Ground. Physical education in the Ashram aimed, not at producing champions or providing recreational activities, but rather at training and perfecting the physical instrument so that the Truth Force might manifest itself through the body. The goal of the Yoga... endurance and skill are the quadruple marks of physical fitness, and to help its members to attain these was the aim of the Department. At the annual physical demonstration, it was possible for the members, the other Ashramites and the visitors to have a synoptic vision of the work of the Department and to infer the filiations between such activities and the Yoga of the transformation of human life... and the guarantee of its successful completion. Page 699 II Strange as it may appear, it was nevertheless during these months and years of the curtailment of her outer or physical activity that, as if compensating for this loss, the Mother's inspiration flowed in certain other directions in redoubled force. 'She had been doing Yoga since her childhood, and with her - as with ;Sri ...
... adesh-siddhi and has, even in this field, only a dull activity of reserve and caveat; for it is growing evident that something will be done through this yantra in the field of life, although the material equipment seems to be entirely lacking. It is this lack of material equipment which is the real obstacle to perfect faith; the slowness of the physical siddhi is only an accessory cause of hesitation and... successful. The rest of the day was passed in a struggle with the difficulties of the aishwaryam.. Kamananda impeded in the evening. Temporary diminution of dasya. Sleep 7 hours. Phy. act. [Physical activity] 9½ hours. The dreams remembered were confused in record, but intelligible. Image in swapnasamadhi is still afflicted. Page 179 4 January 1913 Work (nirukta) has emerged from... the V's [Viceroy's] wounds continues; foreseen. Peace negotiations at their critical stage. Most of the day spent in Nirukta. Some development of rupadrishti in the evening. P.A. [Physical Activity] nearly 9 hours. Sleep 7 hours. A little more force in the swapnasamadhi. Aishwarya entirely obstructed .. Trikaldrishti victorious in spite of opposition 5 January 1913 The persistence ...
... say to this? She kept quiet. The Mother started coming to the Playground from Because of the Mother’s presence all the groups were spontaneously organised. In the beginning our physical education activities were limited to the Playground and included volleyball and a few other games. Boys and girls had different time-schedules for sports. Sometimes it was the girls who played first and at other... acquired the Tennis-ground and the Volleyball-ground. From then on the sports activities were organised in these three grounds. In 1951 the Sports-ground came into existence. The Playground was in a pitiable state and so the boys had to dig up the entire area and clean it thoroughly to make it fit for sporting activities. The whole Playground was strewn with pieces of broken glass. This place was... called group C. Mona, Manoj, Harit and several others were in this group and Biren-da was their captain. Biren-da was a well-known boxer. He used to coach them in boxing, vaulting and many other activities. He would designate two captains for each month and their aim was to give proper instructions in sports to the group of boys. And in this way he always tried to inculcate discipline, order and r ...
... number of visitors on Darshan occasions doubled and trebled and quadrupled itself. Other developments during this period B1cluded the setting up of an up-to-date printing press, extension of physical culture activities, stating o f agricultural and dairy farms. All these happened despite various acute hardships due to the war. 1942 March 31 : British Government's... indicates the lines of India's future developments. 1949 February 2I: Publication under Mother's guidance the illustrated quarterly Bulletin of Physical Education, with a Message from Sri Aurobindo on Physical Education. In its subsequent issues appeared sever other message- articles on subjects like Supermind, Divine Body, Evolution. These eight articles... Sri Aurobindo's advice. Sri Aurobindo's assurance of the coming of India's freedom. 1926 November 24: The Day of Victory. 'The descent of Krishna into the physical.' Silent celebration by the then 24 inmates of the Ash- ram. The day became another Darshan Day. Sri Aurobindo went into complete seclusion leaving entire charge of the Ashram ...
... Mother, My brother has started working in the Sports Ground at night along with some other boys. I do not know if this is all right for him after all the studies during the day and the physical education activities in the afternoon. He does not even take rest after lunch. He says he does not feel tired. Last night he returned from the Sports Ground at midnight, but he says that in future he will return... contact with it? I often dream of X and usually these dreams are very vivid. Is it because there is a contact with him, or does it come from my subconscious? Most probably these are subconscious activities which have risen to the surface during your sleep. The psychic rest is inactive, by definition. But if you remember any of your dreams very exactly, you can tell me and I will see. Blessings... your progress. The ego does not change because it feels sure that it is always right. Blessings. 24 November 1970 Sweet Mother, These days I don't have any interest in my group activities. I am doing the work simply as a duty, without any enthusiasm. Wouldn't it be better to let someone else take my place? I feel it is not fair to the children if I cannot give my best. I will do what ...
... Asiddhi is associated with an attempt of the Dwayavin consciousness to reassert itself and support an activity of the tamasic dhriti in the physical consciousness opposed to the constant manifestation of the Siddhi. The success has been to create a cleft between the divine consciousness & the physical by which the latter sees all things as the Brahman in the many, but not the Many as the One. There... done is being now manifested. There is an attempt also at the primary utthapana in the shape of diminished sleep and the rejection from the physical system of fatigue and exhaustion; but this applies at present only to brainwork, not to physical activity. In samadhi there is a strong tendency to the development of sukshma Vak, but as yet this is normal only in isolated sentences and Page... 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 most perfectly organised). In the afternoon there was a return ...
... gradually the people of Orissa started awakening and opening to the Mother's Light and their inner and outer activities turned towards an Integral progress and Integral transformation. A good progress was made and slowly the work started growing in various fields of human activities. But there were many defects and shortcomings in the process and the Mother wanted a very fast progress... always led a very pure, sattwic, ashram life. She would never eat anything from outside. She has led a very orderly, clean life. There was no irregularity anywhere. When I started the physical culture activities after forming the Page 49 groups, Usha was one of the girls of the first batch. She then became a captain. Among the many women-captains, Usha was one of them. This... free from all psychological stress. One needs to bring down peace and delight into the body. While doing physical exercise one must keep this in mind. One must consciously feel this peace and delight in the body while taking part in physical culture. This is the great difference between physical culture elsewhere and here. One must exercise with this feeling of Sachchidananda in every part of our ...
... well. From the second of December 1946, Mother started coming out of the Ashram occasionally. First, it was not frequent but later it became more regular. Mother used to watch our physical Education activities with great interest. She would play table-tennis at Nanteuil. She even came to watch films with us in the Playground. When my father, Dakshinapada, came to the Ashram for good, he... the best of my ability. (93) M other once felt that she should appraise the physical fitness of the inmates of the Ashram, and find out whose body was the best from the point of view of health, beauty, structure and skill in work. She called this com petition the "Best Physical Base". The entire Ashram was informed about this. Now, as many imagined that Mother herself... Mother said: "So many people of different ages, of diverse conditions, how will I ever man age to select from among these?" And so, finally, she simply dropped the idea of finding the "Best Physical Base"! (94) M other once said: "If a person shows a special eagerness or interest for something, it means he is also equipped and capable in that field." Page 122 ...
... said: "Pranab, just eat and tell me how it's been cooked." Incidentally, let me tell you that at the beginning of our physical Education activities, all the group members used to have the same three vegetarian meals a day that the other Ashramites had. My old teacher of physical Culture in Calcutta came to the Ashram at that time. He saw and remarked that for growing children, this kind of food... familiar with the strength you can acquire through physical exercise but see how much more can be acquired through spiritual tapasya!" Shyamakanto was dumbfounded. He gave up all physical culture and became the sadhu's disciple, a sannyasi. When Mother heard this story she exclaimed: "What a shame! If instead, Shyamakanto had combined both physical culture and spiritual tapasya how much better... fourteen years of age I was at the Anandamayi school and then for two years at the Jagatbandhu. I passed my matriculation examination from this institute. Also since then, I've taken to regular physical culture and my life changed as a result. Page 101 (79) L et me tell you an amusing story from my childhood. We were living then on Ekdalia Road in Ballygunje. I was thirteen ...
... "Perfection of the Body" and "The Divine Body". In course of time many senior Ashramites too joined these physical educational activities but a few others resisted the move. They not only refused to participate in any physical education but went to the extent of dubbing any such activity as Page 399 totally contrary to the spirit and principle of the Ashram. In their perverted logic... the growing number of students with facilities for physical education, a well-organised Physical Education Department was created in 1949. A regular course of gymnastic Marching for half an hour every evening became very soon a regular feature of the physical education imparted. Also, a quarterly journal started with the title of Bulletin of Physical Education. At the request of the Mother, Sri Aurobindo... "The Supramental is not grand, aloof, cold and austere; it is not something opposed to or inconsistent with a full vital and physical manifestation; on the contrary, it carries in it the only possibilities of the full fullness of the vital force and the physical life on earth.... The Supramental is simply the Truth-Conscious- Page 397 ness and what it brings in its descent is the ...
... of mental activity. After all, mental activity has been enormously intensified during evolution. And we simply do not yet know the basic relation between mental activity and physical brain activity. It is extremely important to try to find out whether under certain conditions mental activity may be detached from physical; we can be sure that many possibilities of mind or mental activity are still ... to our two-pronged non-materialistic solution. Our solution has not stopped with pluralism. Indeed, he and mind we have regarded as powers distinct from matter having their own typical activities - activities subliminal no less than on the surface, universal as well as individual. However, to render intelligible the interaction of all three we have posited a unity by an approach from the right end... barrier between organic and inorganic was thinned, and theory confidently asserted that all matter is a unity and that the phenomena of life and mind and whatever subtle activity is termed the soul are not distinct from (he physical world but developments of its inherent potencies through a complex organisation of its elementary particles. Such a view of nature brushed aside the privileged position ...
... a series of activities or visions (but those visions are always activities at the same time: both activities and visions) in the subconscious domain, showing in a very living and objective way the Falsehood that has to be removed (transformed or removed). At first, I took them as adverse attacks, but now I see they are 'states of falsehood' to which certain elements in the physical being are linked... cells. This was a major discovery, paving the way for FIXING the supermind in Matter. If the activities of the physical mind can be clarified, controlled, mastered, silenced, and if the mind of cells can be allowed to function in its purity without being overlaid by the magic spell of the physical mind, then the mind of cells can receive and fix the supramental vibrations, and a new rhythm of ... (not vision: an activity,! but very clear), then another, and then a third. Last night, I was fed a subtle food, as if to tell me that I would need it because wouldn't take any physical food² (not that I thought about it, I _____________________________________ ¹A few days later, Mother added: There is also something I left unsaid: an urgent need to cease all material activity in order to enable ...
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