... topic changed from this point. Disciple : Men are beings on the physical plane, but they have vital and mental and psychic parts. Do the beings Page 265 of the vital plane possess also mental and psychic parts? Sri Aurobindo : The vital and physical planes are different On the physical plane there is evolution through different grades of beings : ours is a plane... dark side of God on the physical plane ? Sri Aurobindo : They are what may be called the "elemental beings", or rather, obscure elemental forces – they are more "forces" than "beings". It is these that the Theosophists call the "Elementals". They are not individualised beings like the Asura and the Rakshasas, they are ignorant forces working oh the subtle physical plane. Disciple : What... dominate man in order to manifest their power and take possession of the physical plane. Secondly, they do so in order to get worship of men by curing diseases and posing as god. Page 276 Thirdly, they do not merely dominate but take possession of men in order to take Bhoga – enjoyment – of the physical plane. Disciple : Why are these forces specially attracted to places where ...
... expression of the soul's realisation. It is the first step and perhaps for some it may be sufficient, for we are not asking everybody to become supramental; but for any full manifestation on the physical plane the supramental is indispensable. In the later Vaishnava tradition the sadhana takes the form Page 152 of an application of human vital love in all its principal turns to the... objection to that; such a claim all seekers of the Divine have; but as to the modalities of this divine meeting, it does not carry us much farther. In any case, my object is a realisation on the physical plane and I cannot consent merely to repeat Ramakrishna. I seem to remember too that for a long time he was withdrawn into himself, all his life was not spent with his disciples! He got his siddhi first... satisfied, as he was, with an inner liberation alone, I cannot accept these ideas or these results; for that does not sound to me like a successful meeting of the Divine and the sadhak on the physical plane, however successful it might have been for ____________________ 1. Ramakrishna's sentence: " Bhagabāner opor jor chale jadi tār janye sangsār-tyag karā jāy. Je meye tār pranayeer janye ...
... al plane or from any other. What on earth does it matter whether Krishna lived on the physical plane or not? If his experience is real on the psychic and spiritual plane, it is all that matters. As long as you find Krishna as a divine Power on the psychic and spiritual plane his life on the physical plane does not matter. He is true, he is real. The physical is only a shadow of the psychic. ... or even Edward Carpenter. When I first got the cosmic consciousness – I call it the passive Brahman – I did not fall into unconsciousness of common things; I was fully conscious on the physical plane. It was at Baroda and it did not go away soon, it did not last only a few moments as Bucke lays down. It lasted for months... I could see the Higher Consciousness above the mind and I saw that... gives : they have to work through desires, impulses etc. But this kind of work in the occult is an effort on the part of the lower vital forces to break the barrier and gain possession of the physical plane. If they could succeed they would retard the whole course of evolution and the destiny of the race. Therefore, throwing the doors of consciousness open to them, as these people do, is the most ...
... manifesting Him upon earth in a life divine. This, along with a practical discipline for its fulfilment, was given to me during my body's sleep by several teachers some of whom I met afterwards on the physical plane. "Later on, as the interior and exterior development proceeded, the spiritual and psychic relation with one of these beings became more and more clear and frequent; and although I knew little... seizing upon the higher light and power, should surrender themselves to the higher Power. We have not to rest satisfied with partial transformation. We have to bring down the higher Power to the physical plane and govern the most external details of life by it. This cannot be done by mental power. We have to call down the Higher Light, Power and Ananda to transform our present nature. This requires an... from Birendra Kishore of Calcutta. 25 May. A reference in a letter to the atmosphere in Pondicherry: "The condition here is not very good. I am at present fighting the difficulties on the physical plane," in other words, the forces of disease etc. 20 June. At the request of the Bombay Chronicle , Sri Aurobindo sent a message on the death of C. R. Das, which was published in their issue of ...
... for, though they subsist in themselves and have their own play and process and formulations of existence and experience, yet at the same time they penetrate and envelop the Page 804 physical plane with their invisible presence and influences, and their powers seem to be here in the material world itself behind its action and objects. There are two main orders of experience in our contact... our matter-bound physical mentality. It is the pressure of the supramental and spiritual worlds which is preparing to develop here the manifest power of the spirit and by it open our being on the physical plane into the freedom and infinity of the super conscient Divine; that contact, that pressure can alone liberate from the apparent Inconscience, which was our starting-point, the all-conscient Godhead... own embodied consciousness and the fitness of his own soul to respond to them, to become aware of them, to participate consciously in the interweaving of their influences with the action of the physical plane. He may indeed contribute the results or projections of his own higher vital and mental action to the action of these planes: but, if so, these projections are, after all, only a return of the ...
... sādhanā korchi ? My sadhana – Am I doing sadhana? Ask some other question. Disciple : From experience of the physical plane till now, do you think that it is possible to bring down the Supermind into the physical plane ? Sri Aurobindo : Why not ? I would not attempt it if it were not possible. If you mean, by that question, "whether it is possible this time... quite another matter. Disciple : That is what I mean. Sri Aurobindo : It all depends upon things outside myself. It is to be seen whether the physical plane is ready to receive the Light, for it is not always that the physical plane is ready when the Light descends. Disciple : Can you not give any certainty about it ? Sri Aurobindo : I never said it was certain. Disciple... however imperfect the achievement, it is there in the Mind and you find it, so also in the Vital. But you find nothing like that in the physical plane. Disciple : It means that the necessary atmosphere for bringing down the Supermind on the physical plane is to be created ? Sri Aurobindo : That is the whole attempt. You ought to help in it by creating the necessary condition, if you ...
... . The insect gathers certain experiences on the physical plane. My own view is that it does not go on developing from plane to plane without a supporting Self. So that it is not as if it was developing from plane to plane and ultimately culminating into a Soul. The Soul, the Self, is already there. The Soul (suksma dehi) living on the physical plane returns to the Jiva which is all along supporting... of it. Sri Aurobindo : Up to the present time nobody has cared to bring down and apply this Power to the physical plane. Something was done in the mind and also in the vital being but not in the physical. Firstly, the yogis did not care for these questions of the physical plane. Secondly, they had other, more direct, means of dealing with them. Disciple : Will all Supermen be able... for these Page 186 vital forces to represent themselves as the Truth or yourself and the Mother ? Sri Aorobindo : It is a question of consciousness and not of the physical plane where you can prevent somebody from doing something. Nothing is possible without the co-operation of the individual. The difficulty is that he wants to have that being of the vital plane and, even ...
... Disciple : An Avatar embodying the Saccidānanda, – Divine knowledge, infinite power and delight etc., – on the physical plane. Sri Aurobindo : What do you mean by "embodying on the physical plane" ? Disciple : Bringing the infinite Ananda on the physical plane. Sri Aurobindo : What was the sign that he embodied the divine Ananda ? Disciple : Did any one in the... : Yes. If you are subject to vital depression you will be unable to do a work of the physical plane with an alert mind for a long time. Disciple : X has been learning music. Sri Aurobindo : That is not what I mean by getting rid of vital depression. I mean doing something on the physical plane, not necessarily physical work alone – regularly at the same time without fail with an... physical body – because we see that form of his in our own psychic vision even to-day. T Sri Aurobindo : What on earth does it matter whether he Page 146 lived on the physical plane or not ? If the thing is true pn the psychic and spiritual plane it is all that matters. As long as you find Krishna as a divine Power on the psychic, or on the spiritual plane nothing else matters ...
... Sri Aurobindo would go to the subtle-physical plane where, according to the Mother, the Master after he had passed away would remain until his work was done. The Mother used the words "earth's atmosphere" for the subtle-physical plane. You may remember that she employed the same words in speaking of the Supramental Manifestation on earth. The subtle-physical plane is the earth's inner counterpart which ...
... matter of the body refined and rendered receptive to the supramental substance and form which had already been brought into action down to what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have called "the subtle-physical plane" immediately behind the gross-material on which we live. The process by which the habitually functioning organism could fuse with that substance and form was the one we could glimpse through the... servitor? On the one hand, as we know from "Notes on the Way" over several years, there was the growing infusion of her cells with the light of the Supramental Body already poised on the subtle-physical plane and then the short yet decisive experience of the exteriorised Supermind. On the other, as we learn from her attendants, there was infirm old age but also an ever-resisting youthfulness of attitude... the body, in spite of her persistence, did not "hold on", she would be constrained to let the transformation "be for another time". 4 But in March 1972, a Supramental Body waiting on the subtle-physical plane and pressing upon the gross-physical became a concrete reality in which she lived for a while, 5 and there were also the experiences we have already sketched. Hence an alternative outcome was ...
... passions and enjoyments. 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. That [ seeking enjoyment ] is the attitude not of the whole vital but of the physical vital, the animal part of the human being. Of course it cannot be convinced by mental reasoning of... Divine element in you. There can be no life and no manifestation here on earth without the vital. It has not to be destroyed, but purified and changed into the true Vital. The Vital Plane and the Physical Plane Things do happen on the vital plane—but they are not more important than what happens here because it is here we have to realise and what happens in the vital is only a help. Most things... realise itself in the physical or not in the same way. There is always or at least Page 197 usually a change in the form, time, circumstances due to the different conditions of the physical plane. The Life Heavens Where do you find in "The Life Heavens" 2 that I say or anybody says the conditions on the earth are glorious and suited to the Divine Life? There is not a word to that ...
... One can see [ visions ] either with open or closed eyes or both. It is a matter of temperament or idiosyncrasy which one starts with. Page 108 The world you see is in some subtle physical plane where men see the gods according to their own ideas and images of them. As you were concentrating your attention on the electric light, it may have been the god of electricity you saw, Vaidyuta... have not many heads and arms—this is a vital symbolism, it is not necessary in other planes. This figure [ of Vaidyuta Agni, mentioned in the preceding letter ] may have belonged to the subtle physical plane. (1) It [ the vision of a flower ] was seen through the physical eyes but by the subtle physical consciousness; in other words there was an imposition of one consciousness upon another.... could be sensed in a dark room, though not so easily, and it would not then have so vivid an appearance—unless you are Page 109 able to bring out something of the light of the subtle physical plane to surround it and give it its natural medium. If seen with the eyes shut, it would be no longer a subtle physical form, but an object or formation of the vital, mental or other plane. Unless ...
... I suppose the universal or "everywhere" includes the physical plane. If so, does the Mother know all the happenings and events on the physical plane? Including what Lloyd George had today for breakfast or what Roosevelt said to his wife about their servants? Why should the Mother "know" in the human way all such happenings on the physical plane? Her business in her embodiment is to know the working ...
... You can't deny that I have risen and I shall try to rise also to the occasion of our present theme: the planes of poetry. I shall begin at the beginning, the foot of the "World-stair": the subtle physical plane. Here it is the outer activities of man and Nature that pass through the poetic imagination and acquire an inwardness which reveals the psychological or even superhuman powers at work in the world... and perfect chrysolite, I'd not have sold her for it. Judging from the example of Chaucer we might be inclined to believe that except for occasional outbreaks the poetry of the subtle physical plane is condemned to lack elemental energy and must fall short of dazzling glory. But we should be off the mark very much indeed in believing so. For, among poets of this plane, we have no less a figure... story. Sri Aurobindo is more complex, more rich, more spiritual than Homer, yet he has always Homer's ocean-rumour, Homer's eye on clear-cut shape and gesture and attitude and motion, the subtle physical plane taken up into the Aurobindo-nian universe. And throughout there is the right rhythm, the soul of the Greek quantitative hexameter has been caught without sacrificing the stress-genius of the English ...
... is now taking place directly on the physical plane, where the force of a habit or habitual movement once formed is very great. When the sadhana is taking place on the mental or vital plane, it is more easy to control or change, because the mind and vital are more plastic than the physical. But on the other hand if something is definitely gained on the physical plane, there is a more lasting and complete... that I am impatient—but not especially for supermind. My answer stands. I have repeatedly said recently that we are trying against great difficulties to bring down the supramental into the physical plane. If the supramental were already there, the body divinised, matter transformed, there would be no difficulty and no need of the endeavour. I would recall to you what I said in my letter to ... have been developing and testing all our lives. I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse Forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer ...
... not yet been prepared to the needed extent. This point comes out very clearly in a statement of Sri Aurobindo's in August 1936 on the spiritual fight upon the physical plane: "As for the question about the illness, perfection in the physical plane is indeed part of the ideal of the Yoga, but it is the last item and, so long as the fundamental change has not been made in the material consciousness to which... the difficulties of the realisation and transformation and overcoming them for ourselves. It has been done to a sufficient degree on the other planes—but not yet on the most material part of the physical plane. Till it is done, the fight there continues and, though there may be and is a force of Yogic action and defence, there cannot be immunity. The Mother's difficulties are not her own; she bears the... otherwise, it would be a very different matter." 1 The implications are clear. If the Mother did not drag with her the whole world's difficulties in opening up the most material part of the physical plane, if she did not have to tackle the whole earth-consciousness's resistance to the transformative action and working, she would achieve her own supramentalisation, her body would be divinised and ...
... represent what is taking place behind – such dreams are clear and cogent. As I said about Samadhi, so also about dreams, it is very difficult to say what happens exactly on the physical plane. All things on the physical plane are merely devices – they are a system of notation, – just like the wireless or telegraphic notation. It is a convenient device for sending messages, but often we get too busy... thereby restoring normal circulation. But whatever the theory, this is a method of curing diseases by pure, subtle force. Something from the occult plane comes down and removes the obstacle from the physical plane. Disciple : It seems like the method of "auto-suggestion" given by Dr. Coué Sri Aurobindo : No, it is not Coué's method. Coué gives the suggestion which works out in the patient;... his theory correct? Sri Aurobindo : I can't say. What I think is that some occult force comes down and works out the disease. But it is very difficult to say what exactly happens on the physical plane. Probably, the Hatha Yogins used to do what this Japanese doctor is doing, with their knowledge of the "vital-physical" currents. For instance, they could set right all the disorders below the ...
... the Divine and bring the fullness of what is gained into life – for that, yoga by works is indispensable.³ Q: In what sense is the Mother everywhere? Does she know all happenings in the physical plane? A: Including what Lloyd George had for breakfast today or ¹ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , With Letters on The Mother and Translations of Prayers and Meditations (Pondicherry: Sri... on Yoga , Parts Two and Three, p. 526. Page 267 what Roosevelt said to his wife about the servants? Why should the Mother "know" in the human way all happenings in the physical plane? Her 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... or Semitic conception – has never been mine; it contradicts too much my seeing and experience during thirty years of sadhana. ³ As for the question about the illness, perfection in the physical plane is indeed part of the ideal of the Yoga, but it is the last item and, so long as the fundamental change has not been made in the material consciousness to which the body belongs, one may have ...
... expression of the soul's realisation. It is the first step and perhaps for some it may be sufficient, for we are not asking everybody to become supramental; but for any full manifestation on the physical plane the supramental is indispensable. In this later Vaishnava tradition the sadhana takes the form of an application of human vital love in all its principal turns to the Divine; viraha, abhimāna... objection to that; such a claim all seekers of the Divine have; but as to the modalities of this Divine meeting, it does not carry us much farther. In any case, my object is a realisation on the physical plane and I cannot consent merely to repeat Ramakrishna. I seem to remember too that for a long time he was withdrawn into himself, all his life was not spent with his disciples! He got his siddhi first... being satisfied, as he was, with an inner liberation alone, I cannot accept these ideas or these results, for it does not sound to me like a successful meeting of the Divine and the sadhak on the physical plane , however successful it might have been for the inner life. Krishna did great things and was very clearly a manifestation of the Divine. But I remember a passage of the Mahabharata in which he ...
... sadhana and those who are not ] lies in the fact that those who are doing sadhana live on the physical plane in order to transform it—under the pressure of a Force created by the sadhana which urges towards that and must continue till it is achieved. Those who do not do sadhana live on the physical plane not to transform it but to continue it as it is—there is no such Force or pressure or necessity... is now taking place directly on the physical plane, where the force of a habit or habitual movement once formed is very great. When the sadhana is taking place on the mental or vital plane, it is more easy to control or change, because the mind and vital are more plastic than the physical. But on the other hand if something is definitely gained on the physical plane, there is a more lasting and complete ...
... Talks on Poetry TALK FORTY-ONE 1 In talking of poetry from the subtle physical plane we took care to point out that the apparent lowest position of this plane in the hierarchy of worlds did not preclude its producing the greatest poetry. The excellence of poetry as such does not depend on the position of a plane: it depends on the intensity of vision... meaning only to the initiate. But, mark you, the symbols are such that the most external objects seem to attract the Rishis — objects that would bulk in the mind of a poet writing from the subtle physical plane. If there had been less externality in the symbolism, Sayana's interpretation would have been impossible. In a letter to me, dated 20th October 1936, Sri Aurobindo wrote: "The Vedic times were... symbolic images from the material life around them." What are we to conclude from this? We may be sure of one thing: the Vedic poets, if they had not been mystics, would have written with the subtle physical plane as their common poise of expressive consciousness. From this we may hazard the guess that when the luminosity of the Overhead heights which Sri Aurobindo has found in them became vocal in their ...
... substance. Right down to the subtle-physical which lies behind this substance the new Consciousness had made its appearance. In a letter of August 1936, after affirming that "perfection on the physical plane is indeed part of the ideal of the Yoga, but it is the last item" and that till it would be achieved "one may have a certain perfection on other planes without having immunity in the body", Sri... Aurobindo admits that the overcoming of "difficulties of the realisation and transformation... has been done to a sufficient degree on the other planes — but not yet on the most material part of the physical plane." Yes, the Master and the Mother stood transformed just short of the last lap of the Yogic journey. And not only did they seem sure — under the circumstances they faced at the time — that they... in the posture of the Aurobindonian future. The original vision was of the Master and the Mother forming together the nucleus of the Supramental Race. Now that the Mother was left alone on the physical plane, a luminous blank was felt by the sadhaks ahead of them. Luminous because the Mother was still there, blank because the Master was absent. But the future acquired focus when the Mother announced ...
... having fought out in it the struggle of transformation of the physical consciousness with a view to prepare it for the supramental change."¹ To an inquiry whether with the Sadhana going on in the physical plane all have to come down into the physical consciousness, Sri Aurobindo answers on 31 December 1934: "It is a little difficult to say whether all have to come down totally into the physical. The... Rasalila, the play of Krishna with the Gopis who are ¹. "Sri Aurobindo at Evening Talk", Mother India., Page 24 his devotees, is not a fact of the physical plane but of the higher and deeper planes. In the Puranas we have mental representations of truths about the Gods, but these representations point yet to the real world of the Gods. These Gods ... creation. Speaking of those days Mother said that the atmosphere was intense because it was a psychic atmosphere. The Overmind, the plane of the Gods, was brought in touch with the physical plane; this touch was necessary, otherwise the supramental transformation would not be possible. From another angle we may view in the descent of Krishna a herald of the supramental ...
... b) Putting aside the idea that the leaders of the T.S. are consciously deceitful, how to account for their assertions about their relations with the masters—on the higher planes, but also on the physical plane ? HPB, HSO, CWL, for example, have met living masters. If one admits these statements, how to explain the little spirituality of the T.S. in general, and the general trend, ethical, moral, but... January 18, 1926 I have succeeded in keeping my mind absolutely empty of thought for a few minutes. All the waves have stopped. But still my consciousness is fixed all the time upon the physical plane; thus, I hear and see, though the perceptions do not awaken any thought. However, several times I had the feeling of being on the point of passing beyond; my breathing became very difficult and... comes when what is true in the being, what is not mental but deeper, and which must be used by the Divine,—the moment comes when this is awakened. This happens when the force descends into the physical plane. What was mental or vital is rejected, but the true forms of action continue. Monday, May 17, 1926 This week was a little better than the former ones ; the mind and vital were more ...
... somewhat differently. My conclusion is that I move in a subtle body in a subtle plane; but is that always unavoidable? Does one's subtle body never move in the very physical plane? In my latest experience I went to the pier, but the street through which I ran to reach the pier was of a strange kind because I moved, shortly after, from room to room... Page 32 Am I right in thinking that she [the Mother] as an Individual embodies all the Divine Powers and brings down the Grace more and more to the physical plane and that her embodiment is a chance for the entire physical to change and be transformed? "Yes. Her embodiment is a chance for the earth-consciousness to receive the ...
... nature-formation and a sufficient self-expressive mental and vital individuality to persist without the support of the material body, as well as to overcome any excessive detaining attachment to the physical plane and the physical life: it would be sufficiently evolved to subsist in the subtle body which we know to be the characteristic case or sheath and the proper subtle-physical support of the inner being... soul of which it is the representative. There are, besides, many planes or levels of world-existence and the soul has to pass through Page 829 them to reach its natural home. In the physical plane itself or close to it there are believed to be layers of greater and greater subtlety which may be regarded as sub-planes of the physical with a vital and a mental character; these are at once ...
... out of his own external human mind, but by inspiration, as the mouthpiece of the Gods. Page 5 The originating source may be anywhere; the poetry may arise or descend from the subtle physical plane, from the higher or lower vital itself, from the dynamic or creative intelligence, from the plane of dynamic vision, from the psychic, from the illumined mind or Intuition,—even, though this is... or faulty or, at the best, "good on the whole", but not the thing that ought to have come. 2 June 1931 Creation by the Word The word is a sound expressive of the idea. In the supra-physical plane when an idea has to be realised, one can by repeating the word-expression of it, produce vibrations which prepare the mind for the realisation of the idea. That is the principle of the Mantra and ...
... plane". Yesterday you said "an activity of the vital plane"—what does it mean? Are all happenings there as true as on the physical plane? Yes, except that sometimes the record is imperfect—but the happening is true. Are they intimations of what would happen on the physical plane? No—the vital plane has an independent life of its own; the physical also. My being meets you or the Mother in ...
... For example, when men, particularly the evil-natured ones, die, their hungry and desire-driven vital beings may assume many forms and move about in the earth's atmosphere just beyond the gross physical plane, being made prisoners there because of their unsatisfied thirst. These are variously named as ghosts, ghouls, vampires, asebs, pretas, pisachas, etc. Let us listen to what the Mother has said about... Adapted.) Strange are the ways of the human heart in its hopes and imaginations, once it turns irrational with blind expectations! No doubt that the supraphysical worlds exist beyond our physical plane, with their own characteristic beings. This too is true that a gifted human being can travel to these worlds and effectively function there after the dissolution of his body. But this is certain ...
... consciousness"; and although mind does not create material objects, consciousness may do so—indeed it is the force of the original consciousness, which is the force of being, that has created the physical plane of multiplicity. This creative power is the self-projecting energy of consciousness— prajnana. It is, in other words, the force of individuation inherent in the play of consciousness. Now, as... of consciousness and operates in conjunction with and as part of the total drive. That total drive at one point results in the multiple realities of Matter. When the element of limitation in the physical plane is ascribed to the exclusiveness of a stress in consciousness, it should not be forgotten that the act is, as it were, a "joint and several responsibility" of the whole consciousness in its multiple ...
... psycho-vital or physico-vital or even the subtle physical plane. This New Creation is the creation of the Divine Love – the Mother's Love. Morning Star – Venus, Goddess of Love – embodying New Creation. Amber colour representing a particular plane of consciousness. Yellow + red + a touch of brown – physico-vital or even subtle physical plane – the New Creation come down on that plane. ...
... consciousness"; and although mind does not create material objects, consciousness may do so – indeed it is the force of the original consciousness, which is the force of being, that has created the physical plane of multiplicity. This creative power is the self-projecting energy of consciousness – praj ñana . It is, in other words, the force of individuation inherent in the play of consciousness. Now... of consciousness and operates in conjunction with and as part of the total drive. That total drive at one point results in the multiple realities of Matter. When the element of limitation in the physical plane is ascribed to the exclusiveness of a stress in consciousness, it should not be forgotten that the act is, as it were, a "joint and several responsibility" of the whole consciousness in its multiple ...
... consciousness higher than mind, then Art which can do the same work is naturally connected with it. Art embodies in its forms higher than human consciousness and thus tends to fix it here on the physical plane of consciousness. This work art can do, if the artist has something to express in his forms. Has he seen, or felt beauty which he alone can express in form? For art is search for beauty... of that Reality find expression. This Reality that is ultimate has its highest peak—but it is not of one order. There are several orders of that Reality,—there is one expression of beauty on the physical plane, there is another on the vital plane,— and so on. From these various orders beauty can be expressed in art-forms. Beauty is, in fact, an attribute of that self-existent Perfection which grips both ...
... comparable and repeatable? Sri Aurobindo's answer is guarded and undogmatic, and that is partly the reason why it carries persuasion the more convincingly: ...ultimate truth even on the physical plane seems to recede as Science advances. Science started on the assumption that the ultimate truth must be physical and objective - and the objective Ultimate (or even less than that) would explain... have been developing and testing all our lives. I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. 35 Page 566 V "Yoga-siddhi," says Sri Aurobindo, "the perfection that comes from the practice of Yoga, can be best attained by the combined working of four great ...
... talk with her on the physical plane is quite enough for the purpose. Only the sadhak must be ready .... Also it will be a mistake if you make too rigid a separation between A.G. (Aurobindo Ghose] and Mirra. Both influences are necessary for the complete development of the Sadhana. The work of the two together alone brings down the supramental Truth into the physical plane. A.G. acts directly ...
... already in 1925, as if the whole picture were before Him : I would not attempt it if it were not possible.... It all depends upon things outside myself, He answered. It is to be seen whether the physical plane is ready to receive the Light.... 40 Of course, it is one and the same plane! How could Sri Aurobindo bring that Ray "down” into his own body without bringing it down into the whole body? The... something pressing down. You can also see that there is the tremendous resistance. 41 "Does this mean,” asked the disciple, “that the atmosphere necessary for the Supermind to descend into the physical plane has to be created?” That is the whole attempt. You OUGHT TO HELP IN IT BY CREATING THE NECESSARY CONDITION, if you want it to be done this time. 42 The Pressure grew, the Resistance grew ...
... cared to bring down and apply this Power [Supermind] to the physical plane," Sri Aurobindo told the assembled group of disciples in Page 314 July 1926. "Something was done in the mind and also in the vital being but not in the physical." He explained. "Firstly, the Yogis did not care for these questions of the physical plane. Secondly, they had other, more direct, means of dealing ...
... May 1926 In the West the highest minds are turned not towards spiritual truth but towards material science. The scope of science is very narrow, it touches only the most exterior part of the physical plane. And even there, what does science know really? It studies the functioning of the laws, builds theories ever renewed and each time held up as the last word of truth! We had recently the atomic... electric). By it, the action of Agni, the formal element, the builder of forms, is made possible. And beyond Vayu is the ether: Akasha. But these five constitute only the grossest part of the physical plane. Immediately behind is the physical-vital, the element of life buried in matter. J. C. Bose is contacting this element in his experiments. Beyond is the mind in matter. This mind has a far different... different form than the human mind, still it is a manifestation of the same principle of organisation. And deep below there are two more hidden layers.... That is the occult knowledge concerning the physical plane only. Science is far behind this knowledge. The Hindu Yogis who had realised these truths did not elaborate them and turn them into scientific knowledge. Other fields of action and knowledge ...
... cannot come till you have descended into the ordinary physical consciousness and remained there for months together. You cannot see me again at Pondicherry until you are ready to meet me on the physical plane and that can only be when you have accepted the physical consciousness and the physical life. This is definite. 6) If you refuse to do what I tell you, you cannot have the fulfilment you hope... go several times through what you have written and see whether it accurately represents the spirit of the original, and whether the language cannot be improved. In all things, in the mental and physical plane, it should be your aim, at present, not to go fast and finish quickly, but to do everything carefully, perfectly, and in the right manner. We wish you to understand and keep henceforth the right... physical consciousness and having the right relations with physical life. In our next letter we will write to you in detail what we mean by being in the physical consciousness and meeting us on the physical plane. But today there is no time and we want this letter to go by today's post. [9] March 30. Dear Tirupati We are sorry to see that you are not physically well. You must be careful not ...
... that she was not mixing with the sadhaks at that time, partly because they themselves were not ready to take the right relation and receive her influence, partly because the difficulties of the physical plane made it necessary for her to retire from all direct contact with anyone, as distinct from an indirect contact through A.G. Always however she was acting with him on the psychic and vital levels... at the time. All that is needed to receive a direct touch from her is to take the right relation to her, to be open and to enter her atmosphere. The most ordinary meeting or talk with her on the physical plane is quite enough for the purpose. Only the sadhaka must be ready; otherwise he may not receive the impulse or may not be able to fulfil it or bear its pressure. Also it will be a mistake if you... rigid a separation between A.G and Mira. Both influences are necessary for the complete development of the sadhana. The work of the two together can alone bring down the supramental Truth into the physical plane. A.G acts directly on the mental and on the vital being through the illumined mind; he represents the Purusha element whose strength is predominantly in illumined (intuitive, supramental or spiritual) ...
... and beings in that image also, but magnified and heightened". 9 In such periods the human group and the poetry natural to it functions from the subtle-physical plane of being and consciousness. In other periods, man begins to intellectualise, but still on the same subject-matter: there is more introspection and what forces itself... from Sri Aurobindo's insight. Sri Aurobindo, in the interests of accuracy, regards Homer as a poet not of the creative intelligence but of the subtle-physical plane at its work of creation. Homer's is a poetry of external life: he is the singer of man at the stage when "he turns first his view on the outward physical world and on... provisionally adequate view". 33 Considering all this and the constant play of aesthesis, we may declare that if Homer worked from the subtle-physical plane the power which he kept the least subordinated to this matrix was the inspired reason and the chastened and enlightened aesthetic sense, just as what his ...
... edition), I found the following: Q, Is there any special effect of physical nearness to the Mother? A. It is indispensable for the fullness of the sadhana on Page 252 the physical plane. Transformation of the physical material being is not possible otherwise. Sri Aurobindo's answer should put a finis to all talk of anyone undergoing the physical and material being's... body can lead to "duration of life at will". Since such duration hinges on immunity in the body, let me cite another passage: "As for the question about the illness, perfection in the physical plane is indeed part of the ideal of the Yoga, but it is the last item and, so long as the fundamental change has not been made in the material consciousness to which the body belongs, one may have a... difficulties of the realisation and transformation and overcoming them for ourselves. It has been done to a sufficient degree on the other planes - but not yet on the most material part of the physical plane. Till it is done the fight continues and, though there may be and is a force of Yogic action and defence, there cannot be immunity. The Mother's difficulties are not her own; she bears the difficulties ...
... vital for the Force, so that they felt the flood of energy as soon as they began the work and it continued so long as the work had to be done. The vital is the means of effectuation on the physical plane, so its action and energy are necessary for all work—without it, if the mind only drives without the co-operation and instrumentation of the vital, there is hard and disagreeable labour and effort... you need not hesitate to come, the Mother will give you a meditation for some time and it will rather rest than at all strain her. As for the question about the illness, perfection in the physical plane is indeed part of the idea of the Yoga, but it is the last item and, so long as the fundamental change has not been made in the material consciousness to which the body belongs, one may have... difficulties of the realisation and transformation and overcoming them for ourselves. It has been done to a sufficient degree on the other planes—but not yet on the most material part of the physical plane. Till it is done, the fight there continues and, though there may be and is a force of Yogic action and defence, there cannot be immunity. The Mother's difficulties are not her own; she bears ...
... Dattatraya represents the highest realisation – he always keeps his consciousness immersed in the Infinite and the freedom of the Infinite is brought down by him to the mental, vital and even to the physical plane. Therefore a man who is a Siddha of the path acts free like the Infinite even in his Prakriti, nature, – and therefore often acts in a way which is considered immoral by society. He tries, thus... Sri Aurobindo : What is your test for Reality ? Disciple : Do they exist really, these states of experience ? Sri Aurobindo : Why not ? If you ask whether they exist on the physical plane it is absurd, because by their very nature they are supraphysical. But they are real. Disciple : What I mean is : do these states of consciousness exist ? Sri Aurobindo : Of course... this year far better than all the past three years. Disciple : 1. Does not the fulfilment of Sadhana mean that the power of the Higher Truth should be made dynamic and effective on the physical plane – even with regard to outside work ? 2. If so, what are the general lines and forms of that work ? 3. What is the precise nature of the role which we may have to play in it ? Sri ...
... contact with the Supreme truth. It is only by the vibrations that I work with the individual in the physical plane because this is the most true and pure means which comes directly from the Supreme. It is this that can radically change the consciousness, and because it is on the most material physical plane, therefore it has a greater influence on the other parts of the body, and it is this which is the... on the physical body, not visions and experiences, etc., — all that belongs to the mental or rather to the vital, you understand? The visions, etc. belong to the vital-physical or the mental-physical plane and have a somewhat subtle and vague effect and are not so direct. They come and pass and leave a small imprint and that’s all; whereas the vibrations work for concrete results and penetrate deep ...
... mental constructions that were Page 116 confining us). We are also very struck by the realization that these premonitions are usually not associated with events we deem important on our physical plane, such as the death of a parent or some worldly achievement (although these premonitions also may occur), but with very trivial details, bearing no external importance, yet always very meaningful... earth in a divine life. This revelation, along with the practical discipline for achieving it, were given to me during my body's sleep by several teachers, some of whom I met afterwards on the physical plane. Later on, as the inner and outer development progressed, my spiritual and psychic relationship with one of these beings became increasingly clear and rich.... The moment I saw Sri Aurobindo, I... bodies. "Testing" is one of the key words in Sri Aurobindo's vocabulary: I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. 346 From this huge body of experiences, which pervade Sri Aurobindo's written works and correspondence, we might draw four symbolic events illustrating the power of consciousness and Sri ...
... not the seat of thinking, but only a communicating channel, "it is only a support for the higher activity." It is the mind that thinks; the brain is a physical device. Actually "all things on the physical plane are merely devices —they are a system of notation —just like the wireless or telegraphic messages, but often we get too busy with the device and mistake it for the thing that is behind the device... elements and compounds by the change of arrangement of the same number?" Our error evidently comes from giving too much importance to the form of the device, because we think the physical plane to be the most real. Is it? "So I say," Sri Aurobindo said matter-of-factly, "there is something behind the device which already pre-exists on some plane and it is that which adopts the device... power from behind can change the device." He also provided us with a clue as to why people mistake the device for the real thing. "Of course, the power working from behind comes down on the physical plane through the device, and so people generally think that it is the device which is responsible for the manifestation." Pranayama brought Sri Aurobindo good health, lightness and an increased ...
... rendering of it or accompaniment to it, but the experience itself is a separate thing. Vision is something seen in the conscious state (whether with closed or open eyes) which is not of the physical plane. In "conscious state" I include the consciousness of Samadhi when one is unaware of outward things but conscious of things going on within. Experience is a wide term which covers almost everything... one thing because they are one key (there are others) to contact with the other worlds or with the inner worlds and all that is there and these are regions of immense riches which far surpass the physical plane as it is at present. One enters into a larger freer self and a larger more plastic world; of course individual visions only give a contact, not an actual entrance, but the power of vision accompanied ...
... So far as it [ living in the physical consciousness ] can be said to be distinguishable by outward signs, it is a state of fundamental passivity in which one is and does what the forces of the physical plane make one be and do. When one lives in the mind, there is an active mental intelligence and mental will that tries to control and shape action and experience and life and everything else. When one... bring down the divine Force from above and make the physical the instrument of that Force. The forces of the physical mind, vital physical, material consciousness [ are the forces of the physical plane ]. Of course, as I said, the statement must be taken with a qualification, for the true mind and vital are also there, but in this condition [ of passivity and inertia ] it is the forces of the ...
... truth because the experiences are coloured by the individuality of the seer. One might ask whether Science itself has arrived at any ultimate truth; on the contrary, ultimate truth even on the physical plane seems to recede as Science advances. Science started on the assumption that the ultimate truth must be physical and objective—and the objective Ultimate (or even less than that) would explain all... rather clumsy relations with the happenings in material space. What is space after all but an extension of conscious being in which Consciousness-Force builds its own surroundings? In the subtle physical plane there Page 401 are not one, but many layers of consciousness and each moves in its own being, that is to say, in its own space. I have said that each subtle plane is a conglomeration ...
... manifest more or less in the physico-vital. On the physical plane the corresponding forces are obscure beings, more forces than beings, what the Theosophists call the elementals. They are not strongly individualised beings like the Rakshasas and Asuras, but ignorant and obscure forces Page 467 working in the subtle physical plane. What we in Sanskrit call the Bhutas mostly come under ...
... have not a casual, incoherent or subconscious building. Many are records or transcripts of experiences on the vital plane into which one enters in sleep, some are scenes or events of the subtle physical plane. There one often undergoes happenings or carries on actions that resemble those of the physical life with the same surroundings and the same people, though usually there is in arrangement and feature... and not very much worth knowing even if it is found. Other dreams are either simply happenings of the mental, vital or subtle physical worlds or else belong to the wider mental, vital or subtle physical plane and have a meaning which the figures of the dream are trying to communicate. It often happens that when something is thrown out of the waking consciousness it still occurs in dream. This ...
... secretly, he will yet show himself in good time,—do not insist on the hard, hampered, roundabout and difficult journey." 5 May 1932 As for the question about the illness, perfection in the physical plane is indeed part of the ideal of the Yoga, but it is the last item and, so long as the fundamental change has not been made in the material consciousness to which the body belongs, one may have a... the difficulties of the realisation and transformation and overcoming them for ourselves. It has been done to a sufficient degree on the other planes—but not yet on the most material part of the physical plane. Till it is done, the fight there continues and, though there may be and is a force of Yogic action and defence, there cannot be immunity. The Mother's difficulties are not her own; she bears the ...
... physical world in which he moves. Page 231 It is indeed, as some are beginning dimly to perceive, the soul within him which has all along been using the body for its own ends on the physical plane, but the soul has been working from behind the veil, unrealized and unseen. The Waking-State has overlaid and obscured the Dream-State. When he has mastered, as in the course of his evolution he... am food that devours the eater of food" says the Taittiriya Upanishad, and no formula could express more pregnantly and tersely the fundamental law of all phenomenal activity especially on the physical plane. The fundamental principle of vitality is hunger and all gross matter forms the food with which Prana satisfies this, its root-impulse. Hence the universality of the struggle for life. This hungry ...
... with which we commenced our lecture: inner nature. Poetry, like all art, like all worthwhile expression, comes from the inner nature of man. Speaking of planes, we should declare that the outer physical plane is never the source of poetry. To look at the world without any insight is not poetry: our physical eyes image things without looking into them. A photographic expression will not be poetry or... for else there can be no manifestation on earth. The creative vital is required even for the manifestation of the Super-mind in the world. And to let the work of the creative vital come into the physical plane, the outer mind and other instruments enter the field. The best poetry is produced when the vital force of creative beauty allows itself to respond faithfully to the inspiration and the outer ...
... and decay was the last victory of the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother for the earth and it is from the subtle physical plane that this work continues until it is completed. [1] Amal said that the Mother and Sri Aurobindo have a “home”, an actual “abode”, on the subtle physical plane. Many ashramites have “visited” this plane and have seen them there. After this discussion silence fell and we ...
... many heads and arms—this is a vital symbolism, it is not necessary in other planes. This figure may have belonged to the subtle physical plane. The many-headed or many-armed figures belong usually to the vital plane.... The world you see is in some subtle physical plane where men see the gods according to their own idea and images of them. It is the vital plane—probably the vital physical. It ...
... Question: ‘In what sense is the Mother everywhere? Does she know all happenings in the physical plane?’ His answer: ‘Including what Lloyd George 93 had for breakfast today or what Roosevelt 94 said to his wife about the servants? Why should the Mother “know” in the human way all happenings in the physical plane? Her business in her embodiment is to know the workings of the universal forces and use ...
... happened because the supramental Power had entered her body. The supramental world where Sri Aurobindo has his home was very near to the material world, and like the latter it also existed in the physical plane, as it were, (but still hidden behind an invisible screen) and completely worked out. The Mother stayed there two days, two full days of absolute bliss. Sri Aurobindo was together with her all... level of existence between gross matter and the vital which has to be traversed by everything that appears and happens in matter, and where it is prepared. We read in The Life Divine : ‘In the physical plane or close to it there are believed to be layers of greater and greater subtlety which may be regarded as sub-planes of the physical with a vital and a mental character; these are at once surrounding ...
... and when he saw me, he could scarcely believe his eyes! He said, 'But my god, is it you?' I said, 'Of course!' Only when we went down from the vital plane into the physical plane, all this went away—because on the physical plane, the work is much harder and we had so much to do, so many things to change. But if a force like Hers could manifest and be received here, it would have INESTIMABLE ...
... vibrating. So each one must find something that acts on himself, individually. I am only speaking of the action on the physical plane, because mentally, vitally, in all the inner parts of the being, the aspiration is always, always spontaneous. I am referring only to the physical plane. The physical seems to be more open to something that is repetitious—for example, the music we play on Sundays, which ...
... Our Light and Delight 18 The Mother and the Beings of the Vital Plane The Mother and Sri Aurobindo did not work only on the physical plane. Behind the physical are subtle realms with influences good, bad and indifferent. The Victory Day of 24 November 1926 brought the Overmind Gods into direct alliance with our Gurus' purpose of e... power which was the ultimate aim, came into repeated use during the Second World War. This war brought into play two figures whom Sri Aurobindo and the Mother recognised as extending into the physical plane the occult Evil at its most dangerous. Hitler was seen as possessed by the Rakshasa-aspect of that Evil. The Rakshasa is a devouring "Giant" who openly declares his enormous greed and makes ...
... have been developing and testing all our lives. I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse Forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer... Tell me however, do you ever sing—I don't mean music of the spheres but our mortal songs with musical intervals as we understand? As for instance Mother does ? No—I don't sing on the physical plane. My education in England was badly neglected—though people say to the contrary. I filled in most of the lacunae afterwards, but some remained of which the musical gap is one. But that is no reason ...
... ... In what sense is the Mother everywhere? Does the Mother know all happenings in the physical plane? Sri Aurobindo: Including what Lloyd George had for breakfast today or what Roosevelt said to his wife about the servants? Why should the Mother 'know' in the human way all happenings in the physical plane? ... All knowledge is available in her universal self, but she brings forward only what ...
... 1925, Mother had an inflammation of the knee. On May 25 of the same year, Sri Aurobindo noted in a letter, The condition here is not very good. I am at present fighting the difficulties on the physical plane.' (Cited by A.B. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, p. 203.) Note that in 1925 the Nazi Party was founded. Page 82 of iridescent light reclining with his head on his hand, fast asleep... Mother; everything was under test. As Sri Aurobindo pointed out: "... I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane....'¹ *** The Mother was Shakti in action. After a full day's work starting from 4 a.m., she would go at 1 a.m. to Sri Aurobindo's room. With Sri Aurobindo, there was hardly any talk, ...
... I am told by S that the people we see in our dreams are sometimes parts of our own being, and that the mind gives them the forms of men or women, with whom we are acquainted on the physical plane. Is it true? It is not parts of our own real "being" usually. It is different forces and forms of nature — whether of Page 219 general nature or of our... bound by the ignorant nature. Page 226 It is obviously an experience. It is not symbolic, so you can't ask what it signifies—it was a thing that happened, just as on the physical plane Mother might put something on you. In today's dream I went to the Ashram Dining Room ( Aroume). Casually I paid a visit to Y. As I was approaching him I felt as if stepping towards ...
... psycho-vital or physico-vital or even the subtle physical plane. This New Creation is the creation of the Divine Love - the Mother's Love. Morning Star - Venus, Goddess of Love - embodying New Creation. Amber colour representing a particular plane of consciousness. Yellow+red+a touch of brown - physico-vital or even subtle physical plane - the New Creation come down on that plane. ...
... Master went into a deeper retirement, and the Mother took full charge of the Ashram. It was popularly assumed that the world of the Overmind (or the world of the gods) had come down even to the physical plane. Sure enough, in the ensuing days, weeks and months, the sadhaks had striking experiences - "minute-to-minute miracles", as K.D. Sethna describes them. Some of these sadhaks had the feeling that... transmutation. But when Page 587 one strays lower - to the heart which is the seat of the emotions, to the vital centre where the cauldron of desire keeps boiling constantly, to the physical plane where pain and pleasure fight their own unending battles, and to the still lower subconscient region of nightmarish fancies and the inconscient cellular mini-universes where a Walpurgis-night is ...
... affected part, thereby restoring normal circulation ... this is a method of curing diseases by pure, subtle force. Something from the occult plane comes down and removes the obstacle from the physical plane. 2 This was for curing existing ailments, but Dr. Okhata and the Kobayashis used their still-sitting meditation more widely for prophylactic purposes also - in fact, for promoting the... those in the picture, and indeed that was how her twins looked when they were born, so unlike their father and mother. If the strength of aspiration could have so decisive an effect even on the physical plane, surely the right aspiration would mould the child's mind and sensibility and entire character as well. Mirra felt that the intensity of the mother's aspiration could actually prove stronger ...
... actual occurrence on the physical plane. So that there are a number of facts which are there to show that there are dormant faculties in man. These are not spiritually the highest faculties but these definitely prove that the present sense-apparatus and reason are not the only instruments available to man. And there are facts and things that happen actually on the physical plane which prove the existence ...
... other on the physical plane, was not a chance coincidence, but a decree and dispensation of Providence for the great work of the future. To say that their souls are complementary to each other, that is, each filling up what lacks in the other, as some people have suggested, is not true; for, a searching perusal of their respective thoughts before their meeting on the physical plane does not bear ...
... before select audiences in France, to substantiate our thesis that the identity between the ideal of the Mother's life and that of Sri Aurobindo's, even when they did not know each other on the physical plane, was not a chance coincidence, but a decree and dispensation of Providence for the great work of the future. To say that their souls are complementary to each other, that is, each filling up... not true, for, a ¹ The Mother met Sri Aurobindo on the 29th March 1914, as said above Page 338 searching perusal of their respective thoughts before their meeting on the physical plane does not bear it out. The Mother's mission is so definitely outlined in the Prayers of between 1912 and 1914 that it betrays no trace of an incomplete- ness or a wide gap anywhere to be filled ...
... that he was launching as the organ of the Swaraj Party, but Sri Aurobindo replied on 25 August 1923 that he would prefer not to send such a message, for he felt that any public support on the physical plane was more likely to interfere with the effectiveness of the silent occult support that he was giving to the cause already. The phenomenal success of the Swaraj Party during the next two years made... comes when what is true in the being, what is not mental but deeper, and which must be used by the Divine, - the moment comes when this is awakened. This happens when the force descends into the physical plane. What was mental or vital is rejected, but the true forms of action continue. 33 But hesitations, setbacks, uncertainties alternated with reviving hopes, forced marches and relaxations ...
... give it a legitimate channel of escape. No intelligent leader in India, Moderate or Nationalist, would use his influence to precipitate a collision between the authorities and the people on the physical plane in which the people can only act with a temporary strength while the bureaucracy can exercise a settled and at present irresistible pressure. In the moral struggle where determination, unity and ...
... arouse and set to its work; what is latent we have to evoke and educate. Here there are two aspects of the body consciousness, one which seems to be a kind of automatism carrying on its work in the physical plane without any intervention of the mind and in parts even beyond any possibility of direct observation by the mind or, if conscious or observable, still proceeding or capable of continuing, when once ...
... results in other minds than that of the user, but can produce vibrations in the mental and vital atmosphere which result in effects, in actions and even in the production of material forms on the physical plane. As a matter of fact, even ordinarily, even daily and hourly we do produce by the word within us thought-vibrations, thought-forms which result in corresponding vital and physical vibrations ...
... matter, life by life or else to get behind both of them, discover pure mind & its powers & apply them to his eternal object. His achievements in the struggle with the laws of physical Nature on the physical plane itself are even now considerable; he has been able to seize on her physical forces & harness them to processes & results which she with all her large & gigantic movements has never attempted,—and ...
... ethical problem raised by a conflict in which we have on one side the dharma of the man of action, a prince and warrior and leader of men, the protagonist of a great crisis, of a struggle on the physical plane, the plane of actual life, between the powers of right and justice and the powers of wrong and injustice, the demand of the destiny of the race upon him that he shall resist and give battle and ...
... have been developing and testing all our lives. I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse Forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer ...
... Mother, MP has sent me the following letter: Dear Sir, I shall be thankful if you will get clarification from the Mother on the following three points: 1. On the subtle-physical plane, was there any creation before or is a new one being created by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother with new types of beings or for the souls that are developed and transformed on earth? 2. Sri Aurobindo ...
... difficulties of the realisation and the transformation and overcoming them for ourselves. It has been done to a sufficient degree on the other planes - but not yet on the most material part of the physical plane. Till it is done, the fight there continues....The Mother's difficulties are not her own; she bears the difficulties of others and those that are inherent Page 445 in the general ...
... bidding, on November 24, 1926. The year 1973 completed, in November, 47 years of her creative role as the Ashram's Head—no less than its Heart. The number in my dream appears to mean that, on the physical plane, this completion was also the end. In view of the termination of the Mother's physical presence amongst us, the words "Matter-of-fact" and "Independence" acquire, in the meanings I have tried ...
... one thing because they are one key (there are others) to contact with the other worlds or with the inner worlds and all that is there and these are regions of immense riches which far surpass the physical plane as it is at present. One enters into a larger freer self and a larger more plastic world; of course individual visions only give a contact, not an actual entrance, but the power of vision a ...
... Marvellous, in His samkalpa. But for that to happen "the propitious hour" had to arrive. Because they were sent by Him it is no wonder that they, even without coming in contact with each other on the physical plane, should have given the same Mantra for the Transformation of Life. Indeed there cannot be any contingent spatiotemporal separation in the Mantra. The Mantra existed in the very samkalpa itself ...
... you need not know now. The one advantage of having a good psychic is that there will be faith and certainty that the thing will come down. It is this that is necessary to fight the things on the physical plane. What they say Cue... it is faith. The nature of the Physical is to refuse power and light. But your faith brings down into the physical, the power and the light. 3) Tirupatti: You ask me to ...
... not that in time it was thwarted and victory decisively turned in favour of the Incarnate? But then of this Yajna-Purusha what is the truth of truth, satyasya satyam ? If Yajna on the physical plane is a celebrated fact, a cherished institution, an ever-living and ever-nourishing reality, if it is enduring here in spite of the travails of time, it must have had its origin, had its first birth ...
... you need not know now. The one advantage of having a good psychic is that there will be faith and certainty that the thing will come down. It is this that is necessary to fight the things on the physical plane. What they say Cue... it is faith. The nature of the Physical is to refuse power and light. But your faith brings down into the physical, the power and the light. You ask me to be always conscious ...
... the terrestrial evolution. Mind, subconscious in all Matter and evolving in Matter, has developed these physical organs in order to apply its inherent capacities of sight, hearing, etc. on the physical plane by physical means for a physical life; but they are inherent capacities and not dependent on the circumstance of terrestrial evolution and they can be employed without the use of the physical ...
... the obstacle is bound to break before long if we do not get tired out by the obstinacy of the resistance. I am just now very much concentrated in the effort to bring down the supramental into the physical plane which demands a very constant and sustained effort and it is for this reason that I have not been able to answer letters. I shall decide about Khitish when the time for your return draws near. ...
... inertia, obscurity, mechanical activity, repetitive-ness, chaotic movement and narrowness or constriction. Unlike the mental and the vital planes of the being which are relatively more conscious, the physical plane is largely below the level of awareness. Therefore we become better aware of the characteristics of physical consciousness Page 86 when these manifest through the "physical mind" (part ...
... disciple: ‘I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years’ his spiritual knowledge and experience ‘more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane’. The Record of Yoga bears this out in detail. It may be looked on as the laboratory notebook of an extended series of experiments of yoga.” (Peter Heehs 959) For he had no intention “of giving ...
... Him upon Earth in a life divine. This, along with a practical discipline for its accomplishment, was given to me during my body’s sleep by several teachers, some of whom I met afterwards on the physical plane.’ 5 The self-discovery, the self-realization took place gradually. We have already seen how Mirra had found the inner Divine, thanks to the teachings of Alma and Théon in the Revue cosmique ...
... to prepare the way to a certain extent for others to come and perfect it. But later the disciples around him made him believe himself to be the man destined to bring down the Supermind into the physical plane, and naturally the whole thing came to a smash. His wife saw that the Supermind was not to be attained by them and that the venture had failed for the time being, and so she gave up her body. It ...
... psychological condition and attitude have a direct formative influence on the embryo taking shape in their body. She gives a couple of concrete examples and adds: ‘If we can obtain such results on the physical plane where the materials are the least plastic, how much more so on the psychological plane where the influence of thought and will is so powerful.’ Then she expounds Sri Aurobindo’s and her view ...
... external material because she has to keep on a level with the sadhaks. And what then? If she is not to be allowed to protect herself, the work, the sadhaks against the attacks of the Asuras on the physical plane—for it is there that there is the who question—then what is to be done? what can be done? Nothing. We can only wait for the supramental descent—and descent is methodical but slow, for the opposition ...
... yourself were beginning to take notice. The next step is for the sadhaks themselves to take; they must make it possible (by their change of attitude, by their resolution to rise on the lower vital and physical plane into the true consciousness) for a union with the Mother on that plane in the right way and with the right result to become possible. More I cannot say just now; but I fully intend to be more ...
... they are there in a latent state, something like a piece of music that is recorded without being played. When I need to know with my physical consciousness, I make the contact with the subtle physical plane and the disc begins to turn. Then I see how things are, their development in time, the actual result.’ 31 What is an emanation of the Mother? Sri Aurobindo explained: ‘The Emanation is ...
... lurch. Actually the Mother has clearly said that SriAurobindo, on leaving his body, is yet very close to us, for he has become not just a general influence: he has taken his station in the subtle-physical plane and will remain there until his work is completed. The Mother too is surely poised on the same plane to work along with the Master towards the fulfilment of their mission. Besides, we have had ...
... now they are not merely discarnate spirits. Sri Aurobindo has given the assurance through the Mother that he would remain as a personal presence in "the earth's atmosphere" - that is, the subtle-physical plane, which is the plane closest to the earth - until the work he had undertaken is fulfilled. According to the Mother, he is there in a subtle-physical body very much like the form he had before but ...
... with the Lord is so deep and strong and continuous that it overflows into the outer waking consciousness and you had those marvellous five minutes of utter soul-life in the wakeful state on the physical plane just after the dream. What happened is the promise of a more luminous future than ever before. Try to evoke the atmosphere and the feel of those five minutes and even a faint breath of them will ...
... occasionally we do meet them in the early period after their departure. Since departed sadhaks and sadhikas live with the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and since the latter two are established on the subtle-physical plane our dead friends are also there. But I conceive that they are absorbed in being with the dual Divine and do not bother to be concerned. Page 58 with earth-affairs. Only rarely ...
... not at all out of his own external human mind but by inspiration, as the mouthpiece of the Gods. "The originating source may be anywhere; the poetry may arise or descend from the subtle physical plane, from the higher or lower vital itself, from the dynamic or creative 1 The expression—"the vital"—in this sentence is a special term of Sri Aurobindo's and must not be taken ...
... Aurobindo and she had made. But, just as Sri Aurobindo found that he could work for the goal better by leaving his body and concentrating everything in the Mother's, and himself acting from the subtle-physical plane, so too she found that she could fulfil his Yoga of Supramental Descent and Transformation better by taking up into her supramental body the greatest victory of this Yoga—sufficient if not full ...
... contributions to our civilisation, his roots must be strongly embedded in firm soil, otherwise his growth becomes top-heavy." A still more suggestive remark soon follows: "Just as in the physical plane the germ of man works in the background while woman carries it within her and nurses it into life, so in the mental plane the inspiration of woman must first implant its seed in man's subconscious ...
... far-reaching consequences. Somebody from Canada had sent him the following quotation from Sri Aurobindo: ‘The physical nearness to the Mother is indispensable for the fullness of the sadhana on the physical plane. Transformation of the physical and external being is not possible otherwise.’ Therefore the ‘Canadian question’ was formulated: ‘How are we to interpret these words in the light of the Mother’s ...
... to the Spirit March 4, 1932 I have repeatedly said recently that we are trying against great difficulties to bring down the Supramental into the physical plane. If the Supramental were already there, the body divinized, matter transformed, there would be no difficulty and no need of the endeavour. I would recall to you what I said in my letter to D ...
... of experience into objective result? Is it to put the experience in practice—in actual physical life? A. No, in each plane there is an objective as well as a subjective side. It is not the physical plane and life alone that are objective. Sri Aurobindo ...
... there are some planes where all the notations of this world—its conditions, circumstances and changes are noted. There are others still where things become ready prearranged to manifest upon the physical plane. Do these planes of notations and prearrangements belong to the overmind? Explanation: It is from or at least through the overmind plane that the prearrangement comes. And from it the determining ...
... birth into the body and has that for its fulcrum, its condition of action and its condition of evolutionary persistence. Birth then is a necessity of the manifestation of the Purusha on the physical plane; but his birth, whether the human or any other, cannot be in this world-order an isolated accident or a sudden excursion of a soul into physicality without any preparing past to it or any fulfilling ...
... necessary to assign any single plane to this manifestation—in fact there can be a reflection or possession of it or of its conditions on any plane of consciousness—the mental, vital or even the subtle physical plane. The explanation of it which you mention is not therefore excluded, it is quite feasible. (6) It is not possible to situate Nirvana as a world or plane, for the Nirvana push is to a withdrawal ...
... existing as if for its and their own sake, under its own laws, for its own manifestation without apparent regard for other members of the great series. Thus, if we regard the vital or the subtle physical plane, we see great ranges of it (most of it) existing in themselves, without any relation with the material world and with no movement to affect or influence it, still less to precipitate a corresponding ...
... can now see and feel directly before there is any physical sign or even vital intimation of their working. We acquire too the knowledge and sense of the mind-action of other beings whether on the physical plane or on those above it; and the higher capacities of the mental being,—occult powers or siddhis, but of a much rarer or subtler kind than those proper to the vital plane,—naturally awake in our ...
... dark & false because they do not fulfil the mental projections, instead of being seen as a necessary medium & modifying force necessary for the right realisation of the thing destined upon the physical plane. The strength of this plane of consciousness is external to the system even while in possession of it by abhisti , by ábhava ; it belongs to others & not to the personal experience or temperament ...
... as spiritual beings and so it was easier to feel the presence than to see any physical form. Not that the form cannot be there, but it is less insistent and therefore not so soon seen as on the physical plane. The silence in the head and heart and the emptiness are both necessary and desirable. When they are there, the consciousness finds them natural and they give it the sense of lightness and release; ...
... experience. The silvery narrow way upward is the path of the spiritual consciousness. Earth and Patala Patala simply means the subconscient below the Earth—the Earth being the conscious physical plane. You had asked the other day about the subconscient, what it was. In the vision you describe you were shown the universal Page 153 subconscient in the figure of Patala, a place ...
... live without the physical consciousness, but you can live more centrally in the psychic and other parts and by them transform the physical. The Ascent of the Being The being is here on the physical plane although in touch with the mental and vital. The being that is the individual consciousness has to ascend and become conscious of all the planes (vital, mental and those above the mental) until ...
... Physical Nature The mind, life and body are the instruments for manifestation. Of course the psychic can manifest things by itself inwardly or in its own plane, but for manifestation in the physical plane the instrumentality of the other parts is needed. These [ questions about the transformation of the lower worlds ] are questions with which we need not concern ourselves at present. To answer ...
... from all control—and that was why I felt compelled to call your attention to the peril of a hostile Maya. As for voices, there are many voices; each Force, each movement of the mental, vital, physical plane may equip itself with a voice. Your voices were not even at one with each other; one said one thing, when it did not work out another said something inconsistent with it; but you were attached ...
... and self but in the nature. I do not recollect what I had written, but this is the inner close relation as opposed to an outer relation which consists only in how one meets her on the external physical plane. It is quite possible—and actual—to have this inner close relation even if physically one sees her only at pranam and meditation and once a year perhaps on the birthday. 29 June 1935 I don't ...
... manifestation. Then I saw that in the sky Sri Aurobindo's light and red light were manifesting in the form of a globe. Does this signify the manifestation of Sri Aurobindo's divine light on the physical plane? Page 517 Yes. Then I saw that Sri Aurobindo's light was manifesting on a sea along with another light of pale blue colour. Does this mean that in the vastness of consciousness ...
... embodies the Divine Force, not to follow one's own way but hers; this is the psychic submission that is most needed. So long as it is not there, a full opening of the sadhana on the vital and the physical plane is hardly possible. To carry on the sadhana in one's way and according to the counsels of the individual mind and emotional being carries you only a little distance—it does not bring to the goal ...
... spiritual, the other on the material plane. America must be able to receive freely India's riches and to give freely in return from her own for the material organisation of a higher life on the physical plane; this is at once a condition and her chance. At present it is only a possibility; let us see whether it can be made an achieved and perfected symbol. The book "Some I.L.O.F. Correspondence" ...
... that comes down from above is the one that works to transform the consciousness into that of a higher spiritual being. Before that the Mother's Force works in the psychic, mental, vital and the physical plane itself to support, purify and psychically change the consciousness. When you began to meditate, you saw the Mother's face; that is very good, it means that there is an inner connection ...
... Concentration, Meditation and Japa Letters on Yoga - II Chapter II Mantra and Japa The Word The word is a sound expressive of the idea. In the supra-physical plane when an idea has to be realised, one can by repeating the word-expression of it, produce vibrations which prepare the mind for the realisation of the idea. That is the principle of the Mantra and ...
... because she has to Page 69 keep on a level with the sadhaks. And what then? If she is not to be allowed to protect herself, the work, the sadhaks, against the attacks of the Asuras on the physical plane—for it is there that there is the whole question,—then what is to be done? what can be done? Nothing. We can only wait for the supramental descent—and that descent is methodical but slow, for the ...
... the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Value of Darshan The Mother is within but the darshan of her helps to realise the Divine on the physical plane also. 11 May 1933 I would like to know if it is harmful to talk while waiting for the Mother to come out? I sometimes cannot help talking, laughing and joking. If you attach any value ...
... the kind. "The Supreme Consciousness knows everything before-hand, because everything is realised there in her eternity. But for the sake of her play and in order to carry out actually on the physical plane what is foreordained in her own supreme self, she moves here upon earth as if she did not know the whole story; she works as if it was a new and untried thread that she was weaving." Questions ...
... dealings with them unless you have the power to crush and destroy them. If you are forced into contact with them, beware of the spell they can cast. These vital beings, when they manifest on the physical plane, have always a great hypnotic power; for the centre of their consciousness is in the vital world and not in the material and they are not veiled and dwarfed by the material consciousness as human ...
... picture. You see that I succeeded quite well! In truth, she could be proud of her success, and her example is of great utility for other women. But if we can obtain such results on the physical plane where the materials are the least plastic, how much more so on the psychological plane where the influence of thought and will is so powerful. Why accept the obscure bonds of heredity and atavism- ...
... plane, the material plane—the purely material physical, mental and vital plane. It is only a higher knowledge and a contact with the higher planes and the descent of these higher planes into the physical plane, which can change circumstances. So too, if one succeeded in bringing down the supramental plane permanently into the physical life, physical life would be transformed, that is, it would change ...
... purpose." How does money manifest on other planes? What other planes? He speaks of the vital and physical, doesn't he?... that it is a force which manifests on the vital plane and the physical plane. The vital forces have a very great influence over money. ( After a silence ) You see, when one thinks of money, one thinks of bank-notes or coins or some kind of wealth, some precious things ...
... existing as if for its and their own sake, under its own laws, for its own manifestation without apparent regard for the other members of the great series. Thus, if we regard the vital or the subtle physical plane, We See great ranges of it, (most of it),existing in themselves, Without any relation with the material world and with no movement to affect or influence it, still less to precipitate a corresponding ...
... truth because the experiences are coloured by the individuality of the seer. One might ask whether Science itself has arrived at any ultimate truth; on the contrary, ultimate truth, even on the physical plane, seems to recede as Science advances. Science started on the assumption that the ultimate truth must be physical and objective - and the objective Ultimate (or even less than that) would explain ...
... make possible a spiritual and psychic communion on the most physical and external planes by which there would be an interchange of forces, a continuous increase of the higher consciousness on the physical plane, a more and more rapid change of the external nature of the sadhakas and afterwards an increasing descent of the supramental light and power into Matter. But for this to be done there was needed ...
... 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 plane. psyche —the soul; spark of the Divine before it has evolved into an individualised being; the divine essence in the individual. In the course of the evolution, the soul grows and evolves in ...
... action If the cosmic consciousness, but one can at first have only an indirect connection with it; things come do.wn from it through intermediate ranges into a larger mind-plane, life-plane, subtle physical plane and come very much changed and diminished in the transmission, without anything like the full power and truth they have in the Overmind itself on its native levels. Most of the movements come not ...
... representative of himself on each plane of the consciousness. On the mental plane it is the true mental being, manomaya puruṣa , on the vital plane the true vital being, prāṇamaya puruṣa , on the physical plane the true physical being, annamaya puruṣa . Each being, therefore is, so long as the Ignorance lasts, centred round his mental, vital or physical Purusha, according to the plane on which he pr ...
... 10 The Supreme Consciousness knows everything beforehand, because everything is realised there in her eternity. But for the sake of her play and in order to carry out actually on the physical plane what is foreordained in her own supreme self, she moves here upon earth as if she did not know the whole story; she works as if it was a new and untried thread that she was weaving. It is this ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Arts On the physical plane it is in beauty that the Divine expresses Himself. In the physical world, of all things it is beauty that expresses best the Divine. The physical world is the world of form and the perfection of form is beauty. Beauty interprets, expresses, manifests the Eternal ...
... have the capacity of infusing Matter with the possibility to react and refuse the bad vibration and ultimately to correct it so that it becomes impossible for it to go on expressing itself on the physical plane. This can be done without risk or danger only by one who moves in the gnostic realms and possesses in his mental faculties the light of the spirit and the power of the truth. He, the divine ...
... learn, to learn Page 72 always more and always better, so that one day you may be capable of opening yourselves to the new force and of giving it the possibility of manifesting on the physical plane. For that is our programme and we must not forget it. To understand the true reason why you are here, you must remember that we want to become instruments that are as perfect as possible, instruments ...
... Page 6 The lack of receptivity of the earth and men is mostly responsible for the decision Sri Aurobindo has taken regarding his body. But one thing is certain: what has happened on the physical plane affects in no way the truth of his teaching. All that he has said is perfectly true and remains so. Time and the course of events will prove it abundantly. 8 December 1950 To Thee who ...
... manifesting Him upon earth in a life divine. This, along with a practical discipline for its fulfilment, was given to me during my body's sleep by several teachers, some of whom I met afterwards on the physical plane. Later on, as the interior and exterior development proceeded, the spiritual and psychic relation with one of these beings became more and more clear and frequent; and although I knew little ...
... they are there in a latent state, something like a piece of music that is recorded without being played, and when I need to know with my physical consciousness, I make contact with this subtle physical plane and the disc begins to turn. Then I see how things are, their development in time, the actual result. And if for some reason you write to me asking for my help and I answer "I am with you", ...
... be reconciled That is the future education of the race if it is to make any real progress. Page 180 July 26, 1926 Generally woman can be said to be more efficient on the physical plane, because she follows her intuitions. She is more able to arrange matter generally, goes straight to the thing to be done, while man wanders forth into ideas and mental constructions. It can be ...
... lessens cannot bring freedom. Freedom has to be experienced in the whole of life and in all sensations. As a matter of fact I have made a whole series of studies on the subject, on the purely physical plane.... In order to be above all possible error, we tend to eliminate any occasion for error. For example, if you do not want to say any useless words, you stop speaking; people who take a vow of silence ...
... as if something wants to tear the life out of the body. It takes that form. ( silence ) It is quite evident that X and I are not on the same plane. His power and his action are on a mental-physical plane ( gesture below ), and this may bring me some complications by making me do a work I usually have nothing to do with. You have often told me that each time he comes it stirs up lower things ...
... quiet, quiet, we will wait; and the impression (but vague, distant and uncertain) of some attempt being made to introduce a very good possibility into the atmosphere. I never see on the purely physical plane, you know (it's always on the subtle physical, the plane of possibilities—that's more real to me; the purely physical generally eludes me, but I see the subtle physical clearly), and I was seeing ...
... can? You serve me as best you can, but your best of tomorrow must be better than your best of today. Page 179 Without discipline it is impossible to realise anything on the physical plane. If your heart were not willing to submit to the strict discipline of beating regularly and constantly, you would not be able to live upon earth. The great realisers have always been the great ...
... physical vibration 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 ...
... check from above the value of their statements. Page 96 With a universal mental vision, you can see (and this is very interesting) how the mental world operates to get realized on the physical plane. You see the various mental formations, how they converge, conflict, combine and relate to one another, which ones get the upper hand, exert a stronger influence and achieve a more total realization ...
... picture you have given me? Is it not the current of your serene peace and of your divine force which constantly floods me? Yes, it is the symbol of the descent of the divine forces upon the physical plane. 25 January 1934 Water signifies many things such as fluidity, plasticity, suppleness, the purifying principle. It is the driving force and marks the beginning of organised life. 1 ...
... earthly evolution until the Supramental is well-established in it. This is absolutely evident. What is meant by "waiting at our gates"? Does it mean that it has come down up to the subtle physical plane? I did not specify what gates they are. "Waiting at our gates for our call, to come down upon earth..."—does this mean that it will not come down upon earth until it is called? Certainly ...
... and the transformation and overcoming them for ourselves. It has been done to Page 128 a sufficient degree on the other planes - but not yet on the most material part of the physical plane. Till it is done, the fight there continues... The Mother's difficulties are not her own; she bears the difficulties of others and those that are inherent in the general action and work for the ...
... lasting contributions to our civilisation, his roots must be strongly embedded in firm soil, otherwise his growth becomes topheavy." A still more suggestive remark soon follows: "Just as in the physical plane the germ of man works in the background while woman carries it within her and nurses it into life, so in the mental Page 176 plane the inspiration of woman must first implant ...
... woodwork above it were making up her face and form. But this observation on my side did not make any difference to my seeing her. The material things were the support of her projection into the physical plane. I saw her for nearly one-fourth of a minute. It was fine to feel that she was with me even when I was not in Pondicherry. Then I shut my eyes for a moment and opened them once more. She was still ...
... being from beyond with the psychic being in a grown-up body that is somehow ready on earth or else she may by an occult action project a form of herself directly into our space-time form the subtle-physical plane. Since her work has to be completed she must and will choose to be a part of earth-life again. Let us do our utmost to prepare ourselves for the mighty event instead of indulging in grandiose ...
... shall start from the beginning. How was this physical contact established? You know very well from our previous talks about my psychic and intellectual contact with Him before I met Him on the physical plane. That was all perhaps a sort of preparation for this physical meeting. You know what happened in the year 1938 - just on the eve of the November Darshan. That was the fateful year. People from ...
... and alive." And "The lack of receptivity of the earth and men is mostly responsible for the decision Sri Aurobindo has taken regarding his body. But one thing is certain: what has happened on the physical plane affects in no way the truth of his teaching. All that he has said is perfectly true and remains so. Time and the course of events will prove it abundantly." And how much he worked for us, for the ...
... that guide them. Of these three strata which form the human adhara, it is the vital which holds the key to man's nature. It is the executive power, the force that fashions the realities on the physical plane; it is what creates the character. The power of thought and sentiment is often much too exaggerated, even so the power of tl1.e body, that of physical and external rules and regulations. The mental ...
... modified, even deformed in another respect. The work of purification certainly goes 'on and until that is complete and there comes the fullest expression, it will continue. The action of light on the physical plane, for example, on the body of the Cosmic Being is so blurred and confusing apparently that it looks almost like the action of Darkness. And yet the Dark Night of the soul is not simply the obscurity ...
... physical-vital supports the life of the more external activities and all physical sensations, hungers, cravings, satisfactions. It is full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane. The vital-physical is below the mental-physical, but above the material. However, they inter-penetrate each other. The body-energy is a manifestation of material forces supported by a vit ...
... represents the subliminal condition of our conscious existence, the large luminous realm of interior consciousness, that corresponds to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane and even a subtle physical plane of our being. Indeed, behind our outer existence, our outer mind and life and body, Our larger being sits behind cryptic walls: There are greatnesses hidden in our unseen parts ...
... other worlds. The very first region he enters into is an unpleasant one which the Mother has named "domaine de la Mort", "the domain of death". This region lies on the border between the subtle physical plane and the lower vital world. The Mother has spoken extensively about this "Death-domain" in two of her evening conversations, those of March 10, 1954 and December 29,1954. Readers are advised to ...
... things going." (The Mother, pp. 228, 229) This was in 1945. And what is the state of affairs now in the year 1995, especially when both the Mother and Sri Aurobindo have withdrawn from the physical plane and when new unprepared people who have had no acquaintance with the Mother's way of working are joining the Ashram in large numbers? The Mother herself has said: "As long as I was physically ...
... The intraconscient represents the subliminal part of our existence, the large luminous realm of interior consciousness, that corresponds to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane and even subtle physical plane of our being. Indeed, behind our outer existence, our outer mind and life and body, "Our larger being sits behind cryptic walls: There are greatnesses hidden in our unseen parts ...
... Kena Upanishad: "Mind, subconscious in all Matter and evolving in Matter, has developed these physical organs in order to apply its inherent capacities of sight, hearing, etc. on the physical plane by physical means for a physical life... [But] sight and the other senses are not mere results of the development of our physical organs in the terrestrial evolution... they are inherent capacities ...
... the floor was of a kind Page 26 unknown to me: it was as if swords of fire were slashing into me at a number of places.” So, such was the situation prevailing on the purely physical plane. But what was the state of Amal-da’s mind and heart at that time? Let us listen to him continuing the narration: “As I lay supine in great physical distress I made a strange discovery. In ...
... The reason is that a particular theory may or may not accept a second basic postulate, the postulate of the existence of many other supraphysical worlds of manifestation apart from our well-known physical plane of existence. If a theory does not accept the existence of any supraphysical realm of manifestation, the terrestrial life and body being the sole fields of activity for the persistent unevolving ...
... and testing on our lives. I think I can say that I have been Page 125 testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory and his method on the physical plane."100 There is, it can be said, no doubt that SriAurobindo's and the Mother's account of the integral yoga can successfully stand the most rigourous tests that can legitimately be applied in ...
... manifesting Him upon earth in a life divine. This, along with a practical discipline for its fulfilment, was given to me during my body's sleep by several teachers, some of whom I met afterwards on the physical plane. Later on, as the interior and exterior development proceeded the spiritual and psychic relation with one of these beings became more and more clear and frequent; and although I knew little ...
... present (the last is rare, but does happen), but not always in the forms suggested by the dream. It is such things that happen on the vital plane, very rarely (though that too does happen) on the physical plane. But also they may be merely possibilities conjectured by one's own vital mind about people. So one must know which it is of these various possibilities before getting sad about dreams! For instance ...
... they are there in a latent state, something like a piece of music that is recorded without being played. When I need to know with my physical consciousness, I make the contact with the subtle physical plane and the disc begins to turn. Then I see how things are, their development in time, the actual result. And if for some reason or other, you write to me asking for my help and I answer "I am with ...
... 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 with the play of sex? Page 44 Of course, it is the vital that gives it its intensity and power to hold the consciousness. ...
... During today's Pranam, I perceived the Mother in a majestic form, seated very high. Of course she is always that inwardly. But what I experienced this morning was something on the physical plane and seen by my human eyes. Her grandeur showed as if she had already conquered the whole universe! Yes, the power was there in the body. Both your perception and reaction are right ...
... and special result; but one can follow a different line that is more subtle, more comprehensive and complete. Naturally, there is a physical limit somewhere to your comprehensiveness; for on the physical plane you are confined in respect of time and space; and also it is true that great things are difficult to achieve unless there is a special concentration. But if you want to lead a higher and deeper ...
... glamour of a miracle would fall to the ground. A miracle is nothing but the intervention of a force from another plane of consciousness. It must be recognised at the very outset that the physical plane of existence is not the only reality, there are many other planes superimposed one upon another, each having its own special consciousness and power, its own laws of being and action. Obviously ...
... modified, even deformed in another respect. The work of purification certainly goes on and until that is complete and there comes the fullest expression, it will continue. The action of light on the physical plane, for example, on the body of the Cosmic Being is so blurred and confusing apparently that it looks almost like the action of Darkness. And yet the Dark Night of the soul is not simply the obscurity ...
... that guide them. Of these three strata which form the human adhara, it is the vital which holds the key to man's nature. It is the executive power, the force that fashions the realities on the physical plane; it is what creates the character. The power of thought and sentiment is often much too exaggerated, even so the power of the body, that of physical and external rules and regulations. The mental ...
... return movement, we have again a process of growth and building up of individuality and personality, with the awakening and ascension of consciousness from level page 46 to level on the physical plane and in the material embodiment, there occurs too an evolution of the personal aspect of the reality. We say that at the lowest level of involution, in Matter,. where consciousness has zero ...
... consciousness, in its return movement, we have again a process of growth and building up of individuality and personality, with the awakening and ascension of consciousness from level to level on the physical plane and in the material embodiment, there occurs too an evolution of the personal aspect of the reality. We say that at the lowest level of involution, in Matter, where consciousness has zero ...
... can follow a different line that is more subtle, more comprehensive and complete. Naturally, there is a Page 429 physical limit somewhere to your comprehensiveness; for on the physical plane you are confined in respect of time and space; and also it is true that great things are difficult to achieve unless there is a special concentration. But if you want to lead a higher and deeper ...
... recognise individuals alone as persons. But there are group personalities too. Thus each species has a generic personality, a consciousness and an ideal or intrinsic form also: the individuals on the physical plane are its various incarnations, projections and formations. Old Plato was not so naive, as we of today are apt to believe, when he spoke of the real reality of general ideas. The attributes, qualities ...
... IT is written in A Practical Guide to Integral Yoga ¹ : The physical nearness to the Mother is indispensable for the fullness of the sadhana on the physical plane. Transformation of the physical and external being is not possible otherwise. My question is: How are we to interpret these words in the light of the Mother's recent passing? Does ...
... commensurability or parallelism between the various levels of consciousness, in and through all the differences that separate them from one another. Thus an object or a movement apprehended on the physical plane has a sort of line of re-echoing images extended in a series along the whole gradation of the inner planes; otherwise viewed, an object or movement in the innermost consciousness translates itself ...
... The physical-vital supports the life of more external activities and all physical sensations, hungers, cravings, satisfactions. It is full of desires and greed and seeking for pleasure on the physical plane. The vital-physical is below the mental-physical, but above the material. However, they interpenetrate each other. The body-energy is a manifestation of material forces supported by vital-physical ...
... The physical-vital supports the life of more external activities and all physical sensations, hungers, cravings, satisfactions. It is foil of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane. The vital-physical is below the mental-physical, but above the material. However, they inter-penetrate each other. The body-energy is a manifestation of material forces supported by a vi ...
... other parts that constitute the terrestrial life. They are Page 62 dispersed and dissolved in their respective cosmic spheres. The subtle body gives up its elements to the subtle physical plane, the vital elements are taken up into the vital world and the mental elements go into the mental world,—unless the psychic being is highly developed and has organised around itself as its instrument ...
... body that has become an almost unconscious reflex action. It is a wonderful and exhilarating experience. Naturally you cannot repeat too often or carry too far an experiment of this kind on the physical plane. But you can freely deal with your inner life and consciousness. You can make your mind and your vital a clean slate, as much as you like; not once in your life, but every moment of your life ...
... is hidden behind somewhere, when it comes forward and shows itself, that is manifestation. Realisation means we express this 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 ...
... Perhaps the difference between the new race and the present man will be even greater. In fact, this race is ready to appear on earth: it is preparing the ground for itself; it is there on the subtle physical plane and is acting upon the earth to prepare for its own materialisation. It is acting at the same time on man, and all those who are fit and open to its influence are being illumined by it. Anyway ...
... causal body is the truth of the soul, whether of the individual or of the nation, and is irresistible in its self-expressive dynamic. But it may - and often does - take long to manifest on the physical plane, the length of the time depending on various spiritual and psycho- 39. At a mere glance, Sri Ramakrishna could see the soul of a man and predict his destiny. Page 189 ...
... arouse and set to its work, what is latent we have to evoke and educate. Here there are two aspects of the body consciousness, one which seems to be a kind of automatism carrying on its work in the physical plane without any intervention of the mind and in parts even beyond any possibility of direct observation by the mind or, if conscious or observable, still proceeding or capable of continuing, when once ...
... point of view, but also from the subtler viewpoint of consciousness. And this evolution has a direction; it aims towards a progressive manifestation of the powers of consciousness. Matter, on the physical plane, pressed by the forces of the vital and mental planes, of those worlds of life and thought which along with the world of matter constitute our universe, has organized itself and produced life. ...
... more so than any Russell can be". Then he adds "I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. We could never have been content with shining ideas and phrases which a Rolland or another takes for gold coin of Truth. We know well what is the difference between a subjective experience ...
... ess which is not that of his individual self. That is one test. When we live in it, we live also in other minds, in other lives and we can produce effects on others and produce effect on the physical plane and mould events. One can take part in moulding world events. The cosmic consciousness therefore is real and its effects also are real. Thus the world which is a product of cosmic consciousness ...
... experience that the time can be and should be now and not in a later age... I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer ...
... manifesting Him upon earth in a life divine. This along with a practical discipline for its fulfilment was given to me, during my body's sleep, by several teachers some of whom I met afterwards on the physical plane. Later on....the spiritual and psychic relation with one of these beings became more and more clear and pregnant...." The Mother called Him Krishna and made even a sketch of Him. In 1914 ...
... not visible however; maybe the feeling is mere imagination, a sort of wishful thinking. It may also be that this kind of subtle action of your Force may take time to be effective on the material physical plane 12 Or it may be a complete misreading of the action of the Force which was for some other purpose. But I just write to you, Mother, because it was so vivid. Keep quiet in your mind as ...
... Rolland or another takes for gold coin of Truth.., I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane." ( 18-8-1932 )10 (2) " When I concentrate, I work upon others, upon the world, upon the play of forces." (19-12-1934).11 (3) " The invisible Force producing tangible ...
... shaken-up by claws (you can’t know how painful it is, I discovered the reason why Mother moaned). That’s it. Are they on their last legs? Does it mean that things will now happen in the pure physical plane? In any case, nothing indicates that either Sujata or I should move; we never had the feeling that we had to leave. Tomorrow, November 15, a terrible birthday. Sujata had the impression that ...
... that pretty gull in our skies look like? “I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane.” Page 46 But this is a method in the flesh. Forty years of testing and solitude in a general human incomprehension.... A long voyage, and, as we shall learn, a dangerous voyage ...
... influence men and events all the world over through occult means. "All external circumstances have changed," she wrote in her diary on 19th April, which makes it impossible for work on the physical plane to be done as ardently desired. What has happened? The physical being, far from accomplishing the transformation, is only seized with dull impassivity, The constructing mind has recognised its ...
... material life of man, as we find in the writings of Sri Aurobindo. The key thoughts of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga and philosophy were also the key thoughts of the Mother's life before their meeting on the physical plane; and an absolute identity in the germinal thoughts of two such original, dynamic, spiritual personalities could have and did have but one result when they met—a, close collaboration for the fulfilment ...
... and Page 49 Mirra had first acquired a more formal basis as a result of the correspondence between them during 1910-14, and were now to lead at last to the destined meeting on the physical plane. IV Between 1911 and 1913, Mirra was associated with several related groups of seekers in Paris, including the Bahaist. 12 For some years already, Mirra's residence had served ...
... sent him straight to Nirvana). “To test” was his favorite expression: I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. 4 One day, as his right eye was red and swollen, one of his disciples suggested that it could be due to His cigar smoke—“Wait,” He replied (we do not know if He was so mischievous as to light ...
... Aurobindo said to his disciples that had Mother not been there, his realization would have remained (how shall I put it?) on a nonmaterial plane. Mother is the one who made it possible to exist on the physical plane. Towarnicki: Did she speak of the special role of woman? Sri Aurobindo spoke of Mother. That's one thing. But as for women in general, well, what can I say? I don't know. Towarnicki: ...
... consent to immolate themselves on the altar of the body, or barter away their boundless riches for a mess of pottage. Diversity in unity is the basic principle of creation—diversity not only on the physical plane, but on all the other planes of existence as well—and whenever there is a suppression of diversity, there is the implied threat of an explosion and a disruption of the social fabric,, resulting ...
... types of beings which support the complex divine play of creation indispensable to the march of the universe and cast their influence also on the earth and on the life and nature of man in this physical plane of existence. ...
... the terrestrial evolution. Mind, subconscious in all Matter and evolving in Matter, has developed these physical organs in order to apply its inherent capacities of sight, hearing, etc. on the physical plane by physical means for a physical life; but they are inherent capacities and not dependent on the circumstance of terrestrial evolution and they can be employed without the use of the physical eye ...
... through intellect and psyche to spirit, ideas which once accepted must change the whole attitude towards life. Even Science itself is constantly arriving at conclusions which only repeat upon the physical plane and in its language truths which ancient India had already affirmed from the standpoint of spiritual knowledge in the tongue of the Veda and Vedanta. Every one of these advances leads directly ...
... hymn.... Tell me, however, do you ever sing—I don't mean music of the spheres but our mortal songs with musical intervals as we understand, as for instance Mother does? No—I don't sing on the physical plane. My education in England was badly neglected—though people say to the contrary. I filled in most of the lacunae afterwards, but some remained of which the musical gap is one. But that is no reason ...
... something being taken away. But when I woke up, I did not know if it was a good or bad thing Mother took away. What was it? It was certainly a true dream of the lower vital or perhaps subtle physical plane, where the laziness, indifference, frivolity of the sadhaks is a fact and the chief obstacle to the supramental descent into Matter. Because in your inner physical you were sincere and aspiring ...
... the whole material universe. The material is a plane, isn't it? Yes, it is a final result. There is an increasing materiality and a Page 271 decreasing materiality, and the physical plane is at the centre: it is like a screen on which all the intervening vibrations are projected and held, as upon a screen—it is an image, an image of all that is happening. We notice it because it ...
... dealings with them unless you have the power to crush and destroy them. If you are forced into contact with them, beware of the spell they can cast. These vital beings, when they manifest on the physical plane, have always a great hypnotic power; for the centre of their consciousness is in the vital world and not in the material and they are not veiled or dwarfed by the material consciousness as human ...
... have the capacity of infusing Matter with the possibility to react and refuse the bad vibrations and ultimately to correct it so that it becomes impossible for it to go on expressing itself on the physical plane. "This can be done without risk or danger only by one who moves in the gnostic realms and possesses in his mental faculties the light of the spirit and the power of the truth." What is ...
... the obstacle is bound to break before long if we do not get tired out by the obstinacy of the resistance. I am just now very much concentrated in the effort to bring down the Supramental into the physical plane which demands Page 355 a very constant and sustained effort and it is for this reason that I have not been able to answer letters. I shall decide about Kshitish when the time for your ...
... long time I wrote nothing, not even any letters. Now although the needed intensity of the inner concentration is not over, it is becoming more possible for me to turn my face towards action on the physical plane. I take the opportunity of your card to do what I then failed to do, even after so long a lapse of time. I understand from your letter that there are around you a number of seekers after the ...
... them and are satisfied and ask for nothing else. 27 July 1933 Is there any special effect of physical nearness to the Mother? It is indispensable for the fullness of the sadhana on the physical plane. Transformation of the physical and external being is not possible otherwise. Is it not likely that with more outer nearness and familiarity with the Mother, there may be less inner growth ...
... surprising that the Asram does not break down altogether, if the Mother has no grasp of the physical world—those who are in that lamentable condition are not usually able to run anything on the physical plane; but perhaps it is the great grip of the thinking elements here on the physical world that keeps the Asram going in spite of the imbecility of myself and the Mother. What I notice however is that ...
... consciousness of your psychic being, and then, quite naturally, spontaneously, you will know what divine Love is. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 24 March 1951 On the physical plane the Divine expresses himself through beauty, on the mental plane through knowledge, on the vital plane through power and on the psychic plane through love. When we rise high enough, we discover ...
... possess the capacity to infuse into matter the possibility to react and refuse the bad vibration and ultimately to correct the vibration so as to prevent it from continuing to express itself on the physical plane. This can be done without danger or risk only by him who moves in the gnostic domain and possesses in his mental faculties the hght of the spirit and the force of the Truth. Page ...
... representative of himself on each plane of the consciousness. On the mental plane it is the true mental being, manomaya puruṣa , on the vital plane the true vital being, prāṇamaya puruṣa , on the physical plane the true physical being, annamaya puruṣa . Each being therefore is, so long as the Ignorance lasts, centred round his mental, vital or physical Purusha, according to the plane on which he pre ...
... Guidance on Education THE ARTS BEAUTY On the physical plane it is in beauty that the Divine expresses Himself. * In the physical world, of all things it is beauty that expresses best the Divine. The physical world is the world of form and the perfection of form is beauty. Beauty interprets, expresses, manifests the Eternal. Its role ...
... being and consciousness; for, though they subsist in themselves and have their own play and process and formulations of existence and experience, yet at the same time they penetrate and envelop the physical plane with their invisible presence and influences, and their powers seem to be here in the material world itself behind its action and objects. There are two main orders of experience in our contact ...
... our matter-bound physical mentality. It is the pressure of the supramental and spiritual worlds which is preparing to develop here the manifest power of the spirit and by it open our being on the physical plane into the freedom and infinity of the super conscient Divine; that contact, that pressure can alone liberate from the apparent Inconscience, which was our starting-point, the all-conscient Godhead ...
... Page 28 The Supreme Consciousness knows everything beforehand, because everything is realised there in her eternity. But for the sake of her play and in order to carry out actually on the physical plane what is foreordained in her own supreme self, she moves here upon earth as if she did not know the whole story; she works as if it was a new and untried thread that she was weaving. It is this ...
... existence. I deliberately do not use the word God because religions have given this name to an all-powerful being who is other than his creation and outside it. This is not correct. However, on the physical plane the difference is obvious. For we are yet all that we no longer want to be, and He, He is all that we want to become. How can we know what the divine Will is? One does not know it, one ...
... this picture. You see that I succeeded quite well!" In truth, she could be proud of her success, and her example is of great utility for other women. But if we can obtain such results on the physical plane where the materials are the least plastic, how much more so on the psychological plane where the influence of thought and will is so powerful. Why accept the obscure bonds of heredity and atavism—which ...
... recognise later on in ordinary life? There are many possibilities. But most often, it is that a communication has been established either on the mental or the vital plane or even on the subtle physical plane and it is this communication which brings about the meeting later—your dream is not only a premonition but also a condition; there is an inner relation close enough to enable you to come into contact ...
... spiritual force which would be capable of transforming both the consciousness and the material world. This force is the supramental force. What is necessary is to be receptive to its action on the physical plane, and not to run away into a distant Nirvana leaving the enemy with full power over what one abandons. It is neither sacrifice nor renunciation nor weakness which can bring the victory. It is ...
... truth of the Spirit. It is not impossible to foresee the movement where the two will unite in a very deep and very close understanding of the essential truth. So, for all those who live on the physical plane, in the physical consciousness, it is physical means and processes which have to be used in dealing with the body. And as the vast majority of human beings, even in the Ashram, live in a consciousness ...
... (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 Vital Being and Vital Consciousness The physical vital is the being of small desires and greeds etc.—the vital physical is the nervous being; ...
... which is important for self-understanding is the physical vital; it is the part of the vital which is turned entirely upon physical things, and is full of desires and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane. Closely connected with it is the vital physical, the part of the vital force which constitutes the nervous being; it is the vehicle of the nervous responses and is related to the reactions, desires ...
... Discipline is indispensable to be a man. Without discipline one is nothing but an animal. The Mother Strict discipline Without discipline it is impossible to realise anything on the physical plane. If your heart were not willing to submit to the strict discipline of beating regularly and constantly, you would not be able to live upon earth. The Mother Mastering one's lower nature ...
... If you have a universal mental vision, you can see all mental Page 126 formations. Then you see—and it is very interesting—how the mental world is organised to realise itself on the physical plane. You see the various formations, the way in which they approach and fight each other, combine together and organise themselves, the ones that prevail and gain influence and achieve a more complete ...
... of view at all; there are only vibrations. If we consider it from the psychological point of view... on the mental plane, it is very easy; on the vital plane it is not very difficult; on the physical plane it is a little heavier, for it takes the form of "needs"; but here too there has been a field of experience these last few days: the study of medical and scientific conceptions of the structure ...
... Gods belong to the Overmind plane; in the Supermind they are unified as aspects of the Divine, in the Overmind they appear as separate personalities. Any godhead can descend by emanation to the physical plane and associate himself with the evolution of a human being with whose line of manifestation he is in affinity. But these are things which cannot be very easily understood by the mind, because the ...
... from any close contact with external physical life; but it does not stand the test of objective experience. In each plane there is an objective as well as a subjective side. It is not the physical plane and life alone that are objective. When you have the power of formation of which I spoke, whatever is suggested to the mind, the mind constructs and establishes a form of it in itself. But this ...
... as the goal of all the rest, which it is, but to put it at the end of life and its habitat in another world of our being, rather than here in life as a supreme status and formative power on the physical plane. But this rules out the idea of the kingdom of God on earth, the perfectibility of society and of man in society, the evolution of a new and diviner race, and without one or other of these no universal ...
... more converted and purified and they then become very indispensable forces for the realisation. It is natural for the vital or even the mind to feel energised by something new—but for the physical plane the work always repeated is the foundation—so one has to be able at least to take a steady calm interest in it always. There must be the rasa [ in the work ], but it comes when there is ...
... feelings and this has clouded for the moment the sense of higher things and the aspiration for Truth and Purity that is their atmosphere. The Divine Love may not be able yet to manifest on the physical plane, humanity being what it is, as fully and freely as it would otherwise do, but that does not make it less close or intense than the human. It is there waiting to be understood and accepted and meanwhile ...
... spiritual endeavour that one must be prepared to sacrifice everything without reserve in order to reach the Divine through a spiritualised consciousness. If self-development on the mental, vital and physical plane is his aim that is another matter—that life is the life of the ego with the soul kept behind undeveloped or half developed. Page 15 But for the spiritual seeker the only development ...
... so that they felt the flood of energy as soon as they began the work Page 267 and it continued so long as the work had to be done. The vital is the means of effectuation on the physical plane, so its action and energy are necessary for all work—without it, if the mind only drives without the cooperation and instrumentation of the vital, there is hard and disagreeable labour and effort ...
... 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), what forces are at play on the physical plane etc. etc. Even the body becomes intuitively conscious in this way, feels without being told by the mind what it has to do, what it has to avoid, what is near it or coming to it (though unseen) ...
... action of the cosmic consciousness, but one can at first have only an indirect connection with it; things come down from it through intermediate ranges into a larger mind-plane, life-plane, subtle physical plane and come very much changed and diminished in the transmission, without anything like the full power and truth they have in the Overmind itself on its native levels. Most of the movements come not ...
... one rises to the overmind plane and sees things as they are on that plane or as they look to the consciousness which sees the other planes from the overmind view. When one is in the mind, life or physical plane, then it is the overmind Influence that comes down and modifies the mind, life or physical workings in greater or less degree according to the possibilities or the thing to be done at the moment ...
... (it is always the most difficult and the last to open up entirely), this frequent stress of illness will diminish and disappear. As for the question about the illness, perfection in the physical plane is indeed part of the ideal of the Yoga, but it is the last item and, so long as the fundamental change has not been made in the material consciousness to which the body belongs, one may have a ...
... indeed what gives it its opportunity. But if it is only for a few minutes and leaves no after effect, then the tendency ought to disappear after a time. Your dreams were mostly on the vital physical plane. There if there is any physical contact of a sexual or other kind that acts strongly on the sexual centre or on a sensory contact, it may even without raising any lust produce an emission by a ...
... many sorts of experience in each kind. What happens when one goes in is that one enters into the inner planes of consciousness, it may be the subconscient, it may be the mental, vital or subtle physical plane. From there one goes into the corresponding worlds or else one rises up into higher planes superconscious to us—to the ranges above our mind or to the spiritual mental plane in which one can unite ...
... combination. The [ Sudarshan ] Chakra symbolises the action of Sri Krishna's force. The chakra is the energy at work and it brings the first opening of the consciousness in the gross physical plane, i.e. of the mental physical, psychic physical, vital physical and the material. Yes, the circular movement and the Chakra are always signs of energy in action, generally creative action ...
... Accidents There is no such thing as a mere accident. There is some—perhaps a very slight—unconsciousness in the physical and it is taken advantage of by these small beings of the vital physical plane—who are more mischievous than consciously hostile. It is not a bad shakti that gets inside you and from there does these things—it is small forces from outside that amuse themselves by creating ...
... The Mother and the Supramental Descent Am I right in thinking that the Mother as an individual embodies all the Divine Powers and brings down the Grace more and more to the physical plane ... Yes. and that her embodiment is a chance for the entire physical to change and be transformed? It is a chance for the earth-consciousness to receive the supramental into it and ...
... us only its habitation and temple, a form of its working and an instrument of its self-expression. All is only soul and body of this delight. This is the Divine seen around us and on our own physical plane. But he may reveal himself above. We see or feel him as a high-uplifted Presence, a great infinite of Ananda above us,—or in it, our Father in heaven,—and do not feel or see him in ourselves or ...
... difficulties of the realisation and transformation and overcoming them for ourselves. It has been done to a sufficient degree on the other planes - but not yet on the most material part of the physical plane. Till it is done, the fight there continues and, though there may be and is a force of Yogic action and defence, there cannot be immunity. The Mother's difficulties are not her own; she bears the ...
... and action, of manifesting Him upon earth in a life divine. And during her body's sleep occult instructions were given to her by several teachers, some of whom she met afterwards on the physical plane. Later on, as the inner and outer development proceeded, a psychic and spiritual relation with one of these beings became more and more clear and frequent and, although she knew little of ...
... been developing and testing all our lives. I think I can say that I have been testing it day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse Forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer ...
... dated 1951: "The lack of receptivity of the earth and men is mostly responsible for the decision Sri Aurobindo has taken regarding his body. But one thing is certain: what has happened on the physical plane affects in no way the truth of his teaching. All that he said is perfectly true and remains so. Time and the course of events will prove it abundantly.” The other Message came in 1953: "Sri ...
... difficult endeavour imperative and indispensable." 5 Q. — "Is there any special effect of physical nearness to the Mother? A. — It is indispensable for the fullness of the sadhana on the physical plane. Transformation of the physical and external being is not possible otherwise." 6 The refrain in the three passages is the word "indispensable", referring to the physical presence of Sri Aurobindo ...
... results of occult-spiritual practice such 21. SABCL Vol. 29, p. 699. Page 132 as many Yogis are capable of. In that practice a force from beyond the physical plane is brought to bear upon bodily ailments like, to a considerable extent, a foreign agency subduing defects and lapses felt to be natural to the body. The occult-spiritual "miracles" are, in ...
... powerful and more disorderly than the corresponding poetry in other countries. Sri Aurobindo 13 speaks of the poetry of the life-spirit as "the pure and genuine romanticism". The poetry of the subtle-physical plane or of the creative Intelligence may contain a Romantic strain and, of course, all poetry of the life-motive (to quote another term of Sri Aurobindo's) is not necessarily Romantic any more than ...
... হয় না ৷ আমি একথা তােমাকে বার বার লিখেছিলাম ৷ আসল কথা আর একবার লিখি ৷ তােমার সাধনা নষ্ট হয়নি, যা পেয়েছিলে তাও চলে যায় নি, পর্দার পিছনে পড়েছে শুধু ৷ সাধনার পথে একটা সময় আসে যখন চেতনা একেবারে physical plane নেমে যায় ৷ তখন ভিতরের সত্তার উপর, ভিতরের অনুভূতির উপর একটা অপ্রবৃত্তির ও অপ্রকাশের পর্দা পড়ে, এমন বােধ হয় যে সাধনা আর কিছুই নাই, aspi-ration নাই, অনুভূতি নাই, মায়ের সান্নিধ্য নাই, একেবারে সাধারণ ...
... siddhi has to generalise its initial progress in its other members. T² is busy with the telepathies. It is distinguishing two fields of telepathic knowledge. By identification (sanyama) with the physical plane of being, it feels accurately the tendencies etc that materialise in the object and determine its action; it can even see provisionally the presently future action to a certain extent, provided ...
... eliminated from T³. The same movement is being rapidly applied to Page 1100 the forces of the vital rajasic and mental sattwic planes which stand behind the mechanism of forces of the physical plane. This will complete the present trikaldrishti, except for the right perception of the states of unseen objects which is still backward. This movement is setting free the future trikaldrishti; ...
... l standpoint at all: it's nothing but vibrations. If we look at it from a psychological standpoint... On the mental plane, it's very easy; on the vital plane, it's not too difficult; on the physical plane, it's a little heavier, because desires are passed off as "needs." But there too, there has been a field of experience these last few days: the study of medical and scientific conceptions on the ...
... not at all out of his own external human mind but by inspiration, as the mouthpiece of the Gods. "The originating source may be anywhere; the poetry may arise or descend from the subtle physical plane, from the higher or lower vital itself, from the dynamic or creative intelligence, from the plane of dynamic vision, from the psychic, from the illumined mind or Intuition,—even, though this ...
... attention. I felt it very strongly. So I opened my eyes, my mental eyes (the physical eyes may remain opened or closed, it makes no difference either way; when I am concentrated, things on the physical plane no longer exist), I deliberately opened the mind's eyes, for that is where I felt myself being pulled, and then I had this vision I told you of. Someone was trying to draw my attention, to tell ...
... plane cannot help entering into all its expression does not give to the expression which is poetical on this plane any other essence than aesthesis. Neither the mental nor vital nor subtle-physical plane is solely concerned with aesthesis: they have their own typical dealings which enter into their poetry, even as those of the Overmind enter into its — and yet it is not these typical dealings ...
... demoniac beings, and their forts metaphors for occult centres of massive resistance to the Aryans' quest of soul and God, must we be prevented from seeing behind the mystic poetry a struggle on the physical plane? Just as the Rishis took the details of the material life around them to figure forth the vicissitudes of the inner adventure, just as there were physical animals and rivers and hills and various ...
... can learn how to manipulate consciousness. Sri Aurobindo has in the course of many years tested out all these possibilities ‘more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane.’ 17 Of the Mother we know that already in Tlemcen she was able to climb the twelve steps of the universal scale of consciousness, up to the border where the manifested worlds fade out at the ...
... sturdy perseverance of the great builders. “I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane”, he wrote. “That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse Forces [note the capital letter] who increase in their ...
... have been developing and testing all our lives. I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane.” ( On Himself , pp. 468-69) × Reprinted in Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, pp ...
... the whole action of the cosmi consciousness, but one can at first have only an indirect connection with it; things come down from it through intermediate ranges into a larger mind-plane, subtle physical plane and come very much changed and diminished in the transmission, without anything like the full power and truth they have in the Overmind itself on its native level. Most of the movements come not ...
... best things in life work in us like a leaven, an invisible influence, as, for example, the inspiration of woman in her totality. "Woman's function in life", he said, "is not really confined to the physical plane: she is indispensable to man's mental creation as man is to her physical. It is only because on the mental plane she works from behind the screen that we do not visualise her contribution. But ...
... keeps it a viable concern and in default of what the organism dies. Incidentally this study will offer us some significant clues as regards the conditions that have to be satisfied in the purely physical plane before a successful resolution of the problem of material food-intake can be at all feasible. Contrary to all deceptive appearances, a living body is not at all a static or finished product; ...
... have been developing and testing all our lives. I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane.... I know that the Supramental Descent is inevitable -I have faith in view of my experience that the time can be and should be now and not in a later age." 33 New Manifestation ...
... have been developing and testing all our lives. I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane.... I know that the Supramental Descent is inevitable -I have faith in view of my experience that the time can be and should be now and not in a later age." (On Himself, pp. 468-9) So ...
... the inability to withstand the shocks of the 'not-self and a progressive loss of adaptability and plasticity — these, then, are in the main the symptoms of the malaise as manifest on the bio-physical plane. No doubt, they are suggestive and significant; but they reveal no more than the frontal aspect of the malady. And, then, what is it that becomes missing at death ? What are the indubitable ...
... disciple: “I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years” his spiritual knowledge and experience “more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane.” The Record bears this out in detail. It may be looked on as the laboratory notebook of an extended series of experiments in yoga.’ 61 Sri Aurobindo himself, writing in the third person ...
... manifesting Him upon Earth in a life divine. This, along with a practical discipline for its fulfilment, was given to me during my body’s sleep by several teachers, some of whom I met afterwards on the physical plane. ‘Later on, as the interior and exterior development proceeded, the spiritual and psychic relation with one of these beings became more and more clear and frequent; and although I knew little ...
... 1925, mother had an inflammation of the knee. On May 25 of the same year, Sri Aurobindo noted in a letter, 'The condition here is not very good. I am at present fighting the difficulties on the physical plane.' (Cited by A.B. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo , p. 203.) Note that in 1925 the Nazi Party was founded. × ...
... discipline (I am not speaking here of just anyone), they're relatively easy. Psychologically too, given this equality, there's no great difficulty. But as soon as you come to the material plane—the physical plane—and then to the body, it isn't easy. These two conditions are first, the power to expand, to widen almost indefinitely, enabling you to widen to the dimensions of the supramental consciousness—which ...
... manifestation, no becoming; there would be only one creation, one single thing. The manifestation is just this diversity. It is the One that unfolds itself in the Many—endlessly. On the physical plane the Divine expresses himself through beauty, on the mental plane through knowledge, on the vital plane through power and on the psychic plane through love. When we rise high enough, we discover ...
... I have said "farewell", but I should rather say "Au revoir" in the essential sense. For, though that prolonged smile was the only unusual gesture towards little me of his endless grace on the physical plane, I have had clear indications of his caring to stoop from his superb Himalayan height to show the same intimacy in various ways from the subtle world closest to the earth, where, according to ...
... by him to your Page 163 ardent prayer before going to bed shows how close he is to you. The meeting started, you say, on the ground floor of the house. This indicates the subtle-physical plane. Then the contact moves to a place where the sensations are naturally intenser - the first floor, the vital-emotional with the psychic being adjoining it. The intimacy increases and culminates ...
... founding everything as well as pervading and containing everything. It is called the Self and this Self is called "fourfold". Through a widened awareness in response to its universality on the physical plane we can prepare ourselves to penetrate the inner and innermost worlds and reflect something of "Turiya". To take to the OM-symbol is good, but it must not become a mere light-hearted game ...
... Truth-Consciousness putting its presence into the vital world. The white Lamb - symbol of the psychicised purified being which I seek to reflect - is wearing a chequered red coat, the sign of the physical plane. In the earth-work these complementary factors are significant. So too are the different modes in which the arms are crossed. The lion has put his left wrist over his right, while the Lamb has ...
... passed into a domain beyond the body's hold. Properly speaking, I should say "the physical body", for there is an embodiment on all the planes, but the stuff is not physical. Even on the subtle-physical plane something of the earth's characteristics linger. There I may not be tottering, yet I would limp a little. Though no sticks might be necessary I would still have a halting gait. We must have been ...
... today they will become more and more directly physical in the course of time, helped by the action of both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother who have taken their station as concrete beings on the subtle-physical plane for their divine work to continue on earth. As for acceptance by them of people as disciples now, there can be no doubt if the aspirants are sincere and turned towards them. One's sincerity is ...
... live in those higher regions. In X's case, his personal contact rises to the heights, but it's purely personal. While his overall vision (I am not saying universal: overall) stops at the vital-physical plane, with a touch of Page 419 the mental, and THAT'S ALL. There's a contradiction between his personal possibility, which reaches very high (although on quite a tenuous peak), and his overall ...
... insert it in the text: I do not readily use the word "God" because religions have made it the name of an almighty being, foreign to his creation, outside of it. Which is incorrect. Yet, on the physical plane, the difference is obvious. For we are Page 275 still all that we no longer want to be, while He is all that we want to become. Signed: Mother ...
... separation between A. G.² and Mirra. Both influences are necessary for the complete development of the Sadhana. The work of the two together alone brings down the Supramental Truth into the physical plane. A. G. acts directly on the mental and on the vital being through the illumined mind; he represents the Purusha element whose strength is predominantly in illumined knowledge (intuition, supramental ...
... to read about them brings a sparkling smile to my thought. I was specially interested in your experiment with a flower. I The ugly things you see at times belong to the vital or the subtle-physical plane. I have marked many such scenes and figures - more deformed, more desiccated than anything on earth, just as on the opposite side there are beauties far transcending anything in our world. For ...
... victory. Do we not know that for five days after the certified clinical death his body was charged, as the Mother declared, with the Supramental Light as an overflow from 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 ...
... of tiger-surprises on us, tearing our fixed notions to bits, destroying our conventional ideas. I may recall to you some of these mind-shaking revelations. One concerned the very physical plane. The Mother had a friend named Alexandra David-Neel. Madame David-Neel also knew Sri Aurobindo a little. She was a student of Buddhism, especially the Tibetan variety about which she has written ...
... transcendent. And this you may have felt as your subtle "guide", a special grace from Sri Aurobindo. The dream-vision you have recounted seems to me a very concrete contact between us on the subtle-physical plane, the one immediately behind our world. Some of our physical characteristics tend to continue there. My slight "limping" is a sure sign of our meeting on that plane. And to meet there is to have ...
... subtle perfection of shape — "sexless ... very white... very slim... pretty... truly a harmonious form".¹ She exclaims: "If that were to materialise..." Apparently, all was ready on the subtle-physical plane to precipitate itself in the gross; but the mode of precipitation, the technique for materialising the new body, was unknown. Feeling acutely the disparity between the waiting future perfection ...
... So far as it [living in the physical consciousness] can be said to be distinguishable by outward signs, it is a state of fundamental passivity in which one is and does what the forces of the physical plane make one be and do. When one lives in the mind, there is an active mental intelligence and mental will that tries to control and shape action and experience and life and everything else. When ...
... be said to achieve ultimate truth. To this Sri Aurobindo replies: One might ask whether Science itself has arrived at any ultimate truth; on the contrary, ultimate truth even on the physical plane seems to recede as Science advances. Science started on the assumption that the ultimate truth must be physical and objective — and the objective Ultimate (or even less than that) would explain ...
... mostly get into planes that are not of a very high nature. Sometimes I pass through attractive scenery. Once Page 76 to the earth-consciousness in an attempt to force them into the physical plane. But only up to the final verge between that world and this I could bring them. At other times the other world which I explore has a terrible dryness and there are also ugly sights compared to ...
... consciousness and action, of manifesting Him upon earth in a life divine. And during her body's sleep occult instructions were given to her by several teachers, some of whom she met afterwards on the physical plane. Later on, as the inner and outer development proceeded a psychic and spiritual relation with one of these beings became more and more clear and frequent and, although she knew little of the Indian ...
... make possible a spiritual and psychic communion on the most physical and external planes, by which there would be an interchange of forces, a continuous increase of the higher consciousness on the physical plane, a more and more rapid change of the external nature of the sadhaks and afterwards an increasing descent of the supramental light and power into Matter. Meditation at 7 a.m. on all days of the ...
... inner union, not only in the spirit and self but in the nature. ... This is the close inner relation as opposed to an outer relation which consists only in how one meets her in the external physical plane. It is quite possible and actual to have this close inner relation even if physically one sees her only at pranam and meditation and once a year perhaps on the birthday. 29.6.1935 Sri Aurobindo ...
... one thing because they are one key (there are others) to contact with the other worlds or with the inner worlds and all that is there and these are regions of immense riches which far surpass the physical plane as it is at present. One enters into a larger freer self and a larger more plastic world—of course individual visions only give a contact, not an actual entrance, but the power of vision accompanied ...
... the subjective consciousness of the inquirer. Such a pupil and such intensity of enquiry are illustrated in the story of Nachiketas that is presented in the Kathopanishad. The story runs from the physical plane of consciousness to higher and higher domains of supraphysical consciousness, and this journey is aided, not only by the acuteness and enthusiasm of Nachiketas but also by the teacher, Yama, the ...
... transformation of the mental into the divine mental of our spiritual existence. The immortality of the mind, life and the body, which can be termed as a triple immortality, would fulfil on the physical plane the realisation of the essential immortality of the Spirit and that of the immortality of the psychic being or soul; but even then, as Sri Aurobindo points out: "The true immortality would ...
... economic man, if he could live merely by bread, there could, of course, be a simple and straightforward solution. But the essential point is that man is a complex being. He lives simultaneously on the physical plane, vital plane, mental plane and spiritual plane, even though he might not experience all the planes with equal force of vividity. The main point is that man's satisfaction cannot arrive unless he ...
... object [such as a flower] (... quite substantial and material in its own plane)... could be sensed even in a dark room [if one is] able to bring out something of the light of the subtle physical plane to surround it and give it its natural medium." (Letters on Yoga, pp. 949-50) It is not only that every plane has its own light, every level of consciousness too has its characteristic ...
... sufficient self-expressive mental and vital individuality to persist without the Page 155 support of the material body, as well as to overcome any excessive detaining attachment to the physical plane and the physical life. (Ibid., p. 797) If the conditions are not fulfilled, there would be immediate rebirth and no sojourn in the other worlds in the intematal period. (Q. 16): ...
... been developing and testing all our lives. I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane.... I know that the Supramental Descent is inevitable — I have faith in view of my experience 1 Bulletin, Vol. XV, No. 4, p. 51. 2 See Nolini Kanta Gupta, The Yoga ...
... or at the best a benevolent tolerance for the dynamic waking existence can never be our ideal. But what are after all the essential difficulties of spiritual realisation on the gross physical plane ? Why is the life of action and creation viewed with so much misgiving by most of the traditional Page 101 spiritual seekers? What makes our present worldly existence apparently ...
... d Him in 1920. He knew that India would be free; perhaps you have heard Mother's prophecy, Mother's vision. She saw India as free and it took about thirty-two years to be materialized on the physical plane. So in 1920, He knew that India would be free, but what would she do with that freedom? What India is doing now with her freedom, all of us know. So you see, even at that time, He was thinking ...
... have been developing and testing all our lives. I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane." 138 Savitri, then, is a whole universe of Page 335 knowledge and experience—physical and spiritual—presented in the dramatic form of a journey and a battle and ...
... A Canadian Question l It is written in A Practical Guide to Integral Yoga: "The physical nearness to the Mother is indispensable for the fullness of the sadhana on the physical plane. Transformation of the physical and external being is not possible otherwise. " (Sri Aurobindo) My question is: How are we to interpret these words in the light of the Mothers recent passing ...
... limits and the limitation of that consciousness mark also the limits and limitation of the disposition he can effect in his life. When it is said that the spiritual force is not effective on the physical plane in mundane affairs—Buddha, it is said for example, has not been able to rid the earth of age, disease and death (although it was not Buddha's intention to do so, his purpose was to show a way of ...
... of vanities brooded on our life. The active life was, no doubt; retained, but restricted within a narrow compass, and it was unavoidable. The way of life in the end became confined solely to the physical plane. Only the animal propensities were attended to. We missed all high ideals of action. In the social life we were deprived of all collective enterprises. Our only aim was somehow to satisfy our ...
... limits and the limitation of that consciousness mark also the limits and limitation of the disposition he can effect in his life. When it is said that the spiritual force is not effective on the physical plane in mundane affairs—Buddha, it is said, for example, has not been able to rid the earth of age, disease and death (although it was not Buddha's intention to do so, his purpose was to show a way ...
... human vehicle. The conception of the "twice-born caste" may be remembered in this connection. There is a physical birth and there is a spiritual birth: the latter takes place when the being on the physical plane, yet wholly belonging to evolving Nature, suddenly (it usually happens suddenly) opens and receives into itself a higher principle and becomes a conscious personality. The soul in Nature ...
... limits and the limitation of that consciousness mark also the limits and limitation of the disposition he can effect in his life. When it is said that the spiritual force is not effective on the physical plane in mundane affairs – Buddha, it is said, for example, has not been able to rid the earth or age, disease and death (although it was not Buddha's intention to do so, his purpose was to show a ...
... movement, we have again a process of growth and building up of individuality and personality, with the awakening and ascension of consciousness from level Page 47 to level on the physical plane and in the material embodiment,. there occurs too an evolution of the personal aspect of the reality. We say that at the lowest level of involution, in Matter,. where consciousness has zero ...
... the psychic being the other parts that constitute the terrestrial life. They are dispersed and dissolved in their respective cosmic spheres. The subtle body gives up its elements to the subtle physical plane, the vital elements are taken up into the vital world and the mental elements go into the mental world, – unless the psychic being is highly developed and has organised around itself as its instrument ...
... knowledge and faculties we did not possess… but can produce vibrations in the mental and vital atmosphere which result in effects, in actions and even in the production of material forms on the physical plane." [ Kena and other Upanishads , Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, pp.30-31.] [41] The Mother , SABCL Vol. 25, p.25. ...
... Himself with matters concerning the sadhaks. And yet He had arranged things in such a way that the sadhaks could communicate directly with me and receive my blessings and my help practically on the physical plane as well as inwardly for the sadhana. It was through me that they could realise the heights of consciousness towards the Supramental or surmount any difficulty. At that time, He was preoccupied ...
... body that has become an almost unconscious reflex action. It is a wonderful and exhilarating experience. Naturally you cannot repeat too often or carry too far an experiment of this kind on the physical plane. But you can freely deal with your inner life and consciousness. You can make your mind and your vital a clean slate, as much as you like: not once in your life, but every moment of your life. ...
... whole glamour of a miracle would fall to the ground. A miracle is nothing but the intervention of a force from another plane of consciousness. It must be recognised at the very outset that the physical plane of existence is not the only reality, there are many other planes superimposed' one upon another, each having its own special consciousness and power, its own laws of being and action. Obviously ...
... came in their subtle bodies to offer their pranams at his feet. My hypothesis is not altogether a fiction, for we have now learnt from the Mother that Sri Aurobindo has built a home in the subtle-physical plane and many of us visit him at night in our subtle bodies. She has also told us that we visit her or she visits us during our sleep. In the morning she has often asked, "Do you know anything about ...
... in you, whatever is aspiring, whatever is beautiful, is offered to the Divine. In fact, all rituals and ceremonies, all pujas are symbolic, that is to say, representations on the physical plane of inner movements – spiritual efforts. It is true some of them, to us moderns, appear revolting and reprehensible but we must remember these ceremonies if they were physically practised were done ...
... found ourselves on faith alone, but on a great ground of knowledge which we have been developing and testing all our lives... more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. The records of Sri Aurobindo's or of the Mother's experiences may seem impossibly distant to average humanity, but even lesser men and women can ask themselves how - and to what extent ...
... (tapasyas) of the body, vital, mind and psyche leading to the four liberations (siddhis) of Beauty, Power, Knowledge and Love. At a still higher or supramental level, the siddhis could mean, on the physical plane a transcendence of the law of causation, on the vital plane a cracking of the ego-shell, on the mental plane a rise into the overhead gnostic consciousness, and on the psychic plane to the realisation ...
... beings became more and more clear and frequent.. .. 22 This auspicious being who generated so special a psychic and spiritual relationship, but whom she wasn't soon to encounter on the physical plane, she was led to call 'Krishna', the Bhagawan of the Gita, although at that time she knew little of the Indian philosophies and religions. But the being appeared with such persistence, such ...
... Aurobindo a mere mystic or dreamer. "I think I can say", he writes, "that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane." 72 It is de Chardin's merit as a thinker that he has seen evolution, not as a one-way traffic, but in relation to involution: First let it be noted that, by the very fact of the i ...
... Spirit (or the newly manifested Power of Consciousness, the Supermind), but the Mother also asked her audience of 1 January 1958 not to jump to conclusions and expect a spate of miraculism on the physical plane: It is something much deeper: Nature, in her play of forces, has accepted the new Force which has manifested and included it in her movements It is an inner, psychological possibility which ...
... time of the heart's ecstasy of devotion and surrender to the Lord, all the world Page 245 may appear bathed in the glory of beauty and love. But when one strays lower - to the physical plane where pain and pleasure fight their own incendiary battles, or to the still lower subconscient region of nightmarish h horrors and fancies and the inconscient cellular mini-universes Where ...
... II The separation from friends and colleagues proves a distressing experience. Such suffering, if it isn't to be courted, cannot be avoided either. When people are used to meeting on the physical plane, separation affects one deeply at first. But there are profounder levels of consciousness where suffering may be transcended: We must not run away from suffering, we must not love and cultivate ...
... according to the notions of the mind. It has its own inscrutable but irresistible way of working. Those who think that the meeting of the East and West will be a mutual give and take, on the physical plane betray an ignorance of spiritual working. Discarding the two negations and taking over of what one lacks and giving of what one possesses as an individual achievement will be a sort of barter or ...
... of these fantasies and dreams. They are apparently incoherent. In the physical a mouse turning into an elephant may have no meaning but it is not so in the vital. They have no coherence of the physical plane but they have their own coherence of the vital plane. But when one gets the clue one finds that everything is a linked whole. That I have seen many times in my own case. It is this world from which ...
... in that case your own mind does not exist. If you feel the unity in the vital, then your vital being becomes a part of the cosmic vital, one with cosmic life. You can experience the Unity on the physical plane; then you feel your body as a speck of Universal Matter. Or, the identity can be above the Mind, by breaking open the lid that divides the Mind from the Infinite. Just as there is a wall that separates ...
... have been testing day and night for 1 Lights on Yoga by Sri Aurobindo Page 56 years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and ...
... It is their to-morrow hangs over the earth of the living And all that we wish for our friends:"¹ That man is not the master of his acts, his likes and dislikes and that events on the physical plane are mostly manipulated by subtle powers behind or above the physical is a truth of the inner life of man which is gradually finding its way in the realm of poetic creation. Peter Yates in ...
... evidence does not prove anything and that you Page 39 can prove what you want by using the same evidence. They can't understand that the laws governing the planes behind the physical plane may be quite different from those that obtain here. For instance, Oliver Lodge is a great scientist and he asserts that the voice which came to him was that of Raymond, his son, who had died ...
... halt. People began to find that the highest aim of art is neither representation nor successful imitation of Nature, because such art can carry man only where he already is (i. e., on the ordinary physical plane); true art must be revelation of undiscovered harmony and unity. Cezanne refused to copy nature. He was not satisfied even with impressionism. Q. What is Impressionism ? A. The ...
... Work."² "The lack of receptivity of the earth and men is mostly responsible for the decision Sri Aurobindo has taken regarding his body. But one thing is certain: what has happened on the physical plane affects in no way the truth of his teaching. All that he has said is perfectly true and remains so. Time and the course of events will prove it abundantly."³ On 9 December Sri Aurobindo's ...
... "Mother, if this man is called, others who have come recently and are of better service to Auroville may feel that such a man gets the opportunity whereas they do not. This is a difficulty on the physical plane." Page 130 She said that she was not interested in seeing this man, in fact she was not interested in seeing anyone. "I want to control, but..." I said that whatever she thought ...
... results in other minds than that of the user, but can produce vibrations in the mental and vital atmosphere which result in effects, in actions and even in the production of material forms on the physical plane." Then he said a very significant thing. "Thus we see that the theory of creation by the Word, and the theory of the material creation by sound-vibration in the ether correspond and are two ...
... if once it can be activated in matter. What a trouble that proved to be! His plan, you see, was to get the organizing power of the Supermind—the Truth-Consciousness—work everywhere, down to the physical plane. That was the only way to effect a radical change of the present human nature. Now, the seed of our nature is lodged in the subconscient. Therefore to cut the seed out he had to plunge into the ...
... established entirely in the mind and vital and in the physical consciousness before supramentalization of the whole nature is possible. Otherwise what one gets is more or less brilliant, half luminous, half cloudy illuminations and experiences on the mental and vital and physical planes, half truth half error or at the best true only for those planes and inspired either from some large mind or larger... stimulating and satisfying up to a certain point, and are good for those who want some spiritual realization on those planes, but the Supramental realization is something much more difficult and exacting in its conditions and the most difficult of all is to bring it down on to the physical level. Sri Aurobindo ...
... coverings of its higher states are penetrated and open to the divine light. It is the opening of the whole third plane of our existence which was before as a fortified city with its gates closed to the soul embodied in Matter. By this new action of the Divine Force the mental and physical consciousness are wedded to the high supramental which was till now separated from them and the life-force blazing... × The all-creating and self-sufficing Supermind high and remote and separated in our consciousness from the mental and physical planes; yet it is really there behind their action and reaction upon each other and in the liberated state of man the separation is abolished. ...
... Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this force in its manifestation on earth works on the vital and physical planes and is indispensable to the fullness of the outer life. In its origin and its true action it belongs to the Divine. But like other powers of the Divine it is delegated here and in the ignorance... divine Ananda. In the supramental creation the money-force has to be restored to the Divine Power and used for a true and beautiful and harmonious equipment and ordering of a new divinised vital and physical existence in whatever way the Divine Mother herself decides in her creative vision. But first it must be conquered back for her and those will be strongest for the conquest who are in this part of ...
... down a rapid (collective as well as individual) transformation and creation into the mental, vital and physical planes from above, by the power of a supramental Light and Force acting through the higher illumined mind and the psychic being. For that purpose she was calling down beings of a higher plane (like the one of which you speak) as an indispensable aid in that process. All went on well enough so... on the Physical Level Last night during my meditation I saw a cat—probably one of the Mother's cats, the one which sleeps on the staircase—come and enter the room where I was meditating. But I at once opened my eyes. Would you very kindly let me know the meaning of this cat and why I opened my eyes. If it is the cat Bushy, she has some strange connection with the siddhi in the physical consciousness... consciousness. It was she who ushered us into our present house running before us into each room. The change to this house marked the change from the sadhana on the vital to the sadhana on the physical level. 1 7 July 1936 Bringing Down the Powers of Transformation Once X said about Y that the Mother had said that she was a "Vedic Goddess"—that is, Saraswati or another. I never heard of ...
... take different forms to the human consciousness in the mental, vital and subtle physical planes. Lakshmi is usually golden, not white. Saraswati is white. The snake is simply a symbol of Energy or Power. Narayana in your dream is clearly Vishnu as is shown by the presence of Lakshmi and the single many-hooded snake. Vishnu or Narayana in this image which is a normal Puranic image is the Lord... creative Spirit on the highest mental plane which you saw as the world of ParvatiShankara. Narayana, Vishnu, Brahma, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Ananta Narayana is usually taken as a name of Vishnu—to the Vaishnavas he is the Supreme as Shiva is to the Shaivas. Both are Page 155 cosmic Personalities of the Divine and both like Brahma have their original plane in the Overmind, although they take... that heard the call and followed after it. Page 156 It is, I suppose, the image of Sri Krishna as Lord of the divine Love and Ananda—and his flute calls the physical being to awake out of the attachments of the physical world and turn to that Love and Ananda. Krishna with Radha is the symbol of the Divine Love. The flute is the call of the Divine Love; the peacock is victory. ...
... absorption in Yoga, which explains my silence. I will do my best to help you; but until you come, write to me, for even if I do not answer, that creates a physical link which makes transmission of help easier on the material plane—for the physical consciousness. It will certainly be better for you if you come to Pondicherry, but I recognise the difficulties. We are trying, not yet with success, to arrange... sufficient aspiration from the being, i.e. from the various mental, vital and physical planes. Each in turn ascends above the mind to the place where it meets the supramental and can then receive the origination of all its movements from above. The Higher descends when you have a receptive quietude in the various planes of your being prepared to receive it. In either case whether in aspiring upward... with the images rising in you. It does not matter whether they are mental or psychic. One must have experience not only of the true psychic but of the inner mental, inner vital and subtle physical worlds or planes of consciousness. The occurrence of the images is a sign that these are opening and to inhibit them would mean to inhibit the expansion of consciousness and experience without which this Yoga ...
... and he became well soon. SRI AUROBINDO: There are many kinds of voices. Some are of greater beings who have more knowledge than human being. Some voices come from one's own mental, vital and physical planes. And then there are voices of the inner being which are very difficult to distinguish. PURANI: In external affairs too he is guided by his voices, for example, in connection with changing houses... SRI AUROBINDO: Why not? The Divine has several works. SATYENDRA (after some time) : I find that you are the first to distinguish the planes above the mind. SRI AUROBINDO: Why? I have met many Sannyasins who spoke to me about them. They call these planes Bhumis. They didn't give any names to them but they knew about them. ...
... getting remarkable guidance from his Asura. Sometimes the Asuras have an extraordinary foresight that comes true with perfect precision both on the vital and subtle-physical planes, just like that which is possible on the spiritual planes. Of course they are not always infallible. But Hitler committed only one mistake: when attacking Poland he thought that the Allies wouldn't intervene. (Smiling) Napoleon ...
... Lipi trikaldrishti is now being constantly fulfilled. After taking up telepathies into the intuitive mind and observing there all the relative uncertain certainties of the mental, vital and physical planes, so as to give them their right incidence and root out false stress,—a rapid summing up of the movement of the last few days,—the intuitional trikaldrishti has founded itself. The intellectual... intuitional. The trikaldrishti is also now inspirational and tends to increase, but is still imitated and hampered in its development by false inspirational certainties of the mental, pranic and physical planes. This in the midst of a violent attack of the old intelligence. Page 1028 Samadhi advances greatly. Long coherent narrative and reading and to a less extent dialogue, but still infirm... though with variety in that narrow limit. Continuity and intensity of ahaituka k. increase, but not yet sufficiently to conquer the interruption of exclusive forgetfulness. Tapas on the mental plane is being abandoned; trikaldrishti also must be abandoned. It is finally seen even by the intelligence that there can be here no absolute certainty of foresight or result, since it is the play of partial ...
... and suffering. Disciple : But many kinds of voices are there according to the forces on different planes. I believe it is extremely difficult to distinguish between the right or the true inner voice and false one. There may be voices either from the mental or the subtle physical planes. Moreover, in the same person the voices may differ. Sri Aurobindo : Quite true. Hitler's f’iend ...
... inner voice he met with pain and suffering. PURANI: But there are many kinds of voices owing to the forces on different planes and it is extremely difficult to distinguish which is right, the true inner voice. There may be voices from mental, vital and subtle-physical planes. Moreover, in the same man the voices may differ. SRI AUROBINDO: Quite true. A friend of Hitler's said about him that what ...
... highest ( uttama ), called also the Paramatma or Supreme Spirit, Page 52 who enters into the three worlds, (the worlds of suṣupti, svapna, jāgrat , otherwise the causal, mental and physical planes of existence), and sustains them as their imperishable lord." And in the thirteenth chapter, while drawing the distinction between the lower Purusha and the higher, Sri Krishna defines more minutely ...
... quotations from Sri Aurobindo's The Mother. "Money is the visible sign of a universal force," he wrote in a letter in 1927, "and this force in its manifestation on earth works on the vital and physical planes and is indispensable to the fullness of the outer life. In its origin and its true action it belongs to the Divine.... This is indeed one of the three forces — power, wealth, sex —that have the... here. "In the supramental creation the money-force has to be restored to the Divine Power and used for a true and beautiful and harmonious equipment and ordering of a new divinised vital and physical existence in whatever way the Divine Mother herself decides in her creative vision." There are four great aspects of the Mother —Maheswari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. The "third ...
... variation in the play of forces of the mental, vital and physical planes. On these a certain play of forces may show as if the destiny was in favour of one or the other group of forces. And this balance can be changed. Page 286 Disciple : But if the Supreme vision is there then the new order is bound to come. Is it not? Disciple : But at present before the Supreme has a chance... 1. The war is already fought and decided on the inner planes. 2. Mankind is responsible for the rise of the Asuric forces. 3. Each much fight the lower forces and side with the Divine in himself. After reading the letter Sri Aurobindo said : It is quite alright that the struggle between the forces is worked out on other planes before it is projected here. Disciple : He means... astrologers call the destiny in the physical. There can also be destiny in the vital. By bringing vital force into play the destiny in the physical can be changed. So also by bringing mental forces into play – though it is more difficult – what seems to be the vital destiny can be changed. That is why astrologers hardly prove themselves right because they look at the physical whereas there can be a variation ...
... the actuality of life; it takes the impressions of the surrounding physical world as hints only for a purely imaginative creation which seems to be truly drawn not from the life of earth, but from a more beautiful and harmonious life-scene that exists either within our own unplumbed depths or on other subtler vital or physical planes. This creation has an aim in it at things symbolic, otherwise revelatory... creation, it is with a demand for more heightened effects and a more penetrating expression. The last was the demand and method of the Elizabethan age. Page 87 In Elizabethan poetry the physical and external tendency still persists, but it is no longer sufficient to satisfy either the perceiving spirit or its creative force. Where it is most preserved, it still demands a more vehement response ...
... enveloping all. NIRODBARAN: Does it mean in Ramatirtha's case that the experience was not worked upon in the vital and physical planes? SRI AUROBINDO: Certainly. Usually you find these experiences worked upon in the mental and emotional planes, in the vital less while in the physical almost not at all. NIRODBARAN: Where is the difference? In the nature of the conquest or the extent? SRI AUROBINDO:... the mind, the vital and yet it comes up like something physical. In that case, it comes from what I call the environmental nature and you feel it as a concrete suggestion or as a pain, if it is physical, or as a sex-impulse. It comes and passes transversely. If it comes as a sex-impulse, there is no question of love in it; it is purely physical. It tries to, enter in. If you consent, it creates a... for he was high-strung, with nerves very sensitive. With people whose constitutional make-up is of that sort, people who have a natural power of vision, it is easy. But for those who have a thick physical layer and are fond of good food and have a hold on matter, it is difficult and takes time. Also people who are mentally active, intellectual, find it difficult. On the other hand, if one has subtle ...
... the dream experiences that one has on the vital or mental plane which are themselves not ordinary dreams but actual experiences on the mental, vital, psychic or subtle physical planes. You have had several dreams which were vital dream experiences, those in which you met the Mother, and recently you had one such contact on the mental plane which, for those who understand these things, means that the... 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 dreams and visions; it is known to it that many of these things are not dreams at all but experiences on an inner plane and if the experiences of the inner planes which lead to... current it is the familiar sign of a first touch of the higher consciousness flowing down in the form of a stream—like the "wave" of light of the scientist—to prepare its possession of mind, vital and physical in the body. So is the stillness and rigidity of the body in your former experience a sign of the same descent of the higher consciousness in its form or tendency of stillness and silence. It is a ...
... subliminal has the right of entry into the mental and vital and subtle-physical planes of the universal consciousness, it is not confined to the material plane and the physical world; it possesses means of communication with the worlds of being which the descent towards involution created in its passage and with all corresponding planes or worlds that may have arisen or been constructed to serve the... able to enter into other planes of consciousness than the physical and command an immense range of informative and utilisable experience." 3 This last possibility opens up before our view a great line of the movement of our consciousness, — other than the subconscient one, — during the period of our physical sleep. This subliminal exploration of the inner planes of our being provides... the surface physical mind's waking activity or its cessation that determines the waking or sleep of common parlance. Thus, in ordinary sleep, when this activity ceases for a period, our physical body falls into slumber and only a subconscient residual consciousness is left in it. The rest of the being stands back and a part of its consciousness goes out into various planes and regions of ...
... all its planes—for it is true in different ways not only of the Self and the psychic but of the mental, vital and physical Purushas—has to be grasped and accepted before the experiences of the yoga can be fully understood. The Being is one throughout, but on each plane of Nature, it is represented by a form of itself which is proper to that plane, the mental Purusha in the mental plane, the vital... vital Purusha in the vital, the physical Purusha in the physical. The Taittiriya Upanishad speaks of two other planes of the being, the Knowledge or Truth plane and the Ananda plane, each with its Purusha, but although influences may come down from them, these are superconscient to the human mind and their nature is not yet organised here. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Self or Atman ... object for psychic research, though these things have nothing whatever to do with the psychic. Again much in Yoga itself that is merely occult, phenomena of the unseen vital or mental or subtle physical planes, visions, symbols, all that mixed, often perturbed, often shadowy, often illusory range of experiences which belong to this intervening country between the soul and its superficial instruments ...
... subliminal has the right of entry into the mental and vital and subtle-physical planes of the universal consciousness, it is not confined to the material plane and the physical world; it possesses means of communication with the worlds of being which the descent towards involution created in its passage and with all corresponding planes or worlds that may have arisen or been constructed to serve the purpose... "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, reflections which are... responses to any sensory touch from the physical world. In the Yogic dream-state, on the other hand, the mind Page 37 is in clear possession of itself, though not of the physical world, works coherently and is able to use either its ordinary will and intelligence with a concentrated power or else the higher will and intelligence of the more exalted planes of mind. It withdraws from experience ...
... (1950-1951) 3 May 1951 "Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this force in its manifestation on earth works on the vital and physical planes and is indispensable to the fullness of the outer life. In its origin and its true action it belongs to the Divine. But like other powers of the Divine it is delegated here and in the ignorance... atom of ambition remained and one wanted this Power for one's personal satisfaction, one could never have it, that Power would never come. Its deformed limitations, of the kind seen in the vital and physical world, those yes, one may have them, and there are many people who have them, but the true Power, the Power Sri Aurobindo calls "supramental", unless one is absolutely free from all egoism under all ...
... support of its expression in the physical world and for a direct dealing with all these external 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... Planes and Parts of the Being Our Many Selves The Physical Each plane of our being—mental, vital, physical—has its own consciousness, separate though interconnected and interacting; but to our outer mind and sense, in our waking experience, they are all confused together… There is the universal physical consciousness of Nature and there is our own which... which is almost entirely subconscient to our experience. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Physical Consciousness Everything has a physical part—even the mind has a physical part; there is a mental physical, a mind of the body and the material. So the emotional being has a physical part. It has no location separate from the rest of the emotional. One can only distinguish it when the ...
... Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 21 April 1929 ) That depends very much upon the level of consciousness in one's inner being. For most people, all that is a mixture in the mental, vital and physical planes; they are not at all conscious of what is happening. Some are conscious and usually they have a similar feeling when they are told: "Why, it was like that that I knew you, yes, I know you already... 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... n with all the parts of your being, you would remember all your dreams. But very few parts of the being are in communication. For example, you have a dream in the subtle physical, that is to say, quite close to the physical. Generally, these dreams occur in the early hours of the morning, that is between four and five o'clock, at the end of the sleep. If you do not make a sudden movement when you ...
... suggestions and impulsions and pervert the inner life. Many are those who, attracted by these powers and beings of the vital plane, have ended in a definitive spiritual fall or in mental and physical perversion and disorder. One comes inevitably into contact with the vital plane and enters into it in the expansion of conscious ness which results from an inner opening, but one ought never to put oneself... establish direct contact with the Divine above and bring down the divine consciousness from above into all the centres. Occult powers belonging to the Page 573 mental, vital and subtle physical planes are not our object. One can have contact with various Divine Forms and Personalities on the way, but there is no need to establish them in the centres, though sometimes that happens automatically... by spiritual teachers in India because it belongs to the inferior planes and usually pushes the seeker on a path which Page 574 may lead him very far from the Divine. Especially, a contact with the forces and beings of the astral (or, as we term it, the vital) plane is attended with great dangers. The beings of this plane are often hostile to the true aim of spiritual life and establish ...
... has the right of entry into the mental and vital and subtle-physical planes of the universal consciousness, it is not confined to the material plane and the physical world, it possesses means of communication with the worlds of being which the descent towards involution created in its passage and with all corresponding planes or worlds that may have arisen or been constructed to serve the purpose... are almost always determined by purely physical circumstances, the state of health, digestion, position on the bed, etc.,” and occur like a fugitive phantasmagoria in states of drowsiness or half-sleep. "With a bit of self-observation and some precaution, one can easily avoid this class of dreams, as useless as they are fatiguing, by removing their physical causes. ,”¹ The second category comprises... terrain. "Our subliminal self is not, like our surface physical being, an outcome of the energy of the Inconscient, it is a meeting place of the consciousness that emerges from below by evolution and the consciousness that has descended from above for involution. There is in it an inner mind, an inner vital being of ourselves, an inner or subtle-physical being larger than our outer being and nature. This ...
... in the world. What is Money ? According to Sri Aurobindo, "Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this force in its manifestation on earth works on the vital and physical planes and is indispensable to the fullness Page 252 of the outer life. In its origin and its true action it belongs to the Divine. But like other powers of the Divine, it is delegated... of psychology that man is a multi-personality,—there are many parts and personalities in him, having different, often divergent, desires and propensities, and moved by diverse forces. There are the physical personality, the vital personality, the mental personality and the psychic; and there are besides, many sub-personalities within these main categories. These personalities hardly agree with one another... blind attachments. In the vital personality itself there may be a part touched by the light and responsive to a higher call, and another, obscure and perverse, wallowing in turbid sense-pleasures. The physical personality may often find itself oppressed by the mental or the vital, and suffering in consequence of a constant, unavailing revolt. It is these different personalities that are responsible at different ...
... idea of that power on the plane higher than the mental. Page 253 Sri Aurobindo : Why on the higher plane only? Do you .think that beauty is not a power? Do you believe that it is a mental abstraction? Disciple : I can understand that it is a power in a certain sense on the mental, vital and physical planes. But what is it on the plane higher than the mind? ... : We have heard, and partly known, that the experience of delight is possible on the higher planes. Is it possible to experience "beauty" on these planes? Sri Aurobindo : Beauty and delight are inalienable in the ultimate analysis, or rather in the ultimate experience on the higher planes. Disciple : Could experience of beauty be compatible with Shankara's conception of... colourful play of beauty would only be a figure in it and therefore unreal. Disciple : Is form inseparable from the experience of beauty? Sri Aurobindo : On the plane of matter it seems so, but it is not true on planes of consciousness above mind. There, beauty can be formless. Page 249 Disciple : There are people who experience deep peace but no delight in the ...
... cal ambiance of a consciousness in relation with other consciousnesses: it extends as well to all one's material acts and to all the physical facts of interaction with material agents. Hence the whole outer life on both the psychological and the physical planes is brought within the practice and process of the inner Yoga. And such encompassment by the gesture of offering involves at every moment... "Remain young." When an old sadhak was told this, he exclaimed with a sad face: "The first problem with me is just to remain." Age so obsesses us with its traditional associations of something physical which is irreversible that we miss the deeper meaning the Mother infused into the word "young". What she meant by asking us to remain young comes out in the sentence following this command" "Never... than oneself, to a Divine Person." This statement may be elaborated and set forth step by step as follows. Even when the Atman is realised in a universal poise free from the mental-vital-physical nature and there is no sense left of the ego in the inner consciousness, the ego still keeps colouring one's thoughts and impulses and activities. To erase that colour there must be in wake of ...
... Page 74 entry into the mental and vital and subtle-physical planes of the universal consciousness, it is not confined to the material plane and the physical world; it possesses means of communication with the worlds of being which the descent towards involution created in its passage and with all corresponding planes or worlds that may have arisen or been constructed to serve the... t for the utility of our present mental and physical life on earth; this that is behind is a formation mediating between the Inconscient and the larger planes of Life and Mind which have been created by the involutionary descent and whose pressure has helped to bring about the evolution of Mind and Life in Matter. Our surface responses to physical existence have at their back the support of an... supraphysical planes but are 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 ...
... 17 Sleep and Dreams The physical is not the only world; there are others that we become aware of through dream records, through the subtle senses, through influences and contacts, through imagination, intuition and vision.... In sleep we leave the physical body, only a subconscient residue remaining, and enter all planes and all sorts of worlds. In each we see scenes, meet... on Yoga, p. 1486 It is the subconscient that is active in the ordinary dreams. But in the dreams in which one goes out into other planes of consciousness, mental, vital, subtle physical, it is part of the inner being, inner mental or vital or physical that is usually active. Letters on Yoga, p. 1487 There are such things as dream inspirations — it is rare, however, that these... 237 is so strong in the physical itself as to counteract the pull of the subconscient inertia. In ordinary sleep the consciousness in the body is that of the subconscient physical, which is a diminished consciousness, not awake and alive like the rest of the being. The rest of the being stands back and part of its consciousness goes out into other planes and regions and has experiences ...
... much working of the Power as he can bear and assimilate. Power can be everywhere, on any plane. What descends from above is power of the higher Consciousness—but there is a Power of the vital, mental, physical planes also. Power is not a special characteristic of the psychic or of the spiritual plane. The Descent of Fire The fire is the divine fire of aspiration and inner tapasya. When the... parts down to the physical so as to (1) create that separateness which would prevent the inner being Page 452 from being affected by the superficial disturbance and resistance, (2) make it easier for the force and other powers of the higher being to descend. Peace can be brought down into the physical to its very cells. It is the active transformation of the physical that cannot be... Very usually the first preparation is to work on the mind and vital and physical nature in such a way that the soul, the psychic being can have a chance of manifesting itself and influencing the rest of the nature; for that purpose all the main darknesses in the mind and vital have to be combated and thrown out and the physical also prepared in an initial way so that the descent may be possible. This ...
... established entirely in the mind and vital and in the physical consciousness before supramentalisation of the whole nature is possible. Otherwise what one gets is more or less brilliant, half luminous, half cloudy illuminations and experiences on the mental and vital and physical planes, half truth, half error or at the best true only for those planes and inspired either from some larger mind or larger... stimulating and satisfying up to a certain point and are good for those who want some spiritual realisation on these planes; but the supramental realisation is something much more difficult and exacting in its conditions and the most difficult of all is to bring it down on to the physical level. Getting Rid of Desire The satisfaction of the vital desires is a normal feature of the ordinary life... desires you refer to are those of the vital-physical in the subtle physical consciousness—impulse to talk, essential hunger, thirst, etc. Peace and quietude full in the vital-physical and subtle physical and down even in the lowest levels are necessary for the whole change to be made. The heat of which you speak is that of this subtle principle of vital-physical desire which exists for its own sake, not ...
... What is the atmosphere of the Ashram like for you since Mother and Sri Aurobindo are no longer in a physical form? Now one has to concentrate more inwardly to find them. Sometimes it is possible to come almost physically into contact with them. I see them sometimes on the subtle physical planes. One year, sometime in the 1990s, I saw Mother sitting and smiling in the Ashram theatre. During the... 1995 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, one of the Ashram photographers had taken a photo of Mother’s balcony and it shows Mother standing there, in kitty cap, in a subtle physical form! So you see, she is still with us and continues to show us that she is there in our midst, from time to time. Sometimes I even smell Mother’s perfume. It is not an actual fragrance, but comes ...
... Divine in oneself and through this trinity arrive at a perfect union, one, satisfying and complete. But the Divine Consciousness can manifest itself through any and every plane, on the mental, on the vital, on the physical, or on those which are higher than the mental[.] 155 All Yoga done through the mind alone or through the heart or the will or the vital force or the body ends in some... object for psychic research, though these things have nothing whatever to do with the psyche. Again much in Yoga itself that is merely occult, phenomena of the unseen vital or mental or subtle physical planes, visions, symbols, all that mixed, often perturbed, often shadowy, often illusory range of experiences which belong to this intervening country between the soul and its superficial instruments... into Matter, the supramental established in the material plane and consciousness and the material world and an integral transformation down to the very principle of Matter. Only a supreme Grace can effect this miracle. The supreme Power has descended into the most material consciousness but it has stood there behind the density of the physical veil demanding before manifestation, before its great open ...
... Mirra with the direct guidance she had sought and she made phenomenal progress in occultism. She was able with easy freedom to put her physical body into a trance, and awake in one after another of her various subtle sheaths, visit the supra-physical planes, in one or another of her subtle bodies. Once she left her body in Tlemcen, reached Paris and made her presence felt by a group of friends... that region between the subtle-physical and the most material vital, which is very living in plants and in Nature, all that region became all at once, suddenly, without any transition, absolutely living, intense, conscious, marvellous .... 30 The link had been established at last, and there was no danger of it snapping or the experiences of the higher planes being lost on return to the material... within you!... What goes out is sometimes the subtle physical.... But usually it is the vital which goes out and still more often, the mental being." 19 The more important problem, however, is for the temporarily vacated body to be insulated from outside interference till the wandering Page 18 entity - be it the subtle physical, the vital or the mental being - returns to its tenement: ...
... subliminal has the right of entry into the mental and vital and subtle-physical planes of the universal consciousness, it is not confined to the material plane and the physical world; it possesses means of communication with the worlds of being which the descent towards involution created in its passage and with all corresponding planes or worlds that may have arisen or been constructed to serve the purpose... subconscient physical, vital and mental nature." 41 "... Though large parts of it [the subliminal] can be thus known by a penetration and looking within or a freer communication, it is only by going inward behind the veil of superficial mind and living within, in an inner mind, an inner life, an inmost soul of our being that we can be fully self-aware,- by this and by rising to a higher plane of mind... in Inconscience is struggling to evolve." 35 "In the superconscience beyond our present level of awareness are included the higher planes of mental being as well as the native heights of supramental and pure spiritual being." 36 Among the higher planes of mental being, Sri Aurobindo distinguishes various distinct levels which he terms Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind and Overmind ...
... etc., come from the spiritual consciousness from above... Power can be everywhere, on any plane. What descends from above is power of the higher Consciousness—but there is a Power of the vital, mental, physical planes also. Power is not a special characteristic of the psychic or of the spiritual plane. February 16, 1937 So you also fail to tell the precise meaning of the poem! ... inspired vision coming from the same plane and filling out or reconstructing the recorded experience so as to bring out the Truth held in it more fully than the dream tranScript could do; for a dream record is usually compressed and often hastily selective. 4) The word "psyche" is used by most people to mean anything belonging to the inner mind, vital or physical, though the true psyche is different... Blue Bird is always a symbol of aspiration towards something Beyond. February 2, 1937 I don't quite understand about "the physical consciousness" being obscure. The physical consciousness is that part which directly responds to physical things and physical Nature, sees the outer only as real, is occupied with it—not like the thinking mind with thought and knowledge, or like the vital with ...
... working on the inner mind and vital and physical as well as on the outer nature. What do you mean by a personal vital? What people call personality is a formation. There is no unchangeable vital personality. There is a Presence called the Purusha, something projected by the Self or Atman, which supports on each plane the formation of the personalities on that plane, but the Purusha is not a Page... is seized on by some force or being of the vital world for its own purpose. For normally the vital being with its personality exists after the dissolution of the physical body for some time only; afterwards it passes away into the vital plane where it remains till the vital sheath dissolves. Next one passes in the mental sheath, to some mental world; but finally the soul leaves its mental sheath also... The Parts of the Being and the Planes of Consciousness The Parts of the Being and the Planes of Consciousness The Concentric System: Outer to Inner Letters on Yoga - I Chapter III The Psychic Being The Psychic and the Divine They [ the psychic being and the Divine Presence in the heart ] are quite different things. The psychic being is one's own ...
... mentions ' Antariksha '—-the intermediate vital plane between Earth and Heaven—the physical and. mental. Veda mentions three shining summits of the Mind " Trini Rochana". Surya, the sun, is the symbol of the Truth-Consciousness of illumination of knowledge. The Vedic seers speak of the ascent of the human soul from plane to plane, from Darkness to Light.6 In IV 2-12 the Rishi says : " The... Veda speaks of several planes of consciousness in terms of symbols, but its language is a sealed book to the modern mind. It mentions the three steps5 of Vishnu, the all-pervading Divine. Each step of Vishnu creates a world and Vishnu maintains it by His dynamic presence. Rig Veda speaks of " Dyawa Prithivi" Heaven and Earth symbolising the Mental and the Physical planes of consciousness. It mentions... remote from the field of everyday experience of men. These experiences pertain to various fields. On the physical level, we see the phenomena of faith-cure, of poison-eating and fire-walking without any undesirable consequences, and we also know of several kinds of materializations. On the plane of life we find hypnotism, telepathy, clairvoyance and other similar phenomena which have been scientifically ...
... these other planes that we come into connection with the worlds above the physical. In sleep we leave the physical body, only a subconscient residue remaining, and enter all planes and all sorts of worlds." (Ibid ., pp. 1499-1500) We are by now in a position to offer an occult-spiritual explanation of the phenomenon of dreams. In ordinary sleep, what hap pens is that our physical body falls... dreams the sleeping man ' s consciousness 'may go out into other planes. ' The y may wonder , 'Obviously this is an absurd statement, for how can there be other planes than the physical ?' Yes, however puzzling this may appear to be to the ordinary materially-minded intellectuals, it isan indubitable fact that- "The physical is not the only world; there are others that we become aware of through... 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 Turiya beyond is the consciousness of our pure self-existence or our absolute ...
... subliminal has the right of entry into the mental and vital and subtle-physical planes of the universal consciousness, it is not confined to the material plane and the physical world; it possesses means of communication with the worlds of being which the descent towards involution created in its passage and with all corresponding planes or worlds that may have arisen or been constructed to serve the purpose... 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 as unreal or unrealised, only to be accepted as entirely real when it has succeeded in becoming actual, becoming a physical fact, becoming objective: its own... both worlds. He becomes a dream-self and passes beyond this world and its forms of death.... There are two planes of this conscious being, this and the other worlds; a third state is their place of joining, the state of dream, and when he stands in this place of their joining, he sees both planes of his existence, this world and the other world. When he sleeps, he takes the substance of this world in ...
... 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 infinite physical Being-Consciousness-Force-Bliss... beyond these many couches of the physical existence are other supraphysical degrees, a many layered plane of Life, a many layered plane of Mind, planes of Supermind, of Bliss, of Consciousness Force and of infinite Being on which the physical existence depends for its origination and its continuance. It is higher planes that flood the constantly unfolding unseen energies which have raised its evolution... Bliss proper to the spiritual physical operations of Nature. It is only when we have discovered and separated these planes of Nature and of our physical being and analysed the synthesis of their contributions to the whole play that we shall discover how the evolution of vital, mental and spiritual consciousness became possible in inconscient Matter. Page 248 But there is more; for beyond ...
... some idea of that power on the plane higher than the mental. Page 259 Sri Aurobindo : Why on the higher plane only? Do you .think that beauty is not a power? Do you believe that it is a mental abstraction? Disciple : I can understand that it is a power in a certain sense on the mental, vital and physical planes. But what is it on the plane higher than the mind? ... Sri Aurobindo : It is poetry on the plane of intuitional vision. There is rhythm, force and other elements of poetry in it, but the psychic element is not so prominent. It is from a plane much higher than the mental. It moves by vision on the plane of intuition, though there are passages in which you may find the psychic element. It is a wide and calm plane, – it also moves you but not in the same... : I mentioned vision and beauty as two necessary elements but they do not belong to one plane only, they may belong to various planes. Page 229 There must be for great poetry power of beauty, power of vision, power of expression – it may be on any plane. For example, it may be on the plane of vital aesthesis, or any other. All poetry need not be psychic. Disciple : Do you find ...
... acceptance of our forms by the God-powers? 106 There are no planes of manifestation without forms—for without form creation or manifestation cannot be complete. But the supra-physical planes are not bound to the forms like the physical. The forms there are expressive, not determinative. What is important on the vital plane is the force or feeling and the form expresses it. A vital being has... his true form under others. What is primary on the mental plane is the perception, the idea, the mental significance and the form expresses that and these mental forms too can vary—there can be many forms expressing an idea in different ways or on different sides of the idea. Form exists but it is more plastic and variable than in physical nature. As to the Gods, men can build forms which they will... bliss, but it is not a defence or excuse. On the planes that are above the mind (Overmind and those above it), do the forms exist as we have them on the planes relating to the material creation? The forms of gods we have here in icons etc., do they actually exist on the higher planes? My question is: Do the forms actually exist in those planes, or is it the creation of the mind which gives the forms ...
... and of 60 (six tens) in the nervous, and only ten orders of 3 each in the physical. I do not yet see to what the orders correspond. You must remember that the physical has to bear the impact of the others. Therefore, however obscure they may be, thirty is not too much for the physical being. The two orders on each plane must be the right hand and the left hand powers. The right hand are those... always a certain disparateness between the psychical and the physical planes and the transmission from the one to the other is not always facile That is true, but always in the sense of a primary force. In the end this primary force is the important thing. I only speak of the difficulty of correct materialisation from the psychical plane. A strong will can produce from it a great general effect in... images fade and the consciousness becomes more free that the direct action of which you speak becomes probable. The action from the intermediate plane is in one sense stronger as it is capable of a more subtle and penetrating diffusion not hampered by the physical difficulties, but it has other difficulties of its own; it is strong for diffusion and the creation of impelling ideas and forces, but for the ...
... higher planes could be clearly reflected. As for the other experience, his rejection of the waking consciousness evidently had the result of throwing him into an inner awareness in which he began to have contact with the supra physical planes. What was meant by the sea of red ether and stars depends on the character of the red colour. If it was crimson what he saw was the sea of the physical con... experiences are those which usually attend the withdrawal from the outer consciousness into an inner plane of experience. The feeling of coldness of the body in the first is one of the signs — like the immobility and stiffness of D's experience — that the consciousness is with drawing from the outer or physical sheath and retiring in side. The crystallisation was the form in which he felt the organisation... consciousness and physical life as it is represented to the inner symbolic visions. If it was purple red, then it was the sea of the vital consciousness and the vital life-force. Perhaps if he had not stopped his sense of the Mother's presence, it would have been better, — he should rather, if he can, take it with him into the inner planes; then he would have had no occasion to fear. In any case ...
... carnal desire and sexual cravings. There is something that says that it is not mere sex mania. Perhaps they could not get any other language to depict the contact with the Divine on the vital and physical planes and the total surrender of the emotions and the body. This question comes up often. I always considered it as an incapacity of finding the true words and the correct language. 17 July 1964... The vital world is mostly like that and those who live exclusively in the physical and the vital go there after death... But there is the Grace!... 2 August 1966 Page 285 Mother, About the vital world described in "Love and Death" you said that "those who live exclusively in the physical and the vital go there after death". Does it follow that even animals and plants... your presence, everyone seems to think of food, physical culture and the doctor for keeping good health? The Divine help may take a fourth place if it likes. It is difficult, at present, for one to speak of your help. People seem to think that by speaking of your help either one is trying to show off or is a fanatic. Sri Aurobindo said that the physical was to be taken into the yoga and not rejected ...
... happen. Besides his physical body, man has several subtle bodies or sheaths about which most people are ignorant. And in the subtle worlds, there are innumerable separate entities, small and big, good and bad. In short, even when the soul has returned to its own world after the death of the physical body, the subtle sheaths may be taken hold of by subtle beings of the supra-physical planes, who may pass... phenomenon that occurs in automatic writing does not concern merely these subtle sheaths of human beings. In some cases its source or inspiration is directly from beings of various non-physical though usually not very elevated planes. Most often they are part of the play of the writer's subliminal consciousness. You surely know that our ordinary external consciousness is not the only one we possess, for behind... just finished our exercises; had a quick wash in order to come to you. We have a very strict programme of physical education which we have to follow. Dada says exercises are no less important than studies." "He is right. I have told you, have I not,, of how, in our time, games and physical exercises were considered unimportant, how all the emphasis was placed only on studies? Today, thanks to the ...
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