... mind and brings into it the spontaneous action of the Light. Dealing with Physical Things Material things are not to be despised—without them there can be no manifestation in the material world. Physical things have a life and value of their own which does not depend upon their price. To respect physical things and make a careful and scrupulous use of them is a part of the Yoga, for without... without that the mastery over matter cannot come. What you feel about physical things is true—there is a consciousness in them, a life which is not the life and consciousness Page 287 of man and animal which we know, but still secret and real. That is why we must have a respect for physical things and use them rightly, not misuse and waste, ill-treat or handle with a careless roughness... "genius" in every physical thing. The rough handling and careless breaking or waste and misuse of physical things is a denial of the Yogic Consciousness and a great hindrance to the bringing down of the Divine Truth to the material plane. Wanton waste, careless spoiling of physical things in an incredibly short time, loose disorder, misuse of service and materials due either to vital grasping ...
... is easily satisfied with what it gets, makes the most of it, is careful of physical things and not subject to craving. The ideal of the Yoga is not asceticism, but to do with things or without things in the same spirit of equality and non-attachment—only in that spirit can one make a true and spiritual use of physical things and material life. 5 July 1937 You must get a change of consciousness... Page 760 ego and desire and duality. I have always made that quite clear—that indulgence of desire is no more part of this Yoga than it is of Sannyasa. One must be able to use and handle physical things and physical life, but from the spiritual consciousness, not from the level of the vital ego. 27 November 1935 It is surprising that you should miss, that so many here should miss the point... always lain on any cot given to me, not asking whether it is to my "taste" or not. It seems to me the proper attitude for a sadhak. Care of Material Things Wanton waste, careless spoiling of physical things in an incredibly short time, loose disorder, misuse of service and materials due either to vital grasping or to tamasic inertia are baneful to prosperity and tend to drive away or discourage the ...
... It is very true that physical things have a consciousness within them which feels and responds to care and is sensitive to careless touch and rough handling. To know or feel that and learn to be careful of them is a great progress of consciousness. Sri Aurobindo Misuse of physical things The rough handling and careless breaking or waste and misuse of physical things is a denial of the yogic... In the most physical things you have to fix a programme in order to deal with them, otherwise all becomes a sea of confusion and haphazard. Fixed rules have also to be made for the management of material things so long as people are not sufficiently developed to deal with them in the right way without rules. Sri Aurobindo Waste Wanton waste, careless spoiling of physical things in an incredibly... Sri Aurobindo Not to be despised Material things are not to be despised - without them there can be no manifestation in the material world. Sri Aurobindo consciousness in physical things There is a consciousness in each physical thing with Page 42 which one can communicate. Everything has an individuality of a certain kind, houses, cars, furniture ...
... itself, it is doubted by the physical mind because it is subjective, not objective. But has the distinction much value? Is not all knowledge and experience subjective at bottom? Objective external physical things are seen very much in the same way by human beings because of the construction of the mind and senses; with another construction of mind and sense quite another account of the physical world would... has come to the conclusion that it cannot, as it once hoped, determine what is the truth of things or their real nature or what is behind physical phenomena; it can only deal with the process of physical things and how they come about or on what lines men can deal with and make use of them. In other words, the field of physical science has been now definitely marked off and limited and questions about... lived in Tibet you will get an idea of their expertness in these things. But also the Tibetan Lamas know something of the laws of occult (mental and vital) energy and how it can be made to act on physical things. That is something which goes beyond mere magic. The direct power of mind-force or life-force upon Matter can be extended to an almost illimitable degree. It must be remembered that Energy is ...
... feel are due to the fact that the consciousness goes inside, so physical things are felt as if they were at a distance. The same phenomenon can happen when one goes into another plane of consciousness and sees physical things from there. But it is probably the first that is happening with you. When one goes quite inside, then physical things disappear,—when some connection is kept, then they become distant... consciousnesses together, be in your psychic in one part of yourself with all the experience and activities of the psychic being and nature and yet with your surface self fully awake and active in physical things with the psychic support and influence behind this outer action. It is a very good sign that when the thoughts and the attempt at disturbance come there is something that remains calm and ...
... The Thinking Mind and the Physical Mind The true thinking mind does not belong to the physical, it is a separate power. The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with the physical things only—it depends on the sense mind, sees only objects, external actions, draws its ideas from the data given by external things, infers from them only and knows no other Truth—until it is enlightened... positive experience—at least in natures in which the vital is strongly active. 2 The Physical Mind It [ the true physical mind ] is the instrument of understanding and ordered action on physical things. Only instead of being obscure and ignorant and fumbling as now or else guided only by an external knowledge it has to become conscious of the Divine and to act in accordance with an inner light... accept suggestions of disturbance. It is the physical mind that finds it difficult to believe in the reality of supraphysical things—that is due to its ignorance and its belief that only physical things are real. Yes, it [ the physical mind ] reasons, but on the basis of external data mostly—on things as they appear to the outer mind and senses or the habitual ideas to which it is accustomed ...
... the aspect of brain-activity in us by which we get the experience of physical things, are engrossed in that experience and respond in various ways of thought, feeling, volition to sense-contacts. But this matter-obsessed brain-mind does not exhaust our mentality, for the latter is not concerned only with physical things. Even science which is ostensibly thus concerned goes beyond them... recesses which he is not ordinarily aware of and among which the most immediately potent and productive are the subliminal. All those parts that are not preoccupied with or mainly governed by physical things are linked with the subliminal and in many respects are, as it were, its projections. Yet, inasmuch as they function within man's conscious state, they form one team with the part which is ...
... introduced an entirely new turn of mind. Its revolutionariness lay essentially in bringing to sharp focus a manner of looking at physical things which is at utter variance with our habits of thought for thousands of years. Our mental habits with regard to physical things have been based on the assumption that Nature can be described on any scale by the so-called "laws" we find in the phenomena familiar... import must bear positively, as we shall later see, against the materialistic and mechanistic world-view which was in fashion after Newton had completed the traditional trend of thought about physical things. Grasping of Reality by Pure Thought Thanks to Einstein, the mind of man has found an hitherto unsuspected "liberation" in its mode of understanding the phenomena of Nature ...
... demand for vital affection and love from men and demand for physical comforts are not consistent with the spirit of Yoga in which one must turn one's heart to the Divine and be vitally pure and in physical things must be content with what one gets and equal-minded in all conditions. You were quite right in telling her that these outer Page 258 demands should be given up altogether. To... must be free from ego and desire and duality. I have always made that quite clear—that indulgence of desire is no more part of this Yoga than it is of Sannyasa. One must be able to use and handle physical things and physical life, but from the spiritual consciousness, not from the level of the vital ego. It is the old vital nature that feels its human worldly desires will not be satisfied and feels ...
... this Truth was their great aspiration. They discovered secrets and powers of Nature which were not those of the physical world but which could bring occult mastery over the physical world and physical things and to systematise this occult knowledge and power was also one of their strong preoccupations. But all this could only be safely done by a difficult and careful training, discipline, purification... Indian mind accustomed to the Indian tradition or capable of meditation and occult vision it would be perfectly intelligible. The mystics were and normally are symbolists, they can even see all physical things and happenings as symbols of inner truths and realities, even their outer selves, the outer happenings of their life and all around them. That would make their identification or else an association ...
... because, along with the pain, the CAUSE disappears too. Which means that the disorder that had occurred is dissolved, it no longer exists. That's why I don't think Sri Aurobindo is referring to physical things, because in the physical, experiences are different. Psychological or inner things, even sensations (sensations about Page 124 events, not about the body), have a fluidity, they're... sensation you have that changes, it's the material FACT that has changed. And that I find much more marvelous: the contact with the true Force puts things back in order. Yet, usually with physical things, one feels it takes a little time to... But that's because the cells are not used to surrendering, to giving themselves. Once the cells are conscious and give themselves, I have noticed that ...
... has the character of a realm where things are more fluid and harmonious than physical things, but with the same concrete quality; its nature is not like that of vital things, which have vibrations of power but again not that very concrete and objective quality characteristic of material things. In the subtle physical, things are very concrete. For instance, if someone stands in your way, you have to ...
... faculties like others. And if you can't say precisely, how can we ever hope to get at any direct intuitive knowledge of the matter we have to deal with? Supramentalise—the supramental is for physical things the only "dead cert". But how can one harmonise? I have told you—Force from above does it. ... Really I believe that the hard crust will some day be broken miraculously, and all the... at all? Let it open up in you then. Don't you see how all these things are coming just to make you bloom into a Dhanwantari overnight? For me to suprarnentalise and then know definitely physical things is a "long way to Tipperary". Why not get it like my painting vision? I would like to know how the experiences I had are going to have any practical utility. Do they come and go simply ...
... efficiency of one's physical body has further to be extended in respect of one's dealings with other physical or material things as well. In handling houses, furniture, machines, cars, and other physical things ever so apparently insignificant, it would be wise to remember that each entity - a chair, a pen, a mirror, a vase, a paper-weight - has its own veiled consciousness, and the avoidance of violence... energy, and of carelessness as a sign of dispersion (instead of concentration) of consciousness, should be part of one's sadhana in the physical: Wanton waste, careless spoiling of physical things in an incredibly short time, loose disorder, misuse of service and materials due either to vital grasping or to tamasic inertia are baneful to prosperity and tend to drive away or discourage the ...
... process of consciousness by which it can pass into superconscience, the supreme discovery. The Life Divine, pp. 493-94 The reason has its place especially with regard to certain physical things and general worldly questions — though even there it is a very fallible judge — or in the formation of metaphysical conclusions and generalisations; but its claim to be the decisive authority... very physical sense, everywhere you see, hear, touch only the Divine. Then you can much less doubt it or deny it than you can deny or doubt daylight or air or the sun in heaven — for of these physical things you cannot be sure that they are what your senses represent them to be; but in the concrete experiences of the Divine, doubt is impossible. Letters on Yoga, p. 168 Another objection ...
... Golconde Mother has worked out her own idea through Raymond, 31 Sammer and others. First Mother believes in beauty as a part of spirituality and divine living; secondly she believes that physical things have the Divine Consciousness underlying them as much as living things, and thirdly, that they have an individuality of their own and ought to be properly treated, used in the right way, not... be [said] to have insulted your friend. As for Golconde, it is in that [house] [?] of all the [eight or nine] houses in the Ashram that she has been trying to carry out her idea [?] physical things, their harmony and order and proper treatment, she has not been imposing it elsewhere except in the matter of cleanliness and hygiene, which are surely not objectionable. I may say that you ...
... three lower planes are mind, life and matter and it is true that the human mind confines itself to these three activities. But it is not true that its activities are confined to the vital and physical things. What is the fourth centre? In our system the fourth centre is the heart and the Divine is there in the psychic, behind the heart. But the fourth of our seven planes is the supramental which... mind, the external will and the expression. Yes [ the throat centre is the physical mind centre ]. It is the centre of externalisation,—speech, expression, the power to deal mentally with physical things etc. Its opening brings the power to open the physical mind to the light of the divine consciousness instead of remaining in the ordinary outward-going mentality. Yes, it is so—it is the ...
... means is a force of concentration by which the mind is drawn inward to depths where the call of physical things can no longer easily attain to it. A second necessity is to get rid of the intervention of physical sleep. The ordinary habit of the mind when it goes in away from contact with physical things is to fall into the torpor of sleep or its dreams, and therefore when called in for the purposes ...
... nothing. In Golconde Mother has worked out her own idea through Raymond, Sammer and others. First, Mother believes in beauty as a part of spirituality and divine living; secondly, she believes that physical things have the Divine Consciousness underlying them as much as living things; and thirdly, that they have an individuality of their own and ought to be properly treated, used in the right way, not misused... there there is always room for dispute. 25 February 1945 As for Golconde, it is in that house of all the 80 or more houses in the Asram that she has been trying to carry out her idea of physical things, their harmony and order and proper treatment, she has not been imposing it elsewhere except in the matter of cleanliness and hygiene, which are surely not objectionable. I may say that you are ...
... likely to slip and break. It is very true that physical things have a consciousness within them which feels and responds to care and is sensitive to careless touch and rough handling. To know or feel that and learn to be careful of them is a great progress in consciousness. It is so always that the Mother has felt and dealt with physical things and they remain with her much longer and in a better ...
... instigations of the Life-force, the positive necessities of physical things are sometimes half-lights, sometimes false lights that can at best only serve for a while or serve a little and for the rest either detain or confuse us. " Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, pp. 128-29 The necessities of physical things also? I don't Understand. All this, not only physical ...
... achievement and satisfaction and possession, with enjoyment and suffering, giving and taking, growth and expansion, etc. The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with physical things only; limited by the physical view and experience of things, it mentalises the experience brought by the contact of outward life and things, but does not go beyond that. The mechanical mind, closely... (being) —not the body alone, but the whole physical mind, vital, material nature. physical mind —See under mind . physical vital —the part of the vital that is turned entirely upon physical things, full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane. psyche —the soul; spark of the Divine before it has evolved into an individualised being; the divine essence in ...
... the lowest. That is the promise of the greater psychology awaiting its hour before which these poor groupings will disappear and come to nothing. 102 Wanton waste, careless spoiling of physical things in an incredibly short time, loose disorder, misuse of service and materials due either to vital grasping or to tamasic inertia are baneful to prosperity and tend to drive away or discourage the... 103 There is a consciousness in [things], a life which is not the life and consciousness of man and animal which we know, but still secret and real. That is why we must have a respect for physical things and use them rightly, not misuse and waste, ill-treat or handle with a careless roughness. This feeling of all being consciousness or alive comes when our own physical consciousness—and not the ...
... ; otherwise, the old movement and the old law continue. I can see that with the body's cells: at times, for a few seconds or a few minutes (at the most a few hours, but not with physical things; with physical things, it's always seconds and minutes), all of a sudden a sort of perfection manifests—and then it disappears. And you see very clearly that it cannot stay on because of a ceaseless invasion ...
... but it is a certitude not of mental thought but of essential experience.... You can much less doubt it or deny it than you can deny or doubt daylight or air or the sun in heaven - for of these physical things you cannot be sure but they are what your senses represent them to be; but in the concrete experience of the Divine, doubt is impossible." 31 V. Argument: The objective Reality being... since they are subjective and not objective. Critique: Apart from the general truth that all knowledge and experience, without any exception, - even of the so-called objective external physical things, - is at bottom subjective, we may ask if Science itself, at the end of its victorious analysis of Matter, has not come to the astonishing conclusion that "precisely beyond our natural perceptual ...
... psychical transmutation of the natural figure. In reality the shapes he paints are the forms of things as he has seen them in the psychical plane of experience: these are the soul-figures of which physical things are a gross representation and their purity and subtlety reveals at once what the physical masks by the thickness of its casings. The lines and colours sought here are the psychic lines and the ...
... repulsions, termed picturesquely water or the liquid state, and a fifth of cohesion, termed earth or the solid state, complete the necessary elements. All forms of Matter of which we are aware, all physical things even to the most subtle, are built up by the combination of these five elements. Upon them also depends all our sensible experience; for by reception of vibration comes the sense of sound; by contact ...
... of the schedule, but whether the work can be done "according to schedule", as they say, has to be seen in practice. The occult resistance is a fact but it applies more to psychological than to physical things. 18 October 1936 Dealing with Paid Workers In dealing with paid workmen, I sometimes behave in a very familiar way, sometimes in a neutral way and sometimes I get angry. How should I ...
... the Mother as divine is now being convinced of her divinity. But why do I forget her divinity when I actually come before her? It is the physical mind in its most external action that sees physical things as only physical. 15 August 1937 How to convince the mind that the Mother is the Divine and that her workings are not human? It is by opening up the psychic and letting it rule the mind ...
... lived in Tibet you will get an idea of their expertness in these things. But also the Tibetan Lamas know something of the laws of occult (mental and vital) energy and how it can be made to act on physical things. That is something which goes beyond mere magic. The direct power of mind-force or life-force upon matter can be extended to an almost illimitable degree—but that has nothing to do with the st ...
... achievement and satisfaction and possession, with enjoyment and suffering, giving and taking, growth and expansion, etc. The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with physical things only; limited by the physical view and experience of things, it mentalises the experience brought by the contact of outward life and things, but does not go beyond that. The mechanical mind, closely ...
... Page 87 and your only part was to be a good or a bad instrument. Sri Aurobindo Orderly harmony and organisation Orderly harmony and organisation in physical things is a necessary part of efficiency and perfection and makes the instrument fit for whatever work is given to it. Sri Aurobindo Entirely pure instruments If you could make yourselves ...
... is fixed in a higher domain; for example, not to speak of spiritual things, a man who is busy solving a mental problem and is very concentrated upon his mental problem, becomes inattentive to physical things, and if he happens to be in a street or in a crowd, his attention fixed upon his problem, he will not make the movement necessary to avoid the accident, and the accident will occur. It is the same ...
... external circumstances have changed, giving a flat lie to the dream of the ideal which sought expression even in material activities. The hour has not yet come for joyful realisations in outer physical things. The physical being is plunged once again into the dull, monotonous night from which it wanted to withdraw too hastily; and Thy realised will, O Lord of Truth, has come to tell the constructing ...
... things—not only of things of the past, but of things to come. For everything is recorded there. In the mental world, for instance, there is a domain of the physical mind which is related to physical things and keeps the memory of physical happenings upon earth. It is as though you were entering into innumerable vaults, one following another indefinitely, and these vaults are filled with small pi ...
... the difference in the earth-atmosphere. They still have a long way to go for that. Because, for those whose consciousness is more or less exclusively centred in the outer being―mental, vital and physical―things need to take on an absurd and unexpected appearance for them to be able to recognise them. Then they call them miracles. But the constant miracle of the intervention of forces which changes ...
... power of action over their bodies, very great. That is why one is quite surprised at times: "Here's a man with a great realisation, an exceptional person, and he is a slave of all the smallest physical things, while this man, well, he is so simple and looks so uncouth, but he has a great faith and goes through difficulties and obstacles like a conqueror!" I don't say that a highly cultured man can't ...
... blind, ignorant and very egoistic. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 19 September 1956 As there is a physical mind, so there is a physical vital—a vital turned entirely upon physical things, full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Vital Being and Vital Consciousness The physical vital is the being ...
... turning round and round whenever thoughts occur in it. Another subdivision 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 ...
... fountains of the spirit's Ananda from which life is seen and reshaped by the vision that springs from a moved identity,—the inmost source of the authentic poet vision. The beauty and delight of all physical things Page 266 illumined by the wonder of the secret spiritual self that is the inhabitant and self-sculptor of form, the beauty and delight of the thousand-coloured, many-crested, million-waved ...
... makes everything he says, even the most common and prosaic, sound out with a ring of greatness, gives a force even to his barest or heaviest phrases, throws even upon the coarsest, dullest, most physical things something of the divinity; and he has the elemental Homeric power of sufficient straightforward Page 165 speech, the rush too of oceanic sound though it is here the surging of the Atlantic ...
... and vital mixture. Intuition entering into the human mind undergoes a change; it becomes what we may call the mental intuition or the vital intuition or the intuition working inconsciently in physical things: sometimes it may work with a certain perfection and absoluteness, but ordinarily it is at once coated in mind or life with the mental or vital substance into which it is received and gets limited ...
... physical contact through writing, speech, meeting is indispensable to the action of the spiritual force is self-contradictory, for then it would not be a spiritual force. The spirit is not limited by physical things or by the body. If you have the spiritual force, it can act on people thousands of miles away who do not know and never will know that you are acting on them or that they are being acted upon—they ...
... psychic parts, the heart's ideal and the soul's yearnings. On the mind the body imposes the boundaries of the physical being and the physical life and the sense of the sole complete reality of physical things with the rest as a sort of brilliant fireworks of the imagination, of lights and glories that can only have their full play in heavens beyond, on higher planes of existence, but not here; it afflicts ...
... Chapter VIII The Physical Consciousness The Physical Consciousness and Its Parts 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 emotion, passion, subtler satisfaction of desire ...
... personality apart from consciousness?—to the universal forces of Nature. We can take a purely external view and say that consciousness is the result of a mass of reactions to the impact of outward physical things on the brain and nerves of a physical being. In this case consciousness is a sort of effective hallucination—there is no real and permanent consciousness but only a subjective impression created ...
... the very physical sense, everywhere you see, hear, touch only the Divine. Then you can much less doubt it or deny it than you can deny or doubt daylight or air or the sun in heaven—for of these physical things you cannot be sure that they are what your senses represent them to be; but in the concrete experience of the Divine, doubt is impossible. As to permanence, you cannot expect permanence of the ...
... it—that it was the sins of his disciples which constituted the cancer. There is a physical aspect to things and there is an occult supraphysical aspect—one need not get in the way of the other. All physical things are the expression of the supraphysical. The existence of a body with physical instruments and processes does not, as the 19th century wrongly imagined, disprove the existence of a soul which uses ...
... Unionists in East Fife, the relaxation of the Ulster difficulty, the growth of the idea of Federal Home Rule, the South African solution, events in Bengal, tendencies in Pondicherry etc. Even in physical things the power increases, eg the stoppage of the disordered pipe twice in two minutes after it had been running persistently for three or four days & was at the moment in a violent state of disorder ...
... the vital consciousness, and, even if it is aware of physical scenes and things, it is not with a physical vision. It is possible for one who has trained his faculties to enter into touch with physical things although he is moving about in the vital body, to see and sense them accurately, even to act on them and physically move them. But the ordinary sadhaka who has no knowledge or organised experience ...
... mud, but souls, minds, wills that can know all the mysteries of this and every world and become not only Nature's pupils but her adepts and masters. The occultist sought to know the secret of physical things also and in this effort he furthered astronomy, created chemistry, gave an impulse to other sciences, for he utilised geometry also and the science of numbers; but still more he sought to know ...
... spiritual sense or seeing, the constructions, representations or conclusions of the intellect, the suggestions or Page 137 instigations of the life-force, the positive necessities of physical things are sometimes half-lights, sometimes false lights that can at best only serve for a while or serve a little and for the rest either detain or confuse us. The guiding law of spiritual experience ...
... of the physical universe is a still more imperfect guide; for the thinking animal it might be enough, but not for a race of mental beings in labour of a spiritual evolution. Even the truth of physical things cannot be entirely known, nor can the right use of our material existence be discovered by physical Science and an outward knowledge alone or made possible by the mastery of physical and mechanical ...
... condition of all action, even of the most apparently inanimate physical action. It is the universal Prana, as the ancients knew, which in various forms sustains or drives material energy in all physical things from the electron and atom and gas up through the metal, plant, animal, physical man. To get this pranic shakti to act more freely and forcibly in the body is knowingly or unknowingly the attempt ...
... nine tenths of existence for their satisfaction, but means and powers for the expression of the spirit. At the same time, since matter and the body are accepted, the control and the right use of physical things would be a part of the realised life of the spirit in the manifestation in earth-nature. It is almost universally supposed that spiritual life must necessarily be a life of ascetic spareness ...
... material or vital attachment or desire, will feel that he is using the Spirit in this form of itself with its consent and sanction for its own purpose. There will be in him a certain respect for physical things, an Page 1022 awareness of the occult consciousness in them, of its dumb will of utility and service, a worship of the Divine, the Brahman in what he uses, a care for a perfect and ...
... The psychical sight receives characteristically the images that are formed in the subtle matter of the mental or psychical ether, cittākāśa . These may be transcriptions there or impresses of physical things, persons, scenes, happenings, whatever is, was or will be or may be in the physical universe. These images are very variously seen and under all kinds of conditions; in samadhi or in the waking ...
... this adaptation is made. What you need to find out first is a secret of the transition. For you are physically in a period of transition. The period of victorious realisation comes later. Four physical things have to be attained; stability and continuity of consciousness, stability and continuity of energy, stability and continuity of Ananda, stability and continuity of substance. The first she has ...
... the Inconscient, is the whole sense of Evolution—not the mere development of a more and more organised living body out of protoplasm, as the scientists with their eyes fixed only or mainly on physical things would have it, but the struggle of Consciousness somnambulised in Matter to wake and free, find and possess itself more and more completely, the emancipation and slow self-revealing of a Soul secret ...
... our psychological processes. But by this method we can only arrive at an extended physiological, not at a true psychological knowledge. We learn that there is a physical instrumentation by which physical things and their contacts work upon our consciousness, reach it through the nerves and the brain and awake certain reactions in it which may however vary with the brain and the consciousness contacted; ...
... makes everything he says, even the most common and prosaic, sound out with a ring of greatness, gives a force even to his barest or heaviest phrases, throws even upon the coarsest, dullest, most physical things something of the divinity; and he has the elemental Homeric power of sufficient straightforward speech, the rush too of oceanic sound 1 Ibid., p. 212. Page 117 though ...
... This poem is an excellent illustration of the symbolic method which is as old as the Veda. "Mystics," writes Sri Aurobindo, "were and normally are symbolists, they can even see all physical things and happenings as symbols of inner truths and realities, even their outer selves, the outer happenings of their life and all around them." 23 Here too a physical thing has become the gateway ...
... letter: ‘In Golconde Mother has worked out her own idea through Raymond, Sammer and others. First, Mother believes in beauty as a part of spirituality and divine living; secondly, she believes that physical things have the Divine Consciousness underlying them as much as living things; and thirdly that they have an individuality of their own and ought to be properly treated, used in the right way … It is ...
... very physical sense, everywhere you see, hear, touch only the Divine. Then you can much less doubt it or deny it than you can doubt or deny daylight or air or the sun in heaven — for of these physical things you cannot be sure but they are what your senses represent them to be; but in the concrete experiences of the Divine, doubt is impossible.’ 18 Sri Aurobindo has related quite a few of his ...
... consciousness is externally orientated (bahirāvṛttacak ṣ u ḥ ). And the habitual trend of the physical mind whenever it gets divorced Page 155 from the immediate contact with physical things is to fall into the torpor of sleep. For, this is the only type of inner consciousness to which it is ordinarily accustomed. Now, there cannot be any spiritual life unless and until ...
... physical sense, everywhere you see, hear, touch only the Divine. Then you can much less doubt it or deny it than you can deny or doubt daylight or air or the sun in heaven - for of these physical Page 150 things you cannot be sure but they are what your senses represent them to be; but in the concrete experiences of the Divine, doubt is impossible," 32 [Italics ours.] And yet the ...
... Lunel in the south of France. Mirra’s illness, which had started when the Kamo Maru entered the Mediterranean, now became serious. ‘The hour has not yet come for joyful realizations in outer physical things. The physical being is plunged once again into the dull, monotonous night from which it wanted to withdraw too hastily … The body, despite its indisputable goodwill, is so profoundly shaken that ...
... have. Even people with the ability to materialize things (like Madame Théon, for instance) can't make their materializations last; it can't be done, they don't last—they don't have the quality of physical things. And without this quality, well... the creation's continuity could not be assured. Yes, that's an interesting point. One might indeed wonder about it. I knew the whole occult procedure ...
... am getting ready to go down for the balcony [darshan]. That's when they come, during the most prosaic part of daily life. When I am meditating or walking or even seeing someone, it's different: physical things fade away, they lose their significance. But in this case, it's when I am in the very midst of physical life. It was odd this morning because on one side I felt ("one side"—it's not even a side; ...
... it is not always wise to speak about everything you do. When you speak, you must always speak the truth; but sometimes it is better not to speak. 18 December 1951 When speaking of physical things one should have a lively, pleasant, witty style. When speaking of vital things the style should be eloquent. When speaking of mental things the style should be clear, precise, exact. When ...
... blessings. 19 August 1966 Mother, I want to ask you why the life we lead is so dependent on material objects. This need not be; if the consciousness is centred elsewhere, more deeply, physical things lose much of their importance. Page 217 × A spoken comment of the Mother which was noted from memory ...
... thing is that when I supposedly "wake up" and get up, I go on with something ( laughing ) that's not physical! You understand, the state of over there goes on, and it's as real, as tangible as physical things; and after half an hour I realize that I have moved about here and done all kinds of things ENTIRELY in that consciousness!... 10 What's that consciousness?... It's a very clear, very harmonious ...
... materially with these eyes ( Mother touches her eyes ) and a magnifying glass. Anyway... But it isn't in the book. 2 ( silence ) Some time ago, I was saying to myself, "Some people see physical things at a distance, but I have never seen anything of the sort." Page 50 I have seen things in the subtle physical (very close to the physical, with a very small difference), but that wasn't ...
... to the past, to the past evolutionary movement, and of those that are open to the new method, if I may say so, is clearer and clearer; it's perceptible as clearly as, more clearly than external physical things, than the external form (this distinction is physical, but it belongs to the inner construction). Outwardly, it results in fever. It's a battle. And not a battle of ill wills, it's not that: it's ...
... .. I am or have the consciousness of a dead person on earth." I am putting it into words, but it seemed to say, "This is how the consciousness of a dead person is in relation to the earth and physical things.... I am a dead person living on earth." According to the stand of the consciousness (because the consciousness changes its stand constantly), according to the stand of the consciousness, it was ...
... universe will, at the end of history, be taken up by and made part of his Mystical Body which is an organic reality like the realities of nature and that they will reach such a destiny just as physical things are taken up and made part of nature's realities. Here the identical plane of the organic, the natural and the physical emerges. The single plane of the last two comes to the fore even ...
... The Physical Mind The true thinking mind does not belong to the physical, it is a separate power. The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with the physical things only — it depends on the sense-mind, sees only objects, external actions, draws its ideas from the data given by external things, infers from them only and knows no other Truth until it is ...
... the pure forms of the powers we have spoken of: truth is the highest expression of intellectualism (Vyasa), life that of morality (Valmiki), beauty and delight that of joy even in the most physical things (Kalidasa) and spirit the highest heights that the Vedic and Upanishadic poets have reached. Poetry of the Overmind aesthesis has "occasionally and inadequately" been written but the poet of ...
... is doubted by the physical mind because it is subjective, not objective. But has the distinction much value? Is not all knowledge and experience subjective at bottom? Objective external physical things are seen very much in the same way by human beings because of the construction of the mind and senses; with another construction of mind and sense quite another account of the physical world ...
... attempt in particular to possess and organize the mysterious, occult, and subliminal power of Mind upon Life and of both Mind and Life over Matter. Occultism also strives to know the secret of physical things, and in this striving the development of several sciences come to be promoted, particularly, astronomy, physics, chemistry, geometry and the science of numbers. In fact, the knowledge developed ...
... According to Sri Aurobindo, the Vedic Rishis had discovered secrets and powers of Nature, which were not those of the physical world but which could bring occult mastery over the physical world and physical things and to transmit and systematise that occult knowledge and power was also one of their serious occupations. Elaborating this point, he says: "But all this could only be safely done by a difficult ...
... tenths of existence for their satisfaction, but means and powers for the expression of the Spirit. At the same time, since the matter and the body are accepted, the control and the right use of physical things would be a part of the realized life of the Spirit in the manifestation in earth-nature." 9 That spirituality and the manifestation of the supramental consciousness on the earth could ...
... termed picturesquely water or'the liquid state, and a fifth of cohesion, termed earth or the solid state, complete the necessary elements. All forms of Matter of which we are aware, all physical things even to the most subtle, are built up by the combination of these five elements. Upon them also depends all our sensible experience; for by reception of vibration comes the sense of sound; by contact ...
... psychic parts, the heart's ideal and the soul's yearnings. On the mind the body imposes the boundaries of the physical being and the physical life and the sense of the sole complete reality of physical things with the rest as a sort of brilliant fireworks of the imagination, of lights and glories that can only have their full play in heavens beyond, on higher planes of existence, but not here; it ...
... prepare the mind or they can help to express the knowledge properly in the mental way. What else do you expect them to do? I am not aware that by learning logic one gets freed from physical things. A few intellectuals lead the mental life and are indifferent to physical needs to a great extent, but there are very few. Page 67 Would a developed mind help the sadhana ...
... objective phenomena or aims at using purely objective images. But if the vision behind the poem is subjective, the objection holds no longer. The mystic subjective vision admits a consciousness in physical things and gives them a subtle physical life which is not that of the material existence. If a consciousness is felt in the stars and if that consciousness expresses itself in subtle physical images to ...
... 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 emotion, passion, subtler satisfaction of desire ...
... Page 8 are mind, life and matter and it is true that the human mind confines itself to these three activities. But it is not true that its activities are confined to the vital and physical things. The Vedanta also says that when one enters into the fourth centre one sees the Divine Effulgence. Is that a fact? What is the fourth centre? In our system the fourth centre ...
... Yoga or spiritual life? It is the outer being that has nothing to do with Yoga or spiritual life unless the inner awakens it. When my outer being is busy with physical things or mechanical movements, what does my inner being do during that period? It may be silent or it may be occupied with its own activities which are not felt by the surface mind. ...
... take up with willingness any work given to one as an offering to the Divine. At one time I was absolutely unfit for any physical work and cared only for the mental, but I trained myself in doing physical things with care and perfection so as to overcome this glaring defect in my being and make the bodily instrument apt and conscious. It was the same with some others here. A nature not trained to accept ...
... qu'avant d'en etre sortis. 1 But her being and consciousness are not limited to mankind alone. She has identified herself with even material objects, with all the small insignificant physical things which our earthly existence deals with. This is how she takes leave of the house where she had lived, and the things it had sheltered, on the eve of a long journey: Je les remercie avec ...
... a world and consciousness other than that of the mind and the senses. One should naturally expect here a different language and mode of expression than that which is appropriate to mental and physical things. For example, the world of dreams was once supposed to be a sheer chaos, a mass of meaningless confusion; but now it is held to be quite otherwise. Psychological scientists have discovered a method— ...
... thereby all hope of having him back for the work of the country or the world appeared to be totally lost and he came to be, looked upon again as an irrevocable "metaphysical" dreamer, aloof from physical things and barren, even like the Immutable Brahman. (2) In order to get a nearer approach to the ideal for which Sri Aurobindo is labouring, we may combine with advantage the two mottoes ...
... āna ā kā sa and citta- ā kāsa. Page 231 Then there is the Physical being. There you have the physical mind, which most men have got. It observes and accepts the physical things around us but does not go beyond them. It accepts them as they are, and though we can't say it "thinks" about them, yet it is that which arranges them in a sort of way. It hardly reasons except ...
... from the pressure exerted by the developments of the physical sciences in which one can be exact, precise and where everything is mechanical. It is tried and found to be all right so far as physical things are concerned because, if you make a mistake there, Nature knocks you on the nose and you are compelled to see your error. But the moment you deal with Life and Mind, you cannot apply the same ...
... began from the pressure of the development of the physical sciences in Europe. In these sciences one can be exact and precise and everything is mechanical and fixed. This is all right as far as physical things are concerned because there if you make a mistake Nature hits you on the nose and you are made to see it. But the moment you try to apply the same rules in dealing with life and mind, you may go ...
... for hours and hours. But they overdid it. One has to be reasonable even in spirituality. That tremendous force was felt when the sadhana was in the vital being. When the sadhana started in the physical, things were different. The physical is like a stone, full of Aprakasha and Apravritti, darkness and inertia. NIRODBARAN: Sometimes one feels a sort of love for everybody; though the feeling lasts ...
... thereby all hope of having him back for the work of the country or the world appeared to be totally lost and he came to be looked upon again as an irrevocable "metaphysical" dreamer, aloof from physical things and barren, even like the Immutable Brahman. 2 In order to get a nearer approach to the ideal for which Sri Aurobindo has been labouring, we may combine with Page 3 ...
... makes everything he says, even the most common and prosaic, sound out with a ring of greatness, gives a force even to his barest or heaviest phrases, throws even upon the coarsest, dullest, most physical things something of the divinity; and he has the elemental Homeric power of sufficient straightforward speech, the rush too of oceanic sound though it is here the surging of the Atlantic between continents ...
... explaining the Mother's view of Golconde and the paramount need for discipline in life: First, Mother believes in beauty as a part of spirituality and divine living; secondly, she believes that physical things have the Divine Consciousness underlying them as much as living things; and thirdly that they have an individuality of their own and ought to be properly treated, used in the right way, not misused ...
... physical mind, one could find entry into its inner countries and read the entire past as from a printed book: In the mental world... there is a domain of the physical mind which is related to physical things and keeps the memory of physical happenings upon earth... if you want to know something and if you are conscious, you look, and you see something like... a shining point... and you have only to ...
... the Cosmic Person in Him and realised that he was only an instrument in the stupendous battle of life. The physical mind is that part of the mind which busies itself with and takes delight in physical things. Though not actually cast in the philosophic mould, Arjun's mind possessed a developed intelligence, and it was using that intelligence as a grappling hook that Sri Krishna lifted him into the ...
... the strange thing is that when I supposedly "wake up" and get up, I go on with something that's not physical! You understand, the state of over there goes on, and it's as real, as tangible as physical things; and after half an hour I realize that I have moved about here and done all kinds of things ENTIRELY in that consciousness!... What's that consciousness?... It's a very clear, very harmonious ...
... pursuits and aims of this material world. The means, symbols, rites, figures, by which it sought to mediate between the spirit and the normal human mentality were drawn from these most external physical things. Man's first and primitive idea of the Divine can only come through his vision of external Nature and the sense of a superior Power or Powers concealed behind her phenomena, veiled in the heaven ...
... sculptor is concerned with embodying spiritual experiences and impressions, not with recording or glorifying what is received by the physical senses. He may start with suggestions from earthly and physical things, but he produces his work only after he has closed his eyes to the Page 293 insistence of the physical circumstances, seen them in the psychic memory and transformed them within himself ...
... in the earth-consciousness this cannot happen. Asuras are helpless against it. That was the truth seen by Sri Aurobindo and he worked towards it and firmly established it in the earth's subtle-physical. Things now will happen in the dynamism of the Truth-consciousness itself. In one of the Vedic Riks we have the description of Agastya digging into the darkness of the Night, khanan as it says ...
... the ordinary mind: mind proper, which is chiefly the thinking mind or intellect; the vital or desire mind; and the physical mind. The physical mind is the part of the mind that is concerned with physical things only and is limited by the physical view and experience of things. Closely connected with it is the mechanical mind, which goes on repeating uselessly like a machine whatever has happened, creating ...
... mind: proper, which is chiefly the thinking mind or impellent; the vitrify mind. which is a mind of dynamic will, ace ion and desire; and the physical mind, which is concerned with physical things only and is limi1 end to the physical view and experience of things. Closely connected with the physical mind is the mechanical mind. which goes on repealing whatever has happened. ...
... ignorance between. Once it breaks down he becomes aware of the cosmic Self, of the consciousness of the cosmic Nature, of the forces playing in it, etc. He feels all that as he now feels physical things and impacts. He finds it all to be one with his larger or universal self. 7 The cosmic consciousness is that in which the limits of ego, personal mind and body disappear and one ...
... and satisfaction and possession, with enjoyment and suffering, giving and taking, growth and expansion, etc. The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with physical things only; limited by the physical view and experience of things, it mentalises the experience brought by the contact of outward life and things, but does not go Page 411 beyond ...
... The psychical sight receives characteristically the images that are formed in the subtle matter of the mental or psychical ether, cittākāśa. These may be transcriptions there or impresses of physical things, persons, scenes, happenings, whatever is, was or will be or may be in the physical universe. These images are very variously seen and under all kinds of conditions; in Samadhi or in the waking ...
... is dead and who is on earth.” I am translating that into words, but it was as if it was said: “It is like this that is the consciousness of somebody who is dead in relation to the earth and to physical things … I am somebody who is dead and who lives on earth.”’ (9 March 1966) The Mother talks about herself: ‘During two days the impression of not knowing whether one is alive or whether one ...
... for vague and dream-like, you feel it so because you are looking at them and at everything that happens in you from the standpoint of 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 ...
... everywhere you see, hear, touch only the Divine, then you can Page 221 much less doubt it or deny it than you can deny or doubt daylight or air or the sun in heaven—for of these physical things you cannot be sure but they are what your senses represent them to be; but in the concrete experience of the Divine, doubt is impossible. As to permanence, you cannot expect permanence of ...
... exaggerated insistence on the use of reason and the correctness of your individual reasoning and its right to decide in all matters. The reason has its place especially with regard to certain physical things and general worldly questions – though even there it is a very fallible judge – or in the formation of metaphysical conclusions and generalisations; but its claim to be the decisive authority ...
... the consciousness of the dead on Earth.” I am translating it into words, but it was as if something said: “This is what the consciousness of a dead person is like in relation to the Earth and physical things. I am a dead person living on Earth.” According to the position of the consciousness – for the consciousness is constantly changing its position 91 – it was said: “This is how dead people are ...
... writes: ‘In Golconde Mother has worked out her own idea through Raymond, Sammer and others. First, Mother believes in beauty as a part of spirituality and divine living; secondly, she believes that physical things have the Divine Consciousness underlying them as much as living things; and thirdly that they have an individuality of their own and ought to be properly treated, used in the right way, not misused ...
... starry processions proclaimed a divine law-giver. But the scientists who came after him had not the same gravity of mind as the discoverer of the Law of Gravitation. They were more interested in physical things as such, and the discovery made by him led them on to another philosophy than his. They did not begin with a sense of God as he had done: they began with the physical phenomena themselves. ...
... sense, when everywhere you see, hear, touch only the Divine, then you can much less doubt it or deny it than you can deny or doubt daylight or air or the sun in heaven — for of all these physical things you cannot be sure that they are what your senses represent them to be; but in the concrete experience of the Divine, doubt is impossible." It is, of course, by Yoga that this experience ...
... diamonds. Million d’oiseaux d’or … That substance proved to be totally different from the material substance we are accustomed to. Its power over gross matter was much greater than the power of physical things. It was a substance ‘with a greater density than the physical’, ‘more concrete than matter’. ‘Solid’ and ‘massive’ were the adjectives she used for it. And at the same time it was subtle, supple ...
... same rigorous order; there are occasional reversals, extraordinary anticipations, violent returns; for in things psychological the Spirit in the world varies its movements more freely than in physical things. There, besides, the spirit of the race can anticipate the motives of a higher stratum of psychological development while yet it lives outwardly the general life of a lower stratum. So too when ...
... plane, which is ignorant and obscure, the seat of small desires, greeds, 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 mind belongs to the thinking mind proper, the buddhi, that which understands and observes and guides; the throat is the centre of the externalising mind, that which deals with outer and physical things and responds to them. Its activity is always one of the chief difficulties of the sadhana. If it is quiet it is easier, as you have seen, for the whole being to be quiet. The last of the four ...
... unvarying aesthetic standard or fixed qualitative criterion,—not only so but I hold any such thing to be impossible with regard to so subtle and unintellectual an essence as poetry. It is only physical things that can be subjected to fixed measures and unvarying criteria. Appreciation of poetry is a question of feeling, of intuitive perception, of a certain aesthetic sense, it is not the result of an ...
... the future, of present things that are beyond the range of our physical senses or the reach of any means of knowledge open to the surface intelligence, the intuition and impressions not only of physical things, but of the working of a past and present and future mind and life and soul Page 895 in ourselves and others, the knowledge not only of this world but of other worlds or planes of ...
... consciousness was clearly regarded as a field of reality no less than that of the waking state in which our movements of perceptive Page 443 consciousness are a record or transcript of physical things and of our contacts with the physical universe. No doubt, all the three states can be classed as parts of an illusion, our experiences of them can be ranked together as constructions of an illusory ...
... possible & the best arranged results. Law, arrangement, suiting of means to ends, of expenditure to return, are the joy of the Vaishya. Bhoga is his object; possession & enjoyment, not merely of physical things, but all enjoyment, enjoyment of knowledge, of power, of self-giving, of service, comes within its scope. The Vaishya, purified and liberated, becomes the supreme giver and lover & enjoyer, Vishnu's ...
... spiritual to change these things. Do you mean, on the physical level? That is when other physical beings with a different set of impulses are allowed to invade the established circle of physical things and replace the guardians of the old order. That is part of the process of the great crises of evolution. He would either be taken up into some higher part of the being and form an element of ...
... energism, or with a wisely conscient will rooted in knowledge, in other words, whether our sacrifice, giving and askesis are tamasic, rajasic or sattwic in nature. For everything here, including physical things, partakes of this triple character. Our food, for example, the Gita tells us, is either sattwic, rajasic or tamasic according to its character and effect on the body. The sattwic temperament in ...
... great vividness at certain moments. Blake's poems are full of it, but it Page 18 is not confined to the poetry of the occult or of the supernormal; this vision can take up outward and physical things, the substance of normal experience, and recreate them in the light of something deep behind which makes their outward figure look like mere symbols of some more intense reality within them. In ...
... separative ignorance between. Once it breaks down he becomes aware of the cosmic Self, of the consciousness of the cosmic Nature, of the forces playing in it etc. He feels all that as he now feels physical things and impacts. He finds it all to be one with his larger or universal self. Page 269 There is the universal mental, the universal vital, the universal physical nature, and it is out of ...
... insistence Page 633 on the use of reason and the correctness of your individual reasoning and its right to decide in all matters. The reason has its place especially with regard to certain physical things and general worldly questions—though even there it is a very fallible judge—or in the formation of metaphysical conclusions and generalisations; but its claim to be the decisive authority in matters ...
... learning logic was necessary for good expression. So far as I know very few good writers ever bothered about learning that subject. I am not aware that by learning logic one gets freed from physical things. A few intellectuals lead the mental life and are indifferent to physical needs to a great extent, but these are very few. Common sense by the way is not logic (which is the least commo ...
... for the protection of the sadhaks from certain forces of death and disease etc. It cannot work perfectly because the sadhaks themselves have not the right attitude towards food and kindred vital-physical things. But still there is a protection. If however the sadhaks go outside her formation, it must be on their own responsibility—the Mother does not and cannot sanction it. But this arrangement is for ...
... waking consciousness shares in the vision, in the other it is excluded for the sake of greater facility and range in the inner experience. But in both it is the inner vision that sees. The physical things 1 are simply an occasion or starting-point for the inner vision to work through the open eyes and bring in the significant inner things. Representative and Dynamic Visions It depends ...
... dreamlike, you feel it so because you are looking at them and at everything that happens in you from the standpoint of Page 18 the outward physical mind and intellect which can take only physical things as real and important and vivid and to it inward phenomena are something unreal, vague and truthless. The spiritual experience does not even despise dreams and visions; it is known to it that many ...
... demand that the Mother should plan out and fix a routine for you in everything which you must follow is that this is quite contrary to the Mother's way of working in most matters. In the most physical things you have to fix a programme in order to deal with time, otherwise all becomes a sea of confusion and haphazard. Fixed rules have also to be made for the management of material things so long as ...
... with certain forces, certain vibrations; these vibrations do not show themselves in visible and tangible things—they can produce changes, but as these changes occur according to a method (as all physical things do), you pass almost logically from one state to another and this logic prevents you from perceiving that there is something here which does not belong to normal life. Well, those who Page ...
... Vital Being and Vital Consciousness The true thinking mind does not belong to the physical, it is a separate power. The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with the physical things only—it depends on the sense mind, sees only objects, external actions, draws its ideas from the data given by external things, infers from them only and knows no other Truth—until it is enlightened ...
... separative ignorance between. Once it breaks down he becomes aware of the cosmic Self, of the consciousness of the cosmic Nature, of the forces playing in it, etc. He feels all that as he now feels physical things and impacts. He finds it all to be one with his larger or universal self. There is the universal mental, the universal vital, the universal physical Nature and it is out of a selection of ...
... programme. I am telling you I don't know whether it is true, but still, I am giving it to you for what it's worth. And all that I read about him was like this: that he had a deep contempt for all physical things, that he took them at the most as a means of self-development and liberation—nothing more. Mother, you said that the Vedic age was like a promise. A promise to whom? To the Earth and men ...
... education to work in these domains, these things generally escape our ordinary knowledge. Yet children spontaneously live a great deal in this domain. They see things which are as real for them as physical things, they speak about them—and they are usually told that they are stupid because they speak of things others don't see but which are as true for them, as tangible and real as what can be seen by everyone ...
... anywhere. But if you do it with the idea of being open, even in the physical, to the divine Influence, to be a good instrument and manifest Him, then that is very good. Not clear? Yes. Physical things are not necessarily more egoistic than mental or emotional ones. Far from it. They are often much less so. Egoism does not lie in that, egoism lies in the inner attitude. It does not depend on ...
... mind because it is subjective, not Page 23 objective. But has the distinction much value? Is not all knowledge and experience subjective at bottom? Objective external physical things are seen very much in the same way by human beings because of the construction of the mind and senses; with another construction of mind and sense quite another account of the physical world would ...
... The Mother A crime You must use everything for the purpose for which it Page 72 is given, otherwise you commit a crime. I am not speaking merely of physical things. All the inner things that I am giving you all the time, all the strength, light, energy and life that are being poured into you all the time, are meant for the service of the Divine, for the sake ...
... power we do not have, the power to fix the form here on earth. Even for those who have the capacity to materialise things, they do not remain, they cannot remain, they do not have the quality of physical things. So the continuity of creation could not be assured without something which possessed that quality. I knew the whole occult process in detail, but I could never have made the thing more material ...
... robbery and it is crime of the first order. 2 Page 182 You must use everything for the purpose for which it is given, otherwise you commit a crime. I am not speaking merely of physical things. All the inner things that I am giving you all the time, all the strength, light, energy and life that are being poured into you all the time, are meant for the service of the Divine, for the sake ...
... the consciousness of the dead on earth." I am translating it into words, but it was as if I was being told, "This is what the consciousness of a dead person is like, relative to the earth and physical things... I am a dead person living on earth." According to the position of the consciousness—for the consciousness is always changing its position—according to the position of the consciousness, it was ...
... cause of all this lies in the kind of physical life I lead. 2 A lack of vitality. A lack of vitality, too much tension; I don't know—maybe the climate saps me. A certain number of physical things making it.... Anyway, that's what's behind the idea. What you're asking of Sujata is nothing short of sacrifice. Not outwardly, perhaps, but it would be a sacrifice for her. She would be s ...
... trying to manifest in that gathering of all nations. And I was witness to the whole thing. I remember it being a very conscious and rather long and detailed vision with a more intense reality than physical things have (it was in the subtle physical). And after it was over and I had done what needed to be done (I am not saying what because I don't remember all the details, and without accuracy it loses its ...
... difference in the earth atmosphere. They still have quite a way to go for that. Because, for those whose consciousness is more or less exclusively centered in the outer being—mental, vital and physical—things need to have an absurd or unexpected appearance to be noticeable. And then they call it a miracle. But we do not call a miracle the constant miracle of the forces that intervene to change c ...
... extremely strong there, as if something were being done. I feel that a work is being done (at night too). I don't know if it's an effect of your experience, but I have great difficulty being in physical things: in words, gestures, all outward things. A great difficulty. Page 15 It began yesterday, with the sense of a very widespread action being done. ...
... seeing! But then ... what a caravanserai! And it kept going and coming, and seeing and seeing, constantly, all the time. I would open my eyes: instead of seeing material things, I would see the physical things behind them. Oh! Then I said, "I understand!... It was the aspiration of Ignorance, now I understand: people who don't see are blessed!" Because I always used to say, "My visions aren't concrete ...
... how to explain it... maybe we could say "the contact with the Divine," I don't know), but everything remaining the same (it's a phenomenon of consciousness), a wonderful bliss—you understand, physical things remain IDENTICAL!... I have that all the time. Unfortunately... ( laughing ) the painful side lasts longer! When I am in peace, still, then naturally it's the other side. But this toothache ...
... longer in their bodies), I was surrounded by people and things that didn't understand. And I saw that these impressions are in the body and make things even more difficult. They weren't actually physical things: they were the transcription of people's attitude and their way of thinking. ( silence ) Certainly, I have been well aware for a long time now that there are... I am not even sure that some ...
... littérateurs, the artists, the scientists live not like specialists but as men with broad sympathies and with an interest in day-to-day mundane occupations, men who are no bunglers in physical things but are aware of their niceties. It is difficult to come across, anywhere else in the world, the easy friendship between mind and body which is found where France is most French - that is, ...
... physical sense, when everywhere you see, hear, touch only the Divine, then you can much less doubt it or deny it than you can deny or doubt daylight or air or the sun in heaven - for of all these physical things you cannot be sure that they are what your senses represent them to be; but in the concrete experience of the Divine, doubt is impossible." It is, of course, by Yoga that this experience ...
... or act without it, for from it they derive their energy and movement and they are its vehicles." 2 It is the universal Prana that "in various forms sustains or drives material energy in all physical things from the electron and atom and gas up through the metal, plant, animal, physical man." 3 (iv)Thus all material aspects are only fields and forms of this Prana which "is in itself a pure ...
... Indian painter. As Sri Aurobindo says, "In reality the shapes he paints are the form of things as he has seen them in the psychical plane of experience: these are the soul figures of which physical things are a gross representation and their purity and subtlety reveals at once what the physical masks by the thickness of its caring." Page 83 E. Arnold's Translation ...
... almost to a borderland where physics ends. Nor for that reason is a mystic reality something like a mathematical abstraction, √√ n for example. The mystic reality is subtler than the subtlest of physical things and yet, paradoxical to say, more concrete than the most concrete thing that the senses apprehend. Furthermore, being so, the mystic domain is of infinitely greater potency than the domain ...
... and understands these only and deals with them according to their own nature, but can with difficulty respond to the higher forces. Left to itself, it is sceptical of the existence of the supra-physical things, of which it has no direct experience and to which it can find no clue. To enlighten the physical mind by the consciousness of the higher spiritual and supramental planes is one of the important ...
... only with its physical aspect. In the words of Sri Aurobindo, "There is a physical aspect of things and there is an occult supraphysical aspect - one need not get in the way of the other. All physical things are the expression of. the supraphysical." (Letters on Yoga, p. 938) Thus every physical object has associated with it many other "layers" and "dimensions" of aspects which are not ...
... 66, 69, 70, 71, 86, 99, 102; Nature 29; power 30, 36; superconscient 59; the advent of 38; transformation 15, 36 (The) Supramental Manifestation on the Earth 3, 15, 38 supra-physical things 57 supreme reality 11, 43 tamas 29 Tantra 21, 48, 87 Tantric (the) 91,95 Tantric Yoga 47 thought-mind 67 time-eternity 24 traiguny ā tītya 49 ...
... and aspiration means the constant acceptance of Truth and rejection of falsehood, which means a constant effort at rejection and acceptance since our mind being what it is, will always run after physical things and its pleasure. Is there any less effort in this method? Much less. The other is a constant effort to get things down and pull down what one wants. Acceptance and rejection are quite a different ...
... it—that it was the sins of his disciples which constituted the cancer. There is a physical aspect to things and there is an occult supraphysical aspect—one need not get in the way of the other. All physical things are the expression of the supraphysical. The existence of a body with physical instruments and processes does not, as the 19th century vainly imagined, disprove the existence of a soul which ...
... What thought? The mental thought can never be more than a partial and ignorant guide. What is the function of the physical thoughts? They are concerned with physical things, ordinary external experiences, habitual thought and action. The physical mind looks at these things from a superficial point of view, taking things as they seem and dealing with them in what appears ...
... "physical vital" mean? I think I said it was left in the subconscient part of the physical vital. As there is a physical mind, so there is a physical vital — a vital turned entirely upon physical things, full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane. Has the vital any connection with the play of sex? Page 44 Of course, it is ...
... d'en être sortis." (22.2.1914) But her being and consciousness are not lmited to mankind alone. She has identified herself with even material objects, with all the small insignificant physical things which our earthly existence deals with. This is how she takes leave of the house where she had lived, and the things it had sheltered, on the eve of a long journey: 1 "Je les remercie ...
... almost to a borderland where physics ends. Nor for that reason is a mystic reality something like a mathematical abstraction, √-n for example. The mystic reality is subtler than the subtlest of physical things and yet, paradoxical to say, more concrete than the most concrete thing that the senses apprehend. Furthermore, being so, the mystic domain is of infinitely greater potency than the domain ...
... qu' avant d' en être sortis.¹ But her being and consciousness are not limited to mankind alone. She has identified herself with even material objects, with all the small insignificant physical things which our earthly existence deals with. This is how she takes leave of the house where she had lived, and the things it had sheltered, on the eve of a long journey: Je les remercie avec rec ...
... a world and consciousness other than that of the mind and the senses. One should naturally expect here a different language and mode of expression than that which is appropriate to mental and physical things. For example, the world of dreams was once supposed to be a sheer chaos, a mass of meaningless confusion; but now it is held to be quite otherwise. Psychological scientists have discovered a method ...
... the possibility of the effectiveness. Moreover, a mental will affects chiefly the mental field, a vital will is directly operative in the vital world, even as a physical force is effective on physical things: each is largely confined to its own domains, the effect on other domains is for the most part indirect and remote. But the truly effective will, that can produce an all-round change, comes ...
... happenings; it sees and understands these only and deals with them according to their own nature, but with difficulty responds to the higher forces. Left to itself, it is skeptical of the supra-physical things, of which it has no direct experience and to which it can find no clue. To enlighten the physical mind by the psychic consciousness and the consciousness of the higher spiritual and supramental ...
... sees and understands these only and deals with them according to their own nature, but can with difficulty respond to the higher forces. Left to itself, it is sceptical of the existence of supra-physical things, of which is has no direct experience and to which it can find no clue. To enlighten the physical mind by the consciousness of the higher spiritual and supramental planes is one of the important ...
... effectiveness. Moreover a mental will affects chiefly the mental field, a vital will is directly operative Page 62 in the vital world,- even as a physical force is effective on physical things: each is largely confined to its own domain, the effect on other domains is for the most part indirect and remote. But the truly effective will, the will that can produce an all-round change ...
... nine-tenths of their satisfaction, but means and powers for the expression of the spirit. At the same time, since the matter and the body are accepted, the control and the right use of physical things would be a part of the realised life of the spirit in the manifestation in earth-nature. 58 "The matter and the body are accepted", accepted and made fit instruments for housing ...
... and its rules - they are not imposed elsewhere - there is a reason for them.... First, the Mother believes in beauty as a part of spirituality and divine living; secondly, she believes that physical things have the Divine Consciousness underlying them as much as living things; and thirdly that they have an individuality of their own and ought to be properly treated.... It; is on this basis that ...
... to material life, except that you can feel they're freer in their movements. But the strange thing is that when I get up, the state of “over there” continues, and it's as real, as tangible as physical things. There was someone, you understand, I was with someone [someone supposedly dead, there in Mother's room], and I wondered, “Is this person physically like this? Is it physical?” And I was standing ...
... demand that the Mother should plan out and fix a routine for you in everything which you must follow is that this is quite contrary to the Mother’s way of working in most matters. In the most physical things you have to fix a programme in order to deal with time, otherwise all becomes a sea of confusion and haphazard. Fixed rules have also to be made for the management of material things so long as ...
... have the impression of dreaming, no longer at all. It no longer has anything to do with a dream: it’s an activity that goes on and on The “over there” goes on, and it’s as real, as tangible as physical things. There, those with a body and those without a body are mingled without difference. They have the same reality, the same density and the same conscious, independent existence. The physical appears ...
... potent affliction. "There is a physical aspect to things," he said, writing in greater detail, "and there is an occult supraphysical aspect — one need not get in the way of the other. All physical things are the expression of the supraphysical. The existence of a body with physical instruments and processes does not, as the 19 th century vainly imagined, disprove the existence of a soul which ...
... stay here is to make a large conclusion on a very small basis. This is again the kind of suggestion that comes in from the surrounding physical Ignorance. Things like these last so obstinately because they have become habits or recurrent feelings in the external physical being; they will disappear when the external being becomes filled with the Mother's light. Sri Aurobindo A vital reaction... Part IV – Correspondence Champaklal Speaks 6 June 1935 I talk as little as possible; I avoid going out. This is why I feel these things arise from within myself. Quite wrong. I have explained how they come. Why do I rejoice only when Mother smiles at me or gives a special opportunity? I ought to rejoice in all situations. If after living so many ...
... 13 August 1964 ( During sleep a sadhak had a vision of Sri Aurobindo in his subtle physical body living in the subtle physical world. He sent a report of his vision to Mother, who replied: ) Sri Aurobindo shows himself according to the need of each one and in the subtle physical the things are not as fixed as they are here. Attach more importance to the feeling produced by the vision... (in the subtle physical), was sitting over the whole compound during the meditation. 28 August 1962 Last night, we (you and I and some others) were together for quite a long time in the permanent dwelling-place of Sri Aurobindo which exists in the subtle physical (what Sri Aurobindo called the true physical). 1 February 1963 Sri Aurobindo is in the subtle physical, you can meet... never been so alive as now! 5 December 1967 Sri Aurobindo is constantly in the subtle physical, very active there. I see him almost daily, and last night I spent many hours with him. If you become conscious in the subtle physical you will surely meet him, it is what he called the true physical—it has nothing to do with the psychic. 21 December 1969 The help of Sri Aurobindo is ...
... stay here is to make a large conclusion on a very small basis. This is again the kind of suggestion that comes in from the surrounding physical Ignorance. Things like these last so obstinately because they have become habits or recurrent feelings in the external physical being; they will disappear when the external being becomes filled with the Mother's light. 30 May 1935 The Mother has been always... this kind of thing, it is better the Pranam should cease. December 1936 Page 540 What sort of things can come under the category of "demand and desire"? What is the exact form of "demand and desire"? There are no special sort of things—demand and desire can cover all things whatsoever—they are subjective, not objective and have no special form. Demand is when you claim something to... I felt that Mother did not smile at me, and then there was a very slight feeling of resistance to her somewhere. Is this what you meant when you wrote about the hostiles throwing inertia into the physical mind? Page 536 At the time it so happened that the Mother gave you a smile of welcome and approval, but she felt someone saying, "He will not notice that you have smiled"—it was the hostile ...
... without fatigue for hours and hours, but they began to overdo it. One has to be reasonable even in spirituality. That was when the Sadhana was in the vital. But when it began in the physical then things were different. Physical is like a stone, full of inertia and resistance. Disciple : Sometimes one feels a sort of love for everybody, though the feeling lasts for a second it gives a great joy... behaviour with others?" Sri Aurobindo could not quite catch the question so it was repeated. Sri Aurobindo : It seems to me the other way about. If we have the right attitude other things come by themselves. Right attitude is necessary; what is important is the inner attitude. Spiritual and ethical principles are quite different, for every thing depends on whether it is done for the... something from the vital. One has to be very careful in order to avoid these sex impurities. In spite of his occasional outburst of violence X was a very nice and affectionate man; but he used to get these things mixed up with sex-impulse and the experience was spoiled. This happens because sometimes one gives a semi-justification to sex-impulse. But sex is absolutely out of place in Yoga. In ordinary life ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 7 The Body and the Psychic I You ask why the body has a limited receptive power. The reason is that in the physical world things must not get mixed up, they must remain somewhat stable, in shape and position. For example, if your body suddenly began to melt and flow towards another, it would be rather troublesome;... s, as a shoemaker, for example. But what was left and what manifested itself was something very characteristic of the great musician. He had disciplined his mental and vital being and even his physical being in view of his musical capacity and this formation remained firm and sought to reincarnate. The musical being was originally organised and fashioned around the psychic consciousness and therefore... direction. Still it is a fact: so much so that beings from other worlds, worlds of what are known as demi-gods or even gods, beings from what Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind, are anxious to take a physical body upon earth so that they may experience the Psychic, as they do not possess it. These beings have very many qualities which men have not, but they lack this divine presence which is quite an ...
... Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 The Body and the Psychic 1 You ask why the body has a limited receptive power. The reason is that in the physical world things must not get mixed up, they must remain somewhat stable, in shape and position. For example, if your body suddenly began to melt and flow towards another, it would be rather troublesome; you... experiences, as a shoemaker, for example. But what was left and what manifested itself was something very characteristic of the great musician. He had disciplined his mental and vital being and even his physical being in view of his musical capacity and this formation remained firm and sought to reincarnate. The musical being was originally organised and fashioned around the psychic consciousness and therefore... direction. Still it is a fact: so much so that beings from other worlds, worlds of what are known as demi-gods or even gods, beings from what Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind, are eager to take a physical body upon earth so that they may experience the Psychic, as they do not possess it. These beings have very many qualities which men have not, but they lack this divine presence which is quite an ...
... And the first things they naturally learn from man are his defects—they are always the easiest things to learn! And so they make themselves unhappy—for nothing. So many things... So many things... Man has made a terrible tragedy out of death. These last few days, I have seen this, because last night or the night before I spent at least two hours in a world which is subtle physical, where the living... all one is calling to something far away. Is that right? Or is it really... That depends on us! Now I can feel Him everywhere, all the time, all the time... even a physical contact—it is subtle physical, but physical—in things, in the air, in people, in... like this. ( Mother presses her hands to her face. ) And then, it is not far to go, all I have to do is this ( Mother turns her hands slightly... Error was Truth at a certain time. Error is a concept in time. Some things may really appear to be errors. For a moment. The impression is this: all our judgments are momentary. They are... one moment, it is like this; the next moment, it is no longer like this. And for us they are errors, because we see things one after another. But to the Divine they cannot appear like this, because ...
... rendered in terms familiar to the physical mind — e.g. shopkeeper, police etc. though arranged in a different way from the physical. I cannot say they are clear and precise in significance as the mental dreams are. The dream is a seeing of things that have their truth on the vital plane. You do not know that you live on other planes as well as on the physical and that what happens there... there need not be the same as what happens on the physical. If you meet the Mother on the vital and certain things happen they can have their truth on the vital plane but it does not mean that they happened here in the physical world. 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 on the vital... something more than the touch of a fiat. This time my physical consciousness experienced being taken more inside than above. It was no more 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. ...
... be very persistent in rejection to get rid of it. There are two aspects of physical Nature as of all Nature—the individual and the universal. All things come into one from the universal Nature—but the individual physical keeps some of them and rejects others, and to those it keeps it gives a personal form. So these things can be said to be both inside it and coming outside from within or created by... In the physical it is inertia, obscurity, inability that come up and the obstinacy of these things. The only thing to do in this unpleasant phase is to be more obstinate than the physical inertia and to persist in a fixed endeavour—steady persistency without any restless struggle—to get a wide and permanent opening made even in this solid rock of obstruction. It is just in the physical consciousness... Truth; you will then feel your physical consciousness as something external which can be worked upon through the true consciousness and changed by the Force. It is very good that all should have gone like that and the true consciousness affirmed its control in the physical. These things are indeed attacks intended to prevent the control being established in the physical being as it was in the inner ...
... all the possible complications of the physical world, including practices of hypnotism and so-called black magic and all the phenomena that take place in the invisible realm, but just adjoining the physical—like certain materializations, certain disappearances (incidents I saw and was obliged to note; I was obliged to note that they weren't imaginings but things that really took place), but then, with... the transition made? The transition that materializes? What is the secret of the passage from that very subtle physical to the physical proper? How is the passage made from one side to the other? Mon petit, I don't know what comparison I should use, but I am certain there are some things that are invisible this way ( Mother rotates her wrist in one direction ), and visible that way ( gesture in the... normally be (which is simply something direct, a movement taking place), and the complication brought in by thought—not higher thought: the physical thought, that is, the observation and all sorts of deductions, along with the memories of similar events and things heard or seen and all sorts of instances of similar occurrences, of possible hazards—a mishmash, mon petit! Something frightening... which ...
... is it really.... Page 379 It depends on us! Personally, you know, I have come to feel Him everywhere, all the time, all the time, to the point of actual physical contact (it's subtle physical, but physical): in things, in the air, in people, in... like this ( Mother presses her hands against her face ). So I don't have far to go! I just have to do this ( Mother turns her hands slightly... there—in another way). So as not to disturb him, I went into the next room. He came in after some time and stood before me (I—my physical being, that is, my physical consciousness—had had time to calm down). I knelt down and took his hand (a MUCH clearer sensation than anything physical, mon petit!); I kissed his hand. He simply said, " Oh! This is better. " ( Mother laughs. ) I am skipping all the details... to Do things. And that's what complicates everything. Or else there's a lack of faith, a lack of belief in the Lord's ability—you think you have to do things yourself because He doesn't know how! ( Mother laughs ) This sort of stupidity is very widespread, you know: "How can He see these things? We're living in a world of Falsehood, how can He see Falsehood...?" But in fact He does see things as they ...
... are girls. A friend of mine once asked me how I see the future of this Department. I would like to say that all depends on how best we can utilise it for our ideal, the ideal of physical transformation. Things live and grow as long as they are useful. When the utility is finished, they die out. As long as we are able to take advantage of this Department for the achievement of our ideal, it... gradually developed into Physical Education and through education in general, and physical education in particular, Mother wanted to prepare the youth for an integral perfection which would ultimately lead them towards an integral transformation of which physical transformation would be the ultimate aim. Using me as her instrument, Mother has built our organisation of Physical Education. ... Sunil, Gora, Ranju and I, stayed at the Chettiar House. I do not know how Purani-ji found out that I was interested in physical culture and had been involved in organising physical culture associations. One fine morning he turned up there while I was alone. We talked about physical culture and when he found out that I liked wrestling he got down to a bout at once. Nirmal-da had a garden in the ...
... to pass into the physical, as if the very perception of the body were changing and everything were physical, even the "other worlds"! I raised my eyes (I was sitting in front of a mirror, although I don't usually look at myself); I raised my eyes and looked, and I saw many things).... At that moment, I had an experience which made me say to myself "Ah! That's why, from the physical, purely material... supreme Vibration of the Presence. And that's why my physical sight is... not exactly failing, but changing in character, for the physical precision that normal physical sight gives is... it's false for me. 17 Even her taste could no longer taste what was not true! A few days ago I had the experience that the quality of tastes had changed: certain things had an artificial taste (the usual taste is an... and embellished physical reality—no auras, no shower of flowers or musical-pictorial whorls: a more scientific physical, we could say, meaning more exact, without any misrepresentation. But the more that reality emerged, the more unreal the other became, as if the eyes could no longer see what was not true—exactly the opposite phenomenon to what happens in our world where the more things are false, the ...
... and so on. It is interesting, isn't it? 3 March 1933 My dear Mother, "Supramental beauty in the physical" 3 —what does it mean? All these things—all the arts, the beautiful Page 78 work we do for the Divine—are they expressions of supramental beauty in the physical? No, all that is only the manifestation of a universal harmony which lies, as it were, at the very heart... good. 28 November 1933 Page 87 Mother, You keep promising me beautiful things and I keep resisting them. How then can I ever be happy? You must not worry—it does not help towards the realisation of the promises; and also you must be patient. In this physical world, things take time to get realised. 12 December 1933 Mother, Once Sri Aurobindo wrote me something... do not want to recover, do not recover. Perhaps it is the same for physical diseases? 5 January 1933 Dear Mother, What is all this about psychological and physical diseases? I understand nothing of it. Psychological diseases are diseases of the thoughts and feelings, such as depression, revolt, sadness, etc. Physical diseases are those of the body. 6 January 1933 Dear Mother ...
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