... essential element in Christian doctrine" and "the physical transformation which took place in Mary was seen as related to the physical transformation of the body of Christ in the Resurrection..." What is the physical transformation of Mary you speak of? Her being a "Virgin Mother" can be regarded as a miracle but how can it amount to a physical transformation comparable to Jesus being raised from the dead... because I think that the transformation of the body is an essential element in Christian doctrine. The physical transformation which took place in Mary was seen as related to the physical transformation of the body of Christ in the resurrection, and this again as foreshadowing the physical transformation of man and the universe. This is where I find Aurobindo's insistence on the transformation of matter... namely the physical transformation of the body of Jesus and the consequent physical transformation of the body of humanity (the 'mystical body' of Christ) and eventually of the whole universe (the new creation of St. Paul). To return to the subject of the Virgin Birth, I am not inclined to accept the view of Father Raymond Brown, because I believe that the physical transformation of the body ...
... attempt at physical transformation, — cannot be, as a general rule, sufficient by itself. But why is it so? Why have the states of the spiritual con-sciousness attained so far by the Yogis or men of spirit in different climes and times failed to mould the physical existence in the image of divinity? What are the basic difficulties that render this task of physical transformation impossible... The Practice of the Integral Yoga XXIII SADHANA OF THE BODY: PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE INTEGRAL YOGA The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo has for its goal not merely the spiritual liberation of a few isolated individuals from the shackles of phenomenal Ignorance but the establishment of a truly divine life upon earth itself... not itself the original Principle of Existence, if it is only derivative, an instrumental power and not the first puissance." (Ibid., p. 704) Now, if we consider the problem of physical transformation in the light of the above four points, we can very well understand why this problem has defied any solution till this day. First of all,our body itself possesses a subconscient conscience ...
... implied in it is the physical transformation. The Vedic-Upanishadic Rishis certainly had the knowledge of the supreme Reality. They knew that in it is founded the entire creation. But about the manifestation of the dynamic Truth in this mortal world, in mrityuloka , they did not possess the necessary working intuition. They did not know the way towards physical transformation. Perhaps it was too... incarnate herself here. She must come here and take up the work in her own hand. The coming down of that Grace is the birth of Savitri. She alone can bring about that miracle of physical transformation. Savitri is the incarnate power who shall establish divinity in the terrestrial phenomenon. That creative power should bring truth and light and force and bliss to the mortal world, to... its living presence even in the commonest things. Luminous crimson seeds of God's felicity have been sown in the earthly soil. The deep red colour of the Truth-Light is indicative of the physical transformation and it is that which is symbolished here. These crimson seeds shall sprout and "this earthly life become the life divine." Yet the question remains as to who this Savitri is. Tradition ...
... has not grown out of nothing! We started our work in May 1945, with the blessings of Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Mother must have seen some possibilities in physical education as regards physical transformation and integral education for making a more complete being. So she gave her help, support and guidance in all possible manner and the Department of physical Education shaped up as you see it... discussion. They are: 1. We draw our inspiration and motivation from the teachings of Mother and Sri Aurobindo. The object of our Physical Education is to help individuals in their efforts at physical transformation. For students, it is a part of their integral education and for sadhaks, it is part of their sadhana. 2. We have a hundred percent participation of our student community who follow a complete... 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 ...
... my answer to you." Mother 'immediately said, "Make a-big progress!" So from that we can understand how eager she was to continue her work of physical transformation. The next question comes: "Have you seen on her body any sign of physical transformation?" Well, this is an inner process and with our human eyes it is not possible to see anything outwardly. Perhaps, a man with an extraordinarily... transformation and about gaining immortality. One day I decided to try and put down in a nutshell all that Mother had told me. What follows is the result of that effort: Page 326 Physical Transformation Steps Towards Transformation 1. Consciousness 2. Control 3. Mastery 4. Transformation Steps Towards Physical Immortality 1. Prolongation of youth and ... that I was on this path, come what may, I would keep trying till my very last breath. I also thought that Mother would complete Sri Aurobindo's unfinished work. She would bring about the physical transformation in her own body. I lived on with that hope. Then on 17th November 1973 Mother left her body. But by then by Mother's Grace, a poise and peace had taken root in me. And that is why even ...
... attempt at physical transformation to be at all made feasible, cannot be as a general rule sufficient by itself. But why is it so? Why have the states of spiritual consciousness attained so far by men of spirit in different climes and times failed to mould the physical existence in the image of divinity? What are the basic difficulties that render this task of physical transformation almost... From Man Human to Man Divine ON PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATION* By Wisdom all these are guided and have their firm abiding in Wisdom. For Wisdom is the eye of the world, Wisdom is the sure foundation. 1 . (Aitareya Upanishad, III.3.) We want an integral transformation, the transformation of the body and all its activities. Formerly... was possible to transform the body and its activities without troubling oneself at all with what was happening within - which is of course not quite true. Before you take up the work of physical transformation, which is of all things the most difficult, you must have your inner consciousness firmly, solidly established in the Truth... (The Mother, Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International ...
... sharp-eyed opposition as well as calm-eyed acceptance have met our reasoned presentations of Nolini’s brief pronouncement that the physical transformation, though not cancelled, has been postponed because of the Mother’s giving up of her body … The physical transformation can be considered either as a process or as an end-product. The end-product, the accomplishment of the body’s supramentalization,... material level in the path of the Integral Yoga come to an end?’ Put in whatever way, it was certainly a problem that bothered many. Nolini’s answer: ‘Obviously, the immediate programme of a physical transformation is postponed — not cancelled. But what we have been given is not less of a miracle. Mother has prepared for us her new body in the inner world, in the subtle physical which is as living and... the ‘material casing’ has broken down; what Nolini means with ‘perhaps broke through’ is not clear; 3. because the material, gross physical casing broke down ‘the immediate programme of a physical transformation is postponed — not cancelled.’ We find the opinion that the transformation process might have been postponed already in the talk of Pranab: ‘For the moment perhaps what has happened is just ...
... The Divine Collaborators CHAPTER III Physical Transformation Sri Aurobindo insists so much on physical transformation, because without it the spiritual achievements of the human soul cannot be manifested in earthly life, individual and collective. It has been possible to purify the mind and the heart to a certain extent and even to discipline and regulate... change the physical conditions of the world and make it an entirely new creation." By transformation Sri Aurobindo does not mean mere purification, as we have already indicated. By physical transformation he means a reversal of the whole physical consciousness and a radical conversion of the very grain and gamut of its working—"...a spiritualising and illumination of the whole physical c... ve way by any of the Yogis and mystics of the past, and yet all-important to the future of humanity The divine fulfilment aimed at by the Integral Yoga pivots upon the perfection of the physical transformation. If homo sapiens cannot be transformed out of his normal animality into a dynamic divinity, there can be no divine life upon earth. And yet, Sri Aurobindo affirms, the establishment of the ...
... The implication is that of physical transformation. The Vedic-Upanishadic Rishis had knowledge of the supreme Reality. They knew that it is the support of the entire creation. But about the manifestation of the dynamic Truth in this mortal world, in mrityuloka, they did not have the working intuition. They did not know the way towards physical transformation. Perhaps it was too early to... The aspect of terrestrial chronology has certain pertinence in consolidating the mantric powers in it. If we connect the birth of Sri Aurobindo's Gayatri Mantra in the '30s with the work of physical transformation he was engaged in, we perhaps get some idea about the intensity with which it was being pursued during that period. In 1935 Sri Aurobindo had written to Nirodbaran that the Supramental Light... interconnected is therefore extremely significant. In fact we might assert that the period between 1935 and 1950 is greatly consequential from the point of view of actualising the work of physical transformation. That Savitri is a double autobiography is indisputable in its spiritual sense. The happy device used by the poet is to write or asseverate it in the form of a legend. But, though ...
... any attempt at physical transformation to be at all made feasible, is not as a general rule sufficient by itself. But why is it so ? Why have the states of spiritual consciousness attained so far in different climes and times failed to mould the physical existence in the image of divinity ? What are the basic difficulties that render this task of physical transformation almost impossible... was possible to transform the body and its activities without troubling oneself at all with what was happening within — which is of course not quite true. Before you take up the work of physical transformation, which is of all things the most difficult, you must have your inner consciousness firmly, solidly established in the Truth.... (The Mother, Bulletin, Vol. XV, No. 4, p. 51) ... transformation if it is not itself the original Principle of Existence, if it is only derivative, an instrumental power and not the first puissance." 3 Now, when we view the problem of physical transformation in the light of the above points, we can very well understand why this problem has defied any solution so far. First of all, our body itself possesses a subconscient consciousness of its ...
... In the Mother's Light Physical Transformation SRI Aurobindo insists so much on physical transformation, because without it the spiritual achievements of the human soul cannot be manifested in earthly life, individual and collective. It has been possible up to now to purify the mind and the heart to a certain extent and even to discipline and regulate (more by... ive way by any of the Yogis and mystics of the past, and yet all-important to the future of humanity. The divine fulfilment aimed at by the Integral Yoga pivots upon the perfection of the physical transformation. If homo sapiens cannot be transformed out of his normal animality into a dynamic divinity, there can be no divine life upon earth. And yet, Sri Aurobindo affirms, the establishment of the... Matter has evolved, and life and mind, so the other principles must also evolve. Therefore the divine life on earth is a destiny which cannot be reversed, and of which the achievement of the physical transformation is an inescapable pre-condition. In 1912 the Mother wrote : "The terrestrial transformation and harmonisation can be brought about by two processes which, though opposite in appearance ...
... are not asking everybody to become supramental." Do you mean everybody in this Asram? Yes. Only it does not mean that anybody here is debarred from the supramental consciousness or the physical transformation—if he wants it. It is not a question of possibility, but of the need and aspiration in the nature. 21 September 1934 Page 665 Realisations by Sadhaks I have all but made... the test is transformation of the nature, psychic, spiritual, finally supramental. That and Page 666 nothing else is what makes it so difficult. 20 May 1936 Is it only for physical transformation that staying here is necessary? Otherwise sincere sadhana can be done elsewhere as well as here. I don't suppose the later stages of the transformation including the physical would be possible... The old Yogis did not consider that necessary, because they wanted to walk off, not to change the being. Why do you call it a beginning only? What more do you want to do except perhaps physical transformation? I want to effect the transformation of the whole nature (not only of the physical)—that's why. Page 669 And lastly can you whisper to me the names of those lucky fellows, ...
... impossible for the Supramental to take up the body before there has been the full supramental change in the mind and the vital." And what has the Mother to say? "Before you take up the work of physical transformation, which is of all things the most difficult, you must have your consciousness firmly, solidly established in the Truth." (Bulletin, Vol. XV, No. 4, p. 52) Besides, we have to remember... p. 1051) Finally, there is Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (Vol. 2, p. 900), which I have already quoted in Mother India some time ago: "Is it only for physical transformation that staying here is necessary? Otherwise sincere sadhana can be done elsewhere as well as here." "I don't suppose the later stages of the transformation including the physical would... considered to be a super-swift one. The Mother has declared on Sri Aurobindo's authority that, after all the inner Yogic realisations had been compassed, it would take three hundred years for the physical transformation to be accomplished. Of course, the accomplishment would be preceded by the power to prolong one's life. And the accomplishment would be in the wake of the Gurus' own bodily supramentalisation ...
... expression... who knows?... (Mother gazes at Satprem for a long time, as though she were considering an unknown possibility.) Ah, that's enough for today!¹ One of the important processes of physical transformation that Mother spoke of was that of the fusion of the subtle physical and the ordinary physical. Mother spoke of this process as follows: That's one thing that's happening. The two [the ordinary... motionless, there's this perception of the two vibrations, and of the physical vibration almost becoming porous. It seems to be the process, or certainly one important process for the physical transformation. (silence You see, the subtle physical seems to DOSE OUT its power and light and capacity of consciousness according to the amount of receptivity in the purely physical vibration... which gave me the sense that most central problem was solved. And then.... When it is like that, it will be interesting.² The important conditions that Mother discovered for the physical transformation are the purification, universalisation and impersonalization of the physical consciousness. In her conversation with Satprem on April 6, 1963, Mother gave a very interesting and instructive ...
... sly, freely and in full knowledge in all of them. This will be possible only when the entire consciousness of the individual has been transformed into the divine consciousness. The physical transformation is an extremely long and laborious process, of which we get glimpses in many of the Prayers, particularly the later ones, of the Mother's book. "Thou hast taken entire possession of this... intense and resolute aspiration. This truth of the body's having a distinct individual consciousness of its own is a definite fact of spiritual experience and provides the rationale of the physical transformation. There is an involved yearning in Matter for a permanent union with the Divine; for essentially Matter is the death- less substance of the divine Existence, and its conversion into that substance... love. Lord, wilt Thou permit Thy enemies to prevail, false- hood and ugliness and suffering to triumph?”¹ With the unflinching heart of a divine warrior the Mother mounted the calvary of physical transformation, so that the resistance of Matter might be broken once and for all, its imprisoned aspiration released into a flaming will to transfiguration, ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother ...
... said "She was undergoing a process of transformation", Pranab 2 concludes after recording the details of the talk: "So from that we can understand how eager She was to continue Her work of physical Transformation." And there is also Pranab's statement: 3 "I am absolutely sure that if She had not the conviction that She would bring the Supramental Transformation in Her 1 Supplement to Mother... December 5,1953, "A 'Call' from Pondicherry", p. 187. 2 Ibid. Page 54 that a divine life had been terrestrially established. Unless a certain group undergoes the physical transformation, a group which represents the several sides of the earth's nature as contrasted to an individual representing, however richly, one side of it, the establishment of a divinised earth-existence... work for us and for humanity depend in any way upon the fulfilment of Your expectation from us and from humanity?" A. "Happily not." As for the intermediate stages involved in the physical transformation, the Mother is not referring mainly to mankind in general. She is referring primarily to her own bodily progress: "This (Mother holds the skin of her hand between her fingers), how can ...
... Attempt at Physical Transformation Sri Krishna never set out to arrive at any physical transformation, so anything of the kind could not be expected in his case. Neither Buddha nor Shankara nor Ramakrishna had any idea of transforming the body. Their aim was spiritual mukti and nothing else. Krishna taught Arjuna to do liberated works, but he never spoke of any physical transformation. I do... Swarga is not somewhere in the Himalayas, it is another world in another plane of consciousness and substance. Whatever the story may mean, therefore, it has nothing to do with the question of physical transformation on earth. Ramakrishna himself never thought of transformation or tried for it. All he wanted was bhakti for the Mother and along with that he received whatever knowledge she gave him... ascending, he had not the idea of a new consciousness and a new race and the divine manifestation in the earth-nature. Whatever may have happened to Chaitanya or Ramalingam, whatever physical transformation they may have gone through is quite irrelevant to the aim of the supramentalisation of the body. Their new body was either a non-physical or subtle physical body not adapted for life on the ...
... the total physical transformation is certain, there was no definitiveness or assurance as to whether it would be in the near future or much later.¹ Actually, Mother had, several times, said that the process would take three centuries, and that there would be several intermediate stages or intermediate bodies. * * * Another important problem connected with the physical transformation was the ... relationship between the physical ego (ego-sense of the physical) and the life of the body. Mother found that the dissolution of the physical ego was a necessary part of the process of the physical transformation, and that the disappearance of the physical ego was not an insuperable bar to the continuance of the physical life. In Mother's words: ... And the disappearance of that [physical] ego... and on, and where's the end? 1972 and 1973 were the last two years of her physical and visible life, and they, too, showed the same curve of transitions and difficulties of the process of physical transformation. But her body sensitivity had become so excessive that her body had the need to be protected from all that came from outside—as though it had to work within, like in a protective egg. ...
... tragedy. I shall do what I have come here for. Nolini, Pavitra, Amrita and all the sadhaks are waiting to see the Supramental Realisation and physical Transformation. I cannot disappoint them. It must happen.' For some reason or other Physical Transformation could not be done on the Mother's body. But that does not mean that Her Work has been postponed for the time being, as many, people believe... Page 72 Our community will progressively find out ways and means to create favourable circumstances so that the individuals will be able to work for Supramental Realisation and Physical Transformation. And each individual will seriously and sincerely work for the Great Ideal, keeping himself free in his attitude from all diversions that tend to take him away from the mission set before... Then slowly and steadily the Mother started building the Physical Education organisation and made him Her instrument. She had seen great possibilities in Physical Education for the work of Physical Transformation which is our true aim. That is why She gave so much importance to Physical Education in the Ashram. Page 77 The Mother started taking him more and more into Her fold. In ...
... Prospects of the Physical Transformation* A CLARIFICATION OF THE PROBLEM Wide-eyed amazement, dim-eyed despondence, cold-eyed scepticism, sharp-eyed opposition as well as calm-eyed acceptance have met our reasoned presentation 1 of Nolini's brief pronouncement that the physical transformation, though not cancelled, has been postponed because of the... of acceptance were the first and the second. The more appropriate meaning is: "delay." For, this term has a twofold shade, and the conditions we have to consider are also twofold. The physical transformation can be considered either as a process or as an end-product. The end-product, the accomplishment of the body's supramentalisation, may legitimately be taken as delayed in the sense of being... the best. To show our gratitude we must keep the inner flame steadily climbing. However, we must guard against one mistake. Those who do not understand the reason for the postponement of physical transformation protest vehemently that they are having marvellous experiences and that when even science is on the track of lengthening life and keeping the force of death at bay it would be unreasonable ...
... 290 present humanity but to bring down a higher spiritual light and power of a higher character which will make a radical change in the earth consciousness. 22 December 1936 Physical Transformation You have written that particular creations each have a beginning and an end. Will there be an end to this creation even after you manifest the Divine in the physical? That is not a... difference between Supermind and Overmind. It is better therefore to leave all such questionings alone at present. circa 1935 Have you written anywhere what would be the nature of the physical transformation? I have not, I carefully avoided that ticklish subject. What would it be like? Change of pigment? Mongolian features into Aryo-Grecian? Bald head into luxuriant growth? Old men into ...
... exceptional and occasional, the casual or incomplete manifestation of an acquired capacity rather than the organisation of a new consciousness, a new life and a new nature. How far can such physical transformation be carried, what are the limits within which it must remain to be consistent with life upon earth and without carrying that life beyond the earthly sphere or pushing it towards the supra-t... could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able to bring about with the help of the light and force of the soul and the supramental truth-consciousness the necessary physical transformation and its consequences. This might be found in the system of Chakras revealed by Tantric knowledge and accepted in the systems of Yoga, conscious centres and sources of all the dynamic powers ...
... . The audience could ask any question that popped up into their head – and that sometimes she made pop up into their heads. As early as on 4 January 1950, she talked about “the work of physical transformation, that is the most difficult of all things”. 7 On 26 February, less than two months later, she spoke about the “gnostic”, i.e. the supramental consciousness, and concluded her talk with the... ever increasing role of the cells in the Yoga, it also is an indication that the Mother, from that time onwards, began being confronted with the health problems which inevitably accompany the physical transformation and which, to the ordinary eye, are common illnesses or “physical disorders”. It certainly was no coincidence that, on 10 April 1957, she began to read to the Playground audience her own ...
... teachings of Sri Aurobindo, the New Man appearing on the earthly scene will tackle and solve this problem to the satisfaction of all. Then comes our Eleventh and last chapter: "On Physical Transformation". This chapter deals with a very important question, absolutely central to the destiny of man as an earthly being. An integral spiritual sadhana should have for its goal not merely the... men of the spirit in different climes and times have failed to mould the physical existence of man in the image of divinity? But, what are the basic difficulties which render this task of physical transformation almost impossible of realisation? The readers are invited to go through our Chapter Eleven for answers to these and allied questions and then for the nature of future achievements ...
... al being: le surhomme , the overman, 95 although we should keep in mind that the species ‘overman’ will consist most probably of many different individual degrees of consciousness and physical transformation. Secondly, a being is what its consciousness is, in other words, the substantial form of a being is the expression of its consciousness. If Sri Aurobindo had realized this new, beyond-human... copies printed of an essay by K.D. Sethna, The Passing of Sri Aurobindo. He formulated his thesis as follows: ‘Nothing except a colossal strategic sacrifice of this kind in order that the physical transformation of the Mother may be immeasurably hastened and rendered absolutely secure and, through it, a divine life on Earth for humanity may get rooted and be set aflower – nothing less can explain the ...
... I would really need, as much as possible, to stop having to gulp down all sorts of things that drag me years backwards. It's difficult... difficult. So long as there's no question of physical transformation, the Page 36 psychological and in large part, the subjective point of view is sufficient—and that's relatively easy. But when it comes to incorporating matter into the work, matter... CONSCIOUSNESS—but not in the body. That's something new, it started only three or four years ago. All the rest is easy. Everything up to that point is settled—settled very nicely. Since the physical transformation is so difficult, one is tempted to wonder whether it wouldn't be advantageous to "materialize" something, to work occultly—to create a new body by occult means.... That was the idea: for ...
... sacrificed, as she has declared, his own physical transformation in order to hasten the divine destiny of the world. As a result of the exhaustion of the forces of Darkness in his willingly accepted "death", he sought for his companion, the Mother, an easier passage in the future to the goal of his Integral Yoga. And, through the Mother's physical transformation, the path was to be cleared for the race ...
... was possible to transform the body and its activities without troubling oneself at all with what was happening within — which is of course not quite true. Before you take up the work of physical transformation, which is of all things the 1 The Life Divine, pp. 655-56. 2 Ibid., p. 844. (Italics ours) most difficult, you must have your inner consciousness firmly... material body of man which is sure to come about in the future evolution of the race. We shall try to justify, on metaphysical as well as on scientific grounds, this glorious prospect of physical transformation and indicate in the light of the Supramental vision vouchsafed by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, how far and in what way, the insistent problems of food and sleep, fatigue and inertia, disease ...
... the enormous spaces of the self The body now seemed only a wandering shell.... 117 Sri Aurobindo's entire integral yoga was shattered. All his efforts of mental, vital and physical transformation, as well as his faith in a fulfilled earthly life, were swept away, swallowed up in a stupendous Illusion – nothing remained except empty forms. It threw me suddenly into a condition above... order to be able to reach the bottom. As silence is the basic condition for mental transformation, and peace the basic condition for vital transformation, so immobility is the basis for physical transformation – not an outer immobility but an inner one, in the cellular consciousness. By mental silence and vital peace we have been able to sort out the countless vibrations of the world, the secret ...
... derived, and that the physical nature of man should, in consequence, be definitively freed from the dark density, inertia and insensibility which are its heritage from its inconscient origin. Physical transformation by means of the authentic supramental Force is, therefore, the crux of the mission of Sri Aurobindo's life, and it presages a future for humanity which is too glorious even for the widest... Mother before her meeting with Sri Aurobindo, and try to see how they are essentially identical with those of Sri Aurobindo. We shall study them under four heads: (I) The Divine Union, (2) Physical transformation through service in an integral surrender, (3) conquest of the Subconscient and the Inconscient, (4) The Divine Manifestation and the Divine Life. It will be our humble endeavour in this ...
... derived, and that the physical nature of man should, in consequence, be definitively freed from the dark density, inertia and insensibility which are its heritage from its inconscient origin. Physical transformation by means of the authentic supramental Force is, therefore, the crux of the mission of Sri Aurobindo's life, and it presages a future for humanity which is too glorious even for the widest and... Mother before her meeting with Sri Aurobindo, and try to see how they are essentially identical with those of Sri Aurobindo. We shall study them under four heads : (1) The Divine Union, (2) Physical transformation through service in an integral surrender, (3) Conquest of the Subconscient and the Inconscient, (4) The Divine Manifestation and the Divine Life. It ill be our humble endeavour in this study ...
... surrender? Is She the sole pilot of the Integral Yoga? Were it only so, our Yoga would be identical with the Tântric Yoga, and robbed °f much of its integrality and characteristic potentiality For physical transformation and divine manifestation; Page 87 for, the transcendent and universal Mother, as envisaged by Tantra, can release the soul from the bonds of the lower nature and bestow upon... securely and irrevocably taken, and a definite direction and lead given to the Godward Odyssey of mankind. Her individual noise in the material world is an imperative demand of the logic of physical transformation and divine life. Besides, the aim of the Integral Yoga being the supra- mental fulfilment of the Divine in man, the infusion of the supramental principle into Matter and the eventual conversion ...
... (evidently Manoj Dasgupta) entitles you to tell Nirod to think of a supplementary comment on what was to be concluded from his correspondence with Sri Aurobindo on April 11, 1937 -namely, that physical transformation would not be possible except in the physical presence of himself and the Mother -that is, under the direct bodily guidance by the Gurus of the Integral Yoga. You are asking Nirod: "Could something... dois dire que si cela vient sur vous comme cela, comme une necessite, c'est bien, mais il ne faut pas chercher a le faire... Ce n'est pas tres agreable!"). The sense here is: "This work of physical transformation is extremely difficult and very far from being enjoyable. Don't be so foolish as to go in for it - it's not something that all can do or should think of doing. But if it gets just imposed on... believe that anyone except herself is meant to try this terribly hard experiment for the first time. And as for doing, without an embodied Guru, anything in the Integral Yoga -most of all physical transformation - her own experience tells her that it can't be done. What worth is there in going outside her experience and granting the bare possibility of such an achievement and granting even this without ...
... its first appearance in Mother India. Now its author has been sent the following passage from it as a challenge: "Nothing except a colossal strategic sacrifice... in order that the physical transformation of the Mother may be immeasurably hastened and rendered absolutely secure and, through it, a divine life on earth for humanity may get rooted and be set a flower—nothing less can explain the... faint hesitation at times to speak with absolute certitude. It appears that with the Mother's penetration further and further into the unexplored depths of the body-consciousness the work of physical transformation, which meant a radical reversal of the organism's habitual functions, took the shape of a constant play with death—a sort of spiritual "brinkmanship", a coming to the verge of dissolution again... whatever You want." The Mother, in doing everything, was still doing nothing—nothing except surrender actively to the Supreme Will. She had given her body to that Will's demand on her for physical transformation. But her body had no preferences. When it was suggested to her in 1969 that she should have "a glorious body", visible to everyone, so that all could come and see the Divine, she agreed but ...
... members...." The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 101 Isn't it physical transformation we aspire for? When Sri Aurobindo says "integral transformation", naturally he is speaking of physical transformation. But the Gita does not speak of integral transformation, I don't think so. Because for the Gita, the idea of physical transformation does not exist. As I was explaining to you the other day, the ...
... And in the Mother's guidance and care it went on growing. At that time everyone felt that the Mother and Sri Aurobindo would accomplish their sadhana of supramental realisation and physical transformation. Page 112 In this yoga of Sri Aurobindo, the Guru's inspiration, the Guru's physical presence, the Guru's direct guidance and force are indispensable. In a life of sadhana... necessary permission from the government. To go beyond this public trust, private trust so that the work can go on unimpeded. That is to work for the supramental realisation and the physical transformation through yoga-sadhana. Like this we would avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles. I had given another proposal along with this, Dada continued. And that is to call this Ashram a 'Spiritual... All the experiments, observation and study being carriedout in the sadhana of each sadhak, a clear picture of that will emerge from this chart. From the point of view of the supramental, physical transformation each sadhak is, in reality a test-tube and the Ashram a spiritual laboratory. Here are the charts I've prepared: Page 115 According to these ...
... mind down to the lowest chasm of the body we must live in the Immortal's consciousness. The implications of such a living are almost incredible: they posit as a last rapturous result a physical transformation, a change of our very stuff of matter, so that the mortal in us puts on immortality in the most palpable sense! Ever since man awoke to his own incompleteness and to a perfect Presence concealed... ting Yoga he is doing today and offering to all who follow in his footsteps. It must be made clear that the Aurobindonian Yoga is not for selfish seekers of health and longevity. The physical transformation is the fifth act to a drama in which egoistic desire dies at every turn of the plot and only a vast aspiration for God goes from strength to strength. It is God and not the ego who, in answer ...
... among the disciples and devotees to put their anguished mind at rest. Sethna formulated his thesis as follows: ‘Nothing except a colossal strategic sacrifice of this kind in order that the physical transformation of the Mother may be immeasurably hastened and rendered absolutely secure and, through it, a divine life on earth for humanity may get rooted and be set aflower — nothing less can explain the... Aurobindo’s going had not been decided yet.’ 28 Two days beforehand! From what precedes we can conclude, firstly, that Sri Aurobindo was fully knowledgeable of the ordeal the supramental physical transformation would mean for a body and that he had unmistakably seen that the Mother’s body was better able than his to undergo that transformation — ‘unmistakably’ because otherwise he surely would have ...
... should be recalled that the Mother had made the Ashram into a kind of occult force-field especially created to bring about a progress in the general sadhana, which was intended to lead to a physical transformation. At the centre of that force-field were Sri Aurobindo and herself, and the various elements constituting it were the sadhaks, the ‘samples’ of humanity present there to participate in the Great... The fact of transference of the Mother’s spiritualized substance to that of the disciples was a supreme act of spiritual occultism, and it was new because the Integral Yoga and its aim of physical transformation were new. Narayan Prasad wrote, however: ‘It is a pity that we could not assimilate the effect.’ 61 The Mother’s body was not an ordinary human body anymore (and neither was Sri A ...
... not a belief, it is a certitude resulting from experience. The experience is not absolute, but it is there. This opens new horizons. It is the path … it is one step on the path leading to [physical] transformation.’ 59 19 May: ‘The body, left to itself without this kind of constant action of the mind upon it, acts like this: as soon as something [in it] gets disturbed [e.g. because of injury... reached – which was much farther than is commonly supposed. This immediate continuation was made possible by the transfer of the Mind of Light into her cells. She applied to this sadhana of physical transformation all her power and concentration although what she was doing remained practically unnoticed by the people around her. It is no exaggeration to say, in view of the toughness of the task, that ...
... like illnesses, and grave or baffling ones at that, although, as we shall see, she asserted time and again that she was not ill, that she was going through the unprecedented experience of physical transformation resulting in temporary ‘disorders’. She still went out occasionally, to preside over a ceremony at the playground, the sports ground or the school, or on a special occasion elsewhere, at... the yoga of the physical vibrations, the yoga of Matter, etc. The many names of this yoga define the centre of its attention and endeavour. We are fairly well informed about this yoga of physical transformation due to a series of regular conversations, extending over many years, which the Mother had with Satprem, a French disciple. Satprem, whose other name was Bernard Enginger, was born in 1923 on ...
... ready to deem his own self irremediable? Why, then, indulge in a sense of hopelessness about others and about this collectivity of us and them, which we term the Ashram? No doubt, physical transformation, in the way Sri Aurobindo and the Mother conceived it, is impossible without the Mother's physical presence. Hence the acute need of her return. All this talk, - fashionable with some deserters... receiving any illumination - a great sine qua non, I am sure, before something so stupendous can happen to the body. I share with Nolini the sense, to which he gave expression long ago, that physical transformation has been postponed. But that does not mean we have nothing to do now. A lot of leeway has to be made up and our sadhana can continue quite intensely and the Ashram has still a fine role to ...
... can't either - at the current stage of spiritual history. ' I must clarify two issues at this point. Please note that I have said that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother did not undergo physical transformation. I have not said that they could not. The supramental Avatars come from beyond the cosmic law. There is never a could not for them. They may observe the cosmic law but nothing binds them... of the Mother's having had in mind the bodies of other people achieving supramentalisation in the wake of her relinquishing the attempt at it. So I cannot help concurring with Nolini that physical transformation, though not cancelled, has been postponed as far as our present age is concerned. This does not signify that we must quite divert our attention from our bodies and not think of charging ...
... particular moment that one must be as wide as the universe, but indefinitely, in the Becoming. These are the two conditions; they must be there potentially. So long as there is no question of physical transformation, the psychological and, in a large measure, subjective point of view is sufficient. And that is relatively easy. But when it comes to including Matter in the work, Matter as it is in this world... without warmth—to say nothing of joy. But sometimes, when one sees flowing water or a ray of sunlight in the trees—oh, everything sings, the cells sing, they are happy. But if the physical transformation is so difficult, would it not be preferable to act in an occult way, to materialise something, to create a new body by occult processes? The idea is that first of all some beings must reach ...
... of a race of Supermen carrying to perfection both the inner and the outer existence, the individual and the Page 45 collective being, in the immediate or near future. The physical transformation, divinisation, supramentalisation at which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother aimed has no anticipatory parallel in the resurrected body which Matthew, Luke and John and the author of the Acts picture... this respect." The last sentence is my cue for an Aurobindonian comment. In one of his letters Sri Aurobindo 20 observes: "Whatever may have happened to Chaitanya of Ramalingam, whatever physical transformation they may have gone through is quite irrelevant to the aim of the supramentalisation of the body. Their new body was either a non-physical or subtle physical body not adapted for life on the ...
... would serve as the beginning of a race of Supermen carrying to perfection both the inner and the outer existence, the individual and the collective being, in the immediate or near future. The physical transformation, divinisation, supramentalisation at which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother aimed has no anticipatory parallel in the resurrected body which Matthew, Luke and John and the author of the Acts picture... respect." The last sentence is my cue for an Aurobindonian comment. In one of his letters Sri Aurobindo 20 observes: "Whatever may have happened to Chaitanya or Ramalingam, whatever physical transformation they may have gone through is quite irrelevant to the aim of the supramentalisation of the body. Their new body was either a non-physical or subtle physical body not adapted for life on the ...
... Krishna never set out to arrive at any physical transformation, so anything of the kind could not be expected in his case. "Neither Buddha nor Shankara nor Ramakrishna had any idea of transforming the body. Their aim was spiritual mukti and nothing else. Krishna taught Arjuna to be liberated in works, but he never spoke of any physical transformation... "³ The same practice by ...
... exceptional and occasional, the casual or incomplete manifestation of an acquired capacity rather than. the organisation of a new consciousness, a new life and a new nature. How far can such physical transformation be carried, what are the limits within which it must remain to be consistent with life upon earth and without carrying that life beyond the earthly sphere or pushing it towards the supraterrestrial... could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able to bring about with the help of the light and force of the soul and the supramental truth-consciousness the necessary physical transformation Page 162 and its consequences. This might be found in the system of Chakras revealed by Tantric knowledge and accepted in the systems of Yoga, conscious centres and sources of ...
... and of the whole family as well; and a wink for Jean-Marie. Satprem March 15, 1974 The “inoculation” is effective. (Written) declaration from Nolini: “The immediate programme of a physical transformation is postponed ... The earth-consciousness was not quite ready for the final transformation of the Mother’s body, that is to say, the material substance of the body. Therefore it could not... totally real in Matter. Now the process Page 220 is accelerating, it is becoming global, which means the possibility to get out of Unreality collectively. The starting point of the physical transformation is the perception of this Unreality. When you perceive (when your body perceives) that the assassin does not exist, the haemoptysis does not exist and all the fuss does not exist, then things ...
... reason for existence, for living, than that . And yet it is this that's needed if one wants the Supramental to become visible to the naked eye. And mark that I am not speaking of a physical transformation, for this everyone knows: you don't expect to become luminous and plastic overnight, to lose your weight, be able to displace yourself freely, appear in a dozen places at the same time and ...
... could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able to bring about with the help of the light and force of the soul and the supramental truth-consciousness the necessary physical transformation and its consequences. This might be found in the system of Chakras revealed by Tantric knowledge and accepted in the systems of Yoga, conscious centres and sources of all the dynamic powers ...
... Yoga an absolute mastery of the sex-movements and an entire abstention from the physical (animal) indulgence are first conditions, because this way aims not only at a mental and vital but a physical transformation. A psychic purity is demanded in all the consciousness and there is needed a transformation of all the vital and physical energies which in the absence of these conditions is impossible. ...
... her death by the Ashramites she had appointed to look after her. It is true that before her retirement she spoke more than once of some expedient she might employ of forcing the issue of physical transformation which did not seem to get solved in a normal progressive manner. She spoke of the possibility of entering into a cataleptic trance and warned against mistaking it for death. But side by ...
... Aspects of Sri Aurobindo Supramental Avatar And Physical Transformation A LETTER You have put me a number of important questions arising from what I wrote to you on the Agenda and the Divine's Will. 1 I must not delay to answer them to the best of my ability. (1) "How far limited in their workings are the Avatars who have ...
... total transformation has several bearings. In the first place, it is a mistake on your part to set in opposition the later letter dated 6 December 1949 in which Sri Aurobindo speaks of full physical transformation — "the divine body" 1 — as a matter of the remote future and the earlier letter where he writes "My faith and will are for the now." You believe that this earlier communication belongs to ...
... Record of Yoga Notes on Physical Transformation c. January 1927 4 mistakes— 1) Began on a mistaken or merely theoretic knowledge—about absorption from outside 2) Giving up of food is not the condition for finding the secret, it is the result of finding the secret. 3) Cessation of hunger, feeling fed, refusal of food by the body not a ...
... letter-pad of 1926-27 referred to above. Before and after it are Record notes that have been dated to the last week of December 1926 and the first week of January 1927. Notes on Physical Transformation, c. January 1927. Sri Aurobindo wrote these notes in the letter-pad of 1926-27. They come just before the Record notes dated "Thursday. Jan 6." They appear to be more in the nature of script ...
... nothing else to be done. ( silence ) If we aren't capable, then everything has to be done all over again! ( silence ) It's the possibility for the physical cells to bear out the physical transformation. That's why... that's why there is death! ( laughing ) When one can't bear up, one dies. It's not a joke, you know. But it's interesting. It's interesting because, I remember, I had already ...
... d and therefore essentially divine) and her inner being as the Great Mother of course knew every bit of it. For anything whatsoever, including her incarnated existence and her own Yoga of physical transformation, could only have been willed, planned and executed by her higher aspects of being. There is no doubt that the Mother knew that the development of her transformation was preordained, but that ...
... Aurobindo and the Mother had obtained at that moment. In naive expectation and without having any notion of the enormous dimensions of the Work, most disciples were looking forward to a sudden physical transformation of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and the day they would, in a glorified supramental body, turn their faithful followers into an identical glorious state, hopefully in the twinkling of an eye ...
... the material world and an integral transformation down to the very principle of Matter. Only a supreme Grace can effect this miracle” 68 – as only a supreme Grace can bring this Yoga of physical transformation to fruition. “This Thing of Capital Importance …” “If Supermind descends upon the earth, it will bring necessarily the divine life with it and establish it here … The manifestation ...
... the Bulletin and later named The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth remains largely unappreciated even today. And one reads seldom about the intimations by the Mother about her work of physical transformation, which was, after all, her avataric Yoga in the last years of her life, the crucial step which would make the appearance of the overman and the supramental being possible. It is a matter ...
... principle there. And in due course this supramental action is bound to bring about a divine transfiguration of our embodied material existence. And a most important element of this figured physical transformation will surely be the elimination of material food-need along with all that it entails in terms of body-changes. But a Sadhaka of the Yoga of Transformation should not for that matter ...
... Besides, according to what I've been told (not physically), I believe that the Rishis practiced going into trance. But I suppose they wanted to achieve what Sri Aurobindo speaks of: a PHYSICAL transformation of the physical body permitting one to LIVE this consciousness instead of the ordinary consciousness. Did they ever do it?... I don't know. The Veda simply recounts what the forefathers have ...
... , or else millions of lives would be needed—but in truth, unless the work is done for them and the sadhana of the body done for the entire earth consciousness, they will never achieve the physical transformation, or else it will be so remote that it is better not even to speak of it. But if they open themselves, if they give themselves over in an integral surrender , the work can be done for them—they ...
... latter have to be set in the context of the extreme locomotive disabilities obtaining at present. (29.4.1994) I am glad we have reached agreement about the impossibility of physical transformation without the Guru's embodied presence guiding and guarding the process. In a tit for my tat of convicting you of a non-sequitur you have brought up my speaking in the same breath of the silent ...
... helpful and economical on the whole, but as between vegetarianism and meat-eating in general she has said that the kind of food consumed does not matter much until the stage is reached when physical transformation concretely starts. Then the body, increasingly Truth-sensitised by the Supermind, will have to be very selective in what subtle vibrations the stuff eaten may set up in the changing metabolic ...
... especially India's past spirituality and rendering the inner ground ready for the novel leap forward that is Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga of Supramental Descent and its labour towards even physical transformation. A testimony to Ramakrishna's relation in the inner domain to that leap is an admission by Sri Aurobindo² in a letter, most probably ¹ Ibid., p. 423. ² Supplement ...
... to hang on till I see your Victory", she at first looked a bit surprised at the tall order, but in a second she laughed and said, "Bien." This signified that the Victory — that is, total physical transformation — was accepted as possible, if not certain, for her body in the long run. Over a year and a half earlier — to be precise, on 15 February 1969 — she had expressed, for the first time ...
... earth-Nature. But there is here no focusing on this ¹. Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 22, p. 340. Page 55 task of conversion as the one master-key to the physical transformation, the supramentalisation of the body. And - what is equally if not more significant - the omitted sentence, which immediately precedes in this letter the words quoted in the footnote, actually ...
... Savitri on a mental level it can open out for us prospects of lustrous spiritual realisations; it can lead us to "understand deeper things". 8 Though Savitri is a text-book of the Yoga of Physical Transformation and continually needs the author's "knowledge and experience for understanding it," its esotericism in some respect can yet be grasped if we read it with a silent mind. Bhakti there is in ...
... range of progress opened up by Milton: human bodies can all turn to spirit, gain wings and move about freely in earthly or heavenly Paradises. Here is a doctrine, however crude, of physical transformation, by which the human form can be completely spiritualized and live a divine life, the life of "Gods". Of course, to Milton, such a life was possible to unfallen Man and cannot be lived now by ...
... could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able to bring about with the help of the light and force of the soul and the supramental truth- consciousness the necessary physical transformation and its consequences. This might be found in the system of Chakras revealed by Tantric knowledge and accepted in the systems of Yoga, conscious centres and sources of all the dynamic powers ...
... but I have tried to Page 83 make the fellow trot slower instead of cantering - with no great result.' 4 4. NB: Have you written anywhere what would be the nature of the physical transformation [to be brought about by the Descent of the Supramental] ? What would it be like? Change of pigment? Mongolian features into Aryo-Greco? Bald head into luxuriant growth? Old men into gods of ...
... transformation is no longer possible to the aspirant? Or has discipleship on the material level in the path of the Integral Yoga come to an end? Obviously, the immediate programme of a physical transformation is postponed—not cancelled. But what we have been given is not less of a miracle. Mother has prepared for us her new body in the inner world, in the subtle physical, which is as living and ...
... within; also it is not sufficient to bring about only that much of change in terrestrial life which can be effected by the mere spiritual force acting in a general way. It looks as if the physical transformation which is what is meant by an ascension or emergence in the evolutionary gradient were possible only by a physical impact embodying Page 53 and canalising the spiritual force: ...
... went to Sri Aurobindo to know how long one has to wait and I asked: “How much time does it take to change this … into that?” and Sri Aurobindo replied to me: “It takes about 300 years for the physical transformation.” Three hundred years, it is long for a lifetime. However, I am not disheartened, one does what one can and as best as possible. That’s all. Now, I am not allowed to come out of my body. ...
... Everybody wants it and must have it. SATYENDRA: Even the Vaishnavites and Tantrics wanted an extraterrestrial Goloka or an escape into Shiva. In the South, Ramalinga Swami had the idea of physical transformation and immortality. SRI AUROBINDO: In the South such an idea is more common. SATYENDRA: I have also come in contact with Yogis who have lived up to an old age. One was about a hundred and ...
... Volume 24 — Letters on Yoga, PART FOUR: The Triple Transformation — Psychic, Spiritual, Supramental; Transformation of the Mind; Transformation of the Vital; Transformation of the Physical; Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient; Difficulties of the Path; Opposition of the Hostile Forces. Volume 25 — The Mother, WITH LETTERS ON THE MOTHER AND PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS ...
... the role of suffering as a means of progress would unravel the "content" of Ananda. 12 V Two days later, the Mother discussed one of Sri Aurobindo's letters on the subject of physical transformation. 13 Her view was that in the movement from animal to man, the formal change was little. As yet one couldn't conceive of a human body without the bone-structure and the circulation of blood ...
... whole life I've been continuing my work with sports and exercise. And even today I do regular exercises. For me sports and exercise are valua ble in so far as they are useful in our ideal of physical transformation and integral yoga. I cannot see the difference between spectators in a match and the brokers in a stock exchange getting all jumpy and excited. "In truth, all these different activities ...
... What I Have Learnt From The Mother Physical Transformation Steps Towards Trans formation 1.Consciousness 2.Control 3.Mastery 4.Transformation Steps Towards Physical Immortality 1.Prolongation of youth and maintenance of health and physical fitness of the body for a very long period- to stop or slow down the process of det ...
... must not cover it up with all the usual racket, including the moral one. All the things that are considered "unimportant," and its all that, the whole mass of all that, which prevents the physical transformation. And because they are very small things (that is, APPARENTLY very small things, without any importance), they are the worst obstacles... very small things that belong to the subconscious mechanism ...
... achievement is not new and some Yogis have achieved it, I believe – but not in the way I want it. They achieved it as a personal Siddhi maintained by Yoga-Siddhi – not a Dharma of the nature (physical transformation). Secondly, the supramental transformation is not the same as the spiritual-mental. It is a change of mind, life and body which the mental or over-mental-spiritual cannot achieve. All ...
... overcome, many a pathless desert to be crossed under the dire menace of storms and thunders. We shall touch upon only the cardinal hindrances here and leave out the tremendous question of physical transformation without which no service can be perfect. The greatest hindrance to the true service is the ego, the Page 112 ignorant sense of one's being a separate individual. This ...
... radical transformation effected, not only in its instincts and impulses and desires, but even in its structure, texture, and organic functions. The second fact¹which supports our theory of physical transformation, is the existence of the subtle or etheric body, just behind the gross body. Through the medium of this subtle body, the soul or the mind can, if it knows how to do it, influence and change ...
... the ceaseless prayer of the integral being, desiring to unite with Thee so as to manifest Thee.” We shall now consider the essential identity¹ existing between Sri Aurobindo's idea of physical transformation through service in an integral surrender and that of the Mother as expressed by her before her meeting with Sri Aurobindo. ¹ Really speaking, the identity is not only essential, it ...
... and death, of pain and bliss, of escaping to heaven or into Nirvana and the earth that rots. Truly a new evolution. Salvation is physical. So it is obvious that, if we find that, the physical transformation begins a natural, spontaneous consequence, as the amblystoma is the natural, spontaneous consequence of a little axolotl waking up from its layer of black silt. ...
... would come into contact in himself with the impersonal elements which are found everywhere in the whole. Nevertheless, even if an isolated seeker were today to set out on the path of physical transformation, and the Force of the eternal Future would support him in his efforts and he were indeed to achieve some results, it would nonetheless still be true that the movement would rightfully belong ...
... given him by the Supermind and go down fighting to win all in secret, while losing all on the surface. Nothing except a colossal strategic sacrifice of this kind in order that the physical transformation of the Mother may be immeasurably hastened and rendered absolutely secure and, through it, a divine life on earth for humanity may get rooted and be set aflower - nothing less can explain the ...
... crossed the intangible frontier which separates Space-Time from the Eternal and Infinite—to Israel's inspired prophets, bards of planetary immortality, and to Sri Aurobindo, pioneer of the physical transformation of our species, an entire current emerges, leading us intuitively to the threshold where consciousness reverses, where the soul is enlightened and witnesses the appearance of the new Heaven ...
... “Soon after receiving the Golden Vision, I felt that I had received a lot. “It is my faith that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are always present and they are doing the last work of the physical transformation of Mankind (or this world) along with the other works for the maintenance of this world. This faith is strongly supported by your dreams, visions and experiences. I get the satisfaction of ...
... past is carried forward in the individual's next birth. For this not to happen the will of divine Agni has to be kindled in the very cells which can eventually open out the possibility of the physical transformation. The sacrificer as Agni identifying himself with the Sun-god shall tread the upward path, thus progressing into knowledge and stepping into a blissful luminous living. The seers follow this ...
... 1929 In the sincerity of your effort towards silence lies the assurance of a purified mind . 9.11.1929 Let patience and endurance be your companions on the way to physical transformation . 11.11.1929 Turn your consciousness to the Supramental Light , and let the supramental influence permeate through a pure mind , your sex centre . Then you will obtain mastery ...
... hinting the difficult work Savitri will have to do. Here she is a star in the darkness of the night travelling infinity by its own light. These are prophetic lines in the context of the work of physical transformation the Mother will be engaged in. Absolutely the last line he dictated was: …leave her to her mighty self and Fate. So the last word spoken by Sri Aurobindo in the context of his creative writings ...
... this Causal Body and its merging with our own flesh which is heir to a thousand natural shocks, as Hamlet tells us, would be, to my understanding, the fullest form of what Sri Aurobindo calls physical transformation. (24.1.1995) While there is universal condemnation of terrorism, a good deal of confusion exists regarding its essential nature, the means to meet it, and its implications ...
... Superman in the course of the ages. Once, referring to this manifestation, she even said her work was essentially finished. Against the background of February 29,1956 the postponement of the physical transformation which she was Page 284 endeavouring to pioneer in our own day for the sake of mankind would not matter in the long run. Is it not illogical to hold that such transformation ...
... terrible-seeming accident at so advanced a stage of senescence (though luckily not of senility) has brought an unexpected inner boon. Reply in place of Nirod As regards physical transformation, it is not only Amal who has written that it is postponed: Nolini also said the same thing. Several doers of the Integral Yoga have wonderful experiences seeming to relate to the body ...
... your mind to kick the bucket sooner or later. Why this easy knuckling-under to Pallida Mors? Why this unwillingness to accept the beautiful burden of the Aurobindonian immortality by way of physical transformation as an ideal? As regards AE and Yeats, I don't see what makes you think I do not find the former splendid. I like him very well; only, I cannot say he is a greater poet than Yeats. I surmise ...
... Towards Overmind My Pilgrimage to the Spirit January 15, 1932 The time has not yet come for me to write about these things—(the physical transformation, its circumstances and its nature). Mentalizing about it is not of much use at this stage: The physical is the part of the being, least open to mental influence. A higher Power and Light are needed. ...
... divine physical or supraphysical body? At the same time there is no obstacle in the way of supposing that all these ideas, intuitions, experiences point to, if they do not exactly denote, the physical transformation. The physical Nature does not mean the body alone but the phrase includes the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature—not by imposing siddhis on them, but by ...
... was possible to transform the body and its activities without bothering in the least about what was happening within—naturally this is not quite true. Before you can undertake this work of physical transformation, which of all things is the most difficult, your inner consciousness must be firmly established, solidly established in the Truth, so that this transformation may be the final expression of ...
... yet many more. All the small personal satisfactions, generally, must disappear—satisfactions of all kinds. I remember having spoken to someone—that was a long time ago—of the possibility of physical transformation, and I told him that one of the results would be that one would no longer need to eat, that one would recuperate strength directly from the universal forces or else from the Divine. And this ...
... without being wholly got rid of sinks down there and remains as seed ready to surge up or sprout up at any moment." But it is not hopeless, because if it were hopeless never could we attain physical transformation. There. Now, questions. Sweet Mother, how should we reject something in the vital so that it doesn't enter the subconscient? Ah! There is a great difference between pushing ...
... value. The world is preparing for a new creation, let us help through physical education, by making our bodies stronger, Page 278 more receptive and more plastic, on the way to physical transformation. 1 April 1970 Competitions 1971 We are at one of these "Hours of God", when the old bases get shaken, and there is a great confusion; but it is a wonderful opportunity for those ...
... divine physical or supraphysical body? At the same time there is no obstacle in the way of supposing that all these ideas, intuitions, experiences point to, if they do not exactly denote, the physical transformation." 2 Page 45 It is strange, this was the very subject of my meditations these days—not deliberate, they are imposed from above. Because through the entire passage from the ...
... motionless, there's this perception of the two vibrations, and of the physical vibration almost becoming porous. It seems to be the process, or certainly one important process, for the physical transformation. ( silence ) You see, the subtle physical seems to DOSE OUT its power and light and capacity of consciousness according to the amount of receptivity in the purely physical vibration. ...
... presents to each other on Christmas Day, instead of on January first. That is all. Blessings. 26 December 1969 Sweet Mother, In the New Year message, are you referring to the physical transformation when you say "The world is preparing for a big change"? And how can we help? It is the advent of the being that will succeed man, the being that will be to man what man is to the animal ...
... 'Lord of Nations.' It is he who sets all wars in motion, and only by thwarting his plans could the last war be won ... This one does not want to be converted, not at all. He wants neither the physical transformation nor the supramental world, for that would spell his end. Besides, he knows ... We talk to each other; beyond all this, we have our relationship. For after all, you see ( laughing ), I am his ...
... November 1970 Sweet Mother, When You are physically stricken, I always feel very sad. I tell myself that it is not an ordinary illness, that it is an experience leading towards physical transformation. But when I think of Your suffering body, I am sad. And then, is this not part of the Sacrifice of the Supreme spoken of by Sri Aurobindo? Are we worthy of this Sacrifice? Sweet Mother ...
... break the inescapable chain of habits. It was very interesting. Those are all the things that are considered "unimportant," and it's all that, the whole mass of all that, which prevents the physical transformation. And because they are very small things (that is, APPARENTLY very small things, without any importance from the viewpoint of thought, for instance, and considered negligible), they are the ...
... do to speed his progress under the new conditions? Yes, the Sadhana has undergone a great change, because it is now in the physical itself that you have to do it. Concentrate on the physical transformation; by physical I mean the mental, vital and body consciousness. You are trying to get the experience in your mind, but it is not the mind that can get it. Come out of your mind and you will ...
... divine physical or supraphysical body? At the same time there is no obstacle in the way of supposing that all these ideas, intuitions, experiences point to, if they do not exactly denote, the physical transformation." 2 Sri Aurobindo December 24, 1930 Oddly, these last few days again, this has been the subject of my meditations (not willed ones: they are imposed from above). Because in all ...
... Page 147 ( Then Sujata relates the dream she had on Sunday in which she and Satprem saw Sri Aurobindo and Mother in a room at the end of a footbridge. The dream had to do with the physical transformation of Sri Aurobindo and Mother. While Mother was talking to Satprem, Sri Aurobindo called Sujata and, placing two fingers in the palm of her right hand, said, "You will have to carry faith and ...
... guard given him by the Supermind and go down fighting to win all in secret, while losing all on the surface. Nothing except a colossal strategic sacrifice of this kind in order that the physical transformation of the Mother may be immeasurably hastened and rendered absolutely secure and, through it, a divine life on earth for humanity may soon get rooted and be set aflower - nothing less can explain ...
... taking hold even of your tail, can't I? So there is nothing funny about it—perfectly rational, coherent and clear. Another point: Have you written anywhere what would be the nature of the physical transformation? I have not, I carefully avoided that ticklish subject. What would it be like? Change of pigment? Mongolian features into Aryo-Greco? Bald head into luxuriant growth? Old men into gods ...
... Aurobindo's letters too we had the intuition that the Supramental descent in the physical was imminent. In one of the sonnets written in 1940 we find him speaking of abolishing death and of his physical transformation: ... Under the mask grows clear The mould of an imperishable face. Well, notwithstanding all these bright prospects, what turned the wheel backwards? What inevitable fiat cancelled ...
... Napoleon. Sri Aurobindo: Good Lord! Then I am off the list of the candidates — for I have neither the heart of a lion nor the vital of Napoleon." Myself: What will be the nature of the physical transformation? Change of pigment? Mongolian features into Aryo-Greek? Bald head into luxuriant growth? Old men into Gods of eternal youth? Sri Aurobindo: Why not seven tails with an eighth on the head ...
... Mother's inspiration. When it was the question of Savitri's transformation, the Mother drew a sketch in front of me to throw more light on the subject, and said: Child, it is not the physical transformation but the spiritual transformation. Indeed, Inspiration simply gripped me and drove me once it was invoked. I read four passages of Book Ten— The Book of the Double Twilight. The ...
... between Psychoanalysis and Yoga Integral Education for Integral Health Yogic Care of the Body Higher States of Consciousness and their power over the body's functions Physical Transformation by the Methods of Integral Yoga: What is Death? The Structure of the Body and the Problems of the inevitability of Death Causes of the Resistance of Matter Po ...
... The old Yogis did not consider that necessary, because they wanted to walk off, not to change the being. Why do you call it a beginning only? What more do you want to do except perhaps physical transformation? I want to effect the transformation of the whole nature (not only of the physical)—that's why. Could you whisper to me the names of those lucky fellows, those "half a dozen people" ...
... difference between doing sadhana here and doing it outside. There is a great thing in the Mother's touch etc... He said all that is ভাঁওতা! 118 ? Don't know the word. Is it only for physical transformation that staying here is necessary? Otherwise sincere sadhana can be done elsewhere as well as here. I don't suppose the later stages of the transformation including the physical would be possible ...
... within; also it is not sufficient to bring about only that much of change in terrestrial life which can be effected by the mere spiritual force acting in a general way. It looks as if the physical transformation which is what is meant by an ascension or emergence in the evolutionary gradient were possible only by a physical impact embodying Page 52 and canalising the spiritual force: ...
... within; also it is not sufficient to bring about only that much of change in terrestrial life which can be effected by the mere spiritual force acting in a general way. It looks as if the physical transformation which is what is meant by an ascension or emergence in the evolutionary gradient were possible only by a physical impact embodying and canalising the spiritual force: it is with his physical ...
... the aspirant? Or has discipleship on the material level in the path of the Integral Yoga come to an end? Answer: Obviously, the immediate programme of a physical transformation is postponed – not cancelled. But what we have been given is not less of a miracle. Mother has prepared for us her new body in the inner world, in the subtle physical which is as living ...
... species. Sri Aurobindo has even described the essential features of the divine body in his book ' The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth'. And the Mother's own experimental research in the physical transformation confirms the formation of the divine body of the new species, at least, in its subtle state. But the Mother has made it clear that the crucial point was the fixing of the supramental consciousness ...
... or else millions of lives would be needed — but in truth, unless the work is done for them and the sadhana of the body done for the entire earth consciousness, they will never achieve the physical transformation, or else it will be page - 124 so remote that it is better not even to speak of it. ... The path is difficult. ..." 71 page - 125 ...
... confide in as regards our woes, both inner and outer, and seek for guidance. Mother's main work upon earth was to bring down the Supramental Consciousness in the material world so that physical transformation or the divinisation of the body could take place. She has done it and we can see everywhere man's urge for this change and which, therefore, explains the necessary upheaval. Now this new ...
... Prayers, especially the later ones, are a kaleidoscope of a difficult perfectioning of the physical being of the Mother, without which the union of her longing could not be realised. This physical transformation is a revolutionary conception, extremely intricate and arduous in its process, involving systematic exploration of the subconscient and the inconscient parts of the human being, and their ...
... physical, in spite of difficulties. But that was not Page 104 done. Then we came down to the physical. Those brilliant experiences disappeared and the slow difficult work of physical transformation remained. There – in the physical – you find the truth of the Vedik rik – censurers are always ready telling – "you can't do the thing, you are bound to fail". Disciple : Would it then ...
... 24 Letters on Yoga, PART FOUR: The Triple Transformation — Psychic, Spiritual, Supramental; Transformation of the Mind; Transformation of the Vital; Transformation of the Physical; Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient; Difficulties of the Path; Opposition of the Hostile Forces. Volume 25 The Mother: WITH LETTERS ON THE MOTHER AND ...
... the fire of yoga." 7 ____________________________ 6.The Life Divine, Ch. 26P. 239 A few quotations from Sri Aurobindo's letters shed light on the question of physical transformation : (1 ) " There can be no immortality of the body without supramentalisation; the potentiality is there in the yogic force and yogis can live for 200 or 300 years or more, but there can ...
... whenever one wants it. Citing Sri Aurobindo's view that at least three hundred years after attaining perfect identity with the Divine would be needed to effect this kind of radical physical transformation, the Mother doesn't think it too long to wait. In the meantime, the utmost that can be hoped for is to be able to prolong life at will, and "not to leave the body until one wants to". ...
... ceaseless prayer of the integral being, desiring to unite with Thee so as to manifest Thee." We shall now consider the essential identity 1 existing between Sri Aurobindo's idea of physical transformation through service in an integral surrender and that of the Mother as expressed by her before her meeting with Sri Aurobindo. 1 Really speaking, the identity is not only essential, it ...
... consciousness and prepare it for the new creation. 13.3.1970 Yesterday You said, "A constant alert. No relaxation." Yes, it is exact. The work of physical transformation has begun; but the work is immense and the years are short. 15.3.1970 If I am faithful to You the length of the way is not disquieting. If you are integrally faithful, that ...
... afraid, it becomes dreadful. Fortunately, my body isn't afraid. 65.1010 Those are all the things that are considered “unimportant,” and it's the whole mass of all that which prevents the physical transformation. And because they are very small things and considered negligible, they are the worst obstacles. I am talking about enlightened consciousnesses that live in the truth, that have aspiration ...
... Supermind in human life, much of its path is a revolutionary departure from the beaten tracks, and traverses. many virgin fields and unexplored countries of the being. Especially, its aim of physical transformation is an original aim of far-reaching consequences, which makes it descend into the inconscient and subconscient abysses in. order to purify and transform the human body, the life- energy and ...
... That is all. Blessings. 26 December 1969 * * * Sweet Mother, In the New Year message, when You say “The world is preparing for a big change”, are You referring to the physical transformation? And how can we help? What is being prepared is the advent of the being who will succeed man, the being who will be to man what man is to the animal. And the work has already begun with ...
... it—they feel the Mother always with them and are satisfied and ask for nothing else. 27 July 1933 Is there any special effect of physical nearness to the Mother? It is indispensable for the fullness of the sadhana on the physical plane. Transformation of the physical and external being is not possible otherwise. Is it not likely that with more outer nearness and familiarity with the Mother... prepare the physical consciousness; for that a complete equality and peace and a complete dedication free from personal demand or desire in the physical and the lower vital parts is the thing to be established. Other things can come in their proper time. What is the real need now is not insistence on physical nearness, which is one of those other things, but the psychic opening in the physical consciousness... nearness of the Mother, gained by living in the Asram, alone can bring a possibility of transformation. Carrying this idea a little further, it naturally follows that those who live nearer to the Mother and meet her more often are of the inner circle, and even outwardly are more intimate, that is, nearer transformation. Q.E.D.? Page 500 Living in the Asram is one thing, living with the Mother ...
... force or from an invasion of tamas. But I don't know why it should be connected with the English study and happen only then. I just read that if our vital lays its hold on the physical the transformation of the body can be done very quickly. Why then does my vital not try it? Laziness. The vital can be all right when things are going on swimmingly, but when difficulties become strong... mind there is a vital mental, a physical mental - in vital there is a mental vital, a physical vital - in physical there is a mental physical, a vital physical. How do you imagine then that vital can have no effect on the physical? Inertia is mental, vital, physical, subconscient. Physical inertia can produce mental inertia, mental inertia can produce physical inertia, vital inertia almost... means it is acting on the physical consciousness. The centres are all in the subtle body although there are corresponding parts in the gross physical. I understand from your answers that all experiences felt in the physical body are reflections of experiences of the subtle physical. What progress is needed to bring the experiences directly into the outer physical? I spoke only of ...
... get in the mind and the vital being into the physical being and even into the very cells of the material body. The condi tions of complete transformation are that you should be able to keep the same deep peace, wideness, strength, purity, power and plasticity from the mind downward to the very material cells. That is the fundamental basis. This transformation does not require a Shakti – a feminine ... Being to come down and work here are that you must have the same deep peace, wideness, strength, plasticity etc. even in your physical being. Transformation is a personal affair, I don't quite see what a Shakti has got to do with it. You are mixing up things : 1. Transformation and the need of a Shakti, 2. You are mixing up myself and yourself! Page 98 Disciple : No, I didn't... different levels – mental, vital, and physical. Sri Aurobindo : I will say something about belief and then you try to understand it by what it is not. Mental faith believes in an idea. That is to say, Mind believes in what it thinks. The Vital believes in what it desires, and the Physical believes in what it senses. Disciple : Does the transformation come first or the realisation of the ...
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