... the progressive manifestation of the Spirit being the innate intention behind evolution. Even in the Inconscient there seems to be at least an urge of inherent necessity producing the evolution of forms and in the forms a developing Consciousness, and it may well be held that this urge is the evolutionary will of a secret Conscious-Being and its push of progressive manifestation the ...
... Inconscience and ignorance once admitted, these form a natural result in a logical sequence and have to be admitted also as necessary factors. The only question is the reason why this kind of progressive manifestation was itself necessary; that is the sole point left obscure to the intelligence. A manifestation of this kind, self-creation or Lila, would not seem justifiable if it were imposed on the... but the assent of the individual Purusha to make the individual manifestation possible. But it may be said that the reason for the Divine Will and delight in such a difficult and tormented progressive manifestation and the reason for the soul's assent to it is still a mystery. But it is not altogether a mystery if we look at our own nature and can suppose some kindred movement of being in the beginning ...
... the Page 693 other views tend to isolate. In this last category would fall our view of our existence here as a Becoming with the Divine Being for its origin and its object, a progressive manifestation, a spiritual evolution with the supracosmic for its source and support, the other-worldly for a condition and connecting link and the cosmic and terrestrial for its field, and with human mind... fundamental intention in the Becoming itself here; for then an evolutionary progression would not have been undertaken,—such a progression here can only have for its aim a self-fulfilment here: a progressive manifestation of this kind can only have for its soul of significance the revelation of Being in a perfect Becoming. Page 709 ...
... by itself would mean only a cosmic evolution; for the individual would be a quickly perishing instrument, and the race, a more abiding collective formulation, would be the real step in the progressive manifestation of the cosmic Inhabitant, the universal Spirit: rebirth is an indispensable condition for any long duration and evolution of the individual being in the earth-existence. Each grade of cosmic... necessity producing the evolution of forms and in the forms a developing Consciousness, and it may well be held that this urge is the evolutionary will of a secret Conscious Being and its push of progressive manifestation the evidence of an innate intention in the evolution. This is a teleological element and it is not irrational to admit it: for the conscious or even the inconscient nisus arises from a truth ...
... being, the animal, so its next stride will be to evolve out of mental man a greater spiritual and supramental creature. Page 223 50 All mind and life on earth are the progressive manifestation of a Spirit or Being that has involved itself in Matter and is slowly evolving in Matter, against the inconscient resistance of a first rigid material self-formation and under its conditions... important or the most significant part of the evolutionary process; it is one sign of the thing that is being done, but it is not its essence. Material form is only a support and means for the progressive manifestation of the Spirit. If all were chance or play of inconscient or inconsequent Force, there would be no reason why man with all his imperfections should not be the last word of this feat of ...
... intention in the Becoming itself here; for then an evolutionary progression would not have been undertaken, - such a progression here can only have for its aim a self-fulfilment here: a progressive manifestation of this kind can only have for its soul of significance the revelation of Being in a perfect Becoming." (The Life Divine, p. 682) (Q. 32): At which stage does the soul enter the... bom again." (CWM, Vol. 15, p. 135) "Only when one is consciously identified with one's divine origin, can one in truth speak of a memory of past lives. Sri Aurobindo speaks of the progressive manifestation of the Spirit in the forms in which it dwells. When one reaches the summit of this manifestation, one has a vision that plunges down upon the way traversed and one remembers." (Ibid., p ...
... product of a speculative mind. Now, this integral vision of world-existence and self-existence views "our existence here as a Becoming with the Divine Being for its origin and its object, a progressive manifestation, a spiritual evolution with the supracosmic for its source and support, the other-worldly for a condition and connecting link and the 1 The Life Divine, p. 675. Page... intention in the Becoming itself here; for then an evolutionary progression would not have been undertaken, — such a progression here can only have for its aim a self-fulfilment here: a progressive manifestation of this kind can only have for its soul of significance the revelation of Being in a perfect Becoming." 1 Attitude towards body and bodily life: It is quite obvious that in ...
... and the divine Shakti - were nevertheless, when seen from our human end, willing actors in the terrestrial drama, generally veiling their divinity but at the same time also permitting its progressive manifestation. What is this mystery of incarnation, of avatarhood? "The Avatar is necessary," says Sri Aurobindo, "when a special work is to be done and in crises of the evolution." 8 Again, with particular... withdrawal from her sanctified and glorified yogic body on the evening of 17 November 1973 - these and the many other flagstaffs and lighthouses that mark the mystery and marvel of the Mother's progressive manifestation and divine ministry and saga of integral transformation have already been described in some detail in the spacious body of this book. And while, in the clouded eyes of the world, the Mother's ...
... constant repetition of the old blind cycles will at last emerge into the light and accomplish the drive forward which will bring the terrestrial evolution to its next step of ascent in the progressive manifestation of the Spirit. Page 93 ...
... performed in the heart of each one of us, this Yajna of Savitri is unique in its triple dimension of the Supreme. If her Yajna is to dissolve ignorance and death, that in the ever-progressive manifestation divinity may inhabit this house of Matter, ours is to grow in that sun-bright splendour of divinity itself. That is the House of Meditation. 5: Our journey starts in the morning, the ...
... seek and not a flight to distant summits. All other Yogas regard this life as an illusion or a passing phase; the supramental Yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for a progressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the body for its object. The Supramental is simply the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth ...
... seek and not a flight to distant summits. All other yogas regard this life as an illusion or a passing phase; the supramental yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for a progressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the body for its object.” 3 Although the evolutionary and supramental vision of Sri Aurobindo is well known, his radical attitude towards Reality ...
... I seek and not a flight to distant summits. All other Yogas regard this life as an Elusion or a passing phase; the supramental Yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for a progressive Manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the body for its object. The supramental is simply the Truth-consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth ...
... intention of self-unfoldment in it, and surely Nature includes the thinking part of man. From its poise beyond, our art also must lay hands on the natural world and lay bare its true meaning as a progressive manifestation of the Spirit. The thinker in us has thus a role to play in art too: he must act more and more as a mind of light, something that does hot try to seize and shape in its own terms the inner ...
... attempts to give the premier importance to our own plane of being and to our own part in the mundane manifestation. We do not create God as a myth of our consciousness, but are instruments for a progressive manifestation of the Divine in the material being. We do not create the gods, his powers, but rather such divinity as we manifest is the partial reflection and the shaping here of eternal godheads. We do ...
... inalienable nature remain a battlefield of the dualities, of sin and virtue, of truth and error, of joy and suffering. But if Progress also is one of the chief terms of world-existence and a progressive manifestation of the Divine the true sense of Nature, this limitation also is invalid. It is possible for the spiritual life in the world, and it is its real mission, to change the material life into its ...
... Will that governs and guides, knows the sense of his blindness and the goal of his aberration and out of the crooked workings of the Page 280 cosmic Falsehood in him evolves the progressive manifestation of the cosmic Truth. Alone of the brilliant Gods, he burns bright and has full vision in the darkness of Night no less than in the splendours of day. The other gods are uṣarbudhaḥ , wakers ...
... power. He is divine force which manifests first in matter as heat and light and material energy and then, taking different forms in the other principles of man's consciousness, leads him by a progressive manifestation upwards to the Truth and the Bliss. × Sin, in the conception of the Veda, from which this ...
... spirituality is a new and greater inner life of man founded in the consciousness of his true, his inmost, highest and largest self and spirit by which he receives the whole of existence as a progressive manifestation of the self in the universe and his own life as a field of a possible transformation in which its divine sense will be found, its potentialities highly evolved, the now imperfect forms changed ...
... not to adjudge this fact mentally according to our petty ethical values. But once the conditions of the cosmos were laid down and the involution into nescience accepted as the basis of a progressive manifestation of the Divine out of all that seemed its very opposite, Page 36 there took place a sort of division between the Higher and the Lower. The history of the world became a battle ...
... individual consciousness can attain in its union with the Divine. But there is something which lies beyond; it is precisely a state of perfect delight which is not static: delight in a progressive manifestation, a perfect unfolding of the supreme Consciousness. The first of the two states I spoke about leads almost always to a withdrawal from action, an almost static condition, and very easily ...
... followed by a greater future. ... All other Yogas regard this life as an illusion or a passing phase; the supramental Yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for a progressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the body for its object. The Supramental is simply the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, the full ...
... Questions and Answers (1953): 6 May 1953 Only when one is consciously identified with one's divine origin, can one in truth speak of a memory of past lives. Sri Aurobindo speaks of the progressive manifestation of the Spirit in the forms in which it dwells. When one reaches the summit of this manifestation, one has a vision that plunges down upon the way traversed and one remembers. But this memory ...
... necessity producing the evolution of forms and in the forms a developing Consciousness, and it may well be held that this urge is the evolutionary will of a secret Conscious-Being and its push of progressive manifestation the evidence of an innate intention in the evolution.... Truth of Being inevitably fulfilling itself would be the fundamental fact of the evolution, but Will and its purpose must be there ...
... would not have had any opportunity to manifest. That is certain. That is the answer—the all-powerful answer to the "why". It is obvious—obvious—that what we experience as progress, as a progressive manifestation, is not simply a law of the material manifestation as we know it, but the very principle of the eternal Manifestation. To come down to the level of terrestrial thought, one might say that ...
... however, give a few general indications. Only when one is consciously identified with one's divine origin, can one in truth speak of a memory of past lives. Sri Aurobindo speaks of the progressive manifestation of the Spirit in the forms in which it dwells. When one reaches the summit of this manifestation, one has a vision that plunges down upon the way traversed and one remembers. But this memory ...
... being. ( later, at 10 a.m. ) One is never anything but a divine apprentice: the Divine of yesterday is only an apprentice to the Divine of tomorrow ... No, I am not speaking of a progressive manifestation—that is much farther below. When I am at my highest, I am already too high for the manifestation. I have gone far beyond what I wrote this morning. What if the human is too heavy ...
... general indications. It is only when one is consciously identified with his divine Origin that he can speak with complete truthfulness of a memory of past lives. Sri Aurobindo speaks of a progressive manifestation of the Spirit in the forms it inhabits. When one reaches the summit of this manifestation, one has a plunging view of the path already traversed, and one remembers. But that does not mean ...
... rudimentary or latent. Such presence is one aspect of the Aurobindonian "involution". Sri Aurobindo points out another aspect: "...if evolution is the progressive manifestation by Nature of that which slept or worked in her, involved, it is also the overt realisation of that which she secretly is." 44 In that case, we should accept the ...
... back to the consciousness of the bhakta, and refused to consider himself as anything more. According to the Indian theory of Avatarhood, in the process of evolution — the progressive manifestation of the Divine, or Spirit, in its innumerable material forms — an incarnation of the Divine consciousness in a physical body becomes necessary at times of the evolutionary process when a ...
... cosmic Time is done. Page 40 Only when one is consciously identified with one's divine origin, can one in truth speak of a memory of past lives. Sri Aurobindo speaks of the progressive manifestation of the Spirit in the forms in which it dwells. When one reaches the summit of this manifestation, one has a vision that plunges down upon the way traversed and one remembers. But ...
... thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious co-operation she wills to work out the superman, the god. Or shall we not say, rather, to manifest God? For if evolution is the progressive manifestation by Nature of that which slept or worked in her, involved, it is also the overt realisation of that which she secretly is." 33 And here Sri Aurobindo sounds a note of warning to the race: ...
... thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious cooperation she wills to work out the superman, the god. Or shall we not say, rather, to manifest God? For if evolution is the progressive manifestation by Nature of that which slept or worked in her, involved, it is also the overt realisation of that which she secretly is. We cannot, then, bid her pause at a given stage of her evolution, ...
... reached must surely evolve into complete consciousness. It is contended that it is a supramentalized, perfected and divinized life for which the earth-nature is secretly seeking, and that a progressive manifestation of this kind can only have for its secret of significance the revelation of Being in a perfect Becoming. Let us elucidate this view in fuller terms. An involution of the spiritual reality ...
... thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious co-operation she wills to work out the superman, the god. Or shall we not say, rather, to manifest God? For if evolution is the progressive manifestation by Nature of that which slept or worked in her, involved, it is also the overt realisation of that which she secretly is. We cannot, then, bid her pause at a given stage of her evolution, ...
... gods, though that enjoyment too will be ours, but because this liberation and perfection are the divine Will in us, the highest truth of our self in Nature, the always intended goal of a progressive manifestation in the universe. The divine Nature, free and perfect and blissful, must be manifested in the individual in order that it may manifest in the world." 40 But this aim cannot be achieved ...
... intention in the Becoming itself here; for then an evolutionary progression would not have been undertaken, — such a progression here can only have for its aim a self- fulfilment here: a progressive manifestation of this kind can only have for its soul of significance the revelation of Being in a perfect Becoming." 58 Full Manifestation of Spirit in Matter The manifestation of divine ...
... essentially dynamic, in constant evolution, not only from the physical point of view, but also from the subtler viewpoint of consciousness. And this evolution has a direction; it aims towards a progressive manifestation of the powers of consciousness. Matter, on the physical plane, pressed by the forces of the vital and mental planes, of those worlds of life and thought which along with the world of matter ...
... body - pray. It was for the disciple an extraordinary, an indescribable, experience. That the Mother, for all her absorption in the sadhana of the body and her endeavours to ensure the progressive manifestation of the New Consciousness in the earth-atmosphere, had always an uncanny practical sense could be illustrated by the way she had dealt with the crisis in the Mother's School at New Delhi in ...
... ient and canalising its light and force into human existence, there is no other means than Yoga.¹ But it must be a yoga that accepts the whole of life, looks upon it as the field for the progressive manifestation of the Transcendent, and knows the secret of bringing about its radical transformation by the highest Truth-Light of the dynamic Superconscient. The yogas that are wedded to the philosophy ...
... the seventh creation would be a progressive creation, that is, after the starting-point of the creation, instead of its being simply followed by a preservation, it would be followed by a progressive manifestation which would express the Divine more and more completely, so that no disintegration and return to the Origin would be necessary. And it has been announced that the period we are in is precisely ...
... necessary part of experience, but have to be outgrown in the spiritual increase of the being. The fundamental psychic entity in us has the delight of life and all experience as part of the progressive manifestation of the spirit, but the very principle of its delight of life is to gather out of all contacts and happenings their secret divine sense and essence, a divine use and purpose so that by experience ...
... by itself would mean only a cosmic evolution; for the individual would be a quickly perishing instrument, and the race, a more abiding collective formulation, would be the real step in the progressive manifestation of the cosmic Inhabitant, the universal Spirit: rebirth is an indispensable condition for any long duration and evolution of the individual being in the earth-existence. Each grade of cosmic ...
... not to adjudge this fact mentally according to our petty ethical values. But once the conditions of the cosmos were laid down and the involution into nescience accepted as the basis of a progressive manifestation of the Divine out of all that seemed its very opposite, there took place a sort of division between the Higher and the Lower. The history of the world became a battle between the True and ...
... seek and not a flight to distant summits. All other Yogas regard this life as an illusion or a passing phase; the supramental Yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for a progressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment Page 482 of the life and the body for its object. The supramental is simply the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth ...
... hundred-thousandth part of what has been has still a name preserved by human Time. Traditional Indian Ideas about Rebirth and Other Worlds The general Divine Will in the universe is for the progressive manifestation in the universe. But that is the general will—it admits the withdrawal of individual souls who are not ready to persevere in the world. The escape from birth was a universal ideal at ...
... there could be ignorance still but not perversity in the ignorance. All would be a partial truth acting through imperfect instruments but for the best purposes of this or that stage in a progressive manifestation. The Nature of the Hostile Forces The mere intensity of the force does not show that it is a bad power; the Divine Force often works with a great intensity. Everything depends on the ...
... the summit to which all are climbing, the consummation of divine existence, consciousness and bliss to which it is leading, the last result of the birth of things and supreme goal of this progressive manifestation which we see here in life. The full emergence of supermind may be accomplished by a sovereign manifestation, a descent into earth-consciousness and a rapid assumption of its powers and ...
... necessary part of experience, but have to be outgrown in the spiritual increase of the being. The fundamental psychic entity in us has the delight of life and all experience as part of the progressive manifestation of the spirit, but the very principle of its delight of life is to gather Page 632 out of all contacts and happenings their secret divine sense and essence, a divine use and purpose ...
... The Yoga of Divine Works The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter VIII The Supreme Will In the light of this progressive manifestation of the Spirit, first apparently bound in the Ignorance, then free in the power and wisdom of the Infinite, we can better understand the great and crowning injunction of the Gita to the Karmayogin, "Abandoning all dharmas, all principles ...
... for them, in the way possible to the immediate status or function or evolution of their nature, some truth or fact, some energy or potential of the Divine necessary by its presence in the progressive manifestation both to the whole of the present sum of things and for the perfection of the ultimate result. That truth is what we must seek and discover behind the transitory expression; undeterred by ...
... gods, though that enjoyment too will be ours, but because this liberation and perfection are the divine Will in us, the highest truth of our self in Nature, the always intended goal of a progressive manifestation in the universe. The divine Nature, free and perfect and blissful, must be manifested in the individual in order that it may manifest in the world. Even in the Ignorance the individual lives ...
... connected levels, each a cosmos with its own type and function: here the one is merely the other partially unfolded. For, the Mind of Light is not anywhere anything else than the Supermind in progressive manifestation in embodied nature. As we have observed, its very inception signalises that the Supermind is acting directly and is Page 124 in immediate presence on the ...
... evolution, not so much in the physical form given to it by the West Page 107 as in its philosophical truth, the involution of life and mind and spirit here in matter and their progressive manifestation. At the summit of this evolution is the spiritual life, the life divine. It was necessary to show that these truths were not inconsistent with the old Vedantic truth, therefore we included ...
... Spirituality is a new greater inner life of man founded in the consciousness of his true, his inmost, highest and largest Self and Spirit by which he receives the whole of existence as a progressive manifestation of the Self in the universe and his own life as a field of possible transformation in which its divine sense will be found, its potentialities highly evolved, the now imperfect forms ...
... All these factors governing the growth of our creative consciousness are destined to bring about a new birth of language itself making it an effective collaborator of the Muse in its progressive manifestation. As Sri Aurobindo observes: "It is in effect a larger cosmic vision, a realising of the godhead in the world and in man, of his divine possibilities as well of the greatness of the power ...
... seek and not a flight to distant summits. All other yogas regard this life as an illusion or a passing phase; the supramental yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for a progressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the body for its object.” It goes without saying that a full interpretation of these words is only possible in the context of the Aurobindian teaching ...
... thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious co-operation she wills to work out the superman, the god. Or shall we not say, rather, to manifest God? For if evolution is the progressive manifestation by Nature of that which slept or worked in her, involved, it is also the overt realisation of that which she secretly is." (Sri Aurobindo, op. cit., pp. 3-4) Elsewhere, in his book ...
... wouldn't have had an opportunity to manifest. That's certain. It is the answer—the all-powerful answer to the "Why?" It is clear—very clear—that what for us is translated as progress, as progressive manifestation, is not only a law of the material manifestation as we know it, but is the very principle of the eternal Manifestation. If we want to climb down again to the level of terrestrial thought, ...
... it...." 1 The same letter goes on to say: "All other Yogas regard this life as an illusion or a passing phase; the supramental Yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for a progressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the body for its object. The Supramental is simply the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth ...
... fundamental intention in the Becoming itself here; for then an evolutionary progression would not have been undertaken, such a progression here can only have for its aim a self-fulfilment here: a progressive manifestation of this kind can only have for its soul of significance the revelation of Being in a perfect Becoming." viii Full Manifestation of Spirit in Matter The manifestation of ...
... thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious co-operation she wills to work out the superman, the god. Or shall we not say, rather, to manifest God? For if evolution is the progressive manifestation by Nature of that which slept or worked in her, involved, it is also the overt realization of that which she secretly is. We cannot, then, bid her pause at a given stage of her evolution ...
... reached must surely evolve into complete consciousness. It is contended that it is a supramentalized, perfected and divinized life for which the earth-nature is secretly seeking, and that a progressive manifestation of this kind can only have for its secret of significance the revelation of Being in a perfect Becoming. The theory of spiritual evolution may accept the scientific account of physical ...
... laboratory in whom and with whose Page 68 conscious co-operation she wills to work out the superman, the god. Or shall we not say, rather, to manifest God? For if evolution is the progressive manifestation by Nature of that which slept or worked in her, involved, it is also the overt realization of that which she secretly is. We cannot, then, bid her pause at a given stage of her evolution, ...
... nothing more, of a higher and divine life. It is, therefore, contended that it is a supramentalised, perfected and divinized life for which the earth-nature is secretly seeking, and that a progressive manifestation of this kind can only have for its secret or significance, the evolution of a Being in a perfect Becoming. The three stages of the development of manifestation and the movements can provide ...
... thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious cooperation she wills to work out the superman, the god. Or shall we not say, rather, to manifest God? For if evolution is the progressive manifestation by Nature of that which slept or worked in her, involved, it is also the overt realisation of that which she secretly is." 2 And here Sri Aurobindo sounds a note of warning to the race: ...
... Sachchidananda in the bosom of Time and Space, in earthly embodiments, here is the material world. The evolutionary movement that we see unfolding upon earth is the appointed means for that progressive manifestation of the immortal divine life in the field of matter-bound mortality. And man the mental being has appeared at a crucial turning-point of that evolutionary ascension. For, this man, the transitional ...
... God has been merely playing about and you can't expect any purpose in play. But I should think that God had a purpose when he created this world. NIRODBARAN: What purpose? SATYENDRA: Progressive manifestation of the Divine perhaps. (To Sri Aurobindo) But what you call "Supramental", is it your own idea—something thought out by you—or was it given to you from above? SRI AUROBINDO: It is not ...
... are climbing, the consummation of divine existence, consciousness and bliss to which it is leading, the last result of the birth of things and supreme goal of Page 202 this progressive manifestation which we see here in life. The full emergence of supermind may be accomplished by a sovereign manifestation, a descent into earth-consciousness and a rapid assumption of its powers and ...
... respectively. But the three together in an indissoluble unity form the great aim of the Integral Yoga. Manifestation or the divine self-revelation is the key to the riddle o 1 the world. A progressive manifestation starting from the creation of dumb Matter, and culminating in the perfect Epiphany in man is the ultimate sense and significance o terrestrial existence. The soul's wandering from birth ...
... n or gratitude with any sense of inferiority. 15 June 1952 The Divine is everywhere and in all, He is all. Yes, in His essence and His supreme reality. But in the world of progressive material manifestation, one must identify not with the Divine as He is, but with the Divine as He will be. 30 June 1952 Page 277 ...
... this human existence. The man who dwells in the higher or divine & now hidden hemisphere of his consciousness, having rent the veil, is the true superman and the last product of that progressive self-manifestation of God in world, Spirit out of matter, which is now called the principle of evolution. To rise into divine existence, force, light & bliss and recast in that mould all mundane existence... from the world, is a high but narrow specialisation of divine tapasya. God in His perfection embraces everything; you also must become all-embracing. God in His ultimate existence beyond all manifestation and all knowledge, is the Absolute Parabrahman; in relation to the world He is that which transcends all universal existence while regarding it or in turning away from it; He is that which contains ...
... unique Sensibility. If it be true, as Keats said, that "Shakespeare led a life of allegory, his works are his comments on it", might it not be said of Sri Aurobindo that his was a life of progressive Divine manifestation, and his writings are but its radiations and recordings? In a book of this size aiming at all-inclusiveness, some repetition is unavoidable and could even be purposeful, and periodic ...
... and the one common power from which all derive their being and tendency, towards which all subconsciously move and in which, therefore, it is possible for all consciously to unite. The progressive self-manifestation of Nature in man, termed in modern language his evolution, must necessarily depend upon three successive elements. There is that which is already evolved; there is that which, still imperfect... certain stability of her constant material movement which is at once sufficiently steady and durable and sufficiently pliable and mutable to provide a fit dwelling-place and instrument for the progressively manifesting god in humanity. This is what is meant by the fable in the Aitareya Upanishad which tells us that the gods rejected the animal forms successively offered to them by the Divine Self and... fulfilment of the right law of our nature, then any final recoil from the physical life must be a turning away from the completeness of the divine Wisdom and a renunciation of its aim in earthly manifestation. Such a refusal may be, owing to some secret law of their development, the right attitude for certain individuals, but never the aim intended for mankind. It can be, therefore, no integral Yoga ...
... is the destined field of a progressive self-manifestation of the Spirit and that the students, as everybody else, should prepare themselves as instruments, as perfectly as possible, to express adequately and without any distortion or diminution the divine Will in the world. Now, the mind, the heart, the vital and the body are the four instruments of manifestation of the Spirit. Thus, there is ...
... truth which informs the concept of the Integral surrender is a triple postulate: That the Divine is the omnipresent Reality, the sole all-constituting and all-transcending Being, whose progressive self-manifestation in Matter is the goal of evolutionary terrestrial Nature; that it is the supreme Consciousness- Force of this Being, or rather the Being Himself as Consciousness-Force or Shakti, the ... measure. THE SURRENDER OF THE MIND The secret sense of evolution being the full and perfect emergence of the Divine in the human individual, the motor means of achieving it is a progressive self- transcendence by the double power of aspiration and renunciation. The consciousness of the individual must aspire for the highest it can conceive and imagine, and, at the same time, always... surrender, the seeker and lover of God becomes His servant; therefore, we call it the stage of the servant,—the long and arduous stage of self-consecration by personal effort. It is a stage of the progressive transference of the centre of gravity from the ego to the Divine. It is a stage of relentless self-observation, constant self-purification, unsleeping vigilance and persistent, unreserved surrender ...
... life-activities. Now, the integral theory of existence as advanced by Sri Aurobindo looks upon our earthly existence as a becoming with the Divine Being for its origin and object, a progressive evolutionary manifestation with the timeless spaceless Su-pracosmic as its source and support, the Other-worldly for a condition and connecting link and the Terrestrial for its field, Page 3 ... individual a soul, a portion of the Divinity enwrapped in mind and body, a conscious manifestation in Nature of the universal self and spirit; at the summit of his ascent man is bound to rise to something greater than his physical, vital and mental personalities, to his spiritual being. And therein lies the supreme manifestation of the soul of man, his ultimate divine manhood, his real paramārtha and the... intended fullness of the self-expressing Spirit. Now, this material world, this earth and this human life have, as we have noted above, their divine possibility, but that possibility is evolutionary. A progressive evolution of consciousness is the secret sense of our birth and terrestrial existence. Page 4 Earth-life offers the field for a continuously ascending self-unveiling of consciousness ...
... The Will to create argues no want or deficiency in the One who is Absolute, but is a spontaneous play of His Consciousness-Force (cit-tapas). Its Purpose in our evolutionary world is a progressive self-manifestation of the Divine in terms of unity in diversity. But in the material formula diversity or division seems to be its primary Page 225 objective. It creates a myriad centres of... We find, therefore, that, whatever its spell on deluded minds, under the spotlight of spiritual knowledge desire stands thoroughly unmasked as the prolific parent of most of life's evils. The progressive rationalistic mind of today, if it is searchingly honest, will readily admit this truth, but it will ask in amazement, as Bossuet asked Madame Guyon, "If the desires are renounced, how will the... foundation. Desire is the chief enemy Page 229 of spiritual perfection.”¹ In this essay we shall try to understand how desire is to be conquered and replaced by the divine Will by progressive stages of purification, and what difference there is between repression and rejection, suppression and indulgence, desire and necessity, and desire and delight. It goes without saying that ...
... the way one difficulty that inevitably arises, the difficulty of admitting that, even given the immanence of the Divine in us, even given our individual consciousness as a vehicle of progressive evolutionary manifestation, the individual is in any sense eternal or that there can be any persistence of individuality after liberation has been attained by unity and self-knowledge. This is a difficulty... intelligence; we have transformed our mental difficulty in understanding the world-manifestation into an original impossibility for the Absolute to manifest itself in world at all. But the Absolute, obviously, finds no difficulty in world-manifestation and no difficulty either in a simultaneous transcendence of world-manifestation; the difficulty exists only for our mental limitations which prevent us from... fundamental truth of existence, an Omnipresent Reality, omnipresent above the cosmic manifestation and in it and immanent in each individual. There is also a dynamic power of this Omnipresence, a creative or self-manifesting action of its infinite Consciousness-Force. There is as a phase or movement of the self-manifestation a descent into an apparent material inconscience, an awakening of the individual ...
... stage in the emergence which first decisively changes the nature of the evolution by transforming its action of Ignorance and its basis of Inconscience. This movement of evolution, of a progressive self-manifestation of the Spirit in a material universe, has to make its account at every step with the fact of the involution of consciousness and force in the form and activity of material substance. For... , by Science; but very little light has been shed on the inner side, the side of consciousness, and what little has been observed is rather of its physical basis and instrumentation than of the progressive operations of Consciousness in its own nature. In the evolution, as it has been observed so far, although a continuity is there,—for Life takes up Matter and Mind takes up submental Life, the Mind... Matter, Life, pure Mind and Supermind.) Yajur Veda. (17. 67.) It is now possible and necessary, since we have formed a sufficiently clear idea of the significance of the evolutionary manifestation in earth-nature and the final turn it is taking or destined to take, to direct a more understanding regard on the principles of the process by which it has arrived at its present level and by which ...
... But in the world of progressive material manifestation, we must identify with the Divine, not as He is, but as He will be. 1 Again, on 7 September: This is what we mean by "Divine": all the knowledge we have to acquire, all the power we have to obtain, all the love we have to become, all the perfection we have to achieve, all the harmonious and progressive poise we must make manifest ...
... manifesting as matter or body. The Page 244 three manifestations are coincident in Time and Space and each condition of phenomena is a triple state with Spirit and Matter for its extreme terms and Soul for its middle. In the evolution of the spirit-states Purusha determines itself so as to inform and support the progressive manifestations of Self as soul and body; in the evolution of the psychic... ultimate truth of the Eternal but only a partial manifestation of Him in phenomena which is externalised for our enjoyment and possession but not set before us as our standard or aim, and the soul which makes beauty its only end is soon cloyed & sated and fails for want of nourishment and of the growth which is impossible without an ever widening & progressive activity. Power & Law are not the ultimate truth... confuses Him with Page 218 His physical or psychical manifestations in this world, then it is a relatively false and impermanent ideal. Of all the ancient nations the Hindus, for this reason only, attained to the highest idea and noblest practice of morality. The Greeks confused the Eternal with His physical manifestations and realised Him in them on the side of beauty; beauty therefore ...
... transcendental Self and source of existence. It has, however, been argued that, even granting the immanence of the Divine, even granting our individual consciousness as a vehicle of progressive evolutionary manifestation, the individual cannot be accepted as eternal or that there can be any persistence of individuality after the individual has attained liberation from the bondage to ignorance by means... out and becomes everywhere and orders objects comprehensively and perfectly according to their nature. The manifestation is seen, first, in a comprehensive consciousness of the Seer and then further manifested downward by lower functionings of consciousness; thus the entire world of manifestation is seen as a ladder from the highest to the lowest and spread out in the one self-existent Brahman. ... and vary its powers of consciousness and determine according to the grade and variation its world or its degree and scope of self-revelation. Among many possibilities of manifestation, there is also the possibility of manifestation where the exclusive concentration of consciousness could operate effectively; and if that possibility is to operate, an effective lid or wall can be erected in such a manner ...
... highest spiritual and supramental summits and manifests their powers here in Matter. Letters on Yoga, pp. 1-2 (b) The Three Steps of Nature — Body, Mind, Spirit The progressive self-manifestation of Nature in man, termed in modern language his evolution, must necessarily depend upon three successive elements. There is that which is already evolved, that which is persistently in... anyhow to survive and even to make the form survive; but the time-tendency is too strong. This is visible in the history of religion; the efforts of the saints and religious reformers become progressively more scattered, brief and superficial in their actual effects, however strong and vital the impulse. We see this recession in the growing darkness and weakness of India in her last millennium;... certain stability of her constant material movement which is at once sufficiently steady and durable and sufficiently pliable and mutable to provide a fit dwelling-place and instrument for the progressively manifesting god in humanity.... If the bodily life is what Nature has firmly evolved for us as her base and first instrument, it is our mental life that she is evolving as her immediate ...
... emerge out of this state of utter forgetfulness and establish the dynamic delight of existence everywhere. For this to happen the Supreme has to do the evolutionary Yoga, the Yoga of progressive divine manifestation in the earth-consciousness. And this has to happen in the face of his own stubbornness; for he himself has become the Inconscient. One visible sign of this stubbornness of the inconscient... heart can also approach the wonderlands of its delight; but the mountain splendours of its climb take us to the worlds of higher spiritual illumination in the greatness of the triple glory of manifestation. The ascending and descending streams derive their waters from the secret source of its delight. It is now for us to pick up the text-book and profit from it. And the nice thing is that... journey of the Spirit through occult and supracosmic regions, or the action of some transcendental Might facing the antagonist Power standing across the path of a desirable possibility in the manifestation of everlasting happiness. When we as a collectivity arrive at this point in our inner development we also recognise the progress that has been made in the aggregate awareness of the race. It ...
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