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... a real and important psychic experience without knowing it. What have you to say thereto, Guru? To think that even I should have had am experience and a psychic one at that!" — and so on. His reply came,, duly, the next morning. "It was certainly an experience," he wrote, "and as Kanai very accurately described it, an experience of great value: a psychic experience par excellence. A feeling... feeling of 'velvety softness' and an 'ineffable plasticity within,' is a psychic experience and can be nothing else. It means a modification of the substance of Page 195 the consciousness especially in the vital emotional part, and a modification prolonged or repeated till it became permanent would mean a great step in what I call the psychic transformation of the being. It is just... softness a plasticity, even a velvety softness an ineffable plasticity. Any fellow who knows anything about Yoga would immediately say: What a fine experience — a very clear and spiritual and psychic experience!" But, as Tagore used to say again and again, a boon can never be given, it has to be won, that is, one has to be mature enough to assimilate it. So, for years to come, the "fine experience" ...

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... unconditional humility. Kanai says it is a psychic experience and an important one. Please let me know if it is. It was certainly an experience and as Kanai 33 very accurately described it an experience of great value, a psychic experience Par excellence. A feeling of velvety softness within—an ineffable plasticity within is a psychic experience and can be Page 97 nothing ...

... Tagore in these lines ditto, and in the last case from a rather light and superficial vital. Your inspiration, on the contrary, comes from the linking of the vital creative instrument to a deeper psychic experience, and it is that which makes the whole originality and peculiar individual power and subtle and delicate perfection of your poems. It was indeed because this linking-on took Place that the true... overmind) above. The second new significant feature is the self-manifestation of the inner mind; for it was your inner mind that was watching, observing and criticising the vital being's psychic experience. You found this clear division in you curious, but it will no longer seem curious once you know the perfectly normal divisibility of the different parts of the being. In the outer surface nature ...

... it which makes it an indispensable mediator between the inner being and the outer life. It is not a fact that every psychic experience embodies itself in a purified and rightly directed vital current; it does that when it has to externalise itself in action. Psychic experience is in itself a quite independent thing and has its own characteristic forms. The psychic being stands behind all the others; ...

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... Experience of Psychic Opening It was certainly an experience and as X very accurately described it an experience of great value, a psychic experience par excellence. A feeling of velvety softness within—an ineffable plasticity within is a psychic experience and can be nothing else. It means a modification of the substance of the consciousness especially in the vital emotional part, and such ...

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... overmind) above. The second new significant feature is the self-manifestation of the inner mind; for it was your inner mind that was watching, observing and criticising the vital being's psychic experience. You found this clear division in you curious, but it will no longer seem curious once you know the perfectly normal divisibility of the different parts of the being. In the outer surface nature... obviously the result (a result that happens in many cases) of her allowing some being of the vital plane to delude and influence her. This kind of thing has no connection at all with the spiritual or psychic experience of the Rishis and sages; it is rather akin to the experiences of mediums and others in Europe. It seems that you do not pay sufficient attention to the instructions that are sent to you ...

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... Page 44 Y ou said that the peace, silence and knowledge come from above the mind. Do not love and joy also come from there? But then why are they said to be part of the psychic experience? The soul's love and joy come from within from the psychic being. What comes from above is the Ananda of the higher consciousness.   Love and devotion depend on the opening... are impersonal. We also want something of her personality - of her presence, love, joy and beauty. These experiences would be a sign of a true psychic progress. That is one part of the psychic experience - the other is a complete self-giving, absence of demand, a prominence of the psychic being by which all that is false, wrong, egoistic, contrary to the Divine Truth, Divine Will, Divine Purity ...

... l meaning of which the Trinity and the Shaktis of Vishnu and Shiva are the central figures: the Puranas carried forward this appeal to the intellect and imagination and made it living to the psychic experience, the emotions, the aesthetic feeling and the senses. A constant attempt to make the spiritual truths discovered by the Yogin and the Rishi integrally expressive, appealing, effective to the whole ...

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... parables that became myths and myths that remained always images, and yet all these things were to them, in a way that can only be understood by those who have entered into a certain order of psychic experience, actual realities. The physical melted its shades into the lustres of the psychic, the psychic deepened into the light of the spiritual and there was no sharp dividing line in the transition ...

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... for the rash and unwary to enter into it may bring confusion and misleading inspirations and false voices, and it is safer to have some sure guidance from those who know and have spiritual and psychic experience. One must look at this field calmly and with discrimination, but to shut the gates and reject this or other supraphysical experiences is to limit oneself and arrest the inner development. ...

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... which have a strong earth element, but that is the case also with several others. His development, if he perseveres, is likely to be rather through knowledge and will than any great richness of psychic experience, but he must not take the absence or paucity of the latter for an inability to develop the Yoga. The paragraph in one of your letters about the debts is very confused and I can make nothing ...

... passionate thought; B — in the lines you quote — from a rather light and superficial vital. Your inspiration, on the contrary, comes from the linking of the vital creative instrument to a deeper psychic experience, and it is that which makes the whole originality and peculiar individual power and subtle and delicate perfection of your poems. It was indeed because this linking-on took place that the true ...

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... inner experience. When he speaks of maintaining his claim or case against the Mother until she lifts him into her lap, he is not speaking of any outer vital or physical contact, but of an inner psychic experience; precisely; he is protesting against her keeping him in the external vital and physical nature and insists on her taking him on the psycho-spiritual plane into spiritual union with her. All that ...

... tells oneself: "How inadequate are all attempts by lyrical poets like Jayadeva to symbolise this mysterious inner intoxication by thrilling pictures of romantic sensuality!" The "feel" of the psychic experience is worlds apart from anything connected with sex. Page 373 What has led poetry to see love of God through sexual spectacles is the failure to distinguish between the sensuous ...

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... a which it never realises or has not yet realised, or, if realised, has not brought within the scope of the consciousness of beings living in the physical universe. But all our spiritual and psychic experience bears affirmative witness, brings us always a constant and, in its main principles, an invariable evidence of the existence of higher worlds, freer planes of existence. Not having bound ourselves ...

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... in existence; there could be an initial unfolding towards the divine life. All religion, all occult knowledge, all supernormal (as opposed to abnormal) psychological experience, all Yoga, all psychic experience and discipline are sign-posts and directions pointing us upon that road of progress of the occult self-unfolding spirit. Page 751 But the human race is still weighted by a certain ...

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... sensation of its own and it takes and relates to that the data too of a sixth sense, the inner mind sense. And it takes also the illuminations and the living symbols and images familiar to the psychic experience and relates these too to the truths of the self and spirit. The spiritual reason takes also the emotions and psychic sensations, relates them to their spiritual equivalents and imparts to ...

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... It is true that up to a point difficult to define or delimit almost all that Samadhi can give, can be acquired without recourse to Samadhi. But still there are certain heights of spiritual and psychic experience of which the direct as opposed to a reflecting experience can only be acquired deeply and in its fullness by means of the Yogic trance. And even for that which can be otherwise acquired, it offers ...

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... creative ecstasy, ānandamaya āveśa —must always be there, whatever the source. But where the inspiration Page 9 comes from the linking of the vital creative instrument to a deeper psychic experience, that imparts another kind of intensive originality and peculiar individual power, a subtle and delicate perfection, a linking on to something that is at once fine to etheriality and potent, ...

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... in the power of the Divine. It is of course through the psychic that she got into this contact, but in itself it is more an experience of the higher spiritual consciousness above mind than a psychic experience. The silvery narrow way upward is the path of the spiritual consciousness. Earth and Patala Patala simply means the subconscient below the Earth—the Earth being the conscious physical ...

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... and their suggestions. Everything is dangerous in the sadhana or can be, except the psychic change. That [ feeling the Mother's Presence, Love, Joy, Beauty ] is one part of the psychic experience—the other is a complete self-giving, absence of demand, a prominence of the psychic being by which all that is false, wrong, egoistic, contrary to the Divine Truth, Divine Will, Divine Purity ...

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... the mind or the vital, that is, purely psychic, exact, your memory is intermittent . And it is often very difficult to locate your past lives, to say: "I was this or that." It is only when the psychic experience has taken place at a very important moment of your life and a whole set of circumstances gives you, so to say, the key to the story (dresses, spoken words, customs or an environment giving you ...

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... the Mantra: high above in an ether of Superconsciousness and deep within where the Rigvedic hrdaya samudra, the heart-ocean, the wondrous in-world into which opens the individual emotional-psychic experience, echoes and images the over-world. Then he should practise a dedicated silence in the mind in order to imitate something of the "hushed intense receptivity turned upwards" which Sri Aurobindo ...

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... foolproof but fallacious at their bottom and therefore lacking in convincing truth. Space and time do not permit us to pinpoint these fallacies here. But know for certain that "all our spiritual and psychic experience bears affirmative witness, brings us always a constant and, in its main principles, an invariable evidence of the existence of higher worlds, freer planes of existence." (The Life Divine, p ...

... powers of living Nature and the institution of sacrifice. The Vedic poets used for their expression also a glowing web of myth and parable which expressed to the initiates a certain order of psychic experience and inner realities. II. Inner Meaning of the Veda Yaska has spoken of several schools of interpretation of the Vedas. He has declared that there is a triple knowledge and therefore ...

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... of images and a Slowing -web of myths and parables. And, fifthly, Vedic Rishis also took care to see that the inner meaning could be understood by those who had entered into a obtain order of psychic experience and spiritual realities. We may also note that the peculiar system of images and the complexity of its thought and symbolised experience which began in the Veda. reappeared constantly in ...

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... of sacrifice. The Vedic poets used for their expression a fixed and yet variable body of other images and a glowing web of myth and parable which expressed to the initiates a certain order of psychic experience and actual realities. II Yaska has spoken of several schools of interpretation of the Vedas. He has declared that there is a triple knowledge and therefore a triple meaning of the ...

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... itself of the Puranas you can know whether the killing of the Asura is a physical fact or not. You can't take them literally, – in the physical sense. There is a mixture of facts, tradition, psychic experience as well as history. Page 112 The poet is not writing history, he is writing only poetry : he may have got it from the psychic intuitive plane or from his imagination, from ...

... classical times of the ripeness of its manhood, threw out so many original intuitions in science, created so rich a glow of aesthetic and vital and sensuous experience, renewed its spiritual and psychic experience in Tantra and Purana, flung itself into grandeur and beauty of line and colour, hewed and cast its thought and vision in stone and bronze, poured itself into new channels of self-expression in ...

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... which have a strong earth element, but that is the case also with several others. His development, if he perseveres, is likely to be rather through knowledge and will than any great richness of psychic experience; but he must not take the absence or paucity of the latter for an inability to develop the yoga . The paragraph in one of your letters about the debts is very confused and I can make nothing ...

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... from the higher super-intellectual mind and from the higher being. If you have not this, then you have need of constant protection and guidance from those who have it, and who have also long psychic experience, and it may be disastrous for you to rely entirely on yourself and to reject such guidance. In the meantime there are three rules of the Sadhana which are very necessary in an earlier stage ...

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... inner relation to the Mother. I pray for Purity and Peace above all. With these I am sure of union with the Mother. Am I not correct? Yes. I pray for your observations regarding this psychic experience. Was it not psychic? Yes, certainly, it was a psychic opening and at the point emphasised, which is very important—the opening to the higher Purity. 14 July 1937 ...

... influences are also the source of much in men that is demoniac, dirty, cruel and base. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Planes or Worlds of Consciousness … all our spiritual and psychic experience bears affirmative witness, brings us always a constant and, in its main principles, an invariable evidence of the existence of higher worlds, freer planes of existence. Not having bound ourselves ...

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... the mind or the vital, that is, purely psychic, exact, your memory is intermittent . And it is often very difficult to locate your past lives, to say: "I was this or that." It is only when the psychic experience has taken place at a very important moment of your life and a whole set of circumstances gives you, so to say, the key to the story (dresses, spoken words, customs or an environment giving you ...

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... inner experience. When he speaks of maintaining his claim or case against the Mother until she lifts him into her lap, he is not speaking of any outer vital or physical contact, but of an inner psychic experience; precisely, he is protesting against her keeping him in the external vital and physical nature and insists on her taking him on the psychospiritual plane into spiritual union with her. All ...

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... for the rash and unwary to enter into it may bring confusion and misleading inspirations and false voices, and it is safer to have some sure guidance from those who know and have spiritual and psychic experience. One must look at this field calmly and with discrimination, but to shut the gates and reject this or other supraphysical experiences is to limit oneself and arrest the inner development. ...

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... seeking or the definite outcome and issue. That can only be assured when Page 303 a supreme light of the spirit, a perfect joy and satisfaction of the subtlety and complexity of a finer psychic experience and a wide strength and amplitude of the life soul sure of the earth and open to the heavens have met, found each other and fused together in the sovereign unity of some great poetic discovery ...

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... and field of their action, the expressive figure of themselves, their capacity of self-development, self-realisation of a kind, self-discovery. This is actually what we meet when we follow in psychic experience the line of descent by which the involution takes place which ends in Matter and the creation of the material universe. What we see here is not the planes or worlds of the descent in which mind ...

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... implies that we shall live on an earth whose sustenance of us will be derived from the Supramental Light. “The closing words of the Mother mean that what she is preparing for us by way of psychic experience is not yet ready. But before we share our life with her in our depths we may be assured that even in our present half-developed condition the Mother is always with us.” AMAL ...

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... the rash and unwary to enter into it may bring confusion and misleading inspirations and false voices, and it is safer to have some sure guidance from those who know and have spiritual and psychic experience. One must look at this field calmly and with discrimination, but to shut the gates and reject this or other supraphysical experiences is to limit oneself and arrest the inner development. ...

... the Mantra: high above in an ether of Superconsciousness and deep within where the Rigvedic hrdaya samudra, the heart-ocean, the wondrous in-world into which opens the individual emotional-psychic experience, echoes and images the over-world. Then he should practise a dedicated silence in the mind in order to imitate something of the "hushed intense receptivity turned upwards" which Sri Aurobindo ...

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... which have a strong earth element, but that is the case also with several others. His development, if he preserves, is likely to be rather through knowledge and will than any great richness of psychic experience, but he must not take the absence or paucity of the latter for an inability to develop the Yoga. The paragraph in one of your letters about the debts is very confused and I can make nothing ...

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... Somnath. There is in him of course a great mental capacity, but what he has in an unusual degree is a very fine psychic being and nature capable of true and profound psychic feelings and power of psychic experience. He is not aware as yet of all that is there in his soul, but there are great possibilities there waiting to be developed. October 5, 1935 To Mother and Sri Aurobindo, Although ...

... classical times of the ripeness of its manhood, threw out so many original intuitions in science, created so rich a glow of aesthetic and vital and sensuous experience, renewed its spiritual and psychic experience in Tantra and Purana, flung itself into grandeur and beauty of line and colour, hewed and cast its thought and vision in stone and bronze, poured itself into new channels of self-expression in ...

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... From the reading of the description itself you can know whether the act of killing is a physical fact or not.  You can't take everything physically. There is a mixture of facts, tradition and psychic experience as well as history. Disciple : How did the poet get them ? Did he get them by psychic intuition or from the physical life only ? Sri Aurobindo : You can't take these things so ...

... tragedy! DR. MANILAL: At one time I felt as if my head were lying at the Mother's feet. What does that mean. Sir? SRI AUROBINDO: It is the experience of the psychic being. So you had the psychic experience. DR. MANILAL: But unfortunately I couldn't recognise it. (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: It is this "I" that comes in the way. One must forget it, as if the experiences were happening to somebody ...

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... and field of their action, the expressive figure of themselves, their capacity of self development, self-realisation of a kind, self-discovery. This is actually what we meet when we follow in psychic experience the line of descent by which the involution takes place which ends in Matter and the creation of the material universe. What we see here is not the planes or worlds. of the descent in which mind ...

... 77 Disciple : I felt at one time that my head was at the Mother's feet. What is it, Sir! Sri Aurobindo :   It is the experience of the psychic being. So, you had the psychic experience. Disciple : I told you how I had it and lost it through fear that I was dying. But I could not recognize this experience as psychic ( Laughter) . Sri Aurobindo :   It is this ...

... many others. All combine in pulling you out of the barriers of your egoism, the walls of your external personality, the impotence of your reactions and the incapacity of your will.”¹ The psychic experience is, as I have said above, indubitable —it carries with it a sense of absolute certainty, of unchallengeable authenticity. One knows without doubt that one is immortal; that one has always existed ...

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... questions and answers towards the end of this section were oral. 13—They told me, "These things are hallucinations." I inquired what was a hallucination and found that it meant a subjective or psychical experience which corresponds to no objective or no physical reality. Then I sat and wondered at the miracles of the human reason. What does Sri Aurobindo mean by "the miracles of the human reason"... the dictionary, you find this definition: "Morbid sensation not produced by any real object. Objectless perception." Sri Aurobindo interprets this or puts it more precisely: "A subjective or psychical experience which corresponds to no objective or no physical reality." There could be no better definition of these phenomena of the inner consciousness, which are most precious to man and make him something... infallible judge. Furthermore, the "things" he speaks of here are all the perceptions that belong to worlds other than the material, all that one can see with eyes other than the physical, all the experiences that one can have in subtle domains from the sense perceptions of the vital world to the bliss of the Divine Presence. It was while discussing these and other similar "things" that Sri Aurobindo ...

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... Process of Psychic Transformation and Influx of Spiritual Experiences This is the level of higher degrees of psychicisation, and when this is accompanied and followed by a free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experience there comes about not only a psychic but, more widely speaking, a psycho-spiritual transformation in many directions. The psychic experiences relate to the discovery of psychic being... being and psychic entity and effects it produces towards the psychic transformation of nature and towards the free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experiences. The distinguishing feature of spiritual experiences is related to the discovery of Brahman, Purusha and Ishwara at different levels of the superconscient that lie beyond the mind. These experiences include those of the Self, Page 50 ... happens that there can be the turning-point towards an integral transformation and an integral knowledge." 36 The discovery of the psychic being, its experience and its development is a decisive stage in the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The psychic entity is not an evolute of the Inconscient, although it has descended into the evolutionary process as a spark of the Divine and accompanies ...

... on consciousness, then on the vital and aesthetics, then on the mind... and culminating here, in 1920, with action. From 1911 or '12, up to 1914, there was the whole series of inner experiences, psychic experiences, preparing me to meet Sri Aurobindo (so this ran parallel to my mental development). In practice, these periods overlap, but approximately every twelve years a particular type of d ...

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... newcomers, get experiences? Is the work in them not in the Inconscient? SRI AUROBINDO: It depends on what kind of experiences—inner or higher experiences or those in the vital. One may think that one has become the Supreme and the Supermind, but the fact may be otherwise. NIRODBARAN: But don't some newcomers have psychic experiences? SRI AUROBINDO: The work may be going on in the psychic, the Inconscient ...

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... to pour into the body. The other signs are promises of the future psychic and other experiences. But none of these things can establish themselves until the opening to the higher force has been made. The mental Yoga can only be preparation for this truer starting-point. What I have said is merely an explanation of these experiences but it seems to me that he has advanced far enough to make a foundation... Edition-II Jyotish Mukherjee I have read the record of Jyotish Mukherjee's experiences. It appears from it that he has made the right start to certain extent and has been able to establish the beginning of mental calm and some kind of psychic opening but neither of these has as yet been able to go very far. The reason probably is that he has done everything... got rid of so long as the intellectual action is not replaced by a higher super intellectual action and finally by the harmonising light of the supramental knowledge. Next as regards the psychic experiences. The region of glory felt in the crown of the head is simply the touch or reflection of the supramental sunlight on the higher part of the mind. The whole mind and being must open to this light ...

... use your will aided by the Mother's force to get rid of these things, and go on with your inner psychic experiences—it is by the two together that all will be done. The persistence or the obstinate return of the old Adam is a common experience: it is only when there is a sufficient mass of experience and a certain progression of consciousness in the higher parts of the being that the lower can... outer or surface nature, only you were not sufficiently conscious of them because the other true consciousness had not opened and grown within you. Now by the experiences you have had the psychic has been growing and it is because of this new psychic consciousness that you are able to see clearly all that has to go. It does not go at once because the vital had so much the habit of them in the past, but... wicked. If some part of the being even has been opened the experiences come. The action of the higher consciousness does not usually begin by changing the outer nature—it works on the inner being, prepares that and then goes outward. Before that, whatever change is done in the outer nature has to be done by the psychic. All experiences can be brought into the smallest constituents of the being ...

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... a representative range of psychical experience; but the psychical sense has also the power of putting us in a more direct communication with earthly or supraterrestrial beings through their psychical selves or their psychical bodies or even with things, for things also have a psychical reality and souls or presences supporting them which can communicate with our psychical consciousness. The most notable... of the true psychical consciousness and its powers, a reception of psychical experience pure in itself of the worse deformations, although subject to the limitations of the representing mind, and capable of a high spiritualisation and light. The complete power and truth, however, can only come by the opening of the supermind and the supramentalising of the mental and psychical experience. The range... of being in which the mental or psychic consciousness and sense live and see and feel and experience is something subtler, freer, more plastic than that of the physical Page 881 mind and sense. As long as we are dominated by the latter, psychical phenomena may seem to us less real, hallucinatory even, but the more we acclimatise ourselves to the psychical and to the ether of being which ...

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... you yourself experienced at that time, this greater consciousness will of itself bring the development of the higher will and knowledge. Psychic experiences of a proper kind are of course a great help but in your case it may be that any rich development of the psychic will only come after or in proportion as this consciousness with its calm knowledge, will and Samata take possession of the different parts... Rathin and his illness if it can be called by that name. I shall state first in general terms the nature of the malady and its usual developments that is to say, the normal course it takes when no psychic or spiritual force is brought in to remove it. After-wards I shall indicate the two possible means of cure. I think it best for me to state the case in its worst and not only in its best possible... the child becomes mentally, morally and physically a healthy normal being. The second possibility is that the struggle between the natural being and the intruding being may not be decisive in the Psychic sense, that is to say the intruder cannot take full possession but also he cannot be thrown out entirely. In that case anything may happen, a shattered mind and health, the death of the body or a disturbed ...

... you yourself experienced at that time, this greater consciousness will of itself bring the development of the higher will and knowledge. Psychic experiences of a proper kind are of course a great help but in your case it may be that any rich development of the psychic will only come after or in proportion as this consciousness with its calm, knowledge, will and samata takes possession of the different... if it can be called by that name. I shall state first in general terms Page 373 the nature of the malady and its usual developments, that is to say, the normal course it takes when no psychic or spiritual force is brought in to remove it. Afterwards I shall indicate the two possible means of cure. I think it is best for me to state the case in its worst and not only in its best possible... mentally, morally and physically a healthy normal being. Page 374 The second possibility is that the struggle between the natural being and the intruding being may not be decisive in the psychic sense, that is to say, the intruder cannot take full possession but also he cannot be thrown out entirely. In that case anything may happen, a shattered mind and health, the death of the body or a ...

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... consciousness, you feel it again within and it wakes in you your own true consciousness, the psychic—and it is only the psychic that gives faith and devotion. It is however a great progress if, even when in the external physical consciousness, you feel the Peace enveloping you. Descent and Psychic Experiences The infinite calm you felt coming down was the calm of the Divine Consciousness—the higher... descends as the higher parts of the being open to it. The experience of faith, love or aspiration come from the psychic being. It is when the psychic being is in front and governs all the nature and the Higher Consciousness descends through an open mind, vital and physical that the transformation of the nature begins to take place. The opposite experience of dryness, despair etc. comes from the resistance... Yoga—the descent of the higher consciousness with its peace, freedom and security from above and the openness of the psychic which keeps all the effort or all the spontaneous movement turned towards the true goal. Descent and Other Experiences The more important of the experiences you enumerate are those below. (1) The feeling of calm and comparative absence of disturbing thoughts. This means ...

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... careful to avoid sex impurities. There was a sadhak who, in spite of his occasional outburst of violence, was a very nice and affectionate man. But he used to get his psychic experiences mixed up with the sex impulse, and the experiences were spoiled. The spoiling happens because at times one gives a semi justification to the sex impulse, saying that after all it does not matter very much. But sex is... One has to start with the idea of goodwill for all, to consecrate oneself to the Divine, try to see God in others, acquire a psychic control and reject in oneself all vital and mental impulses. On this basis one must proceed towards realisation. The idea must pass into experience. Once the realisation is there, everything becomes easy. But even then, it is easy in the static aspect. When it comes to the... sort of love for everybody; though the feeling lasts only for a few seconds, it gives a great Joy. SRI AUROBINDO: That is a wave from the psychic. But what is your attitude towards it? Do you take it as a passing mood or does it stimulate you to further experience of that sort? NIRODBARAN: It stimulates, but often the vital mixture tries to come in. Fortunately I could drive it out recently. SRI ...

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... representative range of psychical experience; but the psychical sense has also the power of putting us in a more direct communication with earthly or supra-terrestrial beings through their psychical selves or their psychical bodies or even with things, for things also have a psychical reality and souls or presences supporting them which can communicate with our psychical consciousness. The most... Psychology 18 Psychical 1 Phenomena The range of the psychic consciousness and its experiences is almost illimitable and the variety and complexity of its phenomena almost infinite. Only some of the broad lines and main features can be noted here. The first and most prominent is the activity of the psychic senses of which the sight is the most developed... powers in the psychical being, there is a psychical hearing, touch, smell, taste: indeed the physical senses are themselves in reality only a projection of the inner sense into a limited and externalised operation in and through and upon the phenomena of gross matter. The psychical sight receives characteristically the images that are formed in the subtle matter of the mental or psychical ether, cittākāśa ...

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... doctrine of the soul's fall from its original divine condition into the corporeal state and shares the view that the human body is the disparate integument of the soul. In the Dionysian cult, psychical experiences of men in ecstasy gave rise to the conviction — presently appropriated by the adherents of Orphism — that the body is an intolerable fetter to the soul which can acquire hitherto unsuspected... Concept of Man (Eds. S. Radhakrishnan and P. T. Raju), p. 114. 7 Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga (Centenary Edition), p. 24. Page 8 great majority to whom the greater experience of Truth does not come 'spontaneously without being forced to it by the strong or overwhelming, the afflicting and detaching sense of the Shadow' 1 permeating the whole fabric of manifested existence ...

... pertinent grounds for the disparagement and denigration of the physical body. In ancient Greece and Rome, in the Dionysian cult and in the Neo-Platonic philosophy of Plotinus, such mystical-psychical experiences as men obtained in rare moments of exaltation described as ekstasis led to the conviction that it is the body alone that is the villain of the piece obstructing and fettering the soul in... reasons behind this almost universal sense of disparagement for the body, we must note that in the Sadhanas followed so far, it is the subjective realisation of the Purusha part and the inner experiences of the Self and the Supreme, as distinct from the spiritual transformation of the Prakriti part, of the instrumental Nature; that have been generally sought after. The Self separates from the... in a physical body and since this is a temporary and short-lived deficiency, it may not be very much grudged. After all, so it is averred, one may withdraw into the state of Samadhi in order to experience the highest realisation even while still in the body. But the trouble is, one cannot continually remain in Samadhi, 1 Swami Nikhilananda (Tr.), The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna ...

... use the word psychic for the soul as distinguished from the mind and vital. All movements and experiences of the soul would in that sense be called psychic, those which rise from or directly touch the psychic being; where mind and vital predominate, the experience would be called psychological (surface or occult). "Spiritual" has nothing to do with the Absolute, except that the experience of the Absolute... the true mastery of psychic or occult powers (clairvoyance, clair-audience etc.). Visions and experiences need not at all depend upon physical weakness or a pathological taint. It is not safe to judge from individual cases. The majority of those who have developed the faculty do not suffer from these defects. Those on the other hand who cannot keep their psychic experiences when in a robust state... it; but the true psychic does not depend for his experiences on disease. Page 578 The Power of Healing I don't know whether I can throw any positive light on X 's mystic experiences. The description, at any rate the latter part, is not very easy to follow as it is very allusive in its expressions and not always precise enough to be clear. The first part of the experience indicates a native ...

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... is the first result, but the second is a free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experience, experience of the Self, experience of the Ishwara and the Divine Shakti, experience of cosmic consciousness, a direct touch with cosmic forces and Page 105 with the occult movements of universal Nature, a psychic sympathy and unity and inner communication and interchanges of all kinds with... realities of Nature. ... But all this change and all this experience, though psychic and spiritual in essence and character, would still be, in its parts of life-effectuation, on the mental, vital and physical level; its dynamic spiritual outcome 1 would be a flowering 1. The psychic and the spiritual opening with their experiences and Page 106 of the soul in mind and life... not done. 117 * Page 100 As for experiences, they are all right but the trouble is that they do not seem to change the nature, they only enrich the consciousness — even the realisation, on the mind level, of the Brahman seems to leave the nature almost where it was, except for a few. That is why we insist on the psychic transformation as the first necessity — for that does change ...

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... can attain to varieties of spiritual experience, but when the spiritual power and light descend into the operations of the body, life and mind for their transformation, the endeavour would succeed better and more rapidly if it is preceded by a good deal of development of psychic experiences and psychic transformation of the body, life and mind. In any case, psychic transformation and spiritual transformation... of the manifestation of the psychic entity which functions as the guide and ruler of the nature as a result of which every movement of nature is exposed to the light of Truth and what is false, obscure, opposed to the divine realization is rejected. The result of this movement is that the whole conscious being is made perfectly apt for the psychic and spiritual experience of every kind, and the whole... expansion it may experience many changes and various dispositions of the powers and possibilities of its time- consciousness and time-knowledge. The process of the ascent from the Mind to the Supermind is extremely complex, and the process of ascent itself involves processes of descent of the higher into the lower, and it cannot be fixed in any rigid manner. The process of psychic development itself ...

... disregards them or pays little attention to them because they are not essential to this liberation. They indeed rather hamper it, because to live on them brings new attractive psychical experiences, psychical enjoyments, psychical powers, a new world of phenomenal knowledge the pursuit of which creates stumbling-blocks in the way of its one object, immergence in Brahman, and brings a succession of innumerable... mere superstition and mysticism, although the facts and experiences on which they are founded are quite as real in their own field and as much governed by intelligible laws of their own as the facts and experiences of the material world. It is not our intention here to plunge into this Page 447 vast and difficult field of psychical knowledge. 2 But it becomes necessary now to deal with... which touch at the height of the life-power the planes of pure mental and psychic existence and melt into them. For in Nature in the infinite scale of being there are no wide gulfs, no abrupt chasms to be overleaped, but a melting of one thing into another, a subtle continuity; out of that her power of distinctive experience creates the orderings, the definite ranges, the distinct gradations by which ...

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... plane. The experiences of the vital plane are very interesting to the sadhak but they are mixed, i.e. not all linked with the higher Truth. A greater, purer and firmer basis for the sadhana has to be established—the psychic basis. For that reason all the old experiences are stopped. The heart has to be made the centre and through bhakti and aspiration you have to bring forward the psychic being and... If it is now going, it is because of the psychic pressure; for under it these things go slowly but surely. The ordinary human emotions, good and bad, are all of them vital movements. It is only the psychic feelings that come from the deeper heart within which are not vital. What he is having now are the true spiritual and psychic experiences—not those of the vital plane which most have... with it any experience you like, whether good or bad, of the ordinary or of the spiritual life,—and that also is why, when this energy comes, you feel power pervading the body-consciousness and its matter. As for the contact with the Mother in the vital and your sense of the fine, the magnificent experience it was,—that too is natural and right; for the vital, no less than the psychic and Page ...

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... ng of spiritual experiences, to correct mistaken or half-true ideas about them and receive more enlightening interpretations, to replace insufficient by more sufficient intuitions, and to merge experiences that seemed at the time to be final and satisfying in more satisfying combinations with new experience and greater largenesses and transcendences. And especially in the psychical and other middle... disabling denial. In the integral Yoga psychical experience, especially of the kind associated with what Page 778 is often called occultism and savours of the miraculous, should be altogether subordinated to spiritual truth and wait upon that for its own interpretation, illumination and sanction. But even in the purely spiritual domain, there are experiences which are partial and, however attractive... an impossibility to the normal intelligence, since it is opposed to the actual facts of life and will for long be contradicted by immediate experience, as happens with all far-off and difficult ends, and it is denied too by many who have spiritual experience but believe that our present nature is the sole possible nature of man in the body and that it is only by throwing off the earthly life or even ...

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... this second pressure. That on the back must be a direct pressure on the psychic region (if it is in or near the middle of the back) mainly to prepare the action in the heart. When the centres begin to open, inner experiences such as the seeing of light or images through the subtle vision in the forehead centre or psychic experiences Page 238 and perceptions in the heart, become frequent—gradually... beyond? Certainly not. I am using a significant language which expresses certain relations between the psychic consciousness and the physical of which we become aware by Yoga. The Centres and the Planes Each centre of the system ( cakra, padma ) represents or centralises a plane of experience and each is supported on the spine Page 233 which is the support of the nervous energies.... being and commands the rest, as the psychic being or chaitya purusha is there. It is only in that sense that all flows from it, for it is the psychic being who each time creates a new mind, vital and body for himself. There is one centre for the heart, although it is a double centre, in front the emotional, behind the psychic. The apex of the psychic and emotional centre (like the apex ...

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... space than his few lines by way of a general comment: "The poem has impressed me by its sublimity, richness of imagery, and lofty spiritual level, allied with great skill in interpreting unusual psychic experiences through appropriate imagery." And what genuine warmth of response is there in the other declaration: "I... greatly appreciated the privilege...of making the acquaintance of Savitri , a truly... there is the statement equally worth marking: "I may add that I was immensely impressed by the extraordinary combination of East and West in the poem, of ancient Indian lore with the thought and experience of the modern cosmopolitan world."   I see too that in this Professor's last letter to you, he refers again to Savitri as "this great poem" and goes on to say: "I am interested in Sri Aurobindo... general manner to the grand finale of Tennyson's Dante-inspired little piece — perhaps the noblest blank verse the Victorian poet penned:   I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rest unburnish'd, not to shine ...

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... than his few lines by way of a general comment: "The poem has impressed me by its sublimity, richness of imagery, and lofty spiritual level, allied with great skill in interpreting unusual psychic experiences through appropriate imagery." And what genuine warmth of response is there in the other declaration: "I...greatly appreciated the privilege...of making the acquaintance of Savitri, a truly... there is the statement equally worth marking: "I may add that I was immensely impressed by the extraordinary combination of East and West in the poem, of ancient Indian lore with the thought and experience of the modern cosmopolitan world." I see too that in this Professor's last letter to you, he refers again to Savitri as "this great poem" and goes on to say: "I am interested in Sri Aurobindo... grand finale of Tennyson's Dante-inspired little piece -perhaps the noblest blank verse the Victorian poet penned: Page 224 I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rest unburnish'd, not ...

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... precise knowledge and deliberate reasoning, according to the method of science, must be followed. This method may not always be applicable in our quest of truth, for art and poetry and certain psychic experiences seem to belong to a different order of things and to elude the objective methods of science. Let us, therefore, not rule out intuition and other methods of sensing truth and reality. They are... always seemed to me a rather absurd and impertinent way of investigating psychic phenomena and the mysteries of the after-life. Usually it is something worse, and is an exploitation of the emotions of some over-credulous people who seek relief or escape from mental trouble. I do not deny the possibility of some of these psychic phenomena having a basis of truth, but the approach appears to me to be... narrow sense of the word) irritates me; it appears to be vague and soft and flabby, not a rigorous discipline of the mind but a surrender of mental faculties and a living in a sea of emotional experience. The experience may lead occasionally to some insight into inner and less obvious processes, but it is also likely to lead to self-delusion. Metaphysics and philosophy, or a metaphysical philosophy, ...

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... This is the first result, but the second is a free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experience, experience of the Self, experience of the Ishwara and the Divine Shakti, experience of cosmic consciousness, a direct touch with cosmic forces and with the occult movements of universal Nature, a psychic sympathy and unity and inner communication and interchanges of all kinds with other beings and... guidance of the soul brings into all experience the tendency of light, of integration, of harmony and intimate rightness which is native to the psychic essence. A psychic or, more widely speaking, a psycho-spiritual transformation of this kind would be already a vast change of our mental human nature. But all this change and all this experience, though psychic and spiritual in essence and character... of consciousness refine to a greater subtlety and purity, and the deeper psychic experiences, those which are not solely of an inner mental or inner vital character, become possible in this subtler, purer, finer substance; the soul begins to unveil itself, the psychic personality reaches its full stature. The soul, the psychic entity, then manifests itself as the central being which upholds mind and ...

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... construct a transcriptive experience of them in the subtle ether of psychical being. Or it may call up the past from the subconscious memory where it is always latent and give it in itself a living form and a kind of renewed memorative existence, and equally it may call up from the depths of latency, where it is already shaped in the being, and similarly form to itself and experience the future. It may by... there is the possibility of mental constructions and mental images interfering with the true truth of things in the presentations of the psychical experience. The coming of the intimations of the subliminal self to the surface and the activity of the psychical consciousness tend to Page 896 turn the mind of ignorance, with which we begin, increasingly though not perfectly into a mind... and workings and effects on the earth and its embodied souls and their destinies, lies open to our psychical being, because it is close to the intimations of the universal, not engrossed only or mainly with the immediate and not shut up into the narrow circle of the purely personal and physical experience. At the same time these powers are subject to this disadvantage that they are not by any means ...

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... Afterwards I saw God, for He came and embraced me. And now which am I to believe, the reasonings of others or my own experience? 14) They told me, "These things are hallucinations." I inquired what was a hallucination and found that it meant a subjective or a psychical experience which corresponds to no objective or no physical reality. Then I sat and wondered at the miracles of the human reason... essential precondition is effected,—desire perishes. 96) Experience in thy soul the truth of the Scripture; afterwards, if thou wilt, reason & state thy experience intellectually & even then distrust thy statement; but distrust never thy experience. 97) When thou affirmest thy soul-experience & deniest the different soul-experience of another, know that God is making a fool of thee. Dost thou... highest experience and always accessible to renewed experience. Not because God spoke it, but because the soul saw it, is the word of the Scriptures our supreme authority. 99) The word of Scripture is infallible; it is in the interpretation the heart and reason put upon the Scripture that error has her portion. 100) Shun all lowness, narrowness & shallowness in religious thought & experience. Be ...

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... ity: Experience of the Witness Self. Experience of the Psychic Being in formation. Experience of the discovery of the Psychic Being—experience of the second birth. Experience of Silence or of nirvana. Experience of the Cosmic Consciousness. Integral experience of the simultaneous Silence and Dynamism. Supramental time-vision. Change and transformation of human... the influence of the inner psychic presence which shows itself very distinctly at times in their spontaneous reactions and even in their words. All spontaneous turning to love, truth, beauty, knowledge, nobility, heroism is a sure sign of the psychic influence. Page 43 To recognize these reactions and to encourage them wisely and with a psychic feeling would be the first... omnipotence of God Value and limitations of the philosophical proofs of the existence of God. Can God be experienced? Affirmation of spiritual experiences. Varieties of spiritual experience. Yoga as a systematic knowledge of spiritual experience. Page 58 Class XII Science and Values Yoga as an exploration of existence by an enlargement of consciousness. ...

... all Page 93 experience the tendency of light, of integration, of harmony and intimate tightness which is native to the psychic essence. 101 Sri Aurobindo * The psychic being emerges slowly in most men, even after taking up sadhana. There is so much in the mind and vital that has to change and readjust itself before the psychic can be entirely free. One has to... physical as well as the mind get full of this psychic light and truth and sound feeling and purity.... 100 — Sri Aurobindo * Some of these [higher and deeper] experiences can come by an opening of the inner mental and vital being, the inner and larger and subtler mind and heart and life within us, without any full emergence of the soul, the psychic entity, since there too there is a power... and not the free soul-emergence, could easily occur. In the absence of any or of a complete psychic emergence, experiences of certain kinds, experiences of greater knowledge and force, a surpassing of the ordinary limits, might lead to a magnified ego and even bring about instead of an out-flowering of what is divine or spiritual an uprush of the titanic or demoniac, or might call in agencies and powers ...

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... What the ego can do however is to get proud of having the experience and think "What a great one am I." Or it may think "I am the Self, the Divine, so let me go and do what I will, for it is the Divine who wills in me." It is only if the experience of Self imposes silence on the other parts and frees the psychic, that the ego disappears. Even then not ego itself, but numerous fragments and survivals of... of my vital was upset yesterday. That is the difficulty which is standing in the way - the power of this part to upset the consciousness.   I wonder why I do not have any psychic experiences at present, even during the periods when my vital is calm . Only calm in the vital is hardly sufficient. There must be something throwing out the ego from the vital.   My vital... impersonal experience how does the ego come in? Self (Atman) is one thing, the ego another." Certainly the ego did not come with the experience. It was only when the experience was over that the foolishness of my mind brought it in as an idea. Why? Because I had heard that X's ego became aggrandised after his experiences of the Self. The ego cannot come into the experience as an experience. What ...

... this power in the soul and the card with its directions the guiding indications given by it to the mind and life. The ship is the psychological structure of ideas, beliefs, spiritual and psychic experiences, the whole building of the inner life in which one moves onward in the voyage towards the goal. Page 175 When the storm comes, a storm of doubts, failures, disappointments... Guru has always been relied upon as an indispensable aid. I don’t understand the objection to the validity of Vivekananda’s experience: it was exactly the realisation which is described in the Upanishads as a supreme experience of the Self. It is not a fact that an experience gained in samadhi cannot be prolonged into the waking state. It is not possible to accept his suggestion about joining... should reason less and rather try to keep himself open as he was in those moments. The Force is not a matter for reasoning or theory but of experience. If I have written about force, it is because both the Mother and myself have had many thousand experiences in which it acted and produced results of every kind. This idea of the Force has nothing to do with theory or reasoning but is felt constantly ...

... confident faith in the Divine Power and Grace and in the divine element within you, psychic and spiritual, that through these the nature will be transformed and the ego replaced by the true person and the animal by the true vital and physical being become fit instruments of the Divine Mother. Yes, these experiences [ of the smallness of the egoistic person ] always come when one is opening into... the rajas of the vital is only quiescent, then its quiescence may bring up the tamas in its place, and that would be the obstacle. Only calm in the vital is hardly sufficient [ to have psychic experiences ]. There must be something throwing out the ego from the vital. Of course, they [ the ego and the vital ] always resist a pressure Page 233 to get rid of them—and if one fixes... ng or abuse. In all these dealings of your uncles and cousins with you there is nothing unusual, nothing, as you think, peculiar to you. Most have this kind of experience, few escape it altogether. Of course, people with a developed psychic element are by nature grateful and do not behave in this way. Page 250 × ...

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... Consciousness 1. Experience of true individuality: (a) Experience of the Witness Self. (b) Experience of the Psychic Being in formation. (c) Experience of the discovery of the Psychic Being — experience of the second birth. 2. Experience of Silence or of nirvana. 3. Experience of the Cosmic Consciousness. 4. Integral experience of the simultaneous Silence and Dynamism.... children are under the influence of the inner psychic presence which shows itself very distinctly at times in their spontaneous reactions and even in their words. All spontaneous turning to love, truth, beauty, knowledge, nobility, heroism is a sure sign of the psychic influence. (b) To recognize these reactions and to encourage them wisely and with a psychic feeling would be the first indispensable... Page 101 4. Value and limitations of the philosophical proofs of the existence of God. 5. Can God be experienced? Affirmation of spiritual experiences. Varieties of spiritual experience. Yoga as a systematic knowledge of spiritual experience. Class XII I. Science and Values 1. Yoga as an exploration of existence by an enlargement of consciousness. 2. Yoga, like science ...

... nearly 24,000 lines. Also exercises in commentary or elucidation would be in vain, unless the critic too has had the same range of mystic experience, or is at least conditioned by his psychic and intellectual training to enter into the spirit of such experience. In this predicament it is hardly surprising that Sri Aurobindo should be his own best annotator and interpreter, as may be seen from his... combination of East and West in the poem, of ancient Indian lore with the thought and experience of the modem cosmopolitan world. 87 Again: The poem has impressed me by its sublimity, richness of imagery, and lofty spiritual level, allied with great skill in interpreting unusual psychic experiences through appropriate imagery. Another of the referees. Professor Vivian de... boughs..."] is an expression of an experience which I often had whether in the mountains or on the plains of Gujarat or looking from my window in Pondicherry... and I am unable to find any feebleness either in the experience or in the words that express it. 67 One reason why parts of Savitri, especially those that try to project spiritual experiences, cause puzzlement to the average reader ...

... ss: 1. Experience of the true individuality: (a) Experience of the Witness Self. (b) Experience of the Psychic Being in formation. (c) Experience of the discovery of the Psychic Being-experience of the second birth. 2. Experience of Silence or of nirvana. 3. Experience of the Cosmic Consciousness. 4. Integral experience of the simultaneous... are under the influence of the inner psychic presence which shows itself very distinctly at times in their spontaneous reactions and even in their words. All spontaneous turning to love, truth, beauty, knowledge, nobility, heroism is a sure sign of the psychic influence. (b) To recognise these reactions and to encourage them wisely and with a psychic feeling would be the first indispensable... 4. Value and limitations of the philosophical proofs of the existence of God. 5. Can God be experienced? Affirmation of spiritual experiences. Varieties of spiritual experience. Yoga as a systematic knowledge of spiritual experience. Class XII I. Science and Values: 1. Yoga as an exploration of existence by an enlargement of consciousness. 2. Yoga, ...

... understand this and keep it in mind, Krishnaprem's experience and the image in which he saw it should be sufficiently clear. The needle is this power in the soul and the card with its directions the guiding indications given by it to the mind and life. The ship is the psychological, structure of ideas, beliefs, spiritual and psychic experiences, the whole building of the inner life in which one... them and from such psychical contact as I had already made from a distance, for the contact itself is not distant. You know very well the value I have always put upon his insight into spiritual things, the brilliance and accuracy of his thought and vision and expression of them (I think I described it once as pashyanti vak) and on as much as I knew of his spiritual experience and constant acquisition... said. "Certainly experiences are not the Goal but experience (in a way, at least) is, for by experience I mean living knowledge manifesting in one's being, and if that is not present, something is wrong or at least something has not started yet. "Of course faith precedes experience on this level but it does so only because it is itself the Light from experience already present higher ...

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... then they may serve very usefully the object of this yoga. As I say, they must all admit a higher working in them. A Disciple related the yogic experience of a student. Sri Aurobindo : - It is no use hurrying about psychic experiences and realisations. One must prepare the physical mind, the intelligence by common knowledge as well as knowledge pertaining to yoga. One must understand... the man, – not an unsteady inner condition.  A strong mental being is also very necessary. Otherwise, when the experiences come the man turns upside down. In India, our mental development – I mean the outer man's development – is not at all proportionate. There is the psychic being ready in many Page 74 cases, there is the aspiration for spiritual life and faith also. But... difficult in the lower nature. Therefore we insist so much on sincerity in this yoga. It is the psychic being which has no such pretensions because it knows and can surrender to the Divine. It is therefore that in our yoga the awakening of the psychic being is so important. That alone gives one the psychic tact which steers clear of all difficulties. Disciple :  : Can one allow the Higher Power ...

... Purushas are the instrumental, while the psychic is the central, self- projection of the Jivâtmâ. When the psychic is awake and evolved in our being, it widens its individuality and rises into union with the Jivâtmâ. This union gives the psychic the experience of its own universality and its oneness with all in the cosmic Divine; and through this experience of the universal it can pass on into the... to the Divine. This initial glimpse or experience is the sign of the awakening of the psychic, and what one has to do is to sustain and fortify it by an increasing aspiration for the Divine and a surrender to His Supreme Force, the Mother. But a mere awakening of the psychic being is not all that we understand by the term opening. The opening of the psychic being means its coming to the front and... or remain only as a vapid memory in the remote background of one's consciousness; but an experience is a guest that never departs—it has come to stay and and conquer and possess. "A vision is a vision," says the Mother, "but an experience is a gift." THE PSYCHIC ATTITUDE IN ACTION The true psychic attitude is one of blissful love and unstinted self-giving. It is polarised to the Divine ...

... 13 which has been constant recently but seemed unjustified by anything definite in the current experience has been fully vindicated. It was being prepared dosha not ushasi. Now it is manifest, formed, ushasi . Page 434 Relation with Myạ at last defined in the spiritual & psychical experience. Myạ (Vayu) liberated from his Kali formation. The result has been the manifestation of Vayu in... play on the basis of unfaith. Nor does the Jiva at present wish to renounce the unfaith, owing to the persistent experience of self-delusion in the past & the determination not to be a willing party to self-delusion in the future. To everything therefore that is not yet proved by experience, there is only a provisional faith given if any, ie a mixture of faith & scepticism, an "It may be" or at most... system & even extraneous touches had ceased to come. It returned, although [ ] 1 not expected today even after the lipi, but has been unable to do more than momentarily stain the surface of the psychic prâna, even the after effect being rapidly effaced. 6) " Subjective suffering is entirely due to the (phantasy) fancy in the intellect together with desire ." Sentence formed with difficulty ...

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... Mother has said and written many times in the lights of Her later experiences that many things have changed, the conditions of the earth consciousness have been constantly under the direct action of the Supramental Force, and that new avenues of approach to the Supermind have been opened up. We have, therefore, to open all ourself— psychically, mentally, vitally and physically—to Her redeeming and transforming... a sort of crutch or prop for him to grow and develop in order to qualify for the spiritual life. Svabhava is one's essential nature & svadharma is the law of that nature. Later, when the psychic being experiences its universality and transcendence and becomes a divine child of the Divine Mother, it transcends the law of its individual nature, and lives and moves and acts, a free being, at once individual... comes with an overwhelming power and light. But this too, we must not make too much of. It would be, indeed a terminal experience, if our aim were Mukti or Nirvana. But the psychic being has a double strand in it-one of the Purusa and other of the Mother, the Para-Prakriti. If we emphasize the Purusa aspect, we inevitably end in Mukti or Nirvana, the eternal, immobile Silence. But we have also to emphasize ...

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... a Master—what is this force? These are problems which cannot be solved solely with the mind. When your psychic being opens, you will see and understand. This can happen. But there are many things. All those who have a strong urge towards the higher life, have a similar experience. The mind travesties and clothes the force in a form which pleases it or to which it is accustomed : Christ for... impulsion which never lets one stop till the truth is reached, the whole truth, and one pushes ahead. You easily gave up your ideas when you came to me; but if they had been mixed with personal psychic experiences, this would have been much more difficult. If there is a little pride in us—quite unconscious, even hidden under humility—it makes us exaggerate to ourselves our personal im­portance and... milieu. I wonder whether this is not the experience the Chris­tian mystics describe as the glassy sea and the Japanese as the Crystal Palace? THERE are two principal forms under which one becomes aware of it: one is analogous to the sensation of a transparent stirless sea and the other of an ethereal expanse. Last time you spoke to me about psychic knowledge and its character of truth. Does ...

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