... of response anywhere to what these Powers represent. Cosmic, Inner and Psychic Vision Cosmic vision is the seeing of the universal movements—it has nothing to do with the psychic necessarily. It can be in the universal mind, the universal vital, the universal physical or anywhere. What do you mean here by psychic vision? Inner vision means the vision with the inner seeing as opposed to outer... language of this Yoga is confined to the soul, the psychic being—it is not as in the ordinary language in which if you see a ghost it is called a psychic "vision": we speak of the inner vision or the subtle sight or the occult sight—not the psychic vision. The "sight" spoken of [ in passages of the Upanishads ] is not a sense vision but an experience in the inner consciousness which is more true... true and living and dynamic than the experiences given to the external consciousness by the material senses. There is also a psychic vision by which one can see the forms of the Gods or one of the many forms in which the Ishwara reveals himself to the Bhakta. There is too an inner or subtle sense and sight by which one can see and experience forms and happenings which are not present to the physical ...
... admit that there may be here another and perhaps greater beauty than that in the circle of which we are accustomed to live and take pleasure. It seems to be especially the application of this psychic vision to the human form which offends these critics of Indian sculpture. There is the familiar objection to such features as the multiplication of the arms in the figures of gods and goddesses, the four... imaginations. Each manner of art has its own ideals, traditions, agreed conventions; for the ideas and forms of the creative spirit are many, though there is one ultimate basis. The perspective, the psychic vision of the Chinese and Japanese painters are not the same as those of European artists; but who can ignore the beauty and the wonder of their work? I dare say Mr. Archer would set Page 296 ...
... words. But if words are used altogether intellectually and, so to say, arbitrarily, before using them one should say, "When I say this..." and give a long explanation, a definition. What does "psychic vision" mean? Vision? You know what physical vision is, don't you?— physical , do you know it? Well, the same thing happens in the psychic. That is to say, instead of seeing with physical organs,... the psychic domains or the psychic being. A mental sight sees what goes on in the mind: it sees. It is a seeing like a physical sight, truly physical. With your physical eyes you cannot have a psychic vision; only your psychic being can have psychic sight. You may have a sufficiently close relation with your psychic being to remember what it has seen, to be conscious of what it saw, but it is not your ...
... from a very special angle. There are people who can see at a distance what is going on in another country or in a place that is far away from them. Are these things seen by the psychic vision? No, the psychic vision doesn't usually deal with material things. Isn't it mental vision? Page 285 It could be, but then what you receive is the thoughts of the people in the place you ...
... principle. 2 The Indian artist sets out from the other end of the scale of values of experience which connect life and the spirit. The whole creative force comes here from a spiritual and psychic vision, the emphasis of the physical is secondary and always deliberately lightened so as to give an overwhelmingly spiritual and psychic impression and everything is suppressed which does not serve this ...
... ( Concerning translation ) Bonté = Kindness and goodwill; Bienveillance is to see the good side of everything. It is not mere optimism which closes its eyes from bad. It is rather a psychic vision which sees the Good everywhere. Page 217 There are many words which cannot be translated. Sri Aurobindo's humour and irony cannot be translated into French. English humour when translated ...
... when it is circling and sweeping upwards through the maze of the Ignorance to a supernal Light. Open rather your soul to her and be content to feel her with the psychic nature and see her with the psychic vision that alone make a straight response to the Truth. Then the Mother herself will enlighten by their psychic elements your mind and heart and life and physical consciousness and reveal to them too ...
... the same time the spiritual vision can take on mental forms of itself that can help towards this identification each in its own way. A mental intuitive vision or a spiritualised mental sight, a psychic vision, an emotional vision of the heart, a vision in the sense mind are parts of the Yogic experience. If these seeings are purely mental, then they may but need not be true, for the mind is capable ...
... Disciple : I have a question. The poet describes the form of Sri Krishna. Now, is it the description of his psychic body or his physical body – because we see that form of his in our own psychic vision even to-day. T Sri Aurobindo : What on earth does it matter whether he Page 146 lived on the physical plane or not ? If the thing is true pn the psychic and spiritual ...
... Sri Aurobindo : Whatever the physiological explanation may be, it is certain that when the eyes are pressed or even without being pressed, if the mind is concentrated the centre of the psychic vision you see a light, a round Page 254 globe of light which goes on increasing. That is not due to anything physical. It is the light from one of the inner centres, especially the ...
... This happens constantly, this unity, and this sort of ramification everywhere, everywhere. It is true, it happens incessantly; for those who have the vision, it is this that they see. It is the psychic vision. December 10, 1967 The Work is the Same Mother, Did You have any communications with Sri Aurobindo before You came to know Him? For I have read some books where it is said that ...
... and the higher vital. Vishuddha is at the throat-centre, the centre of speech. Ajna chakra is located between the eyebrows. This is the seat of the will-power, the seat of the will and psychic vision.- Sahasrara is at the crown of the head, the centre of the Over mind. Besides these chakras the Mother and Sri Aurobindo have spoken of two other chakras, one at the knee and the other ...
... shadows! May you lead me, stripped of fear and pride, towards the abode where the pure ones go, where all is love and beauty! 2 Page 369 And Maurice Magre's words "shot with a psychic vision" 3 wrung from the depths were by no means untypical of the response of sensitive visitors to Sri Aurobindo Ashram during the nineteen-thirties. The sadhaks were drawn from all over India ...
... half-lit obscurity cannot follow the many-sided freedom of the steps of the Divine Shakti.......Open rather your soul to her and be content to feel her with the psychic nature and see her with the psychic vision that alone can make a straight response to the Truth." "Then the Mother herself will enlighten by their psychic elements your mind and heart and life and physical consciousness and reveal ...
... to appreciate a work of art to an inappropriate approach on his own part than to a deficiency in the picture itself in its own level of execution. And so he says elsewhere: "The perspective, the psychic vision of the Chinese and Japanese painters are not the same as those of European artists; but who can ignore the beauty and the wonder of their work?" 35 All discussions on Indian painting ...
... concrete powers of the psychic consciousness in its most highly developed and transformed order and degree of status and action. The ever-enduring forms of the truth-seeds are seen by the psychic vision, not of a dark and lower, but of a higher and more illumined nature; they are established by the pure and lucent powers of the higher psychic consciousness, and they are set in motion by ...
... the same time, the spiritual vision can take on mental forms of itself that can help towards this identification each in its own way. A mental intuitive vision or a spiritualised mental sight, a psychic vision, an emotional vision of the heart, a vision in the sense-mind are parts of the yogic experience. If these things are purely mental, then they may but need not be true, for the mind is capable of ...
... reason may shut the doors to the inner light and prevent the full tide of bhakti from flooding everything; it may also cling to a surface mental activity and refuse to go inside and allow the psychic vision and the feelings of the inner heart to become its guides, though it is by this vision and this feeling that bhakti grows and conquers. So too the passions and desires of the vital being and ...
... difficulty. The psychic being is behind the heart-centre—the centre between the eyes is that of inner (occult) thought, will and vision. This inner or occult vision is called by ordinary people psychic vision. It [ the centre between the eyebrows ] is the centre of the inner mind—therefore also of the inner mental will and inner mental vision. Page 237 The centre of vision is ...
... Sometimes the rajasic and tamasic ahankar mix together and subtly support each other. In both cases it is the "I" that is making a row about itself and clouding the true vision. The true spiritual or psychic vision is this, "Whatever I may be, my soul is a child of the Divine and must reach the Divine sooner or later. I am imperfect but seek after the perfection of the Divine in me and that not I but the ...
... ignorant reason may shut the doors to the inner light and prevent the full tide of bhakti from flooding everything; it may also cling to a surface mental activity and refuse to go inside and allow the psychic vision and the feelings of the inner heart to become its guides, though it is by this vision and this feeling that bhakti grows and conquers. So too the passions and desires of the vital being and its ...
... and the higher vital. Vishuddha is at the throat-centre, the centre of speech. Ajna chakra is located between the eyebrows. This is the seat of the will-power, the seat of the will and psychic vision. Sahasrara is at the crown of the head, the centre of the Overmind. Besides these chakras the Mother and Sri Aurobindo have spoken of two other chakras, one at the knee and the other ...
... eyes are closed. Disciple : I saw Prof. B. from behind my body when he was going away. This power, I then felt, could be developed. Is this psychic sight? Sri Aurobindo : The psychic vision is between the eye-brows, in front, above the head. In fact not only are all the senses everywhere in the body, but they are even outside the body. You can feel the touch of two different persons ...
... the development of the inner perception in all parts of the nature. The sâdhaka should try to identify himself with his psychic being or soul, and "feel with the psychic nature and see with the psychic vision" the working of the Mother's Force in the submerged reaches of his being. In proportion as the purification of these reaches progresses, he will experience an increasing freedom from the compulsion ...
... physical atmosphere or only in a psychical ether revealing itself through this grosser physical atmosphere; seen through the physical eyes themselves as a secondary instrument and as if under the conditions of the physical vision or by the psychical vision alone and independently of the relations of our ordinary sight to space. The real agent is always the psychical sight and the power indicates... creations not of the physical world, but of vital, psychic or mental worlds beyond us, seen in our own minds or projected from other than human beings. And as there is this psychical vision of which some of the more external and ordinary manifestations are well enough known by the name of clairvoyance, so there is a psychical hearing and psychical touch, taste, smell, — clairaudience, clairsentience... which prevents the inner vision is broken. But all the physical senses have their corresponding 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 charac ...
... physical atmosphere or only in a psychical ether revealing itself through this grosser physical atmosphere; seen through the physical eyes themselves as a secondary instrument and as if under the conditions of the physical vision or by the psychical vision alone and independently of the relations of our ordinary sight to space. The real agent is always the psychical sight and the power indicates that... not of the physical world, but of vital, psychic or mental worlds beyond us, seen in our own minds or projected from other than human beings. And as there is this psychical vision of which some of the more external and Page 876 ordinary manifestations are well enough known by the name of clairvoyance, so there is a psychical hearing and psychical touch, taste, smell—clairaudience, clairsentience... prevents the inner vision is broken. But all the physical senses have their corresponding 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 Page 875 the inner sense into a limited and externalised operation in and through and upon the phenomena of gross matter. The psychical sight receives ...
... at the same time a strong psychical intuition fine, subtle and pure or a high development of the luminous intuitive intelligence. A completer opening of the psychical consciousness leads us far beyond this faculty of vision by images and admits us not indeed to a new time consciousness, but to many ways of the triple time knowledge. The subliminal or psychic 3 self can bring back or... kind of psychical thought vision or soul intuition — not the same thing as the subtler and less concrete thought vision of the luminous intuitive intelligence — foresee or foreknow the future or flash this soul intuition into the past that has gone behind the veil and recover it for present knowledge. It can develop a symbolic seeing which conveys the past and the future through a vision of the... eternal time consciousness behind our mentality or thrown up by the eternity of supermind into an indivisible continuity of time vision. Or it may receive the impress of these things and 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 ...
... can see in the matter. Writings, c. 1920 - XII All right— That is a little outside my power of vision. Psychically the conditions seem to me favourable, I don't know about the material elements.. Cousins Yes. He is a soul of the middle regions, of what might be called the psychic and aesthetic world, associated with a very material being into which the soul has got rather thickly... who have these things. It is therefore either you if you are chosen and remain faithful to yourselves or those like you to whom we must look for the preparation of the future. Because of the psychical vision. I can see something of your souls or at least its signs, even if I cannot see your bodies. No, impossible, not in the period of transition. That is because you have been less spiritually... atmosphere that is not favourable Page 1428 to a definite description.. All I can say is that there is a great Light Devata there, but the other elements are not clear to my vision. It is easy to define the psychic personality of people like Mrs Besant .. and Gandhi, but all your cases are different because of unusual or of complex elements of a considerable significance to which a short definition ...
... handled by the surface intelligence, they are liable to be converted into a thick jungle of error. The true and direct knowledge or vision of past, present and future begins with the opening of the psychical consciousness and the psychical faculties. The psychical consciousness is that of what is now often called the subliminal self, the subtle or dream self of Indian psychology, and its range of... there is at the same time a strong psychical intuition fine, subtle and pure or a high development of the luminous intuitive intelligence. A completer opening of the psychical consciousness leads us far beyond this faculty of vision by images and admits us not indeed to a new time consciousness, but to many ways of the triple time knowledge. The subliminal or psychic self can bring back or project itself... by a kind of psychical thought vision or soul intuition—not the same thing as the subtler and less concrete thought vision of the luminous intuitive intelligence—foresee or foreknow the future or flash this soul intuition into the past that has gone behind the veil and recover it for present knowledge. It can develop a symbolic seeing which conveys the past and the future through a vision of the powers ...
... psychological values. Instead of one firmament they saw two, the earthly and the celestial; instead of two oceans, three spread out before their unsealed vision. What they saw, was what man will ever see when he changes the physical for the psychical vision of Nature and the world. Below them they looked down on an unfathomable night and surging obscurity, darkness hidden within darkness, the inconscient... that divine vision. He is described as the pure and visioned force of the Truth which shines out in his rising like the gold of Heaven. He is the great Page 479 godhead who is the vision of Mitra and Varuna; he is the large and invincible eye of that Wideness and that Harmony; the eye of Mitra and Varuna is the great ocean of vision of Surya. His is that large truth-vision which makes us... liberated vision "He am I." The higher light of Surya is that by which vision rises on our darkness and moves towards the superconscient, the highest that other greater Truth-vision which, having attained, moves in the farthest supreme world of the Infinite. This brilliant Surya is made by the godward will of man; he is perfectly fashioned by the doers of divine works. For this light is the vision of the ...
... ... unexpected, in the sense that all the human mental vision — completely gone! So things are much better! (Question:) But is it a vision of “another world”? This new vision of things ... it's not going out of Matter in order to see the world in another way (that has been done for a long time, of course, by all the seers and psychics, it's nothing new, and it's nothing marvellous), that's... to be ... (how can I explain?) what separates this true physical from the ordinary physical. Sceptical, I often asked Mother from one year to the next, if it was not a “psychic's vision.” Of course not. It is “the same vision, physical sight, purely physical, but a physical which appears ... more complete.” And to cap it all, Mother was supposedly blind — therefore with what physical eyes could... the “other state.” Before the small tarsier of Borneo acquired its binocular vision that prepared our own, there must have been, within many species, a number of strange or aberrant “visions” that were nonetheless the “logic” and “mathematics” and evidence of that fish or this bat. And what is our human retinal vision anyway? — A narrow band between ultraviolet and near infrared, seen in a binocular ...
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