... vital energy of Prakriti and Page 115 mental energy of Prakriti; corresponding to these three levels of Prakriti, there are three poises of the Purusha consciousness of the individual. The nature of the Purusha consciousness is that of the originator, witness, support and Lord, enjoyer of the forms and works of Prakriti, but at different levels of the working of Prakriti, Purusha has... varieties of spiritual experiences which take place in the individual when he rises from Ignorance and enters into the realms of Knowledge. Our normal experience of Purusha is that of the Purusha-consciousness in the individual soul. According to the Gita, each of us is the individual, and its origin is in the Purushottama and Para Prakriti. At that point of origin, the individual soul or jivātman... jivātman is that of the individual Purusha fully aware of his being an eternal portion of the Purushottama but manifested through the supramental power of manifestation of the Purushottama. The Purusha Consciousness, in the individual, experiences in his intimate play with Para Prakriti constant unity, even while there is varying play of diversity. In our lower experience of human consciousness, the individual ...
... neither mind, vital nor physical, but something else. What was that experience? What experience? The separation from mind, physical and vital? That is the separate Purusha consciousness. The Purusha separated from the instruments can control them — when there is an identification, he cannot. Now I am attempting to save myself from the identification with mind, vital... nature. Or else it quiets them all down so as to receive only from above. How shall I make the Purusha consciouness concentrated and receptive? When you are in the Purusha consciousness, that itself implies a state of concentration and receptivity. At present how far is my Purusha in direct touch with the Divine? At present it is the Purusha in... you die, the Purusha will go to glory and the Prakriti drop off — perhaps into Hell. This theory is a source of any amount of self-deception and wilful self-indulgence. The Purusha consciousness is becoming separate from the Prakriti. If Prakriti does not obey, has not the Purusha to become severe and harsh to her? No. The Purusha always remains calm and always goes on putting ...
... Purusha firmly. When one is firmly established in the Purusha consciousness then one has also got a basis for purity because the Purusha is "ever-pure", Nitya Suddha; he does not require purity, he is inherently pure. Afterwards the purity that remains to be established is that of Prakriti. Once one is established in the Purusha consciousness the Prakriti – nature – automatically begins to get purified... You also feel that it is wide, that it is the Lord. It can stop any movement of nature though its will may not be all at once effective; after a time it must prevail. In order to find this Purusha consciousness you have to reject everything in the lower nature, i.e., desires, feelings and mental ideas. Sadhaka : Should not we have the desire to practise the yoga ? Sri Aurobindo : No.... permanent and you should feel yourself separate from all the thoughts, ideas and suggestions that may pass through your mind. That is to say, you should have the constant experience of the Purusha Consciousness. This basis of peace must be there whether you are meditating or not. 2 . You should have an aspiration to separate your vital being and have its experience as a separate entity, so that ...
... which also contributes to general or universal evolution; it is that which assumes in its Purusha consciousness the various formations that evolve from the inconscient nature in its evolutionary process; it is the individual being who in the human consciousness is found to have assumed in its Purusha consciousness various beings corresponding to the physical, the vital, the mental and the psychic; it... human consciousness, the individual soul has risen up to mental level; and since this consciousness is embodied in physical, vital and mental complex, it (the soul) is identified through its Purusha consciousness with the body, with the vital consciousness and power, and the mental consciousness and power as also with the fluctuating egoistic consciousness by process of various degrees of exclusive ...
... cosmic consciousness which is many-sided. The Purusha is one thing and the ordinary mental will and force are another. The latter may be unsuccessful in their action. When you are in the Purusha consciousness, that of itself implies a state of concentration and receptivity. By development of the inner will it [ the Purusha ] can become active. The Purusha in men is normally passive... is not Page 41 a Shakti of Avidya, but the Divine Consciousness, Power, Light, Para Prakriti to whom we turn for the release and the divine fulfilment. The realisation of the Purusha Consciousness calm, free, observing the play of forces but not attached or involved in them is a means of liberation. The calm, the detachment, a peaceful strength and joy ( ātmarati ) must be brought down ...
... vital consciousness. It is the emergence of the Purusha consciousness, the individual being in its heart of hearts, in its pure status: for it is that that truly evolves, progresses from level to level, deploying and marshalling according to its stress and scheme the play of its outward nature. Now the Purusha Page 376 consciousness, as separate from the outward nature, has certain ...
... Apart from the utilization of the central principle of concentration which is common to all, the synthesis consists of the flexible utilization of the methods of the awakening of the Soul and Purusha-consciousness as in the Vedanta and the methods of purification and perfection of the body, life and mind, which are the products of the working of the Shakti or Prakriti as in Tantra. In the Vedantic... includes the aims of the Tantra, lays its initial stress upon the method of Vedanta, where the raising of human consciousness towards its heights is sought to be effected by the operation of the Purusha consciousness or Brahman consciousness; and with the progression of the yoga, the principle of progressive surrender to the Shakti which is so central in the Tantra, also becomes central, — but with full ...
... its silence, the separation of Purusha from Prakriti. Yes, but it seems also to be the beginning of liberation from identification with the body consciousness. That easily comes with the Purusha-consciousness in the inner being. Is this inner being or the Purusha the same as the psychic being? No, not necessarily—the inner being is composed of the inner mental, the inner vital, the inner... inner mental Purusha who remains silent, observing the Prakriti as separate from himself. But it may also be the inner vital Purusha or inner physical or else without location simply the whole Purusha-consciousness separate from the whole Prakriti. Sometimes it is felt above the head—but then it is usually spoken of as the Atman and the realisation is that of the silent Self. I am fortunate to have ...
... subjective personality itself is only a formation of consciousness which is a power inherent, not in the activity of the temporary manifested personality, but in the being, the Self or Purusha. Consciousness is a reality inherent in existence. It is there even when it is not active on the surface, but silent and immobile; it is there even when it is invisible on the surface, not reacting on ...
... then, even if it goes on for a time by its past momentum, it usually loses its hold after a time, becomes more feeble, less persistent, less concrete and in the end fades away. If you take the Purusha consciousness, it should be not only as the Witness but as the Anumanta, refusing sanction to the disturbing movements, sanctioning only peace, calm, purity and whatever else is part of the divine nature ...
... difficult a thing in this confusion. You have to get back to the point at which you deviated. If you can get back to the Peace that was coming and with it aspire to the freedom and wideness of the Purusha consciousness forming a point d'appui of detachment and separation from all this confusion of the subconscient Prakriti, then you will have a firm ground to stand upon and proceed. But for that you must ...
... is not so easy to do mental work and do sadhana at the same time, for it is with the mind that the sadhana is done. If one gets back from the mind as well as the body and lives in the inner Purusha consciousness, then it is possible. Detach yourself from it [ the habitual movement of the mind ]—make your mind external to you, something that you can observe as you observe things occurring in the ...
... is in herself is not a Shakti of Avidya, but the Divine Consciousness, Power, Light, Para Prakriti to whom we turn for the release and the divine fulfilment. The realisation of the Purusha consciousness calm, free, observing the play of forces but not attached or involved in them is a means of liberation. The calm, the detachment, a peaceful strength and joy ( ā tmarati) must be brought down ...
... separate consciousness calm and silent within, separate from the mental, vital or physical activity. You have spoken of "a separate consciousness calm and silent." Is not that the Purusha consciousness? Page 126 It may be. But it is part of Nature in you that becomes calm and silent. What is "Silence"? Silence means freedom from thoughts ...
... Does the Mother's Light always remain in the inner being even when due to engrossment in the external activities we do not feel it? It is always there in the inner Purusha consciousness — but identification with the mental, vital and Page 172 physical movements prevents it from being effective. During the Terrace Darshan, the Mother ...
... with its formula of "not this", "not that", neti, neti, its method is to fix the consciousness in the head, at the centre of knowledge, and from there to move to the higher levels with the Purusha-consciousness as the mainstay. Tantra has clung to Mother-Nature, that is, it has not sought to reject and deny the existence of the vital and physical movements. Its aim has been to establish on a sound ...
... There is yet another state, the consciousness of the Purusha, the witness consciousness which stands behind the dynamic being, and another way to live within is to withdraw into the Purusha consciousness, to live there, to identify oneself with it. This helps one to remain unaffected by the activities of the outer life and consciousness, which are then felt and experienced merely as movements ...
... place. The subjective personality itself is only a formation of consciousness which is a power inherent, not in the activity of the temporary manifested personality, but in being, the Purusha. " ² " Consciousness is a reality inherent in existence. It is there even when it is not active on the surface, but silent and immobile; it is there even when it is invisible on the surface, not reacting on ...
... succeed in establishing a witness-consciousness: "...the thousandfold enigma has been solved "In the single light of an all-witnessing Soul." It is with this attainment of the Purusha-consciousness as the witness that the liberation of the human consciousness can begin. It looks as if the Puruṣa has entered into an understanding with Prakṛti, Nature, from the very beginning ...
... The subjective personality itself is only a formation of consciousness which is a power inherent, not in the activity of the temporary manifested personality, but in the being, the Self or Purusha. Consciousness is a reality inherent in existence. It is there even when it is not active on the surface, but silent and immobile; it is there even when it is invisible on the surface, not reacting on outward ...
... inner mental Purusha who remains silent observing the Prakriti as separate from himself. But it may also be the inner vital Purusha or inner physical or else without location simply the whole Purusha consciousness separate from the whole Prakriti. Sometimes it is felt above the head—but then it is usually spoken of as the Atman and the realisation is that of the silent Self. It is not possible ...
... sense disappears when there is the stable realisation of the one universal Self in all and that remains at all moments in all conditions under any circumstances. Usually this comes first in the Purusha consciousness and the extension to the Prakriti movements is not immediate. But even if there are "I" movements in the Prakriti reactions, the Purusha within observes them as the continued running of an old ...
... In the past I committed one grand mistake—a total subordination of the consciousness of the Purusha to that of the Prakriti alone. There was not that strong drive of the Will to make the Purusha consciousness dynamic and living. In order to get the dynamic realisation it is not enough to rescue the Purusha from subjection to Prakriti; we must transfer the allegiance of the Purusha from the lower ...
... which we call Matter and the phenomena of consciousness are of that character. There is nothing else to it, nothing but the mobile and executive Energy, Nature, Prakriti; there is no soul, no Purusha. Consciousness would still be a general name for a brain-record and notation of these events of material Energy and this will still be the true character of thought, perception, will, speech, act. All these ...
... opened my psychic being, and since that time has remained permanently in my heart center. I stated that I felt Sri Aurobindo as a vast Presence looking down on me from very high above as the Purusha consciousness. Amal said “Yes, Sri Aurobindo is too large to live within our hearts; we live within him!” Amal told me that the Mother said if someone came to her even once she did two things: she linked ...
... radical transformation of the material world to warrant the full manifestation of the Divine in matter and that requires a higher spiritual effort and performance than the mere separation of the Purusha consciousness or Soul from Prakriti or executive nature to which the soul is subject from its very birth in a mortal body. The separation of the soul from nature may give us a certaito mastery over the ...
... then, even if it goes on for a time by its past momentum, it usually loses its hold after a time, becomes more feeble, less persistent, less concrete and in the end fades away. If you take the Purusha consciousness, it should be not only as the Witness but as the Anumanta," 112 refusing sanction to the disturbing movements, sanctioning only peace, calm, purity and whatever else is pat of the divine ...
... mental Purusha who remains silent, observing the Prakriti as separate from himself. But it may also be the inner vital Purusha or inner physical or else without location simply the whole Purusha consciousness separate from the whole Prakriti. Sometimes it is felt above the head, but then it is usually spoken of as the Atman and the realisation is that of the silent Self. 28 The true ...
... time by its past momentum, it usually loses its hold after a rime, becomes more Page 73 feeble, less persistent, less concrete and in the end fades away. If you take the Purusha consciousness, it should be not only as the Witness but as the Anumanta, refusing sanction to the disturbing movements, sanctioning only peace, calm, purity and whatever else is part of the divine nature ...
... hed, 274-75 defined, 274-75 cf. Culture Clairvoyance, 79, 82, 244, 248 cf. Psychical phenomena Conscience, 89, 91 Conscious Being, 105, 345-46 See also Purusha Consciousness, 3-11, 162-65, 180 and brain, 3, 332-33, 334 cosmic, see Cosmic consciousness a creative energy, 8 environmental, see Environmental Consciousness evolution of, 338-39, 391, 393 ...
... result, in Sri Aurobindo's synthesis of yoga, raising of the powers of the human Page 81 consciousness towards their heights is sought to be effected by the operation of the Purusha consciousness or Brahman consciousness; and as the yogic processes progress farther, the principle of surrender to the Shakti or Divine Mother which is so central in the Tantra also becomes central; there ...
... thinking, feeling, or acting ever intrudes. There is simply a consciousness and Shanti—no contact with the entire nature. That is the pure static Atman consciousness or separate Purusha consciousness. Purusha separated from Prakriti is like that, Atman separated from Maya (I don't mean Illusion) or Shakti is like that. This is the static side of being, the other the dynamic must manifest ...
... is not so easy to do mental work and do sadhana at the same time, for it is with the mind that the sadhana is done. If one gets back from the mind as well as the body and lives in the inner Purusha consciousness, then it is possible. Here the question is of separating myself even from the mind; — a difficult problem no doubt. But is it not to be done one day? Yes, but ...
... subconscient or from outside? From outside — at least as far as the ambitious imaginations are concerned — probably the sexual thoughts also. When I am in the Purusha consciousness there are no sex sensations, but the thoughts do trespass. Where do you then locate the defect in me? It must be either the vital or physical mind that brings them in. ...
... at first, I thought it was becoming more active, whilst really I was simply conscious of its action. The main thing is precisely to deepen and increase this consciousness—witness or Purusha consciousness. The silence of the mind is certainly a precious faculty ; but it will come in its time. The widening of this consciousness will bring the influx of a deeper consciousness. Besides, isn't this ...
... moment this thought is your instrument. Remain the spectator of your thoughts and sensations, recognising that they are outside you and do not affect you. Then the higher consciousness (Purusha consciousness) will descend and take possession of your mind. But never struggle, for, in the mind, what you reject violently returns with a greater force. To struggle is to enter into all sorts of ...
... in order. Still, Sri Aurobindo remained Sri Aurobindo to us; there was no loss of reverence. Some of us had hotly discussed topics even to the point of losing our temper before his Witness-Purusha consciousness. That would be very unusual before the Mother. To put a homely simile, they were like a father and mother, both loving but one indulgent, liberal, large, the other a firm though not inconsiderate ...
... higher consciousness or for any other yogic or high purpose. transformation — not just a change of consciousness, but the bringing down of the higher, divine consciousness and nature into the lower nature of mind, life and body, and the replacement of the lower by the higher. true being — see Purusha. true mental — see Purusha. true physical — see Purusha. ... physical mind — see under mind. Prakriti — Nature; Nature-Force. "Existence is composed of Prakriti and Purusha, the consciousness that sees and the consciousness that executes and formalises what we see. The one we call Soul, the other Nature." (Sri Aurobindo) see also Purusha. psyche — the soul; spark of the Divine before it has evolved into an individualised being; the divine essence... true vital — see Purusha. Truth-Consciousness — see Supermind. the vital (being) — the life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action and of all the play of possessive and other related instincts, such as anger, fear, greed, lust, etc. The vital has three main parts: higher vital: the mental vital and emotional vital taken together. ...
... Page 43 in the bliss of conscious self-existence, there is rest; when the Purusha pours itself out in the action of its Energy, there is action, creation and the enjoyment or Ananda of becoming. But if Ananda is the creator and begetter of all becoming, its method is Tapas or force of the Purusha's consciousness dwelling upon its own infinite potentiality in existence and producing from it truths... after the silent inactive Purusha as the means of liberation from the deceptions created by the active Energy. But in the integral conception the Conscious Soul is the Lord, the Nature-Soul is his executive Energy. Purusha is of the nature of Sat, the being of conscious self-existence pure and infinite; Shakti or Prakriti is of the nature of Chit,—it is power of the Purusha's self-conscious existence... discernment by the intellect, but may be, instead, the knowledge of the heart expressed in love and faith or a knowledge in the will working out through action. In all of them the lord of the Yoga is the Purusha, the Conscious Soul that knows, observes, attracts, governs. But in Tantra it is rather Prakriti, the Nature-Soul, the Energy, the Will-in-Power executive in the universe. It was by learning and applying ...
... which the yogi has internalized his consciousness and has no awareness of the waking state. The term is also used for realized yogis when they leave their bodies on purpose. The body is then said to be in a state of samadhi. It also refers to the location where the holy body is interred. 44William Wordsworth, "Daffodils", 1804. 45 Purusha is consciousness and Prakriti is Shakti. Power... Power, Force. Both are always bound together, inseparably but in different proportions. Shakti is often described as the left flank of the Purusha. Nirod-da is referring to his left hand as his Shakti, in a light-hearted way. Page 24 pain has become much less. So these are concrete examples of the Lord's tangible help. They come only on one condition: sincerity. I am not boasting... but we weren't perhaps so conscious about it - at least I was not - and the consciousness seems to have descended, since January! As I was looking through my small collection of books, I came across, very unexpectedly, this green-covered notebook; it had no business to be 40 Intense concentration of consciousness, often incorrectly translated in English as "penance". Page 22 ...
... parārdha — See aparārdha . Prakriti —Nature; Nature-Force. "Existence is composed of Prakriti and Purusha, the consciousness that sees and the consciousness that executes and formalises what we see. The one we call Soul, the other Nature." (Sri Aurobindo); see also* Purusha. prāṇamaya puruṣa —soul in life; the (true) vital being. the physical (being) —not the body alone, but... over it, and the psychic being, which stands behind mind, life and body in the manifestation, supporting them and using them as its instruments. Chaitya Purusha ( caitya puruṣa )—psychic Person; the psychic being. Chit —consciousness. desire-soul —the surface soul which expresses itself in our cravings, impulses, feelings, emotions, ambitions, etc.; it is distinguished from the true soul... individualised soul-personality developed by the psychic essence in the course of evolution. See also the psychic, soul , and soul-personality . Purusha —Conscious Being; Conscious-Soul; essential being supporting the play of Prakriti; the Purusha represents the true being on whatever plane it manifests—physical, vital, mental, psychic. Rig—veda —the Veda of the Riks (words of illumination) ...
... be, to all appearance, entirely separated from each other, one a consciousness which is still and passive and supports, and the other a consciousness which is busy and creative and is supported. The passive and fundamental consciousness is the Soul, the Purusha, Witness or s ā k ṣī , the active and superstructural consciousness is Nature, Prakriti, processive or creative energy of the s ā k... other. Purusha the Male, God, is that side of the One which gives the impulse toward phenomenal existence; Prakriti the Female, Nature, is that side which is and evolves the material of phenomenal existence; both of them are therefore unborn and eternal. The Upanishads, pp. 45-46 Existence is composed of Prakriti and Purusha, the consciousness that sees and the consciousness that executes... Nature acts for the Purusha and by its sanction, for its will and pleasure; the Conscious Being imparts its consciousness to the Energy we call Nature, receives in that consciousness her workings as in a mirror, accepts the forms which she, the executive cosmic Force, creates and imposes on it, gives or withdraws its sanction from her movements. The experience of Purusha-Prakriti, the Spirit or ...
... movements of Force? There is a Consciousness—or a Conscient—behind that is the lord, witness, knower, enjoyer, upholder and source of sanction for her works; Page 214 this consciousness is Soul or Purusha. Prakriti shapes the action in us; Purusha in her or behind her witnesses, assents, bears and upholds it. Prakriti forms the thought in our minds; Purusha in her or behind her knows the... and solely a centre of its consciousness in the world-action. But this Jiva Purusha too is not the doer of works any more than the ego or the supporting consciousness of the Witness and Knower. Again and always it is the transcendent and universal Shakti who is the sole doer. But behind her is the one Supreme who manifests through her as the dual power, Purusha-Prakriti, Ishwara-Shakti. 1 The... and only worker. Purusha-Prakriti, Consciousness-Force, Soul supporting Nature,—for the two even in their separation are one and inseparable,—are at once a universal and a transcendent Power. But there is something in the individual too which is not the mental ego, something that is one in essence with this greater reality: it is a pure reflection or portion of the one Purusha; it is the Soul Person ...
... which is Infinite, of the Purusha, a Being, a subjective Self or the whole cosmos. That is the first great intuition of all philosophies, all systems of yoga, and of all religions. There is a cognizing consciousness which is infinite, but which stands on the plane of indi-dividual consciousness as the Purusha. This consciousness Page 61 of the Purusha is universal. This is infiltration... fall of man. The fall of man is this separation from the original Divine Consciousness and assumption of limitations in which the separation becomes dynamic, and has consequences in what is called human life. When it is called a "fall" it only means it is a lure. Adam attracted by Eve is the Purusha—the subjective consciousness attracted by, or lured by, the potentialities of Nature which he feels... feels within his own Self. Nature is felt within the Self of the Purusha and when the potentialities are seen in Nature, there is an attraction on the part of the subjective consciousness to accept the lure and the consequences that follow. Redemption comes by the Self rejoining the Divine Consciousness and bringing it into life, into Nature. That is the real redemption. It is by a process ...
... to all appearance, entirely separated from each other, one a consciousness which is still & passive and supports, and the other a consciousness which is busy, active & creative, and is supported. The passive & fundamental consciousness is the Soul, the Purusha, Witness or Sakshi; the active & superstructural consciousness is Nature, Prakriti, processive or creative energy of the Sakshi. But... which is ever perfect nor the ego which is the cause of imperfection, but the divine self manifested in the shifting stream of Nature. Existence is composed of Prakriti & Purusha, the consciousness that sees and the consciousness that executes & formalises what we see. The one we call Soul, the other Nature. These are the first double term from which our Yoga has to start. When we come to look in at... to a larger consciousness open to the conscious unity underlying things or one with the one conscious existence. The One Existence whether we call it or him God, Brahman, Purusha or by some other name is in its or his nature infinite existence aware of itself and its own eternal bliss of existence. Or speaking less in terms of division and analysis it is one existence, consciousness, bliss in an ...
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