... firm foundation in the substitution of the Sachchidananda consciousness which is All-Bliss for the ego-consciousness which enjoys and suffers. The Sachchidananda consciousness may be transcendent of the universe and aloof from it, and to this state of distant Bliss the path is equal indifference; it is the path of the ascetic. Or the Sachchidananda consciousness may be at once transcendent and universal; ...
... on, there is no place for problems or solutions. If one lives in the transcendence and the cosmic view at the same time, that can only be by the supramental consciousness in the supreme Sachchidananda consciousness—so why should the question arise? Why should there be a difference between the supreme Sachchidananda version of the cosmos and the Supermind's version of it? Your difficulty probably comes... psychic perception that is not mental and can at once turn the Mother's light on such misleadings or errors. It is the supramental Power that transforms mind, life and body—not the Sachchidananda consciousness which supports impartially everything. But it is by having experience of the Sachchidananda, pure existence-consciousness-bliss, that the ascent to the supramental and the descent of the ...
... least some appearance or reflection of it." 1 "The Overmind is not strictly a transcendental consciousness—that epithet would more accurately apply to the Supramental and to the Sachchidananda consciousness— though it looks up to the transcendental and may receive something from it and though it does transcend the ordinary human mind and, in its full and native self-power when it ...
... That. 73 Thus the Supermind is the divine Gnosis which creates, governs and upholds the worlds. And it is the supramental power that transforms our mind, life and body—not the Sachchidananda consciousness which supports impartially everything. Mind, Life and Matter which constitute the lower hemisphere of existence are a triple aspect of the higher principles of the upper hemisphere ...
... and at a still higher level the visionary consciousness, that is, the consciousness that sees the Truth, and at the highest, the objectless consciousness, consciousness in itself or the sachchidananda consciousness. Likewise unconsciousness too has its own various degrees. As consciousness rises up to higher and higher grades of consciousness, so unconsciousness too descends into lower and lower ...
... forms of the Gods any resemblance to the human form ? Sri Aurobindo : Not necessarily. But those who approach the plane of the Gods through the impersonal attitude without stopping at Sachchidananda-consciousness arrive, when they have passed beyond the mental consciousness, to a plane where they see the Gods in forms which resemble the human form. That is, perhaps, the reason why in the Veda we ...
... mental understanding of the nature of overhead poetry. The Overmind is not strictly a transcendental consciousness—that epithet would more accurately apply to the supramental and to the Sachchidananda consciousness—though it looks up to the transcendental and may receive something from it and though it does transcend the ordinary human mind and in its full and native self-power, when it does not lean ...
... goes into the corresponding worlds or else one rises up into higher planes superconscious to us—to the ranges above our mind or to the spiritual mental plane in which one can unite with the Sachchidananda consciousness or to the Supramental. What you describe seems to be the subconscient, but that may be only a first step in the going inside. In samadhi it is the inner mental, vital, physical which ...
... least some appearance or reflection of it." 1 "The Overmind is not strictly a transcendental consciousness— that epithet would more accurately apply to the Supramental and to the Sachchidananda consciousness—though it looks up to the transcendental and may receive something from it and though it does transcend the ordinary human mind and, in its full and native self-power when it does not ...
... and distinction and has at the most a vague and secondary apprehension of unity and infinity. Supermind occupies the position of a link between these two. The higher term above it is the Sachchidananda consciousness and the term below the supramental consciousness is that of the mental consciousness. The supermind may thus be described with a greater precision as the comprehensive and creative consciousness ...
... 242-43) Thus the supermind is the divine Gnosis which creates, governs and upholds the worlds. And it is the supramental power that can transform mind, life and body - not the Sachchidananda consciousness which supports impartially everything. Mind, Life and Matter which constitute the lower hemisphere of existence are a triple aspect of the higher principles of the upper hemisphere ...
... within every aspiring human being. It is a glad luminousness in the heart that can exist with or without the brilliant riches of a cultivated brain. And one need not go so far as the vedantic Sachchidananda consciousness. That is the first and primary necessity. When the teacher approaches the pupil, he must know how to do it in and through that inner intimate consciousness. It means a fundamental ...
... and at a still higher level the visionary consciousness, that is, the consciousness that sees the Truth, and at the highest, the objectless consciousness, consciousness in itself or the sachchidananda consciousness. Likewise unconsciousness too has its own various degrees. As consciousness rises up to higher and higher grades of consciousness, so unconsciousness too descends into lower ...
... PURANI: I told Satyendra that the very fact that he talks of compulsion and of keeping one's individuality, shows that he is, talking from his mental imagination. For, if one attains to the Sachchidananda consciousness, one is no longer bound by such ideas, one is led to accord oneself to that higher consciousness. SRI AUROBINDO: And if he wants to keep his individuality, for that he has to accept the ...
... few minutes of "dreamless sleep" during the night are much more restful and refreshing than hours of so-called sleep, for those minutes of absolute silence are the termless time of the Sachchidananda consciousness, when the soul bathes in the waters of immortality and ineffable bliss. Just as visions and dreams as such are not necessarily a sign of spirituality, the hours spent in meditation ...
... Knowledge and the cosmic Ignorance". — Life Divine. "The Overmind is not strictly a transcendental consciousness— that epithet would more accurately apply to the supramental and the Sachchidananda Consciousness—though it looks up to the transcendental and may receive something from it and though it does transcend the ordinary human mind and in its full and native self-power, when it does not lean ...
... of transcending reason and establishing your consciousness in a world higher than the mental intelligence. For from up there you can see, firstly, that everything that exists in the universe is an expression of Sachchidananda (Being-Consciousness-Bliss) and therefore behind any appearance whatever, if you go deeply enough, you can perceive Sachchidananda, which is the principle of Supreme Beauty. ... and feel in this way, you immediately become aware of the extreme relativity of these impressions and their unreality from the absolute point of view. However, so long as we dwell in the rational consciousness, it is, in a way, natural that everything that offends our aspiration for perfection, our will for progress, everything we seek to transcend and surmount, should seem ugly and repellent to us, since ...
... error: it starts from truth and light and moves always in truth and light." 32 Sachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss) "It [Sachchidananda] is one eternal Existence that we then are, one eternal Consciousness which sees its own works in us and others, one eternal Will or Force of that Consciousness which displays itself in infinite workings, one eternal Delight which has the joy of... s well as what is beyond mind, namely, Supermind and the Supreme Reality called Sachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss). These superconscient gradations of consciousness are here briefly described in Sri Aurobindo's words. Higher Mind "I mean by the Higher Mind a first plane of spiritual consciousness where one becomes constantly and closely aware of the Self, the One everywhere and... The Mind can only be aware of the Self in a mentalised spiritual thinness, only of the mind-reflected Sachchidananda. The highest truth, the integral self-knowledge is not to be gained by this self-blinded leap into the Absolute but by a patient transit beyond the mind into the Truth-Consciousness where the Infinite can be known, felt, seen, experienced in all the fullness of its unending riches." ...
... realization of a supramental consciousness and the knowledge of the Ultimate Reality as Sachchidananda (Existence - Consciousness - Bliss), which has been so authoritatively expounded in the Upanishadic Vedanta. There was, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, a great attempt to scale the heights of the supermind and even an effort to connect the supramental consciousness with the material body by... the supramental consciousness could come down in the human instrument, and, as a result, the consciousness of the human body could attain wideness and universality. There was, however, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, arrestation in the Vedic experiment and, therefore, the possibility and inevitability of the penetration and permeation of the supramental consciousness in the human body... intention of the supramental consciousness to penetrate through the blockade between the descending supermind and the physical consciousness in the human body and (ii) consequently, the development of new methods (which included or incorporated also the methods of the past systems of yoga) by means of which the blockade could be removed and the supramental consciousness could be made to permeate the ...
... seeing, a spiritual mental seeing with many variations in it, an overmental seeing and so on and so forth. And when we pass on to the Higher Hemisphere of Supermind and the trinity of Sachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss), we first develop the exceptional capacity of possessing and exercising a supra- mental sight, then the sight of the dynamically active Cosmic Divine, and, who knows... immensely extended field of consciousness. Thus one need not remain "limited by his outward surface or waking consciousness". Everyone has "a latent capacity [which can be perfected by training and practice] for entering into the experiences of the inner consciousness' '. (Letters on Yoga, p. 932) The upshot of all this discussion on consciousness is that a particular "seer" focussing... the infinite power of consciousness. The pure action of sense is a spiritual action and pure sense is itself a power of the spirit." {The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 833) (italics author's) Making the point more explicit Sri Aurobindo says elsewhere: "This essential sense [samjnāna] is the original capacity of consciousness to feel in itself all that consciousness has formed and to feel ...
... by experience. That which is beyond is the Absolute, and the Absolute can't be known by Reason or Mind. What can be formulated by Reason is Sachchidananda—Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. That is to say, the Absolute presents itself to the mind as Sachchidananda, You can't go beyond this concept. PURANI: Kant's Critique is very difficult to understand and very dry. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, I tried... stepping-stone. PURANI: Anilbaran wants to know whether Kant and Hegel had a notion of a faculty beyond mind. SRI AUROBINDO: I don't think so. PURANI: They didn't believe in a suprarational consciousness? SRI AUROBINDO: No, they thought Reason can arrive at the Truth. PURANI: Kant's Critique begins with the statement that knowledge of a particular thing in itself is not possible with the... knowledge. He distinguishes between phenomenon and noumenon and says that men can only know phenomenon. He disputes Berkeley's view of subjectivism—that there is no world outside the perceiving consciousness. According to Berkeley, you project the world out of yourself. Kant does not admit that. He says that the tree you perceive exists or rather something (noumenon) exists which appears to us as the ...
... Cosmos and the Individual The Divine, Sachchidananda, Brahman and Atman Letters on Yoga - I Chapter II Sachchidananda: Existence, Consciousness-Force and Bliss Sachchidananda Sachchidananda is the One with a triple aspect. In the Supreme the three are not three but one—existence is consciousness, consciousness is bliss, and they are thus inseparable... says there is no consciousness in the Brahman state, he is speaking of consciousness as the human being knows it. The Brahman state is that of a supreme existence supremely aware of itself, svayaṁprakāśa ,—it is Sachchidananda, Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. Even if it be spoken of as beyond that, parātparam , it does not mean that it is a state of Non-existence or Non-consciousness, but beyond even... existence or a consciousness without Ananda. Indeed without this separation of them in experience pain and ignorance and falsehood and death and what we call inconscience could not have manifested themselves—there could not have been this evolution of a limited and suffering consciousness out of the universal nescience of Matter. The Sachchidananda is not in itself an active consciousness, it is simply ...
... is his reality. Yet is he called upon to preserve, even when he most extends himself in universality of consciousness, a mysterious transcendent something of which his sense of personality gives him an obscure and egoistic representation." 12 9. Sachchidananda - Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. (K.D.S.) 10. The life Divine, p. 43. 11. Ibid. 12 Ibid., p. 45. ... existent only in the individual consciousness must very evidently be a fragmentary truth: it is justified by a perception of the universality of the spiritual individual...but neither the cosmos nor the individual consciousness is the fundamental truth of existence; for both depend upon and exist by the transcendental Divine being. "This Divine Being, Sachchidananda, is at once impersonal and personal:... suggestion of "illusion". In a different context the word can suggest "phenomenon" or "manifestation", e.g., the next quotation. (K.D.S.) Page 78 "The Unknowable knowing itself as Sachchidananda 9 is the one supreme affirmation of Vedanta," writes Sri Aurobindo. 10 "The universe and the individual are the two essential appearances into which the Unknowable descends and through which ...
... always Sachchidananda. For us also to know and possess our true Self in the essential and the universal is to discover the essential and the universal delight of existence, self-bliss and all-bliss. For the universal is only the pouring out of the essential existence, consciousness and delight; and wherever and in whatever form that manifests as existence, there the essential consciousness must be... opposite. And the original unifying spirit-stuff of them all and the one substantial mode of them all is that which has been described for the convenience of our thought as the trinity of Sachchidananda. Existence, Consciousness, Bliss, these are everywhere the three inseparable divine terms. None of them is really separate, though our mind and our mental experience can make not only the distinction, but the... The Yoga of Integral Knowledge The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XII The Realisation of Sachchidananda The modes of the Self which we have dealt with in our last Chapter may seem at first to be of a highly metaphysical character, to be intellectual conceptions more fit for philosophical analysis than for practical realisation. But this is a false distinction ...
... the world of the Supermind, and still the worlds of Sachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss). One also discovers that, as one begins to live more and more inwardly, one can attain to higher and higher states of consciousness, and one can enter and dwell in the higher supra-physical worlds. Description of Four states of Consciousness in the Mandukya Upanishad: Yogic Terms of States of... state of sleep (supta). That dream consciousness and this sleep consciousness are not states of ordinary dream and sleep, but of increasingly inner yogic states of consciousness. The dream consciousness that is spoken of here opens up subtle faculties of consciousness by which subtle objects of the subtle worlds are experienced and enjoyed. The dream consciousness opens up doors of what Sri Aurobindo... involutionary movement of Ignorance which was a downward looking movement of consciousness speedily separating itself from the integral consciousness of unity and differentiations resulting in ignoring all that is behind that movement and in exclusive concentration on the workings of energy up to such an acute point that the consciousness becomes totally identified with the workings of energy. In contrast, ...
... there is no consciousness in the Brahman state, he is speaking of consciousness as the human being knows it. The Brahman state is that of a supreme existence supremely aware of itself, svayaṁprakāśa , — it is Sachchidananda, Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. Even if it be spoken of as beyond That, parātparam, it does not mean that it is a state of Non-existence or Non-consciousness, but beyond... ic thought as consciousness, because that thought is governed by science 2 and sees consciousness only as a phenomenon that emerges out of inconscient Matter and consists of certain reactions of the system to outward things. But that is a phenomenon of consciousness, it is not consciousness itself, it is even only a very small part of the possible phenomenon of consciousness and can give no... does the capacity of our total consciousness far exceed that of our organs, the senses, the nerves, the brain, but that even for our ordinary thought and consciousness these organs are only their habitual instruments and not their generators. Consciousness uses the brain which its upward strivings have produced, brain has not produced nor does it use the consciousness. There are even abnormal instances ...
... variation of its self-delight is the object of its extensive or creative play of Force. In other words, that which has thrown itself out into forms is a triune Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, Sachchidananda, whose consciousness is in its nature a creative or rather a self-expressive Force capable of infinite variation in phenomenon and form of its self-conscious being and endlessly enjoying the delight... This and this alone is the root-problem. How shall we solve it? Shall we say that Sachchidananda is not the beginning and end of things, but the beginning and end is Nihil, an impartial void, itself nothing but containing all potentialities of existence or non-existence, consciousness or non-consciousness, delight or undelight? We may accept this answer if we choose; but although we seek thereby... there. Let us return, then, to our original conception of Sachchidananda and see whether on that foundation a completer solution is not possible. We must first make it clear to ourselves that just as when we speak of universal consciousness we mean something different from, more essential and wider than the waking mental consciousness of the human being, so also when we speak of universal delight ...
... variation of its self-delight is the object of its extensive or creative play of Force. In other words, that which has thrown itself out into forms is a triune Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, Sachchidananda, whose consciousness is in its nature a creative or rather a self-expressive Force capable of infinite variation in phenomenon and form of its self-conscious being and endlessly enjoying the delight... being. This and this alone is the root-problem. How shall we solve it? Shall we say that Sachchidananda is not the beginning and end of things, but the beginning and end is Nihil, an impartial void, itself nothing but containing all potentialities of existence or non-existence, consciousness or non-consciousness, delight or undelight? We may accept this answer if we choose; but although we seek thereby... Let us return, then, to our original conception of Sachchidananda and see whether on that foundation a completer solution is not possible. We must first make it clear to ourselves that just as when we speak of universal consciousness we mean something different Page 105 from, more essential and wider than the waking mental consciousness of the human being, so also when we speak of universal ...
... not merely bare existence, or a conscious existence-whose consciousness is crude force or power; it is a conscious existence the very term of whose being, the very term of whose consciousness is bliss.... In other words, that which has thrown itself out into forms is a triune Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, Sachchidananda, whose consciousness is in its nature a creative or rather a self-expressive... tation of the supreme Brahman. But by no account can it be described in its actual state as the perfect expression of Sachchidananda. In fact, as it is, it is strongly marked with inadequacy, imperfection, suffering and evil. Incon-science and ignorance and not Consciousness; death and imperma-nence and not the permanent Existence; pain and suffering and not the essential Delight seem to be the... ce. Here in this material world or at its basis Sachchidananda has hidden himself in what seem to be his opposites:."a Void, an infinite of Non-Existence, an indeterminate Inconscient, an insensitive blissless Zero" 26 out of which everything has to evolve. When this inevitable evolution — this emergence of the involved Being and Consciousness — begins its course of ascent, it first develops ...
... is always spurred by the secret Sachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss) that is its true Self to realise at once its all embracing unity and infinite omnipotence. But these two urges cannot be simultaneously satisfied on the basis of a fragmented consciousness. For the absolute completeness is not feasible in the finite ego-bound individual consciousness concentrated within the limits of... relative and phenomenal consciousness". And the "purpose for which all this exclusive concentration we call the Ignorance is necessary is to trace the cycle of self-oblivion and self-discovery for the joy of which the Ignorance is assumed in Nature by the secret spirit.... It is to find himself in the apparent opposites of his being and his nature that Sachchidananda descends into the material... conditions, to create out of Matter a temple of the Divinity would seem to be the task imposed on the spirit born into the material universe." 24 Now in the very nature of this world-play of Sachchidananda, the evolutionary ascent has to proceed through the mutual cooperation of the double terms: the universal and the individual. For they are the two essential terms into which the Absolute has ...
... Intuition, Overmind, Supermind and Sachchidananda constitute the chief levels of consciousness in the vertical system (Fig.2). Page 337 Evolution of Consciousness In Sri Aurobindo's thought, the concept of levels of consciousness is intimately related to the concept of evolution of consciousness. ...this One Being and Consciousness is involved here in Matter. Evolution... Divine — Sachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss) Sachchidananda is the supracosmic Reality, the Divine, the Supreme Being who "manifests Himself as infinite existence of which the essentiality is consciousness, of which again the essentiality is bliss, is self-delight...." 54 [Sachchidananda] is one eternal Existence that we then are, one eternal Consciousness which sees... Mind can only be aware of the Self in a mentalised spiritual thinness, only of the mind-reflected Sachchidananda. The highest truth, the integral self-knowledge is not to be gained by this self-blinded leap into the Absolute but by a patient transit beyond the mind into the Truth-Consciousness where the Infinite can be known, felt, seen, experienced in all the fullness of its unending riches ...
... says there is no consciousness in the Brahman state, he is speaking of consciousness as the human being knows it. The Brahman state is that of a supreme existence supremely aware of itself, Swayamprakasa;it is Sachchidananda, Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. Even if it be spoken of as beyond That, parat param, it does not mean that it is a state of Non-existence or Non-consciousness, but beyond even... materialistic thought as consciousness, because that thought is governed by science and sees consciousness only as a phenomenon that emerges out of inconscient Matter and consists of certain reactions of the system to outward things. But that is a phenomenon of consciousness, it is not consciousness itself it is even only a very small part of the possible phenomenon of consciousness and can give no clue... is not the Ahankar, it is the Atman. "10 " Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence-it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it; not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself. For instance, when consciousness in its movement or rather a certain stress of ...
... degree and expression of consciousness. It is to this intelligence infinite in itself but freely organising and self-determiningly organic in its self-creation and its works that we may give for our present purpose the name of the divine supermind or gnosis. The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 756-57 (f) Sachchidananda — Existence-Consciousness-Bliss Sachchidananda is the One with a triple... possession of self-bliss and all-bliss because it is always Sachchidananda. For us also to know and possess our true Self in the essential and the universal is to discover the essential and the universal delight of existence, self-bliss and all-bliss. For the universal is only the pouring out of the essential existence, consciousness and delight; and wherever and in whatever form that manifests... the extension of our knowledge we discover what this Spirit or Oversoul is: it is ultimately our own highest deepest vastest Self, it is apparent on its summits or by reflection in ourselves as Sachchidananda creating us and the world by the power of His divine Knowledge-Will, spiritual, supramental, truth-conscious, infinite. That is the real Being, Lord and Creator, who, as the Cosmic Self veiled ...
... liberated soul, its free and unfallen possession of itself and the world. This quaternary is practically the later essential trinity of Sachchidananda,—Existence, Consciousness, Bliss with self-awareness and self-force. Chit and Tapas, for double terms of Consciousness; but it is here translated into its cosmic terms and equivalents. Varuna the King has his foundation in the allpervading purity of Sat;... manifestation, movement or dynamic value of existence, is only a working out, a liberation of consciousness, of knowledge, of the inherent Truth of things into stuff of energy and form of effect, or is only the effective term of the self-discovering and self-seizing movement by which Being and Consciousness realise themselves as Bliss. Therefore Aryaman is invoked always in conjunction with Aditi or... the Ignorance. This antinomy between the Light and the Darkness, the Truth and the Falsehood has its roots in an original cosmic antinomy between the illumined Infinite and the darkened finite consciousness. Aditi the infinite, the undivided is the mother of the Gods, Diti or Danu, the division, the separative conscious ness the mother of the Titans; therefore the gods in man move towards light, infinity ...
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