... the factor which presided over the development of language was the association, by the nervous mind of primitive man, of certain general significances or rather of certain general utilities and sense-values with articulate sounds. The process of this association was also in no sense artificial but natural, governed by simple and definite psychological laws. In their beginnings language-sounds were... establish the mutual relations of different significances and to explain how they came to be attached to the same word in spite of the wide difference and sometimes even the direct contrariety of their sense-values. It is possible also to restore lost senses of words on a sure and scientific basis and to justify them by an appeal to the observed laws of association which governed the development of the old ...
... is ready into which they can enter and transform themselves without losing hold of the realities which they represent. To enlarge the sense-faculties without the knowledge that would give the old sense-values their right interpretation from the new standpoint might lead to serious disorders and incapacities, might unfit for practical life and for the orderly and disciplined use of the reason. Equally ...
... grade of activities, receives a wider range of contacts, mental, vital, physical, from forms other than its own, takes up the physical and vital existence and turns all it can get from them into sense values and vital-mind values. It senses body, it senses life, but it senses also mind; for it has not only blind nervous reactions, but conscious sensations, memories, impulses, volitions, emotions, mental ...
... attempt to stem the high tide of Nature's swell towards a global unity that shall brook no resistance. The distinctions and differences that held good in other times and climes can have no sense or value in the world of today. Race or religion can divide man no longer; even nationhood has lost much of its original force and meaning. It is strange -perhaps it is inevitable in the secret process... the other two terms of the great trinity, equality and fraternity. Individuality, yes; that means every individuality, in other words, solidarity. The two sides of the equation must be given equal value and equal emphasis. If the stress upon one leads to Nazism, Fascism or Stalinism, steam-rollered uniformity or streamlined regimentation, the death of the individual, the other emphasis leads to di ...
... dual consciousness of the helper and the helped, the reformer and the reformed, the doctor and the patient. The normal human sense of values is based upon such a division, upon egohood, mamatvam. A philanthropic man helps others through a sense of sympathy giving rise to a sense of duty and obligation. This feeling of pity of commiseration is dangerous, for it puts you in a frame of mind that tends... air towards your object of pity. You become self-conscious, with the consciousness of your inferior self, that you are helping others, doing good to the world, doing something that raises your value: this sense of personal merit is only another name for vanity. Page 40 Vanity and ambition are the motive power that lie behind the philanthropical spirit born of sympathy. To denote a shade ...
... attempt to stem the high tide of Nature's swell towards a global unity that shall brook no resistance. The distinctions and differences that held good in other times and climes can have no sense or value in the world of today. Race or religion can divide man no longer; even nation-hood has lost much of its original force and meaning. It is strange—perhaps it is inevitable in the secret process... the other two terms of the great trinity, equality and fraternity. Individuality, yes; that means every individuality, in other words, solidarity. The two sides of the equation must be given equal value and equal emphasis. If the stress upon one leads to Nazism, Fascism or Stalinism, steam-rollered uniformity or streamlined regimentation, the death of the individual, the other emphasis leads to di ...
... dual consciousness of the helper and the helped, the reformer and the reformed, the doctor and the patient. The normal human sense of values is based upon such a division, upon egohood, mamatvam. A philanthropic man helps others through a sense of sympathy giving rise to a sense of duty and obligation. This feeling of pity, of commiseration is dangerous, for it puts you in a frame of mind that tends... air towards your object of pity. You become self-conscious, with the consciousness of your inferior self, that you are helping others, doing good to the world, doing something that raises your value: this sense of personal merit is only another name Page 188 for vanity. Vanity and ambition are the motive powers that lie behind the philanthropical spirit born of sympathy. To denote ...
... as of value. Visions and voices are only a small part of that vast realm of occult experience. As for utility, for one who has intelligence and discrimination, visions etc. have many uses—but very little use for those who have no discrimination or understanding. There are visions and visions, just as there are dreams and dreams, and one has to develop discrimination and a sense of values and things... mean, those which show us inner realities: one can, for instance, meet Krishna, speak with him and hear his voice in an inner “real” vision, quite as real as anything on the outer plane. People value visions for one thing because they are one key (there are others) to contact with the other worlds or with the inner worlds and all that is there and these are regions of immense riches which far surpass... outer fringe—behind lie whole worlds of experience which fill what seems to the natural man the gap (Russell's inner void) between the earth-consciousness and the Eternal and Infinite. People also value the power of vision for a greater reason than that: it can give a first contact with the Divine in his forms and powers; it can be the opening of a communion with the Divine, of the hearing of the Voice ...
... Weimar Constitution and its form of government, which were directly inspired by the ideals of the Enlightenment and therefore by Reason. The German rooted, traditional, völkisch, hierarchical sense of values and of belonging felt “the System”, the political contract, as unnatural and therefore inimical. “The fear of the bourgeois class for democracy and social change was so intense that it decided ...
... 4. Ibid., p. 405. 5. Ibid. Page 101 whose complete sense or true value is not that which we assign to them in our ignorance" - but he also continues: "Still our sense of them is part of a true sense, our values of them are necessary to their complete values." 6 Sri Aurobindo affirms the undivine as an ingredient of cosmic existence. Although... her as a store from which she draws and which she utilises, while we ourselves have utterly forgotten the origin and provenance of this material which we find ourselves employing with a deceptive sense of creation; for we imagine we are creating this new material of our work, when we are only combining results out of that which we have forgotten but Nature in us has remembered. If we admit rebirth ...
... And as man and artist he cannot be denied a substantial position - a position neither vast nor supercharged with the meaning of personality nor creatively pre-eminent, yet striking home to our sense of values with a revealing weight, intimacy and grace. His autobiography, quintessencing him, is sufficient proof of his genuine worth. Judged by the story it lays bare of a rich and serious soul in a style... utter the paradox that the passing of Havelock Ellis leaves no gap in the world. It is the life either frustrated or cut short before fulfilling itself that leaves a gap. What is here left behind is a sense of rich plenitude - an achievement splendid in its calm completeness. Yes, the two characteristics of this man as embodied in his work were an unassuming poise and a thoroughgoing wide-sweeping efficiency... for both. This is not to say that they never lived passionately. Theirs was a love more intimately moving than simple affection - and Havelock actually found that the absence of sex in the narrow sense made no whit of difference in his attachment to his wife in the most intense man-and-woman way. "Passion transcends sex," he writes, and adds: "that is a discovery with a significance for life ...
... practice and result the effects seem to me to be against Lawrence's theory. 1936 What a pity that Lawrence did not give his poetry a rhythmic form, that would have given it its full sound and sense-value and made it sure of immortality. The Poetry of the 1930s and 1940s I admit I have not read as much of "modern" (contemporary) poetry as I should have—but the little I have is mostly of the... intellectual or thinking mind interfered—it is a piece of pure vision, a direct sense, almost sensation of the occult, a light not of earth flowing through without anything to stop it or to change it into a product of the terrestrial mind. When one writes from pure occult vision there is this perfection and direct sense though it may be of different kinds, for the occult world of one is not that of... rendering narrows the meaning—it has to be seen and felt, not thought out. Thinking it out may give a satisfaction and an appearance of mental logicality, but the deeper sense and sequence can only be apprehended by an inner sense. I myself do not try to find out the meaning of his poems, I try to feel what they mean in vision and experience and then render into mental terms. This is a special kind ...
... for sadhana—also to have concrete contact with the Mother in those planes (mental, vital, psychic worlds) etc. Visions come from all planes and are of all kinds and different values. Some are of very great value and importance, others are a play of the mind or vital and are good only for their own special purpose, others are formations of the mind and vital plane, some of which may have truth... great instrument though not absolutely indispensable. But, as I have suggested, there are visions and visions just as there are dreams and dreams, and one has to develop discrimination and a sense of values and kinds and know how to understand and make use of these powers. But that is too big and intricate a matter to be pursued now. The visions he has between the eyebrows are not imaginations—they... People also value the power of vision for a greater reason than that: it can give a first contact with the Divine in his forms and powers; it can be the opening of a communion with the Divine, of the hearing of the Voice that guides, of the Presence as well as the Image in the heart, of many other things that bring what man seeks through religion or Yoga. Farther, vision is of value because it is ...
... these may not actually be found anywhere in isolation. I will leave aside the Western thinker's own dealings with his idea. The suggestive names he has offered us, if we examine their intrinsic sense and value, may yet throw some light on the thickly veiled secret of our historic evolution, and this is the line on which it would be most useful to investigate. Page 6 Undoubtedly, wherever... being like man have been very much neglected. This kind of science would explain history and social development as much as possible by economic necessity or motive,—by economy understood in its widest sense. There are even historians who deny or put aside as of a very subsidiary importance the working of the idea and the influence of the thinker in the development of human institutions. The French Revolution... field are seldom entirely successful, and the German historian, originator of this theory, seized on a luminous idea, but was not able to carry it very far or probe very deep. He was still haunted by a sense of the greater importance of the economic factor, and like most European science his theory related, classified and organised phenomena much more successfully than it explained them. Nevertheless, its ...
... soul, a Page 161 projection which mingles with his sensational, emotional and conceptional being and creates in that being all that we call idealism, the sense of values, the courage to live up to them, the aspiration to become better and better, "the desire of the moth for the star" and the longing to realise more and more the truth of the world and of oneself... purusa. The Psyche is not an undifferentiated and detached stability: it is an evolving consciousness, individualised with a thinking, feeling, sensing personality. But it is a spark, as it were, of the Dynamic Divine and all the values of its response are divine, intrinsically free from the ego and the disequilibriums that accompany the ego-consciousness. It has also an inherent happiness... of creatures rise from birth to birth but in which, despite all spirituality, a certain imperfection is inherent and irreducible. The first conception culminates in a sense of māyā, World-Illusion; the second in a sense of līlā, World-Play. But both point in the end to a fulfilment above the earth - the one to a merger in the sheer Absolute, the other to a heavenly abiding within the ...
... commitment and vision of the highest reality and the highest aim of life. It is when one grows in the realm of values that the light of self-knowledge grows. In fact, it is this pedagogical truth that renders the truly Indian system of education inherently value-oriented. For it is through value-oriented consciousness that the inner light grows, and that light manifests in our dynamic nature as a state... the demands of certain specific jobs or occupations. It is Page 302 sometimes admitted that apart from skills, taste also should be developed, a certain sense of culture also should be promoted, and a certain sense of value should also be stimulated. But all this is still sought to be managed within the narrow formula of mechanical and external systems of methodologies. At the root of this... intuition, in contrast to the methods and facilities to develop sense-experience and intellectual ratiocination, the methods and facilities to nurture the sense and experience of unity and oneness, — in contrast to the methods and facilities to nurture the sense and experience of multiplicity, and the methods and facilities for the growth of the sense and experience of Page 317 transcendence of ...
... positive values. The former needs to be worried over more than, or at least as much as, the latter. In a broad sense of the term, as per current philosophical usage, values include both positive and negative values. A positive value is one which is worthy of being inculcated and a negative one is that which ought to be abjured and gotten rid of if already inculcated. It is a negative value, which... tradition lays main emphasis on experience or consciousness of Value. This is not to suggest that the Vedanta or Nyaya are emotivist or attributivist in their approach to value. On the contrary they favour an approach which affirms that sense of value can be evoked in the rightly developed human nature, provided the concerned values have appropriate and objective properties in them. In other words... important issues in value-theory, in the way of their presenting a concrete proposal for making education value-oriented. Value-theorists are still debating whether values are subjective, objective, relational, absolute, or relative, etc. whether value judgments are descriptive, emotive, or prescriptive etc., whether or not there is any primary value, and if there is, which value is primary and which ...
... evil, are facts of the world-consciousness, not fictions and unrealities, although they are facts whose complete sense or true value is not that which we assign to them in our ignorance. Still our sense of them is part of a true sense, our values of them are necessary to their complete values. One side of the truth of these things we discover when we get into a deeper and larger consciousness; for we... which we dwell to call undivine and in a sense are right in using that appellation; for these appearances are a veil over the Divine Perfection, a veil necessary for the present, but not at all the true and complete figure. But even when we thus regard the universe, we cannot and ought not to dismiss as entirely and radically false and unreal the values that are given to it by our own limited human... Divine Consciousness projecting mind away from its all-knowledge so as to realise these opposite or contrary values of its all-power, all-knowledge, all-delight, all-being and unity. Obviously, this action and these fruits of the Divine Consciousness can be called by us unreal in the sense of not being the eternal and fundamental truth of being or can be taxed with falsehood because they contradict ...
... to feel, to absorb, to realise and to rejoice in finding an inconceivable new world which cannot be expressed by your language or your mode of expression, or which cannot be labelled by your sense of values or your so-called attitude, but it can be lived, and which is the truth of your existence, the ineffable Beauty, the stable Peace, the unalloyed Joy, and the all-puissant Power. It is this and... begins to detach oneself, to become ‘dispassionate’ as it is said, to have no taste for all that is happening outwardly like an illusion, and which has no sense or reality. That does not mean that one ceases to work or to exist because it has no value for us. But no, remaining in the movement, entirely in the work, to do the work as perfectly as possible, offering the result and everything to the Divine... the essence that it represents, reveals something to us. This gives us the élan for progress, the power of concentration, a confidence in the aspiration and a sense of inner purification, of having accomplished a work. It is this which has value, it is this which one must seek in action, in the work one does. Each event gives us an indication. Instead of pursuing the action of the work with its causes ...
... processes of exaggerated formations of egoism and individuality. According to one conception, personality is identified with egoistic in dividuality having a certain sense of ends or values. And fullness of personality in this sense would mean an enlarged development of egoistic individuality by means of an increased power of mind, an increased power of vital force, by a refined or dense and massive... Given this motivation, this stress, the defects of specialisation will intrinsically be corrected. In recent times, a greater and greater need for specialisation is felt, but also a greater sense and value for enlargement and for general education. To arrive at some satisfactory solution, two things have been suggested : (1) Man, it is said, is the best subject of study for Man. And in the study... culture that we wish our children to cultivate lie entirely beyond the scope of our tests is sufficient to show what a marginal place tests should occupy in our total system of education. The great values of truthfulness, sincerity, cheerfulness, benevolence, right judgement, sacrifice, friendship these are some of the things which we wish our children to possess. As these so not come under the sweep ...
... processes of exaggerated formations of egoism and individuality. According to one conception, personality is identified with egoistic individuality having a certain sense of ends or values. And fullness of personality in this sense would mean an enlarged development of egoistic individuality by means of an increased power of mind, an increased power of vital force, by refined or dense and massive... Given this motivation, this stress, this defects of specialisation will intrinsically be corrected. In recent times, a great and greater need for specialisation is felt, but also a greater sense and value for enlargement and for general education. To arrive at some satisfactory solution, two things have ;been suggested: (1) Man, it is said, is the best subject of study for Man. And in the... culture that we wish our children to cultivate lie entirely beyond the scope of our tests is sufficient to show what a marginal place tests should occupy in our total system of education. The great values of truthfulness; sincerity, cheerfulness, benevolence, right judgement, sacrifice, friendship these are some of the things which we wish our children to Page 170 possess. As these do ...
... you think of sparing me, be kind to spare the body of my fame, for people like me put little value on their physical bodies that are made up of gross elements and are, there- Page 44 fore, bound to perish. — Canto II. 57 This is expressive of Dilīpa's high sense of value, speaking volumes of his developed mind that exudes illumination of a high order, while valour... banish Sītā, though he was sure of his wife's innocence, as he was convinced that the slander could not be wiped off by any other means, and the glory of the solar race had to be valued more than one's own body and object of sense. It was Laksmana who obediently carried out Rāma's orders, and started on his mission to leave Sītā near Vālmīki's hermitage. One thing that seems to many quite inexplicable... - Canto IV. 61 It is noteworthy, even amidst such highly imaginative descriptions of the poet, that Raghu is shown to be a king having a balanced attitude with illumination and a sense of harmony pervading his entire invasion; though an unconquerable hero, he was bereft of pride or greed for others' territory. The poet is quite suggestive in this regard, when he points out that: ...
... undesirable consequences. In the first place, there is the misplacement of values. Vedanta is practised, or so it seems to be in some quarters, for the sake of Tantra, & in order to give a force to Tantra. That is not right at all. Tantra is only valuable in so far as it enables us to give effect to Vedanta & in itself it has no value or necessity at all. Then the two are mixed up in a most undesirable fashion... fashion, so that the Vedanta is likely to be affected by the same disrepute and difficulties on the way of profession as hamper the recognition of the truth in Tantra ie in its real sense, value and effectivity. There are difficulties enough already, let us not wilfully increase them. You have seen, for instance, that in recent political trials Yoga pamphlets & bombs seem to have been kept together... believe; he said nothing to anybody about that matter. There were some legitimate doubts in some quarters owing to his unsteady nature & other defects of character. I thought it right to give them as much value for practical purposes as was reasonable; therefore I wrote to you. I do not write to you this time about the despatch of the books, because that is a long matter & would delay the proofs which have ...
... also gradations of consciousness which make a difference, if not in the aesthetic value or greatness of a work of art, yet in its contents-value. Homer makes beauty out of man's outward life and action and stops there. Shakespeare rises one step further and reveals to us a life-soul and life-forces and life-values to which Homer had no access. In Valmiki and Vyas there is the constant presence... poet finding these and giving them a voice with a genius equal to that of the poets of the past might not be greater than they in a purely aesthetic valuation, but his art's contents-value, its consciousness-values could be deeper and higher and much fuller than in any achievement before him. There is something here that goes beyond any consideration of Art for Art's sake or Art for Beauty's sake;... imagine, otherwise you would not be so hard on the Divine. I did not, by the way, mean this kind of formation when I spoke of Durgadas but formations of a false value in Yoga. Doubts are an obstacle, sometimes a serious obstacle, but false values in Yoga which the sadhak is not willing to correct are a danger. I may say about the doubts that one cannot be free from them easily so long as one judges ...
... develop their own inner system of values. More than a "value system," they begin to develop a sense of values—an internal sense of the Tightness The child in Mirambika does not therefore hear about values. No teacher reads out textbooks to him to teach values in life. He grows up in an environment that fosters in him some of the fundamental values of being: the sense of self worth, respect, responsibility... to life and values. The participants go back with serious questions that initiate deeper processes leading to a real sense of values. Several come back for follow up workshops where they wish to go still deeper into the intricacies of value-oriented education. Only by pursuing a process of this kind can we hope to generate a genuine interest and motivation in imparting sustained value-oriented education... methods of value inculcation in schools. Page 326 Identification of effective methods for resolving value conflicts—conflict between societal value vis-à-vis school value, conflict between school value vis-à-vis values propagated by media etc. Methodology of integration of values of text books and other instructional materials in different classes. Integration of value related ...
... have a strange sense of values. If a robber entered a house and the house holder told him that he required some money, the robber Page 213 would part with some of it; but if he said that he had debt of honour to pay then .the robber would leave all the money and go away. Imagine such a house-breaker in England or America! The Japanese also have a high sense of chivalry. In... Is faith by itself sufficient? Sri Aurobindo : Yes; even Coué's method is a combination of faith and will. Disciple : Has Anushthan by itself no value? Sri Aurobindo : If you have no faith then certainly it has no value. If you have faith it may not be necessary. But if you have faith in Anushthan then it is necessary. Disciple : But certain people cure by using a Mantra... keeping it open to the contrary of it. You see, Mind means infinite possibility. Reason or intelligence chooses one to the exclusion of all the other possibilities. And it is reason which gives value and selects. What it selects is like a law in science; you accept it because it explains most of the phenomena. In the mind we accept one possibility and suppress the others and so we see the ground ...
... indeed, these capacities c said to be the same in kind in any other animals. It is most Page 276 improbable that any other animal has more than an inchoate or largely instinctual sense of values, while in man this is normally conscious, orderly and controlled." In face of these cumulatively wide and far-reaching admissions of evolutionary progress uniquely culminating in man in spite... future progress for life.... Second, with the evolution of man the character of progress becomes altered. With human consciousness, values and ideals appeared on earth for the first time. The criterion of further progress must include the degree by which those ideal values are satisfied." What are we to make of all these statements? If, surveying a mass of proliferating and changing life over millennia... trustee of further advance of life and that life s advance culminates in the quest for satisfaction on ideal values, are we not justified in considering as capitally sensible the hypothesis of a supra-material reality essentially purposive in character and with a drive towards ideal values acting through physico-chemical and "accidental" factors and winning somehow over their colossal obscurity obstruction ...
... as dream inspirations—it is rare, however, that these are of any value. For the dreams of most people are recorded by the subconscient. Either the whole thing is a creation of the subconscient and turns out, if recorded, to be incoherent and lacking in any sense, or, if there is a real communication from a higher plane, marked by a sense of elevation and wonder, it gets transcribed by the subconscient... great instrument though not absolutely indispensable. But, as I have suggested, there are visions and visions, just as there are dreams and dreams, and one has to develop discrimination and a sense of values and kinds and know how to understand and make use of these things. But that is too big and intricate a matter to be pursued now. June 6, 1935 The image of the cow is a very good... else since you have told me that no words of mine have any truth or value and that all my experiences also are subjective delusions without any truth or value. I suppose all spiritual or inner experiences can be denounced as merely subjective and delusive. But to the spiritual seeker even the smallest inner experience is a thing of value. I stand for the Truth I hold in me and I would still stand for it ...
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