... of the Divine and prior to the terrestrial manifestation— parā prakṛtir jīvabhūtā . In this lower manifestation, aparā prakṛti , this eternal portion of the Divine appears as the soul, a spark of the Divine Fire, supporting the individual evolution, supporting the mental, vital and physical being. The psychic being is the spark growing into a Fire, evolving with the growth of the consciousness.... individual Self is the central being (Jivatma) manifesting in the lower nature as the psychic being—it is directly a portion of the Divine. The soul, representative of the central being, is a spark of the Divine supporting all individual existence in Nature; the psychic being is a conscious form of that soul growing in the evolution—in the persistent process that develops first life in matter, mind in... it has to evolve and in its evolution it assumes the form of a developing psychic individual evolving in the manifestation the individual Prakriti and taking part in the evolution. It is the spark of the Divine Fire that grows behind the mind, vital and physical by means of the psychic being until it is able to transform the Prakriti of Ignorance into a Prakriti of Knowledge. This evolving psychic being ...
... The psychic is a spark of the Divine—but I do not know that it can be called a portion of the Jivatma—it is the same put forward in a different way. The bindu of which you speak is not the psychic being, but the soul or spark of the Divine which supports each existence; the psychic being is usually seen in form as a Purusha. The psychic being is the soul or spark of the Divine developing a form... psychic being. The soul is described as a spark of the Divine Fire in life and Page 117 matter, that is an image. It has not been described as a spark of consciousness. There is mental, vital, physical consciousness—different from the psychic. The psychic being and consciousness are not identical. When the soul or "spark of the Divine Fire" begins to develop a psychic individuality... hardness leading it up towards the Divine. In Yoga it becomes conscious of its aim and turns inward to the Divine. It sees behind and above it—that is the difference. The psychic is the spark of the Divine involved here in the individual existence. It grows and evolves in the form of the psychic being—so obviously it cannot have already the powers of the Divine. Only its presence makes it possible ...
... the Mother’s view on this topic, as on all others, is on the contrary clear, complete, and a reliable basis for spiritual practice. “ The soul , representative of the central being, is a spark of the Divine supporting all individual existence in Nature; the psychic being is a conscious form of that soul growing in the evolution – in the persistent process that develops first life in Matter, mind... its evolution assumes the form of a developing psychic individual [the psychic being] evolving in the manifestation the individual Prakriti [Nature] and taking part in the evolution. It is the spark of the Divine Fire that grows behind the mind, vital and physical by means of the psychic being until it is able to transform the Prakriti of Ignorance into a Prakriti of Knowledge. This evolving psychic being... [Antaratma] and psychic being are three different forms of the same reality and they must not be mixed together, as that confuses the clearness of the inner experience.” Secondly: “The soul is a spark of the Divine in the heart of the living creatures of Nature … This spark of Divinity is there in all terrestrial living beings from the earth’s highest to its lowest creatures.” But it is only in humans that ...
... consciousness, are other than our body, life and mind, and it is they that support our individual life , mind and body. The psychic entity is the deputy of the individual self, jivatman, and it is a spark of the divine fire and divine love which are operations of the principle of Ananda, which is itself the union of Sat and Chit, the two other elements of Sachchidananda. It is the psychic entity which is missioned... development is a decisive stage in the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The psychic entity is not an evolute of the Inconscient, although it has descended into the evolutionary process as a spark of the Divine and accompanies the evolution of our being and, with increasing evolution of our being, and with increasing power of guidance and control of the body, life and mind in our being, it, too, evolves... inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and Page 42 is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine." 37 According to Sri Aurobindo, the psychic being (also known as Chaitya Purusha or Antar a tman or the Purusha in the heart, hrday a guhyam , or the being which is described ...
... become aware of their true central being; but still it is always there standing behind the action of mind, life and body and is most directly represented by the psychic which is itself a spark of the Divine. It is by the growth of the psychic element in one's nature that one begins to come into conscious touch with one's central being above. When that happens and the central being uses a conscious... the manifested or instrumental being — it is superior to birth and death, always the same, the individual Self or Atman. It is the eternal true being of the individual. The soul is a spark of the Divine which is not seated above the manifested being, but comes down into the manifestation Page 85 to support its evolution in the material world. It is at first an undifferentiated... to evolve them and in its evolution it assumes the form of a developing psychic individual evolving in the manifestation the individual Prakriti and taking part in the evolution. It is the spark of the Divine Fire that grows behind the mind, vital and physical by means of the psychic being until it is able to transform the Prakriti of Ignorance into a Prakriti of Knowledge. This evolving psychic ...
... above the manifested or instrumental being—it is superior to birth and death, always the same, the individual Self or Atman. It is the eternal true being of the individual. The soul is a spark of the Divine which is not seated above the manifested being, but comes down into the manifestation to support its evolution in the material world. It is at first an undifferentiated power of the divine c... of the psychic being is indispensable. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Himself and the Ashram: Jivatman, Spark-Soul and Psychic Being The soul, representative of the central being, is a spark of the Divine supporting all individual existence in Nature; the psychic being is a conscious form of that soul growing in the evolution—in the persistent process that develops first life in matter, mind in... it has to evolve and in its evolution it assumes the form of a developing psychic individual evolving in the manifestation the individual Prakriti and taking part in the evolution. It is the spark of the Divine Fire that grows behind the mind, vital and physical by means of the psychic being until it is able to transform the Prakriti of Ignorance into a Prakriti of Knowledge. This evolving psychic being ...
... of the Divine and prior to the terrestrial manifestation— parā prakṛtir jīvabhūtā . In this lower manifestation, aparā prakṛti , this eternal portion of the divine appears as the soul, a spark of the Divine Fire, supporting the individual evolution, supporting the mental, vital and physical being. The psychic being is the spark growing into a Fire, evolving with the growth of the consciousness.... consciousness the Jivatman and the psychic being join together. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Jivatman in the Integral Yoga The soul, representative of the central being, is a spark of the Divine supporting all individual existence in Nature; the psychic being is a conscious form of that soul growing in the evolution—in the persistent process that develops first life in Matter, mind in... has to evolve them and in its evolution it assumes the form of a developing psychic individual evolving in the manifestation the individual Prakriti and taking part in the evolution. It is the spark of the Divine Fire that grows behind the mind, vital and physical by means of the psychic being until it is able to transform the Prakriti of Ignorance into a Prakriti of Knowledge. This evolving psychic being ...
... distorted or have to come in masked as their own opposites. Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine - I: The Double Soul in Man The soul and the life are two quite different powers. The soul is a spark of the Divine Spirit which supports the individual nature; mind, life, body are the instruments for the manifestation of the nature. In most men the soul is hidden and covered over by the action of the external... divine Light is our soul, a silent inmost being of which few are even aware; for if all have a soul, few are conscious of their true soul or feel its direct impulse. There dwells the little spark of the Divine which supports this obscure mass of our nature and around it grows the psychic being, the formed soul or the real Man within us. It is as this psychic being in him grows and the movements of ...
... 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 in the individual. In the course of the evolution, the soul grows and evolves in the form of a soul-personality, the psychic... the practice of yoga, sattwic — of the nature of sattwa, the quality of harmony, light, purity and peace. soul — the psychic essence or entity, the divine essence in the individual; a spark of the Divine that comes down into the manifestation to support the evolution of the individual. In the course of the evolution, the soul grows and evolves in the form of a soul-personality, the psychic being ...
... divine Light is our soul, a silent inmost being of which few are even aware; for if all have a soul, few are conscious of their true soul or feel its direct impulse. There dwells the little spark of the Divine which supports the obscure mass of our nature and around it grows the psychic being, the formed soul or the real Man within us. It is as this psychic being in him grows and the movements of the... with the reason and the outward moral mentor. But it is only when the life turns towards the Divine that the soul can truly come forward and impose its power on the outer members; for, itself a spark of the Divine, to grow in flame towards the Divine is its true life and its very reason of existence. At a certain stage in the Yoga when the mind is sufficiently quieted and no longer supports itself at ...
... more than a passing unity achieved by the universal powers of life and mind and beyond-mind? In common parlance, is there an individual "soul" answering to the distinct organism, an "immortal spark" of the Divine Spirit? As regards the human organism, the specific answer of science based on extra- sensory phenomena studied under test conditions and by a statistical method, is summed up by Dr. Rhine:... mostly bound up with the physical-vital-mental surface, this soul which is a depth-phenomenon peeping out would survive that surface's disintegration. And in its final essence it would be a spark of the Divine Spirit originating the universe. Further, if evolution is the key-process on earth and if an immortal individual entity is in every human evolute, then every such soul must be a sharer in ...
... Again there is a constant confusion between the mentalised desire-soul which is a creation of the vital urge in man, of his life-force seeking for its fulfilment and the true soul which is a spark of the Divine Fire, a portion of the Divine. Because the soul, the psychic being uses the mind and the vital as well as the body as instruments for growth and experience it is itself looked at as if it were... which we call a being, though the proper word would be rather a becoming; it may mean, on the other hand, specifically the psychic being in an evolutionary creature like man; it may mean the spark of the Divine which has been put into Matter by the descent of the Divine into the material world and which upholds all evolving formations here. There is and can be no psychic being in a non-evolutionary... Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 22 February 1951 A distinction has to be made between the soul in its essence and the psychic being. Behind each and all there is the soul which is the spark of the Divine—none could exist without that. But it is quite possible to have a vital and physical being without a clearly evolved psychic being behind it. Still, one cannot make general statements that no ...
... the Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. See also Nature. prāṇa, Prana — life energy; one of the five workings of the life-force. the Psychic — the soul; spark of the Divine before it has evolved into an individualised being; the divine essence in the individual. In the course of the evolution, the soul grows and evolves in the form of a soul-personality, the ... —William Ritchie Sorley (1855-1935), professor of philosophy at Cambridge, England. Soul — the psychic essence or entity, the divine essence in the individual; Page 415 a spark of the Divine that comes down into the manifestation to support the evolution of the individual. In the course of the evolution, the soul grows and evolves in the form of a soul-personality, the psychic ...
... that become aware of their true central being; but still it is always there standing behind the action of mind, life and body and is most directly represented by the psychic which is itself a spark of the Divine. It is by the growth of the psychic element in one's nature that one begins to come into conscious touch with one's central being above. When that happens and the central being uses a conscious... Divine and prior to the terrestrial manifestation - para prakrtir jivabhūtā. In this lower manifestation, apar ā prakrti, this eternal portion of the Divine appears as the soul, a spark of the Divine Fire, supporting the individual evolution, supporting the mental, vital and physical being. The psychic being is the spark growing into a Fire, evolving with the growth of the consciousness. ...
... has to evolve them and in its evolution it assumes the form of a developing psychic individual evolving in the manifestation the individual Prakriti and taking part in the evolution. It is the spark of the Divine Fire that grows behind the mind, vital and physical by means of the psychic being until it is able to transform the Prakriti of Ignorance into a Prakriti of Knowledge. This evolving psychic being... divine Light is our soul, a silent inmost being of which few are even aware; for if all have a soul, few are conscious of their true soul or feel its direct impulse. There dwells the little spark of the Divine which supports the obscure mass of our nature and around it grows the psychic being, the formed soul or the real Man within us. It is as this psychic being in him grows and the movements of the ...
... mind . physical vital —the part of the vital that is turned entirely upon physical things, full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane. psyche —the soul; spark of the Divine before it has evolved into an individualised being; the divine essence in the individual. In the course of the evolution, the soul grows and evolves in the form of a soul-personality, the psychic... Existence, one in all. The Self is being, not a being; it is the original and essential nature of our existence. soul —the psychic essence or entity, the divine essence in the individual; a spark of the Divine that comes down into the manifestation to support the evolution of the individual. In the course of the evolution, the soul grows and evolves in the form of a soul-personality, the psychic being ...
... with the reason and the outward moral mentor. But it is only when the life turns towards the Divine that the soul can truly come forward and impose its power on the outer members; for, itself a spark of the Divine, to grow in flame towards the Divine is its true life and its very reason of existence. Sri Aurobindo The Synthesis of Yoga - I: The Ascent of the Sacrifice - I The true soul secret... of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine. Not the unborn Self or Atman, for the Self even in presiding over the existence of the individual is aware always of its universality and transcendence, it is yet its deputy in the forms of ...
... Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.¹ In its undeveloped state, the psychic being is called the soul. The soul developed is properly termed the psychic being. The psychic being is also termed as the central being for the purposes... In other words, the Jivatman is the central being which is it self unborn but which presides over the individual evolution. The soul is the representative of the central being. It is a spark of the Divine, supporting individual existence in Nature. A conscious form of the soul, the psychic being, grows in the evolutionary process. The soul sup-ports the Nature in its evolution through ascending ...
... of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is what which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.'9 In its undeveloped state, the psychic being is called the soul. The developed soul is properly termed the psychic being. The psychic being is also termed as the central being for the purposes... In other words, the Jivatman is the central being which is itself unborn but which presides over the individual evolution. The soul is the representative of the central being. It is a spark of the Divine supporting individual existence in Nature. A conscious form of the soul, the psychic being, grows in the evolutionary process. The soul supports the Nature in its evolution through ascending ...
... there is a gradation between the supreme being 1 of the Divine and the consciousness shrouded partly or wholly by ignorance of self in the finite. The conscious embodied soul 2 is the spark of the divine Fire and that soul in man opens out to self-knowledge as it develops out of ignorance of self into self-being. The Divine also, pouring itself into the forms of the cosmic existence, is revealed ...
... of tiny divine spark within the being and out of this spark will emerge progressively an independent conscious being having its own action and will. The psychic being at its origin is only a spark of the divine consciousness and it is through successive lives that it builds up a conscious individuality. It is a progress similar to that of a growing child. It is a thing in the making. For a long time ...
... of tiny divine spark inside the being and out of this spark will emerge progressively an independent conscious being having its own action and will. The psychic being at its origin is only a spark of the divine consciousness and it is through successive lives that it builds up a conscious individuality. It is a progress similar to that of a growing child. It is a thing in the making. For a long time ...
... above the manifested or instrumental being—it is superior to birth and death, always the same, the individual Self or ātman . It is the eternal true being of the individual. The soul is a spark of the Divine which is not seated above the manifested being, but comes down into the manifestation to support its evolution in the material world. It is at first an undifferentiated power of the divine c ...
... Prakriti which we call a being, though the proper word would be rather a becoming; it may mean on the other hand specifically the psychic being in an evolutionary creature like man; it may mean the spark of the Divine which has been put into Matter by the descent of the Divine into the material world and which upholds Page 449 all evolving formations here. There is and can be no psychic being in ...
... Different Categories in Different Systems 1) The soul and the psychic being are practically the same, except that even in things which have not developed a psychic being, there is still a spark of the Divine which can be called the soul. The psychic being is called in Sanskrit the Purusha in the heart or the Chaitya Purusha. (The psychic being is the soul developing in the evolution.) 2) The ...
... the difficulty in dealing spiritually with the works of Life arises because the Will-in-Life for its purposes in the Ignorance has created a false soul of desire and substituted it for that spark of the Divine which is the true psyche. All or most of the works of life are at present or seem to be actuated and vitiated by this soul of desire; even those that are ethical or religious, even those that ...
... on the poet's mind from the antiquity to which he has referred in the two earlier stanzas is: Psyche. The word means "Soul" and by itself designates the inmost essence of human existence, a spark of the Divine. But in Greek mythology it spells also the name of the girl who married Eros the God of Love, lost him by attempting to look directly into his face and won him back after undergoing various trials ...
... my surroundings with the African savage than to be dead to all faith and all spirituality like the drunkards of a little knowledge—for even in that animal and unintelligent worship there is a spark of the divine fire which keeps humanity living, while the cultured imperial Roman or the luxurious modern wealth-gatherer and body worshipper drags his kind into a straight Page 43 & well built ...
... nonexistence, but to grow into the One and collaborate with its intentions in this material realm of its manifestation. This must be the reason our souls have incarnated here, and if they are “a spark of the Divine” it must be the rationale of their incarnation. Sri Aurobindo was not only a classical scholar and a generally recognized master of the English language, he was also widely read in cultural ...
... that the whole of the manifestation is the Avatar of the Divine, who is present in the atom, the cell, the animal. This is still more valid for the human being, who has in him a soul that is a spark of the Divine growing into a completely developed psychic being, and of whom the Upanishad says: tat tvam asi . When a child asked the Mother: “Mother, are you God?” she answered instantly: “Yes, my child ...
... What is here translated as ‘mind’ is esprit in the French language, which can mean ‘spirit’ or ‘mind’ (and even ‘wit’). In Lamarck the first significance was out of the question. From a spark of the Divine the spirit or soul had been degraded to a rational, albeit still immortal being. Now that the mind had become the epiphenomenon of a machine, it was not even taken into consideration anymore ...
... the soul really is a part, a ‘spark’ of the Godhead itself. According to Eastern wisdom it is so indeed, in all its infinite greatness. ‘The soul, representative of the central being, is a spark of the Divine supporting all individual existence in Nature.’ 24 (Sri Aurobindo) Being literally the Divine himself, it exists in all eternity, having no end and therefore no beginning. For that which has ...
... of the whole universe of its own creation, both animate and inanimate, is near and far but is imperceptible to human intelligence because of its extreme subtlety. The Self in us which is a spark of the Divine has to be uncovered from its sheaths of body, mind and life by persistent and sleepless endeavour. At last when the ego-comrplex is completely dissolved, it manifests itself to the seeker. ...
... God's secret presence we can answer that it is the omnipotence of an infinite self-dependent Being. Similarly we can name the logical causality of freewill by saying that it is the human soul, a spark of the Divine Being. Philosophers may argue whether human freewill and God's infinite existence are facts or else whether they are compatible with each other, but we are not now concerned with this problem ...
... 100 tone that I expected nothing else. There are always unregenerated parts tugging people backwards and who is not divided ? but it is best to put one's trust in the soul, the spark of the Divine within and foster that till it rises into a sufficient flame. I have almost finished the translations—and will soon give it to type. June 1936 Yes, I did not exaggerate ...
... magnitude which is followed by sordid consequences and irreparable destructions in the consciousness of these atoms. They cannot forget. They too have a mind, a consciousness, an Over-soul, a spark of the Divine in each atom , ( Mother speaks in English ) which reacted against this brutality. They invoked the Divinity to intervene and put an end to this carnage, to this unnecessary and baseless human ...
... right in order to eat because he was hungry. It is a very old story, but it is eternally true. ⁂ At its origin, the psychic begins by a kind of a divine spark within oneself, a spark of the divine consciousness. Out of this spark will slowly emerge an independent conscious being which will have its own action and its own will. The progress of the psychic consists in its formation ...
... Yogic process— the self-consciousness which I referred to as being the distinctive characteristic of man is a function of this organ. It is his soul, his "psychic being"; originally it is the spark of the Divine Consciousness which came down and became involved in Matter and has been endeavouring since to release itself through the upward march of evolution. It is this which presses on continually as ...
... Yogic process—the self-consciousness which I referred to as being the distinctive characteristic of man is a function of this organ. It is his soul, his "psychic being"; originally it is the spark of the Divine Consciousness which came down and became involved in Matter and has been endeavouring ever since to release itself through the upward march of evolution. It is this which presses on continually ...
... sincerity. One must sincerely want the spiritual life in order to have it. The soul – the psychic being – is always sincere: it is made of the very stuff of sincerity, for it is a part, or a spark of the Divine Consciousness itself. When one feels the call, turns one's back to the worldly life, moves towards the life spiritual, one follows then the urge of one's true being, the psychic being: one is ...
... Yogic process – the self-consciousness which I referred to as being the distinctive characteristic of man is a function of this organ. It is his soul, his "psychic being"; originally it is the spark of the Divine Consciousness which came down and became involved in Matter and has been endeavouring ever since to release itself through the upward march of evolution. It is this which presses on continually ...
... progress for its development, for it to blossom fully in its category, in its type and which in its origin is linked to the Divine. That is why, in each thing in this universe we find that spark of the Divine Light which gives life to all the beings, animate or inanimate. It is this which gives the élan, the power to subsist, to create, to multiply, to recreate, to form and to develop, to blossom ...
... the psychic being itself that develops. But it guides the evolution of the individual by increasing the psychic element in the nature of the individual. PURANI: If the psychic being is a spark of the Divine, then its function is the same as that of the Vedic Agni as "the leader of the journey". SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, Agni is the god of the psychic and leads the journey upward. PURANI: How does ...
... his divine right in order to eat because he was hungry. It is a very old story, but it is eternally true. At its origin, the psychic begins by a kind of a divine spark within oneself, a spark of the divine consciousness. Out of this spark will slowly emerge an independent conscious being which will have its own action and its own will The progress of the psychic consists in its formation, building ...
... determination of the Divine. It was the lure of the adventure, the delight of the hazards of the unknown that tempted the Divine to undertake the process of evolution in time. The individual soul, a spark of the Divine, chooses its own field of growth which includes pain as an element. Pain is an indispensable part of the process which will disappear when its utility is over. From one point of view "Pain ...
... themselves that become aware of their true central being; but it is there standing behind the action of mind, life and body and is most directly represented by the psychic which is itself a spark of the Divine. It is by the growth of the psychic element in one’s nature that one begins to come into conscious touch with one’s own central being. When that happens and the central being uses a conscious ...
... Fire burning on the bare stone / And the deep cavern of [her] secret soul." The following canto, the Triple Soul-Forces, gives us a view of the major facets of Savitri's inmost soul that is a spark of the Divine Mother as we have known her at work on earth. Each of the forces is given a recognisable image. Each of them claims to be Savitri's soul and each is partly right; but 47 Ibid .,p.411 ...
... tells us that the true soul of us is hidden behind our emotional being whose physical counterpart is in the centre of our chest. He calls it the psyche or psychic being which is in its essence a spark of the Divine. This spark came originally from the highest world into the night of material Nature and from that abyss kept yearning towards God and rose through various organisations of matter to its present ...
... sky-page. Where do you find that the Dawn "departs"? To bury her aura's seed of grandeur in the hours is surely not tantamount to the Dawn herself getting buried! The Dawn merely impregnates with a spark of the Divine the world of time and space and she does this not by herself disappearing but by building her aura of magnificent hues. The disappearance of the light preceding the sunrise -the fading of the ...
... manifestation and there is a gradation between the supreme being of the Divine and the consciousness shrouded partly or wholly by ignorance of self in the finite. The conscious embodied soul is the spark of the divine Fire and that soul in man opens out to self-knowledge as it develops out of ignorance of self into self-being. The Divine also, pouring itself into the forms of the cosmic existence, is ...
... call it great or spacious?" The word is Page 5 here used in a certain general fashion. We do not mean just what in our Yoga we understand by the "psychic being", the secret spark of the Divine in the deep heart, which has to be realised by a spiritual discipline. Of course, whatever we may name as the soul must have something to do with this spark, but there may be nothing direct ...
... latter's unmuddled courage and humanitarian concern, Radhakrishnan applies a fine intuitive touchstone to the theory of naturalistic evolution which denies the supra-physical soul, the spark of the Divine Spirit: "Russell does not seem to realise that the human individual who can sit in judgment on the universe, who has the intelligence to know that his life is but a brief episode in the ...
... of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine. Not the unborn Self or Atman, for the Self even in presiding over the existence of the individual is aware always of its universality and transcendence, it is yet its deputy in the forms of ...
... Again there is a constant confusion between the mentalised desire-soul which is a creation of the vital urge in man, of his life-force seeking for its fulfilment and the true soul which is a spark of the Divine Fire, a portion of the Divine. Because the soul, the psychic being uses the mind and the vital as well as the body as instruments for growth and experience it is itself looked at as if it were ...
... carrying with it the surrender of all the being. There are always unregenerate parts tugging people backwards and who is not divided? But it is best to put one's trust in the soul, the spark of the Divine within and foster that till it rises into a sufficient flame Page 346 ...
... fundamentally always the same, the psychic being is progressive; it grows from life to life, using mind, vital and body as its instruments. 3 "The psychic being at its origin is only a spark of the divine consciousness and it is through successive lives that it builds up a conscious individuality. It is a progress similar to that of a growing child. It is a thing in the making. ...
... Conversations Recorded by A.B. Purani 1) The soul and the psychic being are practically the same, except that even in things which have not developed a psychic being, there is still a spark of the Divine which can be called the soul. The psychic being is called in Sanskrit the Purusha in the heart or the Chaitya Purusha. (The psychic being is the soul developing in the evolution.) Sri Aurobindo ...
... buried, and its ultimate role as the direct link with the Divine. This flows from Sri Aurobindo's remarkable theory of spiritual evolution, according to which, although every individual has a spark of the Divine, it is only when the spark becomes individualised that it emerges as the Psychic Being which then, if recognized and accepted by our physical, emotional and mental consciousness, evolves into ...
... sky-page. Where do you find that the Dawn "departs"? To bury her aura's seed of grandeur in the hours is surely not tantamount to the Dawn herself getting buried! The Dawn merely impregnates with a spark of the Divine the world of time and space and she does this not by herself disappearing but by building her aura of magnificent hues. The disappearance of the light preceding the sunrise—the fading of the ...
... pitiable trembling, All this uncomprehended fire. 1 1 Translated by C.M. Bowra Page 140 Within the imperfect parts of our terrestrial existence Sri Aurobindo sees a spark of the Divine—the psychic being, as he terms it—which is all perfection in embryo and which acts at present indirecdy through a general influence on mind, life-force and body but has to be brought forward ...
... tells us that the true soul of us is hidden behind our emotional being whose physical counterpart is in the centre of our chest. He calls it the psyche or psychic being which is in its essence a spark of the Divine. This spark came originally from the highest world Page 276 into the night of material Nature and from that abyss kept yearning towards God and rose through various organisations ...
... The "sting" of "beauty" corresponds to the "thrilled" state: something smites you, even makes you suffer, but with a certain piercing to the heart which awakens you to your true being, the spark of the Divine in you. Kobrin, however, declares that this double experience of sight and sting gives such an access of "delight", such a spell of "wonder", that you feel they are something impossible to express ...
... the latter's unmuddled courage and humanitarian concern, Radhakrishnan applies a fine intuitive touch-stone to the theory of naturalistic evolution which denies the supra-physical soul, the spark of the Divine Spirit: "Russell does not seem to realise that the human Page 174 individual who can sit in judgment on the universe, who has the intelligence to know that his life is but ...
... ion. In that faultless cosmos there is no absence of the individual soul and its instruments of mind, life and matter. A supreme individual selfhood is there the counterpart of the evolving spark of the Divine that is here our soul; it is measured out and distinguished from its likes by a movement of ideative definition which is the supreme counterpart of what we know here as mind, while the dynamis ...
... etc;) there is not the evolution — there each acts separately according to its own law. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: Descent and Transformation The psychic is the soul or spark of the Divine Fire supporting the individual evolution on the earth and the psychic being is the soul-consciousness developing itself or rather its manifestation from life to life with the mind, vital and ...
... when their good and their evil have become eternal by the immortality of the past, be it ours to feel that, where they suffered, where they failed, no deed of ours was the cause, but wherever a spark of the divine fire kindled in their hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed. Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the ...
... knowledge which saves and fulfils-begins with the awakening or the entrance into this real being. This being is pure and luminous and blissful and sovereignly real, because it is a portion, a spark of the Divine Consciousness and Nature: a contact and communion with it brings automatically into play the light and the truth that are its substance. At the same time it is an uprising flame that reaches ...
... the formations would limit the infinity of the possibility in the infinity of the being. In the growth of the Gnostic personality, the psychic being or the soul, which is the individual spark of the Divine, plays a leading role. As long as the soul is at work in the unfoldment of the higher degrees of ignorant nature from Matter to Mind, it puts forth temporary personalities which are marked by ...
... (Shaktas) realise the Devi (Goddess) as the Cosmic and even as the Transcendent Divine. Is not the Self and the Jivatman one and the same thing? The soul is considered as a spark of the Divine and the Jivatman as a portion of the Divine. The self, Atman is in its nature either transcendent or universal (Paramatma, Atma); when it individualises and Page 267 ...
... from the Divine enter into Page 92 this universe from the very beginning or after the evolution of animal life? The soul is there from the beginning as a spark of the Divine. It grows and takes form as the psychic being in the course of the evolution. THE PSYCHIC BEING AFTER DEATH After death, what happens to the adhar ...
... between the cells that are transformed and those that are not. It cannot be compared! In the old cells, that is to say those in which the past still persists, there is only a faint glow, a spark of the Divine, whereas in the cells that are charged with the Supramental Consciousness, there is the perception of the Ananda of the soul, the soul of Matter which is awakening after thousands of years from ...
... is sincerity. One must sincerely want the spiritual life in order to have it. The soul—the psychic being—is always sincere: it is made of the very stuff of sincerity, for it is a part, or a spark of the Divine Consciousness itself. When one feels the call, turns one's back to the worldly life, moves towards the life spiritual, one follows then the urge of one's true being, the psychic being: one is ...
... knowledge which saves and fulfils—begins with the awakening or the entrance into this real being. This being is pure and luminous and blissful and sovereignly real, because it is a portion, a spark of the Divine Consciousness and Nature: a contact and communion with it brings automatically into play the light and the truth that are its substance. At the same time it is an uprising flame that reaches ...
... of our existence, man is possessed and led by demoniac motives and desires, driving the whole earth towards total annihilation. What happens to man's soul? What is this soul? It is a spark of the Divine Sun; it comes down not for its own gain but to illumine and deliver the darkness below into the original light. Souls descend, they take up this ignorance and unconsciousness here as a habitation ...
... and instead of being affected by outer circumstances or by life's events, we shall be, so to say, lifted above; we shall even live in a state of communion with the Divine, for the soul is a spark of the Divine, it is truly the Divine Presence itself. And then we shall also understand why things are as they are and not otherwise. To live within means to live in a state of constant aspiration ...
... think, wrote about "Eternity in a grain of sand." Man has in him his natural instruments —mind, heart, vital being, nervous and physical being—and Page 152 the true Self, the Spark of the Divine. Man can awaken his true Self and identify it with the Eternal, and immortal. It is then possible for it to project its perfection into the instruments of nature and make them participate in ...
... Truth above us. "7 (b) Soul " A Distinction has to be made between the soul in its essence and the psychic being. Behind each and all there is the soul which is the spark of the Divine; none could ___________________ ¹ On Yoga II, Tome Two, P. 205 ² Ibid, P. 206 ³Ibid, P. 221 4 Ibid, P. 222 5 Ibid, P. 226 6 Ibid, P. 231 7 Ibid, ...
... Words of the Mother, 3rd Series. ³ The Mother on Education, Page 76 which is capable of growth and follows the movement of the evolution."¹ The psychic presence, a spark of the Divine Consciousness, is the only thing that is permanent in the impermanent forms we assume from life to life. It gathers round itself all sorts of elements for the formation of an individuality ...
... individual being by increasing the psychic element in the nature of the individual. It is these personalities in nature that are bound. Disciple : It is said that psychic being is a spark of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo : Yes. Disciple : Then it seems that the function of the psychic being is the same as that of Vedic Agni who is the God of Fire, who is the leader of the journey ...
... 159 being is...the soul (the spark-soul or the psychic entity) of the individual evolving in the manifestation the individual Prakriti and taking part in the evolution. It is that spark of the Divine Fire that grows behind the mind» vital and physical as the psychic being until it is able to transform the Prakriti of Ignorance into Prakriti of Knowledge."¹ It is the Antarâtmâ or Chaitya Purusha ...
... the spark of Divine Consciousness which is meant to be the centre of a growing being which becomes the psychic being when it is at last individualised. It is this spark that is permanent and gathers round itself all sorts of elements for the formation of that individuality; the true psychic being is formed only when the psychic personality is fully grown, fully built up, round the eternal divine spark;... or less. But when, by the growth of the body round the spark of Divine Consciousness, humanity began upon the earth, certain human organisms became in the course of this progressive growth sufficiently perfected, and by their opening and receptivity allowed a junction with certain beings descending from above. This gave rise to a kind of divine humanity, what may be called a race of the élite. If only ...
... the spark of Divine Consciousness which is meant to be the centre of a growing being which becomes the psychic being when it is at last individualised. It is this spark that is permanent and gathers round itself all sorts of elements for the formation of that individuality; the true psychic being is formed only when the psychic personality is fully grown, fully built up, round the eternal divine spark;... Page 44 by the growth of the body round the spark of Divine Consciousness, humanity began upon the earth, certain human organisms became in the course of this progressive growth sufficiently perfected, and by their opening and receptivity allowed a junction with certain beings descending from above. This gave rise to a kind of divine humanity, what may be called a race of the elite. If only ...
... blessings. Step by step I approached her. My heart started beating a shade faster. The warmth of her emanating vibrations wrapped my whole being. As she handed me the message, a powerful spark of her divine touch left me completely lost in her luminous Presence: I forgot to look at her! The message was from Sri Aurobindo, and was applicable to the de facto merger of Pondicherry with the Indian... itself, must reach a perfection in all that it is and does which now we can hardly conceive. It may even in the end be suffused with a light and beauty and bliss from beyond, and the life divine assume a body divine. Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga: Perfection of the Body Because it was a special occasion, all these people in the groups first marched past with the band as the... Later I asked Maniben about the leaves the Mother had given. She explained, "It is sweet marjoram ... the Mother has given them the significance, New Birth—birth to the true consciousness, that of the Divine Presence in us." It was truly my new birth! Dyuman introduced me to Chandanben C. Shah from Africa, who had settled in the Ashram with her husband and children. She acquainted me and my husband ...
... formation and building and organisation; for the psychic begins by being only a little divine spark hidden in the inner person and out of this spark comes and gradually develops an independent conscious person who has his own will and activity. As I say, the psychic being is originally like a spark from the divine consciousness: it grows into a conscious individuality through the experiences of successive... instrument for the work of the Divine, if he chooses to be a worker upon earth to help in the fulfilment of the cosmic purpose of the Divine, instead of going away and resting in the psychic bliss of his own world, then he has to make a new kind of progress, a progress towards capacity to work, to organise and execute the work to express and embody the will of the Divine. As long as the world continues... continues, as long as he chooses to work for the Divine, he will continue to progress. But if he wishes to withdraw into the psychic world and gives up or refuses to work for the divine Plan, then he can remain in the static state beyond the range of progress. For, as I have said, progress exists only upon earth in the physical world. You cannot progress everywhere. In the psychic world there is ...
... , if that is his soul's choice. After death, once separated from his physical being, from his vital and mental beings, how is the soul conscious of being, of existing? The soul is a spark of the Supreme Divine; I do not see how the Lord has need of a body in order to be conscious of his being. ...
... formation and building and organisation; for the psychic begins by being only a little divine spark hidden in the inner person and out of this spark comes and gradually develops an independent conscious person who has his own will and activity. As I say, the psychic being is originally like a spark from the divine consciousness: it grows into a conscious individuality through the experiences of successive... instrument for the work of the Divine, if it chooses to be a worker upon earth to help in the fulfilment of the cosmic purpose of the Divine, instead of going away and resting in the psychic bliss of its own world, then he has to make a new kind of progress, a progress towards capacity to work, to organise and execute the work, to express and embody the will of the Divine. As long as the world continues... continues, as long as he chooses to work for the Divine, he will continue to progress. But if he wishes to withdraw into the psychic world and gives up or refuses to work for the divine Plan, then he can remain in the static state beyond the range of progress. For, as I have said, progress exists only upon earth in the physical world. You cannot progress everywhere. In the psychic world there is a kind ...
... if such is the choice of his soul. How is the soul conscious of being and existing after death, once it is separated from its physical, vital and mental beings? The soul is a spark of the Supreme Divine, I do not see how the Lord needs a body in order to be conscious of being. Page 71 It's nothing very new, but it's a broadening of the consciousness. And all these questions have ...
... inner light and force. In doing so he discovers in himself his true soul which is not this outer mixture of mental, vital and physical elements but something of the Reality behind them, a spark from the one Divine Fire. He has to learn to live in his soul and purify and orientate by its drive towards the Truth the rest of the nature. There can follow afterwards an opening upward and descent of a higher ...
... In doing so he discovers in himself his true soul which is not this outer mixture of mental, vital and physical elements but something of the Reality behind them, Page 158 a spark from the one Divine Fire. He has to learn to live in his soul and purify and orientate by its drive towards the Truth the rest of the nature. There can follow afterwards an opening upward and descent of a higher... ent by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature. Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice (On Himself, SABCL Vol. 26, pp. 95-97) Page 160 × ...
... a social aggregate? He would be such, if the social aggregate were the only reality of any consequence. But if there is a thing called the soul distinct from the body and if that soul is a spark of a Divine Consciousness that emanates and sustains the universe, then the individual's supreme significance and reality need not be limited to society. He would be related to an Immortal In-dweller, to... religious to the marrow and looked for the fountain-head of all conduct in duty to God. Emerson was a mixture of pantheist and tran-scendentalist: he held that the truest springs of action lay in the divine infinity hidden behind phenomena. Besides, he was a pugnacious individualist vis à vis average social conventions and the rating of common human collectivities as paramount. Ruskin also was surcharged... mediaeval master-craftsmen whom he admired. Nor exactly can Plato be enlisted on Marx's side on the strength of his socialist leanings. The highest goal of the Platonic life was oneness with the divine beauty, truth and goodness. Morality and social behaviour were closely knit in Platonism with the mystical and metaphysical intuition. Though the Platonic artist was meant to be a social-motived ...
... the spark of Divine Consciousness which is meant to be the centre of a growing being which becomes the psychic being when it is at last individualised. It is this spark that is permanent and gathers round itself all sorts of elements for the formation of that individuality; the true psychic being is formed only when the psychic personality is fully grown, fully built up, round the eternal divine spark;... closer to and more directly under the influence of the inner divine Presence, and the form which is under this influence—this kind of inner concentration of energy—has a life independent of the physical form—this is what we generally call the "soul" or the "psychic being"—and since it is organised around the divine centre it partakes of the divine nature which is immortal, eternal. The outer body falls... step in a victory over Matter by a greater progression of consciousness in it which shall make eventually Matter itself a means for the full manifestation of the Spirit." Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine - II: Man and the Evolution It is difficult to understand, Sweet Mother Ah!... If you take terrestrial history, all the forms of life appeared one after another in a general plan, a general ...
... the very beginning, coming closer and closer to you as you go on developing upward. Indeed the light-speck that you were originally, of which I spoke to you at the outset, is nothing but a spark of the same Divine Entity or Person come down into the material world. A great and glorious example of man becoming a god is that of Narada, therefore he is called Devarshi, that is to say, a rishi, a spiritually... psychic being involves the whole inner story of human destiny. How does the light grow and develop? What are the forces, what are the agents that initiate and help in the growth and development of the spark into the being, and the being into higher beings? Life is the agent, life-forces are the artisans that do this work. Life means a series of experiences, impacts of the surrounding world upon yourself... new fulfilment for the human being to attain to the status of a god, to evolve oneself, to attune oneself so as to call by this affinity a divine being, a god, and to become a Page 12 god. Sri Aurobindo speaks of the divine life, the Life Divine, the life of a god, it means that you become a god, not only realise the utmost human perfection possible as man but surpass man's humanity ...
... With slow footsteps I approached her. My heart started beating a shade faster. Comforting vibrations came like waves and swept over my whole being. While I was receiving the message a powerful spark from her divine touch left me completely lost in her luminosity, peace and joy - I forgot to look at her! That afternoon she joined the queue of Ashramites going up to the Prosperity Room where the Mother... almost — for others to follow. Would union with the Divine Consciousness lead at once to Transformation? Answering this question on 21 April 1954, the Mother says that it was not all that easy, it must take time: Only if the Divine descends into the physical consciousness - or rather... if the physical consciousness is totally receptive to the Divine - naturally transformation ensues. But transformation... you know, it is a will, a supreme goodwill which arranges all things around you.... ...If you say to the Divine with conviction, "I want only You", the Page 593 Divine will arrange all the circumstances in such a way as to compel you to be sincere.... Well, the Divine will come without showing Himself, without your seeing Him, without your having any inkling of it, and He will ...
... effort beyond its capacity, you tire it, you overwork it or you make it ill. You say that the psychic being is the same thing as the divine spark.... No, I never said that—it would be foolish! The psychic being is organised around the divine spark. The divine spark is one, universal, the same everywhere and in everything, one and infinite, of the same kind in all. You cannot say that it is a being—it... Religions say that you have a divine spark in you—it is well they call it a "spark", for it is so small indeed that it can be placed anywhere in the body without difficulty. But this does not mean that it is in the body: it is within the consciousness in another dimension, and there are beings who have a contact with it, others who haven't. But if you come to the divine Presence in the atom, the image... ing, the more so as they follow laws which elude completely this three-dimensional idea. So if you take refuge there, you may say that the divine spark is at the centre of each atom and you won't be far from the truth; but I was not speaking of the divine spark, I was speaking of the being, Page 139 the psychic consciousness, which is another thing. The psychic being is an entity which ...
... is a turbid mixture of which I am ashamed but which you alone can purify. My very dear child, Whatever is the nature of the offering, when it is made with sincerity it always contains a spark of divine light which can grow into a full sun and illuminate the whole being. You can be sure of my love, you can be sure of my help, and our blessings are always with you. 19 August 1939 How... dear Mother. What kind of faith would you like me to aspire for? Faith in the Divine's Grace and its power to transform you. Love and blessings to my dear child. 4 November 1938 Dear, dear, dear Mother, Every day you are growing more and more lovable and more and more adorable to me. By what divine Mystery do you cast this sweet spell on us? The only mystery, the only spell... Avatar of the Divine Mother whom I adore, but whom I know not except by Her lotus-feet. That is the reason why my eyes seek Her in your lotus-feet, and my heart yearns to press them to itself knowing them as its sole refuge. My dear, dear child, let the Light of a conscious certitude and the joy of an everlasting Presence be always with you—concretely—in the sweetness of love divine. 10 August ...
... humans – exist only on the Earth. As we know, the psychic being is much more than a ‘divine spark.’ Everything contains a divine spark, without which it could not exist. ‘The divine spark is at the centre of each atom,’ said the Mother. 76 ‘The psychic being is organized around the divine spark. The divine spark is one, universal, the same everywhere and in everything, one and infinite, of the same... the contrary, is an individual, personal being with its own experience, its own development, its own growth, its own organization. Only, this organization is the result of the action of a central divine spark.’ 77 In other words, the psychic being is the fine flower of the earthly evolution which one day, as the result of the supramental transformation, will lead to the concrete, material manifestation... Birth Centenary Library, vol. 17, The Hour of God. × The soul or psyche is the essential divine portion or ‘spark’ present in everything that exists, for without it nothing could exist. The psychic being is an evolutionary being, consisting of the soul as its core and of the psychic individuality, built ...
... in other words, learn to be modest and recognise worth and superiority in others. In all education, of course, the truth that was to be driven home was that every child had in the psychic spark in him, the Divine Presence itself. As she said on 15 January 1951: If you organise everything - your feelings, your thoughts, your impulses, etc. - around the psychic centre which is the inner light, you... tragic disappointments. The Mother's advice is thus categorical: Never seek a support elsewhere than in the Divine. Never seek satisfaction elsewhere than in the Divine.... All your needs can be satisfied only by the Divine. All your weaknesses can be borne and healed only by the Divine. He alone is capable of giving you what you need in everything, always, and if you try to find any satisfaction... unify the consciousness of everyone and lift it as high as I could towards the Divine. Those who were able to feel the movement followed it. This was ordinary meditation with an aspiration and ascent towards the Divine. Here, at the Playground, the work is to unify all who are here, make them open and bring down the divine force into them. It is the opposite movement and that is why this concentration ...
... the riddle of life lies within us like a spark. The Divine Spark enkindles and brings forth light only if we are able to use the Consciousness-Force. In the present state of affairs man is plagued by ignorance, division, duality and bondage. Amidst such stark adversity, it is the spark of Divinity that sets man on to the eternal path. It is the Divine Grace within which manifests in those who... creature but stands out in Nature as the single extraordinary being, as the one who possesses within himself the Divine spark. Despite all the shortcomings he can hope and strive for something beyond his own nature. He sets his goal beyond death and time; he aspires himself to be Divine. The time that he spends on earth thus may be counted as merely a fraction of eternity. The conscious way... were not to overcome the greatest puzzle of our life, the time that we spend as mortals would have no purpose, no Divine design. However, in Savitri, to overcome this dilemma we are given a shibboleth: A nomad of the far mysterious Light, In the wide ways a little spark of God. 23 The message is clear, whether it is Aswapati, Savitri or Satyavan and the rest of the mankind ...
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