... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) True Humility - Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth As I have often been questioned about it, I shall touch briefly on the meaning of true humility, supramental plasticity and spiritual rebirth. Humility is that state of consciousness in which, whatever the realisation, you know the infinite is still in front of... fact to each and all, a permanent proof of the transformation which will convince even the most sceptical. The bodily transformation will be the supreme spiritual rebirth—an utter casting away of all the ordinary past. For spiritual rebirth means the constant throwing away of our previous associations and circumstances and proceeding to live as if at each virgin moment we were starting life anew... soul in us which is always surrendered to the Divine, all bondage ceases. Then incessantly life begins afresh, then the past no longer cleaves to us. To give you an idea of the final height of spiritual rebirth, I may say that there can be a constant experience of the whole universe actually disappearing at every instant and being at every instant newly created! Page 177 ...
... to each and all, a permanent proof of the transformation which will convince even the most sceptical. The bodily transformation will be the supreme spiritual rebirth, an utter casting away of all the ordinary past. For spiritual rebirth means the constant throwing away of our previous associations and circumstances and proceedings to live as if at each virgin moment we were starting life... Signature Of Truth TRUE HUMILITY As I have often been questioned about it, I shall touch briefly on the meaning of true humility, supramental plasticity and spiritual rebirth. Humility is that state of consciousness in which, whatever realisation, you know the infinite is still in front of you. The rare quality of selfless admiration about which I have spoken to you... soul in us which is always surrendered rorhe Divine, all bondage ceases. Then incessantly life begins afresh, then the past no longer cleaves to us. To give you an idea of the final height of spiritual rebirth, I may say that there can be a constant experience of the whole universe actually disappearing at every instant and being at every instant newly created. Page 60 ...
... Prosperity meetings. A few statements by the Mother bearing on the Yogic life have always kept ringing in my ears. One was a call for inner freedom, a casting away of- all bondage of the past, a spiritual rebirth. She said: "If we want to counteract, annul or outgrow our past, we cannot do it by mere repentance or similar things, we must forget that the untransformed past has ever been and enter into an... then the past no longer cleaves to us." After this, the Mother went on to an astounding pronouncement based on a realisation of hers. She told us: "To give you an idea of the final height of spiritual rebirth, I may say that there can Page 75 be a constant experience of the whole universe disappearing at every instant and being at every instant newly created!" We ...
... in Page 71 the path of Yoga. For our entire nature and its environment, all our personal and all our universal self, are full of habits and of influences that are opposed to our spiritual rebirth and work against the whole-heartedness of our endeavour. In a certain sense we are nothing but a complex mass of mental, nervous and physical habits held together by a few ruling ideas, desires ...
... social, ethical and political, as is represented in the story of Rama or Krishna; but always then this descent becomes in the soul of the race a permanent power for the inner living and the spiritual rebirth. It is indeed curious to note that the Page 170 permanent, vital, universal effect of Buddhism and Christianity has been the force of their ethical, social and practical ideals and ...
... political firmament of India", and the "voice incarnate, free, of India's soul." All felt in his presence, and recognised in his writings and utterances, the mystic spell of the born prophet of the spiritual rebirth of India. His soul's love for all men, equally embracing the high and the low, the virtuous and the sinner; his magnetic attraction; his habitual silence pulsing with his accumulating Yogic ...
... mission ostensibly social, ethical and political, as is represented in the story of Rama and Krishna; but always then his descent becomes in the soul of the race a permanent power for the inner and Spiritual rebirth."1 "He comes as the divine power and love which calls men to itself, so that they may take refuge in that and no longer in the insufficiency of their human wills and the strife of their human ...
... change and transformation; and, in fact, many of them felt as though they were themselves being invaded by a prepotent new force - as though they were unbelievably caught in the throes of a spiritual rebirth. Some idea of the charged atmosphere may be formed from Jaya Devi's reminiscences of those days, as translated from the original Bengali by Sisir Kumar Ghose: November came along. A strange ...
... highest summits of her being to its lowest plains. Page 16 What is this becoming "Thou"? It is not a mere identification with the Divine in the soul and the mind,—it is a spiritual rebirth of the whole being, a remoulding of the entire apparatus of the surface and the subconscient human personality, and, above all, a radical transfiguration of the body, its consciousness and ...
... my vision, and my valuation of things, persons, actions in general and my relation with the Mother in particular. The Mother wrote to me that she was my mother who gave birth (meaning my spiritual rebirth) to me. On another occasion she wrote: "It is better that you do not speak to others what I speak or write to you; because they become jealous and their jealousy creates a bad atmosphere which ...
... all the stumblings in the path of Yoga. For our entire nature and its environment, all our personal and all our universal self are full of habits and of influences that are opposed to our spiritual rebirth and work against the whole-heartedness of our endeavour. In a certain sense we are nothing but a complex mass of mental, nervous and physical habits held together by a few ruling ideas, desires ...
... Spirit within has appointed you, may be said to be the heart of its message. Or again, put otherwise, with a deeper and more spiritual import,—make the work you have to do here your means of inner spiritual rebirth, the divine birth, and, having become divine, do still divine works as an instrument of the Divine for the leading of the peoples. Therefore there are here two things which have to be clearly ...
... question very well. What is it? "For our entire nature and its environment, all our personal and all our universal self, are full of habits and of influences that are opposed to our spiritual rebirth..." Our universal self is our relation with all others and all the movements of Nature. And I have often told you, haven't I?, that the first state of your being is a state of an almost ...
... He has created in His own being what seems to be a colossal not-Himself, this phenomenal world. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): True Humility - Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth ...
... ostensibly social, ethical and political, as is represented in the story of Rama and Krishna; but always then his descent becomes in the soul of the race a permanent power for the inner and spiritual rebirth." 1 "He comes as the divine power and love which, calls men to itself, so that they may take refuge in that and no longer in the insufficiency of their human wills and the strife of their ...
... eternal verities of life will be taught and re-taught to a stricken people" was of supreme relevance. "I am sure," he concluded, "the proposed University will symbolise the world's urge for a new spiritual rebirth; it will stand out as an oasis amidst the barren tracts that breed jealousies, suspicions and petty conflicts." 28 Even before the Convention met, it was known that Barindra Kumar Ghose ...
... practical inane. Incredulous, the Mother could only whisper in reply: "Do you think so?" Such a mystery as the Soup symbolising the 'élan vital' or the soma juice or the elixir of spiritual rebirth could succeed for long only if everybody brought to it the right attitude of reverence and faith, and if there was a real exchange between the divine giver and the human taker: a decisive transfer ...
... "Chance"; "Different Kinds of Space and 'Time - Fearlessness on the Vital Plane"; "Knowledge by Unity with the Divine - The Divine Will in the World"; "True Humility - Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth"; and "The Supramental Realisation". "Chance", says the Mother, "can only be the opposite of order and harmony"; and when the Supramental Truth-Consciousness alone comes to prevail, chance ...
... verities of life will be taught and re-taught to a stricken people" was of paramount relevance. "I am sure," he concluded, "the proposed University will symbolise the world's urge for a new spiritual rebirth; it will stand out as an oasis amidst the barren tracts that breed jealousies, suspicions and petty conflicts." The question had been posed earlier when the idea of the Convention was mooted ...
... and irrevocably, from the highest summits of her being to its lowest plains. What is this becoming "Thou" ? It is not a mere identification with the Divine in the soul and the mind,—it is a spiritual rebirth of the whole being, a remoulding of the entire apparatus of the surface and the subconscient human personality, and, above all, a radical transfiguration of the body, its consciousness and its ...
... mission ostensibly social, ethical and political, as is represented in the story of Rama and Krishna; but always then his descent becomes in the soul of the race a permanent power for the inner and spiritual rebirth." 1 "He comes as the divine power and love which, calls men to itself, so that they may take refuge in that and no longer in the insufficiency of their human wills and the strife of their ...
... took it all as part of a preordained drama, and in fact many of them felt as though they were themselves being invaded by a terrific new force, as though they were undergoing the throes Of a spiritual rebirth. Then came the great day, 24 November 1926. As she saw Sri Aurobindo emerge from his room in the evening, the Mother knew that a momentous descent had taken place, and she immediately ...
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