... attempts at creation and reintegration seem to combine the obscure rigidity of material Nature with a resurgence of the barbaric brutality and violence of a half animal vital Nature. How are the spiritual Forces to deal with all that or make use of such a churning of the energies of the material universe? The way of the Spirit is the way of peace and light and harmony; if it has to battle it is precisely... there any spirituality in all that? Spirituality can only come by opening of the mind, vital and physical to the inmost soul, to the higher Self, to the Divine, and their subordination to the spiritual forces and instrumentation as channels of the inner light, the higher Knowledge and Power. Other things, mental, aesthetic, vital, are often misnamed spirituality, but they lack that essential character ...
... only in a great aspiration for progress, comes to it from above by the infusion and absorption of spiritual forces and inspiration." Sweet Mother, here I have not understood. You have said: "... a great aspiration for progress comes to it from above by the infusion and absorption of spiritual forces and inspiration." What haven't you understood? The meaning, Sweet Mother. You are breaking ...
... Supreme Divine. The path is difficult, but, with the help of total self-giving to the innocent guidance by one's soul (Rabbit) one can go along the right path and ultimately achieve the victory of spiritual forces (Peacock) and total transformation (body of white—the Mother's Light). ...
... and call them: 'Come, peace, peace, peace, peace, come!" 23 To those who are engaged in the practise of Sadhana, illness may sometimes come because of lack of enough receptivity to the spiritual forces which one calls down by one's aspiration. The method of relieving such a disturbance is essentially the same, and consists in relaxing the part of the being (physical, vital, or mental), where ...
... quotations, comments and comparisons, all in connection with the continuation of the transformative process caused by the fundamental realisations of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and with the spiritual Forces active at present. To make these notes and reflections more readable, they have been organised around some of the main topics, chosen as themes of the chapters. ...
... lessen but it does not get rid of the Ignorance; it assails and compels to recede but it does not overcome the powers and forces that maintain the subtle and secret rule of the Inconscience. The spiritual forces acting through this larger mentalisation and vitalisation can bring in a higher light, strength and joy; but the full spiritualisation, the completest new integration of consciousness, is at this ...
... of metaphysical schools & ranked with Kant or Hegel or Nietzsche 1 as strong intellectual influences; in India they became, inevitably, the founders of great religious sects, immense moral & spiritual forces;—inevitably because Europe has made thought its highest & noblest aim, while India seeks not after thought but soul-vision and inner experience and even in the realm of ideas believes that they ...
... the Mother and I advise to all. Rejection is a principle element in this sadhana. But what I say is that one can reject best by bringing in the positive psychic Page 64 and spiritual forces through the pursuit of positive things like brahmacharya and the rest. I do not know what you mean by dissolution [ of desires ]. The principle of the Yoga is rejection—throwing out of ...
... wrote among her other experiences (e.g. of having a God glowing and tingling inside her) that she had seen that I was an incarnation of Shiva and discovered by intuition that I was working by my spiritual forces to bring about a war between the white and the coloured races next spring. This is all the foundation she has for her statement. There is no connection between my spiritual work and politics ...
... and organised and, so to say, divinised, it becomes immortal. It is the same thing for the mind. And even in the subtle physical, beings who are fully developed and have been impregnated with spiritual forces do not necessarily dissolve after death. They may continue to act or may take a beneficial rest in certain elements of Nature like water—generally it is in some liquid, in water or the sap of ...
... comes. For, in books of this kind ( Mother shows "The Synthesis of Yoga"), books of revelation, there is always an accumulation of forces―at least of higher mental forces, and most often of spiritual forces of the highest knowledge. Every book, on account of the words it contains, is like a small accumulator of these forces. People don't know this, for they don't know how to make use of it, but it ...
... specially of Greece or India. That is to say, it is an aesthetic and intellectual way of transforming all things into divine creatures, divine beings: all the forces of Nature, all the elements, all spiritual forces, all intellectual forces, all physical forces, all these are transformed into a number of godheads and they are given an aesthetic and intellectual reality. It is a symbolic and artistic and literary ...
... Spiritual Forces of Help and Succour The Hidden Forces of Life Existence of Spiritual Force Even in ordinary non-spiritual things the action of invisible or of subjective forces was open to doubt and discussion in which there could be no material certitude—while the spiritual force is invisible in itself and also invisible in its action. So it is idle ...
... receptive, by contact with the universal vital forces. The third, to which it usually opens only in a great aspiration for progress, comes to it from above by the infusion and absorption of spiritual forces and inspiration. To these sources men always strive more or less to add another, which is for them at the same time the source of most of their torments and misfortunes. It is the interchange ...
... blessings. 21 June 1962 Do not get agitated. Keep quiet and everything will be all right. Love and blessings. 14 May 1967 It is in quietness, peace and silence that the spiritual forces act. All agitation and excitement come from an adverse influence. February 1971 The true Power is always quiet. Restlessness, agitation, impatience are the sure signs of weakness ...
... which we are inserting below. This note was written in 1979.) Every time a new truth has attempted to manifest upon earth, it has been immediately attacked, corrupted and diverted by pseudo-spiritual forces—which did represent a certain spirituality at a given time, but precisely the one that the new truth wants to go beyond. To give but one example of those sad "spiritual diversions" which clutter ...
... PURANI: Besides, the French still have a big army intact. The navy and the air force are theirs. Why should they surrender? SRI AUROBINDO: Quite so. Moreover, as you go on fighting, moral and spiritual forces may rise up and assert themselves. No, France has become inferior now. NIRODBARAN: France does not believe in moral forces. SRI AUROBINDO: But ancient France did believe. NIRODBARAN: ...
... not only as we find them in the light of modern theories of Darwin, Bergson, Samuel Alexander, Whitehead, Teilhard de Chardin and others but more importantly in the light of Indian knowledge of spiritual forces working behind the external developments of forms that emerge through the evolutionary movement; and he had come to the conclusion that the present crisis of humanity is not an ordinary crisis ...
... crisis has reached a point of climax, and it can be resolved not by increasing development of external paraphernalia but by inward perception of the inmost realities and by releasing the moral and spiritual forces. Finally, the Indian message is that the time has come when a new psychology has to be created among the peoples so that various instruments of power, — political, economic, social, cultural ...
... today is growth—growth within. The problem is how to assimilate the dynamic values of life—social, economic and political—prominently imposing themselves upon humanity, and yet to preserve the spiritual forces created :by our culture; or, in other words: Is Indian spirituality capable of assimilating the elements of western culture .and giving humanity a new synthesis that might point the way out of ...
... comes. For, in books of this kind (Mother shows The Synthesis of Yoga), books of revelation, there is always an accumulation of forces - at least of higher mental forces, and most often of spiritual forces of the highest knowledge.... Now, you, when you are sincere and have an aspiration, you emanate a certain vibration, the vibration of your aspiration which goes and meets the corresponding force ...
... into a single life or even into a few compact but vibrant years. This is the inestimable advantage of Yoga—it is a quickening and revolutionary force, seconded, fortified and sped up by higher spiritual forces, to achieve its crowning end. Yoga breaks away from the tardy process of Nature and, stringing up all the energies of the individual being and firing his central will, sweeps him on to the ...
... not yet arrived at the stage from which the culminating saltus could be confidently taken. But today, in spite of the materialist's denial of Spirit and his scepticism about the reality of the spiritual forces, there is a growing, an insistent, though a more or less imprecise, aspiration for a radical change, a perfect integration, and a complete and integral fulfilment of human life and nature. There ...
... Aurobindo and his background, waxed eloquent when he dwelt on Sri Aurobindo's Page 100 father. 1 "SREEJUT ARAVINDA GHOSE. If his maternal grandfather represented the ancient spiritual forces of his nation, Aravinda's father, Dr. Krishnadhan Ghose, represented to a very large extent the spirit of the new illumination in his country. Dr. Ghose was essentially a product of English education ...
... was the subjective aspect of the great Twin Brethren to the sages of the Veda. For what functions are they called to the Sacrifice by Madhuchchhanda? First, they have to take delight in the spiritual forces generated in him by the action of the internal Yajna. These they have to accept, to enter into them and use them for delight, their delight and the sacrificer’s, yajwarír isho .. chanasyatam; ...
... now there is a sufficient descent of Light and Power, for one not to be subject to the ordeals and tests which the Hostile Powers are permitted to put when one has only the mental, or ordinary spiritual forces on the plane of mind, to support one's progress. If you look closely, you will see that when these Forces work now it is in a perfectly irrational, instinctive way, repeating always the same movements ...
... received to pour out freely, not only do they become blocked and no longer receive anything, but what they contain will spoil. If, on the contrary, we allow all this flood of vital, intellectual and spiritual forces to flow abundantly, if by impersonalising ourselves we know how to connect our little individuality to the great universal current, what we give will be returned to us a hundredfold. To know ...
... thing; when one sleeps well, eats well.... When one is quite calm, well balanced, very quiet, one has a solid basis and can receive a large number of forces. If anyone among you has received spiritual forces, forces of the Divine Ananda, for example, he knows from experience that unless he is in good health he cannot contain them, keep them. He begins to weep and cry, gets restless to expend what ...
... it becomes an established force there. 29 July 1933 The spiritual work of Krishna, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and others achieved nothing permanent. Whose work? So far as bringing in spiritual forces goes, I suppose their work was fairly successful. I am not aware that Ramakrishna or any other of those you speak of wanted to change the earth consciousness—they were concerned to raise people ...
... receptive, in contact with the universal vital forces. And the third, to which generally it opens only under a great aspiration for progress, comes from above through the infusion and absorption of spiritual forces and inspirations. To these men try more or less always to add another Page 140 source; which is, at the same time, for them the source of most of their torments and ...
... Spiritual Forces of Help and Succour The Hidden Forces of Life The Divine Grace I should like to say something about the Divine Grace—for you seem to think it should be something like a Divine Reason acting upon lines not very different from those of human intelligence. But it is not that. Also it is not a universal Divine Compassion either, acting impartially ...
... and circumscribed in a precarious and imperfect living but imperfectly conscious body. The superman will be a supramental spirit which will envelop and freely use a conscious body, plastic to spiritual forces. His physical frame will be a firm support and an adequate radiant instrument for the spirit's divine play and work in Matter. ... Supermind or gnosis is in its original nature at once ...
... touching the physical-physical, well, you must follow the procedure needed to get rid of it. This is what medical science calls "the course of the illness". One can hasten the course with the help of spiritual forces, but all the same the procedure must be followed. There are some four different stages. The very first is instantaneous. The second can be done in some minutes, the third may take several hours ...
... of a precipice. Or you can do it if your aim is not to be spiritual but to be an occultist, for then you can follow the necessary methods and get the help of the occult powers. But the occult spiritual forces and masteries can be called down or come down without calling only if that is quite secondary to the true thing, the seeking for the Divine, and if it is part of the Divine plan in you. Occult ...
... Yoga, is represented in the Veda under the image of a journey or of a battle or both in one image. It is a struggle to advance beset by pitfalls & difficult passages, assailed & beset by hostile spiritual forces, the enemies, hurters or destroyers. Whenever therefore we have the image of a battle or a journey, we have henceforth the right to enquire whether it is not in every case the symbol of this great ...
... they would be an expression of the truth of a spiritually united being and the truth of a spiritually united life. The whole formation of the common existence would be a self-building of the spiritual forces that must work themselves out spontaneously in such a life: these forces would be received inwardly by the inner being and expressed or self-expressed in a native harmony of idea and action and ...
... n. Here we have to think of human limits as such. The human temperament, the human sensorium is so balanced that it can stand a certain amount of pressure and no more from occult forces. Even spiritual forces at times send people crazy. In the Ashram itself I have known some people becoming quite irrational, to say the least. Not so much of late but in the early days when the Yogic pressure seems to ...
... and circumscribed in a precarious and imperfect living but imperfectly conscious body. The superman will be a supramental spirit which will envelop and freely use a conscious body, plastic to spiritual forces. His physical frame will be a firm support and an adequate radiant instrument for the spirit's divine play and work in Matter. Mind, even free and in its own unmixed and unhampered element ...
... monthly journal, Arya. I entirely agree with your outlook. I know as yet too little about Sri Aurobindo, but what little I know about him convinces me that there is in him one of the highest spiritual forces of the world. Page X A Few Words (About this edition) 'Mahasaraswati is perfection in details' - Sri Aurobindo. Sri Dilipkumar - one of the closest disciples ...
... — to obviate misunderstanding. In my summary description of my two immediate forbears I may have unwittingly encouraged my readers to form a somewhat wrong notion about the part the deeper spiritual forces had played in moulding their lives. From what I have written, those who do not know well the best Indian minds may think that there is, in the last analysis, hardly any basic difference between ...
... Aurobindo himself wrote: ‘What Leonardo da Vinci held in himself was all the new age of Europe on its many sides. But there was no question of Avatarhood or consciousness of a descent or pressure of spiritual forces. Mysticism was no part of what he had to manifest.’ 36 According to Kenneth J. Atchity: ‘His multifaceted, wide-ranging mind, coupled with brilliant genius and ready wit, gave Leonardo da ...
... significance: "Krishna's Light in the Mind"? To be more precise, there was once a scheme set for me by the Mother to paint flower-pictures for the rooms of the sadhaks, suggesting the spiritual forces specially at work on them. The couple of rooms given to me in what was called the Guest House, which I occupied for nine and a half years, were those which Sri Aurobindo had occupied for over ...
... of a precipice. Or you can do it if your aim is not to be spiritual but to be an occultist, for then you can follow the necessary methods and get the help of the occult powers. But the occult spiritual forces and masteries can be called down or [can] come down without calling only if that is quite secondary to the true thing, the seeking for the Divine, and if it is part of the Divine plan in you. ...
... central tenet that everything in our universe, including our human psyche, can be accounted for in terms entirely physical — that science has absolutely no need for recourse to conscious mental or spiritual forces. As a brain scientist, I have come to believe in the reality and power of conscious mental/cognitive entities of the mind or spirit and the indispensability of their causal control for both brain ...
... rejection. And, how to develop in full the opening to the divine Influence will be the subject-matter of the present one. Let us emphasise once again that without this unhindered opening to the spiritual forces any hope of advancing sufficiently in sadhana will prove futile and illusory. As Sri Aurobindo has reminded us: "The aim of the sadhaka of the Integral Yoga is not to become a great Yogi ...
... Hitler had met with his first reversal; his all-conquering march had been halted. The outward mind finds it difficult to perceive or accept that events in the physical world can be changed by spiritual forces. But this is a superficial way of looking at things, a partial and limited outlook. Sri Aurobindo writes of a deeper vision and action: '...it is part of the experience of those who have advanced ...
... exists, whereupon all the suffering in the world will seem redeemed. At the extreme summit of the overmind, there only remain great waves of multi-hued light , says the Mother, the play of spiritual forces, which later translate – sometimes much later – into new ideas, social changes, or earthly events, after crossing one by one all the layers of consciousness and suffering a considerable distortion ...
... Order of Truth". The Knights are Chevaliers, riders of horses, drawing strength from those swift embodiments of vitality: the Truths found are life-values as well as thought-values -they are spiritual idees-forces. And the Mother not only appoints Chevaliers but also empowers them. As I remarked during your last visit to me, when the Mother gives one a work to do she gives at the same time the capacity ...
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