... We have to keep life in motion ... If one pours the spiritual power into all these impure forms, the water of the causal ocean into a raw vessel - either that raw vessel will break and the water be spilt and lost, or the spiritual power will evaporate and only the impure form remain. In all fields it is the same. I can give the spiritual power but that power will be expended in making the image... inwardly and outwardly - from the higher inner chamber in which He lived for so many years. Not as a fighter all along, nor as a charioteer, but as a commander of a great spiritual power, marshalling and directing that spiritual power which knows no time and space, He has moved, He has guided the world-chariot. When Hitler was in the ascendant, all of you know that it was Mother and Sri Aurobindo who ...
... n. But that is not the real thing. If one pours the spiritual power into all these impure forms – the water of the causal ocean into raw vessels – either that raw thing will break and the water will be spilt and lost or the spiritual power will evaporate and only the impure form remain. In all fields it is the same. I can give the spiritual power but that power will be expended in making the image... though less clearly and dynamically at first, that a higher spiritual power was necessary to solve the moral, material, social and even political problems of the world. Just as Gandhiji believed in an inner, moral power or soul-force as essential for the redemption of the world, similarly Sri Aurobindo believed that a higher spiritual power was absolutely necessary and must be brought down on earth ...
... inspiration. But that is not the real thing. If one pours his spiritual power into all these impure forms—the water of the causal ocean into raw vessels—either that raw thing will break and the water be spilt and lost or the spiritual power will evaporate and only the impure form remain. In all fields it is the same. I can give the spiritual power but that power will be expended in making the image of an... integral, even though he may not be able to give it form. The bundles will open of themselves. All these are the signs of the incompleteness and unripe condition. I am not disturbed by it. Let the spiritual power play in the country in whatever way and in as many sects as there may be. Afterwards we shall see. This is the infancy or embryonic condition. It is the previous hint, not even the beginning. ... would be if someone like yourself who has a natural relation and already an influence over the child could do it with the necessary training and knowledge. The other means of cure is the use of spiritual power and influence. If certain psycho-spiritual means could be used, this would be as sure and effectual as the other. But this is not possible because there is no one there who has the right knowledge ...
... inspiration. But that is not the real thing. If one pours his spiritual power into all these impure forms — the water of the causal ocean into raw vessels — either that raw thing will break and the water be spilt and lost or the spiritual power will evaporate and only the impure form remain. In all fields it is the same. I can give the spiritual power but that power will be expended in making the image of... integral, even though he may not be able to give it form. The bundles will open of themselves. All these are the signs of the incompleteness and unripe condition. I am not disturbed by it. Let the spiritual power play in the country in whatever way and in as many sects as there may be. Afterwards we shall see. This is the infancy or embryonic condition. It is the previous hint, not even the beginning. ...
... flooded with a sudden inrush of spiritual experience. But if afterwards it begins questioning, doubting, theorising, surmising what this might be and whether it is true or not, what else can the spiritual Power do but retire and wait for the bubbles of the mind to cease? Page 223 I would ask one simple question of those who would make the intellectual mind the standard and judge of spiritual... steps towards an end clearly conceived and executed. But whatever it be it is all mind action and vital force in Gandhi. So why should he be taken as an example of the defeat of the Divine or of a spiritual Power? I quite allow that there has been something behind Gandhi greater than himself and you can call it the Divine or a Cosmic Force which has used him, but then there is that behind everybody who... It is to the latter that an answer can be attempted, for the former accepts only its own answer. There must be move clear understanding as to what we mean by the Divine, or by Power or by the spiritual Power, if it exists—and also what this Divine Power is supposed to do and under what conditions, the world being what it is, it is to be expected to work. So it is not a simple task to give a clear and ...
... liberates into action all the other forms, the mental supporting itself on the life and body and their powers and functionings contains undeveloped or only partially developed the psychic and the spiritual power of the being. But when by Yoga any of these powers is taken up from the dispersed and distributive action, raised to its highest degree, concentrated, it becomes manifest soul-power and reveals... with,—though there is no objection to their partial use,—the Rajayogic will only enter Page 612 in as an informal element. To arrive by the shortest way at the largest development of spiritual power and being and divinise by it a liberated nature in the whole range of human living is our inspiring motive. The principle in view is a self-surrender, a giving up of the human being into the... silence of self-being or on a higher plane in another existence. The Tantric system makes liberation the final, but not the only aim; it takes on its way a full perfection and enjoyment of the spiritual power, light and joy in the human existence, and even it has a glimpse of a supreme experience in which liberation and cosmic action and enjoyment are unified in a final overcoming of all oppositions ...
... that solely. If we dwell in the phenomenal nature only and see things only by the notions it impresses on us, we shall not get at the real truth of our active existence. The real truth is this spiritual power, this divine force of being, this essential quality of the spirit in things or rather of the spirit in which things are and from which they draw all their potencies and the seeds of their movements... of all the potent creative sounds of the revealed word; OM is the one universal formulation of the energy of sound and speech, that which contains and sums up, synthetises and releases all the spiritual power and all the potentiality of Vak and Shabda and of which the other sounds, out of whose stuff words of speech are woven, are supposed to be the developed evolutions. That makes it quite clear. It... phenomenal developments of the senses or of life or of light, intelligence, energy, strength, manhood, ascetic force that are proper to the supreme Prakriti. It is the essential quality in its spiritual power that constitutes the Swabhava. It is the force of spirit so manifesting, it is the light of its consciousness and the power of its energy in things revealed in a pure original sign that is the ...
... inspiration. But that is not the real thing. If one pours the spiritual power into all these impure forms—the water of the Causal ocean into raw vessels—either the raw vessels will break and the water will be spilt and lost or the spiritual power will evaporate and only the impure form remain. In all fields it is the same. I can give the spiritual power but that power will be expended in making the image of ...
... of the bands of the insurgents, there were Gurus or religious leaders as the source of inspiration and direction. What could Shivaji have achieved without his Guru, the Yogi Ramdas? There was spiritual power behind the creation and organisation of the Sikh militia. In this connection, the following historical account makes interesting reading: In 1772, in Rangpur, a district in Bengal, there was a... self-realisation. It was a simultaneous development, marked by an increasing effort of his intrinsic spirituality to prevail over his ardent spirit of nationalism. Even when he felt a strong urge for spiritual power, it was his politics that inspired the urge and sought to employ it to its own end. "...I came in contact with a Naga Sannyasi... I told him that I want to get power for revolutionary activities... Sri Aurobindo writes: "It came unasked, unsought for, though quite welcome. I had no least idea about it before, no aspiration towards it, in fact my aspiration was towards just the opposite, spiritual power to help the world... " Page 129 spiritual and psychological motor forces, do nothing better than one who is naive enough to think that he has exhausted the glory and mystery of ...
... experience I had when I was not physically well and was in fact narrowly saved from death. I had an inflammation of the nerves. I was lying in an easy-chair, in front of a garden. I saw that the spiritual power was still active in me: I could go on with occult experiments in spite of the illness. I used to concentrate on things and persons and circum stances and wanted to see if the power worked.... the persons chosen for the "controlled experiments" were not also - or not always - the right people. In their different ways, then, Sri Aurobindo and Mirra had concluded that, unless a new spiritual power which Sri Aurobindo called the Supermind - came down into the earthatmosphere and impregnated human effort with its own utter TruthConsciousness or All-Knowledge wedded to Executive Infallibility... matter of invoking the supramental power to take root here on the earth. Mirra too, with her own background of occult odysseys and explorations, understood that they were no substitute for the spiritual power of the Supermind. The suspension or virtual abandonment of political and revolutionary activity on Sri Aurobindo's part and the relegation of occult adventures to a strictly subordinate place ...
... Perhaps he could not make up his mind to accept the principle that an evil cannot be destroyed unless much that lives by the evil is destroyed. They could not grasp the argument that the spiritual power of Vashishta was responsible for the destruction. The original story is that the Cow, – Kamdhenu, – did not want to go to Vishwamitra. Vishwamitra wanted to take it by force. But Vashishta refused... So the Cow asked him to allow her to resist Vishwamitra. Vashishta said : "You can do whatever you like." She called upon the psychical powers to resist and the Asuras came on account of the spiritual power of Vashishta. Because one saves himself from the act of killing, his responsibility is not less on that account. The question is whether one resists or not. If one resists it may be by physical... beings. There can be no pity there. Many times the Rakshasa may come and ask you to save him, he may even ask you to transform him – as some beings asked the Mother in her vision – by your spiritual power. If you try that, all the power goes to the Rakshasa and you may become powerless. When these vital beings incarnate in men then the compassion would not prevent you from killing them. Page ...
... intimidation and a show of brute power and force. But if the bureaucracy has all the material power in its hands, the democracy has all the spiritual power, the power and force of martyrdom, of unflinching courage, of self-immolation for an idea. Spiritual power in the present creates material power in the future and for this reason we always find that if it is material force which dominates the present ...
... to this being will perhaps be accomplished through all kinds of other intermediaries. It is the leap, you understand, that seems to me tremendous. I conceive very well a being who could, by spiritual power, the power of his inner being, absorb the necessary forces, renew himself and remain always young; that one conceives very well, even for giving a certain suppleness so as to be able to change... possible), but how to change the structure? But that does not seem to me impossible. That does not seem to you impossible? No, perhaps it is imagination, but I imagine very well a spiritual power entering into it and producing a kind of luminous inflation, and all this suddenly blooming like a flower. This body, shrivelled up towards itself, opens out, becomes radiant, supple, luminous ...
... perhaps take place through all kinds of other intermediaries? You understand, what I find formidable is the switch from one to the other. I can very well conceive of a being who could, through spiritual power, the power of his inner being, absorb the necessary forces, renew himself and remain ever young; that's quite easily conceivable; even providing for a certain suppleness so as to be able to change... of absorption, for instance, is possible), but how do you change the structure? It doesn't seem impossible to me. It doesn't? No, maybe it's imagination, but I can readily imagine a spiritual power entering the body and producing a sort of luminous inflation, and everything suddenly blossoms out like a flower. This body, which is crumpled in on itself, blossoms out, becomes radiant, supple ...
... Sri Aurobindo was living in a single place for so many years, since 1910, I don't know if you will believe me if I say that He has moved the whole world by His ideas, by His thoughts, by His spiritual power, through His writings, and through His subtle, invisible spiritual force. Mother and Sri Aurobindo have not gone anywhere, not a single step from where they are, and yet you see today how people... That reminds me of another incident. Once I told Him, "Please don't forsake me. I am somewhat of a foolish fellow, with not much knowledge, not much brain, not much wisdom, not much spiritual power. But I have come to you, please don't forsake me." He replied Page 269 so graciously and promptly: "Never!" And I feel, my friends, at every step, His unfailing hand supporting ...
... few illustrative examples: "growing by his gaze"; "determining mandate of their eyes"; "his gaze had power"; "mild gaze uninsistent ruled"; "eyes that rule"; "mastering gaze"; "drew from sight spiritual power"; "its gaze controls"; etc. Now a few illustrative verses from Savitri: (1) "He regards the icon growing by his gaze..." (23) (2) "He mastered the tides of Nature with a look"... ignorant eyes Hardly from the Inconscient's night aroused, That look at images and not at Truth Can fill those orbs with an immortal's sight." (370) (7)''It drew from sight and sound spiritual power'' (236) Page 38 ...
... spiritual force acting they believe it must always succeed in the human sense and fulfil man's hopes and desires. The impartiality of observation about anything, including the working of the Spiritual Power that he was using, is a quality which I have never seen in another spiritual person. To a question whether his spiritual force was used only in the Ashram, he replied "Certainly, my force is... possible, also, for the mind to act directly and acquire knowledge without resorting to the help of the senses or any mental process. We have also seen that direct action of the spirit,—of a Spiritual Power beyond mind, is capable of producing tangible results. Questions and Answers Q: Does it mean that one should be in the world but not of it? A : Not merely that. One has ...
... these again, its sound and its sense, have separately and together a soul value, a direct spiritual power, which is infinitely the most important thing about them." 64 It would appear that the poets in the passages or lines cited above have somehow managed to awake the "soul value", the "direct spiritual power", in the words brought together. An adroit balance of ideas and sounds may turn out lines ...
... some idea, in Sri Aurobindo's own words, of the work which he did for others and for the world by using his spiritual power under divine guidance. In this age of the atom bomb, which seems to drive humanity to peace through fear, the possibility and assurance of a dynamic use of spiritual power can open out a new and a more lasting way to peace and harmony. And even with all these materials one can ...
... pond, and a tank with well-laid steps. There Upen Banerji taught the Gita to the young recruits, or 'pestilential agitators' as the then rulers dubbed them. But Barin felt a deep need of spiritual power for their enterprise. He, therefore, set out in search of a guru along with Upen. Barin had heard about Swami Brahmananda when he was in Baroda. But Brahmananda was no more. In his stead was his... even a culminating finale. It came unasked, unsought for, though quite welcome. I had no least idea about it before, no aspiration towards it, in fact my aspiration was towards just the opposite, spiritual power to help the world and to do my work in it, yet it came —without even a 'May I come in' or a 'By your leave.' It just happened and settled in as if for all eternity or as if it had been really there ...
... believes he will obtain—the result he wants. While... let us take the mantra, for instance, which is a form of occultism; unless the mantra is given by a guru and the guru transmits his occult or spiritual power to you with the mantra, you may repeat your mantra thousands of times, it will have no effect. That is to say, in true occultism, one must have the quality, the ability, the inner gift in order... order to use it, and that is the safeguard. True occultism cannot be practised by any fool. And this is no longer magic—neither white magic nor black nor golden—is not magic at all, it is a spiritual power which must be acquired by long discipline; and finally, it is given to you only by a divine grace. This means that as soon as one draws near the Truth, one is safe from all charlatanism, all pretension ...
... Rishi asks Agni for a "horse-form cow-in-front gift" he is not asking really for a number of horses forming a body of the gift with some cows walking in front, he is asking for a great body of spiritual power led by the light or, as we may translate it, "with the Ray-Cow walking in its front". 3 As one hymn describes the recovery from the Panis of the mass of the rays (the cows,—the shining herds... translator is the ubiquitous double entendre marking in Page 22 one word the symbol and the thing symbolised, Ray and Cow, clear light of the mind and clarified butter, horses and spiritual power; one has to invent phrases like the "herds of the light" or "the shining herds" or to use devices such as writing the word horse with a capital H to indicate that it is a symbolic horse that is ...
... energies which ordinarily depend for their opportunity of action on the pranic force. But the same thing can be done by mental will and practice or by an increasing opening of ourselves to a higher spiritual power of the Shakti. The pranic Shakti can be directed not only upon ourselves, but effectively towards others or on things or happenings for whatever purposes the will dictates. Its effectivity is immense... on us, and this frame of ourselves too is only an insignificant circumstance in her cosmic vastness. But the perfection sought in the integral Yoga is not only to be one with her in her highest spiritual power and one with her in her universal action, but to realise and possess the fullness of this Shakti in our individual being and nature. For the supreme Spirit is one as Purusha or as Prakriti, conscious ...
... and maintain a right physical perception of things, a right relation and right reaction to objects and energies, a right rhythm of mind, nerve and organism. It would bring into the body a higher spiritual power and a greater life-force unified with the universal life-force and able to draw on it, a luminous harmony with material Nature and the vast and calm touch of the eternal repose which can give ... consciousness of itself, no longer plunged into a self-oblivion or a half-oblivion of its real existence brought about by absorption in form and action, but using form and action with a delivered spiritual power for its free and perfect self-expression, no longer seeking for its own lost or forgotten or veiled and hidden significance or significances, no longer bound, but delivered from inconscience and ...
... the curative process and allowing your over-generous emotional-vital to get sucked into the person who seeks your help. This is an unhealthy transaction. Instead of the spiritual power using the human, the human uses the spiritual power in the human's ordinary terms. Not emotional-vital pity but a radiant psychic peace, communicating the presence of the Divine, has to be in play. Don't endeavour to heal: ...
... high plane of spiritual change, Aswapati seeks corroboration in the Secret Knowledge or the received perennial philosophy, and he proceeds from the ground of such knowledge to a heightened spiritual power of penetration into all the continents of cosmic life and experience. But He climbed to meet the infinite more above... Opponent of that glory of escape, The black Inconscient... highest level of apprehension — the two may be indistinguishable. Sri Aurobindo adds: Aesthetics belongs to the mental range and all that depends upon it... . The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules ...
... a channel and instrument for the actual play and fulfilment of that force. A Govind Singh is another instance of spiritual power made dynamic in mundane things. And we always have the classical instance of Rajarshi Janaka. Only, in the future a yet greater source of spiritual power is destined to be tapped and brought into play, into the plane of happenings, so that the material domain, the pattern ...
... receptivity: it will be capable of responding to the conscious will and of changing according to the will's dictates, the way clay responds to a potter's fingers. As Matter releases the involved spiritual power it contains and becomes openly conscious, it will be able to respond to corresponding vibrations of the supramental consciousness, just as we now respond to a vibration of anger with anger or to... collective transformation. Until now, the only power brought down was a mental power, or overmental at best, which was incapable of touching the bottommost layers, but now that a supramental or spiritual power has descended into the earth-consciousness through Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's realization, we can conceivably expect this supreme Future to touch the supreme Depths and hasten the cleansing ...
... high plane of spiritual change, Aswapathy seeks corroboration in the 'Secret Knowledge' or the received perennial philosophy, and he proceeds from the Ground of such knowledge to a heightened spiritual power of penetration into all the continents of cosmic life and experience. But before the start of his adventure into the occult worlds he is for a while caught between primordial opposing forces:... highest level of apprehension L the two may be indistinguishable. Sri Aurobindo adds: Aesthetics belongs to the mental range and all that depends upon it.... The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty Page 678 and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis ...
... ns of beauty, calm and restrained embodiments of idea, action or emotion in the idealised beauty of the human figure. The gods of Indian sculpture are cosmic beings, embodiments of some great spiritual power, spiritual idea and action, inmost psychic significance, the human form a vehicle of this soul meaning, its outward means of self-expression; everything in the figure, every opportunity it gives ...
... existence take on another appearance, action a different meaning and character. Our being then becomes no longer this little egoistic creation of Nature, but the largeness of a divine, immortal and spiritual Power. Our consciousness becomes no longer that of this limited and struggling mental and vital creature, but an infinite, divine and spiritual consciousness. Page 574 And our will and action ...
... by life and conduct and action, the direction taken by this preparatory endeavour consists mainly in a spiritualising of the ethical supported by the psychical mind—or rather it brings in the spiritual power and purity to aid these in enforcing their absolute claim and to impart a greater authority than life allows to the ethical ideal of right and truth of conduct or the psychic ideal of love and ...
... takes up the whole beautiful heritage of past progress but does not rest with giving it a novel shape: he seeks to divinise the entire self by a special experience and ultimately permeate with a spiritual power of consciousness every means of manifestation and the entire outer form so that even the poor body which lives a victim to disease and decay and the sudden stroke of death may become king of Nature ...
... in Colossians and Ephesians which appear to modify in a mysterious way the sheer futurity of the general resurrection. The Colossians-passages, already quoted in another context, are about the spiritual power of baptism: "You have been buried with him, when you were baptised; and by baptism, too, you have been raised up with him through your belief in the power of God who raised him from the dead" (2:12) ...
... be if someone like yourself who has a natural relation and already an influence over the child could do it with the necessary training and knowledge. The other means of course is the use of spiritual power and influence. If certain psycho-spiritual means could be used, this would be as sure and effectual as the other. But this is not possible because there is no one there who has the right knowledge ...
... Disciples Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Sri Aurobindo on Barindra Disciple: How to conquer fear? Sri Aurobindo: By mental strength, will and spiritual power. In my own case, whenever there was any fear I used to do the very things that I was afraid of even if it entailed a violent death. Barin also had much fear while he was in the terrorist activity ...
... spiritual super-consciousness that there comes into the being not only the capacity to see the goal of existence and to foresee the culmination of the effort but also a clear-sighted trust in a higher spiritual power to which one can surrender one's whole being, entrust oneself, give the responsibility for one's life and future and so abandon all worries. "Of course, it is impossible for man to fall back ...
... ambitions. How sad when the aim is lost! How wonderful when steadfast he remains in faith! One of the methods by which the Guru initiates the Shishya is by giving him the Mantra, the Word of spiritual Power and Realisation, the Word that effects transformation in his soul and spirit. The initiation by the Guru can even be by putting his hand on the head of the disciple, as Ramakrishna did in the ...
... terrific, egoistic powers. Sri Rama had to fight Ravana at the time of the mentalization of humanity; Sri Krishna led the fight of the Mahabharata war, supporting with his physical presence and his spiritual Power the Pandavas against the ill-intentioned Kauravas. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were for the first time in human history the complete, bi-poled male-female Avatar. May it at last be realized that ...
... yet seen physically, unless the scientists have found something I do not know of … It is the leap, you see, that seems so enormous to me. I conceive without difficulty of a being that could, by spiritual power, the power of its inner being, absorb the necessary forces, renew itself and remain always young. One conceives this without any difficulty, even that some suppleness can be given to change the ...
... for the young city. The Matrimandir only makes sense when it represents something on the level of the forces which have to contribute towards the coming of the New World. It must be a kind of spiritual power plant creating a field with a transforming power which acts upon all who enter into it, upon those who live in its vicinity, and upon the Earth out of whose body it seems to emerge. The transformation ...
... must be ready to go through death. 1 — The Mother About a year before, there already had been signs of trouble with the prostate gland, but Sri Aurobindo had cured that with his spiritual power. In November 1950, the symptoms appeared again. To the astonishment of his entourage, he who always had behaved as if he had eternity in front of him suddenly made them understand that he wanted ...
... d soul suffers. The latter has elements of humanity that are still open to dark forces. Our body, for instance, lives under laws that have not Page 34 yet been changed by the spiritual power. The Avatar has similar infirmities and he may even undertake labours for the world that are bound to cause suffering to him. Of course, one should always question whether one is sincere, but merely ...
... ity most through raising by both imaginative emotionalism and a subtilisation of Classicism's inspired reason its modern complex curiosity of mind into a directness, serene and mysterious, of spiritual power exceeding the world we know in sensation, feeling and thought. It does not reject this world, it embraces and transforms its appearances and values -but from within and beyond it; it is a pervasion ...
... had unusual modes of acting and behaving, both admirable and strange. One peculiarity of his was that after the Mother had given flowers at pranam he thought of getting the utmost benefit of the spiritual power put into them by simply eating them up! Now to another topic. You find it difficult to understand why, as related in "Dyuman - the Luminous One", dyuman didn't look at Sri Aurobindo while ...
... really done for India's independence what was necessary. Political independence without a spiritual new life ready to be drawn upon would hardly be freedom in the genuine Indian sense. Besides, the spiritual power that Sri Aurobindo won was actually the hidden sustaining energy of the nationalist movement; because it was occult the outer eye could not appreciate it but a flash of its presence is given even ...
... knowledge near and one Seized on all things by a moved identity... Life was not there, but an impassioned force Finer than fineness, deeper than the deeps, Felt as a subtle and spiritual power, A quivering out from soul to answering soul, A mystic movement, a close influence, A free and happy and intense approach Of being to being with no screen or check, ...
... Thus we may say about Teilhard's religion: "It exceeds in favour of pantheism the orthodox omnipresence of God as 16.Hymn of the Universe, "Pensees", p. 91. 17.ibid., "The Spiritual Power of Matter", p. 68. 18.Christianity and Evolution, p. 184. Page 60 well as the old idea of Christ's Mystical Body and simultaneously it exceeds in favour of Christian ...
... This Victory was to prepare the descent of the supreme divine dynamism that has never directly worked in the world and that Sri Aurobindo has termed the Supermind, the Truth-Consciousness, the spiritual Power holding the secret of Matter's total transformation. The first sadhak I met was Pujalal who had come to the Pondicherry station to receive me and the girl I had married two months earlier and ...
... qualities and symbols. The stones have their own individuality and characteristic. They are conscious, sensitive, receptive and full of energetic vibrations. They hold in them the occult and spiritual power. Their influence and magnetic effect on human life are unique. Here is the sketch of the Mother's Pavilion done on the same piece of paper by the Mother: She told me: The Pavilion ...
... my way to Golconde. The next morning the Mother sent me a huge card illustrating Shiva and Shakti. She had written on it: This can be taken as one aspect of the collaboration between the Spiritual Power and the Material Nature. I sent her the report of what she had said the previous evening. It ran: Nature is always going on her own ways. Spiritual things also are going on their own ways ...
... Nature in her outward aspect seems to care for nothing except to get things done—or else to make conditions for an ingenious variety of the play of life. Nature in her deeper aspect as a conscious spiritual Power is concerned with the growth, by experience, the spiritual development of the souls she has in her charge—and these souls themselves have a say in the matter. All these good people lament and wonder ...
... consciousness and experience; without them there would be no links, no helpful intervening spaces to make the immense ascension possible. It is indeed from these higher sources that the secret spiritual Power acts upon the being and by its pressure brings about the psychic transformation or the spiritual change; but in the early stages of our growth this action is not apparent, it remains occult and ...
... universal, does not seek its separate gratification but only asks in its outward expression in Nature its growth to its real stature, the expression of its inner divine self, that transcendent spiritual power and presence within it which is one with all and in sympathy with each thing and creature and with all the collective personalities and powers of the divine Page 205 existence, and ...
... For ordinarily the consciousness does not rise to the summits except in the highest moments; it remains on the mental level and receives descents from above, sometimes a single descent of some spiritual power that stays and moulds the being into something predominatingly spiritual, or a succession of descents bringing into it more and more of the spiritual status and dynamis: but unless one can live ...
... standards of our own Ignorance on the larger and more intricate operations of cosmic Nature or on the action of the supreme Wisdom and supreme Good which draws or raises us towards itself by a spiritual power working slowly in ourselves through our inner being and not by a law of temptation and compulsion upon our outer vital nature. If the soul is passing through an evolution by a many-sided and complex ...
... a world governed by the law of Death. That is an individual solution which makes no difference to mankind and the world, or rather makes only this difference that they are deprived of so much spiritual power which might have helped them forward in the painful march of their evolution. What then is the master man, the divine worker, the opened channel of the universal Will to do when he finds the ...
... life that we can get beyond the magnified, mentalised, reasoning and consciously willing animal that for the most part the greater number of us are and only by raising it up to unity with some spiritual power we have not yet reached that we can hope to transform vital nature and make her a free instrument of the higher spirit. Then man may be really what he strives to be, master of his life, in control ...
... liberty, is in its highest and ultimate sense a state of being; it is self living in itself and determining by its own energy what it shall be inwardly and, eventually, by the growth of a divine spiritual power within determining too what it shall make of its external circumstances and environment; that is the largest and freest sense of self-determination. But when we start from the natural and temporal ...
... hardly knows the secret Page 288 of his own spell; even the part taken by the consciously critical or constructive mind is less intellectual than intuitive; he creates by an afflatus of spiritual power of which his mind is the channel and instrument and the appreciation of it in himself and others comes not by an intellectual judgment but by a spiritual feeling. It is that which must tell him ...
... the gold pen writing golden letters was perhaps an indication of the Mother writing the things of the Divine Truth in you,—for gold in these visions is the symbol of the Divine Truth. The spiritual Power is naturally more free on its own level than in the body. The golden colour indicates here Mahakali force which is the strongest for the working in the body. The different parts [ mind, ...
... danger for her (because inner difficulties are easily surmountable), but matter and the body are the weak point or crucial point of our Yoga, since this province has never been conquered by the spiritual Power, the old Yogas having either left it alone or used on it only a detailed mental and vital force, not the general spiritual force. It was the reason why after a serious illness caused by a terribly ...
... obstacles have been too great. I have not been able to get anything active into shape. Consequently, we have to go on as before for some time longer. Our action depends on developing sufficient spiritual power to overcome the enormous material obstacles opposed to us, to shape minds, men, events, means, things. This we have got as yet in very insufficient quantity. You have done well in confining ...
... would be if someone like yourself who has a natural relation and already an influence over the child could do it with the necessary training and knowledge. The other means of cure is the use of spiritual power and influence. If certain psycho-spiritual means could be used, this Page 375 would be as sure and effectual as the other. But this is not possible because there is no one there who ...
... even a culminating finale. It came unasked, unsought for, though quite welcome. I had no least idea about it before, no aspiration towards it, in fact my aspiration was towards just the opposite, spiritual power to help the world and do my work in it, yet it came—without even a "May I come in" or a "By your leave". It just happened and settled in as if for all eternity or as if it had been really there ...
... disinterestedness; then you are sure to advance on the way. 13 June 1958 Page 265 × Words charged with spiritual power. × Ascetic. × ...
... little categories (this is more convenient for it), but that does not resemble the truth very much. Page 312 You have said that Wagner had an intuition of the occult and that to have spiritual power one must conquer sexuality. In fact, Wagner had the intuition of this victory to be achieved, for in "The Ring of the Niebelungen" there is a treasure hidden at the bottom of a river. Three nymphs ...
... nature—and this of course gave the materialists a good opening: "You see, your so-called power is nothing at all." But this was because in their external life they were ordinary men; for the greatest spiritual power, if it enters material that's not educated, will produce a result far superior to what that individual would have been able to achieve in his ordinary state, but far inferior to what a genius who ...
... for cure from his Guru; the next morning he rises well, strong and energetic. He has at least some justification for thinking that a force has been used on him and put into him and that it was a spiritual power that acted. But in another case medicines may be used, while at the same time the invisible force may be called for to aid the material means, for it is a known fact that medicines may or may not ...
... in her outward aspect seems to care for nothing except to get things done - or else to make conditions for an ingenious variety of the play of life. Nature in her deeper aspect as a conscious spiritual Power is concerned with the growth, by experience, the spiritual development of the souls she has in her charge- and these souls themselves have a say in the matter. All these good people lament and ...
... that there comes into the being not only the capacity to see the goal of existence and to foresee Page 303 the culmination of the effort but also a clear-sighted trust in a higher spiritual power to which one can surrender one's whole being, entrust oneself, give the responsibility for one's life and future and so abandon all worries. Of course, it is impossible for man to fall back ...
... unshakable certitude of the Divine's Victory. It is good to have this unshakable faith―it makes your path easier and shorter. True faith does not depend on circumstances. Faith in spiritual power must not depend on circumstances. A faith based on material proofs is not faith―it is a bargaining. Faith first, knowledge afterwards. They who have faith will go through ...
... three civilisations, each of them original and of the soil. Everything in Europe is small, rapid and short-lived; she has not the secret of immortality. * * * July 25, 1907 Spiritual power in the present creates material power in the future and for this reason we always find that if it is Page 25 material force which dominates the present, it is spiritual which ...
... steps towards an end clearly conceived and executed. But whatever it be it is all mind action and vital force in Gandhi. So why should he be taken as an example of the defeat of the Divine or of a spiritual Power?** I quite allow that there has been something behind Gandhi greater than himself and you can call it the Divine or a Cosmic Force which has used him, but then there is that behind everybody who ...
... becomes immediate—and I have experienced this. But this would then mean that the supramental Power automatically commands all these intermediaries, whereas if it's not present, even the highest spiritual power would need a specialized knowledge to act in this realm, a knowledge equivalent to an occult or initiatory knowledge of all these realms. This is why I told X, 'Well, you taught me many things ...
... but only for a fortnight. Then a period of chaos in the Government will follow. After that, a young man will appear on the scene who will be guided by a divine force coming from a woman of great spiritual power. What do You think about it? People say many things—especially astrologers! We have only to wait; we shall surely see what happens. 30 September 1964 Page 304 Sweet ...
... greater, sustained height of perfection and spiritual quality in poetry than has yet been achieved; but we are discussing here short passages and lines." "The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules ...
... near and one Seized on all things by a moved identity... Life was not there but an impassioned force, Finer than fineness, deeper than the deeps, Felt as a subtle and spiritual power, A quivering out from soul to answering soul, A mystic movement, a close influence, A free and happy and intense approach Of being to being with no screen or check, ...
... 11 Years later, this very Sri Aurobindo took whole-heartedly the side of the British and their allies in World War II and regarded Hitler as the instrument of a demonic force and set his own spiritual power working against him and later against Japan. Nair, unable to fathom the fact that, as a line in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri puts it, Our life is a paradox with God for key 12 and unable ...
... I do not see what there is in it that cannot be understood. Why should not one thing go into two separate parts? There is no uncrossable wall between different parts. Peace or any other spiritual power can enter mind and heart at the same time. Anger starting from the entrails can occupy heart and mind simultaneously. I feel some positive and tangible presence on the top of the ...
... NIRODBARAN: We fear because of our attachments. SRI AUROBINDO: One must have no attachments in Yoga. DR. MANILAL: How is fear to be conquered? SRI AUROBINDO: By mental strength, will and spiritual power. In my own case, whenever there was any fear, I used to do very thing I was afraid of, even if it brought the risk of a sudden death. Barin also had a lot of fear while he was carrying terrorist ...
... We did not advise him to remain. The Mother, after a meditation with him, told him about some of his difficulties and he admitted she was right. At one time I thought that physical Siddhi, spiritual power over matter, was impossible. But in the Alipore Jail I found once after my meditation that my body had taken a position which was physically impossible: it was actually raised some inches above ...
... them out of their limitations, substitute for our mind's ignorant, limited, tepid or trepidant pleasure in them a free, intense and uplifting urge of delight and supply a new source of creative spiritual power and illumination by which they can be carried more swiftly and profoundly towards their absolute light in knowledge and their yet undreamed possibilities and most dynamic energy of content and ...
... jiva is directly Page 135 originated from Purushottama and His Para Prakriti; it is not the form of ego. The true force that operates in and through the jiva is derived from higher spiritual Power or Para Prakriti; hence, the mechanical operation of the three Gunas is not the inmost and fundamental truth of its movements. The swabhava of the jiva is the movement of the will of one's own ...
... although there is no objection to their partial use. And the Rajayogic methods enter in as an informal element. In Sri Aurobindo's words, "To arrive by the shortest way at the largest development of spiritual power and being and divinise by it a liberated nature in the whole range of human living is our inspiring motive." 86 The central principle of the integral yoga is a self- surrender, a giving ...
... Thus Tantra becomes a bolder and larger system. It is true that the Tantric system makes liberation the final, but not the only aim. It takes on its way a full perfection and enjoyment of the spiritual power, light and joy in the human existence, and even it has a glimpse of a supreme experience in which liberation and cosmic action and enjoyment are unified in a final overcoming of all opposition ...
... planes. It may also be said that by means of ascension on the higher planes of consciousness between the mind and the supermind one can attain to varieties of spiritual experience, but when the spiritual power and light descend into the operations of the body, life and mind for their transformation, the endeavour would succeed better and more rapidly if it is preceded by a good deal of development of ...
... result. But the forms of life as they appear to us are at once its disguises and its instruments of self-manifestation. Man has to grow in knowledge till they cease to be disguises and grow in spiritual power and quality till they become in him its perfect instruments. To grow into the fullness of the divine is the true law of human life and to shape his earthly existence into its image is the meaning ...
... Spiritual backing of armed conflict was always present in the Indian tradition. Shivaji had as his inspiration the great Yogi Ramdas. The Sikh militias were raised in the bosom of spiritual power. No wonder that Hem Chandra Kanungo, whom Sri Aurobindo initiated into revolutionary activities and was sent for training to Europe, was told by Mironow, the Russian revolutionary in Paris: 'We ...
... objection to their partial use. The methods of Raja Yoga also would enter in only as an informal element. The methods of this yoga aim at arriving by the shortest way at the largest development of spiritual power and being and divinize by it a liberated nature in the whole range of human living. In Sri Aurobindo's synthesis of yoga, the spirit in man is regarded not as solely an individual being traveling ...
... sake of the Self. The son is held dear, not for the sake of the son, but for the sake of the Self. Wealth is dear, cattle are dear, not because of the cattle or wealth, but because of the Self. Spiritual power, military power, are held dear not for their own sakes, but for the sake of the Self. The other worlds are held dear not for their sakes but for the sake of the Self. The gods too are held dear ...
... large totality is the very nature of this new and growing way of existence, a fullness of the possibilities of the mind transmuted into a thing of light,, of the life converted into a force of spiritual power and Page 157 joy, of the body transformed into an instrument of a divine action, divine knowledge, divine bliss. All can be taken into its scope that is capable of transforming itself ...
... was there by "a moved identity". There was a direct communication between consciousness and consciousness and life was not there present as life "but an impassioned force". It was a subtle and spiritual power. There was no physical body there, because body was not needed. The soul itself was its own deathless form. The knowledge derived of things was by their soul and not their shape. Everything there ...
... quite possible. But I do not see the use if the Avatar has to make himself recognised like this by declarations or self-advertisements. Ramakrishna said this and I think everybody who had a great Spiritual Power has also said it sometime or other. There is nothing impossible in it. Such temporary occupation Chaitanya also had and in that state he used to speak as the Lord. 1-6-1926 Disciple ...
... We fear because of our attachments. Sri Aurobindo : One must have no attachments in yoga. Disciple : How to conquer fear? Sri Aurobindo : By mental strength, will and spiritual power. In my own case, whenever there was any fear I used to do the very things that I was afraid of even if it entailed a violent death. Barin also had much fear while he was in the terrorist activity ...
... Divine Love, and in the final part describes the Yoga of Self-Perfection which uses all three disciplines in a bold way: To arrive by the shortest way at the largest development of spiritual power and being and divinise by it a liberated nature in the whole range of human living is our inspiring motive. The principle in view is a self-surrender, a giving up of the human ...
... life remained almost the same. Page 13 The human civilization is waiting for the fourth and final revolution that is the spiritual revolution. The Divine Consciousness with the spiritual power will continue to work silently and universally. Divine Power — Divya Shakti — moves in mankind from mind to mind and creates a revolution — Deva Manmani Sancaranti. In everyone's life this ...
... and meet them on the same level. As they came down they felt they had lost their high spiritual condition. Disciple : It was probably because of this that they went against the use of spiritual power. Sri Aurobindo : In your Yoga there are two movements of Nature : one is the movement of light and knowledge and the other is the movement of force or will. Generally it is the movement ...
... s. When she used to cook and entertain us with food, it seemed that we were partaking of the nectar of heaven. How tasty the food was and how beautifully it was served! It was due only to her spiritual power that she alone could master Sudhir’s virility. She used to calm him just by uttering a few telling words. At that time I wondered at their power of endurance — in Sudhir it was physical endurance ...
... fresh creation, as distinct from even the best reconstruction or the highest synthesis: The third, only now beginning or recently begun, is rather a process of new . creation in which the spiritual power of the Indian mind remains supreme, recovers its truth, accepts whatever it finds sound or true, useful or inevitable of the modem idea and form, but so transmutes and Indianises it, so absorbs ...
... and accomplishes the miraculous rout of the Mogul and Rajput hordes. There is the further suggestion that, behind Shivaji's incomparable leadership of the Marathas, there was also Ramdas's spiritual power of personality. Suryaji sings a song of Ramdas while smiting and slaying the enemy. In his moment of victory, Shivaji is humble before Baji's dead body but is reconciled to the event by the ...
... Christ was to become? What do we know today of Mother's and Page 206 Sri Aurobindo's meaning? Will this seed be perverted once again, imprisoned in a religion, shut up in a politico-spiritual power? Or else will it freely and integrally fructify and radiate with its living Power to change the earth? This Agenda is the whole battle of the future. You don't know what battle, really. ...
... Consciousness, Transformation, Tapasya, Intuitive Mind, Successful Future, Divine Solicitude, Cheerfulness, Integral Opening, Patience, Service, Psychic Purity, Faithfulness, Realisation, Spiritual Power of Healing, Avatar: the Supreme Manifested on the Earth in a body, Victorious Love, Disinterested Work done for the Divine, Consecration, Mental Plasticity, Absolute Truth, Illumined Mind, ...
... rise to the height of her mission and proclaim the Truth to the world." Rajen Babu was profoundly impressed by the atmosphere of the place and by the Mother's radiant personality and poise of spiritual power. A group of children from the University Centre representing many nationalities were introduced to the President, and he was happy to meet them and posed for photographs with them. Among other ...
... and physically in dress, games and sports". 6 And, of course, what gave unity and clarity and shining purpose to the Centre of Education - as, indeed, to the Ashram as a whole - was the dual spiritual power of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, their vision of future possibility, and their involvement in the destinies of their disciples individually and as an evolving spiritual community. IV ...
... distort and spill what is transmitted to it for expression. A perfect physical expression of the fruits of divine union has hardly been possible as yet in human life. Sri Aurobindo's spiritual power has been bent on the achievement of the integral divine union and its undiminished and undistorted expression in the normal work-a-day life of humanity; but for this supreme consummation of the ...
... This Power and Light penetrated into all the parts of his being and as a result, his soul "...was torn out from its mortality". And he was drawn back from seeking loneliness to a great spiritual Power which was wide and pure. Henceforth his mind became a blank to this Divine Spirit and opened to cosmic widenesses and the sweep of the Transcendent. This experience completely revolutionised his ...
... will perhaps take place through all kinds of other intermediaries. You understand, what I find formidable is the leap from one to the other I can very well conceive of a being who could, through spiritual power, the power of his inner being, absorb the necessary forces, renew himself and remain ever young—that’s quite easily conceivable, even providing for a certain suppleness so as to be able to change ...
... govern even the minutest detail of the life and action of man. The question is to bring it down and establish it on earth and keep it pure. For, there is a gravitational pull downwards. So the spiritual power must be such that it can not only resist but overcome that pull." He was speaking on 18 January 1939. And he threw a challenge. "This is the solution I propose. It is a spiritual solution that ...
... This Jiva itself is spirit and not the natural ego; the spirit and not the form of ego is our reality and inner soul principle. The true force of what we are and can be is there in that higher spiritual Power and this mechanical Maya of the three gunas is not the inmost and fundamental truth of its movements; it is only a present executive energy, an apparatus of lower convenience, a scheme of outward ...
... in no degree bound by this world of relations. Even in becoming all he is still a Transcendence; even in assuming finite forms he is always the Infinite. Nature, Prakriti, is in her essence his spiritual power, self-power, ātmaśakti ; this spiritual self-power develops infinite primal qualities of becoming in the inwardness of things and turns them into an external surface of form and action. For in ...
... power of the Spirit; there must be powers in the divine Will-force from which these from aspects of Prakriti have their origin. For everything in the lower normal nature is derived the higher spiritual power of being of the Purushottama, mattaḥ pravartate ; it does not come into being de novo and without a spiritual cause. Something in the essential power of the spirit there must be from which ...
... essential and the strict letter of the national past, which yet masked a movement of assimilation. The third, only now beginning or recently begun, is rather a process of new creation in which the spiritual power of the Indian mind remains supreme, recovers its truths, accepts whatever it finds sound or true, useful or inevitable of the modern idea and form, but so transmutes and Indianises it, so absorbs ...
... Nature is always a spiritual, a divine working. It is force of the supreme divine Nature, it is the conscious will of the being of the Supreme that throws itself out in various essential and spiritual power of quality in the Jiva: that essential power is the swabhava of the Jiva. All act and becoming which proceed directly from this spiritual force are a divine becoming and a pure and spiritual action ...
... between the Gods and the demons is taken up and given its spiritual significance and the Vedic godheads more openly than in Rik and Saman characterised and invoked in their inner function and spiritual power. I may cite as an example of this development of Vedic idea and image a passage of the Taittiriya in which Indra plainly appears as the power and godhead of the divine mind: He who is the ...
... spiritualisation. The master who has had the deep experience of divine union and who by his presence alone transmits spirituality—Abdul Baha. Page 113 What a single man can do by his spiritual power can be achieved by a group if it unites in a thought of goodwill: Chaldean initiation : "When you are twelve united in righteousness, you will manifest the Ineffable." Groups are subject ...
... towards an end clearly conceived and executed. But whatever it be, it is all mind-action and vital force in Gandhi. So why should he be taken as an example of the defeat of the Divine or of a spiritual Power? I quite allow that there has been something behind Gandhi greater than himself and you can call it the Divine or a Cosmic Force which has used him, but then there is that behind everybody who ...
... tantra: A path of spiritual discipline based upon the principle of Consciousness-Power (conceived as the Mother) as the supreme Reality. tap as: Energy of Consciousness - the principle of spiritual power and force in the higher or divine Nature. tapasy ā (Tapasya): Spiritual effort by concentration of the energies in a spiritual discipline or process. tāmasika (Tamasic): Full of ...
... possible. If the attack takes the form of adverse suggestions try quietly to push them away, as you would some material object. The quieter you are, the stronger you become. The firm basis of all spiritual power is equanimity. You must not allow anything to disturb your poise: you can then resist every kind of attack. If, besides, you possess sufficient discernment and can see and catch the evil suggestions ...
... balance of forces is not so well established, when the strength is not the same, it begins again. And one laments, "I believed that it was over! I had succeeded and told myself, 'It is true that spiritual power has an action upon the body, it is true that something can be done', and there! it is not true. And yet it was a small thing, and I who want to conquer immortality! How will I succeed?... For years ...
... sensible element, its sound value, a quite immaterial element, its significance or thought value, and both of these again, its sound and its sense, have separately and together a soul value, a direct spiritual power, which is infinitely the most important thing about them. And though this comes to birth with a small element subject to the laws of technique, yet almost immediately, almost at the beginning of ...
... large totality is the very nature of this new and growing way of existence, a fullness of the possibilities of the mind transmuted into a thing of light, of the life converted into a force of spiritual power and joy, of the body transformed into an instrument of a divine action, divine knowledge, divine bliss. All can be taken into its scope that is capable of transforming itself, all that can be an ...
... depends upon it; it may degenerate into aestheticism or may exaggerate or narrow itself into some version of the theory of "Art for Art's sake". The Overmind is Page 27 essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules ...
... flooded with a sudden inrush of spiritual experience. But if afterwards it begins questioning, doubting, theorising, surmising what this might be and whether it is true or not, what else can the spiritual Power do but retire and wait for the bubbles of the mind to cease? I would ask one simple question of those who would make Page 340 the intellectual mind the standard and judge of spiritual ...
... red, red in black, again red and once more yellow in blue. Today with the Veda, the literary work of the Dharma has definitely begun; proof is given of the general successful pressure of the spiritual power for the works of the Dharma in others; but it is not yet regularised. In Kriti & Samaja the power is not yet ripe for organised action. Veda II. 23, 24, 25, 26—completed today. This shows a ...
... have a settled inner peace, Page 386 freedom, light, not disturbed by the outer movements, but the outer movements will remain. It is only the combined action of the psychic and the spiritual power that can change it. It is by meditation, by concentration, by the constant turning or call [ that aspiration and openness may be cultivated ]—secondly, by the keeping of the mind and vital ...
... control or to camouflage, but it does not change its character. The vital being and its life-force and their drive towards self-affirmation are, in the absence of an overt action of soul-power and spiritual power, Atmashakti, Nature's chief means of effectuation, and without its support neither mind nor body can utilise their possibilities or realise their aim here in existence. It is only if the inner ...
... eternal fountains, not a form cut to some temporary human pattern. His perfection will not be a sattwic purity, but a thing uplifted beyond the gunas of Nature, a perfection of spiritual knowledge, spiritual power, spiritual delight, unity and harmony of unity; the outward perfection of his works will be freely shaped as the self-expression of this inner spiritual transcendence and universality. For this ...
... this aim of Swarajya and Samrajya and puts it on the larger spiritual basis. There it gets its full power, opens to the diviner degrees of the spirit; for it is by oneness with the Infinite, by a spiritual power acting upon finite things, that some highest integral perfection of our being and nature finds its own native foundation. A perfect equality not only of the self, but in the nature is a condition ...
... two kinds of freedom. A liberation from Nature in a quiescent bliss Page 682 of the spirit is the first form of release. A farther liberation of the Nature into a divine quality and spiritual power of world-experience fills the supreme calm with the supreme kinetic bliss of knowledge, power, joy and mastery. A divine unity of supreme spirit and its supreme nature is the integral liberation ...
... overcome the discord and dislocations created by a clashing diversity of mind and life and by the attack of disrupting forces in universal Nature. What is lacking is a spiritual knowledge and spiritual power, a power over self, a power born of inner unification with others, a power over the surrounding or invading world-forces, a full-visioned and fully equipped power of effectuation of knowledge; ...
... living forms and instruments, which can be made a revelation of spiritual significances, a support for our spiritual growth and the evolution of spiritual capacity and experience, a means towards spiritual power, knowledge or Ananda. The mantra is one of these psycho-spiritual means, at once a symbol, an instrument and a sound body for the divine manifestation, and of the same kind are the images of the ...
... le)... That's so true! For that, a smile is enough. "...but matter and the body are the weak point or crucial point of our Yoga, since this province has never been conquered by the spiritual Power, the old Yogas having either left it alone or used on it only a detail mental and vital force, not the general spiritual force. It was the reason why after a serious illness caused by a terribly ...
... subtleties and shadows from any level. No doubt, the Psychic will yield the sweetest secrets of the spiritual and the mystic, and the Overhead the amplest. But genuine stuff of intense mystic or spiritual power is possible to every plane. The poets of the Rigveda drew their inspiration from the Overhead — often the highest Overhead from where the Mantra in its most divine form hails. But you must ...
... the photo, but if he has any over people, it must be a vital power. He is not a great mind; he doesn't go beyond the idealistic intellect. But that's more than enough for people, because true spiritual power is completely above their heads—of course, they are very sensitive to a little bit of vital power, mental-vital. He's a man who could have practiced some Tantrism in the way Woodroffe did; I ...
... exchange, it is all relative and the Divine resources are inexhaustible. Is this attitude a correct one? You are quite right and I approve of your attitude. Never mix in your thought spiritual power and money because it leads straight to catastrophe. A gift made through vanity is profitable neither to the giver nor to the receiver. Page 50 I wanted to make him understand ...
... knowledge near and one Seized on all things by a moved identity... Life was not there but an impassioned force Finer than fineness, deeper than the deeps, Felt as a subtle and spiritual power, A quivering out from soul to answering soul, A mystic movement, a close influence, A free and happy and intense approach Of being to being with no screen or check, Without ...
... essential and the strict letter of the national past, which yet masked a movement of assimilation. The third, only now beginning or recently begun, is rather a process of new creation in which the spiritual power of the Indian mind remains-supreme, recovers its truths, accepts whatever it finds sound or true, useful or inevitable of the modern idea and form, but so transmutes and Indianises it, so absorbs ...
... higher levels. It is the nisus that is creative; that satisfies the thirst. But is nisus an unconscious drive coming by degrees to consciousness in man? Unless we assume the nisus to be a spiritual power ever drawing on its resources and ever expressing new forms, Alexander's whole account becomes unsatisfactory. Page 277 Lloyd Morgan, who comes very close to Alexander in his ...
... White Roses 09 November 1957 SHIVA AND SHAKTI: (The Picture sent by the Mother) This can be taken as one aspect of the collaboration between the Spiritual Power and the Material Nature. ...
... induce the body to recover its trust in the Supreme Grace. To medical knowledge and experience, add full faith in the Divine's Grace and your healing capacity will have no limits. Spiritual power of healing: opening and receptivity to the divine influence. The material power to heal demands a great sincerity in one's goodwill. I am still not through with this second spell of ...
... with my help you will surely be able to conquer. That is true, but you must sincerely want this help and let it work within you and in all circumstances. ( A sadhak asked the Mother to use her spiritual power to cure a serious illness. ) The power cannot work if you have no control over your desires. 6 September 1959 Page 147 Your readings are correct. In my last note I was ...
... atmosphere as a teenager and paid your respects to the Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo and the Page 210 Mother at that early period of your life - presumably your first contact with a spiritual power - the influence of these two Masters of Yoga is bound to have been basic. If afterwards you dabbled in other supposedly spiritual or occult influences, what can you expect other than a confusion ...
... in another way: he looks almost malicious. But the man has power—real power; not a Pope's power, I mean: real power, inside him. Vital power, you mean, or spiritual? Not spiritual! Not spiritual: power. Power—which means a somewhat higher mental capacity along with a vital realization. He's a man who, were he not the Pope, would have no scruples. Page 199 But he happens ( laughing ...
... defenseless) to spiritual force. The day when it manifests physically, there will be a debacle. Even here, with these people who through their tradition are so accustomed to the Power, the true spiritual Power, when it just manifests a little, they... they tremble all over. But there they deny it... which means they are completely defenseless. I don't know when it will come—I don't know, it may not ...
... always known who I am. It seems André told him that he had the sense of the reality from an early age. When he was a boy, I never called any doctor to treat his illnesses. I always cured him by spiritual power. Whenever any harsh opinion was expressed by in-laws, little Andre used to defend me. Once at dinner a criticism of me was made and André rose up to declare spontaneously: 'Ma mère est la vérité' ...
... 351. 72 Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research, Vol. 10, No 2, (December 1986), p. 150. See also Supplement to the Revised Edition of Savitri, pp. 112-13. charged with occult-spiritual power have unhappily remained unused. Recently Richard Hartz has made an elaborate and painstaking study of the several drafts of Savitri and indicated the manner in which a reasonably ...
... unanimity of seeing minds In myriad forms luminous with the one God. Life was not there, but an impassioned force, Finer than fineness, deeper than the deeps Felt as a subtle and spiritual power, A quivering out from soul to answering soul, A mystic movement, a close influence, A free and happy and intense approach Of being to being with no screen or check, Without ...
... it. This knowledge in the tradition was always there in its background, but it had got lost in the course of time. Sri Aurobindo has renewed it, putting his own Yogic- Page 526 spiritual power into it: he has put the fire of his own soul in its body and in its spirit. We must bear in mind, and recognise, that the tale is an occult-spiritual tale involving cosmic powers and pe ...
... text. Thus the following lines Voices that seemed to come from unseen worlds Uttered the syllables of the Unmanifest And clothed the body of the mystic Word— lines charged with occult-spiritual power have regrettably, remained unused. Three known distinct periods of the composition of Savitri can thus be seen. During the Arya -phase, before 1920, Savitri was a narrative poem retelling ...
... 4 April 1939 To Amal With the blessings of 4th April, New Year’s day of the Ashram in remembrance of Sri Aurobindo’s arrival at Pondicherry. Open to the action of the “spiritual power of healing”. 4 April 1939 ...
... existence take on another appearance, action a different meaning and character. Our being then becomes no longer this little egoistic creation of Nature, but the largeness of a divine, immortal and spiritual Power. Our consciousness becomes no longer that of this limited and struggling mental and vital creature, but an infinite, divine and spiritual consciousness. And our will and action too are no longer ...
... He was after all the Avatar of the Supramental, which is none other than the last Avatar in the Hindu tradition: Kalki, expected to come on a white winged horse brandishing the sword of the spiritual power (and whom nobody perceived when he did come). If it is true that because of his effort the Supramental has descended into the Earth's atmosphere, and if because of this descent the earthly ...
... for cure from his Guru; the next morning he rises well, strong and energetic. He has at least some justification for thinking that a force has been used on him and put into him and that it was a spiritual power that acted. But in another case, medicines may be used, while at the same time the invisible force may be called for to aid the material means, for it is a known fact that medicines may or may ...
... higher levels. It is the nisus that is creative, that satisfies the thirst. But is nisus an unconscious drive coming by degrees to consciousness in man? Unless we assume the nisus to be a spiritual power ever drawing on its resources and ever expressing new forms, Alexander's whole account becomes unsatisfactory. Lloyd Morgan, who comes very close to Alexander in his account of emergent ...
... of this yoga aim at all the perfections that are aimed at in the Tantra but they even go beyond. These methods are so conceived as to constitute the shortest way at the largest development of spiritual power and being and divinize by it a liberated nature in the whole range of human living. Moreover, in Sri Aurobindo's synthesis of yoga, the spirit in man is regarded not as solely an individual being ...
... of the inferior Nature, traigunyātītya. Liberation from Nature in a quiescent bliss of the supreme is the first form of release. A farther liberation of the Nature into a divine quality and spiritual power of world experience fills the supreme calm with the supreme kinetic bliss of knowledge, power, joy and mastery. A divine unity of the supreme spirit and its supreme nature, which can be termed ...
... prakriti. Mukti, and in this case jivanmukti, liberation from Nature in a quiescent bliss of the supreme is the first form of release. A farther liberation from Nature into a divine quality and spiritual power of world experience fills the supreme calm with supreme kinetic nature, which can be termed as a state of integral liberation, becomes the true foundation of farther consequences which constitute ...
... existence take on another appearance, action a different meaning and character. Our being then becomes no longer this little egoistic creation of Nature, but the largeness of a divine, immortal and spiritual Power. Our consciousness becomes no longer that of this limited and struggling mental and vital creature, but an infinite, divine and spiritual consciousness. Page 76 And our will and ...
... the founder of aikido, is said to have relocated a large stone that ten labourers had been unable to move. He often performed such feats, and once said, "I taught myself that an extraordinary spiritual power or soul power lies within a human body." Extraordinary Strength Among the most astounding feats of strength practiced in the martial arts are those performed by karateka, those who ...
... momentarily in all his active might. This image of the logos * piercing the darkness is universal. The Thunderbolt, or Vajra, is one of the major symbols in Buddhist iconography, ** signifying the spiritual power of Buddhahood (indestructible enlightment) which shatters the illusory reality of the world. 8. Mysteries: By the time of the Periclean *** enlightment, the most * * * _____________ ...
... head and caressed me softly, meanwhile murmuring as if to herself: "Let him have..."; the last word of the sentence I caught quite distinctly then, but cannot recall now. It was the name of some spiritual power. No sooner had she said this than I felt a sudden rush of that power entering through my head. After a few seconds she uttered the name of another power. This power struck me with ...
... knowledge is self-revealing, undeformed and infallible. It is called Intuition, Revelation. There the restless wild urge of action or blind agitations of numberless sensations have turned into a calm spiritual power and an unalloyed delight. And that plane too has a body of its own. But it is absolutely free from disease, decay and death that we find in the physical being. To leave aside the laws of body, ...
... This is particularly exemplified in the arts, and in poetry most of all. Now 'overhead' poetry is simply poetry that has been thus influenced, whether to a greater or a lesser extent, by the spiritual power of the Overmind or by the other overhead powers, Higher Mind, Illumined Mind or Intuition. The influence may be the result of the higher power acting in one of two ways: ...in one it touches ...
... science and technology; he has to master the variety of all this specialised and compartmentalised knowledge, yet impose on it all the unity of the Spirit with the aid of a new faculty, the spiritual power of the supermind, or at least an overmental vision and power. The claim has to be made on behalf of Sri Aurobindo and Savitri that this great task of the modern age has been ...
... consciousness-energy, the Supermind. There are of course other layers and strata of super-consciousness leading up to the supermind which are of various potentials and embody different degrees of spiritual power and consciousness. We have spoken of the Inner Consciousness. But there is also, we must now point out, an Inmost Consciousness. As the Super-consciousness is a consciousness-energy in ...
... consciousness-energy, the Supermind. There are of course other layers and strata of superconsciousness leading up to the super-mind which are of various potentials and embody different degrees of spiritual power and consciousness. We have spoken of the Inner Consciousness. But there is also, we must now point out, an Inmost Consciousness. As the Superconsciousness is a consciousness-energy in height ...
... light. The ideals in the past for the reclamation of human nature and reformation of human society were tackled with mental and moral powers which were not adequate to the task. Even when the spiritual power was invoked, it was of the static category which is above, aloof, witness and can have at best a kindly look and influence. That the spirit dynamic is involved in Matter and as Matter is a truth ...
... consciousness-energy, the Supermind. There are of course other layers and strata of superconsciousness leading up to the super-mind which are of various potentials and embody different degrees of spiritual power and consciousness. We have spoken of the Inner Consciousness. But there is also, we must now point out, an Inmost Consciousness. As the Superconsciousness is a consciousness-energy in height ...
... even the minutest detail of the life and action of man. The question is to bring it down and establish it on earth and keep it pure. For there is always a gravitational pull downwards. So the spiritual power must be such that it can not only resist but overcome that pull. This is the solution that I propose. It is a spiritual solution that aims at changing the whole basis of human nature. But it ...
... Das displayed a brilliant and remarkable mastery of the law, did he not?" asked Rahul. "Absolutely. The Lord made him His instrument. Anyone with the least vision and perception could see a spiritual Power at work behind him. Of course that doesn't mean that he did not have to apply himself. On the contrary, he worked night and day on the case, after having given up all other commitments. He plunged ...
... bone-structure and the circulation of blood. If this was to come about, it would perhaps be done "through a large number of new creations... intermediaries". The Mother could conceive of some spiritual power, the power of the inner being, absorbing the energy for renewal from the atmosphere, thereby not requiring food any more. Yet - how to change the structure itself? Up to a point, life might be ...
... Did it mean the abrupt end of the unique adventure of consciousness begun by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, on behalf of the earth and humanity, almost sixty years earlier? A thousand times No! A spiritual power, a supramental Light and Force and Consciousness, cannot just become extinct. The stupendous Saga of Transformation, inner and outer, may seem unfinished as yet, but the movement hasn't been arrested; ...
... possible. If the attack takes the form of adverse suggestions try quietly to push them away, as you would some material object. The quieter you are, the stronger you become. That firm basis of all spiritual power is equanimity. You must not allow anything to disturb your poise: you can then resist every kind of attack.... ... A quiet call, a conviction that in this ascension towards the realisation ...
... magic, black or even white: In true occultism, one must have the quality, the ability, the inner gift in order to use it, and that is the safeguard ... it is not magic at all, it is a spiritual power which must be acquired by a long discipline; and finally, it is given to you only by a divine grace. This means that as soon as one draws near the Truth, one is safe from Page 19 ...
... Pondicherry, then, was also a man of action, though with a difference! He was keenly watching the developing global political scene, and even intervening occasionally when quite necessary with a spiritual power; and he was in communication with Mirra, though few of the letters have actually survived. There were other developments too. Sri Aurobindo's wife, Mrinalini, succumbed to the influenza ...
... say that a spiritual consciousness without any aesthetic or emotional content is not entirely or at any rate not integrally spiritual." 19 The Mother's symbol has certainly this "integrally spiritual" power, and helps a great deal to spread the Light in the Ashram and outside. V To sum up, between 1926 and 1931, there had been initiated certain adventures in consciousness, leading to conquests ...
... consciousness. The outside world was ignorant of all this, and even the participants in the drama hardly knew what was obscurely but definitively happening to them. But the Ashram, after all, was a spiritual power-house, and the School a reactor for generating dynamic change; and although the pessimists hemmed and hawed, the Mother herself was determinedly engineering the transformation of the human personality ...
... stambling-block for the translator is the ubiquitous double entendre marking in one word the symbol and the thing symbolised, Ray and Cow, clear light of the mind and clarified butter, horses and spiritual power; one has to invent phrases like the "herds of the light" or "the shining herds" or to use devices such as writing the word horse with a capital H to indicate that it is a symbolic horse that is ...
... energies and irradiates their immemorial gloom. The transforming action of the Supermind is characterised by a certain sovereign effectivity and a natural radicality impossible to any other spiritual power. If it sometimes halts in its working or retraces its steps, it is because it has chosen to allow the parts of human nature time and some amount of latitude to adjust themselves to the high-pitched ...
... and distort and spill what is transmitted to it for expression. A perfect physical expression of the fruits of divine union has hardly been possible as yet in human life. Sri Aurobindo's spiritual power has been bent on the achievement of the integral divine union and its undiminished and undistorted expression in the normal work-a-day life of humanity; but for this supreme consummation of the ...
... ego in the active nature and the Subconscient, and the blotting out of all its vestigial action in the being can only be effected by the Supermind with its supreme transforming Force. No other spiritual power is capable of this consummation. It is important to note here—it has already been hinted at before—that in the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo the liberation from the ego that is sought to ...
... "smuggle godhead into humanity" across the customs-line of mind and flesh; for, it had now become strong enough to aspire for an unlimited capacity for bliss and "It drew from sight and sound spiritual power, Made sense a road to reach the Intangible: "Made body a nectar-cup of the Absolute." When he had so changed his vital-mould he found that "Eternity drew close disguised as ...
... unconsciousness to the Shakti fully conscious in each cell of its body. Such is the mystery of the Shakti. We speak of the power of the atom, the power of Nature, electrical, intellectual or spiritual power, but there is only one Power, not two. These are varying levels or degrees of luminosity, varying intensities of a single Current that takes on one vibration or another depending on the milieu ...
... s of beauty, calm and restrained embodiments of idea, action or emotion in the idealised beauty of the human figure. The gods, of Indian sculpture are cosmic beings, embodiments of some great spiritual power, spiritual idea and action, inmost psychic significance, the human form a vehicle of this soul meaning, its outward means of self-expression.... The divine self in us is its theme, the body made ...
... borne to the end.... I must remain in the bosom of the Night and walk on.... 41 Arrived at Lunel, she fell ill, seriously ill, and was narrowly saved from death, but she saw that the spiritual power was still fully active in her; from behind the scenes, she found it possible to exert an occult influence on men and events. 42 There was now some correspondence between her and Sri Aurobindo ...
... and go hand it over to the friend of mine who was sick, or sometimes touch lightly the patient's forehead with it. A week's fever and pain gone the next day. That was Mother's way of sending her spiritual power of healing. The power did not Page 166 wither with the flower! "Rowers," explained Sri Aurobindo, "are the moment's representation of things that are in themselves eternal." ...
... remained suspended like that without any exertion on my part." In his characteristic way he added, "That is the only thing that happened." He had thought at one time that physical siddhi, that is spiritual power over matter, was impossible, but when after his meditation he found that his body had taken a physically impossible position — "it was actually raised some inches above the ground"—he accepted ...
... Indian Art brought about by the enslavement of our minds to the West and recognise that the artists of the new school are merely recovering our ancestral heritage with a new development of spiritual depth, power and originality, which is prophetic of the future. Page 463 ... strength and the rough and natural touch of the soil. In no case can our Ramayan compare with the great epic of Tulsidas, that mine of poetry, strong and beautiful thought and description and deep spiritual force and sweetness. But it must have been greater in its original form than in its modern dress. The great value of the edition lies however in the illustrations. All the pictures are not excellent;... mythology and history for the subject of art, and that he manifests a certain struggling towards outward beauty and charm which is occasionally successful in his women and children. But he had neither the power to develop original conceptions, nor the skill to reproduce finely that which he tried to learn from Europe. He represents in Art that dark period when, Page 461 in subjection to foreign ...
... attains in his own way the psychic and spiritual results which are pursued through more directly psychical and spiritual methods in other Yogas. The one mental aid which he conjoins with it, is the use of the mantra, sacred syllable, name or mystic formula which is of so much importance in the Indian systems of Yoga and common to them all. This secret of the power of the mantra, the six chakras and the... the supramental planes which are the very powers of the Divine in his spiritual and supramentally ideative being. These cannot be acquired at all securely or integrally by personal effort, but can only come from above, or else can become natural to the man if and when he ascends beyond mind and lives in the spiritual being, power, consciousness and ideation. They then become, not abnormal and laboriously... indispensable. It is true that their principal aims must be included in the integrality of the Yoga; but they can be brought about by other means. For the methods of the integral Yoga must be mainly spiritual, and dependence on physical methods or fixed psychic or psycho-physical processes on a large scale would be the substitution of a lower for a higher action. We shall have occasion to touch upon this ...
... Aurobindo kept a close watch on all that was happening in the world and in India and actively intervened whenever Page 411 necessary, but solely with a spiritual force and a silent spiritual action... there is a spiritual dynamic power which ... is greater that any other and more effective. It was this force which, as soon as he had attained to it he used ... in a constant action upon the... various fronts and the vacillations and snap decisions m the chancelleries an cell ones of the world, but they were also intervening whenever or wherever possible with a direct and potent "spiritual dynamic power" which, though it didn't carry the supramental stamp of infallibility, had at least an overmental amplitude and strength. But many in India and several in the Ashram had very different views... the movements of your lower nature and make use of them, so that you have no spiritual effort to make. On the contrary, if you are to be a fit instrument of the Divine Force you must make yourself perfectly pure since it is only in an integrally divinised instrument that the Divine Force will have its full power and effect. 16 Then came August, and Hitler's decision to launch his ...
... universality into a consciousness belonging to its spiritual upper hemisphere. Besides he must have already become aware of what is now to him superconscient; he must be already a being conscious of the higher spiritual Light, Power, Knowledge, Ananda, penetrated by its descending influences, new-made by a spiritual change. It is possible for the spiritual opening to take place and its action to proceed... a direct penetrating spiritual emotion and feeling, a direct intuition of right will and right action, a power to rule and to create an order of the being not by the gropings of the superficial self, but from within, from the inner truth of self and things and the occult realities of Nature. ... But all this change and all this experience, though psychic and spiritual in essence and character... whose full reality, intensity, largeness, oneness and diversity of truth and power and delight are above us, above mind and therefore above any perfection, within mind's own formula, of the foundations or superstructure of our present nature. A highest spiritual transformation must intervene on the psychic or psycho-spiritual change; the psychic movement inward to the inner being, the Self or Divinity ...
... according to a truly spiritual or a supramental Page 2 or transcendental consciousness was a rare phenomenon and even where the ideal was found, it is doubtful whether the right means and methods were discovered. Yet the sole secret of changing man's destiny and transmuting the world lies in the discovery and application of a supreme spiritual Conscious-Power. Humanists once... proportion as she grows to be an instrument of the Divine Power. The instrument that the Divine chooses is often, to all appearances, faulty and defective, but since it has this higher and mightier support, it will surely outgrow all its drawbacks and lapses, it will surmount all dangers and obstacles and become unconquerable. This is what the spiritual seeker means by saying that the Divine Grace can make... then can she arrive at the perfect fulfilment of her agelong endeavour, her life mission. India has preserved and fostered through the immemorial spiritual living of her saints and seers and sages the invaluable treasure, the vitalising, the immortalising power of spirituality, so that it can bo placed at the service of terrestrial life for the deliverance of mankind, for the transfiguration of the human ...
... preoccupations according to a truly spiritual—a supramental or transcendental consciousness was a rare phenomenon and even where the ideal was found, it is doubtful whether the right means and methods were discovered. Yet the sole secret of changing man's destiny and transmuting the world lies in the discovery and application of a supreme spiritual Conscious-Power. Humanists once affirmed that... proportion as she grows to be an instrument of the Divine Power. The instrument that the Divine chooses is often, to all appearances, faulty and defective, but since it has this higher and mightier support, it will surely outgrow all its drawbacks and lapses, it will surmount all dangers and obstacles and become unconquerable. This is what the spiritual seeker means by saying that the Divine Grace can... can she arrive at the perfect fulfilment of her age long endeavour, her life mission. India has preserved and fostered through the immemorial spiritual living of her saints and seers and sages the invaluable treasure, the vitalising, the immortalising power of spirituality, so that it can be placed at the service of terrestrial life for the deliverance of mankind, for the transfiguration of the ...
... preoccupations according to a truly spiritual or a supramental or transcendental consciousness was a rare phenomenon and even where the ideal was found, it is doubtful whether the right means and methods were discovered. Yet the sole secret of changing man's destiny and transmuting the world lies in the discovery and application of a supreme spiritual Conscious-Power. Humanists once affirmed... grows to be an instrument of the Divine Power. The instrument that the Divine chooses is often, to all appearances, faulty and defective, but since it has this higher and mightier support, it will surely outgrow all its drawbacks Page 74 and lapses, it will surmount all dangers and obstacles and become unconquerable. This – is what the spiritual seeker means by saying that the Divine... then can she arrive at the perfect fulfilment of her agelong endeavour, her life mission. India has preserved and fostered through the immemorial spiritual living of her saints and seers and sages the invaluable treasure, the vitalising, the immortalising power of spirituality, so that it can be placed at the service of terrestrial life for the deliverance of mankind, for the transfiguration of the human ...
... knowledge. In nothing in the lower nature from the reason to the vital will can the seeker of the Yoga put a complete and permanent faith, but only at last in the spiritual Page 772 truth, power, Ananda which become in the spiritual reason his sole guides and luminaries and masters of action. And yet faith is necessary throughout and at every step because it is a needed assent of the soul... Here too our faith must be an assent that receives all spiritual experience, but with a wide openness and readiness for always more light and truth, an absence of limiting attachment and no such clinging to forms as would interfere with the forward movement of the Shakti towards the integrality of the spiritual being, consciousness, knowledge, power, action and the wholeness of the one and the multiple... omnipotent power. At the same time this faith in oneself must be purified from all touch of rajasic egoism and spiritual pride. The sadhaka should keep as much as possible in his mind the idea that his strength is not his own in the egoistic sense but that of the divine universal Shakti and whatever is egoistic in his use of it must be a cause of limitation and in the end an obstacle. The power of the ...
... with a spiritual force and silent spiritual action; for it is part of the experience of those who have advanced in yoga that besides the ordinary forces and activities of the mind and life and body in Matter, there are other forces and powers that can and do act from behind and from above; there is also a spiritual dynamic power which can be possessed by those who are advanced in spiritual cons... incarnation of divine life, the divine personality and power in its characteristic action, for a 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... came to the dwelling place of their Guru, the greatest seer of the age, and found it their spiritual home — the home of their parents, for, the Mother, his companion in the great mission, had come. And these spiritual parents bestowed upon the disciples freely of their Light, their consciousness, their power and their grace. The modern reader may find that the form of these discourses differs from ...
... and silent spiritual action. For it is part of the experience of those who have advanced in yoga that besides the ordinary forces and activities of mind and life and body in matter there are other forces and powers that can and do act from behind and from above. There is also a spiritual dynamic power which can be possessed by those who are advanced in spiritual consciousness but all do not care... This assertion that there is a source of power available to man is not a speculation unrelated to the so-called hard realities of life. It may be seen from a statement of Sri Aurobindo himself about his outer retirement. : "His retirement from outer activity did not mean as most people supposed that he had retired into some height of spiritual experience devoid of any further interest in the... complete spiritual consciousness but also to take all life and all world activity into the scope of this spiritual consciousness and action and to base life on the spirit and give it a spiritual meaning. In his retirement he kept a close watch on all that was happening in the world and in India and actively Page 51 intervened whenever necessary but solely with a spiritual force ...
... with a spiritual Force and silent spiritual action; for it is part of the experience of those who have advanced in yoga that, besides the ordinary forces and activities of the mind and life and body in Matter, there are other forces and powers that can and do act from behind and from above; there is also a spiritual dynamic Power which can be possessed by those who are advanced in spiritual consciousness... incarnation of divine life, the divine personality and power in its characteristic action, for a 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... they came to the dwelling place of their Guru, the greatest seer of the age, and found it their spiritual – the of their parents, for, the Mother , his companion in the great mission, had come. And these spiritual parents bestowed upon the disciples freely of their Light, their consciousness, their power and their grace. The modern reader may find that the form of these discourses differs from those ...
... with a spiritual force and silent spiritual action; for it is part of the experience of those who have advanced in yoga that besides the ordinary forces and activities of the mind and life and body in Matter, there are other forces and powers that can and do act from behind and from above; there is also a spiritual dynamic power which can be possessed by those who are advanced in spiritual conscio... incarnation of divine life, the divine personality and power in its characteristic action, for a 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... came to the dwelling place of their Guru, the greatest seer of the age, and found it their spiritual home — the home of their parents, for, the Mother, his companion in the great mission, had come. And these spiritual parents bestowed upon the disciples freely of their Light, their consciousness, their power and their grace. The modern reader may find that the form of these discourses differs from ...
... immortal caresses. Into the calm of the Greatness beyond her she enters, burning Now with a light beyond thought's, towards Self and Infinity turning, Turned to beatitude, turned to eternity, spiritual grandeur, Power without limit, ecstasy imperishable, shadowless splendour. Then to her mortals come, flashing, thoughts that are wisdom's fire-kernel; Leaping her flame-sweeps of might and delight and... singular fireworks, chemistry lacking the chemist, Matter's nervous display; the heart's passion, the sorrow and burning Fire of delight and sweet ecstasy, love and its fathomless yearning, Boundless spiritual impulses making us one with world-being, Outbursts of vision opening doors to a limitless seeing, Gases and glands and the genes and the nerves and the brain-cells have done it, Brooded out drama... Know more > (Ahana, the Dawn of God, descends on the world where amid the strife and trouble of mortality the Hunters of Joy, the Seekers after Knowledge, the Climbers in the quest of Power are toiling up the slopes or waiting in the valleys. As she stands on the mountains of the East, voices of the Hunters of Joy are the first to greet her.) Vision delightful alone on the hills whom ...
... Matter, there are other forces and powers that can act and do act from behind and from above; there is also a spiritual dynamic power which can be possessed by those who are advanced in the spiritual consciousness, though all do not care to possess or, possessing, to use it, and this power is greater than any other and more effective. It was this force which, as soon as he had attained to it, he used... supposed, that he had retired into some height of spiritual experience devoid of any further interest in the world or in the fate of India. It could not mean that, for the very principle of his Yoga was not only to realise the Divine and attain to a complete spiritual consciousness, but also to take all life and all world activity into the scope of this spiritual consciousness and action and to base life on... on the Spirit and give it a spiritual meaning. In his retirement Sri Aurobindo kept a close watch on all that was happening in the world and in India and actively intervened whenever necessary, but solely with a spiritual force and silent spiritual action; for it is part of the experience of those who have advanced far in Yoga that besides the ordinary forces and activities of the mind and life and ...
... Yoga of integral knowledge, integral works and integral bhakti. It is the simultaneous experience of spiritual universality and a free and perfected spiritual individuality, of an entire union with God and an entire dwelling in him as at once the frame of the soul's immortality and the support and power of our liberated action in the world and the body. And now there comes the supreme word and most... Infinite, translucent forms of knowledge, thought, love, spiritual joy, power and action according to his self-fulfilling will and immortal pleasure. And there will be no binding effect on the free soul and the unaffected nature, no unescapable crystallising into this or that inferior formula. For all the action will be executed by the power of the Spirit in a divine freedom, sarva-dharmān parityajya... the surrender. That which surrenders here is the Jiva, the essential soul, the original central and spiritual being of man, the individual Purusha. It is the Jiva delivered from the limiting and ignorant ego-sense who knows himself not as a separate personality but as an eternal portion and power and soul-becoming of the Divine, aṁśa sanātana , the Jiva released and uplifted by the passing away ...
... Infinite, translucent forms of knowledge, thought, love, spiritual joy, power and action according to his self-fulfilling will and immortal pleasure. And there will be no binding effect on the free soul and the unaffected nature, no unescapable crystallising into this or that inferior formula. For all the action will be executed by the power of the Spirit in a divine freedom, sarva-dharman parityajya... karma becomes swabhavic karma which is not governed by the outer qualities of Nature but, as Sri Aurobindo explains, by “a force of inner being in movement, the truth of the fourfold active power of the spiritual nature.” ( Essays on the Gita , SABCL, Vol. 13, p. 506) It is in this context of the inborn or natural or innate swabhavic or swabhava -based action that we must read the supremely revelatory... thousand aspects of the cosmic operation. Transcendence, and not its play in the phenomenal world, would still remain the high goal of all these yogic-spiritual endeavours. However, let us proceed with Jnaneshwari , restricting ourselves only to the spiritual approach it is propounding for us. Part C The seeker on the path even as of now is merely fumbling and looking around for his way. No ...
... body in Matter, there are other forces and powers that can and do act from behind and from above; there is also a spiritual dynamic Power which can be possessed by those who are advanced in the spiritual consciousness, though all do not care to possess or, possessing, to use it, and this Power is greater than any other and more effective. It was this force which Sri Aurobindo used at first only in a limited... Aurobindo, none before him had the same vision. ... " I can foresee the day when the teachings which are already malting headway of the greatest spiritual voice of India, Sri Aurobindo, will be known all over America and be a vast power of illumination..." ( Prof. Fredric Spiegelberg of Stanford University, California, U. S. A.) I' "Resurgent India has in The Life Divine a world-view... yogis and they have found out physical exercises by which these, now closed, centres could be opened up, and man can enter into the higher spiritual life. " Our substance does not end with the physical body."6 " The conquest of physical limitations by the power of supramental substance is possible. " The verse of Swetashwatara Upanishad shows that the idea of a divine body was familiar ...
... Matter, there are other forces and powers that can act and do act from behind and from above; there is also a spiritual dynamic power which can be possessed by those who are advanced in the spiritual consciousness, though all do not care to possess or, possessing, to use it, and this power is greater than any other and more effective.' He further clarifies that 'it was this force that he used ... at... Divine Will. Indeed, despite national rivalries and the tussle between the power blocs, the concept of 'One World' has taken root in the human consciousness in a way which would have been unthinkable fifty years ago, and the trend towards it is unmistakable. The fourth dream relates to the gift by India of her spiritual knowledge to the world and here also we can see evidence of the increasing interest... entire knowledge.... Everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, history of evolution, history of man, gods of the creation and of Nature.... Savitri is the spiritual path, the Tapasya, Sadhana.... It has an extraordinary power, it is the Truth in all its plenitude that he has brought down here on earth.' Sri Aurobindo has encompassed all the three worlds, Heaven, Earth and the Underworlds ...
... Matter, there are other forces and powers that can act and do act from behind and from above; there is also a spiritual dynamic power which can be possessed by those who are advanced in the spiritual consciousness, though all do not care to possess or, possessing, to use it, and this power is greater than any other and more effective. It was this force which, as soon as he had attained it, he used... situate the last World War within the framework of the great spiritual conflicts; history regains the breath of the Legend of the Ages.’ 23 ‘One can say that Hitler is not a devil but is possessed by one,’ said Sri Aurobindo; 24 he also called him ‘an infrarational mystic.’ Sri Aurobindo and the Mother knew perfectly well by which power Hitler was possessed. ‘[Hitler] was a medium, a very good... the third person: ‘In his retirement Sri Aurobindo kept a close watch on all that was happening in the world and in India and actively intervened whenever necessary, but solely with a spiritual force and silent spiritual action.’ 42 We remember that Sri Aurobindo said that he was neither an impotent moralist nor a weak pacifist (see p. 120). ‘It is part of the experience of those who have advanced ...
... the nature, then there begins the spiritual formation of the being; there emerges the saint, the devotee, the spiritual sage, the seer, the prophet, the servant of Page 914 God, the soldier of the spirit. All these take their stand on one part of the natural being lifted up by a spiritual light, power or ecstasy. The sage and seer live in the spiritual mind, their thought or their vision... or power of it or enumerate its aspects, but to know it one has to grow into it and be it; without that growing and being there can be no true spiritual knowledge. The fundamental truth of spiritual experience is one, its consciousness is one, everywhere it follows the same general lines and tendencies of awakening and growth into spiritual being; for these are the imperatives of the spiritual con... sufficient power of the other-worldly urge to break through and away from the terrestrial action and enter into a spiritual elsewhere. But if her intention is a comprehensive change of the being, this double evolution is intelligible and justifies itself; for it is for that purpose indispensable. This, however, imposes a difficult and slow spiritual advance: for, first, the spiritual emergence has ...
... Matter, there are other forces and powers that can act and do act from behind and from above; there is also a spiritual dynamic power which can be possessed by those who are advanced in the spiritual consciousness, though all do not care to possess or, possessing, to use it, and this power is greater than any other and more effective. It was this force which, as soon as he had attained to it... method for us to interfere and lecture and point out this and point out that. That is the school-master method – it does not work in the spiritual change.¹ 10-5-1936 Q: Is it not true that the letters we receive from you are full of power? A: Yes, power is put into them. ² 24-9-1933 It is an undoubted fact proved by hundreds of instances that for many the exact statement of their... Secondly, the supramental transformation is not the same as the spiritual-mental. It is a change of mind, life and body which the mental or over-mental-spiritual cannot achieve. All whom you mention were spirituals, but in different ways. Krishna's mind, for instance, was overmentalised, Ramakrishna's intuitive, Chaitanya's spiritual-psychic, Buddha's illumined higher mental. I don't know about ...
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