... consciousness. But all that is a result of the opening to the spiritual above and it comes by an infiltration or reflection of the spiritual light and truth in mind, life and body. The spiritual transformation proper begins or becomes possible when one rises above the mind and lives there governing all from above. Even in the psychic transformation one can rise above by a sort of going above of... psychic development and the psychic change of mind, vital and physical consciousness is of the utmost importance because it makes safe and easy the descent of the higher consciousness and the spiritual transformation without which the supramental must always remain far distant. Powers etc. have their place, but a very minor one so long as this is not done. 117 * Page 100 As for... it down into the nature and the body. Neither of these two movements, the psychic and the spiritual, is complete without the other. If the spiritual ascent and descent are not made, the spiritual transformation of the nature cannot happen; if the full psychic opening and connection is not made, the transformation cannot be complete There is no incompatibility between the two movements; some ...
... The Spiritual Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter I Ascent and Descent The Meaning of Spiritual Transformation What I mean by the spiritual transformation is something dynamic (not merely liberation of the self, or realisation of the One which can very well be attained without any descent). It is a putting on of the spiritual consciousness... matter of the undeniable experience of many that this can descend and it is my experience that nothing short of its full descent can thoroughly remove the veil and mixture and effect the full spiritual transformation. The power of concentration above the head is to bring peace, silence, liberation from the body sense, the identification with mind and life and open the way for the lower (mental-... up to meet the higher Consciousness above and for the powers of the higher (spiritual or divine) Consciousness to descend into mind, life and body. This is what is called in this Yoga the spiritual transformation. A Double Movement in the Sadhana There is a double movement in the sadhana—the Divine Consciousness, Power, Light, Peace descending into all the body, the Page 415 consciousness ...
... three steps of the transformation, as described above, should not be considered as strictly successive, the spiritual transformation may begin before the psychic transformation has reached its culmination, or the supramental transformation may intervene in the midst of the spiritual transformation in order to accelerate its pace and shorten the long way. Human nature is bafflingly complex, and the Divine's... the foundations or .superstructure of our present nature."¹ The second step has, therefore, to be taken in the direction of the higher spiritual ranges of the mind and beyond. "A higher spiritual transformation must intervene on the psychic or psycho-spiritual change; the psychic movement inward to the inner being, the Self or Divinity within us, must be completed by an opening upward to a .supreme... three transformations, uniting the manifested existence with what is above it, it is the middle step of the three, the decisive transition of the spiritually evolving nature."¹ But even the spiritual transformation with its immense achievements—the universalisation of the human consciousness, the widening and illumination of human nature, the bridging up of the chasm between the human mind and the higher ...
... and the noblest victory offered by the Yoga of the Gita to the human soul, the Aryan spirit living and acting in the nobility of life. That is the merit of the Yoga of the Gita which holds spiritual transformation as its most desirable siddhi or attainment. Rising well above the tamasic or inert mechanical actions, crossing the stage of actions governed by the egoistic-vitalistic impulses and ... sage can give us. The inner spiritual state to which this supreme Yoga will take us, will be above all that is here and yet comprehensive of all things in this and other worlds, but with a spiritual transformation of all, without limitation, without bondage, sarva-dharman parityajya . The infinite existence, consciousness and delight of the Godhead in its calm silence and bright boundless activity... power of the Spirit in a divine freedom, sarva-dharman parityajya . ( Ibid ., pp. 540-41) We may thus say that, according to Sri Aurobindo, the Mantra of the Gita is the Mantra of Spiritual Transformation. The yogic vision and intuition of Jnaneshwar also comes pretty close to it, which is quite surprising when we remember that his Shankarite thoughts and metaphysics pertain essentially to ...
... part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change—the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose. What I mean by the spiritual transformation is something dynamic (not merely liberation of the Self or realisation of the One which can very well be attained without any descent). It is a putting on of the spiritual consciousness dynamic... of the undeniable experience of many that this can descend and it is my experience that nothing short of its full descent can thoroughly remove the veil and mixture and effect the full spiritual transformation.... I may add that transformation is not the central object of other paths as it is of this yoga—only so much purification and change is demanded by them as will lead to liberation and the... ... since this is the individual soul in Nature, it can open to the hidden diviner ranges of our being and receive and reflect their light and power and experience, but another, a spiritual transformation from above is needed for us to possess our self in its universality and transcendence. By itself the psychic being at a certain stage might be content to create a formation of truth, good ...
... Yoga of Transformation -07_Part Five.htm Part Five Process of Spiritual Transformation : Role of the superconscient Levels of Mind But even then there are still limitations of an inferior instrumentation; as a result, the highest spiritual transformation must intervene on the psychic or psycho-spiritual change. There is thus the necessity of an upward... the entire process is largely Page 59 psycho-spiritual; it can be said that the psycho-spiritual transformation has to reach a very high level before the supramental transformation begins to advance. A description of the three processes of the psychic transformation, spiritual transformation and supramental transformation is, therefore, bound to be highly complex and difficult. It may, however... intuitive light and power is only the edge of a delegated and modified Supermind, and does not bring in the whole mass or body of the identity knowledge. Page 55 Overmind and Spiritual Transformation At the source of the Intuitive Mind, there is, according to Sri Aurobindo, a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supermind. That superconscient comic Mind is the Overmind ...
... are also different statuses of transformation. First is the psychic transformation, in which all is in contact with the Divine through the individual psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. It is... consciousness, new potentialities of action." 1 But this ascension of our consciousness to these higher luminous planes, even if permanently centred there, does not suffice for the spiritual transformation of our being and nature. The permanent ascent from the lower to the higher consciousness must be followed by the complementary process of a permanent descent of the higher into the... Himself, p. 114. (Italics ours) Page 136 and elements of consciousness." 1 When this phase is more or less completed, we say that the being and nature has undergone spiritual transformation, a transformation that links the manifested existence with what lies beyond and above it. But even this is not enough for our goal. For, the process of spiritualisation brings ...
... Light beyond the darkness we came to the divine Sun in the Godhead, to the highest Light of all. Rig Veda. (I. 50. 10.) The psychic transformation and the first stages of the spiritual transformation are well within our conception; their perfection would be the perfection, wholeness, consummated unity of a knowledge and experience which is already part of things realised, though only by... condition which has to be accomplished slowly and with difficulty by the being itself before the supramental transformation can become at all possible. It follows that the psychic and the spiritual transformation must be far advanced, even as complete as may be, before there can be any beginning of the third and consummating supramental change; for it is only by this double transmutation that the self-will... of oneself in every part and every movement to the working of the higher Truth in the nature. The totality of this abandonment can only come if the psychic change has been complete or the spiritual transformation has reached a very high state of achievement. For it implies a giving up by the mind of all its moulds, ideas, mental formations, of all opinion, of all its habits of intellectual observation ...
... soul brings into all experience the tendency of light, of integration, of harmony and intimate rightness which is native to the psychic essence. A psychic or, more widely speaking, a psycho-spiritual transformation of this kind would be already a vast change of our mental human nature. But all this change and all this experience, though psychic and spiritual in essence and character, would still be... 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 within us, must be completed by an opening upward to a supreme... affinity. But these two types of contact with the superconscient, though they can be powerfully illuminating, ecstatic or liberating, are by themselves insufficiently effective: for the full spiritual transformation more is needed, a permanent ascension from the lower into the higher consciousness and an effectual permanent descent of the higher into the lower nature. This is the third motion, the ...
... part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose. What I mean by the spiritual transformation is something dynamic (not merely liberation of the Self or realisation of the One which can very well be attained without any descent). It is a putting on of the spiritual consciousness dynamic... matter of the undeniable experience of many that this can descend and it is my experience that nothing short of its full descent can thoroughly remove the veil and mixture and effect the fall spiritual transformation. . . . I may add that transformation is not the central object of other paths as it is of this Yoga — only so much purification and change is demanded by them as will lead to liberation and... '.. . since this is the individual soul in Nature, it can open to the hidden diviner ranges of our being and receive and reflect their light and power and experience, but another, a spiritual transformation from above is needed for us to possess our self in its universality and transcendence. By itself the psychic being at a certain stage might be content to create a formation of truth, good ...
... part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change—the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose. What I mean by the spiritual transformation is something dynamic (not merely liberation of the self, or realisation of the One which can very well be attained without any descent). It is a putting on of the spiritual consciousness dynamic... matter of the undeniable experience of many that this can descend and it is my experience that nothing short of its full descent can thoroughly remove the veil and mixture and effect the full spiritual transformation. No metaphysical or logical reasoning in the void as to what the Atman "must" do or can do or needs or needs not to do is relevant here or of any value. I may add that transformation is not... than nothing and would either understand nothing or misunderstand everything. Some day I suppose I shall write something, but the supramental won't bear talking of now. Something about the spiritual transformation might be possible and I may finish the letter on that point 6 —if I find leisure, but that is doubtful. 7 March 1937 The methods described in the account are the well-established ...
... individual, but it is not enough for the earth-consciousness to take the definitive stride forward it must take at one time or another. Letters on Yoga, pp. 98-99 What I mean by the spiritual transformation is something dynamic (not merely liberation of the Self or realisation of the One which can very well be attained without any descent). It Page 169 is a putting on of the... the undeniable experience of many that this can descend and it is my experience that nothing short of its full descent can thoroughly remove the veil and mixture and effect the full spiritual transformation. No metaphysical or logical reasoning in the void as to what the Atman "must" do or can do or needs or needs not to do is relevant here or of any value. I may add that transformation is... There are also different statuses of transformation. First is the psychic transformation, in which all is in contact with the Divine through the individual psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. It is ...
... Space and Time. 34 Tire last three cantos of Book I describe the first part of Aswapati's Yoga, and even this falls into two movements, "one a psycho-spiritual transformation and the other a greater spiritual transformation with an ascent to a supreme power." 35 The canto on 'The Secret Knowledge' comes in between appropriately, for the first yogic movement prepares Aswapati for receiving... THE YOGA OF THE SPIRIT'S FREEDOM AND GREATNESS' Such is the 'Secret Knowledge' Aswapati has received from "timeborn men". He can attempt a bolder assay, a greater spiritual transformation, than the earlier movement of mere "soul's release" (Book I, canto 3). He knows now in fuller detail the long way to be traversed, the signposts, the turns, the clue. And so: ...
... which is supremely and supramentally luminous and infinite. The psychic and spiritual experiences result in the processes of psychic transformation and spiritual transformation of nature. The psychic transformation and spiritual transformation are fundamentally processes of evolution, and they follow the processes of heightening and widening of the consciousness, the processes of ascent to ... a point of relation, for the action of a vast cosmic instrumentation." 50 Overmind and Consummation of Spiritual Transformation According to Sri Aurobindo, the overmind change is the Page 61 final consummating movement of the dynamic spiritual transformation; it is the highest possible status — dynamis of the Spirit in the spiritual-mind plane. The overmind carries the ...
... to the one expressed by Sri Aurobindo: The yoga we practise is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition... transformation of mind, life, and body. Sri Aurobindo therefore makes a distinction between liberation and transformation. As he explains in a letter to a disciple: What I mean by the spiritual transformation is something dynamic (not merely liberation of the Self or realisation of the One which can very well be attained without any descent). It is a putting on of the spiritual consciousness, dynamic... matter of the undeniable experience of many that this can descend and it is my experience that nothing short of its full descent can thoroughly remove the veil and mixture and effect the full spiritual transformation. 165 In other words, liberation is a realization of the static Divine Consciousness by rising above the consciousness of mind, life, and body. This can be achieved by a certain degree ...
... part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change—the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose. What I mean by the spiritual transformation is something dynamic (not merely liberation of the self, or realisation of the One which can very well be attained without any descent). It is a putting on of the spiritual consciousness dynamic... matter of the undeniable experience of many that this can descend and it is my experience that nothing short of its full descent can thoroughly remove the veil and mixture and effect the full spiritual transformation. No metaphysical or logical reasoning in the void as to what the Atman "must" do or can do or needs or needs not to do is relevant here or of any value. I may add that transformation is not... discussions—one has first of all to supramentalise sufficiently the mind and vital and physical consciousness generally—afterwards one can think of supramentalisation of the body. The psychic and spiritual transformation must come first, only afterwards would it be practical or useful to discuss the supramentalisation of the whole being down to the body. Page 408 ...
... regarded not as siddhi but only as a beginning. 12 July 1937 What the deuce is "Brahman consciousness"? The same as cosmic consciousness? Does one come to that after your psychic and spiritual transformation? Is it something like seeing Brahman in everybody and everywhere or what? It is not spiritual realisation, I suppose, I mean realisation of Self? You see I am a nincompoop in this business... n of the Self is the beginning of Brahman realisation;—the Brahman consciousness—the Self in all and all in the Self etc. It is the basis of the spiritual realisation and therefore of the spiritual transformation; but one has to see it in all sorts of aspects and applications first and that I refuse to go into. If you want to know you have to read the Arya . Is living in that consciousness an ...
... psychic development and the psychic change of mind, vital and physical consciousness is of the utmost importance because it makes safe and easy the descent of the higher consciousness and the spiritual transformation without which the supramental must always remain far distant. Powers etc. have their place, but a very minor one so long as this is not done. The Psychic and the Higher Consciousness ... bring it down into the nature and the body. Neither of these two movements, the psychic and the spiritual, is complete without the other. If the spiritual ascent and descent are not made, the spiritual transformation of the nature cannot happen; if the full psychic opening and connection is not made, the transformation cannot be complete. There is no incompatibility between the two movements; some begin ...
... on the whole, "irresistible (that is to say infallible)" and "irreversible" and "totalizing". 30 Considering the last property, "if we try to imagine the final condition towards which the spiritual transformation taking place is apparently guiding the world, we find ourselves impelled to express it in the form of a monocen trism: the All, becoming self-reflective upon a single consciousness",... combine in his singularity the evolutionary extension of all the fibres of the world in movement: a God of cosmic synthesis in whom we can be conscious of advancing and joining together by spiritual transformation of all the powers of matter. "And the second condition is that this same God shall act in the course of this synthesis as a first nucleus of independent consciousness: a supremely ...
... being, that his destiny is to be the spiritual superman, and that the present hour is the hour of his evolutionary crisis in which his entire life, his very body, must undergo an integral spiritual transformation, not indeed by an escape into some far-off heaven, but here, in this physical earth itself, by a victorious union of Spirit and Matter. This, he has declared, is not an issue of an individual... discovered that Spirit is not the negation of Matter, but that Matter itself is an expression of the Spirit, and that Spirit is unfolding itself gradually in Matter so that there would be a total spiritual transformation of material life, here itself, ih eva, in this earthly Earth. There is no need to renounce Matter in order to embrace the Spirit. Indeed, all life is an evolving expression of the Spirit ...
... by step down the rungs of the stair: (i)The supramental transformation of the being and nature of man is the ultimate Goal; (ii)this has to be necessarily preceded by the psycho-spiritual transformation; (iii)but that can be achieved only if the psychic being can be brought to the front and made active in the outer field of the sadhaka' s consciousness; (iv)but this psychic emergence... achieved the psychic transformation. the first of the three transformations that constitute the entire course of our sadhana. This psychic transformation will be followed first by the ' spiritual transformation" and then by the ' supramental transformation' , But as these two last transformations do not fall within the purview of our present essay. we take the liberty of closing this chapter at ...
... influx from the spiritual planes of Light and Power and Peace and Bliss into the human vessel, are some of the outstanding experiences of this middle stage of transformation, which is called spiritual transformation. At the third stage there is a victorious ascent beyond the spiritual ranges of the mind, beyond even the universal formula, into the Supermind, which is the Truth-Consciousness, the... is the result of the supramental transformation. It can be said that the psychic transformation liberates the inner and considerably refines and enlightens the outer being of man; the spiritual transformation universalises it, illumines it, within and without, and brings into it the native rhythm of the Infinite; and the supramental transformation integrates and sublimates the whole being from ...
... the human individual can expand itself to contain the all and all that is beyond the universal. This is the first of his two "yogic movements"— the psycho-spiritual transformation. Then he ascends into the other one—"a greater spiritual transformation with an ascent to a supreme power." 5 In the first movement there is "his own spiritual fulfilment," but in the second movement he is more or a typical ...
... and higher kind and of a larger sweep and completeness than what took place when a mentalised being first appeared in a vital and material animal world. 10 What I mean by the spiritual transformation is something dynamic (not merely liberation of the Self or realisation of the One which can very well be attained without any descent). It is a putting on of the spiritual consciousness... many that this can descend and it is my experience that nothing short of its full Page 394 descent can thoroughly remove the veil and mixture and effect the full spiritual transformation. 11 As stated earlier, the dynamic power behind all evolution is the Consciousness-Force of the Cosmic Spirit. At each stage, evolution takes place by the double process of the ...
... repetition of the word "Yoga" to bring out and emphasise the fact that this part of Aswapati's spiritual development consisted of two yogic movements, one a psycho-spiritual transformation and the other, a greater spiritual transformation with an ascent to a supreme power. The omission which you suggest would destroy this significance and leave only something more abstract. In the second of these three ...
... personal action is and must always be in its nature a part of the lower grades of existence; it is obscure or half-enlightened, limited in its field, very partially effective in its power. If a spiritual transformation, not a mere illumining modification of our nature, is to be done at all, we must call in the Divine Shakti to effect that miraculous work in the individual; for she alone has the needed force... transitional stage as it proceeds and draws to its close. This predominance of a greater diviner leading, not personal to ourselves, indicates the nature's increasing ripeness for a total spiritual transformation. It is the unmistakable sign that the self-consecration has not only been accepted in principle but is fulfilled in act and power. The Supreme has laid his luminous hand upon a chosen human ...
... The Spiritual Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter V Descent and Other Kinds of Experience Descent and Experiences of the Inner Being It is good that you felt the peace within and the movement in the heart. That shows the force is working not only from above but inside you, and this promises a farther progress. The full opening will come in... experience once had repeated itself but always with the same momentariness. It is the permanence of this experience that is in this Yoga the foundation of the spiritual consciousness and the spiritual transformation—as distinguished from the psychic which proceeds from the inner heart. They are elementary experiences in the practice of Yoga and there is not much to be said about them,—still I will ...
... will or to remain in it with a part of one's consciousness, while the rest goes on in the old way. Psychic transformation is when the whole being is remoulded into the nature of the psychic; spiritual transformation is when the whole being is spiritualised; supramental transformation is when the whole being is supramentalised— Page 331 that cannot be done automatically by merely being aware... consciousness. But all that is a result of the opening to the spiritual above and it comes by an infiltration or reflection of the spiritual light and truth in mind, life and body. The spiritual transformation proper begins or becomes possible when one rises above the mind and lives there governing all from above. Even in the psychic transformation one can rise above by a sort of going above of ...
... devotion and self-giving—not to stifle it with the damp smouldering logs of vital desire and egoistic reactions. If that becomes permanent and continuous, then it will be easy to bring down the spiritual transformation. 11 February 1947 Devotion to the Divine, fidelity to his work and obedience to his will are the first supports of the Yoga. On these pillars all the rest can be supported. 11 February... the mind and vital being. 2 February 1946 An increasing advance on the road to the entire psychic change is what is most important in the sadhana, for that is the straight road to the spiritual transformation. Devotion, harmony Page 842 and scrupulousness in work, a growing inner perception and consciousness, more and more fading of the more vehement movements of the vital ego are among ...
... transformation consists in "bringing right vision into the mind, right impulse and feeling into the vital, right movement and habit into the physical — all turned towards the Divine.. .." 9 By spiritual transformation is meant "the descent of the higher peace, force, light, knowledge, purity, Ananda, etc. which belong to any of the higher planes" 10 of mind above the ordinary mind. Supramental transformation... and a change in the functionings of the body". 12 Psychic transformation is the first necessity, "because it makes safe and easy the descent of the higher consciousness and the spiritual transformation without which the supramental must always remain far distant" (p. 100). A. S. Dalal 9. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL Vol. 23, p. 1093. 10.Sri Aurobindo, Letters ...
... and inconclusive, does not meet the demand I make on life and Yoga. 12 The complete process of transformation is described by Sri Aurobindo as triple, — psychic transformation, spiritual transformation, and supramental transformation. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: ... there must first be the psychic change, the conversion of our whole present nature into a soul-instrumentation;... that the real truth of man is to be found in his soul." 14 Whether humanity will respond to the need of this new turn will depend upon its increasing perception of the necessity of spiritual transformation. Sri Aurobindo points out that a change from the vital and mental to the spiritual order of life must necessarily be accomplished in the individual and in a greater number of individuals before ...
... destiny Page 463 is to be the spiritual superman, and that the present hour is the hour of his evolutionary crisis in which his entire life, his very body, must undergo an integral spiritual transformation, not indeed by an escape into some far-off heaven, but here, in this physical earth itself, by a victorious union of Spirit and Matter. This, he has declared, is not an issue of an individual... discovered that Spirit is not the negation of Matter, but that Matter itself is an expression of the Spirit, and that Spirit is unfolding itself gradually in Matter so that there would be a total spiritual transformation of material life, here itself, ih eva, in this earthly Earth. There is no need to renounce Matter in order to embrace the Spirit. Indeed, all life is an evolving expression of the Spirit ...
... context. The little stream of life is seen lost in the ocean, the little bird of one's individuality is seen lost in the universality of the blue sky. The radical inner change, the profound spiritual transformation takes place when man the mental being aspires with his whole heart and soul to the 'higher' knowledge, and is seized and overwhelmed by it: The possession of the Infinite cannot come... from "a vast cosmic instrumentation'. This is the utmost change that man can hope for while still remaining man, for, "the overmind change is the final consummating movement of the dynamic spiritual transformation; it is the highest possible status dynamis of the spirit in the spiritual-mind plane." 15 Page 296 ...
... human consciousness in which the prophecy has to be worked out. P. 33 L. S) Ashwapathy's spiritual development consisted of two yogic movements; one a psycho-spiritual transformation and the other, a greater spiritual transformation with an ascent to a supreme power. Ashwapathy's yoga falls into three parts, I. He is achieving his. own spiritual self-fulfilment as an individual, II. Next ...
... intellectual effort and by a free activity of this knowledge from above. This is important because the principle of this Yoga is not perfection of the human nature as it is but a psychic and spiritual transformation of all the parts of the being through the action of an inner consciousness and then of a higher consciousness which works on them, throws out the old movements or changes them into the image ...
... the supramental to act in the present body for change. It is what I am looking forward to at present. Of course a certain preliminary transformation is necessary, just as the psychic and spiritual transformation precedes the supramental. But this is a change of the physical consciousness down to the submerged consciousness of the cells so that they may respond to higher forces and admit them and to ...
... nature may obey the psychic entity's intimations, move in an inner light, follow an inner guidance. This is already a considerable evolution and amounts to a beginning at least of a psychic and spiritual transformation. 86 — Sri Aurobindo * The psychic, except in a few extraordinary natures, does not get its full chance in the outer consciousness; it needs some Page 84 ...
... purely intellectual and academic; it became intellectual speculation only without any practical ways and means for the attainment of the Truth by spiritual experiment, spiritual discovery, a spiritual transformation. If there were not this difference, there Would be no reason for seekers like yourself to turn to the East for guidance; for in the purely intellectual field, the Western thinkers are as competent ...
... perfection is the ultimate aim which we set before us, for our ideal is the Divine Life which we wish to create here, the life of the Spirit fulfilled on earth, life accomplishing its own spiritual transformation even here on earth in the conditions of the material universe. That cannot be unless the body too undergoes a transformation, unless its action and functioning attain to a supreme capacity ...
... working of the Force is not altogether in vain, as this experience is a very big affair and is supposed to be, if stabilised, the summit of the old Yogas. For us it is only a beginning of spiritual transformation. I have said this though it is personal so that you may understand that outside defects and obstacles in the nature or the appearance of unyogicness does not necessarily mean that a person ...
... higher consciousness above; there is the opening of the centres and of the planes (mental, vital, physical) which these centres command; there is also the descent which is the main key of the spiritual transformation. Therefore there is, I have said, a Tantrik knowledge behind the process of transformation in this Yoga. There is [ in the Integral Yoga ] no willed opening of the chakras, they open ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XXII The Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation Our normal conduct of life, whether the individual or the social, is actually governed by the balance between two complementary powers,—first, an implicit will central to the life and inherent in the main power of its action and, secondly, whatever modifying will can come in from ...
... The Spiritual Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter VI Feelings and Sensations in the Process of Descent Sensations in the Inner Centres It [ a pressure felt in meditation ] is what we call the pressure of the Force (the Force of the higher spiritual or divine consciousness, the Mother's Force); it comes in various forms, vibrations, currents ...
... presence of the Divine, the realisation of the Divine in all things, surrender, devotion, the widening of the consciousness into the cosmic Consciousness, the Self one in all, the psychic and the spiritual transformation of the nature. If these things are neglected and only poetry and mental development and social contacts occupy all the time, then that is not sadhana. Also the poetry must be written in the ...
... The Spiritual Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter II Ascent to the Higher Planes Contact with the Above These are the ordinary normal experiences of the sadhana when there is an opening from above—the contact with the peace of the Brahman, Self or Divine and the contact with the higher Power, the Power of the Mother. He does not know what ...
... The Spiritual Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter III The Descent of the Higher Consciousness and Force The Purpose of the Descent The descent is that of the powers of the higher consciousness which is above the head. It usually descends from centre to centre till it has occupied the whole being. But at the beginning the action is very variable ...
... trance, but it has to come afterwards in the waking state and establish itself as a permanent basis for all the life and action. It is the condition for the realisation of the Self and the spiritual transformation of the nature. The experience you relate, the stillness, the emptiness of mind and vital and cessation of thoughts and other movements, was the coming of the state called "samadhi" ...
... nature may obey the psychic entity's intimations, move in an inner light, follow an inner guidance. This is already a considerable evolution and amounts to a beginning at least of a psychic and spiritual transformation. But it is possible to go farther; for the spiritual being, once inwardly liberated, can develop in mind the higher states of being that are its own natural atmosphere and bring down a supramental ...
... e of the truth within them, another period in which we draw back and build a spiritual wall around us admitting through its gates only such activities as consent to undergo the law of the spiritual transformation, a third in which a free and all-embracing action, but with new forms fit for the utter truth of the Spirit, can again be made possible. These things, however, will be decided by no mental ...
... powers, harmonic significances concealed from the normal mind and the physical sense. In the universal phenomenon is revealed the eternal Ananda. These are the first major results of the spiritual transformation that follow as a necessary consequence of the nature of Supermind. But if there is to be not only a perfection of the inner existence, of the consciousness, of an inner delight of existence ...
... same time this released a power of the Spirit in the world which was a collective phenomenon, described by St. Luke as the descent of the Spirit at Pentecost. I believe that this power of spiritual transformation remains permanently in the world, but it was only initiated by Christ and the apostles. What Sri Aurobindo has done is to give a philosophical explanation of this phenomenon and to ...
... wise men and the elders in the movement in Bengal. The new Nationalism is a creed, but it is more than a creed; it is a method, but more than a method. The new Nationalism is an attempt at a spiritual transformation of the nineteenth century Indian; it is a notice of dismissal or at least of suspension to the bourgeois and all his ideas and ways and works, a call for men who will dare & do impossibilities ...
... The Yoga and Its Objects The yoga we practise is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition ...
... Nirodbaran: ‘There are different statuses of transformation. First is the psychic transformation, in which all is in contact with the Divine through the psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. ‘Nobody ...
... in the Mayan Long Count calendar will end on that day. A New Age interpretation of this presumed event tells us that on that day Earth and her inhabitants will undergo a physical and/or spiritual transformation which will initiate a new era. Others expect that event to bring the world to an end, or something of similar importance, which may be caused by cosmic catastrophes, e.g. a collision with ...
... , although 'eating' all the time. Have we then come to the solution of the problem that has been the theme of our present essay? When the individual being through a process of spiritual transformation gets subjectively established in the unitary consciousness of the Spirit and thus transcends the law of hunger and therefore the law of death, does his body too, as a necessary consequence ...
... perfection is the ultimate aim which we set before us, for our ideal is the Divine Life which we wish to create here, the life of the Spirit fulfilled on earth, life accomplishing its own spiritual transformation even here on earth in the conditions of the material universe. That cannot be unless the body too undergoes a transformation, unless its action and functioning attain to a supreme capacity" ...
... personal action is and must always be in its nature a part of the lower grades of existence; it is obscure or half-enlightened, limited in its field, very partially effective in its power. If a spiritual transformation, not a mere illumining modification of our nature, is to be done at all, we must call in the Divine Shakti 100 to effect that miraculous work in the individual; for she alone has the needed ...
... path, 42-44 spiritual practice, 65, 66 Page 171 aim of, 144-147 methods, 112-121 zeal in, 107 spiritual teachings, paradoxes in, 20, 21 spiritual transformation, 146, 147 Sri Aurobindo's viewpoints, see also teachings; yoga the Divine, 71, 72, 78, 150 integral transformation, 23 power of Guru's grace, 27, 28 relevance ...
... universal presence of Christ in the world. In the 12.Ibid., pp. 530-31. 13.Ibid., pp. 219-20. Page 131 tradition of the Exercise, however, the spiritual transformation is in fact effected only in diligent contemplation of the person of Jesus in the acts and events of his historical existence, by assimilating his mysteries and imitating his behaviour ...
... skill, — and, the integral System of education developed by the Mother has provided framework that would enable every individual to develop full potentialities of personality as also their Spiritual transformation. These experiments need to be understood properly and we need to draw lessons from there to design a comprehensive process of learning and Page 154 teaching that can foster the ...
... spiritual experience or spiritual realization or as spiritual change, which is itself a starting-point of great and radical processes of what can be called processes of psychic transformation, spiritual transformation and supramental transformation. Page 94 If we wish to define spirituality in its distinctive character, ii it can be said that it is, in its essence and in its initial stages ...
... s, including the physical consciousness. In fact, in pursuance of these double processes; Sri Aurobindo has spoken of a new integral yoga of three transformations, psychic transformation, spiritual transformation, and supramental transformation. In the literature relating to the integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo has presented the yoga of self-perfection and described in detail the psychology of what ...
... spiritual experience or spiritual realization or as spiritual change, which is itself a starting-point of great and radical processes of what can be called processes of psychic transformation, spiritual transformation and supramental transformation. If we wish to define spirituality in its distinctive character, 19 it can'be said that it is, in its essence and in its initial stages, an awakening to ...
... superhumanity or the mutation of human species into a new supramental species has at its core what Sri Aurobindo has called the process of triple transformation, — the psychic transformation, the spiritual transformation and the supramental transformation. Sri Aurobindo has given precise significance to all these terms. By transformation, Sri Aurobindo means, "a change of consciousness radical and complete ...
... This has a great deal to do with the evolutionary intention of Nature, and the entire process has been divided into three major steps in the Integral Yoga, namely, psychic transformation, spiritual transformation and supramental transformation. The aim of perfect perfection that the Integral yoga places before mankind can be accomplished only when there occurs in the evolutionary process the evolution ...
... of psychicisation, and when this is accompanied and followed by a free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experience there comes about not only a psychic but, more widely speaking, a psycho-spiritual transformation in many directions. The psychic experiences relate to the discovery of psychic being and psychic entity and effects it produces towards the psychic transformation of nature and towards the ...
... dexterity the divine Grace is at work to free the sadhaka's nature and consciousness from the manifold bondage of his weaknesses and ignorance, whose inevitable happy culmination will be the spiritual transformation of the entire instrumental being of the sadhaka,consisting of his mind and heart and body in all their parts and functionings. It will be a constantly repeated delightful experience for ...
... purification of the vital; (ii) the self-consecration of the vital; (iii) its liberation and conversion; (iv) a full collaboration of the vital in the sadhana-effort of the sadhaka; and (v) spiritual transformation of the vital being. But even before the sadhaka seriously undertakes the sadhana of the vital, he should, as a preliminary measure, equip himself with an ardent aspiration for the conquest ...
... conceived by Sri Aurobindo as "one of his most cherished ideals" (Ibid.), we cannot but feel eager to know how education can possibly play such a momentous role in the achievement of a total spiritual transformation of man and his life — his life outer as well as inner. For, the type of education that we are habitually acquainted with, that we see practised around us, does not offer any hope, even the ...
... of the Self is the beginning of Brahman realisation - the Brahman consciousness -the Self in all and all in the Self, etc. It is the basis of the spiritual realisation and therefore of the spiritual transformation; but one has to see it in all sorts of aspects and applications first and that I refuse to go into. If you want to know, you have to read the Arya. 25 While referringto greatness ...
... Consciousness. There are also different statuses of transformation. First is the psychic transformation, in which all is in contact with the Divine through the psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. It is only ...
... perfection is the ultimate aim which we set before us for our ideal is the Divine Life which we wish to create here, the life of the Spirit fulfilled on earth, life accomplishing its own spiritual transformation even here on earth in the conditions of the material universe. That cannot be unless the body too undergoes a transformation .... The body itself must reach a perfection in all that it ...
... I speak of three transformations—the psychic, the spiritual and the supramental. Many have had the psychic: there were the Christian saints who spoke of God's presence in their hearts. The spiritual transformation implies the realisation of the Self, the Infinite above, with the dynamic no less than the static side of its peace, knowledge, Ananda, etc. This transformation is difficult. Beyond that is ...
... and absolutely so that its true divine nature comes out and remains as Nature's highest and fullest expression on earth. That is the goal: the way_too is not less characteristic. The total spiritual transformation, the divinisation of Matter is possible, not only possible but inevitable, because it is :Matter that wants it, because Matter in its essence, in its true reality is spiritual energy, is the ...
... are also different statues of transformation. First is the psychic transformation, in which all is in contact with the Divine through the individual psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. It ...
... necessary to mention that it is far more effective as an expression. If the line is considered in its context, we will see that it has reference to Aswapathy who was preparing himself for a spiritual transformation. He had already attained a poise of spiritual equality, of tranquil strength and unaltered peace. He could remain above sorrow and delight and see all changes without feeling any change within ...
... and self-giving - not to stifle it with the damp smouldering logs of vital desire and egoistic reactions. If that becomes permanent and continuous, then it will be easy to bring down the spiritual transformation. SRI AUROBINDO My dear child, on this day of your birth anniversary, let your aspiration leap forward pure and straight towards the supreme consciousness which is all joy and all ...
... XXIV Matter Argument Life and Mind are in the fact of evolution conditioned by the body and therefore by the principle of Matter. The body is the chief difficulty in the way of a spiritual transformation of life; it has therefore been regarded by spiritual aspiration as an enemy and the escape from the material existence has been made an indispensable condition of the final emancipation.—The ...
... rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer to the field of earth and Matter." THE BACKGROUND OF AUROVILLE It is, on the one hand, the process of an unheard-of spiritual transformation and, on the other, the presence of a super-scientific this-worldly genius, that are the background of the larger field of work into which the Aurobindonian inspiration Page 8 ...
... position. To view his wideness, his considerateness, his'comprehensiveness as our commentator does is to render pretty meaningless those words of Sri Aurobindo's in a letter on the process of spiritual transformation he has worked out in terms of the Supermind. Among the reasons why he has called his Yoga "new as compared with the old yogas" he lists the following: "... a method has been preconized for ...
... all my love. The Mother 2.2.1947 An increasing advance on the road to the entire psychic change is what is most important in the sadhana, for that is the straight road to the spiritual transformation. Devotion, harmony and scrupulousness in work, a growing inner perception and consciousness, more and more fading of the more vehement movements of the vital ego are among the more prominent ...
... personal action is and must always be in its nature a part of the lower grades of existence; it is obscure or half-enlightened, limited in its field, very partially effective in its power. If a spiritual transformation, not a mere illumining modification of our nature, is to be done at all, we must call in the Divine Shakti to effect that miraculous work in the individual; for she alone has the needed force ...
... aesthesis, sympathy, feeling, dynamism become more catholic, all-understanding, all-embracing, cosmic, infinite. The overmind change is the final consummating movement of the dynamic spiritual transformation; it is the highest possible status-dynamis of the Spirit in the spiritual-mind plane. It takes up all that is in the three steps below it and raises their charateristic workings to their ...
... purely intellectual and academic; it became intellectual speculation only without any practical ways and means for the attainment of the Truth by spiritual experiment, spiritual discovery, a spiritual transformation. If there were not this difference, there would be no reason for seekers like yourself to turn to the East for guidance; for in the purely intellectual field, the Western thinkers are as ...
... this era of pacifism, after the protests against the war in Vietnam and like-minded movements, an exhortation to braveness is often looked at askance, but this betrays an ignorance of what spiritual transformation actually means. Most people come to the yoga for quietude and peace, for release from the stressful burden that living in an earthly body means. Their intention is justified and praiseworthy ...
... nobody is yet able to interpret. But: what has all this to do with overman? Everything. For there is no doubt that the external global events were the physical expression of the ongoing spiritual transformation. Sri Aurobindo once wrote that the French Revolution of 1789 was made possible because of the siddhi of Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood realised by some unknown yogi in the Himalayas. ...
... purely intellectual and academic; it became intellectual speculation only without any practical ways and means for the attainment of the Truth by spiritual experiment, spiritual discovery, a spiritual transformation. If there were not this difference, there would be no reason for seekers like yourself to turn to the East for guidance; for in the purely intellectual field, the Western thinkers are as competent ...
... generally, then it begins to be spiritualised and its highest ranges merge into the spiritual mind-consciousness of which this higher mind can be a beginning. This merging is part of the spiritual transformation. For the mind there are many centres: (1) the sahasradala which centralises spiritual mind, higher mind, intuitive mind and acts as a receiving station for the intuition proper and overmind ...
... first place, since this is the individual soul in Nature, it can open to the hidden diviner ranges of our being and receive and reflect their light and power and experience, but another, a spiritual transformation from above is needed for us to possess our self in its universality and transcendence. By itself Page 240 the psychic being at a certain stage might be content to create a formation ...
... sage can give us. The inner spiritual state to which this supreme Yoga will take us, will be above all that is here and yet comprehensive of all things in this and other worlds, but with a spiritual transformation of all, without limitation, without bondage, sarva-dharmān parityajya . The infinite existence, consciousness and delight of the Godhead in its calm silence and bright boundless activity ...
... up to meet the higher Consciousness above and for the powers of the higher (spiritual or divine) Consciousness to descend into mind, life and body. This is what is called in this Yoga the spiritual transformation. If one begins with this movement, then the Power from above has in its descent to open all the centres (including the lowest centre) and to bring out the psychic being; for until that is ...
... The Spiritual Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter IV The Descent of the Higher Powers The Descent of Peace, Force, Light, Ananda The descent of Peace, the descent of Force or Power, the descent of Light, the descent of Ananda, these are the four things that transform the nature. Light, Peace, Force, Ananda constitute the spiritual ...
... The Spiritual Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter VIII Descent and the Lower Nature The Resistance of the Lower Nature If the habit of the ordinary nature is not any obstacle to the descent, then what is the need of sadhana? What prevents the whole higher consciousness from coming down and changing you into a superman in one second? It is ...
... The Spiritual Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter VII Difficulties Experienced in the Process of Descent Alternations in the Intensity of the Force Sometimes the descent comes with great force in order to open something, afterwards it becomes more quiet and normal until the consciousness is ready for a more sustained descent. There ...
... psychic development and the psychic change of mind, vital and physical consciousness is of the utmost importance because it makes safe and easy the descent of the higher consciousness and the spiritual transformation without which the supramental must always remain far distant. Powers etc. have their place, but a very minor one so long as this is not done. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - III: The ...
... rise up to meet the higher consciousness above and for the powers of the higher (spiritual nature) consciousness to descend into mind, life and body. This is what is called in this yoga the spiritual transformation. If one begins with this movement then the Power from above has in its descent to open all the centres (including the lowest centre) and to bring out the psychic being; for until that is done ...
... the working of the Force is not altogether in vain, as this experience is a very big affair and is supposed to be, if stabilised, the summit of the old Yogas—For us it is only a beginning of spiritual transformation. I have said this though it is personal so that you may understand that outside defects and obstacles in the nature .or the appearance of unYogicness does not necessarily mean that a person ...
... presence of the Divine, the realization of the Divine in all things, surrender, devotion, the widening of the consciousness into the cosmic Consciousness, the Self one in all, the psychic and the spiritual transformation of the nature. If these things are neglected and only poetry and mental development and social contacts occupy all the time, then that is not sadhana. Also the poetry must be written in the ...
... aesthesis, sympathy, feeling, dynamism become more catholic, all-understanding, all-embracing, cosmic, infinite. The overmind change is the final consummating movement of the dynamic spiritual transformation; it is the highest possible status-dynamis of the Spirit in the spiritual-mind plane. It takes up all that is in the three steps below it and raises their characteristic workings to their ...
... 50-1 Physical Cells, 88 Sleep walker, 24 Physical consciousness, 150-1, 160,176, 253-4 Species, new, 74, 176 Physical consciousness and the supreme, 102-5 Spiritual transformation, 78-81 Physical, descent into the, 82 Spring, almighty, 126-9 Physical ego, 86, 208 Sri Aurobindo, 1872 (Birth), 1 1879 (To England), 1 1893 (Return from England), 1 ...
... was the question of Savitri's transformation, the Mother drew a sketch in front of me to throw more light on the subject, and said: Child, it is not the physical transformation but the spiritual transformation. Indeed, Inspiration simply gripped me and drove me once it was invoked. I read four passages of Book Ten— The Book of the Double Twilight. The Mother made me understand the new ...
... body, we must note that in the Sadhanas followed so far, it is the subjective realisation of the Purusha part and the inner experiences of the Self and the Supreme, as distinct from the spiritual transformation of the Prakriti part, of the instrumental Nature; that have been generally sought after. The Self separates from the Nature and, itself free and unaffected, views the turbid movements of ...
... Synthesis of Yoga, p. 453. (Italics ours) Page 89 the Superconscient and not to bring back its dynamic riches to the waking outer existence with a view to effectuate a spiritual transformation there. Hence, as soon as the Yogin goes above the level of the spiritual mind, he does not seek to retain any continuity of awareness there; instead, he passes into the "mystic sleep" of ...
... action. But it is at the same time true that from our side we have to make special and sincere efforts to deserve their unsolicited Grace and earnestly collaborate in the work of our spiritual transformation. For Sri Aurobindo has warned us, Page 20 their work in the Ashram may be hampered by the instrumental difficulties offered by the disciples who dwell there. Let us listen to ...
... devotion and self-giving -not to stifle it with the damp smouldering logs of vital desire and egoistic reactions. If that becomes permanent and continuous, then it will be easy to bring down the spiritual transformation. Sri Aurobindo Page 16 My dear child, on this day of your birth anniversary, let your aspiration leap forward pure and straight towards the supreme consciousness which ...
... The Origin of species from the standpoint of Yoga Yoga as a means of Mutation of the Human Species Evolution by means of Yogic Transformation: Psychic Transformation, Spiritual Transformation, Supramental Transformation Conditions of the advent of the Supramental Being Yoga and Collective Life: Collective Aspiration: Its Necessity for General Health ...
... knowledge spiritual change 15 spiritual consciousness 29, 96 spiritual evolution 34; see also evolution spiritual liberation 22, 30; see also mukti, nirv ā na spiritual transformation 34; the process of 33 spiritualisation 86, 95 ś raddhā 75 Sri Krishna 10, 11 (The) Synthesis of Yoga 3, 15, 90 subliminal consciousness 60, 63 subtle sight ...
... n of the Self is the beginning of Brahman realisation;—the Brahman consciousness—the Self in all and all in the Self etc. It is the basis of the spiritual realisation and therefore of the spiritual transformation; but one has to see it in all sorts of aspects and applications first and that I refuse to go into. If you want to know you have to read the Arya. Is living in that consciousness an ideal ...
... meditation and contemplation. Yoga and psychology of spiritual experiences could also be included such as those of liberation from ego, cosmic consciousness, transcendental consciousness and spiritual transformation and perfection. Along with the subject of science and values, one could also have in this programme the study of art and values, and in this connection, the followings questions could ...
... emphasis on it as Page 17 The aim of total transformation that this new synthesis of this yoga puts forward is a process that involves, first, psychic transformation, secondly, spiritual transformation, and thirdly, supramental transformation. This entire process is based on the discovery of the psychic being, of the spiritual being in its multisidedness and integrality, and of the supramental ...
... his destiny is to be the spiritual superman, and that the present hour is the hour of his evolutionary crisis in which his entire life, his very body, must undergo an integral spiritual Page 60 transformation, not indeed by an escape into some far-off heavens, but here, in this physical earth itself, by a victorious union of Spirit and Matter. This, he has declared, is not an issue ...
... perfection is the ultimate aim which we set before us, for our ideal is the Divine Life which we wish to create here,, the life of the Spirit fulfilled on earth, life accomplishing its own spiritual transformation even here on earth in the conditions of the material universe. That cannot be unless the body too undergoes a transformation, unless its action and functioning attain to a supreme capacity ...
... age of civilization. No material prosperity, no advance of physical science, no religious revival, no social revolution can replace the necessary and Page 35 inevitable spiritual transformation. In his major works. The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity ³ , Sri Aurobindo has studied at length the nature of the Supermind and ...
... 2.2.1947 An increasing advance on the road to the entire psychic change is what is most important in the sadhana, for that is the straight road to the spiritual transformation. Devotion, harmony and scrupulousness in work, a growing inner perception and consciousness, more and more fading of the more vehement movements of the vital ego are among the more prominent ...
... 3) Supramental. Psychic transformation many had; spiritual is the realization of the Self, the Infinite above, with its dynamic side of peace, knowledge, ananda etc. That transformation is spiritual transformation and above that is the Supramental transformation. It is Truth-consciousness working for a Divine aim or purpose. Disciple : If one has inner realization does transformation follow ...
... movement and significance. The earth in Ilion is a "patient compassionate Mother"; in Page 361 Savitri, prone earth awaits "the divine Event", the imminent spiritual transformation. The 'overhead' level at which the poem opens is sustained over almost the whole of the first and second cantos. The description is neither scientific nor fanciful but poetical ...
... us upward into a clearer vision of God." 126 Grace is the name of God's love, and a readiness to sacrifice is the proof of man's love, and when the two meet, there is an integration, a spiritual transformation. Page 330 In Savitri we have a double demonstration of the dynamics of spiritual awakening: Aswapati's odyssey of the occult worlds and Savitri's ...
... man's present condition. But I care because their acceptance means defeat of the whole effort of Yoga. These lower forces used to thwart and have always been trying to thwart all efforts at spiritual transformation of the physical being." ² He spoke again about the same problem in December 1938: "It is when the sadhana came down into the physical and the subconscient that things became very difficult ...
... the final version Sri Aurobindo has written: "The Yoga we practise is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti... but the liberation and transformation ...
... Divine. This realisation is the foundation (when it is fixed and one lives constantly above the body in the wideness of the infinite Being) of the spiritual state and the beginning of the spiritual transformation of the nature. What you have been having up to now is the psychic change; when the psychic and spiritual join together, then the transformation can be complete. For this Descent is necessary ...
... Symbols; Experiences of the Inner and the Cosmic Consciousness. Volume 24 — Letters on Yoga, PART FOUR: The Triple Transformation — Psychic, Spiritual, Supramental; Transformation of the Mind; Transformation of the Vital; Transformation of the Physical; Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient; Difficulties of the Path; Opposition of the Hostile Forces. Volume 25 —... and Book Two, PART ONE. Book One: Omnipresent Reality and the Universe; Book Two: The Knowledge and the Ignorance —The Spiritual Evolution; Part I: The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance. Volume 19 — The Life Divine, Book Two, PART TWO: The Knowledge and the Spiritual Evolution. Volume 20 — The Synthesis of Yoga, PARTS ONE AND Two. Introduction: The Conditions of the Synthesis;... work, parts of the being. Volume 15 — Words of the Mother. Short written statements, and conversations, about Yoga and life: The Gods, religion, war, wealth, government, progress, transformation and the Supramental, illness and health, messages for the new year, for darshan days, etc, and other subjects. B OOKS BY O THER W RITERS Books on Sri Aurobindo or books that ...
... appearance of a supramental spiritual being who shall impose on his mental, vital, bodily workings a higher law than that of the dividing Mind is no longer impossible... it is the natural and inevitable conclusion of the nature of cosmic existence. 28 What, then, are the new ingredients in Aurobindonian metaphysics of life-transformation and world-transformation? Firstly, the conception of... Change", the spiritual and supramental transformation, can be realised on the earth. Now at long last we come to the heart of the matter: the Ascent towards the Supermind. Once the awakening to the inner soul-reality of our being and the awareness by identity of our soul-relationship with others and with the universe have been realised - that is the essence of the psychic and spiritual transformations... infused by a sense of urgency and the spirit of modern science, a force for revolutionary change and transformation of man's and the earth's nature: [Teilhard's] natural connections are with spiritual India through scientific Europe and, by an inspired gathering up of several strands of spiritual India, his system provides pointers in the direction of the luminous largeness of Sri Aurobindo. Teilhard ...
... integral movement. It can be said, for instance, that the yoga of Savitri is the yoga of Transformation. But Ashwapathy also attains a kind—degree—of transformation which Sri Aurobindo Page 254 calls psycho-Spiritual. The Transformation, in case of Savitri, is triple: The Psychic, the Spiritual, the Supramental. Ashwapathy's yoga may be called the yoga of Ascent mainly, and that of the... yoga of liberation, vision and Ascent by the Yoga of Descent and Transformation. Life on earth is crowned by life Divine. ASHWAPATHY'S YOGA Ashwapathy's Yoga starts by the release of his soul from the bondage and limitations of the body, life and mind, the apparent being of man. He feels within him a spiritual being, and also experiences new faculties and states of consciousness... each one leads us step by step to the transformation that came over Savitri, changing her from a sensitive, noble and strong woman, subject to pain, to a being conscious of the cosmic plan and the divine purpose culminating into a trans- formed being, whose every part of nature gradually ceased to be human and became divine. The graded process of transformation has been very well brought out in each ...
... essential divine consciousness with all its spiritual consequences, peace, light, equality, strength, Ananda etc. etc. If you say that that cannot be done, you deny all possibility of spiritual perfection, transformation or any true Yoga. All that anyone can do is to be helpless and wait for the divine Omnipotence to do something or other. The whole spiritual past of man becomes a fantastic insanity... was bad logic—that someone Page 408 quite ignorant and low in the social scale can manifest a great spirituality and even a great spiritual knowledge. I hope you are not bourgeois enough to deny that or to contend that the Divine or the spiritual can only manifest in somebody who has some money in his pockets or some University education in his pate? For the rest as I myself have been pointing... scientific discovery and achievement. The question of a Muthu becoming a Ramakrishna, i.e. a great spiritual man may look to you like being an exercise in unreal numbers or magnitudes because it exceeds the actual observable facts in the case of this Muthu who very evidently is not going to be a great spiritual man—but we were arguing the matter of essential principle. I was pointing out that in the es ...
... the Inner and the Cosmic Consciousness. Volume 24 Letters on Yoga, PART FOUR: The Triple Transformation — Psychic, Spiritual, Supramental; Transformation of the Mind; Transformation of the Vital; Transformation of the Physical; Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient; Difficulties of the Path; Opposition of the Hostile Forces. Volume... Government Central Press, Hyderabad, 1941 Contents: "Transformation", "Nirvana", "The Other Earths" (these three first appeared in the Calcutta Review of October 1934), "Thought the Paraclete", "Moon of Two Hemispheres" and "Rose of God". Included in Collected Poems and Plays (See 13) as "Transformation and Other Poems". SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5 68 ... PART ONE. Book One: Omnipresent Reality and the Universe; Book Two: The Knowledge and the Ignorance — The Spiritual Evolution; Part I: The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance. Volume 19 The Life Divine, BOOK Two, PART Two: The Knowledge and the Spiritual Evolution. Volume 20 The Synthesis of Yoga , PARTS ONE AND Two: Introduction: The Conditions ...
... essential divine consciousness with all its spiritual consequences, peace, light, equality, strength, Ananda etc., etc. If you say that that cannot be done, you deny all possibility of spiritual perfection, transformation or any true Yoga. All that anyone can do is to lie helpless and wait for the divine Omnipotence to do something or other. The whole spiritual past of man becomes a fantastic insanity... behind others and it is to awaken that that he is there. The psychic being does the same for all who are intended for the spiritual way,—men need not be extraordinary beings to follow Yoga. That is the mistake you are making, to harp on greatness as if only the great can be spiritual. Regarding the divinity in man—what is the use of this divinity if it is coated layer after layer with Maya? How many... logical and intuitive at the same time. What does supramentalisation mean exactly? We know by your own statement that you have achieved that. Is it then supramentalisation in parts? You want transformation of everything—mental to physical? Achieved what? What statement? What are these wild assertions? I spoke of an overmind Force which is getting supramentalised in parts. Does it mean that ...
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