... dropping to 99. As a doctor, I think, I am in a position to judge these things. X: Maybe all this happened, but how do you know it was Sri Aurobindo's Force that brought about this sudden change? Myself: Everybody knows here that Sri Aurobindo's Force is constantly acting on us with a tremendous power. Almost all of us have experienced it one time or another. D was brought here under the Mother's... deny the reality of this Force. Were you able to write with such vigour before you came here? X: Yes, I could work a lot; so much so that people were astounded! Was that Sri Aurobindo's Force? What is Sri Aurobindo's force? It is not a personal property of this body or mind. It is a higher Force used by me or acting through me. And Tagore, Lenin, etc. who are giants—is your Divine Force working... Try as I would, I could not convince him of its reality. Let me put before you the discussion in dialogue form as it actually took place. X: I just can't believe that D was cured by Sri Aurobindo's Force, unless I hear to this effect from Sri Aurobindo himself. Myself: But the facts and figures are there: they show quite clearly that something utterly miraculous happened—an abdominal abscess ...
... reality of this Force. Were you able to work with such vigour before you came here?" He said, "Yes, I could work a lot, so much so that people were astounded. Was that Sri Aurobindo's Force?" Page 484 What is Sri Aurobindo's force? It is not a personal property of this body or mind. It is a higher Force used by me or acting through me. "And Tagore, Lenin and other greats. Is the Divine Force... Help and Guidance Letters on Himself and the Ashram Sri Aurobindo's Force Concreteness of the Force The invisible Force producing tangible results both inward and outward is the whole meaning of the Yogic consciousness. Your question about Yoga bringing merely a feeling of Power without any result was really very strange. Who would be satisfied with... world, but it acts according to the nature of the instrument. Yogic Force is different from others because it is a special power of the spiritual consciousness. I continued, "It may not be Sri Aurobindo's Force, but how can I exclude the possibility of a Divine Force behind? Because one is an atheist, it doesn't mean the Divine is undivine against him!" There was an obvious intervention in the ...
... last, to the miracle of Sri Aurobindo's Force as the one and only solvent of all our difficulties. I told him that Sri Aurobindo had written once clearly and categorically to Nirod on this very point. "The mistake is to think that it must be either a miraculous Force or none. There is no miraculous Force and I do not deal in miracles." And then: "What is Sri Aurobindo's Force? It is not a personal... Among the Great ) I had a wordy tussle with a sadhaka in the Ashram. In this instance he seemed to have caught something but I thought he was expressing himself badly when he claimed that "Sri Aurobindo's Force" could not be called "invisible" since it translated itself in "visible changes" even in the outer nature of many an aspirant. So I wrote to Gurudev Page 100 requesting him to ...
... of Bengali Poetry I do not know that I can suggest any detailed criticisms of Bengali poetry, as I have to rely more on what I feel than on any expert knowledge of language and metre. Sri Aurobindo's Force and the Writing of Poetry You give me Force for English poetry—some lines come all right, others are jumbled, wrong, etc., and these things you correct by outer guidance, i.e. by correcting ...
... pain is still there, Sir? Otherwise I have faith. PURANI: You are not open to the Force then. DR. MANILAL: All my cells are open. (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: To what? DR. MANILAL: To Sri Aurobindo's Force. SRI AUROBINDO: Even your rheumatic cells? (Laughter) DR. MANILAL: Yes, Sir. SRI AUROBINDO: Open to rheumatism. EVENING Purani was coughing a little. DR. MANILAL: You talk ...
... well, "according to schedule"; the critical period had been tided over. We had only to follow the present regime almost blindfold, and there would be no trouble that he could foresee. Besides, Sri Aurobindo's force was there constantly at our call. The doctor assured us that he would come again when the limb was released from the plaster. But I could not be so easily persuaded. I was most reluctant to ...
... his Yoga 201, 237, 240ff, 247, 282, 288, 295, 380, 460 guidance through her 230, 243-4, 248, 253, 292, 355-6, 590 her motherhood 233-4, 246-50, 253 her illness in 1931 344 is Sri Aurobindo's Force 354 her aura 362-3 her share of difficulties as path-finder 380 her victory 384 her occult working on sadhaks 339, 343, 395 (cf -230) War and her disciples 427-8 her ...
... 104 force to govern. Does it mean that there is a difference between the two forces? There is one force only, the Mother's force—or, if you like to put it like that, the Mother is Sri Aurobindo's Force. Somebody told me: "When I came here, Sri Aurobindo never used to teach us anything about the Yoga. He told us to follow our own knowledge." Is this so? I am not aware of that. But ...
... Satprem read a letter from a disciple who had felt an especially strong descent of force and was asking if it was related to the new year. ) It is related to the year of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo's Force will exert a pressure this year. I felt it immediately, on the very first of January. A strong pressure from his force, his consciousness, like this ( Mother lowers both arms ). ( silence ...
... fulfil its glorious destiny, if not in the immediate future, at least in the march of Time, and that too not because of our petty efforts but through the omnipotent action of the Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's Force. And why should there be any scope for doubt as regards their active Presence in the Ashram? Look at our community dispassionately and without any bias. Almost two thousand people of all age-groups ...
... almost craftily, enlarge, envelope and take possession of the whole physical being. He asked himself, "How could this Adversary gain such an unbelievable dominance against the puissant action of Sri Aurobindo's force? He had cured himself once, what happened afterwards? Did he not take any step at all to prevent the course of the disease? Otherwise I do not see why it should develop to such an extent." To ...
... Aurobindo's reasons why such and such persons should not be touched. Lastly, a sinking high blood-pressure patient from outside was revived by an Ashram homeopath with the effective help of Sri Aurobindo's Force. In this and S's case, I went all out and furiously attacked homeopathy and the doctor as all a big bluff while Sri Aurobindo went on defending him and his science. A tussle followed, neither ...
... Mother and Sri Aurobindo knew his temperament very well and instructed me to look after him with a large consideration as they themselves had always done. He was turned into a fine poet by Sri Aurobindo's Force. I wonder how with such a poor health he managed to do Yoga. That, however, is none of my business. Failing to diagnose his illness, I called in other doctors, and as is often the case, opinions ...
... waged, for the future, all our future, is at stake!* A Force has certainly gone into action; the action has been there all along, only now openly recognised and named; and we call it Sri Aurobindo's Force because he first gave the clue to its nature, the nature of its dynamic functioning. But really the Force is inherent in the very structure of the cosmos, and is involved in its dynamics of ...
... answer was, "No, it is a single Power." And he declared again, as if qualifying the above: "There is one force only, the Mother's force - or, if you like to put it like that, the Mother is Sri Aurobindo's Force." 6 Page 830 On the other hand, it needs perhaps some tapasya of aspiration and realisation to behold ...in their mighty union's poise The figure of the deathless Two-in-One ...
... 1945 was another indication of the inner nature of the world conflict. The Ashram at Pondicherry was inwardly in the thick of this fight, although superficially out of it; and the Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's force had been active all the time, and sometimes with decisive results. Now that the Enemy was vanquished at last, the Mother gave a prayer on 15 August: The Victory has come, Thy Victory, O ...
... It is a very common experience, that of the identity between myself and the Mother. ... There is one force only, the Mother's force - or if you like to put it like that, the Mother is Sri Aurobindo's Force. 10 In a talk given on 24 February 1971, K. D. Sethna said that his theme was really a mixture of three ingredients: One is the Ambrosia that is Sri Aurobindo, the second is the ...
... philosopher and a spiritual personality, Sri Dilip Kumar Roy was the right choice to be the cultural ambassador and propagate the best of India to the western world. The Mother gave her consent and blessed Dilip and Indira for this tour. Dadaji talked about his Master Sri Aurobindo and on Sri Ramakrishna besides music and culture. We see that Sri Aurobindo’s Force continued to work through his beloved... These letters from the Master, shine the Divine Light in our earthly life. Sri Aurobindo had assured his Dilip (16.5.1932), that “you do not belong to yourself – you belong to the Divine and myself and the Mother. I have cherished you like a friend and a son and poured on you my force to develop your powers – to make an equal development in the Yoga....” Through the years this... need not go back: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were willing to accept her as a disciple. But Janak Kumari insisted that being a novice, she needed day to day guidance and Sri Dilip Kumar was her Guru. Sri Aurobindo may have smiled at the thought of Dilip’s dismay but sided with Janak Kumari and wrote to Dilip that she was right, and he was her Guru and he (Sri Aurobindo) will work on her through ...
... which might make his work more difficult? Sri Aurobindo : This force does not believe in Divine descent, but it is a sort of challenge that, "I will finish my first decisive victory before August 15th". That shows the nature of the conflict. Disciple : It does not seem to be only one being. It seems to be a camp. Sri Aurobindo : yes. But this is the leading (spirit). That... Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo May, 1940 20th May, 1940 Disciple : Why Hitler says that he wants to finish this campaign before August 15th*? Sri Aurobindo : That's a clear indication, if an indication was necessary, that he is the enemy of our work. Disciple : Is it that he fears that descent might take place on August... That ___________ * August 15th happens to be the birthday of Sri Aurobindo . Page 263 being has often come here to see what was being done. Did you read Richard's book "The Lord of the Nations"? Disciple : No. I read only "To the nation". Sri Aurobindo : The book was never published, but he wrote it at a time when he was in communication with that being ...
... to vision feelingly and comprehend visionarily and feel comprehendingly the touch of the rhythm I have spoken of. Being a movement between two rapturous reposes it is inevitably what Sri Aurobindo terms Force one with unimaginable rest. In the aching dream of divine distances which poetry gives to its lover, there is yet a "rest" unimaginable to the common man. The substance of poetry ...
... infinite peace: it is, as Sri Aurobindo says, Force one with unimaginable rest. And because it is such, it is not only inexhaustible, not only possessed of a vast and happy patience but also free from rigidity and one-sidedness and capable of meeting every demand, every change of circumstance and leading assuredly to the previsioned goal. That is why Sri Aurobindo has said: ... us their perfect instruments. In more concrete terms we may say that our entire self and nature have to flow towards the Avatar of that Godhead — Sri Aurobindo — and the incarnation of that Mother — the radiant personality who has been Sri Aurobindo's co-worker. "Co-worker" — the word is apposite in a special sense, for it points to the importance of work in the Integral Yoga. It is by... SOME NOTES FOR AN AMERICAN SEEKER Q: Please define Sadhana and Integral Yoga. What is their relationship to each other? What is the Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's attitude toward work and what part do work and life-activity play in the life of one who undertakes Integral Yoga? Sadhana is the practice, system, method by which one tries to attain ...
... would feel soothed and fulfilled. The Mantra, with its haunting thrill of a sovereign revelation, brings an all-harmonising calm: it is — in the accents of another Mantra from a short poem by Sri Aurobindo — Force one with unimaginable rest. 2 A remarkable technical trait of the phrase about "sight's sound-waves" is that seven out of the ten syllables making up the line are intrinsically long vowels... eyes Approached him armed with beauty like a snare, But hid a fatal meaning in each line And could in a moment dangerously change. 1 At the other pole of the entities vivified by Sri Aurobindo is the Master himself as seen by a disciple-poet: 1. Savitri (Birth Centenary Edition, 1972), pp. 205-06. Page 395 All heaven's secrecy lit to one face Crowning... second tier of the overhead ascent, for the Higher Mind which has seized the mental imagination is itself linking its largeness of thought to a wideness of sight proper to the Illumined Mind. Sri Aurobindo has read a capture of the spiritual-mental Illumination and its domination by the inmost being, the Psychic Consciousness, in the last eight lines of the same disciple's poem with which you are ...
... so much? SRI AUROBINDO: It was his vital opening to the Force I gave him. NIRODBARAN: And spiritual? SRI AUROBINDO: Very mixed. NIRODBARAN: Then you gave him the Force for the vital? SRI AUROBINDO: I gave it for both. SATYENDRA: But his vital opened. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, it was an opening into a larger consciousness, the cosmic vital, the force for action and movement. It was all... Mother's Force. SRI AUROBINDO: Why shouldn't it be? NIRODBARAN: You said vital force. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, force acting through the vital. It is the vital-physical force; being nearer the physical it has a more powerful effect in such cases. One can cure by mental power also, but that requires more power of concentration. PURANI ( smiling, from behind ): Nirod wants such a force! SRI AUROBINDO:... her. CHAMPAKLAL: Isn't it the same? SRI AUROBINDO: Read it. Nirodbaran read the letter and there were instances of Rao's miraculous cures of madness, snakebites, etc., by using the Mother's Force, by the stretching of his right and left hands. SRI AUROBINDO: There is no mention of leprosy. NIRODBARAN: No. SRI AUROBINDO: It is the vital force. There were many such cases of cures by placing ...
... universal vital nature or beings. NIRODBARAN: The force of electricity or the force of Nature which causes an earthquake or a cyclone—is it a universal force or the force of the being? SRI AUROBINDO: What kind of being? NIRODBARAN: Universal being. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, it may be the action of a universal being or force. We see the force as a movement. NIRODBARAN: Sometimes people on their... But the force that is manifested through a being is its own force. SRI AUROBINDO: The force that is manifested through the being is the universal force and the being is part of the universal support from the universal being. Both derive their support from the universal or the Supreme. SATYENDRA: We want to know if the attacks of diseases on people are attacks of forces or of beings. SRI AUROBINDO:... behind them? SRI AUROBINDO: They are directed by the universal or the Supreme Being. The consciousness comes from the universal which is ultimately directed by the Supreme. PURANI: Are they individualised? SRI AUROBINDO: What do you mean by that? They are universal forces. For instance, the universal force of love seizes upon a man and he becomes a lover. When the force leaves him, he ceases ...
... forces of oneself be drawn out when one is in contact with the Divine? Sri Aurobindo : The force that supports the work, the vital force, is different from the Divine Consciousness. Disciple : Do you remember one Kulkarni who came and was complaining that his vital force was being drawn out? Sri Aurobindo : Yes. He was surrounding by forces of disintegration, chaos, disaster and... Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo 15th January, 1939 Sri Aurobindo opened the topic by referring to a letter from an American. Sri Aurobindo : There is a job which perhaps "X : " would like to attend to. The letter is addressed to Sri Aurobindo Ashram under the belief that it is a person. The man wants sporting items, and "predictions". He... doubter" in him met Upen Banerjee at Calcutta and asked Upen whether he believes in God. Sri Aurobindo : What did Upen say? Disciple : He said : "How can I say I don't believe in God when I know Sri Aurobindo ? I have a measuring rod for men and I can measure them all right; but in Sri Aurobindo's case I cannot measure him. In case of other Page 128 great people they ...
... power can hardly enter. To open to the Mother is to turn our consciousness to her, to open windows, so to say, on the infinite, and let her Force stream in. Describing the opening, Sri Aurobindo says, "To be open is simply to be so turned to the Mother that her Force can work in you without anything refusing or obstructing her action. If the mind is shut up in its own ideas and refuses to allow her to... supramental ¹ The Synthesis of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo. Page 152 Force descend into the nature and deal directly with them. The absolute release from 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... dynamically felt and effective. But mere opening without surrender cannot avail much.- The Mother's Force may come, but, finding our nature too rigid or recalcitrant, and reluctant to accept its influence and impulsion, can only withdraw, leaving us to stumble ¹ Letters of Sri Aurobindo on the Mother Page 139 and suffer in our cherished ignorance. A glad and un- reserved ...
... manifest.” 59 (Cf. Sri Aurobindo: “There is one force only, the Mother’s force – or, if you like to put it like that, the Mother is Sri Aurobindo’s Force.”) “Sri Aurobindo and I are always one and the same consciousness, one and the same person.” 60 “When in your heart and thought you will make no difference between Sri Aurobindo and me, when to think of Sri Aurobindo will be to think of me... ies, among them Kali or Durga, were great warriors. She carried above her eye the scar of an occult battle. And did Sri Aurobindo not call the Second World War “the Mother’s War”? Of Mahakali, Sri Aurobindo wrote: “There is in her an overwhelming intensity, a mighty passion of force to achieve, a divine violence rushing to shatter every limit and obstacle. All her divinity leaps out in a splendour... think of Sri Aurobindo inevitably, when to see one will mean inevitably to see the other, like one and the same Person – then you will know that you begin to open to the supramental force and consciousness.” 61 And at one time she unified in writing both their names in the mantric formula “mothersriaurobindo is my refuge”. 62 All this is of crucial importance because the mission of Sri Aurobindo ...
... aspects of Its being in a male and female body. ‘Mother and I are one but in two bodies,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo, and: ‘The Mother and myself stand for the same Power in two forms.’ He would stress: ‘There is one force only, the Mother’s force – or, if you like to put it like that, the Mother is Sri Aurobindo’s Force,’ in other words his Shakti. 31 And the Mother would pithily formulate the essence of their... take Sri Aurobindo as her ‘Lord,’ that she would take himself instead. His outbursts of frustration and anger became so violent that at times he threw the furniture through the window or took Mirra by the throat, strangling her. She called the force of Sri Aurobindo, and it was his yogic power that saved her on every occasion and made Paul Richard depart in the end. 5 Long afterwards Sri Aurobindo... important factor which caused her departure from Pondicherry and Sri Aurobindo six years before. Richard’s relationship with Mirra and with Sri Aurobindo now reached a critical point. Mirra and Sri Aurobindo had done everything within their power to give him the chance of being converted, but without success. The time had come for Sri Aurobindo and Mirra’s definite collaboration, ‘the seal had been put ...
... some things, why we cannot do other things and why, where and when we fail, though the help and force given by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo are always standing behind all our effort and work like wakeful sentinels. When one can throw oneself in the stream which the force of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo has set going in order to take us in a certain direction and is constantly striving to do so, strange... had much doubt if I could cope with it. Still, when such a great opportunity had arrived I didn’t want it to go by easily. I consented, knowing that I could draw upon the Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s force. Sri Aurobindo gave his consent and I started with great zeal. Often I had to seek his help regarding many points. I quote here a few instances of the verbal exchanges. “Your ‘In Horis Aeternum’... So I wrote about it to Sri Aurobindo and he replied: “...As you have opened yourself to the Force and made yourself a channel for the energy of work, it is quite natural that when you wanted to do this musical work the Force should flow and act in the way that is wanted or the way that is needed and for the effect that is needed. When one has made oneself a channel, the Force is not necessarily bound ...
... to treat here adequately of Sri Aurobindo's spiritual force. Suffice it to say that as a result of his sadhana .Sri Aurobindo had attained not only the Peace, Light and Bliss of the Divine, but also mastery of the Divine's dynamic Energy. With this Energy Sri Aurobindo was able to bring about concrete results on the material plane; indeed, "the invisible Force producing tangible results... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's Samadhi Sri Aurobindo Ashram called it, was over. On 16 August 1945 The Mother issued the following declaration: "The Victory has come. Thy Victory, O Lord, for which we render to Thee infinite thanksgiving. "But now our ardent prayer rises towards Thee. It is with Thy force and by Thy force that the victors have... 1973), p. 159. ³ Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, p. 39. 4 Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on the Second World War”, Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Vol. XXVIII, No. (April 1976), p. 58. 5 Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, p. 394. Page 232 Sri Aurobindo (April 1950) Sri Aurobindo (Mahasamadhi, December 1950) ...
... sadhana and the application of Yogic Force." And this experiment was successfully undertaken by Sri Aurobindo himself in his Ashram in the third and the fourth decades of the present century. Quite a few of Sri Aurobindo's disciples who had never written a single line of poetry before they joined the Ashram and opened themselves to Sri Aurobindo's spiritually creative Force, became very good poets in course... months' stay in the Ashram he could open himself to Sri Aurobindo's Yogic Force and 'a sudden Brahmaputra of inspiration' gripped him and his new poetical compositions reached in quality a remarkable height and profundity. Nirodbaran wondered and wondered, and then asked Nishikanto for the secret. Here is how he reported the matter to Sri Aurobindo: NB: Nishikanto says that before writing... he... secret, why, I shall bow a hundred times, Sir! Sri Aurobindo: It depends on how you bow. Page 203 NB: Methinks it does not depend on it. Even if it did I don't think Nishikanto knows it. Or was it in his past life that he knew it? Sri Aurobindo: Well, there is a certain faculty of effacing oneself and letting the Universal Force run through you - that is the way of bowing. It can ...
... place here. From the time Motilal gave shelter to Sri Aurobindo at Chandernagore, he enjoyed Sri Aurobindo's trust and confidence. On his part, Motilal visited Pondicherry as often as he could during the difficult period of Sri Aurobindo's early stay and helped by sending money etc. from Chandernagore. There is no doubt that Sri Aurobindo put a special force on Motilal to mould him into a fit instrument... SRI AUROBINDO: I must first prepare the rails and lay them down, then only can I get the train to arrive.... SARALA DEVI: Don't you think that sufficient work has been done in the country to start the fight? SRI AUROBINDO: Until now only waves of emotion and a certain all-round awakening have come but the force which could stand the strain when the government would put forth its force in full... receptive to Sri Aurobindo's spiritual force, the Sangha moved in the right direction; but afterwards it changed its course. In 1921 Motilal came to Pondicherry with his wife for an intensive pursuit of sadhana but he could not adjust himself to the changes he saw and was unable to settle down. After a period of vacillation he eventually left on August 10, in spite of Sri Aurobindo's advice to him ...
... argument for Yoga too. Still it is difficult to see how without any effort, some time or other, one can do anything. As regards poetry, my point is that Force and inspiration are there, but effort also exists... [Sri Aurobindo underlined "Force", "inspiration" and "effort also exists". What then? ...and on many occasions I find that the effort predominates overmuch. Much too much! ... disbelieve an experience. [Sri Aurobindo underlined "if any".] I said you did not believe in the knowledge given by those who have the experience—you want a how that agrees with your own lack of knowledge and lack of experience. In my case I have found that mostly I have to make a great effort and then when the thing comes down, people call it the result of the Force; I am quite justified in... very easy flow as soon as he started writing. [Sri Aurobindo underlined 'You yourself admitted".] Never in my life I admitted that. Look at NK. Do you know he writes 200-300 lines a day! Not at all if you refer to his poetry—As soon as he started writing here, yes. That is because he caught instanter the tail of the Horse—or the Force. You seem to read what I write in a queer way and ...
... more than the knowledge ? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, new openings may occur to the Higher Power, his strength may increase and so forth. Disciple : Can a hostile force be changed and transformed by conquest into something good and helpful ? Sri Aurobindo : A force of nature can be so transformed, but how can you change a hostile being or its; force? Of course, the hostile beings have... a gun go off if I exert my will ? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, If you have a will sufficiently strong for the purpose. It may take some time before the response comes, Page 109 Disciple : When there are many Supermen, what language will they use ? Or would they use the same language and convey more meaning and force ? Sri Aurobindo : It is not necessary to be Supermen... Sri Aurobindo : Yes. It demands a mental faith which is the anticipation of the knowledge that is coming. Vital faith anticipates the effectuation that is coming. Faith in the physical anticipates what is going to be realised. Disciple : Is there a difference between effectuation and realisation? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, there is a difference. Effectuation is the work of force, realisation ...
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