... perpetuated or preserved isn't individuals: it's states of consciousness—states of consciousness. Those states of consciousness manifest through many individuals and many different lives, and those states of consciousness are what progress towards a more and more luminous perfection. There are now, at present, all kinds of "categories" of states of consciousness that come one upon another in order to be put... retained a sort of imprint (like a memory) of the moments when they manifested. There is a big work of transformation of the material states of consciousness going on: the states of consciousness nearest to the Inconscient, the most material states of consciousness. They come like that [to present themselves to Mother], with one or two examples of their previous manifestation (perhaps even their first... from observation, but I can't find out the country and time it's from. They are particular states of consciousness that grew precise and were expressed particularly well in certain individuals at certain moments—it's not during the whole life of a whole individual, it's not that: it's states of consciousness that reached the height of their formation and intensity at certain moments. And then, it all ...
... vehicle of the highest possible spiritual manifestation. It may be remarked that spiritual states of consciousness can be obtained only when the capacities of the body, life and mind are first maximised and purified, and these capacities can again be perfected when the powers of spiritual states of consciousness can, by their descent, penetrate into them and spiritualise them. The total programme of... rituals, ceremonies, social and religious institutions. On the other hand, what is distinctive of spirituality is its stress on the psychological contention that there is a vast domain of states of consciousness, which are beyond and deeper than mental consciousness and beyond and deeper than the realm of doctrines, beliefs or dogmas. Spirituality can be developed by Yogic methodised effort that is... by universality, silent concentration and contemplation, which is free from the fever of desires, clamours of egoism Page 332 and prejudices of partiality and attachment. These states of consciousness, these attitudes and these abiding experiences are not states of opinions and beliefs; nor are they tied up with one or the other dogma, and they depend upon no rituals or ceremonies or social ...
... all its latent Godliness by entering into higher states of consciousness that are its own concealed possibilities - to drive a wedge between humanity as we find it and the super-humanity aimed at by Sri Aurobindo is to misconstrue his whole endeavour. After saying you don't doubt that Sri Aurobindo experienced higher states of consciousness, you add: "I don't doubt that Jesus also experienced... that Jesus never asked his followers to experience higher states of consciousness but simply to go on doing what is commonly called good. If that is all his teaching, it is difficult to believe he experienced those states. And if you hold that man can do what Jesus asked them to, without man's making any move towards higher states of consciousness, all history contradicts you. The true "charity" (agape)... way, I know that to Indian metaphysicians fine distinctions and differences are clear as leaves on a tree and require no embodiment to be comprehensible. Sri Aurobindo speaks of 'higher' states of consciousness which I don't doubt he experienced. I don't doubt that Jesus also experienced these, but his Way was to feed the hungry, comfort the bereaved, heal the sick and so on. He 'came down from ...
... the intellect more supple. But to tell the truth, it doesn't interest me. While states of consciousness—movements of consciousness, states of consciousness—that's tremendously interesting! And going on at the moment there is a very keen, that is, very painstaking study of the relationship between states of consciousness and the phenomenon of death. Ultimately, all beliefs people have about what happens... from life to life weren't personalities but STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS, which are immortal and in constant transformation at the same time, and what's transformed through one's lives is the state of consciousness.... Some have only one state of consciousness, others have many (there are even certain people who have two nearly opposite states of consciousness, which results in that "double personality"... primitive individuals; but they sometimes have a wonderful development in their state of consciousness.... That explains many contradictions. That's what I am clearly shown at the moment: states of consciousness passing through numerous aggregates. And then, there is, there too, a secret to be found for the prolongation of an aggregate, that is, what gives the character not of immortality (which is ...
... the highest possible spiritual manifestation. It may be remarked that spiritual states of consciousness can be obtained only when the capacities of the body, life and mind are first maximised and purified, and these capacities can again be perfected when the powers of spiritual states of consciousness can, by their descent, penetrate into them and spiritualise them. The total programme of... rituals, ceremonies, social and religious institutions. On the other hand, what is distinctive of spirituality is its stress on the psychological contention that there is a vast domain of states of consciousness, which are beyond and deeper than mental consciousness and beyond and deeper than the realm of doctrines, beliefs or dogmas. Spirituality can be developed by Yogic methodised effort that is... ss that is marked by universality, silent concentration and contemplation, which is free from the fever of desires, clamours of egoism and prejudices of partiality and attachment. These states of consciousness, these attitudes and these abiding experiences are not states of opinions and beliefs; nor are they tied up with one or the other dogma, and they depend upon no rituals or ceremonies or ...
... of attitudes and states of consciousness. The depth of seriousness, which accompanies the process of search or quest will determine the quality of search or quest and its eventual success. And the states of seriousness result from the cultivation of sincerity. If we examine closely, we shall find that what we call virtues are basically manifestations of certain states of consciousness; it is virtues... virtues that constitute character; and the stability of Page 20 character depends upon the stabilization of those states of consciousness which constitute virtues. How to develop, therefore, virtuous states of consciousness and how to stabilize them should constitute a major constituent of education for character development. Closely connected with this first set of questions is the second... and how the development of character can be stimulated and nourished through the processes of communication and information, cultivation of faculties, and the methods by which the states of Page 19 consciousness, which express themselves in virtues can be stabilized. For character development is concerned with what may be called being or the central core of the individuality, which tends ...
... of attitudes and states of consciousness. The depth of seriousness, which accompanies the process of search or quest will determine the quality of search or quest and its eventual success. And the states of seriousness result from the cultivation of sincerity. If we examine closely, we shall find that what we call virtues are basically manifestations of certain states of consciousness; it is virtues... virtues that constitute character; and the stability of character depends upon the stabilisation of those states of consciousness which constitute virtues. How to develop, therefore, virtuous states of consciousness and how to stabilize them should constitute a major constituent of education for character development? Closely connected with this first set of questions is the second set of questions which... character and how the development of character can be stimulated and nourished through the processes of communication and information, cultivation of faculties, and the methods by which the states of consciousness, which express themselves in virtues can be stabilised. For character development is concerned with what may be called being or the central core of the individuality, which tends to grow into ...
... attitudes and states of consciousness. The depth of seriousness, which accompanies the process of search or quest, will determine the quality of search or quest and its eventual success. And the states of seriousness result from the cultivation of sincerity. If we examine closely, we shall find that what we call virtues are basically manifestations of certain states of consciousness; it is virtues... virtues that constitute character; and the stability of character depends upon the stabilisation of those states of consciousness which constitute virtues. How to develop, therefore, virtuous states of consciousness and how to stabilize them should constitute a major constituent of education for character development. Closely connected with this first set of questions is the second set of questions... character and how the development of character can be stimulated and nourished through the processes of communication and information, cultivation of faculties, and the methods by which the states of consciousness, which express themselves in virtues can be stabilised. For character development is concerned with what may be called being or the central core of the individuality, which tends to grow ...
... attitudes and states of consciousness. The depth of seriousness which accompanies the process of search or quest will determine the quality of search or quest and its eventual success. And the states of seriousness result from the cultivation of attitudes and of sincerity. If we examine closely, we shall find that what we call virtues are basically manifestations of certain states of consciousness; it is... is virtues that constitute character; and the stability of character depends upon the stabilisation of those states of consciousness which constitute virtues. How to develop, therefore, virtuous states of consciousness and how to stabilise them should constitute a major constituent of education for character development. Closely connected with this first set of questions is the second set of questions... character and how the development of character can be stimulated and nourished through the processes of communication and information, cultivation of faculties, and the methods by which the states of consciousness which express themselves in virtues can be stabilised. For character development is concerned with what may be called being or the central core of the individuality which tends to grow into ...
... questions about consciousness hitherto dealt with only by mystics and philosophers: What is consciousness? What are its major dimensions or levels? What is the nature of the various altered states of consciousness? Is consciousness individual or cosmic? How can the ordinary consciousness, which is fraught with psychological difficulties, be exceeded or transformed? For the majority of scientists who... however, the interest has been a personal rather than a scientific one. As Charles T. Tart has observed, "...very large numbers of scientists are now personally exploring ASC's [altered states of consciousness], but few have begun to connect the personal Page 315 exploration with their scientific activities." 2 Consequently, questions about consciousness such as those just mentioned... Other Writings, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (hereafter SABCL), (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1970-75), Vol. 16, pp. 255-56. Page 322 2. Charles T. Tart, "States of Consciousness and State-Specific Sciences" in Robert E. Ornstein (Ed.), The Nature of Human Consciousness (New York: The Viking Press, 1973), p. 60. 3. Robert E. Ornstein (Ed.), The Nature of ...
... Consciousness-Bliss). One also discovers that, as one begins to live more and more inwardly, one can attain to higher and higher states of consciousness, and one can enter and dwell in the higher supra-physical worlds. Description of Four states of Consciousness in the Mandukya Upanishad: Yogic Terms of States of Ignorance and Knowledge 29 Mandukya Upanishad speaks of the surface... workings of the consciousness and energy of the world of our ordinary and ignorant experience. Page 35 Discoveries of the Yogic Science: Order of the Worlds and Order of States of Consciousness As one moves more and more inwards, one discovers, according to yogic science, that the physical universe and our terrestrial world is only one of several layers of the world in which... objects. There is a third state, the state of sleep (supta). That dream consciousness and this sleep consciousness are not states of ordinary dream and sleep, but of increasingly inner yogic states of consciousness. The dream consciousness that is spoken of here opens up subtle faculties of consciousness by which subtle objects of the subtle worlds are experienced and enjoyed. The dream consciousness ...
... abundant, full or mighty. These are the worlds of the lower hemisphere and of these states of consciousness we can have some conception, we can imagine and even realise or almost realise the condition of the beings who reside in these worlds, to the very highest. But what of the three supreme states of consciousness? what of the three worlds of the higher hemisphere? It is more difficult to conceive... the vijnanam, the link between the animal and the god and it is not till a fit body is formed for the works of reason that the spiritual evolution begins and the development of the higher states of consciousness is possible. Man is that fit body, sukritam eva, well indeed and beautifully made as a habitation for the gods. His business is to raise the animal in him and develop beyond manomaya being... to live in & a body for its habitation in the world, and in that world and in that body manifests as a part of the Atman reflecting their conditions. If therefore there are seven distinct states of consciousness, there must equally be seven conditions of the Atman, seven distinct worlds with their denizens and seven kinds of bodies. These seven states are Annam, Prana, Manas, Vijnanam, Ananda, Chit ...
... have been telling you the last few months,—they are Page 20 states of consciousness. They are not experiences, or even realisations; they are the states of consciousness. The Being of Ananda is there, and the Mother standing. And the working of Power,—they are all states of consciousness. Long back I had the experience of the Self. Sri Aurobindo had written about it... it to me. But now it is more than that. This is permanent, the states of consciousness. 16:07:1994 I think, things have started happening again. The vital is definitely taken care of, it is now over. The difficulty is the physical. There is a lot of resistance. But I am asking for supramental peace, strength and purity. The Mother is standing there, Sri Aurobindo is there ...
... farther validity when we pass from one status of consciousness to another which is our normal status. But this is not by itself a sufficient reason: for it may well be that there are different states of consciousness each with its own realities; if the consciousness of one state of things fades back and its contents are lost or, even when caught in memory, seem to be illusory as soon as we pass into another... sequences, and, if that is a mental delusion, as is sometimes alleged, if the sequence is created by our minds and does not actually exist in life, that does not remove the difference of the two states of consciousness. For in dream the coherence given by an observing inner consciousness is absent, and whatever sense of sequence there is seems to be due to a vague and false imitation of the connections of... that we can be on the surface conscious of the contacts or messages of the Superconscience. But, in spite of these figurative names of dream-state and sleep-state, the field of both these states of consciousness was clearly regarded as a field of reality no less than that of the waking state in which our movements of perceptive Page 443 consciousness are a record or transcript of physical ...
... temples, with living godheads. Each thing with a precise reason and purpose, to express nonmentalized states of consciousness. "Constant visions. "Landscapes. "Constructions. "Cities. "The whole thing immense and very diverse, covering the entire visual field and expressing states of consciousness of the body. "Many, a great many constructions, immense cities being built.... Yes, the world... knead and knead in every possible way: the vital through sensations, the mind through thoughts—knead and knead. But they strike me as transitory instruments which will be replaced by other states of consciousness. You understand, they are a phase in the universal development, Page 234 and they will be... they will fall off as instruments that have outlived their usefulness. So then... from the most material to the most spiritual, going through all the different types of intellectual activity. "But the perception of the Presence is constant and associated with all the states of consciousness, whatever they may be... Ah! I noticed that the cells, everywhere, you know, constantly, all the time, were repeating, OM NAMO BHAGAVATE, OM NAMO BHAGAVATE... constantly, all the time ...
... individual in an upward journey. Again, these qualities become modified and enriched as the higher consciousness develops higher Page 81 levels of attitudes and stabilises higher states of consciousness in which the divine qualities manifest more and more spontaneously. Yoga is not confined merely to the aspect of conduct- the conduct dealt with by ethics is only a minor aspect of the... state of Samadhi, one is able to enter repeatedly into that state, and the Raja Yogic methods, during the processes of their repeated applications, lead to the attainment of all those higher states of consciousness Page 90 and the powers by which the mental being rises towards superconscient as well as its ultimate and supreme possibility of union with the highest. Raja Yoga is psychic science... trance or Samadhi of union. Tantra also has discovered the power of the mantra, sacred syllable, name or mystic- formula, and with the aid of mantra, Kundalini-shakti can be awakened and new states of consciousness which rise can be stabilised and strengthened so that they can effectuate important results which are considered to be miraculous. Tantra is, in fact, a synthesis of yoga, which has discovered ...
... abundance and plenitude Lord, God of strength and health. The words came afterwards, as if they had been superimposed upon the states of consciousness, grafted onto them. Some of the associations seem unexpected, but they were the exact expression of the states of consciousness in their order of unfolding. They came one after another, as if the contact was trying to become more complete. And the last... whole body was in great exaltation, and I noticed that other lines were spontaneously being added to this Dieu de bonté et de miséricorde , and I noted them down. It was a springing forth of states of consciousness—not words. Seigneur, Dieu de bonté et de miséricorde Seigneur, Dieu d'unité souveraine Seigneur, Dieu de beauté et d'harmonie Seigneur, Dieu de puissance et de réalisation Seigneur ...
... presence. All kinds of things, it's constantly, constantly teaching one thing or another. And not formulated: there are no formulas, it's not thoughts, but states of consciousness. And the relationship between the various states of consciousness: how they dovetail with one another, how they mix with one another, how they can be separated, how... It can't be explained: it can be lived (the body is being... every day, and they make you feel the two sides like that, with a clear distinction, very clear, in what people do, in what they say, in the relationship with events, and also the different states of consciousness (everything takes place in the consciousness, of course, it's not at all a thought, it's not formulated, I don't know how to explain). And this Consciousness also teaches action in silence—at ...
... A Greater Psychology 16 States of Consciousness (a) Waking-State, Dream-State, Sleep-State ...only a small part whether of world-being or of our own being comes into our ken or into our action. The rest is hidden behind in subliminal reaches of being which descend into the profoundest depths of the subconscient and rise to highest peaks of... sensation. This therefore they called the Sleep-State. They farther discovered that the various faculties and functions of man belonged properly some to one, some to another of the three states of consciousness and its corresponding state of matter. His vital and physical functions operated only in gross matter, and they determined accordingly that his physical life was the result of consciousness... thousand years ago? The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, pp. 262-63 (b) Normal (Ordinary) and Higher (Spiritual) Consciousness ...briefly... there are two states of consciousness in either of which one can live. One is a higher consciousness which stands above the play of life and governs it; this is variously called the Self, the Spirit or the Divine. The other ...
... beliefs and opinions. Information must grow from consciousness, and paramount importance must be given to the growth of profound and sincere states of consciousness rather than to the feeding of information. Page 82 And these states of consciousness come by an intense aspiration to know, by a great calm and' silence, by stopping of the chattering noise of words and turmoil and riots in the... practise the Truth in words, thoughts and actions. To be able to possess the Truth, one must practise day and night self control and self mastery. There are, as the ancients declared, states of consciousness in which the necessary knowledge occurs intuitively; and it is the knowledge occurring in the right consciousness that is effective and fruit bearing. Not that knowledge as information is not ...
... beliefs and opinions. Information must grow from consciousness, and paramount importance must be given to the growth of profound and sincere states of consciousness rather than to me feeding of information. And these states of consciousness come by an intense aspiration to know, by a great calm and silence, by stopping of the chattering noise of words and turmoil and riots in me mind... practise the Truth in words, thoughts and actions. To be able to possess the Truth, one must practise day and night self-control and self-mastery. There are, as the ancients declared, states of consciousness in which the necessary knowledge occurs intuitively; and it is the knowledge occurring in the right consciousness that is effective and fruit-bearing; for all operations of action, precise ...
... harmonious. Constant visions. Each thing with a precise reason and purpose, to express nonmentalized states of consciousness. Landscapes. Constructions. Cities. The whole thing immense and very diverse, covering the entire visual field and expressing states of consciousness of the body. Many, a great many constructions, immense cities being built....* Yes, the world... awaken this Matter to its own buried consciousness] : the vital through sensations, the mind through thoughts. But they strike me as transitory instruments which will be replaced by other states of consciousness. They are a phase in the universal development, and they will fall off as instruments that have outlived their usefulness. 15 The evolutionary atrophy of useless old limbs. And Mother ...
... the landscape was marvellous, of a perfect harmony. "Also, for a long time, visions of the inside of huge temples, of living deities. Each thing had a reason, a precise aim, to express states of consciousness not mentalised. "Visions constantly. "Landscapes. "Buildings. "Towns. "Everything vast and greatly varied, covering the Page 117 entire visual field and... grind and grind and grind in every way, the vital by its sensations, the mind by its thoughts—to grind and grind. But they seem to me to be passing instrument that will be replaced by other states of consciousness. You understand, it is a phase of universal development, and they will be... they will fall away as instruments no longer useful. And then I have had the concrete experience of what is... scale from the most material up to the most spiritual, passing through all varieties of intellectual activity. "But the perception of the Presence is constant and associated with all states of consciousness, whatever they are..." Ah! I became aware that the cells, everywhere like this, all the time, all the time were repeating their Mantra, all the time, all the time. Page 126 ...
... descriptions; among the Sufis, among the Christian mystics, among the Lamas, there are parallels in their descriptions, and in the Indian Yoga itself there are various classifications of the states of consciousness that pertain to these domains. The release from the ego, the realisation of the Self, of the Cosmic Consciousness, of the Transcendental Consciousness, — these are among the most fundamental... account. For Yoga claims to be, among many other things, a methodised quest of spiritual and eventually of integral knowledge which is found to have succeeded in arriving at certain stable states of consciousness and of plenary illumination and knowledge of truths which can be verified both objectively and in personal experience by means of criteria which can be considered to be as sound as in any inquiry... mind can be united with Page 283 superior faculties of knowledge and action, and ultimately the human being can become permanently united with the universal and transcendental states of consciousness and knowledge. It has been further contended that the Yogic science possesses assured data of the knowledge of methods and their processes of application as also of their corresponding results ...
... Sam ā dhi, one is able to enter repeatedly into that state, and the Raja Yogic methods, during the processes of their repeated applications, lead to the attainment of all those higher states of consciousness and the powers by which the mental being rises towards superconscient as well as its ultimate and supreme possibility of union with the highest. Raja Yoga is psychic science, and it gives an... Tantra has also discovered the Page 23 power of the mantra, sacred syllable, name or mystic- formula, and with the aid of mantra, Kundalini-shakti can be awakened and new states of consciousness which rise can be stabilised and strengthened so that they can effectuate important results which are considered to be miraculous. Tantra as a Synthesis of Yoga Tantra is, in fact... vital or else a great stillness in which no-surface movement can pierce or enter. It is the state of ni ś cala nīravat ā There are, according to yogic experiences of Jnana yoga, four states of consciousness which come to be distinguished, and one has to rise from one that is lowest to the one that is the highest. The first is the state of wakefulness, j ā grata, which is turned outward, bahi ...
... This illustration will indicate the point that the Veda abounds with the statements of psychological states of consciousness and that various prayers indicate the processes by which lower states of consciousness were sought to be led or transmuted towards higher and diviner states of consciousness, and that these processes could be utilized in similar circumstances of yogic practices for attaining ...
... Chaturvarnya of the Gita refers to an intermediate stage of society where divisions of functions and activities of society were necessitated but they were effected by reference to inner states of consciousness and inner qualities as also by subtle manifestations of action. It was also recognised that by birth everyone is Shudra and that it is by cultivation of higher qualities that one can rise into... for ways and means by which my lost equilibrium could be regained. "One important question that occupied me at this stage was: What is the nature of human nature? What is mind? What are states of consciousness and how do they alternate? Page 165 "Since my boyhood I had noticed what I used to call "rhythms" of stages of development. These "rhythms" disappeared, and I began to feel as though... answers were comprehensible to me. So I asked Vishuddha to explain me these answers. Vishuddha said, "Let me first say that Brahmadevji made me understand the distinction between various states of consciousness. He told me the story of the quest of Bhrigu as described in the Taittiriya Upanishad. In this story, there is a description as to how Bhrigu discovered, first, that Matter was the ultimate ...
... consciousness. Besides this "super-conscient" finds expression in various cultural activities and attainments of the human being. The attempt here is not to make a detailed classification of the states of consciousness actual and possible to man. The intention is merely to show that what is considered " abnormal " "magical" "wonderful" " super-sensual" is not something quite remote from the field of everyday... high the Light beyond the Darkness, higher still we saw the God among the Gods, we reached the Sun, the highest Light." Page 126 In V 19-7 the seer speaks of various states of consciousness : " State upon state is born, covering after covering opens to Consciousness, in the lap of the Mother he wholly sees." In V 62-1 we find a passage which bears resemblance to the verse... and also of the Supreme whose omnipotence rules the universe. There is an insistence on the dynamic aspect of the Divine. There are speculations, based on personal experience about the states of Consciousness after death. The main aim was the attainment of Truth which is one with the Infinite and of Immortality. The liberation of the individual from the ignorance of egoistic nature was the first ...
... cross! Even higher beings have their cross to bear. It is a question of a difference of consciousness. In some it is the external states of consciousness which are most developed; others, on the contrary, have taken care to develop the higher states of consciousness. So, to say "each one bears his cross" is true of the external consciousness (of material happenings, happenings which touch the vital ...
... 27 November 1968 It continues.... The body feels that it is beginning to understand. Naturally, for it there is no thought, no thought at all; but these are states of consciousness—states of consciousness that complete each other, replace each other.... And it goes so far as to ask how one can know by thought; for it, the only way to know, to cognise, is consciousness. And this is ...
... and it may well be better, because more completely, than our sense-organs and sense-capacity, so there may be other mental and supramental envisagings of the universe which surpass our own. States of consciousness there are in which Death is only a change in immortal Life, pain a violent backwash of the waters of universal delight, limitation a turning of the Infinite upon itself, evil a circling of... of the good around its own perfection; and this not in abstract conception only, but in actual vision and in constant and substantial experience. To arrive at such states of consciousness may, for the individual, be one of the Page 57 most important and indispensable steps of his progress towards self-perfection. Certainly, the practical values given us by our senses and by the dualistic ...
... (Satyaloka, Tapas, Jana, Mahar, Swar, Bhuvar & Bhur). The lower hemisphere in this arrangement of consciousness consists of the three vyahritis of the Veda, "Bhur, Bhuvah, Swar"; they are states of consciousness in which the principles of the upper world are expressed or try to express themselves under different conditions. Pure in their own homes, they are in this foreign country subject to perverse... becomes divided & broken up into uneven rays, the freedom trammelled by egoism and unequal forms, the effectiveness veiled by the uneven play of forces. We Page 100 have, therefore, states of consciousness, non-consciousness & false consciousness, knowledge & ignorance & false knowledge, effective force & inertia and ineffective force. Our business is by renouncing our divided & unequal individual ...
... words to make myself understood, but there are no words—only SENSATIONS; the verbal translation is just for explaining, but they are like sensations, or rather states of consciousness. They Page 147 are all states of consciousness.) And they all run into each other... ( gesture of waves ). Ah, none of this is for the Bulletin! ( Just before leaving, Satprem rests his forehead ...
... successive body into the next, more subtle one ) There are subtle bodies and subtle worlds that correspond to these bodies; it is what the psychological method calls 'states of consciousness,' but these states of consciousness really correspond to worlds. The occult process consists in becoming aware of these various inner states of being, or subtle bodies, and of mastering them sufficiently to ...
... hours the landscape was marvellous, of a perfect harmony. Also, for a long time, visions of the interior of huge temples, of living deities. Each thing had a reason, a precise aim, to express states of consciousness not mentalized. Visions constantly. Landscapes. Buildings. Cities. Everything vast and greatly varied, covering the entire visual field and translating states of the body consciousness. Many... pound and pound in every possible way, the Vital by its sensations, the Mind by its thoughts, pounding and pounding. But they seem to me temporary instruments which will be replaced by other states of consciousness. You understand, this is a phase of the universal development. They will fall away like instruments which are no longer useful.’ 4 This went together with the replacement of the organs ...
... state of blankness behind. Absence of link bridge ; We have stated that in sleep our being passes through a succession of states of consciousness. Now, so long as there is not the integral and synthetic awareness, these different states of consciousness appear each with its own realities, so much so that in our passage through them from one state to another, the consciousness of the ...
... knowledge of the occult worlds is based on the existence of subtle bodies and of subtle worlds corresponding to those bodies. They are what the psychological method calls "states of consciousness", but these states of consciousness really correspond to worlds. The occult procedure consists then in being aware of these various inner states of being or subtle bodies and in becoming sufficiently a master ...
... all those dogmas were nonsense, but... It fits with what I told you last time: the STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS are what reincarnate, evolving, developing, growing more perfect. That's rather how it was, that's how that memory came. It's like that with many memories. And I know that to say "states of consciousness are what reincarnate," to adopt that as the "sole" explanation would be incorrect—it's ...
... non-textual references; for such gloomy states of consciousness or atmosphere are absent in Savitri. Lastly, he has no need to reveal what his mind has imbibed through classical education. He does not want to show how much he has garnered in his mind, or how broad is the scope of his intellectual grasp. Rather he would reveal what states of consciousness he has passed through, what the extent ...
... but to many ways of the triple time knowledge. The subliminal or psychic 3 self can bring back or project itself into past states of consciousness and experience and anticipate or even, though this is less common, strongly project itself into future states of consciousness and Page 80 experience. It does this by a temporary entering into or identification of its being or its power ...
... it can do with thought also. 7 A second characteristic of yoga psychology is that its purview extends beyond the normal or ordinary state of awareness and includes non-ordinary states of consciousness whose view of things often contradicts that of the ordinary consciousness. For example, the ego — that which gives us the sense of being someone who exists in the world and who is separate... reasoning in drawing conclusions from observations, yoga psychology utilises an intuitive perception for assessing the significance and validity of experiences which pertain to non-ordinary states of consciousness and which are therefore supra-rational. Both modern and yoga psychologies presume the operation of law in the realm of the psyche. However, modern psychology attempts to discover the laws ...
... by progressive development of this new creation that the whole world of our becoming becomes illumined. The process of yoga is a process of gradual increase of the action of Surya. Higher states of consciousness visit our lower members more and more frequently, and this increasing frequency of Savitri is termed in the Veda as the action of Savitri, the Pushan, the Increaser. As Shyavashwa testifies... by the Great Ones, the Mother Page 47 Aditi with her sons came or manifested herself for the upholding." The Vedic immortality, it appears, requires stabilization in those states of consciousness and powers which have been ripened fruitfully; fruitful ripening is prepared by (a) processes of thought and meditation, by (b) perfection in works by processes that lead the ascension of the ...
... account. For Yoga claims to be, among many other things, a methodised quest of Spiritual and eventually of integral knowledge which is found to have succeeded in arriving at certain stable states of consciousness and of plenary illumination and know-ledge of truths which can be verified both objectively and in personal experience by means of criteria which can be considered to be as sound as in any... human heart, and human mind can be united with superior faculties of knowledge and action, and ultimately the human being can become permanently united with the universal and transcendental states of consciousness and knowledge. It has been further contended that the Yogic science possesses assured data of the knowledge of methods and their progresses of application as also of their corresponding ...
... seeing knowledge with the help of which alone can dualities Page 38 be removed. But the states of consciousness of all-seeing knowledge have to be possessed in actual vision and in constant and substantial experience. It will be found that for the individual to arrive at such states of consciousness will be one of the most important and indispensable steps of his progress towards self-perfection ...
... and thoughts, is a good action and a good thought. But this is a simple answer. At a deeper level, the good is found to be an expression of states of consciousness, which are very wide, very quiet, very stable and very compassionate. These states of consciousness are conducive to the contact with the psychic being. Hence, the more one controls one's desires for pleasures, the wider becomes his consciousness ...
... becomes, or can be made to become, a highly valuable means of unloosening, however temporarily, the stone-grip of the ignorance of 'our waking that is sleep' and awaking instead in the superior states of consciousness and being. And herein lies the great role of 'sleep-trance' and 'dream-trance' — nidr ā -sam ā dhi and svapna-sam ā dhi — to which we shall allude in the sequel. We have come to... subconscience leads to a state of absolute unconsciousness of which no record reaches our waking awareness. (iii) Absence of link bridge: In sleep our being passes through a succession of states of consciousness; it does not normally dwell permanently in one particular state. Now, so long as the sadhaka has not been able to develop by sadhana an integral and synthetic awareness encompassing the whole ...
... purpose, to express non-mentalized states of consciousness. Constant visions. Landscapes. Constructions. Cities. The whole thing immense and very diverse, covering the entire visual field and expressing ______________________________ ¹ Mother's Agenda, Vol. 9, p. 226. ² Ibid., p. 229. Page 179 states of consciousness of the body. Many, a great ...
... vital have been the instruments for... grinding Matter... the vital by its sensations, the mind by its thoughts.... But they seem to me to be passing instruments that will be replaced by other states of consciousness.... Page 766 But this "perception of soul states", there were things... marvels!... There were moments... moments absolutely wonderful. But without thought, without thought. ... saw temples and "living deities" (not images), and she also had a taste of the consciousness of Eternity. And the perception of the Presence had remained constant through all the varying states of consciousness. 20 A month later (25 September), the Mother observed that it was no use reproaching people for their actions, for after all they had only a limited consciousness and they blundered on ...
... individuality was separate action only in appearance, but "at bottom, in essence always one". There was only one Being, one Consciousness. Her body had of late passed through all the possible states of consciousness, from the sole reality of the body, of Matter at one end to liberation at the other. But the general condition was one of total identification with the Supreme Consciousness: "What Thou wiliest... latter as illusion, as the Yogas of old did, was easy; but the Mother would have none of it. For her, "the only effective way" of coming out of the alternating rhythm of the contradictory states of consciousness was just to give up, surrender. It is not expressed by words, nor by ideas, nor by anything; it is a state of vibration in which nothing but the Divine Vibration has any value. Then ...
... inexhaustibly adaptable. Maya is the supreme and universal consciousness and force of the Eternal and Infinite and, being by its very nature unbound and illimitable, it can put forth many states of consciousness at a time, many dispositions of its Force, without ceasing to be the same consciousness-force for ever. It is at once transcendental, universal and individual; it is the supreme supracosmic... an ocean immobile below throwing up a mobility of waves on its surface. This is also the reason why it is possible for us in certain conditions of our being to be aware of several different states of consciousness at the same time. There is a state of being experienced in Yoga in which we become a double consciousness, one on the surface, small, active, ignorant, swayed by thoughts and feelings, grief ...
... themes which occur most frequently in the forty definitions yielded by the survey. 1 The authors of the study (Denise H. Lajoie & S. I. Shapiro) state the themes as follows: 1. States of consciousness. 2. Highest or ultimate potential. 3. Beyond ego or personal self. 4. Transcendence. 5. Spiritual. A few of the forty definitions are given below (some only in... Interest Group, 1982, p. 1.) The main features of the transpersonal approach include: a focus on the whole person, including body, intellect, emotions and spirit; an interest in states of consciousness, including an assumption that waking consciousness is not the highest or most satisfying state; an interest in ultimate values and principles.... 3 (R. Frager) Transpersonal ...
... has come to recognise a wider range of phenomena, experiences and states of consciousness which have hitherto been regarded by most psychologists as belonging to a "fringe" area, such as extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, telekinesis, clairvoyance and clairaudience, "peak" experiences, altered states of consciousness, etc. which are now classed under the ill-defined concept of "transpersonal ...
... existence of other planes of being and communication with them; objectivisation to the outer sense, subtle-sense contacts, mind contacts, life contacts, contacts through the subliminal in special states of consciousness exceeding our ordinary range. Our physical mind is not the whole of us nor, even though it dominates almost the whole of our surface consciousness, the best or greatest part of us; reality... have passed into a supraphysical status in these other regions of existence. It is possible also to pass beyond a subjective contact or a subtle-sense perception and, in certain subliminal states of consciousness, to enter actually into other worlds and know something of their secrets. It is the more objective order of other-worldly experience that seized most the imagination of mankind in the past ...
... heart is established. This is the first step only. Afterwards, the ordinary activities of the mind and sense must be entirely quieted in order that the soul may be free to ascend to higher states of consciousness and acquire the foundation for a perfect freedom and self-mastery. But Rajayoga does not forget that the disabilities of the ordinary mind proceed largely from its subjection to the reactions... ingathered state of the consciousness which is called Samadhi. By Samadhi, in which the mind acquires the capacity of withdrawing from its limited waking activities into freer and higher states of consciousness, Rajayoga serves a double purpose. It compasses a pure mental action liberated from the confusions of the outer consciousness and passes thence to the higher supra-mental planes on which the ...
... ss, but to many ways of the triple time knowledge. The subliminal or psychic self can bring back or project itself into past states of consciousness and experience and anticipate or even, though this is less common, strongly project itself into future states of consciousness and experience. It does this by a temporary entering into or identification of its being or its power of experiencing knowledge ...
... by a building and seeing of subjective self-constructions which are not the Real. The One Self sees itself as many, but this multiple existence is subjective; it has a multiplicity of its states of consciousness, but this multiplicity also is subjective; there is a reality of subjective experience of a real Being, but no objective universe. It may be noted, however, that nowhere in the Upanishads... no room for an illusory Maya; but still the insistent denial that there is anything other than or separate from the experiencing self, certain phrases used and the description of two of the states of consciousness as sleep and dream may be taken as if they annulled the emphasis on the universal Reality; these passages open the gates to the illusionist idea and have been made the foundation for an un ...
... Oh, that's right. It's going on.... The body has the impression that it's beginning to understand. For it, naturally, there are no thoughts at all—none at all; but it's states of consciousness. States of consciousness complementing one another, replacing one another.... To such a point that the body wonders how one can know with thought; for it, the only way of knowing, the only way of experiencing ...
... for granted that inwardly we remain one and the same entity throughout our constantly changing biography. But when we look inwardly we are horrified to find that we encounter only shifting states of consciousness and the T arises only in apprehending those states as belonging to someone. In reality the I seems to have no separate existence. This creates great fear of uncertainty over the status of our... would like now to give a more detailed presentation of the themes which are central to the two books, The Aim of Life and The Good Teacher and the Good Pupil. There are states and states of consciousness; there are profundities and widenesses; there are heights over heights. To discover them one has to enlarge and explore ever-widening possibilities of psychological experience. In the depths ...
... recurrence. Sharp divisions in this region are, however, difficult to make and we find all sorts of gradations and mixtures. These four characteristics are sufficient to mark out a group of states of consciousness peculiar enough to deserve a special name and to call for careful study. Let it then be called the mystical group. (William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Barnes & Noble... Presence came, and I was aware that I was immersed in the infinite ocean of God.4 Even the least mystical of you must by this time be convinced of the existence of mystical moments as states of 'consciousness of an entirely specific quality, and of the deep impression which they make on those who have them. A Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. R. M. Bucke, gives to the more distinctly characterized of ...
... even these atheistic religions affirm the reality of supra-physical entities and supra-physical states of consciousness far above the states of the body, life, and mind. In other words, these atheistic religions, too, have been guided by the discovery of what may be called divine states of consciousness, even though they might have rejected what is normally called 'God' in many other religions. ...
... the cultivation of inner or subliminal states of consciousness, resulting in the knowledge which is evident in the descriptions of Vayu and Maruts etc. and of the workings of Indra and other gods such as Agni. It can also be seen that this vast store of psychological knowledge included not only awareness but mastery over superconscious states of consciousness which can, illustratively, be seen copiously ...
... beyond our present level of awareness. In these planes, a basic sense and knowledge of unity is a general characteristic, even though there are degrees and grades. Moreover, they are not only states of consciousness but also grades of being and power. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: "In themselves these grades are grades of energy- substance of the Spirit: for it must not be supposed, because we distinguish... Each stage of this ascent is therefore a general, if not a total, conversion of the being into a new light and power of a greater existence." 46 Sri Aurobindo describes in some detail states of consciousness and power of five planes which are distinguishable in the path of spiritual ascension, the path of ascent into the superconscient above the mind. These five planes are: the Higher Mind, the ...
... lustful outcaste, And a greater wanton there is none. NOTES You have to cross the three worlds – physical, vital and mental, pass through the three states of consciousness – jāgrat (waking), swapna (dreaming) and susupta (sleeping)-to enjoy the transcendent delight. It is the ecstasy of union with one's soul, the divine Beloved secreted within our inner heart... and tambours: The bugles blow vying with peals of vivat. Lo, Kanhu goes to marry his bride. This marriage will bring him a new birth, The dowry being the supreme states of consciousness. The day and the night pass in the game of enjoyment, In the company of Yoginis till the dawn breaks. One who is attached to the outcaste woman Never leaves for ...
... followers of this science usually turn their knowledge to base and lucrative ends — magical ends — which we need not dwell upon. But there also exists other sounds with the power to evoke states of consciousness (poets know this), and if one can sow anger in someone, one can also sow something else. Love too has a sound — perhaps it is even the sound of the universe. That sound, whatever it may be... Matter — knead and knead in every possible way: the vital through sensations, the mind through thoughts — to knead. But they strike me as transitory instruments which will be replaced by other states of consciousness. You understand, they are a phase in the universal development and they will fall off like instruments that have outlived their usefulness. So then, I had the concrete experience of what this ...
... in front, and in the other it is as though you were looking at yourself in an inner mirror. Don't understand? Not very well! Well, it's something one must learn to distinguish, one's states of consciousness, because otherwise one lives in a perpetual confusion. In fact, it is the first step on the path, it is the beginning of the thread, if one doesn't hold on to the end of the thread, one ...
... construction. That is more important than just retaining things rigidly in the mind. Now, there is another aspect also. Outside the mental memory, which is something defective, there are states of consciousness. Each state of consciousness in which one happens to be registers the phenomena of that moment, whatever they may be. If your consciousness remain limpid, wide Page 20 and strong ...
... against the divine Will is an anti-divine will. That's all. No matter where it manifests, even in you! There are no party politics in the divine life, you know. ( Laughter ) There are only states of consciousness. ( To a child ) You have a question to ask, you? No, Mother, will you explain the two poems? Explain? There is no explanation. They speak for themselves, very clearly. It cannot ...
... which changes it completely. So, everyone at the same time is a set of determinisms which seem quite absolute, and has a total freedom to bring in the intervention of states of being or states of consciousness or forces of a higher domain; and calling these forces and bringing them into the external determinisms alters everything completely.And it is only thus that things can give the impression ...
... necessitates the inner word? Does thought exist without words? This means that one has not yet touched the true domain of the idea In the domain of the idea there are no words: there are states of consciousness. What does the Word mean? That's something else. The Word—it is not pronounced speech and words. There are old traditions, which speak of "Let there be light and there was light." The ...
... Some Aspects of the Sadhana in Pondicherry Letters on Himself and the Ashram Unusual Experiences and States of Consciousness Visions of Unknown People Yes, of course, I remember about Baroda Babu—I can't say I remember him because I never saw him, at least in the flesh. What he probably means by the Supramental is the Above Mind—what I now call Illumined ...
... have passed into a supraphysical status in these other regions of existence. It is possible also to pass beyond a subjective contact or a subtle-sense perception and, in certain subliminal states of consciousness, to enter actually into other worlds and know something of their secrets. It is the more objective order of other-worldly experience that seized most the imagination of mankind in the past ...
... between all these successive divine worlds is the only way to live constantly, invariably in Thee, accomplishing integrally the mission Thou hast entrusted to the entire being in all its states of consciousness and all its modes of activity. O my sweet Master, Thou hast caused a new veil to be rent, another veil of my ignorance and, without leaving my blissful place in Thy eternal heart, I am at ...
... at the summit of the ascent, Thou hast made me taste the perfect joy of identity with Thee. Then, obedient to Thy command, rung after rung, I have descended to outer activities and external states of consciousness, re-entering into contact with these worlds that I left to discover Thee. And now that I have come back to the bottom of the ladder, all is so dull, so mediocre, so neutral, in me and around ...
... able to take up, based on this text, which will help us to go one step further, a serious step towards realisation. He describes so precisely and marvellously the difference between these two states of consciousness, how all that seems to man almost the ultimate of perfection, at least of realisation, how all that still belongs to the lower hemisphere, including all the relations with the gods ass men ...
... And all the time the experience lasted, one hour—one hour of that time is long—I was in a state of extraordinary joyfulness, almost in an intoxicated state.... The difference between the two states of consciousness is so great that when you are in one, the other seems unreal, like a dream. When I came back what struck me first of all was the futility of life here; our little conceptions down here seem ...
... stages of pain" which Sri Aurobindo speaks of here. If Sri Aurobindo is speaking of moral pain, of any kind, I can say from experience that the four stages he mentions correspond to four states of consciousness which are the result of inner development and the degree of union with the divine consciousness which the individual consciousness has achieved. When the union is perfect, there only remains ...
... entered", is our translation.... The experience Page 136 came as the experience of an eternal fact, not at all as a thing that was happening. All that must be the outcome of states of consciousness, certainly. Whether there is something beyond, I do not know, but in any case, of this I had the positive experience. These are movements of consciousness. Why, how?... I do not know. Only ...
... self-surrender, to the divine Will and Wisdom represented by Agni. Night and Day, Naktoṣāsā , are also symbolical, like all the other gods in the Veda, and the sense seems to be that in all states of consciousness, whether Page 67 illumined or obscure, there must be a constant submission and reference of all activities to the divine control. For whether by day or night Agni shines out ...
... standpoint; but we have to take account of the human standpoint which starts from below, proceeds from the Ignorance, and perceives these principles successively, not comprehensively, as separate states of consciousness. Humanity is that which returns in experience to Sachchidananda, and it must begin from below, in Avidya, with the mind embodied in Matter, the Thinker imprisoned and emerging from the objective ...
... mind to feed, supply & compel the activities of the lower being. They saw, then, being arranged in seven stairs, seven worlds, seven streams of world movement, seven bodies of things, seven states of consciousness which inform & contain the bodies. They saw this material consciousness & this material world as the lowest stair, the least in plenitude & power & joy of these seven divine rivers. Man they ...
... ground of fundamental serenity which superficial disturbances may still touch but cannot destroy, and, finally, all disturbance ceases altogether. Even the experience which so alarms you, of states of consciousness in which you say and do things contrary to your true will, is not a reason for despair. It is a common experience in one form or another of all who try to rise above their ordinary nature. ...
... by remaining Page 474 without moving when they wake and following back the thread of the dreams. It [ remembering one's dreams ] depends on the connection between the two states of consciousness at the time of waking. Usually there is a turnover of the consciousness in which the dream state disappears more or less abruptly, effacing the fugitive impression made by the dream events ...
... because I have realized that there is nothing in this world but Brahman manifesting the universe by his Shakti, and that there is no Devadatta, no Harischandra, but only Brahman in various states of consciousness to which these names are given. If therefore Harischandra enjoys his riches, then it is I who am enjoying them, for Harischandra is myself,—not my body in which I am imprisoned or my desires ...
... sensation. This therefore they called the Sleep State. They farther discovered that the various faculties and functions of man belonged properly some to one, some to another of the three states of consciousness and its corresponding state of matter. His vital and physical functions operated only in gross matter, and they determined accordingly that his physical life was the result of consciousness ...
... world of creative Delight. The soul in Janaloka is one in delight of being with all manifestation and through that bliss one also in conscious energy and in essence of being. All these are states of consciousness in which unity and multiplicity have not yet been separated from each other. All is in all, each in all and all in each, inherently, by the very nature of conscious being and without effort ...
... existence superseding the egoistic and itself both cosmic and transcendent, the nature of which is Bliss. These are obviously divine and, as man is at present apparently constituted, superhuman states of consciousness and activity. A trinity of transcendent existence, self-awareness and self-delight 7 is, indeed, the metaphysical description of the supreme Atman, the self-formulation, to our awakened ...
... get a perception or a concrete realisation of their presence and immanence here or a reflected experience. The first three are the original and fundamental principles and they form universal states of consciousness to which we can rise; when we do so, we can become aware of supreme planes or levels of fundamental manifestation or self formulation of the spiritual reality in which is put in front the unity ...
... Page 295 can pursue their independent self-affirmation and can also unite together their different modes of action, creating both in their independence and in their union different states of consciousness and being which can be all of them valid and all capable of coexistence. A purely impersonal existence and consciousness is true and possible, but also an entirely personal consciousness and ...
... to be avoided; and once the goal is reached, it would seem that they are then frivolous and superfluous. But Rajayoga is a psychic science and it includes the attainment of all the higher states of consciousness and their powers by which the mental being rises towards the superconscient as well as its ultimate and supreme possibility of union with the Highest. Moreover, the Yogin, while in the body ...
... "Let me know when the time for dissolution comes, if dissolution is necessary, so that everything in me will accept the dissolution, but only in that case." Well.... Oh, it's so strange, the states of consciousness are strong, limpid, precise, but they can't express themselves. There are no words. One day it's one thing, another day another thing. ( silence ) Page 40 So, no operation ...
... delight. Page 123 You answer: "If Sri Aurobindo refers to moral pain, whatever it may be, I can say from experience that the four stages he speaks of correspond to four states of consciousness that stem from the inner development and the degree of union with the divine consciousness obtained by the individual consciousness. When the union is perfect, there only remains the 'fiercer ...
... they are symbols, not altogether the thing symbolised, means of knowledge, not altogether the thing known. To look at it from another point of view Existence or Brahman has two fundamental states of consciousness, cosmic consciousness and transcendental consciousness. To cosmic consciousness the world is real as a direct first term expressing the inexpressible; to transcendental consciousness the world ...
... in stillness. That's what now makes me understand why the creation began with inertia. So then, we had to recover that state ( Mother draws an immense curve ) after going through all the states of consciousness. And that's what has given us... ( laughing ) for us, it's a fine mess! But when it's done deliberately, it's not a mess any longer. For me, the difficulty I very often come up against ...
... in this hemisphere here or in the supramental life. And at that moment ( the experience of November 13 ), what made the experience so intense was that I came to perceive vaguely both these states of consciousness at once. It was almost as if the Supreme Himself were different, or our experience of Him. And yet, in both cases, it was a contact with the Supreme. It is probably how we perceive Him or the ...
... From then onwards the Mother mentions both worlds time and again, saying that the one exists, as it were, inside the other, en doublure. She often compares them with two rooms or two states of consciousness. For the transition from the one to the other is a phenomenon of consciousness. The transition happens because the consciousness — the consciousness of the cells of the body — is at one time ...
... industrial modernity, liberal rationalism, parliamentarian democracy and orthodox Christianity. They had an inclination toward mysticism and occultism. They wanted to gain access to higher states of consciousness by penetrating into the hidden, dark parts of the human personality, following as their guides Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Johann Bachofen. Those who mastered such perilous ...
... or can be made to become, a highly valuable means of unloosening, however temporarily, the stone-grip of the ignorance of 'our waking that is sleep' and awakening instead in the superior states of consciousness and being. And herein lies the great role of 'sleep-trance' and 'dream-trance", to which we have alluded earlier in our discussion. Did not the Orphic doctrine that only when free from ...
... that my love would express itself in a particular way, and as it did not happen that way, the vital says, "There is no love!" 20 October 1934 I think, Mother, that there are three states of consciousness for feeling Your love. In the first, a man is only an ordinary human being and feels nothing whether he sees You or not. In the second, he feels something if he does Page 64 not ...
... suppose—I don't really know and I haven't tried to know). But a sort of law makes it impossible to change the position of even a single word, because these are not words—they are fully formed states of consciousness. And the whole series culminates with: 'Manifest Your Love.' This is the highest summit of the possibility of manifestation. That's what I wanted to say. ...
... things aren't moving: there's a continuous and total transformation, a movement that never stops. Only because it's difficult for us to feel that way can we imagine that by our entering certain states of consciousness things would not change. Even if we entered into an apparently total inertia, things would continue to change and we along with them! Ultimately, disgust, rebellion and anger, all movements ...
... you cannot get out as long as it all seems quite natural to you. What's most unfortunate is when you resign yourself to it. Page 494 You realize this when you go back to earlier states of consciousness; you see that it all seemed, if not quite natural, at least almost inevitable—'that's how things are, you must take them as they are.' And you don't even think about it; you take things as ...
... when we are in this lower hemisphere and when we are in the supramental life. And at that moment 2 what gave intensity to the experience was that I came to perceive, vaguely, these two states of consciousness at the same time. It is almost as if the Supreme himself is different, that is to say, the experience we have of him. And yet in both cases there was contact with the Supreme. Well, probably ...
... that which is making me understand now the reason why creation began with inertia. And so, that state had to be rediscovered ( Mother describes a big curve ) after having gone through all the states of consciousness. And it is that which has given us... ( Mother laughs ) for us, it is a fine mess! But when it is done purposely, it is no more a mess. For me the difficulty that I meet very often is a ...
... mentalized—hardly mentalized at all—and almost impossible to formulate. But it's very clear. Very clear... what is it? It's not in the sensation—it's in the state of consciousness. It's very clear states of consciousness. But hard to express. Continuous states, continuous, continuous: night and day, ceaselessly, continuously. The planes change, the activities change, but it's continuous. The mode of being or ...
... famous victory. 3 I was... (how can I put it?) the victorious spirit in Murat. And ONLY THAT. So when people tell you, "I was this person, that person," it's all tales: they are forces, states of consciousness that manifested in certain individuals at certain moments in their lives and which, at such moments, touched Matter concretely. And all that is gathered, collected together little by little ...
... surface movement and behind it our real individuality stretches out to unity with all things.. . ," 22 The model of the spectrum of consciousness, which Page 19 admits of states of consciousness other than that of the ego, is, according to Wilber, a core concept of the "perennial psychology" - a universal doctrine regarding the nature of man common to all major metapsychological traditions ...
... a greater role than the conscious mind in determining behaviour. During the past few decades, yet another dimension — that of "height" — has been discovered through experiences of "higher" states of consciousness which have been termed "transpersonal". With this dimensional progression of views about the human constitution, psychology has been drawing increasingly closer to the pluridimensional concept ...
... spiritual vision it conveys, capable too of feeling the Overhead touch when it comes." 62 The Overmind touch, even the touch of anything else Overhead (which comprises all the above-mind states of consciousness: Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, 60 Ibid., pp. 788-90. 61 Ibid., p. 743. 62 lbid., p. 759. Page 302 Intuition) must involve, in some measure at least ...
... inner findings and conquests, leading to his vision of an age of truth-consciousness and immortality. It portrays in living drama the daring climb within of a king-soul through progressive states of consciousness to Nirvanic heights and beyond to summits never reached before. The poet reveals how at meditation's peak at one with God, where many cease their search, he becomes aware of a Presence, ...
... existence superseding the egoistic and itself both cosmic and transcendent, the nature of which is Bliss. These are obviously divine and, as man is at present apparently constituted, superhuman states of consciousness and activity. A trinity of transcendent existence, self-awareness and self-delight 8 is, indeed, the metaphysical description of the supreme Atman, the self-formulation, to our awakened ...
... referred to by Raymond Brown. More than once Sri Aurobindo brings together the terms Wisdom and the Word with reference to the Mother. When Aswapati, as the Traveller of the Worlds (planes or states of Consciousness), is in the empire of the Little Mind he sees a whole crowd of tiny entities who rule human life and are responsible for the little actions of human beings. All move through friction and ...
... Philosophical or scientific thought can also be a stage of the beginning, and this thought may arrive at increasing levels of wisdom or at many high points of mental manhood. One cap develop states of consciousness appropriate to those of the priest and the sage, or to the man of piety or to the man of courage and heroism or charity and justice or to the man of wide vision, intimate understanding and ...
... the synthesis of God knowledge, self-knowledge and world knowledge. The Rishis, the composers of these great compositions, had arrived at the secret methods of attaining deeper and higher states of consciousness; Page 127 and they had formulated various forms of concentration, which served as the key to knowledge. They had discovered that what the world revealed to us in response to our ...
... takes us to some of the highest possible experiences of which human mind is capable. It can even be said that it contains most of the main clues of the secret of reconciliation of the supreme states of consciousness and dynamic demands of the battles of life in which we find ourselves all the time, but particularly, at critical moments. The setting in which the teaching of the Gita emerges is typical ...
... psychological exercises, if they are to yield veridical knowledge, power, right inspiration for action and devotional intensities of feeling. But there are occasions and there are critical states of consciousness in which mystic guides and teachers can by mere touch or will power bestow upon the seeker a sudden opening of inner consciousness, and the inner sight and inner audition begin to operate, ...
... ignorance; secondly, it is a process of the employment of methods by which this veil of ignorance can be torn and destroyed. And thirdly, yoga is a process by which one can be stabilised in the states of consciousness which have been unveiled, so that they radiate unobstructed permanently. The distinctive methods of Yoga relate to the meticulous handling of customary psychological workings based upon ...
... humanity and that reality or those realities which are celebrated as of supreme importance. Religion is, therefore, conceived as something that binds humanity with God or gods or those beings or states of consciousness which are worthy of worship and celebration. In the process of building up these bridges, a prominent part is played by the growth of rituals and ceremonies' as also of prescribed acts, of ...
... Philosophical or scientific thought can also be a stage of the beginning, and this thought may arrive at increasing levels of wisdom or at many high points of mental manhood. One can develop states of consciousness appropriate to those of the priest and the sage, or to the man of piety or to the man of courage and heroism or charity and justice or to the man of wide vision, intimate understanding and ...
... other planes of being and communication with them. They include objectivisation of the outer sense, subtle-contact, mind-contact, life-contact, and contacts through the subliminal in special states of consciousness exceeding our ordinary range. We should note that in any field of experience, error is possible; error is not the prerogative of the inner subjective or occult part of us. Even when the physical ...
... intervening powers of Overmind and Spiritual mind would be able to found themselves securely upon it and reach their own perfection. They would become, according to Sri Aurobindo, a hierarchy of states of consciousness in the earth-existence rising out of Mind and physical life to the supreme supramental level. In the context of this development, mind and mental humanity would remain as one step in the spiritual ...
... the relationship between the Supreme Infinite Consciousness that is behind the Inconscience and the method by which the apparent Inconscience wakes up gradually to manifest higher and higher states of consciousness. Can we study carefully and methodically this method ? Fortunately, this method seems to have been studied right from the Vedic times, and modern studies also indicate that the world that ...
... lift students from lower to higher levels of character. These are: illumination, love and heroism. Illumination is basically the experience of clarity in respect of understanding of inner states of consciousness, of widening horizons of environment, and of value of relationships and internal complexities of psychological and physical life. At a lower level, this clarity is conceptual, but as we ascend ...
... and inculcate skills, attitudes, values and habits conducive for the all round development of that personality." (P. 9) Twenty-three clusters of qualities, abilities, skills, attitudes and states of consciousness have been listed, that need to be generated and promoted among the learners. It has also underlined the need to provide remedial teaching as well as counselling services for carrying out the ...
... many things. In each photo I am different and to each one I reveal myself in a distinctly different way which is right for him. Usually in a photo *it is one of my infinite states of Page 11 Consciousness and varied moods of expression caught eternally in a moment* — the Universal Mother in Her infinite forms. It is for you to find out which of my aspects predominates in each ...
... not ? If you ask whether they exist on the physical plane it is absurd, because by their very nature they are supraphysical. But they are real. Disciple : What I mean is : do these states of consciousness exist ? Sri Aurobindo : Of course The truth is that the Mental Purusha can take up any number of positions towards the ultimate Reality and in each position find a certain truth which ...
... reason, he has what may be called the overhead consciousness. (Apart from the normal consciousness, which is named jagrat, waking, the Upanishad speaks of three other increasingly subtler states of consciousness, swapna, sushupti and turiya.) And then one can be quite unconscious, as in samadhi – that can be sushupti or turiya – or partially conscious – in swapna, for example, Page ...
... read the Bulletins sometimes? I give there my recent experiences, of what I am doing on my body, where the Supramental Force is working incessantly to transform it. These are moments lived, states of consciousness which unify my whole being, its movements, and its sensations in one single aspiration, infusing the Light, the Peace and the Ananda in a perpetual interchange. It is this, the effect of the ...
... or surmount any difficulty. At that time, He was preoccupied to gain control, not only to conquer but to subjugate and master the different worlds, the diverse powers and the innumerable states of consciousness that were opposing and standing like an obstacle to our work — the quest towards the Supramental. And the mundane affairs were left to me to resolve and also all this organisation of the Ashram ...
... particular items in a rigid manner. There is another thing. Apart from the fact that memory by itself in its very nature is a defective organ, there is the other fact that I there are different states of consciousness one following another. Each state faithfully records the phenomena of that moment, whatever they may be. Now, if your mind is calm and clear, wide and strong, you can by concentrating your ...
... into a true rest - a sort of Sachchidananda immobility of consciousness - and that it is which really restores the system. The rest of the time is spent first in travelling through various states of consciousness towards that and then coming out of it back towards the waking state. This fact of the ten minutes true rest as been noted by medical men, but of course they know nothing about Sachchidananda ...
... spiritual vision it conveys, capable too of feeling the Overhead touch when it comes". 69 The Overmind touch, even the touch of anything else 'overhead' (which comprises all the above-mind states of consciousness: Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition) must involve, in some measure at least, a "cosmic consciousness", a background consciousness to which the million particulars of phenomenal life perceived ...
... flower is the first manifestation of the psychic presence', it symbolises an aspect, an emanation, an aspiration and a progress in the evolution of the earth. 'When I give flowers, I give you states of consciousness; the flowers are the mediums....' - Apr 7-Aug 4 Speaks to a small group of disciples; these talks are first published in 1931 as Conversations of the Mother. 1931 Oct 18-Nov 24 ...
... the summit of the ascent Thou hast made me taste the perfect joy of identity with Thee. Then obedient to Thy command, rung after rung, I have descended to outer; activities and external states of consciousness, re-entering into contact with these worlds that I left to discover Thee. And now that I have come back to the bottom of the ladder, all is so dull, so mediocre, so neutral, in me and ...
... innocent European ladies and his own yearlong "ashram-vas" in the Alipur Jail (where he had experienced the omnipresent Divine or Vasudeva, and had also glimpsed the "overhead" or above-mind states of consciousness), Sri Aurobindo had done some rethinking about the ends and means of his political work. There was the brief but glorious period of editorship of the Karmayogin and the Dharma during ...
... forget our base. Not to abandon the lower to itself, but to transfigure it in the light of the higher to which we have attained: is true divinity of nature. Brahman is integral and unifies many states of consciousness at a time; we also, manifesting the nature of Brahman, should become integral and all- embracing.”² There must be an integration and harmonisation of all the ¹Prayers and Meditations ...
... 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 beyond mind as a result of his upward effort. He ascends from his mere human status, expands out of his ego-personality, grows wider and awakens in him the working of new powers of nature ...
... perceive what is really there. The body, the cells of the body, perceive what is really there. For them, without any doubt, Matter = Consciousness. Babies are infinitely more aware of people's states of consciousness than of their good or bad appearances. A necktie is immaterial, even if it comes from Dior. And there are a lot of things that are immaterial to them, and a lot of other things that we may ...
... Current in all its purity? A non-inertia, that is, a resistance, might have exploded everything (?) So then, Mother continued, we had to recover that primary state after going through all the states of consciousness⎯a whole journey. The impression is that only the body— receptive, open, at any rate partially transformed—is capable of having the understanding of the creation, of what we call the “creation”: ...
... forget our base. Not to abandon the lower to itself, but to transfigure it in the light of the higher to which we have attained, is true divinity of nature. Brahman is integral and unifies many states of consciousness at a time; we also, manifesting the nature of Brahman, should become integral and all-embracing. Besides the recoil from the physical life, there is another exaggeration of the ascetic impulse ...
... the philosopher's progressive abstraction towards a "world-view", not to mention the mystic's rapturous vision and experience of oneness-in-manyness and diversity-in-identity. To call such states of consciousness a welling up of the unconscious is merely to quibble over terms. "Consciousness" need not be confined to our ordinary state: it can be various in organisation and pitch, it can be sub-mental ...
... beautiful cloth. In the Indian tradition, when flowers are given to the guru, they should not be seen, touched nor smelled by anyone else. Mother said, “When I give them [flowers] I give you states of consciousness.” [Flowers and their Messages IX] When did the flower work begin and the work on the book Flowers and Their Messages? I was always touched by the array of flowers arranged in trays when ...
... ground of fundamental serenity which superficial disturbances may still touch but cannot destroy, and finally, all disturbance ceases altogether. Even the experience which so alarms you, of states of consciousness in which you say and do things contrary to your true will, is not a reason for despair. It is a common experience in one form or another of all who try to rise above their ordinary nature. ...
... in Cosmic Consciousness In sharp contrast to our ordinary state of consciousness as regards our perceptions of ego, self and individuality stated above are certain non-ordinary states of consciousness, which have been described as mystical or spiritual, in which these perceptions are almost totally reversed. R.M. Bucke, the first writer who published a scientific and comprehensive ...
... śama — the divine quiet, peace, rest. Samadhi —yogic trance (in which the mind acquires the capacity of withdrawing from its limited waking activities into freer and higher states of consciousness). sam ā dhistha — arrived at the essential sam ā dhi and settled in it. Sanjnana, samjñā na — essential sense; contact of consciousness with its object; the inbringing ...
... of other planes of being and communication with them; objectivisation to the outer sense, subtle-sense contacts, mind contacts, life contacts, contacts through the subliminal in special states of consciousness exceeding our ordinary range. Our physical mind is not the whole of us nor, even though it dominates almost the whole of our surface consciousness, the best or greatest part of us; reality ...
... had them. Letters on Yoga, p. 1493 [Q: Sometimes one remembers the dreams, sometimes one does not. Why is it so?] It depends on the connection between the two states of consciousness at the time of waking. Usually there is a turn over of the consciousness in which the dream-state disappears more or Page 238 less abruptly, effacing the fugitive impression ...
... revived an interest in the study of consciousness. These developments include the contributions made by the depth psychologies of Freud and Jung, the discovery of what have been called altered states of consciousness experienced and reported by many people (especially those who have used hallucinogenic drugs or have practised meditation), the influence of Eastern thought on a growing number of Western ...
... were marvelous, of a perfect harmony. Also for a long time visions of the interior of immense temples, of living godheads. Everything had a reason, a definite goal, to express non-mentalized states of consciousness. Constant visions. Landscapes. Constructions. Cities. Everything immense and of a great variety, occupying the whole field of vision and rendering states of the consciousness of the body. Many ...
... is that they are only aspects of a universal Presence -all Nature as a living being - which is ready to enter into a psychological exchange with us. It delivers various messages or rather states of consciousness through all its visible components: changing sky-pageantry, mountain-soars and valley-dips, winding rivers and rhythmic seas, stretches of tremulous greenery, sweeps of swaying blooms. ...
... that whisper, her body had already reached the age of eighty years. Even more of a strain than physical exertion was the non-receptivity of people or else their carrying undesirable states of consciousness to her. It was the most natural movement for Page 28 the Mother to open herself completely to her children and quite a lot of psychological "dirt" would get into her and affect ...
... fragments a form already of language or do they become expressed by us alone? Are all the innumerable languages of earth spoken in the higher planes or do the latter possess merely modes or states of consciousness?) "A poem may pre-exist in the timeless as all creation pre-exists there or else in some plane where the past, present and future exist together. But it is not necessary to presuppose ...
... more concrete reality as her cells were more and more supramentalized. We, ordinary humans, see everything as separately existing objects and beings. She, on the other hand, saw everything as states of consciousness which are the expression of the One in its infinite diversity, and as vibrations of the Truth-Consciousness much more tangible than the concretion of gross matter and therefore dangerous to ...
... basis, the intervening powers of Overmind and spiritual Mind could found themselves securely upon it and reach their own perfection; they would become in the earth-existence a hierarchy of states of consciousness rising out of Mind and physical life to the supreme spiritual level. Mind and mental humanity would remain as one step in the spiritual evolution; but other degrees above it would be there ...
... and the kamic centre. At other points it is usually ineffective. There is a tendency to dull headache, but this materialises badly. In swapnasamadhi the organisation of the three states of consciousness effected in the fever, was restored; but with less force of the jagrat in the sushupti & swapna. 25 October 1914 There is as yet no new perceptible advance of any kind, rather an attempt ...
... into a true rest—a sort of Sachchidananda immobility of the consciousness—and that it is which really restores the system. The rest of the time is spent first in travelling through various states of consciousness towards that and then coming out of it back towards the waking state. This fact of the ten minutes true rest has been noted by medical men, but of course they know nothing about Sachchidananda ...
... sleep and the Force that comes when I repeat "Sri Aurobindo-Mira"? There is not necessarily any difference of Force. Usually the Mother's name has the full power in it; but in certain states of consciousness the double Name may have a special effect. 29 August 1936 I find no harm if I repeat the name of Sri Krishna, whose very Page 826 being has taken the form of our Lord Sri ...
... peace and happiness. And it cannot be reached without a spiritual discipline. I do not know whether this has been rightly explained to Your Highness. I may say briefly that there are two states of consciousness in either of which one can live. One is a higher consciousness which stands above the play of life and governs it; this is variously called the Self, the Spirit or the Divine. The other is ...
... vital feelings, one's own or those of others, those also are simply mental images or vital formations. The true significant ones are those that come of themselves and correspond to things, states of consciousness or a play of forces that are actual and not determined mainly by one's ideas, will or feelings. Visions are of all kinds—some are merely suggestions of what wants to be or is trying ...
... and the descent of the higher consciousness into the body. There is not necessarily any difference of Force. 1 Usually the Mother's name has the full power in it; but in certain states of consciousness the double Name may have a special effect. Page 326 Namajapa or Repetition of the Name The name of the Divine is usually called in for protection, for adoration, for increase ...
... but one gets to feel the difference. Sometimes one remembers the dreams, sometimes one does not. 13 Why is it so? Page 304 It depends on the connection between the two states of consciousness at the time of waking. Usually there is a turn over of the consciousness in which the dream-state disappears more or less abruptly, effacing the fugitive impression made by the dream events ...
... is strong your flower-offerings will be fresh. And if you are receptive you will be also very easily able to absorb the message I put in the flowers I give you. When I give them, I give you states of consciousness; the flowers are the mediums and it all depends on your receptivity whether they are effective or not. Page 132 ...
... once leave your miseries behind; but it is far from being true and this is what the Dhammapada points out here: what it calls the infernal world consists of psychological ranges, particular states of consciousness you enter when you do wrong, that is to say, when you stray away from all that is beautiful, pure, happy and you live in ugliness and wickedness. Nothing is more disheartening than to live ...
... is strong your flower-offerings will be fresh. And if you are receptive you will be also very easily able to absorb the message I put in the flowers I give you. When I give them, I give you states of consciousness; the flowers are the mediums and it all depends on your receptivity whether they are effective or not. Page 96 ...
... if you are in touch with the average man and speak to him of spiritual things, he is absolutely closed up and, into the bargain, if you speak to him of a possibility of relation with higher states of consciousness, he looks at you as though you were mad! If someone renounces the ordinary life to live an ascetic life, they think he is out of his senses! There is a small minority among those who have ...
... to spirit. But what do you call spirit and what do you call matter? It is a countless crowd of things, an interminable ladder. The universe is a seemingly infinite gradation of worlds and states of consciousness, and in this increasingly subtle gradation, where does your matter come to an end? Where does your spirit begin? You speak of "spirit"― where does this spirit begin? With what you don't see ...
... the idea, without words, simply with the sound and all the inflexions of the... one can't call it sensations, nor feelings... what seems to be closest would be some kind of soul-states or states of consciousness. All these inflexions are clearly perceptible through the nuances of the sound. And certainly, those who were great musicians, geniuses from the point of view of music, must have been more ...
... in what sense I used the word memory the other day. It can be only in this sense. Memory in studying. Well, yes, it is that. That is what I meant: replace a purely mental memory by states of consciousness. That is exactly what I wanted to say. For, if you try to learn a thing by heart, after a time you are sure to forget it. Or else there are holes: you remember one thing and you do not remember ...
... several sources of universal force which are yet sealed to it." "The individualisation of states of being which have so far never been conscious in man", that is to say, there are superposed states of consciousness, and there are new regions which have never yet been manifested on earth, and which Sri Aurobindo called supramental. It is that, this was the same idea. That is, one must go into the depths ...
... instrument in the sense that it can experience two contraries at the same time. There is a certain state of body-consciousness which brings things together, totalises things that in other states of consciousness alternate or even in certain others oppose each other. But if one has reached up there, in the vital and the mind, a development sufficient for harmonising opposites (that of course, is quite ...
... self-delight. Sadhana —the practice of yoga. Samadhi —yogic trance (in which the mind acquires the capacity of withdrawing from its limited waking activities into freer and higher states of consciousness). Sanskara —association, impression, fixed notion, habitual reaction formed by one's past. the Self —the Atman, the universal Spirit, the self-existent Being, the conscious essential ...
... continuous, total transformation, a movement that never ceases. And because it is difficult for us to feel like this, it is possible for us to imagine that if we were to enter into certain states of consciousness, things would not change. But even if we were to enter into an apparently total inertia, things would continue to change and so would we! Basically, disgust, revolt, anger, all these movements ...
... this that has done all the mischief—all the unhappiness, all the misery.... This body has just passed, for some days, through a series of experiences (too long to narrate), through all the states of consciousness that one can pass through, starting from the sense of the sole reality of that ( Mother pinches her skin with her hand ), of the substance, with all the miseries, all the suffering resulting ...
... conscious of what most human beings are almost entirely unconscious, namely, the action and influence of the soul in one's life. Secondly, the book seeks to describe and clarify various states of consciousness that pertain to experiences of the soul. These include the influence of the psychic, coming in contact or being in touch with the psychic, discovery of, identification with or awakening of ...
... e, and in order to have the strength to advance by rejecting what ought to disappear, one must strongly feel one's unworthiness and incapacity to express the divine perfection. The two states of consciousness should be simultaneous and complementary, not successive and contradictory, and this too is possible only when the seat of consciousness is beyond the mind and its limitations. 12 May 1965 ...
... are its characteristics and so on. These things are not invisible in themselves—they are invisible to the physical consciousness and the physical senses, but not to the corresponding inner states of consciousness or the corresponding inner senses. For, by a systematic development one can acquire senses in these worlds and one can then live a similar life with different characteristics. I mean that one ...
... various combinations, depending on the part of the being that predominates at the time, if you try to foresee what is going to happen, it is extremely difficult. It is the same thing with states of consciousness. A destiny represents an individual; they all react on one another and the number of things that may happen is frightening! So how will you foresee that? The "laws" of the universe always work ...
... inner Truth; for them, it is more a matter of coming into contact with their God. Heaven and hell: this is a roundabout way of saying... 1 Psychological methods are those that deal with states of consciousness, that try to realise the inner self by withdrawing from all activity and attempting to create the conscious inner conditions of detachment, self-abstraction, concentration, higher Reality, ...
... moments was not barren word-culture, and if there Page 24 was any remoteness about it, the remoteness was of a new reality demanding a special approach through unusual states of consciousness and not a phantom languishing in some vacuum between matter-of-fact and magic. The work of the Decadents was generally in that vacuum — it had not the clear contour of earth nor the subtle ...
... fragments a form already of language or do they become expressed by us alone ? Are all the innumerable languages of earth spoken in the higher planes or do the latter possess merely modes or states of consciousness ?) "A poem may pre-exist in the timeless as all creation pre-exists there or else in some plane where the past, present and future exist together. But it is not necessary to presuppose ...
... our body, we'll lose a degree of precision, doesn't it? Before going to sleep I was in that frame of mind, and during the night there was a series of experiences to show all the different states of consciousness of the different states of being. When I got up in the morning, there was a very keen observation of the difference contributed by the physical. I saw how that difference could persist in the ...
... ", "timeless", "illimitable" and their equivalents scattered throughout his poetry do not stamp it as an intellectual exercise. Such words are an aid to the art that seeks to embody Yogic states of consciousness. Page 51 Apart from monotony, the pitfall to avoid is insincerity and rhetoric—the hollow Hugoesque shout. In poetry that is deeply felt, these so-called abstractions live ...
... this cold, I am not sure (I don't think so—I know very well where it comes from), the whole morning (during the night and the morning), there has been a sort of perception of all kinds of states of consciousness this body has been through, groups of circumstances, and then a perception so concrete, you know, so absolute: "Where is the person? Where, where is the individual? Where is the person? Where ...
... Supermind, of a "permeating" Consciousness, is OUR translation.... The experience came as the experience of an eternal fact: not at all something just now taking place. That it's all the result of states of consciousness is certain (whether there is something beyond, I do not know, but at any rate I have the positive experience of that). It's movements of consciousness. Why, how?... I don't know. But looking ...
... hours and hours like that, watching the development—a development at once universal and personal; but "personal," there is so to speak no person, it's something curious. There's a series of states of consciousness being organized. Page 284 ( silence ) There is in an almost constant and general way the impression that material things—not only things, but perceptions, sentiments (kinds of ...
... made all the mischief —all the misfortune, all the misery.... For the last few days, this body has gone through a series of experiences (it would be much too long to tell), through all the states of consciousness one can go through, from the sense of the single reality of this ( Mother pinches the skin of her hands ), of the substance, with all the misery, all the suffering which is the consequence ...
... above everything. I never recommended Savitri to you. It belongs too much to what Sri Aurobindo has termed 'the Future Poetry' with unusual canons and uncommon modes of expression true to states of consciousness and spiritual experience much beyond the range of most people's actual life or even imaginative vision. This does not mean that Savitri has no contact anywhere with genuine past or present ...
... of seriousness is at times attributable to this comparatively uncommon type of epileptic reaction." 3 Dream consciousness 4 : Traditionally, dreams have been defined as 'states of consciousness taking place during sleep'. But, as Prof. D. B. Klein has pointed out, this definition proves to be inadequate in the light of critical reflection. For, sleep in the conventional sense of ...
... of thoughts as they pass through the mind, and quieting and silencing the mind. There are also dynamic methods of meditation, in which the light of higher knowledge is introduced into lower states of consciousness and even of impulses and vibrations of desires, so that the latter can be enlightened and transformed. An important point to be noted is that the process of concentration is a psychological ...
... The Aim of Life Preface There are states and states of consciousness; there are profundities and Widenesses; there are heights over heights. To discover them one has to enlarge and explore ever-widening possibilities of psychological experience. In the depths of the being we may begin to integrate the threads and complexities of what we are and can become. It is ...
... are you going to know with the mind where he has reached? DR. SATYENDRA: Our choice is not psychic. THE MOTHER: That is another question. First you must realise the limits of different states of consciousness and the difference in the places where people stand. The choice is mostly in answer to your own need; it is governed by your inner necessity. Sometimes it is made by instinct. It is that ...
... itself is called the food sheath and its throwing off is what is called death. Sometimes I feel the Force acting in the nerves, and also the nerves passing through different states of consciousness. Are there really nerves in the subtle physical sheaths? Yes, there are nerves in the subtle body. Yesterday not only my consciousness but the body also felt horizontally ...
... it not the basis of his Yoga? I have often wondered what his state of consciousness was, for instance, when he was talking with us or dictating Savitri . Now I have learnt that the three states of consciousness: transcendent, cosmic and individual can operate at the same time. I also used to wonder how he could take interest even in the most trivial, "unspiritual" amusing talk or incidents, and joke ...
... Supermind, and the other heights of the pure spiritual being. A basic sense and knowledge of unity is the general characteristic of all the grades of the Superconscience. They are not only states of consciousness but also grades of being and power. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: In themselves these grades are grades of energy-substance of the Spirit: for it must not be supposed, because we distinguish ...
... speak, it's for that reason that I am coughing, it's deliberate(!) It is extraordinarily interesting. (silence) A detailed demonstration of the difference between the two states of consciousness. (silence) He explained to me, among other things, and in a manner absolutely practical and positive, that the cause of all the maladies, disorders, conflicts, here, in the material ...
... lift students from lower to higher levels of character. These are: illumination, love, and heroism. Illumination is basically the experience of clarity in respect of understanding of inner states of consciousness, of widening horizons of environment, and of value of relationships and internal complexities Page 34 of psychological and physical life. At a lower level, this clarity is ...
... our mind. Indeed, each individual can give his face the expression that he chooses. But he does not keep such a mask permanently. Unwittingly, our visage progressively models itself upon our states of consciousness. With the advance of age it becomes more and more pregnant with the feelings, the appetites, and the aspirations of the whole being. The beauty of youth comes from the natural harmony of the ...
... the synthesis of God-knowledge, self-knowledge and world-knowledge. The Rishis, the composers of these great composition's, had arrived at the secret methods of attaining deeper and higher states of consciousness; and they had formulated various forms of concentration, which served as the key to knowledge. They had discovered that what the world revealed to us in response to our seeking and questioning ...
... Processes of Cure: Uses and Misuses Dangers of Psychoanalysis, Radical Difference between Psychoanalysis and Yoga Integral Education for Integral Health Yogic Care of the Body Higher States of Consciousness and their power over the body's functions Physical Transformation by the Methods of Integral Yoga: What is Death? The Structure of the Body and the Problems of the ...
... of being and communication with them. These include objectivisation to the outer sense, subtle-sense contacts, mind-contacts, life-contacts, and contacts through the subliminal in special states of consciousness existing in our ordinary range. It is argued that the entire field of the supra-physical experience is a field of subjective experience or of subtle- sense images, and these can be easily ...
... mind through the stages of pratyahara, dharana and dhyana. Achievement of dhyana in which the mind becomes concentrated leads to the state of samadhi which gives an entry into higher states of consciousness. Mental action is liberated from the confusions of the outer-consciousness, and it passes thence to the higher supramental planes in which the individual soul, Purusha, enters into its spiritual ...
... extremely brief consisting of twelve verses but extremely important on account of its precise distinctions between different levels of consciousness, and the corresponding objects of these states of consciousness. The four states that it describes are the states of wakefulness, dream, sleep and that which is the highest, — the state of awareness of the Self in its single existence, in Whom all phenomena ...
... of consciousness more easily to a flower than to a man... If you are receptive, you will easily be able to absorb the message I put in the flowers I give you. When I give them, I give you states of consciousness: the flowers are the mediums." Page 175 It meant that she offered the higher consciousness or her consciousness to you — that is all. In a dream ...
... items in a rigid, manner. There is another thing. Apart from the fact that memory by itself in its very nature is a defective organ, there is the other fact that there are different states of consciousness one following another. Each state faithfully records the phenomena of that moment, whatever they Page 64 may be. Now, if your mind is calm and clear, wide and strong, you can ...
... reason, he has what may be called the overhead consciousness. (Apart from the normal consciousness, which is named jagrat, waking, the Upanishad speaks of three other increasingly subtler states of consciousness, swapna, sushupti and turvya.) And then one can be quite unconscious, as in samadhi— that can be sushupti or tunya— or partially conscious—in swapna, for example, Page 310 ...
... where it appears in its grossest form as a concrete three-dimensional object or a mechanical movement. This parallelism or commensurability by virtue of which the different and divergent states of consciousness can portray or represent each other is the source of all symbolism. A symbol symbolizes something for this reason that both possess in common a certain identical, at least similar, quality ...
... after a Page 393 pralaya as the ancients conceived the process. The triple person, it may be noted, is psychologically co-related to the three well-known Upanishadic states of consciousness – one, sushupti (perfect sleep), two swapna (dream) and three, jagrat (wakefulness). The triple human person, it is evident, exists as a movement parallel to the triple Divine person: it ...
... planes of beings and communication with them. They include objectification of the outer sense, subtle-sense contacts, mind contacts, life contacts, contacts through the subliminal in special states of consciousness existing beyond our ordinary range. It is normally argued that subjective experience or subtle-sense images can easily be deceptive, since we have no recognised method or standards of verification ...
... we see partially expressed in man and in the Cosmos. The commencement of yoga is characterized by the point of contact of the human individual consciousness with the higher and profounder states of consciousness that can ultimately lead to the universal and transcendent Existence. That contact normally takes the form of concentration, and concentration implies a process of purification and a process ...
... also of the distinction between ignorance and knowledge, — avidya and vidya. Upanishads also speak of apara and para vidya - the lower knowledge and the higher knowledge, of different states of consciousness and their interrelationship. In the subsequent writings in Indian literature, we have further glimpses of the systems of education that flourished in ancient times and in the later periods ...
... the manifestation of the Spirit in Matter, and Sri Aurobindo, in his unprecedented labour of research had to cross the formidable barrier of the view that one could always ascend into higher states of consciousness, including the supramental consciousness, but earthly existence can never be made to receive higher and highest levels of consciousness and stabilize that consciousness in Matter to such a ...
... mode of manifestation. It can be, to the human mind, superconscient. It can be to the human consciousness something conscious or subconscious. It can be subliminal. So, there are various states of consciousness—and they operate. The subliminal state is able to act independently of human senses. No outer sense-instrument is needed to convey thought or impulse to someone else. Telepathy, hypnotism ...
... surrender to the divine Force, and a sudden, "striking conversion cannot be integral.” In order to reach the goal which is nothing short of a divinization of the whole being in all its states of consciousness and modes of operation, "none can escape the need of innumerable experiences of every kind Page 287 and every instant.” But the goal, the great glorious goal has magnetized ...
... dream or subliminal consciousness, the Brahman of the sleep consciousness, and That of the transcendent, absolute consciousness. When one is fully identified with the Divine in all these states of consciousness, one can be said to have realised the most complete union. Thus identified, one becomes, so to say, like the Divine Himself, at once transcendent and immanent, universal and individual, static ...
... our base. Not to abandon the lower to itself, but to transfigure it in the Light of the higher to which we have attained, is true divinity of nature. Brahman is integral and unifies many states of consciousness at a time; we also, manifesting the nature of Brahman, should become integral and all-embracing." 2 There must be an integration and harmonisation of all the parts of our being and ...
... Illumined Mind, and Intuition, leading on to Overmind and Supermind. Making a reference to her 1912 statement in a conversation on 11 November 1953, the Mother said: There are superposed states of consciousness, and there are new regions which have never yet been manifested on earth, and which Sri Aurobindo Page 52 called supramental .. One must get identified with them, then bring ...
... But what do you call spirit? And what do you call matter? It is a countless number of things, an unending gradation. The universe is made of an infinite gradation, as it were, of worlds and states of consciousness—and where does your matter leave off and your spirit begin in this increasingly subtle gradation P Then they say: free the spirit from matter—die and you will free your spirit from matter. ...
... Sri Aurobindo states that Consciousness, Existence and Reality are one. Consciousness is at once the self-awareness inherent in existence and the conscious Force that builds the universe. Therefore, consciousness is not confined to the human being, but is present in the animal, the plant and also in matter. Human consciousness is not identical with mind; mental consciousness is only a middle... But this vulgar and shallow idea of the nature of consciousness, though it still colours our ordinary thought and associations, must now definitely disappear out of philosophical thinking. For we know that there is something in us which is conscious when we sleep, when we are stunned or drugged or in a swoon, in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may... governed by science and sees consciousness only as a phenomenon that emerges out of inconscient Matter and consists of certain reactions of the system to outward things. But that is a phenomenon of consciousness, it is not consciousness itself, it is even only a very small part of the possible phenomenon of consciousness and can give no clue to Consciousness the Reality which is of the very ...
... have three different states of its consciousness with regard to its own eternity. The first is that in which there is the immobile status of the Self in its essential existence, self-absorbed or self-conscious, but in either case without development of consciousness in movement or happening; this is what we distinguish as its timeless eternity. The second is its whole-consciousness of the successive relations... on the measures used, but on the consciousness and the position of the observer: moreover, each state of consciousness has a different time relation; Time in Mind consciousness and Mind Space has not the same sense and measure of its movements as in physical Space; it moves there quickly or slowly according to the state of the consciousness. Each state of consciousness has its own Time and yet there... Subjectivity and objectivity are only two sides of one consciousness, and the cardinal fact is that any given Time or Space or any given Time-Space as a whole is a status of being in which there is a movement of the consciousness and force of the being, a movement that creates or manifests events and happenings, it is the relation of the consciousness that I sees and the force that formulates the happenings ...
... and Earth the mother that are indicated, but the two sisters, Rodasi, feminine forms of heaven and earth, who symbolise the general energies of the mental and physical consciousness. It is their dark states—the obscured consciousness between its two limits of the mental and the physical,—which by the happy movement of the nervous dynamism begin to labour in accordance with the movement or under the... sensational existence with its undelivered burden of unrealised delight climbing full of the "Ghrita" and the "Soma", the clarified mental consciousness and the illumined Ananda that descends from above, to the heaven of Immortality. The "secret Name" of the mental consciousness, the tongue with which the gods taste the world, the nexus of Immortality, is the Ananda which the Soma symbolises. For all this creation... principles in manifested Nature, the seven forms of divine consciousness at play in the world. Each, formulated severally, contains the other six in itself; thus the full number is forty-nine, and to this is added the unit above out of which all develops, giving us altogether a scale of fifty and forming the complete gamut of active consciousness. But there is also its duplication by an ascending and ...
... attempt at physical transformation to be at all made feasible, is not as a general rule sufficient by itself. But why is it so ? Why have the states of spiritual consciousness attained so far in different climes and times failed to mould the physical existence in the image of divinity ? What are the basic difficulties that render this task of physical transformation almost impossible of realisation... On the contrary, the physical change itself can only be brought about by a descent of the greater supramental consciousness into the cells of the body." 1 Yes, it is the. 'supramental consciousness' alone — understood not in the sense of any and every spiritual consciousness above the plane of Mind but in the specific sense in which Sri Aurobindo uses it — that possesses the Knowledge... of the evolutionary elaboration of life. No other spiritual consciousness or power short of this Supermind, the divine Gnosis and the Truth-Consciousness (ṛta-cit) of Sachchidananda, possesses this power of integral transformation. And that is why a subjective spiritual liberation of our inner being and an inner change of consciousness alone, although the essential precondition for any attempt ...
... hard conditions of the perfect spiritual success. Not only the whole mental, vital and physical nature of the ignorant human being has to be overcome and transformed, but also the three states of mental consciousness which intervene between the human and the supramental and like all mind are capable of admitting great and capital errors. Till then there may be descents of supramental influence, light... is seen and the highest Page 423 knowledge in which the One Purusha is known ( so'ham asmi ) is described as the kalyāṇatama form of the Sun. All this seems to refer to the supramental states of which the Sun is the symbol. The mental realisation [ of the one self ] does not bring this result [ the ending of delusion (moha) and grief (śoka)], the spiritual does. 2 In the Vedantic... meeting its ordeals, blows and dangers. He takes them as the nature of this world and the result of the ego-consciousness in which it lives. He tries therefore to grow into another consciousness in which he feels what is behind the outward appearance, and as he grows into that larger consciousness he begins to feel more and more a working behind which is helping him to grow in the spirit and leading him ...
... Distinctions need to be made even with regard to experiences of the cosmic consciousness which tend to be regarded as being always the highest spiritual experiences. For, according to yogic psychology, there are different levels of cosmic consciousness. As Sri Aurobindo states: The cosmic consciousness has many levels - the cosmic physical, the cosmic vital, the cosmic Mind, and above... explain a whole field of Nature in its narrow terms -runs riot here. 9 What lies behind the superficial consciousness of the outer being has been referred to earlier as the inner being, often called the subliminal or inner consciousness. Regarding the subliminal, Sri Aurobindo states: Even in Europe the existence of something behind the surface is now very frequently admitted, but its... as well as static, comes with the transcendence. 21 Even the higher planes of the cosmic consciousness mentioned above are part of the Ignorance (Avidya), and therefore have both sides - cosmic Truth and cosmic Ignorance. Sri Aurobindo states: There are in the cosmic consciousness two sides - one the contact with and perception of the ordinary cosmic forces and the beings behind ...
... then you will be creating an impediment strong enough to prevent the experiences from settling into permanent states consciousness. You must have faith in the power of the Supreme that giving you these glimpses, if you want the supreme help and guidance To get to the Divine Consciousness which will shape itself into a Div Life must be the central idea of this sadhana. Please keep writing as often... for that. The sadhana must be done in order to get to a Consciousness which is above this human and men The rest, whether to do a work (if any work, the nature of the work) or to do a particular work or to remain quiet will all be decided by that Supreme Consciousness which is above us. Then only we become real instrument of that Consciousness and also our surrender to God g a significance and value... easily and quickly and with a surer immediate prospect. Preserve the right consciousness and attitude, keep yourself open to the Divine Shakti and let her will be done through you. 1 January 1928 Sri Aurobindo Punamchand, I have not been "angry" with you, but have simply been observing your state of consciousness and your action with the necessary approval or disapproval. Therefore the excessive ...
... in the same complexly pantheistic outlook and inlook. He even tried to make an argued philosophy of them. The thesis in it that concerns us may be briefly indicated. Considering the two states of form-consciousness in man - the state of sensation in which an external world is experienced and the state of imagi-nation in which forms like those of this world are combined and transfigured to make a world... diffuses, dissipates, in order to re- Page 135 create", they are received with a living sense in us of the original Creativity by which they are projected within the universal consciousness. As a result, they undergo two changes. In the first place, they become congenial to our mind and are felt as its own. In the second, while being enveloped by our mind, they get penetrated and ...
... intoxicating Peace. If such powerful states come twice a day, the mastery over the human nature will not be so difficult. But it depends on how far the higher consciousness can act without even a call from below and in spite of the pervading inertia. If the inner being once becomes separate, then inertia need not interfere at all with such states. The outer consciousness is up to now stronger than the... is high, wide, receptive; the other is inert and full of the ordinary stuff. The consciousness above is naturally a separate consciousness - it has nothing to do with the lower consciousness. It is only by descending and occupying the inner being (which is again a separate consciousness) that it can proceed to act on the ordinary lower being. In my meditations I try to... the surface. Then a tug-of-war takes place! That is because you are accustomed to submit to your outer consciousness and not live within in your inner consciousness. If one lives within, then it is the inner consciousness that one depends on, not the outer. The inner consciousness can then always go on independent of the outer state to which it gives attention only when it chooses. ...
... attempt at physical transformation to be at all made feasible, cannot be as a general rule sufficient by itself. But why is it so? Why have the states of spiritual consciousness attained so far by men of spirit in different climes and times failed to mould the physical existence in the image of divinity? What are the basic difficulties that render this task of physical transformation almost... status of consciousness of man the mental being, this transformation can by no means be achieved nor even initiated on the plane of the body. It will then be like putting the cart before horse. For, where is the necessary lever of transformation or the potent agent to effectuate the change? In reality - whatever may be the appearances to the contrary - it is consciousness and consciousness alone that... the contrary, the physical change itself can only be brought about by a descent of the greater supramental consciousness into the cells of the body." 5 (italic ours.) Yes, it is the 'supramental consciousness' - understood not in the sense of any and every spiritual consciousness above the plane of Mind but in the specific sense in which Sri Aurobindo uses it -that alone possesses the Knowledge ...
... seven sisters, the seven states of our consciousness which begin from Sat the pure state of conscious being & descend to Bhuh, its material state. The gods, that is to say, the great powers which work in our being to uplift the mortal to divinity, find the hidden Force of God concealed in the secret working of these sisters & bring him to light in our waking consciousness. 4) अवर्धयन्त्सुभगं... growth; the lords of strength laboured over him as over a newborn child, yea, the gods increased Agni in his body at his very birth." Again we have the familiar images. All the seven streams of consciousness give of the milk of their udders to increase this pure force of God that has been born in man, born white in its utter purity, but as it grows, it assumes the rosy hue of pure enjoyment & action;... construction than the awkward coupling of आयुः & श्रियः as objects of मिमीते. "Throughout the being of the doers of works" or "throughout the being of the waters", ie the seven streams of world-consciousness. As the whole passage is concerned with the working of Agni in these waters the latter sense seems tome, in spite of the tradition of Vedic scholars, far the more probable, although it makes a less ...
... actually realised status of consciousness of man the mental being, this transformation can by no means be achieved nor even xxxi initiated on the plane of the material body. For, where is the necessary lever of transformation or the potent agent to effectuate this momentous change? And is it not a fact that even the states of spiritual consciousness attained so far by the men of... organisation which will shape and mould the indwelling consciousness; the order will be reversed and it is the new manifesting consciousness which will be the determinant and mould the material substance and its structure. Surely this appears to be too presumptuous a statement to be accepted easily! — Matter is a function of Consciousness and not the other way round! But is not the whole of modern... confined solely to the outer existence of man but primarily as a qualitative transmutation of his consciousness, leading in the end to the appearance of a new supramental species upon earth. In reality, the earthly manifestation is ever progressive, of which the key-note is the evolution of consciousness with all that it implies; and if evolution is a fact, the present man cannot be its last term, nor ...
... whatever formation of universal consciousness. It can be aware of the things of the material universe even in the trance of samadhi, aware of them as they are or appear to the physical sense, even as it is of other states of experience, of the pure vital, the mental, the psychical, the supramental presentation of things. It can in the waking state of the physical consciousness present to us the things concealed... It can use all the other states of sense consciousness and their appropriate senses and organs adding to them what they have not, setting right their errors and supplying their deficiencies: for it is the source of the others and they are only inferior derivations from this higher sense, this true and illimitable saṁjñāna . The lifting of the level of consciousness from the mind to the supermind... imagination than reality and it is only in abnormal states that it opens to other kinds of conscious experience. But in fact there are immense ranges behind of which we could be aware if we opened the doors of our inner being. These ranges are there already in action and known to a subliminal self in us, and much even of our surface consciousness is directly projected from them and without our knowing ...
... of the various states of sleep. 26 How, then, is this discipline of dream-consciousness to be pursued with advantage? Firstly, one has to place one's attention "on the vague Page 39 impressions which the dream may have left behind it and in this way follow its indistinct trace as far as possible". Secondly, one should "extend the participation of the consciousness to a greater... how it corroborates the Mother's own occult-spiritual knowledge and experience: According to the Mother's experience and knowledge one passes from waking through a succession of states of sleep consciousness which are in fact an entry and passage into so many worlds and arrives at a pure Sachchidananda state of complete rest, light and silence, - afterwards one retraces one's way till one... that in the course of a single night, one has a variety of dreams comprehending the extreme limits of consciousness. The Mother also added that, since one quickly forgets what happens in the dreams, "quite a discipline is needed to create in oneself the many steps which enable the consciousness not to forget what it has experienced up there". 23 It would be far better to confront our real ...
... Chaitanya illustrates in a singular manner, various states of Sri Krishna's consciousness, and as one reads Chaitanya Bhagavata, Chaitanya-caritamrta, Sri Krsna Chaitānya Carita Mahā-Kavya, Chaitanya Mangala and Page 206 Chaitanya-Candrodaya-nātaka, one finds that Sri Chaitanya lived and breathed innumerable states of Krishna consciousness that used to inundate the entire being and the body... (1479-1531 AD) Vallabhacharya is the celebrated founder of Pushti Marg, which is devoted to the worship of Sri Krishna's consciousness and the nourishment of the devotee's soul by the contact and experience of the delight of Sri Krishna's consciousness. It is said that Vallabhacharya had the vision of Sri Krishna, his charm and sweetness one night in August 1494 A.D. The eight verses... Chaitanya, during the later part of his life, displayed an intense agony of separation from Sri Krishna. In the following extracts from the Chaitanya-caritamrta, he in his state, identified with the consciousness of Radha (when Sri Krishna has left Vrndavana), and who finds the separation unbearable and questions a friend thus: "My dear friend, where is Krsna, who is like the moon rising from the ...
... being, of which we are conscious now & here, or, on the contrary, stands back in the divine unity of Sacchidananda, it enjoys either of two states of conscious experience, the individual self-consciousness of the separate Jivatman or the universal divine consciousness of the Jivatman merged or dwelling in God. In the former & inferior self-poise, our status is that of a separate soul, different from the... of the mind but of the pure Idea as the Sole Existence, Vijnanam Brahma. We arrive, now, at states of being, consciousness & living experience which are far remote from ordinary human life & thinking, for the expression of which human language has neither been framed nor yet adapted. These higher states of being are the guha, the cavern or secret place, of Vedic imagery, and to express their knowledge... conscious values of this biune Being that is Consciousness, Space in this formula representing the term of Being, Time the term of Consciousness; but when analysed or realised, they inevitably reduce themselves back into mere figures of extension of this Being-Consciousness & are seen to have no real existence in themselves. In an universe of consciousness-symbols, they are the first symbols. Chit or ...
... levels of consciousness, and we have seen that a consciousness-force was alive behind each of these centers, connecting our various states of being (the prime result of mental silence and of quieting the vital has even been to separate this consciousness-force from the mental and vital activities in which it is usually embroiled), and we have felt this current of force, or consciousness, as the fundamental... how "removed" the consciousness is from the physical level. This is an opportunity to verify concretely that when consciousness withdraws, force withdraws, because they are one and the same thing. When we faint, the consciousness withdraws also, because we are unable to withstand certain degrees of intensity, and since we have not built a conscious bridge between our various states of being, this i... fundamental reality of our being behind our various states. But this consciousness-force must be the consciousness of someone . Who or what is conscious in us? Where is the center, the master? Are we merely the puppets of some universal Being, who is our true center, since all the mental, vital and physical activities Page 77 are in fact universal ones? The truth is twofold, but in no way ...
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