... prison. Neither can consciousness be taken as a function of subtle matter; for just as it can exist apart from and survives the disintegration of its gross body, so also it can exist apart from and survives the disintegration of its subtle body. Before subtle matter evolves, consciousness pre-exists in causal matter; and after subtle matter dissolves, consciousness survives in causal matter. And since... Spirit and operates in a world of subtle matter finer and more elastic than gross physical matter and therefore not subject to the heavy restrictions and slow processes with which the latter is burdened. For this reason while physical workings are fixed, slow and confined by walls within walls, thought, psychical manifestation and other operations in subtle matter are in comparison volatile, rapid... as the eleventh. So far however the Mind acts with rapidity and directness under the comparatively light restrictions of subtle matter in the Dream State; it is a psychical sense, an instrument of the soul for knowing and dealing with life in the psychical world of subtle matter. Only in the physical evolution of gross matter do the sense-organs receive their consummate development and become of supreme ...
... was standing on the summit of created things. CANTO II THE KINGDOM OF SUBTLE MATTER Having crossed the boundaries of this gross material cosmos Aswapathy came to a world of subtle material existence where "All shapes are beautiful and all things true". This world of subtle matter is really the origin of our gross earth. In fact it is the "brilliant roof of our descending... nether planes" and though on the height it is immortal, still, it weaves for us ".. .death's sombre robe". It is from the fall of this subtle matter that "...our denser Matter came". All typal forms which serve as the basis of material forms are preserved in this subtle matter. It was this plunge of the Divine into the night of the Nescience that created the possibility of evolution from the Inconscient... this is not the highest height of our attainment and that we have not to forget to reach the very highest Divine whose home is far above the realm of subtle matter. The world of subtle matter which lies behind our material world is full of "fantasy, symmetry and grace". There all movements are natural, pure and simple. There is a perfection ...
... does not pause at this discovery; it has pursued its investigations into two other worlds which surround & interpenetrate ours like two concentric but larger circles, the psychic or dream world of subtle Matter and the spiritual or sleep world of causal Matter, each with its own monistic unity; these three parallel monisms it resolves into a Supreme, Absolute and Transcendent Unity which is alone real... conditions of phenomenal manifestation. While, however, European Science seeks only to know the phenomena of gross matter, the Yogin goes farther. He asserts that he has discovered an universe of subtle matter penetrating and surrounding the gross; this universe to which the spirit withdraws partially and for a brief time in sleep but more entirely and for a longer time through the gates of death, is... Vedanta is built. Now Brahman manifests Himself in each of these Universes, in the Universe of Causal Matter as the Cause, Self and Inspirer, poetically styled Prajna the Wise One; in the universe of subtle matter as the Creator, Self and Container, styled Hiranyagarbha the Golden Embryo of life and form, and in the universe of gross matter as the Ruler, Guide, Self and Helper, styled Virat the Shining and ...
... Influences, instigators or creators often of vast and formidable inner upheavals or of actions that overpass the normal human measure. 9 These worlds are made of substances (for example, Subtle Matter, Vital, Mental and Spiritual) all of which are subtler than gross Matter and are therefore visible only to the supra-physical senses. Aswapati has been depicted as a seeker of integral truth... the unknowable summits of the Spirit, and also it describes how this macrocosm is reflected in the microcosm of our inner being. Canto 2 describes Aswapati's experience of the Kingdom of Subtle Matter; l0 Ibid, p. 135. 11 Ibid, p. 98. Page 275 Cantos 3-9 describe the various regions of the Kingdom of Life; Cantos 10-13 describe the different regions... As mentioned earlier, Aswapati's experience of the gross material world, 13 of its truths and errors, is not dealt with in Book II. This Book begins with his experiences of the Kingdom of Subtle Matter, described in Canto 2. Here, as elsewhere in this Book, the poet is not interested in an abstract characterisation of these worlds; he gives a description of Aswapati's experiences in these worlds ...
... In its operations in subtle matter the form and consciousness assumed were freer and more rapid, but more volatile, elastic and swiftly mutable, as are the motions and acts of a man in a dreaming state compared to the activities of his waking condition. To consciousness working on gross matter they gave the name of the Waking-State, to consciousness acting on subtle matter the name of the Dream-State... and perfectly in subtle matter, but in gross matter with a hampered and imperfect activity; they considered therefore that man's mental life belonged properly to the Dream-State and only worked indirectly and under serious limitations in the Waking-State. They determined accordingly that mental life must be the result of consciousness working in the Dream-State on subtle matter. There remained the... Will-to-be or shaping Delight of existence: this, they perceived, was free and pure in causal matter, put to work if consciously, yet through a medium Page 207 and under limitations in subtle matter, in hampered and half effectual fashion when the subtle self acted through the gross, and subconsciously only in gross matter. They considered therefore that man's causal faculty or spiritual ...
... phenomena which appear to be miraculous, but according to occult sciences, they can be explained as happenings which occur in the material world on account of the operations of the hidden powers of subtle Matter, Life, and Mind. Examples of hypnotism may appear to be anomalous, and examples of telepathy, telekinesis and many others which are anomalous can be explained by occultism in terms of growing knowledge... the restrictions and precautions that were developed by the wise sages and mystics. For the wisdom of the past that has been accumulated suggests that a mere development of the knowledge of the subtle matter, of life and of mind, should be subordinated and controlled by greater forces of the concealed spirit, which lies at levels that are deeper and higher than various levels of matter, life and mind... distinguished from the domains of the Spirit, provided that we mean by the Page 16 subliminal to cover those domains which lie behind the surface appearances and extend to the realms of the subtle Matter, Life and Mind. In this definite scope, occultism excludes those domains which are psychic and spiritual, — since the psychic reality belongs to the domain that is profounder than the mind, and ...
... Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2 Shilpa-Yoga and the Kingdom of Subtle Matter After his personal liberation, Aswapati seeks for the key to the realisation of Truth for all humankind. This leads him to search for the parting of the ways, the place where Error creeps into eternal Perfection, and the secret Origin where resides the Power by which the universal... of Book II (and in fact, every canto of Savitri) opens a new approach to spiritual union, a Yoga. Leaving the gross material world, the first new realm that Aswapati enters is the world of Subtle Matter. The Mother has called this "true matter", since a supramental physicality will finally manifest through this substance. Matter holds the secret to the realisation of the Divine as embodied Beauty ...
... powers or fall into a trance to ascend the World-Stair with Aswapati. Each step corresponds to something deep within ourselves. The fifteen steps of the World-Stair begin with the Kingdom of Subtle Matter and end with Aswapati's attainment of the Greater Knowledge. On the way he discovers the splendour of Life on its own plane and the "fall" of Life into material existence. To find out the cause... The remaining twenty-four steps of the Yoga belong to Savitri alone. This story is told in Parts Two and Three. We who are at the beginning of the path have far to go. The world-plane of Subtle Matter lies closest te our own. Its perfect forms are the original template for our marred and contorted pirate copies. 16 Ibid., p. 343. Page 132 Leaving this plane with the ...
... Aswapati and his march is towards the indiscernible end. He sees Nature's climbing hierarchy and sets himself on the way. II: 2 The Kingdom of Subtle Matter The first port of entry is the world of Subtle Matter. Here are present the prototypal forms, the shining origins of things on earth. All here is beautiful, faultless, dream-hued, outlasting death and birth. Though ...
... another; these are the new fields of Savitri's cognitive experience. There is, first, the world of 'subtle matter', analogous to the world Aswapati (as described in Book II, canto 2) passes through—analogous but not identical, for no two spiritual quests are exactly the same. This dense region "of subtle Matter packed"—a sort of no-man's land between the dusk of subconscience and the first streaks of life—leads ...
... the results of a certain conscious knowledge, it is a partial knowledge, not a true and integral self-knowledge, nor a true and integral world-knowledge. This character persists in Life and in subtle Matter and reappears in the gross material universe which arises from the final lapse into the Inconscience. Yet, as in our subliminal or inner Mind, so in this Mind also a larger power of communication... an organisation of partial truths, but not a denial or opposite of truth or knowledge. This character of an organisation of partial truths on a basis of separative knowledge persists in Life and subtle Matter, for the exclusive concentration of Consciousness-Force which puts them into separative action does not entirely sever or veil Mind from Life or Mind and Life from Matter. The complete separation ...
... escapes our search because it is plunged in its own veil of impenetrable darkness. All that manifested from the Eternal has already been arranged in worlds or planes of its own nature, planes of subtle Matter, planes of Life, planes of Mind, planes of Supermind, planes of the triune luminous Infinite. But these worlds or planes are not evolutionary but typal. A typal world is one in which some ruling... But there is also a pressure from above from the already established Powers for their manifestation in Space-Time here and for their evolutionary possibilities in the world of Matter. A world of subtle Matter presses on the shapeless Inconscient for the manifestation of forms; a world of essential Life presses on form of Matter for the manifestation of an embodied life; a world of essential Mind presses ...
... guide bodies into Riemannian behaviour. On Einstein's theory of gravitation space becomes "substantial" without being composed of particles or having any qualities which would lead us to deem it subtle matter like the old ether or would make it serve as a frame of reference for motion. Inasmuch as it is "substantial" and not void, it is legitimate to bring in the term "ether" again: only, this ether... properly be called physical unless we can speak of physical emptiness. Emptiness is itself a disconcerting concept, but becomes physicalised when we fill it with an all-pervading ether which is subtle matter. Take Page 58 away such an ether, and what is left? Surely not something which we can clearly identify as "vital" or "mental" or "spiritual", yet something so non-material, non-physical ...
... Savitri II 'The Kingdom of Subtle Matter' From the kingdom of gross matter or the material cosmos of order and harmony, though lacking "the sole timeless word", Aswapati crosses to the world of subtle material existence where "dwell earth-nature's shining origins". This is the world of physical mind, or, in other words, the world of matter... possibility of realisation is rendered difficult now because of a blinding or obscuring veil, but even this will be pierced or broken through in the fullness of time. The world of subtle matter is compact of delight and beauty and love and sweetness, .. .a miracle of symmetric charm, A fantasy of perfect line and rule. 48 By resolved limitation, it has ...
... a primal darkness set by Him as the nether pole to the transcendent Absolute. Between the two poles and above the evolving earth and below the archetypal Supermind are various occult planes - Subtle Matter, Vitality, Mind, Overmind and, at the back of the first trio, Psyche, - with their beings and movements and there is a complex interaction in the whole system of cosmos on cosmos. All this was known ...
... Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness Book Two The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 06: Canto I The World-Stair 07: Canto II The Kingdom of Subtle Matter 08: Canto III The Glory and Fall of Life 09: Canto IV The Kingdoms of the Little Life Page 89 10: Canto V The Godheads of the Little Life ...
... based. Even here there is no climbing of planes by Aswapati. It is only in the version to Amal, that we find for the first time, brief descriptions of the planes, starting with the plane of subtle matter. Later these brief descriptions are amplified and each plane gets a fairly long Canto to itself. In the 1936 version there are no Cantos yet — there are only sections with subheadings. ...
... universal Nature here or from other worlds and planes and their beings and powers and influences; for we are overtopped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made use of for the manifestation of their forms and forces. 9 Page 364 The fourth discovery ...
... inner sense into a limited and externalised operation in and through and upon the phenomena of gross matter. The psychical sight receives characteristically the images that are formed in the subtle matter of the mental or psychical ether, cittākāśa. These may be transcriptions there or impresses of physical things, persons, scenes, happenings, whatever is, was or will be or may be in the physical ...
... universal Nature here or from other worlds and planes and their beings and powers and influences; for we are overtopped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action here are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made use of for the manifestation of their forms and forces. The difficulty of our separate salvation is immensely ...
... only fresh proofs. There must be contact, there must be interpenetration if we are to account for these phenomena on any reasonable theory. Mind therefore is held by the Hindus to be a species of subtle matter in which ideas are waves or ripples, and it is not limited by the physical body which it uses as an instrument. There is an ulterior force which works through this subtle medium called mind. An ...
... seated in his armchair). That was better! ( Mother holds back a chuckle ) It wasn't yet quite good, but anyway it was better (although, mind you, it had neither light nor life: it was matter—a subtle matter, of course—put into shape by a mental will). So I began to wonder: "Whatever is this?! Does he want me to believe that Sri Aurobindo is in him, or what?" Because X's head and shoulders had completely ...
... a primal darkness set by Him as the nether pole to the transcendent Absolute. Between the two poles and above the evolving earth and below the archetypal Supermind are various occult planes - Subtle Matter, Vitality, Mind, Overmind and, at the back of the first trio, Page 124 Psyche - with their beings and movements and there is a complex interaction in the whole system of cosmos ...
... t. We also discover that there are other worlds and their beings and powers and influences and that we are over-topped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action here are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made use of for the manifestation of their forms and forces. As Sri Aurobindo says: Of all this we have to ...
... . We also discover that there are other worlds and their beings and powers and influences and that we are over- topped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action here are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made Page 54 use of for the manifestation of their forms and forces. As Sri Aurobindo says: ...
... . But this is not the plane where Fate is fixed; for that you must rise upon a ladder to greater worlds where no world can be. The summit of Mind, greater Life-plane, or subtle Matter are only mediating links—they are not originating planes. If you want to deliver man and earth then, on the spiritual height, "discover the truth of God and man and world", "ascend...into thy timeless ...
... Savitri Appendix A KEY TO ASWAPATI'S TRAVELS IN THE WORLD-STAIR GROSS MATTER (Canto II) SUBTLE MATTER (Canto II) Material Paradise LITTLE LIFE (Cantos III, IV, V) Insect, Animal, Early Man GREATER LIFE (Canto VI) Kingdom ...
... cosmic beauty will emerge!" 19 It is mainly this long Book that is packed with the experiences of the occult World Stair: the worlds of Light above, the worlds of Darkness below, the worlds of subtle Matter, the Life-Force and the Mind in between, these together comprising the whole inner structure of the cosmos. In fact, all the three Books of Part I were retouched as often as the inspiration directed ...
... sight, the upflow of force as rasa , sap, the basis of taste, and the discharge of the atomic compression as gandha , odour, the basis of smell. It is true that this is only predicated of pure or subtle Matter; the physical matter of our world being a mixed operation of force, these five elemental states are not found there separately except in a very modified form. But all these are only the physical ...
... before mind. The vák may be repeated aloud and then it becomes the hymn, s úkta or rik of the Vedic Rishi, or the námakírtana of the modern devotee; or it may be repeated only by subtle sound in the subtle matter of mind, then it is the mantra of the silent Yogin; or it may be involved and silent at the back of the image, object or unexpressed idea in the mind. The Vedic manma or mantra is of the first variety ...
... the inner sense into a limited and externalised operation in and through and upon the phenomena of gross matter. The psychical sight receives characteristically the images that are formed in the subtle matter of the mental or psychical ether, cittākāśa . These may be transcriptions there or impresses of physical things, persons, scenes, happenings, whatever is, was or will be or may be in the physical ...
... , which yields very good observational results. But it is as queer as anything a modern scientist may see in the old physics of India. We are asked to believe that space is not filled with any subtle matter such as the physicists of the nineteenth century called "ether" - space is utterly empty and yet physical bodies create a "curvature" in it along which lesser masses gravitate towards bigger ones ...
... mind are the principle in action on each plane: there is too the ultra-mental divine principle. The involution from which earth-evolution starts must be holding this divine principle no less than subtle matter, subtle life and subtle mind. The three latter Page 305 principles have to a certain extent been established in all humanity with the aid of pressure from the planes where they are ...
... expression of the One. 5 In his ascent to this region, being in deep oneness with the Infinite, he could see all that the mortal eye cannot see and mind cannot grasp. From the Kingdom of Subtle Matter he could see the earth-nature's shining origins; the source of life; the descent of life on earth; human life on earth working through the double-faced contraries and contradictories in the ...
... therefore, be regarded as a spiritual theory of evolution. According to the spiritual theory of evolution, the upward progress of consciousness emerging from Matter is aided by the typal worlds of subtle Matter, of Life, Mind and still higher worlds between mind and supermind, as also by the supramental integral consciousness, which remains undiminished, even while involutionary process takes place in ...
... avoided heavy or cumbersome mythology Death is referred to as Death throughout, not as Yama. The worlds, the powers, the symbol kingdoms—almost as in The Pilgrims Progress —have tell-tale names: Subtle Matter, Little Life, Greater Life, Pigmy Thought, Night, Falsehood, Life-Gods, Little Mind, Greater Mind, Heavens of the Ideal, World-Soul, and so on. What is seen directly, with no haze or ambiguity ...
... voicing his and the race's aspiration and invoking a new Incarnation. l. The exploration of the occult and symbol worlds: voyaging through the World-Stair— The Kingdom of Subtle Matter; The World of the Vital, the Glory and the Fall; The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Life— the Powers of the Ignorance; The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life—the Hero, the Artist, the ...
... climbing of planes by Aswapathy. It is Only in the version of 1936, sent in instalments privately to Amal, that we find for the first time, brief descriptions of the planes, starting with the plane of subtle matter. Later these brief descriptions are amplified and each plane gets a fairly long Canto to itself. In the 1936 version there are no Cantos yet — there are only sections with sub-headings. Such ...
... in an individual form. The day we learn to apply this Vibration or this "Movement" to our own matter, we will have seized upon the practical secret of the transition from crude Matter to a more subtle Matter, and we will likewise have begun to realize the first supramental or glorious body on the earth. This immobility within movement is the basis of all the supramental being's activities. It is ...
... Savitri III 'The Glory and Fall of Life' The passage from the world of subtle matter brings Aswapati to the life-realms, where the 'vital', the principle of life, has full play. The law of life here comprises birth, growth, decay and death. With an endless but blind appetite the life-principle explores all possibilities, regardless ...
... from its realms of highest infinities of knowledge, consciousness and bliss descends creating at each step of its descent a universe that manifests its glory. When it reaches the kingdom of the subtle matter in its descent, it takes, or seems to our mind to take, a leap into the Unknown abyss of the Nescience which is the opposite end of the Supreme, the Infinite and the Eternal. It is an eternity of ...
... secret circumconscient that are determined our unseen connections with the world outside us. Currents are constantly pouring upon us from the universal Mind, universal Life, even the universal subtler Matter-field through this enveloping circumconscient consciousness. An uninterrupted widening of our consciousness may finally Page 47 lead us to the acquisition of what is called ...
... Especially is this so in subtle matters, those remote from the concrete facts of our physical life and environment. Even men who will reason carefully and acutely in ordinary matters and there consider vigilance against error an intellectual or a practical duty, are yet content with the most careless stumbling when they get upon higher and more difficult ground. Where precision and subtle thinking are most... most needed, there they are most impatient of it and averse to the labour demanded of them. Men can manage fine thought about palpable things, but to think subtly about the subtle is too great a strain on the grossness of our intellects; so we are content with making a dab at the truth, like the painter who threw his brush at his picture when he could not get the effect that he desired. We mistake the... strata within each stratum. The analysis of the successive couches of the earth is a simple matter compared with the analysis of this wonderful creation we call the personality. The mental being in resuming bodily life forms a new personality for its new terrestrial existence; it takes material from the common matter-stuff, life-stuff, mind-stuff of the physical world and during earthly life it is constantly ...
... discover that electricity and light, the electron and proton and the photon are not the last word or the first fact; there may be a subtler Matter which is not that but something else—a Matter not formed but motional, vibratory, aetheric. But, still, what can that be but a subtler motion of Energy, a vibration of Energy in Space? And of Space too we do not know what it is,—whether a mere conception of our... supported all along this seemingly inconscient creation, subtly concealed in its very cells, molecules, atoms, electrons or whatever still more infinitesimal whorls of motional force-substance have been made its base. Either then consciousness is a perishable jet of flame shooting up out of the slime of this obscure teeming morass we call Matter, a strange inexplicable temporary freak sprung from gas... wonderful to our own eyes, or even if really wonderful in the mind's values, is but a bubble, a vibration, a plasmic pullulation on the surface of Matter. This is one side of the picture; but there is another. 94 If there is a consciousness in Matter, however secret and involved, there must be a consciousness secret and involved in the Inconscient. But the question then arises whether such ...
... subliminal extends itself into an enveloping consciousness through which it receives the shock of the currents and wave-circuits pouring upon us from the universal Mind, universal Life, universal subtler Matter-forces. These, unperceived by us on the surface, are perceived and admitted by our subliminal self and turned into formations which can powerfully affect our existence without our knowledge... superconscience. The Life Divine, pp. 425-27 Page 75 ...the subliminal self... is in full possession of a mind, a life-force, a clear subtle-physical sense of things. It has the same capacities as our waking being, a subtle sense and perception, a comprehensive extended memory and an intensive selecting intelligence, will, self-consciousness; but even though the same in kind... only a rarefied medium at once of separation and communication. The Life Divine, p. 221 The subliminal is separated from the cosmic through a limitation by the subtler sheaths of our being, its mental, vital, subtle-physical sheaths, just as the surface nature is separated from universal Nature by the gross physical sheath, the body; but the circumscribing wall around it is more transparent ...
... subliminal extends itself into an enveloping consciousness through which it receives the shock of the currents and wave-circuits pouring upon us from the universal Mind, universal Life, universal subtler Matter-forces. These, unperceived by us on the surface, are perceived and admitted by our subliminal self and turned into formations which can powerfully affect our existence without our knowledge. If... in purely material existences, those which have not only matter for their plane but matter for their dominant principle. It is a partial, a limiting, a dividing and, very largely, a falsifying knowledge; out of that limitation and falsification we have to grow into the truth of our spiritual being. This preoccupation with life and matter is at the beginning right and necessary because the first... key is a limitation by the plane we inhabit and by the present predominant principle of our nature. The plane we inhabit is the plane of Matter; the present predominant principle in our nature is the mental intelligence with the sense-mind, which depends upon Matter, as its support and pedestal. As a consequence, the preoccupation of the mental intelligence and its powers with the material Page 756 ...
... outlines for us there is not only a subtle physical force but a subtle physical Matter intervening between life and gross Matter and to create in this subtle physical substance and precipitate the forms thus made into our grosser materiality is feasible. It should be possible and it is believed to be possible Page 128 for an object formed in this subtle physical substance to make a transit... has not yet been achieved, this concrete permanence. Yet, it was of matter, for there was sight, touch, hearing. But hearing doesn't need to be very material: the sounds of the subtle physical life, its vibrations can be heard very well; and quite strangely, it is hearing and smell which seem to be the most permanent in the subtle physical world, more so than the perception of form—and also a certain... already been done? Yes. Not as far as the most material plane; as far as the perceptible subtle physical—perceptible by the intermediary senses, between the physical senses and those of the subtle physical; for instance, like a breath felt as a gentle breeze, like certain perceptions of smell, like subtle perfumes. Naturally, those who have an inner vision can see, but for the most material senses ...
... informs it is no longer the classic spirit; it is too crowded with subtle thought-matter, too brooding, sensitive, responsive to many things; no new Parthenon can be built whether in the white marble subdued to the hand or in the pure and lucid spacings of the idea and the word: the mind of man has become too full, complex, pregnant with subtle and not easily expressible things to be capable of that earlier... which it speaks which we must distinguish to get a right idea of the progress of poetry. All else is subsidiary, variations of rhythm, language, structure; they are the form, the vehicle; they derive subtly and get their character and meaning from the psychological power and the fundamental motive. If poetry is a highly charged power of aesthetic expression of the soul of man, it must follow in its... vision and the seeing spirit. The abstractions, generalisations, minute precisions of our ordinary intellectual cerebration are no part of its essence or texture; but it has others, more luminous, more subtle, those which come to us after passing through the medium and getting drenched in the light of the intuitive and revealing mind. And therefore when the general activity of thought runs predominantly ...
... Page 21 ing new subtle dynamisms a chance to take over. Merely a stoppage of the old organic operations would not suffice: the cells would have to be illuminated, the matter of the body refined and rendered receptive to the supramental substance and form which had already been brought into action down to what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have called "the subtle-physical plane" immediately... 2 Ibid., p. 87. 3 Ibid. 4 Ibid., p. 89. 5 Ibid., August 1972, pp. 75, 77, 79,81, 83. Page 30 The Mother stands now on a border-line between Matter subtle and Matter gross—she has broken the barrier that had separated the two—she has brought the former so close to us that the latter is not required any longer for her dynamic influence and impact upon our... since sufficient interaction had pulsed between the subtle-physical glory of Grace and the gross-physical labour of Love, to enable the Mother to carry on earth-work in the future without continuing an outer existence. The gross-physical form could give up the struggle it had so long made to merge with the subtle-physical shape, because the subtle-physical shape had now won by the gross-physical form's ...
... informs it is no longer the classic spirit; it is too crowded with subtle thought-matter, too brooding, sensitive, responsive to many things; no new parthenon can be built whether in the white marble subdued to the hand or in the pure and lucid spacings of the idea and the word: the mind of man has become too full, complex, pregnant with subtle and not easily expressible things to be capable of that earlier... elements at work. One is the Teutonic - "much poetical thinking or even poetical philosophy of a rather obvious kind, sedate, or vigorous, prompt and direct, or robustly powerful, but not the finer and subtler poetical thought which comes easily to the clear Latin intellect". 20 This element we find in "Wordsworth in his more outward moments", in "Byron without his Titanism and unrest". 21 Next is something... and loveliness of Nature are here, a delighted dwelling on seascape and skyscape and on creatures of the deep and the air, a shaking of the human soul to vague inner recesses, a sinking of it to subtle agonies and a soaring of it to secret ecstasies, a sense of the unity of all creation in a strange universal love, a complex spiritual symbolism woven into primitive gestures. We are no longer in ...
... occultists and in the gradation of the ranges and planes of our being which Yoga-knowledge outlines for us there is not only a subtle physical force but a subtle physical Matter intervening between life [i .e., the vital plane] and gross Matter and to create in this subtle physical substance and precipitate the forms thus made into our grosser materiality is feasible." Sri Aurobindo's... become sometimes abnormally aware, so there are behind our gross physical being other and subtler grades of substance with a finer law and greater power which support the denser body and which can by our entering into the ranges of consciousness belonging to them be made to impose that law and power on our dense matter and substitute their purer, higher, intenser conditions of being for the grossness and... we may suppose that God's will made Jesus create a replica of his third-heaven body in the substance which Sri Aurobindo puts between the vital plane and the gross-physical: that is, in the subtle-physical matter. A precipitation of Jesus' divine form into this substance could be thought of as producing just the right degree of materialisation for God's chosen and specially attuned beings to witness ...
... Yoga-knowledge outlines for us there is not only a subtle physical force but a subtle physical Matter intervening between life and gross Matter and to create in this subtle physical substance and precipitate the forms thus made into our grosser materiality is feasible. It should be possible and it is believed to be possible for an object formed in this subtle physical substance to make a transit from its... the life-force, the subtle physical .agencies and the physical consciousness into a freer and a diviner activity, a many-dimensioned and unlimited operation of their consciousness, a large outbreak 01" higher powers and the sublimation of the bodily consciousness itself, of its instrumentation, capacity, capability for the manifestation of the soul in the world of Matter. The subtle senses now concealed... our nature, soul, mind, life-force and the faculties of the subtle physical consciousness to bring about results on their own or on the the material plane by some pressure of their own secret law and its potentialities, for manifestation and result in human or earthly mind and life and body or in objects and events in the world of Matter. A discovery or an extension of these little known or yet undeveloped ...
... Yoga-knowledge outlines for us there is not only a subtle physical force but a subtle physical Matter intervening between life and gross Matter, and to create in this subtle physical substance and precipitate the forms thus made into our grosser materiality is feasible. It should be possible and it is believed to be possible for an object formed in this subtle physical substance to make a transit from its... the life-force, the subtle physical agencies and the physical consciousness into a freer and a diviner activity, a many-dimensioned and unlimited operation of their consciousness, a large outbreak of higher powers and the sublimation of the bodily consciousness itself, of its instrumentation, capacity, capability for the manifestation of the soul in the world of Matter. The subtle senses now concealed... of our nature, soul, mind, life-force and the faculties of the subtle physical consciousness to bring about results on their own or on the material plane by some pressure of their own secret law and its potentialities, for manifestation and result in human or earthly mind and life and body or in objects and events in the world of Matter. A discovery or an extension of these little known or yet undeveloped ...
... the possibilities of truth and to a crowding stream and mass of interests, a never satisfied minuteness of detail, an endless succession of pregnant generalisations." It is too thronged "with subtle thought-matter, too brooding, sensitive, respon-sive to many things" - often things "not easily expressible" -to be capable of a "new Parthenon... whether in the white marble subdued to the hand or in the... curiosity - the contribution of "dreamers of daring tales" - the seminal significance of Rousseau Looking at certain elements of the Renascence Romanticism - the curious, the audacious, the subtly sweet, the drive towards the intimately inward and strangely symbolic or at least allegoric and away from the pressure of the rational as well as the dogmatic - we might be disposed to mix up with... cannot quite return to that speech but takes off from where the later Romantics stood. Sri Aurobindo remarks that even the ideas that seem to belong to the region of the thinking intelli-gence have subtly in the Elizabethans a vitalistic inspiration. "It is sufficient," he 2 says, "to compare Shakespeare's Life's but a walking shadow,... ... it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound ...
... theory of the occultists and in the gradation of the ranges and planes of our being which Yoga-knowledge outlines for us there is not only a subtle physical force but a subtle physical Matter intervening between life and gross Matter, and to create this subtle physical substance and precipitate the forms thus made into our grosser materiality is feasible … “A soul wishing to enter into a body or... of our nature, soul, mind, life-force and the faculties of the subtle physical consciousness to bring about results on their own or on the material plane by some pressure of their own secret law and its potentialities, for manifestation and results in human or earthly mind and life and body or in objects and events in the world of Matter.” (Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, p. 548) ... weeks later, on 19 April, the Mother told her Playground audience that what had been up to then a “psychological” Yoga, had now become a “material” Yoga, a Yoga of Matter, of the cells of the body. It is in the cells that we are Matter, they are its presence in us and our direct access to it. Now the consciousness in the cells themselves began to aspire and surrender to the Divine, tried to establish ...
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