... physical world through the subtle senses which belong to the subtle body; one may be aware of them just so far as one chooses and on a much wider scale than in the waking condition: for the subtle senses have a far more powerful range than the gross physical organs, a range which may be made practically unlimited. But this awareness of the physical world through the subtle senses is something quite different... incompatible with the settled state of trance, for the pressure of the physical senses breaks the Samadhi and calls back the mind to live in their normal field where alone they have power. But the subtle senses have power both upon their own planes and upon the physical world, though this is to them more remote than their own world of being. In Yoga various devices are used to seal up the doors of the ...
... that the glimpse of supraphysical realities acquired by methodical research has been imperfect and is yet ill-affirmed; for the methods used are still crude and defective. But these rediscovered subtle senses have at least been found to be true witnesses to physical facts beyond the range of the corporeal organs. There is no justification, then, for scouting them as false witnesses when they testify... Aurobindo The Life Divine - I: The Two Negations: The Refusal of the Ascetic The physical is not the only world; there are others that we become aware of through dream records, through the subtle senses, through influences and contacts, through imagination, intuition and vision. There are worlds of a larger subtler life than ours, vital worlds; worlds in which Mind builds its own forms and figures ...
... and glories that can only have their full play in heavens beyond, on higher planes of existence, but not here; it afflicts the idea and aspiration with the burden of doubt, the evidence of the subtle senses and the intuition with uncertainty and the vast field of supraphysical consciousness and experience with the imputation of unreality and clamps down to its earth-roots the growth of the spirit from... 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 in us might come forward into a free action and the material senses themselves become means or channels for the vision of what is Page 551 now invisible to us or the discovery ...
... and glories that can only have their full play in heavens beyond, on higher planes of existence, but not here; it afflicts the idea and aspiration with the burden, of doubt, the evidence of the subtle senses and the intuition with uncertainty and the vast field of supraphysical consciousness and experience with the imputation of unreality and clamps down to its earth-roots the growth of the spirit from... 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 in us might come forward into a free action and the material senses themselves become means or channels for the vision of what is now invisible to us or the discovery of things ...
... what we have agreed to call germs, microbes, this and that and many other things. It may be accompanied by a sensation, may be accompanied by a taste, also by a smell, if one has very developed subtle senses. There are these formations of illness which give a special taste to the air, a special smell or a slight special sensation. People have many senses which are asleep. They are terribly tamasic ...
... can prevent these senses from remaining awake and even developing. If these people, before it is too late, meet someone who has the knowledge and can help them in the methodical education of the subtle senses, they will become very interesting instruments of research and discovery in the occult worlds. In all ages, there have been isolated individuals or small groups on earth who were the guardians ...
... into a larger freer self and a larger more plastic world; of course individual visions only give a contact, not an actual entrance, but the power of vision accompanied with the power of the other subtle senses (hearing, touch, etc.) as it expands does give this entrance. These things have not the effect of a mere imagination (as a poet's or artist's, though that can be strong enough) but if fully followed ...
... ], others are merely sounds of the other planes. Subtle Sounds When the mind becomes quiet, there are certain sounds that are heard, which are supposed to be signs of the awakening of the subtle senses and the inner consciousness. Page 111 Sounds in the ear indicate a pressure to open the inner consciousness. The sound is a very good sign. It comes when the inner consciousness ...
... parapsychologi-cal phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience and other phenomena of extrasensory perception. Extrasensory perception is explained by yogic psychology in terms of inner or subtle senses (corresponding to the physical senses of sight, hearing, taste, etc.) which are possessed by the subliminal. As Sri Aurobindo states: ... all the physical senses have their corresponding ...
... Each of the critical opinions I have so far referred to errs in one respect or another in its bearing on the values of mystical poetry. None, however, betrays a serious lack of the soul's subtle senses. But there was one critic who found himself utterly at a loss in a domain where Nature and Supernature fuse in vision, familiar shapes and colours are moulded by unknown modes of being. And though ...
... myth taken on an occult-cosmic scale. A great luminous power of revelation is released by poetry when it becomes paradoxically the speech of sight and the image of sound seen and heard with subtle senses attuned to invisible and inaudible perceptions of things that are eager to take form of some flaming beauty in a body of truth borne by the authentic delight of a splendorous urge. In the tranquil ...
... my heart • And makes all emotions mine; Whatever I will, whatever I do, Time works out in that design. I need not wrestle with shadows, The meaning of death I grasp; Subtle senses in me have awoken The invisible presence to clasp. From the calm fields of dream Winds bring to me hopes of love; And hopes are ardencies of faith Born of soul in spirit ...
... mostly indirect contacts which our surface being maintains with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being's direct consciousness of things than its informants: the subliminal is not dependent on its senses for its knowledge, they only give a form to its direct ...
... into a larger freer self and a larger more plastic world—of course individual visions only give a contact, not an actual entrance, but the power of vision accompanied with the power of the other subtle senses (hearing, touch, etc.) as it expands does give this entrance. Even if Raihana had not received the song, yet the mere contact with the world of Krishna and the Gopis would have brought her or could ...
... sovereign concentration free from the distractions and unsteadiness of the waking mind. "...It is quite possible indeed to be aware in the dream-trance of the outer physical world through the subtle senses which belong to the subtle body;.... "The experiences of the dream-state are infinitely various. ...it is able to establish connection with all the worlds to which it has natural access or ...
... that the glimpse of supraphysical realities acquired by methodical research has been imperfect and is yet ill-affirmed; for the methods used are still crude and defective. But these rediscovered subtle senses have at least been found to be true witnesses to physical facts beyond the range of the corporeal organs. There is no justification, then, for scouting them as false witnesses when they testify ...
... ordinary materially-minded intellectuals, it isan indubitable fact that- "The physical is not the only world; there are others that we become aware of through dream records, through the subtle senses, through... intuition and vision. There are worlds of a larger subtler life than ours, vital worlds; worlds in which Mind builds its own forms and figures, mental worlds; psychic worlds which are ...
... and glories that can only have their full play in heavens beyond, on higher planes of existence, but not here; it afflicts the idea and aspiration with the burden of doubt, the evidence of the subtle senses and the intuition with uncertainty and the vast field of supraphysical consciousness and experience with the imputation of unreality and clamps down to its earth-roots the growth of the spirit ...
... mostly indirect contacts which our surface being maintains with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being’s direct consciousness of things than its informants; the subliminal is not dependent on its senses for its knowledge, they only give a form to Page 189 ...
... the grades of organic evolution there was for the Indian a Power which was the Spirit And this basic stuff of being, this divine substance of consciousness, could be perceived by the subtle senses lying latent behind our imperfect physical instruments. A faint and faltering image of it entered our perception in the cosmos around us. Listen to a stanza from those chants of mystical seerhood ...
... our experience of material objects. Poetry must always be objective in order to convey a feel of actuality, but the outward world we know by our physical senses is not everything: Yoga reveals subtle senses that put us in touch with other worlds, other outwardnesses as real as those to which we are habituated and considerably divergent from them in spite of a certain correspondence between the two ...
... and Sri Aurobindo. She re-enacted in her own person the old Darshans, suggesting in a sort of pre-view that in another manner she and Sri Aurobindo would again be together but also that to our subtle senses the Divine would still be accessible in a Motherly-cum-Aurobindonian power. 4 Dream of 15-9-1973 Another dream of the Mother, again at an early hour today. It was a long dream, but ...
... enters into a larger freer self and a larger more plastic world; of course individual visions only give a contact, not an actual entrance, but the power of vision accompanied with the power of other subtle senses (hearing, touch, etc.) as it expands does give this entrance. These things have not the effect of a mere imagination (as a poet's or artist's, though that can be strong enough) but if fully followed ...
... the myth taken on an occult-cosmic scale. A great luminous power of revelation is released by poetry when it becomes paradoxically the speech of sight and the image of sound seen and heard with subtle senses attuned to invisible and inaudible perceptions of things that are eager to take form of some flaming beauty in a body of truth borne by the authentic delight of a splendorous urge. In the tranquil ...
... Greater Psychology 17 Sleep and Dreams The physical is not the only world; there are others that we become aware of through dream records, through the subtle senses, through influences and contacts, through imagination, intuition and vision.... In sleep we leave the physical body, only a subconscient residue remaining, and enter all planes and all sorts ...
... the mostly indirect contacts which our surface being maintains with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being's direct consciousness of things than its informants: the subliminal is not dependent on its senses for its knowledge, they only give a form to its direct ...
... against the so-called concreteness of the material results of Science the con-creteness of spiritual realisation. To the genuine mystic, God is a reality to be seen and touched and embraced with subtle senses which for all their subtlety put us in relation to some undeniable substance — to him there are worlds beyond the physical, which he experiences with more solid sensation than anything he can lay ...
... opening in poetry or any other part helps to prepare the general opening when it is done under the pressure of Yoga, but it is at first something special, like the opening of the subtle vision or subtle senses. It is the opening of a special capacity in the inner being. 8 August 1936 I do not think you need be anxious about the poetry; the power is sure to re-express itself as soon as you are ready ...
... There is a psychic plane behind the emotional which influences all the others. The physical is not the only world; there are others that we become aware of through dream records, through the subtle senses, through influences and contacts, through imagination, intuition and vision. There are worlds of a larger subtler life than ours, vital worlds; worlds in which Mind builds its own forms and figures ...
... inner as well as the outer phenomenon, to feel and receive or perceive, for instance, the thoughts, feelings, sensations, the nervous reactions of the object on which it is turned. 2 It uses the subtle senses as well as the physical and saves them from their errors. It gives us the knowledge, the experience of planes of existence other than the material to which our ordinary mentality is ignorantly attached ...
... realities, which do not belong to the most material domain. One needs special capacities and a special development to be conscious in that domain, for it escapes our ordinary senses. We have subtle senses; even as we have a physical body, we have other more subtle bodies which also have senses, and Page 38 much more refined senses, much more precise and much more powerful than our physical ...
... second sight opening on vistas of Celtic mythology, and it moves on a sound-stream which is exquisite incantation. The atmosphere it creates is due in part to a sensuous monotony, but there are subtle senses as well as the gross, and Yeats's concrete experience is of a world that shimmers behind the physical consciousness, a world of "odorous twilight" where "dream-dimmed eyes" under "cloud-pale eyelids" ...
... opening in poetry or any other part helps to prepare the general opening when it is done under the pressure of Yoga, but it is at first something special, like the opening of the subtle vision or subtle senses. It is the opening of a special capacity in the inner being. Though maturity has come in, the substance and depth are remarkably lacking—I think they've come in J's poems. There is a much ...
... said in effect: Just as a man possesses a gross physical body perceptible by his senses of touch and sight, he has many other bodies relatively subtle and these bodies too are endowed with subtle senses. If by Page 51 an appropriate sadhana we can raise our consciousness to higher and deeper levels and make it active and functional there, if we can awaken our latent potency of ...
... p. 550. Page 257 with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. As Sri Aurobindo explains: There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being's direct consciousness of things than its informants: the subliminal is not dependent on its senses for its knowledge, they only give a form to its direct ...
... our surface being maintains with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. As Sri Aurobindo explains: "There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being's direct consciousness of things than its informants: the subliminal is not dependent on its senses for its knowledge, they only give a form to its direct ...
... surface being maintains with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. As Sri Aurobindo explains: "There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being's direct consciousness of things than its informants: the subliminal is not dependent on its senses for its knowledge, they only give a form to its direct ...
... fostered a vision that has nothing to do with the eyes, a comprehension that is not from books, dreams of other worlds that prepare tomorrow's, direct communications and instant intuitions and subtle senses. And if machines are still used in the City of the Future, he will be told that they are temporary crutches until we find in our own heart the source of the pure Power which will one day transmute ...
... to the so-called laws of Nature is hardly capable of considering as within the province of concrete reality. There is a tradition of spiritual culture that testifies to the development of the subtle senses and the assumption of an ethereal body, supple and radiant, by the initiates of some special types of yoga. But what distinguishes the Integral Yoga from the other yogas in its ideal of the physical ...
... mental operations." 21 Such a direct observation and a direct or intuitive knowledge of consciousness requires a yogic or inner development, including the development of inner, subtler senses 22 ; the gross senses and the intellect employed in the natural sciences can yield only indirect or inferential knowledge. ...the greater part of existence is either above or below mind, and mind ...
... its effect on our senses cannot be its invariable action and most normal character or process. Ordinarily, the supra-physical produces a direct effect or a tangible impression on our mind and our life-being, and can only indirectly and through them, if at all, influence the page - 37 physical world and physical life. If it objectivises itself, it does so to subtler senses in us and only de... second sight and also of those of psychic faculties, this is what happens. It is through those subtle faculties that one can gain various kinds of evidence of the existence of other planes of beings and communication with them. It is then that one becomes aware that our physical mind and our physical senses are not the whole of us or the best or greatest part of us; and one begins to realize that reality... essentially subjective, 23 and that subjective experiences or subtle-sense images can easily be deceptive, since we have no recognized method or standard of verification. But the counter-argument is that error is not the prerogative of the inner subjective experience alone; it is also a part of the knowledge that can be gained by physical senses, and even of the objective methods and standards. And just ...
... given a description of all these senses and how they function—that's a lengthy process. You choose one sense (or several), perhaps the one for which you have the greatest initial aptitude, and you decide. Then you follow the discipline. It's similar to doing exercises for developing muscles. You can even manage to create willpower in yourself. For the subtler senses, the method is to create an exact... evening, asking, "Did it happen like this? Was that how it was?" But each of these things must be practiced for months, patiently, almost stubbornly. You take the senses one after another: hearing, sight, and eventually even the subtle aspects of taste, smell and touch. It's easier with the mind because we are more used to concentrating there. When you want to reflect and find a solution to something... Théon told me right from the start: "You people deprive yourselves of the most useful kind of senses, EVEN FOR ORDINARY LIFE." If you develop your inner senses (he gave them fabulous names), you can.... And it's true, absolutely true, we can know infinitely more than we normally do, merely by using our own senses. And not only mentally but vitally and even physically as well. But what is the method ...
... above the mind. It is Thought with a capital T. Not the vital mind, nor the mind proper, but the spiritual mind is vibrant throughout, with its touch on spiritual realities that are known by subtle inner senses or by direct identity through an extension of one's sheer self. Eyeful Thought uttering an experience that goes beyond all earth and all hell and even all heaven into a pure infinitude where... punch on the nose knocked him senseless in turn. Luckily for our own day there has come the local anaesthetic — the injection of novocaine in the gums leaving the patient in full possession of his senses and even looking into a mirror to see that the dentist catches hold of the right tooth. Dr. Patil and Shakespeare have led us into quite a digression. Let us return to Logopoeia, bidding adieu ...
... vaster than that of modern psychology since it extends to experiences and phenomena which are beyond the perception of the physical senses or cognizable by the intellect. Therefore, in addition to the physical senses, yoga psychology employs subtler inner senses belonging to the subliminal consciousness. Further, unlike modern psychology which relies solely on intellectual reasoning in drawing... perception, criteria and all the rest of it which are neither those of the domain of the physical senses nor of the domain of rational or scientific enquiry. Just as scientific enquiry passes beyond that of the physical senses and enters the domain of the infinite and infinitesimal about which the senses can say nothing — for one cannot see and touch an electron or know by the evidence of the sense-mind... own Yoga. It threw me suddenly into a condition above and without thought, unstained by any mental or vital movement; there was no ego, no real world — only when one looked through the immobile senses, something perceived or bore upon its sheer silence a world of empty forms, materialised shadows without true substance. There was no One or many even, only just absolutely That, featureless, ...
... the mind. It is Thought with a capital T. Not the vitalistic mind, not the mind proper, but the spiritual mind is vibrant throughout, with its touch on spiritual realities that are known by subtle inner senses or by direct identity through an extension of one's sheer self. Eyeful Thought uttering an experience that goes beyond all earth and all hell and even all heaven into a pure infinitude where... by the experience of revelation. Now to our business. One may think that such lengthy similes are mostly decorative, but in fact when the poet has worked with true imagination they throw a subtle light upon a situation and bring out some truth from behind the surface of things. Sri Aurobindo speaks of a child. Urvasie, by being compared to this child, is revealed as a soul of innocence; she ...
... physical and its effect on our senses cannot be its invariable action and most normal character or process. Ordinarily, the supra-physical produces a direct effect or a tangible impression on our mind and our life-being, and can only indirectly and through them, if at all, influence the physical world and physical life. If it objectivises itself, it does so to subtler senses in us and only derivatively... and also of those of psychic faculties, this is what happens. It is through those subtle faculties that one can gain various kinds of evidence of the existence of other planes of beings and communication with them. It is then that one becomes Page 98 aware that our physical mind and our physical senses are not the whole of us or the best or greatest part of us; and one begins to realize... essentially subjective, and that subjective, vi experiences or subtle-sense images can easily be deceptive, since we have no recognized method or standard of verification. But the counter-argument is that error is not the prerogative of the inner subjective experience alone; it is also a part of the knowledge that can be gained by physical senses, and even of the objective methods and standards. And just ...
... Mother was telling Satprem that if we developed our inner senses we could know infinitely more things than we ordinarily do; even physically, just using our inner senses. Satprem asked, "But what is the method?" Mother replied: "Oh, the method is very easy. There are various rules. It depends." She gave an example: "For the subtler senses, the method is to create an exact image of what you want... was?' Through sheer intensity of concentration, months of patient and stubborn practice, Mirra got a response. She obtained an extension to one of her physical senses. Then, one by one, Mirra took up the education of her other senses. Page 97 6 Illnesses The 'floating kidney' was not the only malady that laid up Mirra. The list is long. To begin... any other creative writer of the time." Thus Sri Aurobindo in The Future Poetry. And he sums up, "His work is a constant music of the over-passing of the borders, a chant-filled realm in which the subtle sounds and lights of the truth of the spirit give new meanings to the finer subtleties of life." The artists were not far behind. But we owe it in the main to the Tagores, who bathed in the ...
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