... ignored those persons who have actually undergone a change of consciousness because they have always been overcome by quantity. Vast numbers of people are subject to ego, desire, dualities, suffering, pain, ignorance, selfishness, death, etc. but they forget that at least several hundred people have risen above this consciousness and declared that this is not the final experience possible to human... Reason allows itself to be overcome by images. If one can bring the infinite consciousness that would automatically eliminate the root-cause of these dualities, ego, and all the consequences of suffering, pain and ignorance. The remedy suggested here is the acceptance of the possibility of widening out of the consciousness into another plane, a plane of infinity, and when that is done the root cause ...
... and had to endure all the suffering of the world, all of it simultaneously. She was always present as a witness at everything that happened, and everything happened in herself, the vibrations suffering pain in a cell of her own body as well as the agony of a person at the other side of the Earth. ‘It is obvious that things would never change if they were not unbearable.’ 71 She had to go all the ...
... has to bear suffering and not hate, to receive pleasure and not rejoice. Even the physical affections are to be mastered by endurance and this too is part of the Stoic discipline. Age, death, suffering, pain are not fled from, but accepted and vanquished by a high indifference. 1 Not to flee appalled from Nature in her Page 196 lower masks, but to meet and conquer her is the true instinct ...
... are perfectly adapted to Nature's ways: these are the optimists. For them the days are brighter because of the nights, colours are vivid because of the shadows, joy is more intense because of suffering, pain gives a greater charm to pleasure, illness gives health all its value; I have even heard some of them say that they are glad to have enemies because it made them appreciate their friends all the ...
... enjoyment of worldly possessions, of all that material wealth can provide in the way of comfort and pleasure and external satisfaction is powerless to prevent one who possesses these things from suffering pain and sorrow. Neither can the other solution, escape, the solution of the Buddha, present a practical remedy to the problem. For even if we suppose that a very large number of individuals are ...
... light, luminous vibration!... Without any contradiction. A vibration of expansion and progress. I could see the picture: expansion and progress. Especially effort, struggle, and even more so, suffering, pain, all of that—gone! Gone... really like an illusion. I might say it was (I say "was" because now I can talk about it; at the time of the experience I couldn't have), it's the state in which death ...
... dead leaves and branches have been shed, so many flowers have dried up. But new twigs are constantly forming on top and radiating their beauty of green leaves and flowers in bloom. Sorrow and suffering, pain and misery are like those dried-up and discarded flowers and leaves and twigs. These are concomitant results of the original total movement, perhaps even an inevitable necessity. But even from ...
... necessity ? Did something happen in its own Self and it had to submit unwillingly so that something contrary to its very being and nature came into existence ? How did a world of ignorance, suffering, pain, and evil,—a very imperfect world come into being from the Self or from the Brahman ? The question is : was there a compulsion, a necessity ? Sri Aurobindo asserts that there was no such ...
... veil over the artless look. The law of the gods is a sunlit one. And perhaps the whole work of Sri Aurobindo and Mother is to have brought the world the possibility of a sunlit path on which suffering, pain and disaster are no longer necessary in order to progress. The apprentice superman does not believe in suffering. He believes in enrichment through joy; he believes in Harmony. He does not ...
... into silence wearing his luminous mantle. Out of the melodied distance a laugh rings pure-toned, infantile, Sole reminder that he is, last signal recalling his presence. There is a joy behind suffering; pain digs our road to his pleasance. All things have bliss for their secret; only our consciousness falters Fearing to offer itself as a victim on ecstasy's altars. Is not the world his disguise ...
... perfect harmony with Nature's way of being: these are the optimists. To them the day is more brilliant because night is there, colours are bright because of shadows, joy is more intense because of suffering, pain gives a greater charm to pleasure, disease bestows upon health all its value; I have even heard some saying that they are glad to have enemies, so they can all the more appreciate their friends ...
... the difficulty, discord, struggle, division that mars life. The limitation of its consciousness, unable to dominate or assimilate the contacts of the universal Energy, is the cause of all its suffering, pain and sorrow. Its limited power of consciousness formulated in an ignorant will unable to grasp or follow the right law of its life and action is the cause of all its error, wrongdoing and evil. ...
... him to work out things in you. I don't remember saying anything on this subject [ of pain and suffering ], 3 except that disappointed vital desire must bring Page 203 about suffering. Pain and suffering are necessary results of the Ignorance in which we live; men grow by all kinds of experience, pain and suffering as well as their opposites, joy and happiness and ecstasy. One can ...
... I enclose an extra sheet since the margin below seems to me insufficient. I don’t remember saying anything on this subject, except that disappointed vital desire must bring about suffering. Pain and suffering are necessary results of the Ignorance in which we live; men grow by all kinds of experience, pain and suffering as well as their opposites, joy and happiness and ecstasy. One can ...
... there suffering, too, must come, yet the very suffering, which is the offspring of ignorance serves one, in the enigmatic Divine economy, as a goad to the search for a panacea to the evil of suffering, pain or grief: Pain is the hammer of the gods to break A dead resistance in the mortal's heart, His slow inertia as of living stone. If the heart were not forced to want and ...
... n too disappears. God and the Divine Consciousness can only be purity, light, immortality and delight. The compassion that a Buddha feels for the suffering humanity is not at all a feeling of suffering; pain or any such normal human reaction does not enter into its composition; it is the movement of a transcendent consciousness which is beyond and purified of the normal reactions, yet overarching them ...
... us. This is the region located between the heart and the sex center, which Sri Aurobindo calls the vital. It is a place full of every possible mixture: pleasure is inextricably mixed with suffering, pain with joy, evil with good, and make-believe with truth. The world's various spiritual traditions have found it so troublesome that they have preferred to reject this dangerous zone altogether, allowing ...
... Chap. 13. The Divine M ā y ā The problem is : how can the One, Infinite and Eternal, —free from all limitations, and relativities—create something that is finite,—a world of conflict, suffering, pain and evil? How does the One Being manage to become the world ? To the human mind the difficulty remains because mind is finite and cannot, therefore, follow the infinite, the Absolute, in its process ...
... of our being as remembrances, and when one of them emerges to the memory, it comes back dressed with the golden garb of Divine Felicity. What we at first called, in our ignorant perception, suffering and pain, reappears embellished, transformed, glorified, adorned with the same dress of magnificence as that which we had called pleasure and happiness. Indeed, sometimes the splendour of the former memories ...
... How can a girl overcome her suffering and pain during periods? There are some exercises that make the abdomen strong and improve the circulation. These exercises must be done regularly and continued even after the pains have disappeared. For the grown-up girls, this kind of pain comes almost entirely from sexual desires. If we get rid of the desires we get rid of the pain. There are two ways of getting ...
... which pain leads us. For a superficial and imperfect understanding, one could believe that it is pain which the soul is seeking. Nothing of the kind. The very nature of the soul is divine Delight, constant, unvarying, unconditioned, ecstatic; but it is true that if one can face suffering with courage, endurance, an unshakable faith in the divine Grace, if one can, instead of shunning suffering when... Silence ) I have already told you many a time that to seek suffering and pain is a morbid attitude which must be avoided, but to run away from them through forgetfulness, through a superficial, frivolous movement, through diversion, is cowardice. When pain comes, it comes to teach us something. The quicker we learn it, the more the need for pain diminishes, and when we know the secret, it will no longer... " Pain and grief are Nature's reminder to the soul that the pleasure it enjoys is only a feeble hint of the real delight of existence. In each pain and torture of our being is the secret of a flame of rapture compared with which our greatest pleasures are only as dim flickerings. It is this secret which forms the attraction for the soul of the great ordeals, sufferings and fierce experiences ...
... executed by the Divine, everything! They have a kind of constant awareness so filled with... a conscious faith in His infinite wisdom, even when there is what the ordinary consciousness calls suffering or pain. That's not what it is for the cells—it's something else! And the result is a state of... yes, a state of peaceful combat. There is a sense of Peace, the vibration of Peace, and simultaneously ...
... it's not quiet as it could be—as they SHOULD be. The possibility of suffering, for example—suffering from pain, suffering... a purely physical fact (all the nonphysical things are: Mother makes an immutable and peaceful gesture to indicate the inner states ), but something purely physical: really, the capacity for suffering must disappear. Not that I don't want to suffer, but... it isn't a nice ...
... name to hostile Time; Man is too weak to bear the Infinite's weight. 150 Death must be unconquered still on earth, and the dramas played in the theatre of Time must still diet on suffering and pain. It is man's merit that he is awake, that he has memory and desire, that he cannot help aspiring "to change the cosmic dream". But the law of Chance and Death cannot be altered; man is condemned ...
... else, you will always fall on your nose one day, and that always hurts, sometimes even hurts very much. The Mother Receptivity to the Light But if, when you have to face anguish, suffering, revolt, pain or a feeling of helplessness - whatever it may be, all the things that come to you on the path and which precisely are your difficulties - if physically, Page 82 ...
... and increasing weakness attended the great novelist to his pyre; but the strong unwearied intellect struggled with and triumphed over the infirmities of the body. His last years were years of suffering and pain, but they were also years of considerable fruitfulness and almost unceasing labour. He had been a sensuous youth and a joyous man. Gifted supremely with the artist's sense for the warmth and... for the sustaining air of religion. More and more the philosophic bias made its way into his later novels, until at last the thinker in him proved too strong for the artist. Amid his worst bodily sufferings he was poring over the Bhagavadgita and the Vedas, striving to catch the deeper and sacred sense of those profound writings. To give that to his countrymen was the strenuous aim of his dying efforts ...
... world is such that the most innocent person is subject to unmerited suffering. The problem arises as to why there is pain and who created this pain? Now to these questions, many answers have been given already in the world's growth up till now. Somebody said that this world will always remain imperfect and subject to suffering and pain and death; this is the constitution of the world and you cannot change... as the problem of pain is concerned, there are various answers as I have told you just now. Who is responsible for pain? Is it Karma? Is escape a solution out of it? If you say that escape is the only solution, you will have to say that mind is the only reality. If you accept the Page 64 solution that Karma is the machinery responsible for suffering and pain to man, then the... go a little further. The further problem that arises, which we touched upon yesterday, is the problem of pain. If there is an omnipresent Reality at work, a supreme wisdom and grace managing the Page 62 cosmos, why is there any place for pain and suffering in life? Savitri has chosen Satyavan for her husband, and he is fated to die one year after. So the mother of Savitri ...
... enormous sphere, I protect you all against any mishap or attack. I cradle you, I take care of you, I teach you and guide you constantly, so that you may live a pure and healthy life devoid of all pain and suffering, in a constantly progressive blossoming which leads to the New Creation. You do not know how much you are all a part and parcel of myself, that I consider all of you as the precursors of the... summits where the spirit soars in the joy and harmony of the heavens of the Eternal Truth. The spirit of Beauty expresses itself in these eyes. This gaze full of divine compassion absorbs all the sufferings, pain and miseries of men and the creatures of this ruthless Nature dominated by the anti-divine forces, and renders them pleasant, loving, habitable, without which this world would be a veritable hell... transparency of a pure crystal seize and inflame the hearts, burn and consume all the imperfections, dispel and get rid of falsehood, ignorance and so many other evils of the world, as well as hatred and pain, that it is impossible to measure…. It cannot be. It surpasses infinity. Not only that, this look radiates and transforms all that it sees, perceives and touches and triumphs with an ineffable Grace ...
... achieve real progress. Pain, suffering, disharmony etc. continue in order that man may seek the radical cure for them. In this regard it is important to note that the scale of human experience is not fixed, it is variable. Heat and cold are relative, they have no fixed absoluteness. So also pain and suffering. We find this truth even in ordinary experience of life. Pain can be transformed into... only the question of changing the nature of the vibration. The bite of an ant when felt as an attack gives the sensation of pain, but felt as meeting of a consciousness with another consciousness it can become a pleasant contact. This does not mean there is no pain or suffering. It only means that values of ignorance are true in ignorance. And values of the same experience change when the consciousness... it is possible to attain it. In that acceptance of the higher possibility of man lies the basis of divine life. The difficulty is that man accepts his present life with all its difficulties, sufferings, pain etc. and believes that life is bound to be eternally subject to its imperfections. The problem is given up as "impossible". Sri Aurobindo makes us see that life is Cosmos coming to man ...
... It is a well-known fact that if you expect some pain you are bound to have it and, once it has come, if you concentrate upon it, then it increases more and more until it becomes what is usually termed as "unbearable", although with some will and courage there is hardly any pain that one cannot bear. 4) How can a girl overcome her suffering and pain during periods? There are some exercises that... improve the circulation. These exercises must be done regularly and continued even after the pains have disappeared. For the grown-up girls, this kind of pain comes almost entirely from sexual desires. If we get rid of the desires we get rid of the pain. There are two ways of getting rid of desires; the first one, the usual one, is through satisfaction (or rather what is called so, because there is no... keeps the habit of leading one's normal life always, very soon one does not even notice the presence of the menses. 3) Why are some girls completely run down during their periods and suffer from pain in the lower back and abdomen while others may have slight or no inconvenience at all? It is a question of temperament and mostly of education. If from her childhood a girl has been accustomed to ...
... all the suffering, in the progress of life. This is sometimes how one gets comfort in life. A man faced with tremendous suffering thinks that the whole universal scheme is cruel, he feels that he is dealt with must unjustly, subjected to suffering and pain out of all proportion to his deserving and so on. Suddenly he goes out and sees somebody else worse off than himself so far as pain and suffering... say that in the body the reaction to suffering is a scale that can be completely changed. There can be no suffering in going through actions which normally are very hard to bear. Secondly, the place of this pain in the scheme of nature is also to be observed. We have to see that this pain is not without its utility, especially on the nervous level. Pain is a warning of nature that the contact... weeping, the suffering, but it does not affect us. It is not personal pleasure; this is not, of course, the pure form of that delight, but still it takes us very near to that universal delight: it shows that the delight is there. We are only concerned with the actuality of the thing. Now, pain and suffering come to man and man cannot understand how suffering happens. Suffering is really due ...
... this Gnostic evolution, a supreme power of self-protection will be brought into play, that will confer upon the body an absolute immunity and serenity of being and a total deliverance from all suffering and pain. "A spiritual Ananda [will] flow into the body and inundate cell and tissue; a luminous materialisation of this higher Ananda [would] of itself bring about a total transformation of the deficient ...
... It is a well-known fact that if you expect some pain you are bound to have it and, once it has come, if you concentrate upon it, then it increases more and more until it becomes what is usually termed as “unbearable”, although with some will and courage there is hardly any pain that one cannot bear. How can a girl overcome her suffering and pain during periods? There are some exercises that... improve the circulation. These exercises must be done regularly and continued even after the pains have disappeared. For the grown-up girls, this kind of pain comes almost entirely from sexual desires. If we get rid of the desires we get rid of the pain. There are two ways of getting rid of desires; the first one, the usual one, is through satisfaction (or rather what is called satisfaction, because there... keeps the habit of leading one’s normal life always, very soon one does not even notice the presence of the menses. Why are some girls completely run down during their periods and suffer from pain in the lower back and abdomen while others may have slight or no inconvenience at all? It is a question of temperament and mostly of education. If from her childhood a girl has been accustomed ...
... of things—but that is not necessarily a cure, for very often one knows what one ought to do, and yet one doesn't do it, for one reason or another. But if, when you have to face anguish, suffering, revolt, pain or a feeling of helplessness—whatever it may be, all the things that come to you on the path and which precisely are your difficulties—if physically, that is to say, in your body-consciousness ...
... become conscious. If one is very attentive, one becomes conscious. One must be very concentrated and very attentive, then one becomes conscious. Mother, suffering comes from ignorance and pain, but what is the nature of the suffering and pain the Divine Mother feels for her children—the Divine Mother in Savitri? It is because she participates in their nature. She has descended upon earth to ... higher than others, and then that becomes deplorable. Here, you have said: "Whether Thou choosest for me life or death, happiness or sorrow, pleasure or suffering, all that comes to me from Thee will be welcome." Does the Divine give suffering or sorrow? Well, my child, that text, you know what it is: it is Radha's prayer to Krishna. And so, it is such a personification of divine forces that... There is nothing that could be called suffering. All that is necessary is to change one's state of consciousness. That is all. Only (I have written this somewhere, I don't know where now), if you yourself succeed in changing your state of consciousness and enter this condition of bliss, you can see others still quarrelling, fighting, being unhappy, suffering and feeling miserable, and you yourself ...
... They would literally hit me, and the body would undergo acute anguish and suffering — frightful pain everywhere, everywhere…it was unbearable — it was as if the devil had been let loose with all his tricks to do mischief. And the poor body which was not accustomed to endure all these misfortunes, would groan, would cry out in pain and had all sorts of reactions against these attacks. And my only defence... dies. There is no conflict because each one lives dependent on the other in a mutual interchange, knowing well that each has in him a right to the Truth; which means that decay, contradiction, suffering and pain disappear entirely; it means that the possibility to survive in this consciousness gives an impetus to extend life up to Eternity. This is what I think; no, this is what I feel as the immortality... prepared and arranged the circumstances, He who has guided me constantly on the path, He who was beside me during painful moments to pull me out of the anguish and the miseries, the danger and the dreadful pain — it was as if my whole body were being torn apart …and it was always Sri Aurobindo who was there to guide me. Since He left His body so many years ago, He has been working in the subtle physical ...
... centuries and centuries and centuries. Yes. But centuries, that's nothing for the Supreme. Yes, of course. For him, it's... But still, the world has reached such an acute state of suffering and pain that... Yes. The time has come for ONE body to change itself sufficiently to give a concrete hope to humanity. Yes, yes... Even if only, perhaps, as an example. Yes, perhaps, ...
... creation of, or make him responsible for, suffering and pain, then He is both partial and cruel. He is less than the human being, because some human beings are not cruel and are very strict in their judgement, so they are very impartial. Well, in that case God would be less than His own creation. Who created pain, whence was pain created, why was pain created ? In trying to answer these questions... aspect, and so did Buddha. Now the question is—why is there pain at all ? Why should there be suffering and pain at all in the scheme of an Omnipresent Reality which is Infinite Existence, Consciousness, and Bliss ? How could That which is the author of existence, God Almighty, create pain and evil ? In the Sanskrit language they say that when you give a God omnipotence and if you also ascribe... effective sometimes that conditions do change. The suffering was there to bring about certain change in him and when he has learnt the lesson probably the circumstances will also change. Sri Aurobindo would say, "Don't invite pain or suffering for you will get enough of it without inviting it". That also is perversity, according to him, to indulge in suffering. There are people who take delight in ...
... consciousness of pain and the ethical problem of evil. For if the world be an expression of Sachchidananda, not only of existence that is conscious-force,—for that can easily be admitted,—but of existence that is also infinite self-delight, how are we to account for the universal presence of grief, of suffering, of pain? For this world appears to us rather as a world of suffering than as a world of... it may be reasoned, is God, is a conscious Being who is the author of existence; how then can God have created a world in which He inflicts suffering on His creatures, sanctions pain, permits evil? God being All-Good, who created pain and evil? If we say that pain is a trial and an ordeal, we do not solve the moral problem, we arrive at an immoral or non-moral God,—an excellent world-mechanist perhaps... and external attack on what we are and seek to be. Page 100 Nevertheless the abnormality of pain or its greater or lesser sum does not affect the philosophical issue; greater or less, its mere presence constitutes the whole problem. All being Sachchidananda, how can pain and suffering at all exist? This, the real problem, is often farther confused by a false issue starting from the idea ...
... consciousness of pain and the ethical problem of evil. For if the world be an expression of Sachchidananda, not only of existence that is conscious-force, — for that can easily be admitted, — but of existence that is also infinite self-delight, how are we to account for the universal presence of grief, of suffering, of pain? For this world appears to us rather as a world of suffering than as a world... it may be reasoned, is God, is a conscious Being who is the author of existence; how then can God have created a world in which He inflicts suffering on His creatures, sanctions pain, permits evil? God being All-Good, who created pain and evil? If we say that pain is a trial and an ordeal, we do not solve the moral problem, we arrive at an immoral or non-moral God, — an excellent world-mechanist perhaps... external attack on Page 125 what we are and seek to be. Nevertheless the abnormality of pain or its greater or lesser sum does not affect the philosophical issue; greater or less, its mere presence constitutes the whole problem. All being Sachchidananda, how can pain and suffering at all exist? This, the real problem, is often farther confused by a false issue starting from the idea ...
... power of the spiritual nature, where he gets beyond the grasp of the dualities and its delusion, dvandva-moha . There he no longer seeks his personal good or pleasure or shuns his personal suffering or pain, for by these things he is no longer affected, nor says any longer, "I am virtuous," "I am sinful," but acts in his own high spiritual nature by the will of the Divine for the universal good.... have put away the sin of the rajasic egoism and are moving towards the Divine, the Gita distinguishes between four kinds of bhaktas . There are those who turn to him as a refuge from sorrow and suffering in the world, ārta . There are those who seek him as the giver of good in the world, arthārthī . There are those who come to him in the desire for knowledge, jijñāsu . And lastly there are... all-embracing knowledge, sarvavit sarvabhāvena . It may be asked how is that devotion high and noble, udāra , which seeks God only for the worldly boons he can give or as a refuge in sorrow and suffering, and not the Divine for its own sake? Do not egoism, weakness, desire reign in such an adoration and does it not belong to the lower nature? Moreover, where there is not knowledge, the devotee does ...
... of the Master. Failure we shall admit as a passage as calmly as success until the hour of the divine victory arrives. Our souls and minds and bodies will remain unshaken by acutest sorrow and suffering and pain if in the divine dispensation they come to us, unoverpowered by intensest joy and pleasure. Thus supremely balanced we shall continue steadily on our way meeting all things with an equal calm... manifests himself, to those who have the inner eye that sees, in forces and their play and results as well as in things and in creatures. All things move towards a divine event; each experience, suffering and want no less than joy and satisfaction, is a necessary link in the carrying out of a universal movement which it is our business to understand and second. To revolt, to condemn, to cry out is... reinforced by a sustained sense of spiritual submission to a divine Will: this living clay must yield not only with a stern or courageous acquiescence, but with knowledge or with resignation, even in suffering, to the touch of the divine Hand that is preparing its perfection. A sage, a devout or even a tender stoicism of the God-lover is possible, and these are better than the merely pagan self-reliant ...
... It commanded him not to be "lost in the Alone." It asked him— "How shall thy mighty spirit brook repose While Death is still unconquered on the earth And Time a field of suffering and pain?" It asked him to live for "the slow-paced omniscient purpose." It urged him to "accept the difficulty and godlike toil." For, the solution of the riddle lies in the human being. Though... longed to bring down her presence and power into his heart and mind and body. "Only he yearned to call for ever down Her healing touch of love and truth and joy Into darkness of the suffering world; His soul was freed and given to her alone." CANTO III THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRIT AND THE NEW CREATION Aswapathy had yet to perform a greater deed. ... Oneness was not tied to monotone". There struggle was not necessary for the growth of the individual, for, he was moved to manifest the Divine spontaneously by the Light. "There was no sob of suffering anywhere, Experience ran from point to point of joy: Bliss was the pure undying truth of things. All Nature was a conscious front of God". In this vision of the new universe he ...
... certain, I wholly agree! And I would be very happy if it were anyone, I don’t have the least desire that it should be mine! 12 “Because, I said, the world has reached such an acute state of suffering and pain that … it seems that the TIME has come?” She sat staring in silence. There’s a refusal to answer. 13 She could say nothing, She was herself the question, the living question of the world... preparing. There is no clinical picture of pure pain. There was a mystery that one felt growing, becoming more and more acute, almost palpable⎯something that was full of an unknown meaning: it was there , one could touch it. But what? I hardly dared ask Mother questions anymore. She was herself a mute question, ardent, immobile and traversed by little cries of pain. And sometimes She laughed and laughed,... making fun of all that hellish contradiction in her and around her, as if only humour could bear all that, or Love: A silence ... that worships. 11 And the pain of the world, the chaos of the world seemed to grow, the contradiction of the world as in her own body⎯one and the same body in transition … towards what? One day, as if strangled by that suffocation of the world, I told her, looking ...
... s of pain and the ethical problem of evil. For if the world be an expression of Sachchidananda, not only of existence that is conscious force – for that can easily be admitted – but of existence that is also infinite self-delight, how are we to account for the universal presence of grief, of suffering, of pain?” asks Sri Aurobindo in The Life Divine . “All being Sachchidananda, how can pain and suffering... be his handiwork. “The difficulty [ i.e. the problem of suffering and evil] arises only if we assume the existence of an extracosmic personal God, not Himself the universe, one who has created good and evil, pain and suffering for His creatures, but Himself stands above and unaffected by them, watching, ruling, doing His will with a suffering and struggling world or, if not doing His will, if allowing... the secret stuff of all that lives, Even pain and grief are garbs of world-delight, It hides behind thy sorrow and thy cry. And he has the divine sage Narad say to Savitri’s royal parents: Where Ignorance is, there suffering too must come … Pain was the first-born of the Inconscience Which was thy body’s dumb original base … Pain is the hammer of the gods to break A dead ...
... some ascetics. Some wander in the forests, some live in inaccessible mountain-caves. Every facet of life has been tried and experimented with, how to be victorious over this life and the suffering and pain and disease and death of this life, how to suffuse this life with ananda and beauty. How many unknown anonymous great beings, yogis, mahatmas have come, experimented with life and disappeared... a certain way in order to attain perfection. All this, even if it has enlightened our life a little bit, has not really changed it fundamentally. Man is still under the same yoke of sorrow and pain and misery. Then Jesus Christ came with his message of love but that too did not solve the situation much. Man ended up putting him on the cross. Somehow Jesus managed to escape alive and came ...
... masked. The secret movement of this Conscious-Force is life. Why does it move ? Because it is seeking delight. If delight is held back, if life meets its opposite, pain and suffering it is not discouraged. Life does not accept suffering and pain as if they were laws of life. To seek for Delight is therefore the fundamental impulse and central drive of life. Delight itself is self-existent; it is not happiness... psychic being. Then he can get universal delight. If he remains confined to this desire-soul he meets with the experience of happiness and suffering, pleasure and pain,—a distorted experience of delight. The delight itself comes to it in three forms, pleasure, pain and neutral indifference. When it withdraws from the desire-soul and regains the true self, then it opens to universal delight; and then... enjoyment of delight is called Rasa. Rasa,—reception of this delight—is determined by the condition of consciousness in which one lives. If you stand on the level of ego and desire-soul, you get pleasure, pain and neutral indifference. The delight is running through the whole gamut of creation,—through the inconscient, the conscient and the superconscient, all is pervaded by the flow of delight. Soul takes ...
... the Mother's Feet hanging on the wall near the ceiling. She went near it and prayed fervently to those Feet. Then she was able to effect an entry into her body through the head, but with great suffering and pain. Her whole body was dead cold and frigid, and it took some time for her to become normal. She prays for Thy help. It is through the heart centre (solar plexus) that one must enter... what Mother has written in the Bulletin? Go out of the body and concentrate on the trouble-spot. And she did. The pain disappeared. But what followed is interesting. She had no pain during the day, but in sleep she began to have intense pain in the tooth. Why did the pain come in sleep alone? Because her consciousness went elsewhere and she was no more concentrated on her body. March... enveloping Force of strength and a tickling sensation was felt from her feet to her head and she could re-enter the body. Afterwards there was much tiredness. That night her sleep was disturbed, there was pain in her body and her face had the pallor of death. The next day during her afternoon nap, she again went out of her body and was hanging over it, but she could not re-enter it. She called Mother ...
... great support, the psychic support to all life, but she has no power to prevent pain and suffering being inflicted. She suffers with faith, but she has no power to prevent suffering. So Savitri says, "I will go and bring the Page 15 power from the Divine so that you will be able to prevent suffering." The Madonna of Might is the second power whom Savitri meets when she... of Satyavan. Narada predicted that Satyavan was going to die after one Page 13 year, so the mother first questions Narada: "Why should there be pain in the world? Why should there be suffering? And suffering unmerited, because my young daughter and this young Satyavan have done nothing wrong as far as 1 know. My daughter has been brought up by me and I know that she is absolutely... knowledge and all goodness? How is it that in such a world created by a merciful God, unmerited suffering comes to a human being?" It is in the sixth book that the problem of pain is thrashed out in detail as nowhere else in the world's literature. I can tell you from direct study that the problem of pain has not been as well understood anywhere as it has in the two cantos in the sixth book where ...
... evolution and even for growth of man. "Pain is the cry of Darkness to the Light". It is pain that goads man to invoke the help of the Divine, to seek his intervention and to create a possibility for the power of the Divine to act in life. As to the origin of pain Narad says that it is the inevitable consequence of Ignorance: "Where Ignorance is, suffering too must come". Pain results from an incapacity to bear... divine", about the why and wherefore of pain. This question raises the problem of reconciling a God all-knowing, merciful, and also Omnipotent with the creation, existence and continuance of suffering and pain. Narad explains to the queen that there are two sides to this problem: one seen from the human and the other from the Divine's point of view. The law of pain is really part of the duality which... who come to help mankind have to accept it if they wish to change earth-nature. They don't suffer, like other mortals, ignorantly. They suffer pain voluntarily, with understanding and knowledge. They identify themselves with the world, they carry the suffering world in their heart. Sri Aurobindo says, that the world-saviour "is the victim of his own sacrifice". To the question: Is Fate then all? ...
... and of its infliction is the protest of the Divine in man. So the question is ; how has this self-division taken place in the One : how has the Divine become ignorant, subject to sorrow, suffering and pain and evil ? We have to note that Consciousness is the fundamental Page 26 fact of the cosmos. Consciousness is not simple it is complex it has a subconscient level which ends... great obstacle and a bondage from which he seeks escape through ascetic rejection and even mortification. Man finds that life manifesting in Matter is compelled to accept grossness and subjection to pain and] death, and that Mind in Matter becomes limited, dull and; blind. In fact, one finds that Matter, Life and Mind, each' one of them, is trying to overpower the other two in life. Matter may... of ignorance by them difficult, if not impossible. The third characteristic is that the process of division reaches its culmination in Matter which imposes the law of struggle, dissatisfaction, pain and death on the being. According to Sri Aurobindo, the Omnipresent Reality^ is the basic truth of the cosmos. The question then comes up: how does matter arise ...
... utter Blank where all manifestation characterised by pain and misery and death ceases to be. This is the faultless solution offered to get out of the composite and sorrowful existence driven by desire and bound by Karma as it is. For that reason the compassionate Buddha himself had refused to enter into Nirvana while the world behind lay suffering. He proposed to take man to a state of pure and perfect... moulder of the mortal’s lot, who has made this world full of falsehood, distortion, egoistic assertions, infatuation, attachment, lust, jealousy, the dark hankering for possession, the cause of suffering and pain. “Throw away desire,” says the Gita, “conquer the fault of attachment, overcome the dual sense of happiness and sorrow, Page 48 and other dualities, and abide always in the primal... which makes Page 65 this world itself an appearance. As a natural consequence of it death, like life, also becomes illusory. When there is no death, then there is no scope for pain and suffering which also become fictitious. There is no issue and we stand on the verge of extinguishment in the total Nothing. Everything ceases to be and the entire purpose of this appearance, by whatever ...
... opposes any attempt at self- exceeding. Its chief fulcrum is ego in the human being and desire is its dynamic support. All these forces working in conjunction in the human being give rise to pain and suffering. Sāvitrī is faced with the apparently unchangeable determinism of cosmic nature. , The only support she has was that of the Spirit within her. The a second Canto traces... physical ignorance to the sacrificial post in the vast cosmic sacrifice to be offered as a victim. As long as human consciousness lives in the ego, lives subject to desire, conflict, dualities, suffering and pain, so long he cannot fulfil' the deepest longing and the highest aspiration of his being. He must liberate himself from the bondage of ignorance. The first release comes to man when he can go beyond... of an unwitting race". The poet quickly traces the growth of Savitri from childhood to young age and her becoming familiar with the great human problems with a constant and intense experience of pain in her heart. The central crisis of the poem is clearly stated in the very first Canto so that die reader gets interested in Savitri and the problem that faced her. The reader sees "her soul confronting ...
... far as the outside world was concerned, she appeared reserved and sometimes a little cold, though she always surrounded her collaborators with a warm encouraging presence. Even when she was suffering with pain and illness, she made the rounds every day and visited each one; she followed their progress and lavished them with advice. She was Page 65 Mrs Meloney, Irene, Marie and... science, she studied with passion and fervor, with joy in her heart in spite of the cold, the poverty and the privations; she was convinced that only the acquisition of knowledge could relieve the suffering and foster the progress of humanity. She therefore gave herself entirely to her studies and did not give way to weakness. She showed the same qualities all her life: she was tenacious, persevering;... awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it in 1935. On 6 June 1934, with a persistent fever, Marie had to undergo tests in a clinic. The doctors did not understand the illness that she was suffering from. They sent her to a sanatorium thinking that she had tubercular lesions. She left for the sanatorium at Sancellemoz, in Haute Savoie, facing the Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps. ...
... dreams of anguish and pain that only increase the misery and are nothing but imaginations and formations of the mind, making things worse — if one knows how to remain quiet and call down the Peace — well, I tell you that you will get cured in one tenth of the time required in ordinary cases or even serious ones. It all depends on your receptivity. You understand, suffering or pain are sometimes necessary... guided towards this inner discovery, which projected me in a world of beauty, of serenity, of love and peace which I perceived as a dream in comparison to this external world. This world of pain, of misery, of suffering, blindly brutal, and its incomprehensible condition where all culminates in an agonising and endless sadness, — how it gave me a shiver and made me ill. Nevertheless, it has awakened on... fainted and the pain was so acute that I could not move at all. The acute pain immobilised me, I could hardly breathe: it was so painful, and the whole body was as if numb, paralysed. I did not know what to do. I was in a miserable state. And I said to myself: “But what has happened to me?” For about two minutes, I think, I was in shock. Then I pulled myself together a little, but the pain was unbearable ...
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