... before or of what was about to come, so that when I reached the end, all of it together was a simultaneous whole—the Supreme Consciousness.' When Satprem asked if this Supreme Consciousness was the 'New Consciousness,' Mother replied, 'Not "new"! One can't say new"—Supreme Consciousness.' ². This entire experience and Mother's insistence that it all happened 'without moving', unlike the experience... You see, while rising up (one is obliged to say "rising" and "descending" for otherwise one would never be understood), while "rising up" to reach this supreme Consciousness, all the rest was annulled, there was only That. When the supreme Consciousness was realized, it remained ALL the time, continuously, to the very end, it did not move; but meanwhile, the other centres began to awaken one after another... did not move in space but was a vibration (that is, it wasn't motionless); yet it was motionless in space. And the exact form of my body was absolutely the most brilliant white Light of the supreme Consciousness, the consciousness OF the Supreme. It was IN the body and it was as though in EACH cell there was a vibration, and it was all part of a single BLOCK of vibration. It extended this much beyond ...
... ignorant? "Chance" is only a label put on that which man does not understand. All is put in form and movement by the Supreme Consciousness which is not outside the creation, but is the Truth and the very substance of the creation. Without the Supreme Consciousness nothing exists; in It all is. 17.3.1969 Can the Yogi foresee the chance? (Perhaps he is no longer concerned with it... if one aspires without asking, it is the Supreme Consciousness Page 87 that hears and answers immediately by the most favourable conditions for the most rapid integral progress. 4.5.1969 May I be like a new-born in the Mother's arms! All individual consciousnesses are like babies in the infinite arms of the Supreme Consciousness. Only there is a great difference between... the mind is exceedingly far from a guarantee of truth. Irritation is always a sign of incomprehension and narrowness of spirit, both of which are incompatible with the presence of the supreme Consciousness. 7.2.1969 Your Love, O Mother, does not diminish at all when I oppose You with all my obscurity. I have had clear experiences of it. It is so because it is not a personal ...
... before or of what was about to come, so that when I reached the end, all of it together was a simultaneous whole—the Supreme Consciousness.' When Satprem asked if this Supreme Consciousness was the 'New Consciousness,' Mother replied, 'Not "new!" One can't say "new"—Supreme Consciousness.' × This entire... You see, while rising up (one is obliged to say "rising" and "descending" for otherwise one would never be understood), while "rising up" to reach this supreme Consciousness, all the rest was annulled, there was only That. When the supreme Consciousness was realized, it remained ALL the time, continuously, to the very end, it did not move; but meanwhile, the other centers began to awaken one after another... space but was Page 40 a vibration (that is, it wasn't motionless); yet it was motionless in space. And the exact form of my body was absolutely the most brilliant white Light of the supreme Consciousness, the consciousness OF the Supreme. It was IN the body and it was as though in EACH cell there was a vibration, and it was all part of a single BLOCK of vibration. It extended this much beyond ...
... factors which a Karmayogi has to tackle with an intent, receptive flexibility and a subtle, discerning tact. It depends not only upon the completeness and constancy of his identification with the supreme Consciousness, but also—and probably more—upon the state of his normal active consciousness and the fitness or unfit- ness of the dynamic parts of his nature. If there are twists and hurdles in his nature... movement of ascent and the movement of descent. The first movement is a movement of spontaneous self-offering through action, as well as through love and knowledge. Yoga or union with the supreme Consciousness is the goal towards which the most developed and aspiring part of our consciousness shoots with a greater and greater intensity. Each action is undertaken and accomplished in the spirit of an... reflection. "At the moment when the being becomes aware of Thy Presence and identifies itself with Thy Consciousness, it is conscious in everything and everywhere.” But the duration of this supreme consciousness is fugitive. Why ? It can be explained by the "complexity of the elements of the being, by their inequality in the illumination and by the fact that they enter successively into activity.” ...
... must be an evolution, not a revolution. In other words, we must get out without getting out. Instead of a rocket that ends up crashing on the sun, we need a rocket that harpoons the Sun of the supreme consciousness and is able to bring it down to all points of our earthly consciousness: The ultimate knowledge is that which perceives and accepts God in the universe as well as beyond the universe and the... overmental reflection, which must then fight against more and more heavy and rebellious determinisms. This is why the spiritualists have never been able to transform life. The Supramental is the supreme Consciousness-Force in the very heart of Matter, without any intermediary. It is the "sun in the darkness" of the Veda, the meeting place of the highest Heights and the deepest Depths. Therefore it can change... material bridge between the very top and the very bottom. His work on the earth is to establish a direct connection between the supreme Force and the individual, between Page 241 the supreme Consciousness and Matter – to join the two Ends , as the Mother says. He is a precipitator of the Real upon earth. This is why there is hope that all the blind determinisms that presently rule the world ...
... illusions and makes us move, for she requires us to move. Page 89 She, with a capital S, I said it was the Supreme Consciousness, but in fact it is Nature and it is the trick of Nature; for the Supreme Consciousness has no tricks, it is Nature that has tricks. The Supreme Consciousness quite simply enters into all things with all her consciousness, because it is the consciousness: and with that... consequences are unforeseen, that gives altogether the impression of the unexpected and of freedom. And it is only if you remain consciously and constantly on the highest level, that is, in the supreme Consciousness, that there you can see that, at the same time, all is absolutely determined but also, because of the complexity of the interlinking of these determinisms, all is absolutely free. It is the... a moment, just a tiny Page 88 moment, of this absolutely sincere aspiration or this sufficiently intense prayer, you will know more things than by meditating for hours. "The Supreme Consciousness... gives to the individual in the active life of the world his sense of freedom and independence and initiative. These things in him are Her pragmatic tools or devices and it is through this ...
... unless they emerge from themselves and unite with the supreme Consciousness—then... In what conditions can that happen? It's the problem of identification with the Supreme, which is the Supreme One—One that is all. ( silence ) There is a whole side of human thought which has held the conception that identification with the supreme Consciousness could only come through the abolition of the individual... will be the essential difference of the supramental being: being able, without losing a limited form, to unite his consciousness with the supreme Consciousness. But it's impossible for man. That I know. As I said, you have it [union with the supreme Consciousness], but as soon as you want to express it, it's finished, it becomes again... ( gesture as if shut up in a box ). That means the substance... substance we are built with isn't sufficiently purified, illumined, transformed (anything, any word) to express the supreme Consciousness without distorting it. ( silence Mother enters an experience ) It's a certain opacity of Matter, of the substance, which prevents it from being able to manifest the Consciousness... and that same opacity (I don't know what to call it), that opacity is what gives ...
... disappears, the connection Page 472 is established; the sense of unreality recedes and a theory of illusion becomes superfluous and inapplicable. It cannot be the final truth that the Supreme Consciousness has no regard upon the universe or that it regards it as a fiction which its self in Time upholds as real. The cosmic can only exist by dependence on the supracosmic, Brahman in Time must have... intellectual reason that crystallises and perpetuates an apparent contradiction by creating its opposite or dividing concepts of the Brahman, the Self, the Ishwara, the individual being, the supreme consciousness or superconscience and the Mayic world-consciousness. If Brahman alone exists, all these must be Brahman, and in Brahman-consciousness the division of these concepts must disappear in a reconciling... longer from the view of the consciousness that is maintained by it and surpassed by it and therefore does not know it or knows it only by its appearance. It cannot be that to that self-creative supreme consciousness the world is an incomprehensible mystery or that it is to it an illusion that is yet not altogether an illusion, a reality that is yet unreal. The mystery of the universe must have a divine ...
... bound in the depth of the heart, so that it may not be spilt and spoilt – the material sheath with its teguments and ligaments must be strong and make a resisting armour. 3. The supreme consciousness is simplicity itself. What can be more simple than Zero (Nirvana)? One who follows, adheres to simplicity is the Simple Man (Sahaja). This simple single consciousness is to be affirmed, firmly... that delightful consciousness. 4. The ten sense-instruments (indriyas) through which the consciousness passes in and out. They are to be vigilant and stamped with the seal of the supreme consciousness. 5. The customer is the divine self, the true individual in man. 6. The complete number of the principles or elements of the human vessel. 7. Once you have... aw – ordinary consciousness. 6. Sun and Moon – day and night, the cycle of ordinary consciousness. 7. Purusha and Prakriti in right relation means the victory of the Supreme Consciousness V The world flows fast like a river deep and sombre. On either side muddy banks, in between fathomless depths. For the sake of the Law Chatila ...
... consciousness of the cells that finds its support exclusively in the Divine Presence and refuses to receive any other influence, is much more efficacious. A total identification with the Supreme Consciousness abolishing all division, is the sovereign remedy. 10.1.1970 Yesterday, Mother, while before You, I was not thinking of my health but You said to me, "I wish you good health", and... and to obey scrupulously. 14.1.1970 The little moment passed before You, O Divine Mother, becomes a life in itself; it is going to be an eternal moment.. . The eternal supreme Consciousness is always there, concretely present and active. 16.1.1970 I do not live in the right consciousness, thus there are necessarily defects in my translation of "The Life Divine" into... instrument for replacing the mind which has proved itself incapable of translating correctly the higher consciousness. But beyond intuition there is a consciousness that reflects yet better the Supreme Consciousness. 26.5.1970 There are darknesses which want to flee away, there are others which want to get transformed! Yes, there is a moment when the choice is between adhering or d ...
... how to put it. Everything has a mental stamp, you can't help it. But the broadest word is still "consciousness," "the Supreme Consciousness." Page 485 Yes, but "the Supreme Consciousness" is perfect when we're talking about the creation; the Supreme Consciousness is precisely what created, but ( laughing ) there is what's beyond! Beyond, it's "That." Yes. We can often use... Aurobindo said that atheism is necessary to counterbalance religions which had caused so much damage!... 2 And that's why using the word "God" is unfortunate. Often I say "Truth," often "supreme Consciousness," but I am perfectly aware that it's not the thing. "Divinity" too... The Ancients said That —but Ça in French?... It can be used, but not everywhere .... The rishis said, "The Vast" ...
... it must. Defeatism is anti-divine. ( silence ) There's but one way: to want what the Supreme Consciousness wants—whatever the consequences in terms of our silly little conception. Like this ( Mother opens her hands ): to want what You want. Do I have a relationship with that Supreme Consciousness? Oh, mon petit! That goes without saying! You do have a relationship—and even a conscious... had the feeling there was something behind me.... Yes. Something that was helping me. Of course! But of course there was! Of course there was: THAT. Personally, I call it the "Supreme Consciousness" because I don't want to say "God".... Ah, no! Page 226 It's full of... the very word is full of deception. It's not that way, it's.... WE ARE—We are the Divine who has forgotten... be crushed. And we fear. We fear for its life ( Mother touches the skin of her hands ), for this thing, as if it were precious, because we want to stay conscious. But let's unite with the Supreme Consciousness, and we'll stay conscious forever! That's IT, that's exactly it. I could put it this way: we unite our consciousness with what is perishable and we're afraid to perish! 1 I Well, I say: ...
... comes out of itself and unites itself with the supreme Consciousness, then there... In what conditions can that be done? It is the problem of identification with the Supreme, which is the Supreme One—One which is All. ( Silence ) There is a whole side of human thought that has the conception that identification with the supreme Consciousness can come only by annulling the individual creation... possible for the supramental being.And it is this that will make the supramental being essentially different: he will be able, without losing a limited form, to unite his consciousness with the supreme Consciousness. But for man, it is impossible. That I know. As I have said, you have it, you have the experience, but as soon as you want to express it, it is gone, it becomes again... ( gesture of being... being closed ). That is to say, the substance of which we are built up is not sufficiently purified, enlightened, transformed (it does not matter what word) to express the supreme Consciousness without deforming it. ( Silence. Mother enters into an experience. ) It is a certain opacity in Matter, in the substance that makes it unable to manifest the Consciousness... and it is this same (I do ...
... you know, I asked this Consciousness what was needed to receive it without distorting it, and it answered me ( Mother reads out a note ): "One must be able to stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow." (Satprem:) Without casting a shadow, yes. That's what it replied. (F.B.:) That is, forgetting oneself completely? (Satprem:) Being totally transparent... in the light]. That was R.'s effect: an outline. Then it said something to me (wordlessly, but it was instantly translated into words, in English): "When you stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness you must not make a shadow." And with that experience, it was so real and intense!... It said, "That's the condition—the condition." Then, half an hour later, it said it to me in French;... whole explanation. Or else, we could put: "To be able to receive the new consciousness without deforming it... Then the text: "...One must be able to stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow." Words... if one hasn't had the experience, words are... They don't have what the experience gave—that power. It was so intense, you know! Since then, the body ...
... the senses. Every part of our being finds its fulfilment in that which is beyond its present forms of functioning and not in those forms themselves. This conception of the all-governing supreme consciousness does not fall in with our ordinary theories about sense and mind and the Brahman. We know of sense only as an action of the organs through which embodied mind communicates with external Matter... rudimentary supramental action,—and it is this which constitutes the phenomenon of genius,—the second process also becomes more and more easy, spontaneous, rapid and perfect. If we suppose a supreme consciousness, master of the world, which really conducts behind the veil all the operations the mental gods attribute to themselves, it will be obvious that that consciousness will be the entire Knower and... saṁjñāna act, we should then have in our notation of Time some inadequate image of the unity of the supreme action of the supreme energy. If we consider, we shall see that this must be so. The supreme consciousness must not only comprehend and possess in its conscious being the images of things which it creates as its self-expression, but it must place them before it—always in its own being, not externally—and ...
... immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material inconscience. The Supreme Consciousness has manifested itself as supreme unconsciousness. The Divine has lost itself in pulverising itself, scattering itself abroad. Immortality is thus entombed here below in death. The task of the incarnate Supreme Consciousness is to revive the death-bound divinity, to free the human consciousness, re-install... that I must remain. 24 The Divine glory manifests itself for a moment to the earthly consciousness but man refuses to be pulled out of its pigsty. The Grace withdraws but in its Supreme Consciousness of unity and love consoles the fallen creature and gives it the assurance: One day I will return, a bringer of strength... Misery shall pass abolished from the earth; The world ...
... desire to put on airs: all that must be eliminated, absolutely, radically, and replaced by a sincere flame of aspiration, of aspiration for the purity which makes us live only for what the Supreme Consciousness demands of us, which makes us able to do only what it wants, which makes us do only what it wants, when it wants. Then we can be entirely different.... It is a little far along the path, but... habits—not very old—old habits of teaching. So all that: break it! Like that... when you go to class, every day, before you go to class, you should say a kind of prayer, make an invocation to the Supreme Consciousness, and ask it to help you to bring all this mass, this mass of living matter under its influence. Then it will become interesting, living. There you see. Good-bye. And now, for D, a rose... principle the executive power. You must never forget that. And in order to receive the inspiration, you can take support from a masculine consciousness if you feel the need for it. There is the Supreme Consciousness which is more certain, but still, if you need an intermediary... But for the execution, it is you who have the power to carry it out in all the details, with all the power of organisation. I ...
... That was something different than with Pavitra. As for Sri Aurobindo, he... (how can I put it?), he stayed mainly... I found him everywhere: I found him all the way up, absolutely one with the Supreme Consciousness; I found him spread about in many places to see many people and do a lot of work; and I found him (but then, in a precise form, though NOT FIXED—A precise, rather supple form that looked like... very hard to explain, but at any rate, the sense of the permanence of separation has completely disappeared, completely The universe is an exteriorization ( same gesture of pulsation ) of the Supreme Consciousness; it's our incapacity of total vision that enables us to have that sense of fixity: there is none, it's something like pulsations or... really a play of forms—there is only ONE being. There is... even in its appearance. It's something else. You understand, the states one could be in when one was in the highest consciousnesses—those that were united, were automatically one with the Supreme Consciousness and were conscious of the whole—those states have become the body's natural state. Effortlessly, spontaneously: it cannot be otherwise. So what's going to happen? How is it going to take expression ...
... material in conscience. The Supreme Consciousness has manifested itself 1 Bk. III: Canto 4: pp. 390-391. 2 Bk. III: Canto 4: pp. 391-392. Page 100 as supreme unconsciousness. The Divine has lost itself in pulverising itself, scattering itself abroad. Immortality is thus entombed here below in death. The task of the incarnate Supreme Consciousness is to revive the death-bound... made, that I must remain." 1 The Divine glory manifests itself for a moment to the earthly consciousness but man refuses to be pulled out of its pig-sty. The Grace withdraws but in its Supreme Consciousness of unity and love consoles the fallen creature and gives it the assurance: 1 Bk. VII: Canto 4: P.574-6. Page 111 One day I will return, a bringer of strength... ...
... immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material inconscience. The Supreme Consciousness has manifested itself as supreme unconsciousness. The Divine has lost itself in pulverising itself, scattering itself abroad. Immortality is thus entombed here below in death. The task of the incarnate Supreme Consciousness is to revive the death-bound divinity, to free the human consciousness in its... 505-507. Page 13 The Divine glory manifests itself for a moment to the earthly consciousness but man refuses to be pulled out of its pigsty. The Grace withdraws but in its Supreme Consciousness of unity and love consoles the fallen creature and gives it the assurance: One day I will return, a bringer of strength... Misery shall pass abolished from the earth; The ...
... separate from the Divine. That is how Matter is born as or in inconscience. And the creation appears as evil. This sense of separation is a falsehood for in reality nothing is separate from the supreme Consciousness, all is That. To regain the Truth-sense, to move upward in the cycle of ignorance and falsehood towards this Truth-sense is the world-labour and also human labour. Even in the state of... of all appearances the Unity, the Truth-consciousness remains intact behind. It is never effaced or obliterated. The sense of earthly evolution is the gradual unfolding of the Divine, the Supreme Consciousness in and through the gradations of consciousness from the inconscience through unconsciousness and consciousness to supra-consciousness – Matter wholly transmuted into Light. (2) GOD ABOVE... Page 220 within the creation. He is not only over our head looking down upon us. He is within our heart inspiring us, enlightening us, loving us. This is the dynamic Divine, the Supreme Consciousness concealed within the apparent inconscience of the material existence. It is that which pushes creation upward in its evolutionary course. It is that which lies behind man's ignorance purifying ...
... is found within the material particle of atom. The Inconscient is pre-existent to the material creation. The one indivisible Reality and its pure consciousness: that is the origin. This Supreme Consciousness chose to objectify himself, bring himself out of himself, witness himself in play – the Upanishad says, the One wished to have a second, a companion. to himself, sa dwitiyam aichhat. This... terrible line of destiny that freedom had taken and ended in: she could stand it no longer and a cry went out for succour, for help. And the answer came immediate, a ray shot down from the one Supreme Consciousness and entered into the womb of Inconscience. Lo, the miracle, Matter was born, the first creation, the first manifestation of the Supreme Grace. Matter holds in it the spark of consciousness that... more into the enveloping gloom of Inconscience, illumining it farther and farther, pushing its frontiers ever backward and away. The birth of Matter coincided with another descent of the Supreme Consciousness; it is a descent in graded stages linking up the highest to the lowest through intermediate formations: they are telescoped into Matter so that Matter might lodge and express them gradually ...
... dynamism. In this dynamism, it is possible to bring an intervention of a force of consciousness that can be called supreme or divine. This brings ultimately into the picture the function of a supreme consciousness. Is God or divinity or whatever is the ultimate reality only a static condition of consciousness or is it dynamic in its movement? Is a dynamic intervention of this consciousness possible? Savitri... solid cone, that can rise just like that, until only a thin veil divides it from the Absolute, from the Infinite; so each instrument of human nature is capable of contacting almost directly the supreme consciousness. That is why the mind cannot govern the vital being fully, cannot perfect it; the vital has its own right to approach the Supreme. The life force in man would not submit permanently to... after one year of his marriage. What is this mechanism at work? Is it mechanical determinism? Secondly why is such an unmerited pain or suffering inflicted on an innocent human being? If a supreme consciousness and mercy is at work as the ultimate Reality, why should there even be the existence of pain? Subjectively, this determinism brings about reactions of ignorance and pain on the part of man; ...
... into contact with the supreme consciousness and reflecting its nature and by the elimination of the vital, mental, physical egoism so that their whole function shall be to reflect the One and Supreme that Brahman can be known by the gods in us and possessed. The conscious force that supports our embodied life must become simply and purely a reflector of that supreme Consciousness and Power of which its... supreme Nature from whom the whole cosmic action takes its birth; she is the pure summit and highest power of the One who here shines out in many forms. From this supreme Nature which is also the supreme Consciousness the gods must learn their own truth; they must proceed by reflecting it in themselves instead of limiting themselves to their own lower movement. For she has the knowledge and consciousness ...
... things were already there, they existed and were therefore determined—but not your discovery. Surely only a consciousness identified with the supreme Consciousness can have this feeling of absolute freedom. So long as you are not one with the supreme Consciousness, you necessarily have the impression or the feeling or idea that you are subject to the law of a higher Will, but the moment you are identified... speaking this is what is actually happening, and we can say with certainty that the supramental world already exists, but the time has come for it to become the object of the journey of the supreme Consciousness, and then, gradually, a conscious link will be formed between this world and that, and they will have a new relation as a result of this new orientation of the journey. This explanation is ...
... desire to put on airs: all that must be eliminated, absolutely, radically, and replaced by a sincere flame of aspiration, of aspiration for the purity which makes us live only for what the Supreme Consciousness demands of us, which makes us able to do only what it wants, which makes us do only what it wants, when it wants. Then we can be entirely different... It is a little far along the path, but... not very old old habits of teaching. So all that: break it! Like that... when you go to class, every day, before you go to class, you should say a kind of prayer, make an invocation to the Supreme Consciousness, and ask it to help you to bring all this mass, this mass of living matter under its influence. Then it will become interesting, living. There you see. Good-bye. And now, for U,... principle the executive power. You must never forget that. And in order to receive the inspiration, you can take support from a masculine consciousness if you feel the need for it. There is the Supreme Consciousness which is more certain, but still, if you need an intermediary... But for the execution, it is you who have the power to carry it out in all the details, with all the power of organisation. I ...
... reveal in Matter, in Time-Space, in figure and body what was once self-held only in an eternal unembodied self and spirit. In order that this evolution might be, an implacable plunge of supreme Consciousness and Being into an apparent void of insentience, inconscience, non-existence was inevitable; for without that plunge, immergence, seeming yet effective annihilation [in] its opposite the creation... and forces of his Nature a game of emergence from the inconscient Self out of which all here began, through the mixed and imperfect consciousness which is all we have now reached, towards a supreme consciousness, a divine nature. This we cannot now know; our eyes are fixed on a partial outer manifestation which we see and call the universe—though even now we see and know very little of it or about... he cannot make of the proletariat a universal aristocracy. 55 There are two states of being, two levels or limits between which all existence stands or moves, a highest limit of supreme consciousness, an omniscient Superconscience, a nethermost limit of supreme unconsciousness, an omnipotent Inconscience. The secret of consciousness reveals itself only when we perceive these two limits and ...
... chased, I ran from one cabin to another, looking for some corner or the other to take refuge. Yes, that's it. It's very tiring. Only, if in your sleep you remained in touch with the supreme Consciousness, instead of feeling chased, you would probably have felt that you WANTED to be there, that you were not wanted and were hiding so as to do your work. It's simply a nuance in the sensation, you... you know, a rage. We must hold out. That's what I said to myself: we just have to hold out, there's nothing else to be done. And the only way is... you understand, it's to cling to the Supreme Consciousness ( Mother clenches her two fists ), and to cling to such a point that It alone exists—not to be directly conscious of the surrounding ill will. That's very important. You see, there is NOTHING... getting serious!" The vital world has started rebelling. That's it: before going to sleep, you should concentrate with the will—an obstinate will—of being completely identified with the Supreme Consciousness, like this ( same gesture with clenched fists ), whatever happens. So the circumstances will be the same, but instead of that discomfort at being chased, you see everything with... you see how ...
... EVERY SECOND between the old laws of Nature—with some mental influence and the whole life as it has been organized—the choice between that, the government by that, and the government by the supreme Consciousness, which is equally present (the feeling of the Presence is equally strong); the other thing is more habitual, and then there's the Presence. It's every second (it's infinitely interesting), and... : the nerves, for instance... if a nerve obeys all the various laws of Nature and mental conclusions and all that—the whole caboodle—then it starts aching; if it obeys the influence of the supreme Consciousness, then a strange phenomenon takes place... it's not like something getting "cured"—I might rather say, like an unreality fading away. And that's the life of every second, for the smallest... second, or ceasing to lean on it. To the cells, that choice appears to be a free choice, with a very strong sense (but not at all formulated in words) of the support constantly given by the supreme Consciousness to help them rely on it alone. It's not mentalized—hardly mentalized at all—and almost impossible to formulate. But it's very clear. Very clear... what is it? It's not in the sensation—it's ...
... I seem to see... almost to measure the quantity of veils preventing him from seeing and feeling the supreme Consciousness. It has become very interesting: someone is in front of me, I look at him or her, concentrating and concentrating and concentrating until the contact with the supreme Consciousness is established, and I can measure the reaction: with some, when they are here, it's very difficult... at business seems to me quite outdated, it's not that! It's... The Lord is there, everywhere and always! (I say "the Lord" so as to avoid making lengthy sentences, but sometimes I say "the supreme Consciousness" to be less—what shall I say?—less childish, because all that is childish, everything we say.) But the experience is becoming more and more wonderful. How far away I was when I spoke like ...
... (2) The Divine Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to change the mortal earth into an immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material inconscience. The Supreme Consciousness has manifested itself as supreme unconsciousness. 1 Op. cit. Book III: Canto 4 pp. 380; 386. 2 Op. cit. Book III: Canto 4 pp. 390-391. 3 Op. cit. Book III: Canto 4... 391-392. Page 261 The Divine has lost itself in pulverising itself, scattering itself abroad. Immortality is thus entombed here below in death. The task of the incarnate Supreme Consciousness is to revive the death-bound divinity, to free the human consciousness in its earthly life from the obscurity of the material unconsciousness, re-install it in its original radiant status... I must remain. 1 The Divine glory manifests itself for a moment to the earthly consciousness but man refuses to be pulled out of its pigsty. The Grace with draws but in its Supreme Consciousness of unity and love consoles the fallen creature and gives it the assurance: One day I will return, a bringer of strength.. Misery shall pass abolished from the earth; ...
... created by God but that God has become and is the world at the same time: man is not merely God's creature but that he is made of God's substance and is God himself. The Spirit has shed its supreme consciousness, that is to say, overtly has become dead matter; God has veiled his effulgent infinity and has taken up a human figure. The Divine has clothed his inviolable felicity in pain and suffering,... embodying that essence— manu-shim tanum ashritam. Man too, however earthly and impure he may be, is essentially the Page 6 Divine himself, carries in him the spark of the supreme consciousness that he is in his true and highest reality. That is how in him is bridged the gulf that apparently exists between the mortal and the immortal, the Infinite and the Finite, the Eternal and the... Misery: he encompasses all misery within himself, penetrates as well into the stuff and substance of all misery, but suffuses all that with the purifying and transforming pressure of his own supreme consciousness. And yet pain and suffering are real, cruelly real, even to the Divine Man. Just as the ordinary human creature suffers and agonises in spite of the divine essence in him, in spite of his other ...
... found within the material particle of atom. The Inconscient is pre-existent to the material creation. The one indivisible Reality and its pure consciousness: that is the origin. This Supreme Consciousness chose to objectify himself, bring himself out of himself, Page 19 witness himself in play—the Upanishad says, the One wished to have a second, a companion to himself, sa... freedom had taken and ended in: she could stand it no longer and a cry went out for succour, for help. And the Page 20 answer came immediate, a ray shot down from the one Supreme Consciousness and entered into the womb of Inconscience. Lo, the miracle, Matter was born, the first creation, the first manifestation of the Supreme Grace. Matter holds in it the spark of consciousness... into the enveloping gloom of Inconscience, illumining it farther and farther, pushing its frontiers ever backward and away. The birth of Matter coincided with another descent of the Supreme Consciousness; it is a descent in graded stages linking up the highest to the lowest through intermediate formations: they are telescoped into Matter so that Matter might lodge and express them gradually ...
... separate from the Divine. That is how Matter is born as or in inconscience. And the creation appears as evil. This sense of separation is a falsehood for in reality nothing is separate from the supreme Consciousness, all is That. To regain the Truth-sense, to move upward in the cycle of ignorance and falsehood towards this Truth-sense is the world-labour and also human labour. Even in the... the Truth-consciousness remains intact behind It is never effaced or obliterated. Page 67 The sense of earthly evolution is the gradual unfolding of the Divine, the Supreme Consciousness in and through the gradations of consciousness from the inconscience through unconsciousness and consciousness to supra-consciousness—Matter wholly transmuted into Light. (2) God... creation. He is also here within the creation. He is not only over our head looking down upon us. He is within our heart inspiring us, enlightening us, loving us. This is the dynamic Divine, the Supreme Consciousness concealed within the apparent inconscience of the material existence. It is that which pushes creation upward in its evolutionary course. It is that which lies behind man's ignorance purifying ...
... created by God but that God has become and is the world at the same time: man is not merely God's creature but that he is made of God's substance and is God himself. The Spirit has shed its supreme consciousness, that is to say, overtly has become dead matter; God has The Gita, IX. 33 Page 25 veiled his effulgent infinity and has taken up a human figure. The Divine has... person embodying that essence— manusim tanum asritam. Man too, however earthly and impure he may Page 27 be, is essentially the Divine himself, carries in him the spark of the supreme consciousness that he is in his true and highest reality. That is how in him is bridged the gulf that apparently exists between the mortal and the immortal, the Infinite and the Finite, the Eternal and the... Misery: he encompasses all misery within himself, penetrates as well into the stuff and substance of all misery, but suffuses all that with the purifying and transforming pressure of his own supreme consciousness. And yet pain and suffering are real, cruelly real, even to the- Divine Man. Just as the ordinary human creature suffers and agonises in spite of the divine essence in him, in spite of his other ...
... work. (2) The Divine Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to change the mortal earth into an immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material inconscience. The Supreme Consciousness has manifested itself as supreme unconsciousness. ¹Op. cit. Book III: Canto 4: pp. 380; 386. ²Op. cit. Book III: Canto 4: pp. 390-391. ³Op. cit. Book III: Canto 4: pp. 391-392. ... Page 241 The Divine has lost itself in pulverising itself, scattering itself abroad. Immortality is thus entombed here below in death. The task of the incarnate Supreme Consciousness is to revive the death-bound divinity, to free the human consciousness in its earthly life from the obscurity of the material unconsciousness, re-install it in its original radiant status of the Divine ... Nature made, that I must remain.¹ The Divine glory manifests itself for a moment to the earthly consciousness but man refuses to be pulled out of its pigsty. The Grace with draws but in its Supreme Consciousness of unity and love consoles the fallen creature and gives it the assurance: One day I will return , a bringer of strength. . Misery shall pass abolished from the earth; The world shall ...
... Horses = vital energy; cows=light-energy; either kind = mixture of the two, e.g., mental energy; goat = aja = (lit.) unborn; the primal or pristine energy, that of Mother. ² The Supreme Consciousness sacrificed Himself, descended into Matter and became the Inconscient. Page 142 Thus indeed they reached the heavens in their mightiness where dwell the the... tradition of Knowledge. OM! I bow to the lotus feet of the most revered Guru! The Supreme Shiva is an intense and concentrated Delight, luminously aware of his integral, infinite and supreme consciousness, with all the gathered rays of the supernal awareness. He has no other form than that of light. He is whole and undivided. But when he emits the rays of his light he assumes the form of the... commonly found in all the Vedas. It is the essence of all Vedic mantras, Brahmanas and Upanishads. It is the Queen of the Shaktichakra, a wave of supremely great light, a form or embodiment of supreme consciousness. This is a mystic truth inherited from a tradition of Gurus. The tradition enjoins that to realise this Maha-Vidya a sadhaka should take an initiation and do the ceremonial worship as directed ...
... involution, the One Existence and Consciousness is plunged in the universe into its opposite — the Inconscient, the seeming total absence of consciousness. Evolution is the process by which the Supreme Consciousness liberates itself from Inconscience, resulting in the manifestation of progressively higher levels of consciousness. The scientific theory of physical evolution, states Sri Aurobindo, deals... supramental being. The structural-hierarchical aspect of Wilber's model of development reflects Sri Aurobindo's concept of the evolutionary gradations of consciousness from Inconscience to the Supreme Consciousness. Sri Aurobindo's concept of Supermind has been misconstrued by some as representing a superior level of the Mind principle. But in Sri Aurobindo's experience, Supermind, unlike the ...
... functioning under the direct guidance and the direct influence of the Supreme … The whole automatic habit of thousands of years must be changed into a conscious action directly guided of the Supreme Consciousness.’ 10 Words, yes, abstract words. She could relate her experiences only with words, and this was going to become a big problem for her. But what happens when one experiences such a transition... visitors on their birthday. The Mother considered that day very special in the life-rhythm of everyone. ‘It is a very special day, for it is the day of decision, the day one can unite with the Supreme Consciousness. For the Lord lifts us on this day to the highest possible region so that our soul, which is a portion of that Eternal Flame, may be united and identified with the Origin. This day is truly ...
... changed into a conscious action directly guided by the supreme Consciousness.’ 30 Yes, it is clear that a supramental body, as described a few pages earlier, must function in a manner different from the human body we are so familiar with and which gives us so much trouble. A divine body must be divinely moved, yes, by the supreme Consciousness – one can more or less imagine that. But to change from ...
... unanimous construction of a spirit of the earth." 41 "We have seen and admitted that evolution is an ascent towards consciousness.... Therefore it should culminate forwards in some sort of supreme consciousness." 42 37.For further discussion see Supplementary Note on p. 93. 38. The Phenomenon of Man, p. 60. 39. An Introduction to Teilhard de Chardin, p. 77, 40. The... the "within" of panpsychism is the same as the "within" which forms "a new domain of psychical expansion", realises the unity of the world and enjoys, through an ascent towards "some sort of supreme consciousness", union with Alpha-Omega. Indeed, Alpha-Omega is the divine "within", whose diverse phenomenal expressions or manifestations are the graded psy-chisms from the most elementary form of interior ...
... cosmic field and has authority over the world movement or some part of it or some movement in it. But the Four of whom you speak are also Shaktis, manifestations of different powers of the supreme Consciousness and Force, the Divine Mother, by which she rules or acts in the universe. And they are at the same time divine Personalities; for each is a being who manifests different qualities and personal... significance,—the essential perception of the essential presence supporting everything else. (7) The Transcendent Mother This is what is termed the Adyā Shakti; she is the supreme Page 106 Consciousness and Power above the universe and it is by her that all the Gods are manifested, and even the supramental Ishwara comes into manifestation through her—the supramental Purushottama ...
... Sachchidananda, the supreme consciousness, then with three minutes of that state you can have more rest than in eight hours of sleep. It is not very easy, no.... It is the consciousness absolutely conscious but completely still, in the full original Light. If you get that, if you are able to immobilise everything in you, then your whole being participates in this supreme consciousness and I have well observed ...
... what moment does Time begin? The Consciousness that chooses—is it in Time as soon as the unrolling begins? Page 161 No, Time is a succession; you must be able to conceive that the Supreme Consciousness, before objectifying itself, becomes aware of Itself in Itself. There is a global, total and simultaneous perception and there, there is no Time. Likewise one cannot speak of "Space", for the... Time. In this state of consciousness one does not have the impression of things being born, passing, disappearing, does one? Page 162 Oh, no! Nothing of the kind. "The Supreme Consciousness knows everything before-hand, because everything is realised there in her eternity. But for the sake of her play and in order to carry out actually on the physical plane what is foreordained ...
... the Inconscient to change it into Page 241 consciousness. Therefore, it can be said that the formation of the material worlds as we know them is the result of the descent of the supreme Consciousness into the Inconscient. It cannot be said that there was something prior to that, things as we know them in the material world ( I apologise for the ambiguity of my words, but you understand one... The other worlds have been organised more or less hierarchically, if one may say so, but the earth has a special formation due to the direct intervention, without any intermediary, of the supreme Consciousness in the Inconscient. Have the solar fragments the same matter as the earth? I have taken care to tell you that this radiation was a symbolic creation, and that all action on this special ...
... very difficult to explain, but in any case the feeling of the permanence of the separation has disappeared altogether. The universe is an exteriorisation ( same gesture of pulsation ) of the Supreme Consciousness; it is our incapacity for a total vision which gives us the sense of fixity; it is not there, it is something like pulsations or... in fact, it is a play of forms—there is only one Being.... even in appearance. It is a different thing. Well, the states in which one could be when one is in the highest consciousness, those that united, those that were automatically one with the Supreme Consciousness, that possessed the consciousness of all—that state has become the natural state of the body. Effortless, spontaneous: it cannot be otherwise. So what is going to happen, how is that going to ...
... objective reply to a letter If the supreme consciousness is incarnated and manifests itself in this body, all the denials in the world cannot prevent it from being so. And if it is not so, my physical existence can be interesting 1 only to those who have faith and who, with the help of this faith, can, through me, enter into contact with the Supreme Consciousness. Page 48 The question ...
... ourselves, are we really heard, always, in spite of our clumsiness and imperfection, in spite even of our bad will and our error? And who hears? You who are with us? And is it you in your supreme consciousness, an impersonal divine force, the force of Yoga, or you, Mother Page 72 in a body, with your physical consciousness? A personal presence that really knows each thought and each act... playing its own particular role? I am with you because I am you or you are me. I am with you, that signifies a world of things, because I am with you on all levels, on all planes, from the supreme consciousness down to my most physical consciousness. Here, in Pondicherry, you cannot breathe without breathing my consciousness. It saturates the atmosphere almost materially, in the subtle physical, and ...
... action of the supreme Consciousness, and that addition, or judgment, was still something quite relative—relative to time, to the occasion, the person; it's not an absolute: in one case, a particular clothing will be a perfect expression, and in another case, the same clothing won't be.... It was a long experience of the relativity of the mental world with regard to the supreme Consciousness expressing ...
... you know, so absolute: "Where is the person? Where, where is the individual? Where is the person? Where..." And with such a clear vision of the supreme Consciousness, which, on the other hand, is the ONLY permanent consciousness—the supreme Consciousness at play in all that, all those movements, all those actions, all those... But it was felt and lived in such a concrete way that I saw, for instance ...
... orders to the body (but all those words are idiotic; when I utter them they disgust me). You understand, that's where the relationship with the Supreme Consciousness is established permanently and constantly—I say Page 76 "Supreme Consciousness," I've adopted these words so as not to make sentences all the time; I might say "the Divine," but the Divine is so totally present everywhere that ...
... extraordinary sense of humor. Well, there you are. So it's all right. In a way, it's all right. I feel it's still... Let's see, let me try to mentalize a bit: the impression is as if the supreme Consciousness had undertaken the work of transformation of the body and were doing it thoroughly, but also without hesitation, without compromise or anything of the sort, and... the question is whether the... will," there's this movement of... ( gesture of dilation and expansion ) what should I call it?... It's like an easing in all the cells—they ease up. They ease up in the supreme Light, in the supreme Consciousness, like that. Then you feel the form is about to disappear, but... ( Mother looks at the skin of her hands ) it must be the consciousness contained in the cells [that spreads about]; I don't think ...
... he has the capacity to understand. His consciousness is capable of contacting the supreme Consciousness. So naturally there are all those who wanted to merge back into that Consciousness, but Sri Aurobindo said: the point is not to merge back into it but to make the world capable of manifesting that supreme Consciousness. Basically, it's that. How did they know?... There must have been a reason ...
... 57-64 Japan, 41, 57-62, 64 1920 (Return to Pondicherry), 64 Jiva or Jivatman, 261-2 1926(Overmental creation), 84,86-7 Junction (of body consciousness with supreme consciousness),138 1926 (Organization of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, beginning of), 87 1950 (Departure of Sri Aurobindo), 101 Krishna, 12-3, 85 1951 (Sri Aurobindo I... of the way, difficulties of, 69 1959 (Discovery of Sri Aurobindo in his abode in the subtle physical), 131 Lele, 8-9 1961(Junction of body consciousness with the supreme consciousness), 134-44 Letters of Sri Aurobindo, 87 1962 (Manifestation of the supreme love), 144-56 Levitation, 13 1968 (Auroville, inauguration of), 178-9 ...
... world of Idea-Force which Page 299 Sri Aurobindo has named Supermind: it is beyond the mind, even the highest mind: it is the typal concentration of the Supreme Consciousness. It is the fulcrum for the Supreme Consciousness to create and express a new formulation of the Truth in the world of matter. The mind, the highest mind, in its attempt to grasp the Supreme Reality is prone to reject ...
... their separate qualities are not really separate. In the final account of things, the account held in the Supreme Consciousness, at the highest height, these diverse elements or movements are diverse but not exclusive of one another. When they find themselves in the supreme consciousness, they do not, like the rivers of which the Upanishads speak, move and merge into the sea giving up their ...
... and there indeed she was, ministering to her ailing or frightened child. As she confided to her children: I am with you... because I am with you on all levels, on all planes, from the supreme consciousness down to the most physical.... But that apart, there is a special personal tie between you and me, between all who have turned to the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and myself... distance does... The present is the seventh creation and, being based on the principle of "a progressive equilibrium", it will prevail and evolve and perfect itself. The four original emanations from the Supreme - Consciousness, Bliss, Truth, Life - lost contact with their origins and became Inconscience, Suffering, Falsehood and Death. There is now played on the terrestrial scene the drama of redemption of these ...
... seem to accept her full share of human sorrow and pain: If she remained in her supreme consciousness where there is no suffering... she could not have any contact with human beings.... Only, she does not forget: she has adopted their consciousness but she remains in relation with her own real, supreme consciousness.... By taking the human body, one is obliged to take on human nature, partially. Only ...
... to be free to undo the work of the day. Page 49 Have you tried a small prayer before going to sleep A prayer that the sleep may become an offering of the physical being to the Supreme Consciousness. 3.7.1968 Once Mother spoke to me about total sincerity. What does transparent sincerity mean? Sincerity is compared to an atmosphere or a sheet of glass. If the one or the... 27.12.1968 Is the perception of the illusory appearance automatic for the Yogi? That probably depends on the Yogi and his condition. But when one is united with the Supreme Consciousness and when the body is in the course of transformation, the body keeps its automatic perception of the outer world, but this perception is more complete than the ordinary one, as if it revealed ...
... beatitude. In that which, out of Thy puissance and marvellous light, forms the centre and reality of the atoms of Matter I find Thee; thus without going out of Thy Presence I can disappear in Thy supreme consciousness or see ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, Dec. 5, 1912. Page 179 Thee in the radiant particles of my being. And for the moment that is the plenitude of Thy life... into "a higher scale of Nature." The mind is not the highest degree of consciousness accessible to man on earth; there are higher degrees and levels hierarchically graded and leading to the supreme consciousness, to which man can attain without abolishing himself. And that is, indeed, the intended crown and culmination of his evolution through birth and death—the full and perfect recovery and revelation ...
... es in their nature. She has descended upon earth to participate in their nature. Because if she did not participate in their nature, she could not lead them farther. If she remained in her supreme consciousness where there is no suffering, in her supreme knowledge and consciousness, she could not have any contact with human beings. And it is for this that she is obliged to take on the human consciousness... consciousness and form, it is to be able to enter into contact with them. Only, she does not forget: she has adopted their consciousness but she remains in relation with her own real, supreme consciousness. And thus, by joining Page 387 the two, she can make those who are in that other consciousness progress. But if she did not adopt their consciousness, if she did not suffer with their sorrow ...
... express that. Page 284 But how is this addition made? Eh, this addition?... This addition of a new element... Yes. By the aspiration of the supreme Consciousness. The aspiration of the supreme Consciousness? Yes. It is at work in this world and, working in this world, for the necessity of the work, it works for a certain end, you see, to bring the darkened consciousness ...
... humour which smiles at difficulties and laughs at mistakes. Then everything will go well. What mirror is that which can reflect the Supreme? Consciousness itself. It is because that is there, without it one would never get anywhere. If the supreme Consciousness were not at the centre of all creation, never could the creation become aware of the Consciousness. To transform the vital one must ...
... cosmic field and has authority over the world-movement or some part of it or some movement in it. But the Four of whom you speak are also Shaktis, manifestations of different powers of the supreme Consciousness and Force, the Divine Mother, by which she rules or acts in the universe. And they are at the same time divine Personalities; for each is a being who manifests different qualities and personal... —the essential perception of the essential presence supporting everything else. Page 454 (7) The Transcendent Mother This is what is termed the Adyā Shakti; she is the supreme Consciousness and Power above the universe and it is by her that all the Gods are manifested, and even the supramental Ishwara comes into manifestation through her—the supramental Purushottama of whom the ...
... out of all contacts and happenings their secret divine sense and essence, a divine use and purpose so that by experience our mind and life may grow out of the Inconscience towards a supreme consciousness, out of the divisions of the Ignorance towards an integralising consciousness and knowledge. It is there for that and it pursues from life to life its ever-increasing upward tendency and insistence;... existence; it has grown visibly on the surface in the manifold branchings of the Ignorance which is still the main bulk and condition of our consciousness in its difficult evolution towards a supreme consciousness and an integral awareness. As long as there is this soil with the unfound roots in it and this nourishing air and climate of Ignorance, the tree will grow and flourish and put forth its dual ...
... examination of other supramental and inframental as well as higher and deeper mental powers of consciousness that we can arrive at the whole reality. And in the end all depends on the truth of the supreme Consciousness—or the superconscience—that belongs to the highest Reality and the relation to it of Mind, Supermind, Infra-Mind and the Inconscience. All indeed changes when we penetrate the lower and the... equally superficial, for behind it and acting through it is the divine All Knowledge. Here in its intermediate status, it seems to be a standing compromise between the two opposites, between the supreme Consciousness and the Nescience, but may prove rather in a larger view of our data to be an incomplete emergence of the Knowledge to the surface. This compromise or imperfect emergence we call the Ignorance ...
... comes and implores me to die; so the only thing I do, and can do, is to establish contact in a constant and unalloyed way between... (what should I call it?) the destiny of that body and the Supreme Consciousness, like that. And then, all kinds of things have taken place: one left in an hour—died absolutely healthy, you understand. And very recently, I had another extraordinary example: someone comes... mind, but I can't cut his head off! ( laughing ) He is clinging on like this ( same gesture )." Two days later, gone! My method is always the same, of course: full concentration of the Supreme Consciousness on the person, removing all obstacles. It works like this, like that... ( gesture of moving about here and there ). And it's like a factual demonstration that ALL the rules we have established ...
... " Because there's always, always this, this which doesn't budge ( gesture above the head, like an unshakable will ), there is always the consciousness of... reaching, reaching the Lord, the Supreme Consciousness... reaching the Lord. This is stable. This is durable. And then: "If all this still has to dissolve, it will dissolve; if it can evolve, it will evolve; if it has to go through all these troubles... in contact with suffering, people, miseries, difficulties, why, why? Why... why? ( Satprem lays his forehead on Mother's feet ) Since this Creation can be a marvel identical with the Supreme Consciousness, why, why did it have to go through all this? ( Mother draws a circle that comes back to its starting point ) Now and then that comes to it. But obviously, it's idiotic, because it's ...
... we pray or struggle with an inner problem—in spite of our blunders and imperfections, even in spite of our ill will and mistakes? And who hears? You who are with us? Is it you in your supreme consciousness, an impersonal divine force, the force of the yoga, or you, the embodied Mother with your physical consciousness—a personal presence really intimate to our every thought and act, and not some... things, each playing a particular role? I am with you because I AM you or you are me. 'I am with you' means a world of things, for I am with you at every level, on every plane, from the supreme consciousness to my most physical consciousness. Here, in Pondicherry, you cannot breathe without breathing my consciousness. It permeates the atmosphere in the subtle physical almost materially and extends ...
... is [only] sadhana stage. Not [only] remember, you're [to] become Mother. First you remember, remember Mother; after, you're in the Mother. Mother means that Supreme Consciousness, you are become one with that Supreme Consciousness. 7 (Pause) But this not come one day, two day. Can't possible,is not a miracle or anything there. You have Her Grace you can make miracle. Her Grace anything ...
... of existence which is without day and night the unity of the all-containing supreme Existence (eka poorana) was realised. It was realised also as the one infinite and eternal Bliss of the supreme Consciousness. The world of play of Truth-knowledge is found in the depth of silence. The whole universal movement is the play of the Lord of the Truth-world, the play of Knowledge-Will, the play of... Light rising up over the earthly sky, spreading its golden red Light of Truth into the whole material earth. The golden red Light of Truth is verily the concrete physical form of the highest supreme consciousness. The descending Golden Light becomes the golden red Light when reaching into matter and the material world and the material body. The phenomenal universe which is derived and born from ...
... three. Nothing but ships!... Am I going to travel? No, no! To travel in space. You'll read afterwards, it's not important.... ( the first card ) "... For the awakening of the Supreme Consciousness and its power of vision." ( the second card ) "... So the most beautiful dreams may become living and true realities." ( meditation ) About these ships, you asked if they indicated... the vital, many in the mind, but ... none of that is satisfying, one always gets a sense of a not quite accurate transcription.) But the true vision is the vision of the Consciousness, the supreme Consciousness. And he told me that's what you would have. The ship is the development, the means of advance towards that realization. It all came like that. So I have every reason to hope it will be ...
... Consciousness?" So I was here, sitting like this, and the person was sitting where you are (a little more to the side), and I saw with my open eyes the Consciousness (not this consciousness: the Supreme Consciousness) come down ( gesture like a column of light before Mother )... That, mon petit, it can't be Page 170 described.... I was like this ( eyes wide open ), and I saw it come ( same gesture... had experiences—which the other parts of the being had IN THEIR OWN WAY, but now this way this physical way is so concrete!... So concrete and tangible.... The body can say, "I have SEEN the Supreme Consciousness," like people in the past who said, "I have seen God."—This body doesn't believe in God... it believes in something much better than God! ( laughter ) There. Is that all? Do you have anything ...
... presentation to those finite consciousnesses through a particular perceiving arrangement, namely, sense- experience, which produces the impression of materiality. In fact, to regard the sole and supreme Consciousness in such a light harmonises best with the picture our perception gives us - the picture of many finite beings and a world-order. Then we shall have an outer world other than each consciousness... hidden reality monies in an essentially common form to the various conscious beings: it comes so because, on the one hand, the same hidden reality is presented to them and, on the other, ^e same supreme Consciousness is their secret self of selves. Commencing with consciousness we can arrive at a non- materialistic philosophy in which the living core of solipsism is combined both with pluralism of ...
... objective point of view If the supreme consciousness is incarnated and manifests itself in this body, all the negations in the world cannot prevent this from happening. And, in any case, my physical existence can be interesting only for those who have faith and who, by virtue of this faith, can, through me, enter into contact with the supreme consciousness. The question has no importance ...
... consciousness is involved in action, for action is the essence of Life. In the superconscient action re-enters into Light and no longer contains involved knowledge but is itself contained in a supreme consciousness. Intuitional knowledge is that which is common between them and the foundation of intuitional knowledge is conscious or effective identity between that which knows and that which is known; it... energies. It holds back this, advances that other, but according to its own preconceiving Idea-Will." 31 The supramental consciousness is founded, according to Sri Aurobindo, upon the supreme consciousness of the timeless Infinite but has too the secret of the deployment of the Infinite Energy in time. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: "It can either take its station in the time consciousness ...
... t rather quickly (in fact, I think it can happen just as soon as one has found the Divine within). But does this give the power to TRANSFORM DIRECTLY? Does the direct junction between the supreme Consciousness and the Inconscient (because that is the experience) give the power to transform the Inconscient just like that, without any intermediary? I don't think so. I simply haven't had that experience... in my room that day, so tall (laughing) that his head touched the ceiling! He was bathed in his own special light, a play of red and gold,. magnificent! Just as he is when he manifests his supreme consciousness—a formidable being! So I stood up and... (I too must have become quite tall, because my head was resting on his shoulder, just slightly below his head) then he told me, 'No, I'm not tying myself ...
... without knowing it. About yesterday's poem, 241 I dreamt that it was exceedingly fine—only a dream! But who said it wasn't? I am sorry I don't understand where you get "lower and supreme consciousness" in yesterday's poem, nor how you make "magic bars separate" them... I don't get these things anywhere "in" the poem—naturally, because the poem is not a treatise on metaphysics or spiritual... the removal of the "lid" well-known to shut mind from what is beyond mind. Especially as there is an infinity of "thought", the sky must be the sky of mind and mind is part of the lower (non-supreme) consciousness. If that is not the meaning, I am damned if I know what the meaning can be—at any rate, if there is any other, it surpasses my capacity and range of spiritual or occult knowledge. As for the ...
... Mayavadin's inane Unity. The Puranic multiplicity is perhaps a corrective of the Vedantin's empty Absolute. The Vedantin's negation of the world for the realisation of the Brahman, the Supreme Consciousness, is an effective way so far as it goes but it does not really negate the world. One only turns one's back to the world and says, "It is not there". We face the Sun and cast our shadow behind... but is made luminous, in every particle a radiant and glorious body. This transfiguration is possible, nay, inevitable, because the higher realities, the truth-expressions of the Supreme Consciousness are there always self-existent in their total purity and pressing down upon earth and displacing the lower mayic shadow-realities. We need not seek to pull down what is already descending ...
... with their separate qualities are not really separate. In the final account of things, the account held in the Supreme Consciousness, at the highest height, these diverse elements or movements are diverse but not exclusive of one another. When they find themselves in the supreme consciousness, they do not, like the rivers of which the Upanishads speak, move and merge into the sea giving up their separate ...
... the Highest. It is the world of Idea-Force which Sri Aurobindo has named Supermind: it is beyond the mind, even the highest mind: it is the typal concentration of the Supreme Consciousness. It is the fulcrum for the Supreme Consciousness to create and express a new formulation of the Truth in the world of matter. The mind, the highest mind, in its attempt to grasp the Supreme Reality is prone to reject ...
... separate qualities are not really separate. In the final account of things, the account held in the Supreme Consciousness, at the highest height, these diverse elements or movements are diverse Page 148 but not exclusive of one another. When they find themselves in the supreme consciousness, they do not, like the rivers of which the Upanishads speak, move and merge into the sea giving ...
... energy. Page 134 This material body of man has the marvellous advantage of being united, of being able to unite itself with the Supreme Consciousness. Indeed as through his consciousness man has the privilege of ascending to the supreme consciousness, even so in and through the same consciousness, the physical cell also has the privilege of establishing a contact with the Supreme Substance ...
... embodying that essence – manusim tanum asritam. Man too, however earthly and impure he may Page 127 be, is essentially the Divine himself, carries in him the spark of the supreme consciousness that he is in his true and highest reality. That is how in him is bridged the gulf that apparently exists between the mortal and the immortal, the Infinite and the Finite, the Eternal and the... Misery: he encompasses all misery within himself, penetrates as well into the stuff and substance of all misery, but suffuses all that with the purifying and transforming pressure of his own supreme consciousness. And yet pain and suffering are real, cruelly real, even to the Divine Man. Just as the ordinary human creature suffers and agonises in spite of the divine essence in him, in spite of his other ...
... the Mayavadin's inane Unity. The Puranic multiplicity is perhaps a corrective of the Vedantin's empty Absolute. The Vedantin's negation of the world for the realisation of the Brahman, the Supreme Consciousness, is an effective way so far as it goes but it does not really negate the world. One only turns one's back to the world and says, "It is not there". We face the Sun and cast our shadow behind... the Sun but IS made luminous, in every particle a radiant and glorious body. This transfiguration is possible, nay, inevitable, because the higher realities, the truth-expressions of the Supreme Consciousness are there always self-existent in their total purity and pressing down upon earth and displacing the lower mayic shadow-realities. We need not seek to pull down what is already descending of ...
... transfiguring force or energy. This material body of man has the marvellous advantage of being united, of being able to unite itself with the Supreme Consciousness. Indeed as through his consciousness man has the privilege of ascending to the supreme consciousness, even so in and through the same consciousness, the physical cell also has the privilege of establishing a contact with the Supreme Substance ...
... the Divine". Instead of the soul leaving the body to rise above, the cells of the body were to prepare themselves for the radical transformation, and there would be the descent into it of the Supreme Consciousness. The Mother recalled how she had become ill, and had to retire to her apartment upstairs. Actually her new life was "still more busy than the life downstairs". What had happened, then? She couldn't... more perfect "integral, total, leaving nothing behind", the mental notion of absolutes - regarding death for example - would disappear, and the power would Page 753 be with the Supreme Consciousness, being transferred from Nature or Prakriti to the Purusha. X The Mother's sadhana of the body, however arduous and important was but one aspect of her work, for her attention was ...
... And now He describes how a message sent from the Supreme to repair the harm done wakens up again the Consciousness - as by a kind of imperative influence - to begin to climb up, back to the Supreme Consciousness. This ascent is the evolution.... He is speaking of the starting-point of this evolution. 35 And, always, choosing the simple but apt words, the Mother unravels the "significant... the line "Only a little the God-light can stay," the Mother recalls the aftermath of the supramental manifestation. The atmosphere of the earth is too contrary to the magnificence of the Supreme Consciousness and veils it almost constantly.... It was like that when in 1956 the Supramental Power came down upon earth. It was coming in torrents of Light, wonderful Light and Force and Power, and ...
... .O my divine Master, eternal Teacher, Sole Reality, dissolve all the darkness of this aggregate which Thou hast formed for Thy service, Thy manifestation in the world. Realise in it that supreme Consciousness which will generate an identical consciousness everywhere.” ² All the essential strands of divine service have been woven together in this marvellous Prayer. The right spirit, the right... of the progressive play of God's Light in the material world. Integral Self-Surrender—the Sole Means A loving and unreserved self-surrender of the whole being to the supreme Consciousness-Force is the sole means of becoming a servant of the Divine. So long as the ego persists, surrender has to be effected by a constant and detailed self-offering, and it has to be renewed from ...
... creating here life in matter out of an apparently inconscient material trance as from above he creates all the worlds (not the material only) from a superconscient trance. The reality is a supreme Consciousness—but that is veiled by the appearance on one side of the superconscient sleep, on the other of the material Inconscience. Here the emphasis is on the latter; the superconscient is only hinted ...
... that have attained to the light of thought and the voice of self-expression. They are behind all thought and speech as its impellers and they battle towards the Light, Truth and Bliss of the supreme Consciousness. There are also female energies; for the Deva is both Male and Female and the gods also are either activising souls or passively executive and methodising energies. Aditi, infinite Mother ...
... knowledge can think in the terms of ignorant, groping, limited and divided mind. As the movements of mind are merely representations in the terms of the duality and the ignorance, reflections of a supreme consciousness and knowledge, so the movements of this life-force can only be similar representations of a supreme energy expressing a higher and truer existence possessed of that consciousness and knowledge ...
... real to it; but not as an independent existence. For in that higher and less hampered experience we perceive that consciousness and being are not different from each other, but all being is a supreme consciousness, all consciousness is self-existence, eternal in itself, real in its works and neither a dream nor an evolution. The world is real precisely because it exists only in consciousness; for it is ...
... as a dual principle; it is through her that the Being, the Self, the Ishwara, acts and he does nothing except by her; though his Will is implicit in her, it is she who works out all as the supreme Consciousness-Force who holds all souls and beings within her and as executive Nature; all exists and acts according to Nature, all is the Consciousness-Force manifesting and playing with the Being in millions ...
... the mind and cuts up into sections the unity of the divine progression. THE SEVERAL RHYTHMS The Supreme God in His utter sleep — in one of His profoundest meditations — the Supreme Consciousness involved in its own substance — is the rhythm of the apparently dead matter that we see around us. The vast oceans roar over Him, the high mountains shoot up upon Him, but still that utter calmness ...
... and cuts up into sections the unity of the divine progression. THE SEVERAL RHYTHMS The Supreme God in His utter sleep — in one of His profoundest meditations — the Supreme Consciousness involved in its own substance — is the rhythm of the apparently dead matter that we see around us. The vast oceans roar over Him, the high mountains shoot up upon Him, but still that utter calmness ...
... constituted of our substance and will assist us in its transformation. Page 79 According to Sri Aurobindo, from the moment in which individual consciousness has united with the supreme Consciousness, three hundred years will be required for the transformation of our human substance to bring forth the new beings. The first phase of this great work of the union with the Eternal and the Infinite ...
... To bring God down to the world on earth we came, To change the earthly life to life divine. 30 Aswapati and Savitri are the Divine Delegates—the former ascends into the Supreme Consciousness and makes the descent of Savitri a possibility; the latter descends into the Inconscient and makes the ascent of Man into the Superman an assured probability and a promise left in the womb ...
... Consciousness which is above this human and men The rest, whether to do a work (if any work, the nature of the work) or to do a particular work or to remain quiet will all be decided by that Supreme Consciousness which is above us. Then only we become real instrument of that Consciousness and also our surrender to God g a significance and value. Not only our work must not be personal but our work or ...
... involution; therefore the Inconscient is a concealed consciousness and "an inverse reproduction of the supreme superconscience" 13 ; evolution thus is a process of the return of Inconscience to the supreme Consciousness. Implicit in these fundamental Page 30 propositions is the view that nothing is truly unconscious or totally devoid of consciousness; therefore the unconscious spoken of in psychology ...
... beneficiary of our works, but to derive all from and refer all to the divine Supersoul is the way to become superior to all the restless trouble of Nature's modes. For it is to live in the supreme consciousness, of which the ego-mind is a degradation, and to act in an equal and unified Will and Force and not in the unequal play of the Gunas which is a broken seeking and Page 137 striving ...
... other worlds were organised more or less ‘hierarchically’, if one may put it like that, but the Earth has a special formation due to the direct intervention, without any intermediary, of the supreme Consciousness in the Inconscient … I have taken care to tell you that that emanation [i.e. the formation of the Earth] was a symbolic creation, and that all action on this special point radiates out into ...
... above. The previous descent [which resulted in the human being] was a mental descent, and this one Sri Aurobindo calls a supramental descent. The [Mother’s] impression is of a descent of the supreme Consciousness which infuses itself into something that is capable of receiving and manifesting it [i.e. the cells of the body as they have become now]. And then, out of this, when it has been thoroughly prepared ...
... worlds have been organized more or less “hierarchically,” if one may put it this way, but the Earth has a special formation due to the direct intervention, without any intermediary, of the supreme Consciousness in the Inconscient.’ When somebody in the audience then asked: ‘Are the solar fragments made of the same matter as the Earth?’ the Mother replied: ‘I have taken care to tell you that this ...
... understood to occur without rhyme or reason for the thinking mind; else it would be not Grace but Justice. Actually the Aurobindonian Yoga may be described as essentially one of Grace. The Supreme Consciousness of the Mother offers to take up our sadhana and asks of us simply not to stand in its way but to let it handle all our difficulties and remove all our obscurities. This could be taken as ...
... each a type of poetic masterhood, but the rhythm I search for is not dominantly there. The expression is flawless, the music unimpeachable, but where is any assured glow of the voice of some supreme consciousness that rolls from the everlasting to the everlasting, the voice not of that multi-coloured passion which filled the spacious Elizabethan days or that haloed subtlety of emotion which is Shelley's ...
... "delight" which can contain the suggestion of illumination within its significance of rapture. It is entertainment with a purpose and with an earth-fulfilling goal. Nor is it exclusive to the Supreme Consciousness in its aspect of unity which is usually in our mind. This Consciousness has to be viewed as multiple too. For it cannot be conceived to manifest the multiplicity that is our world unless there ...
... world into woods and hills. One band of them, pressing with a motionless mind beyond the confines of thought to sheer spiritual Light, comes back from there with the native word of the supreme Consciousness, the mantra such as we find in the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Gita: Intuitive knowledge leaping into speech, Hearing the subtle voice that clothes the heavens, ...
... that there is a waste product.’ (15 June 1968) ‘The substance of which we are built is not sufficiently purified, illumined, transformed — whatever, the words don’t matter — to express the Supreme Consciousness without deforming it.’ (25 September 1968) ‘Only is rejected what does not exist according to Truth — everything that is not capable of transforming itself into the image of the psychic ...
... on Himself and the Ashram: A Note on the Terminology of The Mother Further Sri Aurobindo discloses in Vol. 25, pp. 62, 64: ... Shaktis, manifestations of different powers of the Supreme Consciousness and Force, the Divine Mother; by which she rules or acts in the universe. And they are at the same time divine personalities; for each is a being who manifests different qualities and personal ...
... nothing can be or happen without this indwelling and all-supporting Presence. A second affirmation which our mind naturally accepts as the consequence of the first postulate, is that by the supreme consciousness and the supreme power of this omnipresent Divinity in its perfect universal knowledge and divine wisdom all things are ordered and governed in their fundamental relations Page 413 ...
... action chaotic, unregulated, uncoordinated, a confused precipitate from an energy which has no longer a conscious centre. The supramental consciousness on the other hand is founded upon the supreme consciousness of the timeless Infinite, but has too the secret of the deployment of the infinite Energy in time. It can either take its station in the time consciousness and keep the timeless infinite as ...
... that which gives them the power to be, is not originally here, but above in the supreme being and consciousness of the infinite. All their true truth, all their real reality is there in that supreme consciousness and here only hidden in the inmost heart of their existence, guhāyām , but not fully expressed in their overt outward phenomena. Therefore to know them only through the externals or through ...
... and ignorant mind but more, doing all actions, sarvakṛt , only with a true knowledge and a greater conscient power. And by so doing he does not forfeit the supreme unity nor fall from the supreme consciousness and the highest knowledge. For the Supreme, however hidden now to us, is here in the world no less than he could be in the most utter and ineffable self-extinction, the most intolerant Nirvana ...
... to light and vision, but a Will to power and works. And since Mind too is created out of it, Mind must be a development by limitation out of this primal faculty and this mediatory act of the supreme Consciousness and must therefore be capable of resolving itself back into it through a reverse development by expansion. For always Mind must be identical with Supermind in essence and conceal in itself the ...
... The phrase means ordinarily "all creatures", but its literal sense is evidently insisted on in the expression bhūtāni abhūt "became the Becomings". The idea is the acquisition in man of the supreme consciousness by which the one Self in him extends itself to embrace all creatures and realises the eternal act by which that One manifests itself in the multiple forms of the universal motion. ...
... one in being; the Parashakti manifests the universe, manifests too the Divine in the universe as the Ishwara and herself appears at his side as the Ishwari Shakti. Or, one may say, it is the Supreme Consciousness-Power of the Page 448 Supreme that manifests or puts forth itself as Ishwara Ishwari, Atma Atmashakti, Purusha Prakriti, Jiva Jagat. That is the truth in its completeness as far ...
... the result of all that has happened before." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 26 May ) What do you mean by this? The universe is in perpetual movement and it is the unfolding of the supreme Consciousness. So all that happens is conditioned by all that preceded it. The universe continues to be what it is because of what it has been, and what it has been was the result of what it was before. And ...
... of it in their physical being than men. Their whole life is a worship of light. Light is of course the material symbol of the Divine, and the sun represents, under material conditions, the Supreme Consciousness. The plants have felt it quite distinctly in their own simple, blind way. Their aspiration is intense, if you know how to become aware of it. On the plane of Matter they are the most open to ...
... Meditations February 11, 1914 As soon as one rises above the perception of contingencies, as soon as one's consciousness is identified with Thy supreme consciousness and one enters thus into that omniscience which I cannot define except as absolute Knowledge, how easy and even a little childish seem all those problems about what should or should not be done ...
... very incomplete one; for when the being becomes aware of Thy presence and is identified with Thy consciousness, it is conscious in all things and everywhere. But the fleeting duration of this supreme consciousness can be explained only by the complexity of the elements of the being, by their unequal illumination and by the fact that they enter into activity successively. It is, moreover, because of this ...
... Thy Being ... O my divine Master, eternal Teacher, Sole Reality, dispel all darkness in this aggregate Thou hast formed for Thy service, Thy manifestation in the world. Realise in it that supreme consciousness which will awaken the same consciousness everywhere. Oh, no longer to see appearances which incessantly change; always to contemplate in everything and everywhere only Thy immutable Oneness ...
... beatitude. In that which, out of Thy puissance and marvellous light, forms the centre and reality of the atoms of matter I find Thee; thus without going out of Thy Presence I can disappear in Thy supreme consciousness or see Thee in the radiant particles of my being. And for the moment that is the plenitude of Thy life and Thy illumination. I see Thee, I am Thyself, and between these two poles my intense ...
... to overcome them. If only from the point of view of a legitimate pride, man should be noble enough to renounce desire. How humiliating to ask something for oneself from life or from the Supreme Consciousness which animates it! How humiliating for us, how ignorant an offence against Her! For all is within our reach, only the egoistic limits of our being prevent us from enjoying the whole universe ...
... yourself who close the door—it Page 315 is as though you were putting an iron curtain between yourself and the free action of the Grace. How nice it would be to imagine that the Supreme Consciousness, essentially free, presiding at the universal Manifestation, could be full of fantasy in its choice and make things follow one another not according to a logic accessible to human thought but ...
... with the Divine. But there is something which lies beyond; it is precisely a state of perfect delight which is not static: delight in a progressive manifestation, a perfect unfolding of the supreme Consciousness. The first of the two states I spoke about leads almost always to a withdrawal from action, an almost static condition, and very easily would it lead to Nirvana—in fact, it has always been ...
... words. Consciousness is the origin of all creation—without consciousness, no creation. And what we call "consciousness" is just a far-off contact, without precision and exactness, with the supreme Consciousness. Or if you like, it is the reflection, in a not very exact or pure mirror, of the original Consciousness. What we call our consciousness is this original Consciousness reflected in a somewhat ...
... developing them... it's a kind of hierarchy which is established among individuals and their degree of development. But, essentially, in each one there is the Divine Presence and therefore the Supreme Consciousness. Only, for some to be able to become conscious of it, it will take thousands and thousands Page 335 of years, and others have by inner and outer circumstances come to the moment ...
... sort of unity that's unconscious of itself, in which the diversity is as unexpressed as it is in the origin. At both ends there is the same absence of diversity. In one case it is through a supreme consciousness of unity, in the other through a perfect unconsciousness of unity. The fixity of form is the means by which individuality can be formed. That's all, then. Page 49 ...
... heaps of little sordid things which one lives constantly, very tiny sordid things. And so there is only one way—there is only one way, always the same: to offer. It is almost as though this Supreme Consciousness were putting you in touch with things long forgotten, which belong to the past, which even are or were or seemed to be completely effaced, with which you no longer have any contact, all sorts ...
... the consciousness that is at the origin of the psychic being. And then there you have to take only a tiny step to find out how this psychic consciousness should reflect and translate the one supreme Consciousness. And there the matter ends. This last step becomes very easy. But it is the secret that's discovered at the end. And when it is discovered, there is no more fighting, for the battle has already ...
... and its felicity, it became suffering. And that is how the world, which was to have been so beautiful, became so ugly. Now, that consciousness (if you like to call it the Divine Mother, the Supreme Consciousness), when she saw this she was very disturbed, you may be sure, she said to herself: "This has really not succeeded." So she turned back to the Divine, to God, the Supreme, and she asked him to ...
... you want to do a thing, when you cannot do a thing, when you move, when the body is no more able to move... in every , every case, that only, only that: to come in conscious contact with the Supreme Consciousness, to be united with it; and... to wait. There! It is then that you receive the exact indication of what you ought to do at each minute—to do or not to do, to act or to be stone still. That ...
... objective and superficial subjective apparent Nature which manifests all these minds, lives and bodies. The supreme Nature, parā prakṛti , concealed behind it is the very nature of the Divine—a supreme Consciousness-Force which manifests the multiple Divine as the Many. These Many are in themselves eternal selves of the Supreme in his supreme Nature, parā prakṛti . Here in relation to this world they appear ...
... not the things or activities that are high or low, it is the consciousness of the doer which is true or false. Page 61 If you unite your consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness and manifest It, all you think, feel or do becomes luminous and true. It is not the subject of the teaching which is to be changed, it is the consciousness with which you teach that must be ...
... follow one path, turn away from another. And that we can do, even though what is actually happening may have been foreseen and predetermined in a higher plane. Page 10 The Supreme Consciousness knows everything beforehand, because everything is realised there in her eternity. But for the sake of her play and in order to carry out actually on the physical plane what is foreordained ...
... Page 275 Competitions 1966 It might be better to remind you that we are here for a special work, a work which is done nowhere else. We want to come in contact with the supreme consciousness, the universal consciousness, we want to bring it down in ourselves and to manifest it. But for that we must have a very solid base; our base is our physical being, our body. Therefore we have ...
... all this, why? When it sees, when it is in contact with suffering, with people, with miseries and difficulties, why, why? Why... why? Since this creation can become a wonder, one with the supreme Consciousness, why, why then was there the need of all that ( Mother describes a circle coming back to the starting-point )? From time to time, this happens to it. In fact, evidently it is meaningless ...
... Notes on the Way 17 July 1971 I have understood that if the Supreme Consciousness had for one single minute the kind of consciousness that men have, the world would be dissolved.... Quite spontaneously, for us, our reaction, our spontaneous reaction to things, to what seems to us bad, is to destroy what is false. The spontaneous reactions. Not to ...
... others low. It is not exact. It is not the things or the activities that are high or low, it is the consciousness of the doer which is true or false. If you unite your consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness and manifest it, all you think, feel or do becomes luminous and true. It is not the subject of the teaching which is to be changed, it is the consciousness with which you teach that must be ...
... day of Victory in remembrance of a very important spiritual event which took place in 1926. 1938 Page 106 The usual sadhanas have for aim the union with the Supreme Consciousness (Sat-chit-ananda). And those who reach there are satisfied with their own liberation and leave the world to its unhappy plight. On the contrary Sri Aurobindo's sadhana starts where the others ...
... say, "It is either one or the other." We say, "That is not true." It is in life and by living life entirely that one can live the spiritual life, that one must live the spiritual life. The supreme consciousness has to be brought here . From the purely material and physical point of Page 330 view, man is not the last race. As man came after the animal, so another being must come after man ...
... 1970 Page 24 Human beings are capable of withdrawing from the Divine―and they often do it; but for the Divine to withdraw from human beings, that is an impossibility. If the supreme Consciousness got angry over the defects of men, humanity would long since have ceased to be. 7 June 1972 Why was not man created good from the beginning? It is not God who made man wicked ...
... January 1934 It is to the sincerity of your aspiration that the Love answers spontaneously. 20 October 1934 Let your aspiration leap forward, pure and straight, towards the supreme consciousness which is all joy and all beatitude. We must aspire with all our being for the manifestation to come soon and complete. 2 February 1935 Prayer of Aspiration Let us go to sleep ...
... wise and approaching the realisation that we are nothing, we know nothing and we can do nothing; only the Supreme Divine knows, does and is . True humility consists in knowing that the Supreme Consciousness, the Supreme Will alone exists and that the I is not . To be humble means for the mind, the vital and the body never to forget that without the Divine they know nothing, are nothing ...
... not much better than democracy, -that is, the system which wants to govern by majority and minority (I mean social democracy, the latest trend). If there is no representative of the supreme Consciousness Page 86 (that can happen, can't it?), if there is no one, then perhaps this could be replaced (it would be an experiment) by the government of a few — which should be decided ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 12, 1914 When, conscious with Thy supreme consciousness, one considers all earthly circumstances, one sees their complete relativity and says, "To do this thing or that, after all that is not of much importance; yet a particular mode of action will be the best utilisation of a certain faculty, a certain temperament. All ...
... That is the secret of Nature. Nature is the executive Force, it is she who does the work. And she takes up this creation, which appears to be totally inconscient but which contains the Supreme Consciousness and sole Reality and she works so that all this can develop, become self-aware and realise itself fully. But she does not show it from Page 321 the very beginning. It develops gradually ...
... of the spiritual Reality. All these variations were necessary; the evolutionary endeavour of Nature has experimented on all lines in order to find her true way and her whole way towards the supreme consciousness and the integral knowledge. " For each of these means or approaches corresponds to something in our total being and therefore to something necessary to the total aim of her evolution. There ...
... is a descent from above. The previous descent was a mental descent, Page 95 and this one, Sri Aurobindo calls it a supramental descent; the impression is that of a descent of the supreme Consciousness which infuses itself into something that is capable of receiving it and manifesting it. And then, out of this, when it has been thoroughly churned (how long it will take, one does not know) ...
... just as it had to be in order to do "the thing"—something nobody knows how to do externally, nobody! Nobody can know—neither the process nor... anything. It's entirely new. Of course, the supreme Consciousness knows what It's doing and what's going to happen, in that It knows what It wants; but it isn't something that operates from cause to effect, and from events or circumstances to consequences ...
... one day—I was facing the same problem: what really is? And clearly, it is utterly impossible to understand with the mind. But I had a vision of a kind of infinite Eternity through which the Supreme Consciousness voyages 7 ; and the path this Consciousness travels is what we call the 'manifestation.' And this vision explained absolute freedom, it explained how both things—absolute freedom and absolute ...
... there actually will be a change. But truly, EVERYTHING was changed at that moment: something was achieved. It was the perception of Power—the Power that comes from Love (what Love is to the Supreme Consciousness, which has nothing to do with what we usually mean by the word 'love'). And it was... it was simple! None of those complications resulting from thought, intellect, understanding—all that was ...
... psychological combinations in the being can only be worked out through experience. This experience may take a few lifetimes, a few years, a few months, a few minutes. When seen from the supreme consciousness, the unfolding of all the destinies and all the possibilities of destiny is something infinitely interesting. For example, there are beings accused of megalomania because they have vast projects ...
... picture is certain, for I have studied it, I have studied their differences in quality and the texture of the pictures. It is very interesting. Basically, I see more and more that the Supreme Consciousness makes use of ANYTHING AT ALL when the time comes. In these Questions and Answers , for example, you had wanted to edit out the words 'Sweet Mother' since people from the West might not ...
... low things. It is not exact. It is not the things or activities that are high or low, it is the consciousness of the doer which is true or false. If you unite your consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness and manifest It, all you think, feel or do becomes luminous and true. It is not the subject of the teaching which is to be changed, t is the consciousness with which you teach that must be ...
... of identical importance, in that both are equally essential for the realization to be a true realization. On the one hand, there is what Sri Aurobindo—who, as the Avatar, represented the supreme Consciousness and Will on earth—declared me to be, that is, the supreme universal Mother; and on the other hand, there is what I am realizing in my body through the integral sadhana. 2 I could be the supreme ...
... 27 December 1968 Is the perception of the illusory appearance automatic for the yogi? That probably depends on the yogi and his condition. But when one is united with the Supreme Consciousness and when the body is undergoing transformation, the body keeps its automatic perception of the outer world; but this perception is more complete than the ordinary one, as if it revealed something ...
... the information proper to each plane, so as to have the integral truth of things. Thus, when I have a decision to make in regard to one of you, I plug into you directly from that level of the supreme consciousness which sees the deep truth of your being. But at the same time, my decision is shaped, as it were, by the information given to me by the other planes of consciousness and particularly by the ...
... then it explained how it all became like this ( Mother makes a gesture of reversal ): the distortion of the universe. And I was wondering how it was possible, with that Consciousness, that supreme Consciousness, to relate to the present, distorted universe. How to make the connection without losing that Consciousness? A relationship between the two seemed impossible. And that's when that sort of Voice ...
... probably) in the extreme tension of circumstances. Let me explain myself: The Help is ever present, in the sense that you unquestionably feel that the Force acts (the "Force," that is, the supreme Consciousness and supreme Knowledge), the Force acts with a sort of pressure on all people and all circumstances, in a favorable direction so that what happens may truly be the best—and the best hierarchically; ...
... true meditation—the brain blank, immobile and turned upward. This is the necessary condition to receive the answers. If you can hand over the care of your existence and your development to the Supreme Consciousness, then peace will enter your heart and your problems will be solved. 16 June 1966 What exactly should I do to accelerate the sadhana? Wait quietly for the exact indication; all ...
... advance on the way, the more the need of the Divine Presence becomes imperative and indispensable. Page 187 24 April 1973 Beyond man's consciousness Beyond speech O Thou, Supreme Consciousness Unique Reality Divine Truth ...
... could say thanks to all this (not even "because of"—THANKS TO all this), I have had these last days, these last three days, the vision—the concrete vision, showing how at every second, the supreme Consciousness (which I personally find convenient to call the "supreme Lord"), how at EVERY SECOND, it makes you do or say or see or know ex-act-ly what is needed for everything to move like this ( round ...
... message for the opening of the Ashram's sport season: ) "It may be good to remind you that we are here for a special work, a work not done anywhere else: we want to come into contact with the supreme consciousness, the universal consciousness, we want to receive it and manifest it. For that, we need a very solid base, and our base is our physical being, our body. We therefore need to prepare a solid, ...
... transition (along with what has transformed them, changed them or even simply altered them through successive manifestations), the transition up to the point when they are now presented before the supreme Consciousness for the final transformation. This is a perpetual work, so to speak, because, interestingly, it's a work I can Page 243 go on doing while seeing people. Generally my work was interrupted ...
... to be done and how it should be done (not outwardly: inwardly). These cells should learn to have at each second the attitude necessary for everything to unfold smoothly, in rhythm with the supreme Consciousness. To replace the need for immobility and immobile rest by the power of inner concentration and inner peace—that peace which is perfectly independent of action, which can be there, unchanging ...
... to write it out well! Leave it all, it's enough, all that is private, it's good for the Agenda . One day I'll draw a picture—a living picture because it will be perfectly lived—of the supreme Consciousness, which is both Nothingness and Totality at the same time. And then, the day when I am able to put that experience into words, it will be something with weight. But wait a little, we must wait ...
... I told you, it came on the 24th, I had all kinds of experiences (you too told me!), but never this one: the material personality, the body—absolutely dissolved. There only existed ... the Supreme Consciousness. And that, I must say, has remained. It has remained in the sense that ... I can no longer eat, I can hardly rest anymore, I see literally hundreds of people and things and papers and ... This ...
... pierce through that in order to... get to something true. That's what they expect of me, of course. So then, when they're here (it's uniform and general), it's as if I were clinging to the Supreme Consciousness and... pulling it like that, onto the person who's there, without Page 458 uttering a word. And then, the interesting thing is that this Consciousness is there and it sees, it sees ...
... send my letter... What's to be done? I don't know. That, mon petit... ( silence ) It's difficult. Yes .... But when you turn above or aspire, or when you're like that, open to the Supreme Consciousness, is it concrete? Oh, yes, it's solid. It's concrete? What's needed... You understand, there's only ONE way, it's for the ego to go away, that's all. That's the thing. It's when, instead ...
... time you make contact there, it's like that. And it contains everything, but ... you are not concerned with that. 1 And naturally, it's supreme rest, supreme power, supreme knowledge, supreme consciousness ... and something more. × With what it contains. ...
... ( silence ) It's after noting a considerable number of such facts that I began being like this: simply bringing, almost by force ( Mother brings down her two arms with force ), the Supreme Consciousness in contact with the earth. That's all. ( silence ) F. told me there was a piece of land by the sea where you'd like to have a hut? Oh, you know, it's just a manner of speaking! ...
... something ( Mother laughs ), here it is: "Tolerance is only the first step towards wisdom. The need to tolerate indicates the presence of preferences. He whose consciousness is one with the Supreme Consciousness meets all things with a perfect equanimity" They puff themselves up like that, they still think themselves highly superior because they have "tolerance"—and tolerance is looking down on ...
... invincible... (how Page 16 should I put it?), it cannot be affected in any way: it doesn't receive from outside, it receives only from the psychic consciousness, or directly from the supreme Consciousness. And now it's going about here and there! ( Mother laughs ) These two, the vital and the mind, care very little—very little—for the body's well-being: it's merely an instrument meant to ...
... with that [superman consciousness] around it, and the Consciousness kept saying to him, "The individual is nothing, abdicate, abdicate the individual—be sincere, abdicate the individual. The supreme Consciousness alone is...." It didn't touch him. I don't know if something in him received it, but he didn't notice it.... We'll see. × ...
... has been going on for a long time—but how much longer will it have to last?... It's... at bottom it's a horrible thing. But I understand one thing, it's that there should be EITHER the Supreme Consciousness OR inconscience; it's the transition between the two that's horrible: a half consciousness is still worse. ( long silence ) The sort of artificial harmony the body lives in is due almost ...
... that Movement. That's probably what he calls "the Law." (A.R.:) That's right. In the manifestation, it's the Consciousness that expresses itself. And if you identify with it, this Supreme Consciousness, this Divine Consciousness is what makes you act. But as I understand it, the "law" he refers to is a mentalization of this Movement, and that's not necessary—what's necessary is the IDENTIFICATION ...
... infinitude, and, I might say, "multiplicity," but the words are poor), anyway it was a totality taken up in the consciousness—a totality of ways of being and vibrations—and as if presented to the Supreme Consciousness so it may be transformed, so it may cease to exist. That's how it began. Then, once that was done, it was as if concretized, concentrated on this little point of a body, so that, there ...
... strike ), at the slightest hint they would charge down. And one is obliged to hold them ( immobilizing gesture ), to take great care not to have the least indignation, otherwise ... And the supreme Consciousness above, looks on, and so ... That's the supreme Smile. I told you about the meeting with Durga. Kali is there, waiting. And naturally, it's the great power—the great power, a power ... you ...
... everyone says what has always been said millions of times over: "A great personality, this and that...." All the usual nonsense. So I wrote this: There is no other consciousness than the Supreme Consciousness. Page 292 There is no other will than the Supreme Will. There is no other life than the Supreme Life. There is no other personality than the Supreme Personality, the One and ...
... certain things have to remain as they are and there should be nothing to disturb those people—but the body is quite unconcerned about that. The conscious, active being is turned only to the supreme Consciousness and exclusively concerned with doing what this Consciousness wants it to do, and so there are, as it were, people (or someone) whose responsibility is to see that things can be understood in ...
... existence; it has grown visibly on the surface in the manifold branchings of the Ignorance which is still the main bulk and condition of our consciousness in its difficult evolution towards a supreme consciousness and an integral awareness. As long as there is this soil with the unfound roots in it and this nourishing air and climate of Ignorance, the tree will grow and flourish and put forth its dual ...
... September 23, 1970 ( Mother appears very withdrawn. ) I found some old papers again.... ( Satprem reads ) "When you stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness you must not make a shadow." I told you the story.... 1 That's fine. ( silence ) What have you brought? There is the November Bulletin.... Is there anything new? No ...
... And so my body, the body, said, "But I am like that too!" It saw its.... Oh, my God... ( Mother clasps her hands together ) I understood Page 196 that if for a single minute the Supreme Consciousness had the kind of consciousness men have, the world would be dissolved. Quite spontaneously, our reaction, our spontaneous reaction to conflicts, to what seems bad to us, is: let's dissolve the ...
... has been a dream of some elixir vitae, a cry for the kingdom of heaven on earth, a vision of the perfect human form pre-existing as a kârana sharira or causal body in the empyrean of the Supreme Consciousness. What has not been there is the intuition that if all has come from the Divine into an evolutionary universe all must have an inevitable divine consummation and that in the Supermind, where ...
... in its orbit by its own inner consciousness and power at one with the universe, at one with a supreme Transcendence. Its madness is a wise madness of Ananda, the incalculable ecstasy of a supreme consciousness and power vibrating with an infinite sense of freedom and intensity in its divine life-movements... —a dance this also, a whirl of mighty energies, but the Master of the dance holds the hands ...
... eternally supporting the energy. That is the true existence, the Life from which our life proceeds." 1 If only we can open ourselves, even in our bodily system, to the action of this supreme Consciousness-Force, we shall never have any dearth of energy for the functioning of our life-processes. In the words of The Mother: "[It] is a source of energy which, once discovered, never dries ...
... gly, the call for surrender to the divine will. The quality of faith, of surrender to the will of God, represents an eternal value in the history of mankind. For all those who believe in a supreme consciousness at the core of all that is, whatever name they may give to It, the example of faith and surrender set by Muhammad and his followers can only be inspiring. For introduction, text and notes ...
... It is going into a higher consciousness without being able to maintain contact with the instrumental nature. SATYENDRA: Is it the Absolute Consciousness. SRI AUROBINDO: If you mean the Supreme Consciousness, no. If it had been that, he would have either gone into it for good or come down and established a harmony and balance in his instrumental nature. But this must have been a higher consciousness ...
... involved. And they have converged towards a single aim and purpose. That purpose is not only the establishment of the global consciousness, but the expression and embodiment of the highest, the supreme consciousness. The process here too, as in the domain of extension, is one of graduation, advance by stages. The light, the light of awakening consciousness first touches the more easily accessible parts ...
... revealed to you that Inconscience is not total absence of consciousness, it is simply consciousness asleep, in-gathered, entranced. And this nether consciousness is, after all, one with the supreme Consciousness. It is itself the best weapon to bring about its own transformation. Not only the higher self, but the lower self too must be salvaged and saved by its own self – ā tman ā ā tm ā ...
... own energies. It holds back this, advances that other, but according to its own preconceiving Idea-Will.¹ The supramental consciousness is founded, according to Sri Aurobindo, upon the supreme consciousness of the timeless Infinite but has too the secret of the deployment of the Infinite Energy in time. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: It can either take its station in the time consciousness ...
... integration. Now this all-reconciling dynamic integral spirituality posits that: 8 (i) There is a Permanent above the transience of this manifested world we live in; there exists a supreme consciousness beyond and above this limited consciousness in whose narrow borders we 7.Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, p. 25. 8.Adapted from Sri Aurobindo, mostly in his own words. Page ...
... the spiritual transformation. Sri Aurobindo Page 16 My dear child, on this day of your birth anniversary, let your aspiration leap forward pure and straight towards the supreme consciousness which is all joy and all beatitude. With my tender love and blessings,* The Mother 11.2.48 Devotion to the Divine, fidelity to his work and obedience to his will are the ...
... accordance with the best light available to him at that moment. And while being engaged in the execution of the act he should keep his personal will always offered to the Divine so that the supreme Consciousness can rectify its orientation as and when it deviates from the right path. (ix)Now about the attitude that has to be maintained. The sadhaka should do all that he has to do only for ...
... an inexpressible joy not to have any responsibility for oneself, no longer to think of oneself.... when one lives like this, j quite open, like a flower blossoming in the sun before the Supreme Consciousness, the Supreme Wisdom, the Supreme Light, the Supreme Love, which knows all, which can do all, which takes charge of you and you have no more worries — that is the ideal condition." (M C W ...
... low. It is not exact. It is not the things or the activities that are high or low, it is the consciousness of the doer which is true or false. If you unite your consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness and manifest It, all you think, feel or do becomes luminous and true. It is not the subject of the teaching which is to be changed, it is the consciousness with which you teach that must be ...
... of ignorance of the entire machinery of action in the world and how ultimately action originates in the world. The aim of the teaching is to show that the real origin of action is in the Supreme Consciousness, which is at once immobile and mobile, as described often in the Upanishads (e.g. "It moves and It moves not"), 6 and that all action originates from that state of consciousness which is ...
... movements. The swabhava of the jiva is the movement of the will of one's own becoming, and the nature of that becoming is the direct manifestation of Para Prakriti. Thus each soul is a force of Supreme Consciousness that formulates a Real-Idea of the Divine, Purushottama; it is guided by the Real-Idea in its . action and evolution, its progressive self-finding, its constant varying self-expression, its ...
... arrives at the aikya stage which leads to union and even identity. This stage of Bhakti is known as samarasa bhakti, where one leaves behind all ideas of differences and merges with the Supreme consciousness. Page 44 However, if we study the Yoga of Bhakti as an intimate process of the heart-yearning of the soul for the Divine, this Yoga resorts itself into four stages: 1. There ...
... back this, advances that other, but according to its own preconceiving Idea-Will." 53 The supramental consciousness is founded, according to Page 58 Sri Aurobindo, upon the supreme consciousness of the timeless Infinite but has too the secret of the deployment of the Infinite Energy in time. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: "It can either take its station in the time consciousness ...
... Sri Aurobindo addresses the recipient as "my dear father-in-law". The first surprise is that one who had apparently Page 25 snapped all worldly relations and had been living in a supreme consciousness, admitted still the old bond, unlike any other yogi. Next, we discover that he had maintained an intermittent connection with his wife also, though in the correspondence I have quoted earlier ...
... XXI: I AM WITH YOU… I am with you because I am you or you are I. I am with you, that signifies a world of things because I am with you on all levels, in all planes, from the supreme consciousness down to the most physical. Here, at Pondicherry, you cannot breathe without breathing my consciousness. It saturates the atmosphere almost materially, in the subtle physical and extends to the ...
... The Indian conception What is the central conception that has governed India's spiritual culture? India's central conception is that at the root of all creation there is a Supreme Consciousness or Spirit. This Consciousness is here incased in matter, involved and immanent in it; and it evolves on the material plane by a process of rebirth of the individual. In this process of evolution ...
... come face to face with the Eternal. My child, it is a very, very special day, for it is the day of decision, the day when one can truly make a tremendous progress, when one can unite with the Supreme Consciousness. For on this day, the Lord lifts us up to the highest possible region so that our soul which is a portion of this Eternal Flame, can unite with it and absorb from the Source. This day is ...
... longer realisations, not even living in the way we conceive of the highest, truest, and most vast. But it is rather ‘being’ — ‘being’ more than ‘becoming’. It is being divine; it is being the Supreme Consciousness; what He is and what He will be, more and more. And… But no one will be able to understand me,… no one!… or grasp;… no one possesses this vision or has the knowledge to understand even a bit ...
... of compact unity in human achievement and also, alas, in human distress! Now if one goes to the very source, the very root of the matter, the cardinal fact of unity is that of the supreme Consciousness, the original oneness of the one Divine Existence. It is the Ultimate One, inviolate, inviolable —ekam sat. That unity is transferred or translated or imaged on all the levels and strands ...
... advances the nature of the best is also transformed. Page 184 There is an absolute best but that can happen only when the consciousness has arrived at, attained union with the Supreme Consciousness. In fact there is then no longer any path to traverse, the path has lapsed or merged into the goal, the path and the goal have become one. This does not mean that dangers and difficulties and ...
... Mother, which was the original meaning of the word 'maya', the Divine Maya. The Divine Mother creates the world and maintains the world in the Delight of her Conscious Existence. She is the Supreme Consciousness (Chinmayee), she is the Power of Delight (Hladini Shakti). The whole bifurcation between Tantra and Vedanta hinges upon one point. The Vedanta overlooked one term of the Truth and missed ...
... of consciousness. The highest formulation of language, the supreme Word –vâk – is ' OM ' – nâda – sabda-brahma. That is the supreme speech - vibration, the rhythmic articulation of the Supreme Consciousness Sachchidananda; the expression there is nearest to silence, almost merges into silence. Our human language cannot expect to attain that supreme height of felicity of expression but wherever ...
... Mother, which was the original meaning of the word 'maya', the Divine Maya. The Divine Mother creates the world and maintains the world in the Delight of her Conscious Existence. She is the Supreme Consciousness (Chinmayee), she is the Power of Delight (Hladini Shakti). The Whole bifurcation between Tantra and Vedanta hinges upon one point. The Vedanta overlooked one term of the Truth and ...
... is the jivatman, the Individual Self, the central being of each individual formation. The Jivas are centres of multiplicity thrown up in the bosom of the infinite Consciousness: it is the supreme Consciousness eddying in unit formations to serve as the basis for the play of manifestation. They are 'not within the frame of manifestation (as the typal formations in the Supermind are), they are above ...
... brain stuff is a task very few have done or even attempted to do. The Tantriks devised a different way, an about-turn way. Instead of trying to bring down the superior or the supreme consciousness into these lower darknesses, they sought to attack these from below, set a blazing fire below that would shoot up its tongues into those nether regions of the brain or mind. Instead of a force ...
... swine – and put an end to them by getting them drowned in water? Page 273 Creation originated from the urge of a descent – the descent, of the highest, the transcendent, the supreme consciousness on this dense, hard and solid earth of Matter in the form of a mass of atoms. The urge of this downward tendency continues also in the personalities and the beings that have appeared in the ...
... consciousness. The right consciousness may on the other hand come from above, in the for of a higher consciousness. The "above" too has many levels or planes. The highest of these is called the Supreme Consciousness. There may be added an intermediary level of the higher consciousness which we term in general the Supramental, a consciousness which begins the first step rising beyond the mind-planes including ...
... Individual Self, the central being of each individual formation. Page 52 The Jivas are centres of multiplicity thrown up in the bosom of the infinite Consciousness: it is the supreme Consciousness eddying in unit formations to serve as the basis for the play of manifestation. They are not within the frame of the manifestation (as the typal formations in the Supermind are), they are above ...
... Spiritual: in between there; are gradations whose number varies according to the mode of the outlook. Reverting to the image of the serpent, one can say that its head represents the spirit, the supreme consciousness, and the tail the other end, matter or supreme unconsciousness. The image, furthermore, gives a graphic picture of the great truth that the extremes meet, the head bends round and catches the ...
... mean isolation: it is a close union, indeed, it is an indivisible unity for all units, all individual formations are identical, for in a sense all are identified with the only reality, the one supreme consciousness. The soul-consciousness is the golden thread running through the chain of light and when it comes forward and becomes dynamic it gradually engulfs and purifies what was its covering, the ...
... advances the nature of the best is also transformed. Page 216 There is an absolute best but that can happen only when the consciousness has arrived at, attained union with the Supreme Consciousness. In fact there is then no longer any path to traverse, the path has lapsed or merged into the goal, the path and the goal have become one. This does not mean that dangers and difficulties and ...
... pronounced and well-defined the more organised and developed is the being. The psychic being in man is thus a direct descent, an immediate emanation along a definite line of devolution of the supreme consciousness. We may now understand and explain easily why one chooses a particular Ishta, an ideal god, what is the drive that pushes one to become a worshipper of Siva or Vishnu or any other deity. It ...
... Supreme plus reality, 'the Supreme Consciousnes”. That is the negative infinite, the great shadow of the Infinite Light. Page 322 The absolute Nescience is the mere reversal of the Supreme Consciousness, the everlasting Nay is the everlasting Yes turned inside out. Death making a right-about turn is Immortality. Modern science speaks of anti-matter and the possibility of a world of anti-matter ...
... surely come about," and that is how you put, as it were, an iron curtain between yourself and the free action of the Grace. Page 156 How good would it be to imagine that the Supreme Consciousness, essentially free, that presides over the universal manifestation, is fanciful in its choice and that it makes things succeed each other, not according to a logic that is accessible to the human ...
... different. In mathematical jargon, the tensor is the same, the vector different. Page 37 If you fall to any depth, you can rise to the same height. God has fallen from the Supreme Consciousness down into the abyss of inconscience: he is rising to the same peak with a new victory. The destiny of man is governed and worked out by a Power beyond human calculation. That Power is ...
... Vedic cows: as the Rishi says – Paliknirid yuvatayo bhavanti – even those of them who were grey with age, became young again.¹ Naturally it does not matter at all to the Divine, the supreme consciousness – the whole eternity is his play-field, a million years this side or that do not count for Him anything. And yet, we are human beings and we can have other vistas equally divine ...
... other forces from toprung sources. The higher the source the greater, more substantial and permanent is the miracle. The miracle of miracles awaits the destiny of man on earth when the supreme consciousness of the Divine will descend here into Matter and mould all mortality into immortality. Page 390 ...
... in its effects and works. In the higher experience of the supramental cosmic consciousness, it is perceived that consciousness and being are not different from each other, but all being is a supreme consciousness, all consciousness is self-existent, eternal in itself. One can go one step farther. The Conscious Energy is seen to be one with the Being that creates the universe, but at the same time it ...
... mainly all that the Mind has brought in terms of rigidity and absoluteness and near invincibility—that's what... is going to disappear. And simply by... handing the supreme power over to the Supreme Consciousness. That may be what the sages of old meant when they spoke of handing the power of Nature or the power of the Prakriti over to the Purusha— handing it from the Prakriti over to the Purusha ...
... Page 70 back this, advances that other, but according to its own preconceiving Idea-Will.'16 The supramental consciousness is founded, according to Sri Aurobindo, upon the supreme consciousness of the timeless Infinite but has too the secret of the deployment of the Infinite Energy in time. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: 'It can either take its station in the time consciousness ...
... separated more and more, the distance grew slowly, so much so that they were completely separated, and the Shakti was so far away from her Lord that she went to the other extreme. Brahman was the supreme consciousness above, and She became the absolute dark Matter below. And Brahman too Page 24 separated utterly the other way from his Shakti and went off in the contrary direction, towards ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 6 TOWARDS REDEMPTION As I have often said, creation is the self-objectivisation of the Supreme Divine; it is the supreme consciousness putting itself out of itself so that it may look at itself. In so doing—in self-objectifying and self-dividing— it scattered itself abroad: the one infinite multiplied itself into infinite ...
... matter as the ultimate densification. The ascent is an evolution, that is an emergence from matter and a development of the powers of consciousness concealed in matter. The limitation of the supreme Consciousness, its burial in matter in order to evolve a complex universe by a progressive emergence of the powers of this consciousness, is the key to the universe. Matter is the same in essence as cons ...
... The dawn is the source of all the cosmic forms of consciousness from the physical upwards. Usha is the Mother of the Cows and she can only be a power of the supreme light, the light of the Supreme Consciousness, Aditi. Non-existence of the truth of things is the first aspect of things that emerges from the inconscient ocean, and its darkness is a Vedic night which holds the worlds and their unrevealed ...
... petals represent the four powers of the Mother. The twelve petals represent the twelve powers of the Mother manifested for her work. * It is the symbolic design of the white Lotus of Supreme Consciousness, with the Mahashakti (the form of the Mother as universal creation) at the centre in her four aspects and twelve attributes. * India is not the earth, rivers and mountains of this land ...
... years at a stretch. The memory of my first visit in 1918 awoke in me all the old impressions vividly. I saw then that even at that early period Sri Aurobindo was for me the embodiment of the Supreme Consciousness. I mentally began to search for the exact time-moment when I had come to know him. Travelling far into the past I found it was in 1914 when I read a notice in the Bombay Chronicle about the ...
... of union-in-difference between the Divine and the human soul. This rapture is implied but not felt in the Sâyujya of the Adwaitin, in which the individual consciousness is abolished in the supreme Consciousness, and there is no persistence of the relation of the knower and the object of knowledge to admit of a human enjoyment of the bliss of the perfect union. But this bliss is the highest experience ...
... He has conquered Life. He has conquered Death. He has conquered All. Krishna the Lord has descended! 52 And Jaya Devi records: I was told: "Mahashakti, the Supreme Consciousness-Force, has descended into Sri Aurobindo." I could myself see light and glory bursting out of his body. Next day when I was carrying with me two garlands of tulasi leaves, I heard that ...
... "wherever there is something going wrong", there he - or his representative - is active. Coming back to the question on 16 June 1954, the Mother said the first original emanations from the Supreme - Consciousness (Light), Bliss (Ananda, Love), Truth, Life - lost their contact with their Origin, and thereby became flawed and perverted as Unconsciousness, Suffering, Falsehood and Death. The redemption ...
... one reality, there is only one life, there is only one consciousness (Mother brings down her fist): the Divine. 36 Speaking again on 17 July, the Mother said wryly that, if the Supreme Consciousness acted egoistically like men for a single minute, well, the world would be dissolved! How ridiculous the world was when seen with the gift of divine vision! Oh the fatuity of men! and their frightful ...
... activities were greatly curtailed, the Mother gave Terrace Darshan on the evening of 24 April. Her message for the occasion was: Beyond man's consciousness Beyond speech O Thou, Supreme Consciousness Unique Reality Divine Truth 11 The thousands who had gathered in devotion and heightened expectancy below in the streets felt a great elation and feeling of fulfilment when the ...
... activity; He does not fall from His timeless eternity when He plunges into the flux of Time. How can we, then, unite with Him in all these modes and ways of His being, unless we attain to that supreme consciousness which is capable of multiple concentration? The traditional method of Samādhi or trance may be needed sometimes to effect a first entry into some remote or recondite region of the being, ...
... divine Consciousness, the divine Presence, the divine Power (all that wordlessly), the "something".... It's a choice of every second between the old laws of Nature—and the government by the supreme Consciousness. 12 The government of the open air versus the government of the aquarium, we could say. A "choice"; it is easier said than done, for how does it get translated at the level of the cells ...
... creation was colored waves, but not like the colors we have here, it was... this endlessly unfolding creative Vibration. 2 And I was wondering how it was possible, with that Consciousness, that supreme Consciousness, to relate to the present, distorted universe. How to make the connection without losing that Consciousness? A relationship between the two seemed impossible. 3 "But did you go out of your ...
... It's mainly all that the Mind has brought in terms of rigidity and absoluteness and near invincibility—that's what... is going to disappear. And simply by handing the supreme power over to the Supreme Consciousness. 5 A testing ground for the mental subversion. Right down to the cells. The last sedition. And in order that the evolutionary endeavor may hold on to something "concrete" according ...
... order that His constant guidance may be available, it is imperative that the surrender of the aspirant should be ungrudging, unreserved, integral and absolute; and it must be a surrender to the supreme Consciousness-Force of the Divine, the eternal Mahashakti, the supreme Mother. We have now to proceed to consider who this Mother, the sole Pilot of the Integral Yoga, is, and how best we can surrender ...
... sapta gāvaḥ , are her forms and there are, we are told, seven names and seven seats of the Mother. Usha as the mother of the cows can only be a form or power of this supreme Light, of this supreme Consciousness, of Aditi. And in fact, we do find her so described in I.113.19, mātā devānām aditer anīkam , "Mother of the gods, form (or, power) of Aditi". But the illumining dawn of the higher or undivided ...
... of the physical mind and senses. In reality all even here is spiritual coexistence, identity and coincidence; but that is a fundamental truth which we cannot apply until we get back to the supreme consciousness. Till then such an idea would only be an intellectual concept to which nothing corresponds in our practical experience. We have to say, then, using these terms of relation in space and time ...
... and knowledge. To know, to see, to enter into it, to be one with this supreme form of the Supreme becomes then possible, and it is that end which the Gita proposes for its Yoga. There is a supreme consciousness through which it is possible to enter into the glory of the Transcendent and contain in him the immutable Self and all mutable Becoming,— Page 394 it is possible to be one with all ...
... divine Sight, our hearing of the divine Hearing. Nor is that divine Sight and Hearing limited to things physical, but extend themselves to all forms and operations of conscious being. The supreme Consciousness does not depend on what we call sight and hearing for its own essential seeing and audition. It operates by a supreme Sense, creative and comprehensive, of which our physical and psychical sight ...
... to the problem how, being what we are and the Brahman being what it is, we can effect the transition from the status of mind, life and senses proper to man over to the status proper to the supreme Consciousness which is master of mind, life and senses, another and prior question, arises. The Upanishad does not state it explicitly, but implies and answers it with the strongest emphasis on the solution ...
... beneficiary of our works, but to derive all from and refer all to the divine Supersoul is the way to become superior to all the restless trouble of Nature's modes. For it is to live in the supreme consciousness, of which the ego-mind is a degradation, and to act in an equal and unified Will and Force and not in the unequal play of the gunas which is a broken seeking and striving, a disturbance, an ...
... is involved in action, for action is the essence of Life. In the superconscient action re-enters into Light and no longer contains involved knowledge but is itself contained in a supreme Page 71 consciousness. Intuitional knowledge is that which is common between them and the foundation of intuitional knowledge is conscious or effective identity between that which knows and that which is ...
... May all escape from the ordinary consciousness and be delivered from the attachment for material things; may they awake to the knowledge of Thy divine presence, unite themselves with Thy supreme consciousness and taste the plenitude of peace that springs from it. Lord, Thou art the sovereign Master of our being. Thy law is our law, and with all our strength we aspire to identify our consciousness ...
... Consciousness what was needed to be able to receive it without its being distorted, and then it answered me (Mother reads a note): "One has to be able to stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow." Without casting a shadow, yes. That's what it answered. [The Aurovilian:] You mean, to forget yourself completely? To be entirely ...
... gather out of all contacts and happenings their secret divine sense and essence, a divine use and purpose so that by experience our mind and life may grow out of the Inconscience towards a supreme consciousness, out of the divisions of the Ignorance towards an integralising consciousness and knowledge. It is there for that and it pursues from life to life its ever-increasing upward tendency and insistence; ...
... sort of unity that’s unconscious of itself, in which the diversity is as unexpressed as it is in the origin. At both ends there is the same absence of diversity. In one case it is through a supreme consciousness of unity, in the other through a perfect unconsciousness of unity. The fixity of form is the means by which individuality can be formed. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): ...
... better than democracy,—that is, the system which wants to rule by the greatest number and the lowest level—I mean social democracy, the latest trend. If there is no representative of the supreme Consciousness—that can happen, can't it?—if there isn't any, there could be instead, it could be tried, government by a few—a small number set between four and eight, something like that, four, seven, eight—who ...
... required. Above all, it is that: all that the Mind has made as rigid and absolute and almost invincible... all that will disappear. And simply that, by passing the supreme power over to the Supreme Consciousness. Perhaps that is what the ancient sages meant when they spoke of transferring the power of Nature (Prakriti) to Purusha, transferring it from Prakriti to Purusha. Perhaps it was this which ...
... unreal in all the states of being and all the worlds of life, when we have arrived at the perfect and integral certitude of the sole Reality, we must turn our gaze from the heights of this supreme consciousness towards the individual aggregate which serves as the immediate instrument for Thy manifestation upon earth, and see in it nothing but Thee, our sole real existence. Thus each atom of this aggregate ...
... we can follow one path, turn away from another. And that we can do, even though what is actually happening may have been foreseen and predetermined in a higher plane. Page 28 The Supreme Consciousness knows everything beforehand, because everything is realised there in her eternity. But for the sake of her play and in order to carry out actually on the physical plane what is foreordained ...
... what will be bad for you, what to shun and what to pursue—oh, how wearisome it is! But when one lives like this, quite open, like a Page 256 flower blossoming in the sun before the Supreme Consciousness, the Supreme Wisdom, the Supreme Light, the Supreme Love, which knows all, which can do all, which takes charge of you and you have no more worries—that is the ideal condition. And why is ...
... on the contrary, that it is because the world is very bad, very dark, very ugly, very unconscious, full of misery and suffering, that it can become the supreme Beauty, the supreme Light, the supreme Consciousness and supreme Felicity. "If you are vigilant, if your attention is alert, you will certainly receive...an inspiration of what is to be done and that you must forthwith proceed to do." ...
... and to make your sacrifice consciously instead of unconsciously. Page 76 Everything turns around the consciousness, the fact of being or not being conscious. And it is only in the supreme Consciousness that you can attain the perfect expression of yourself. But that the Oneness exists, even if you feel just the opposite, is a fact you can do nothing about, for it is a divine action and ...
... Opening". Sweet Mother, what is the meaning of "a horizontal opening into the cosmic consciousness"? You see, one always has the feeling either of a vertical ascent to the heights of the Supreme Consciousness or a kind of... how to put it?... horizontal widening into a universal consciousness. A universal consciousness means becoming aware of the forces which manifest in the universe and in all ...
... but it takes a long time. And everything is a question of changing the habit. The entire automatic habit of thousands of years has to be changed into a conscious action directly guided by the supreme Consciousness. One is inclined to say that it is much longer and much more difficult because one is surrounded by people and one acts in the world, but if one were not in such conditions, many things would ...
... in that direction, effect a greater transformation of life and bodily function as well as mind but the integral transformation is not likely to be in its power; for it is not in itself the supreme consciousness and does not carry in it the supreme force: although different from mind in the principle and methods of its action, it is only a highest kind of mind with the pure intuition, illumination ...
... creating here life in matter out of an apparently inconscient material trance as from above he creates all the worlds (not the material only) from a superconscient trance. The reality is a supreme Consciousness—but that is veiled by the appearance on one side of the superconscient sleep, on the other of the material Inconscience. Page 240 Here the emphasis is on the latter; the superconscient ...
... described as a face of Nirvanic calm, and that would be an apt and live phrase and not an ugly artifice or twist of rhetoric. It should be remembered that the calm of Nirvana or the calm of the supreme Consciousness is to spiritual experience something self-existent, impersonal and eternal and not dependent on the person—or the face—which manifests it. In these two passages I take then the liberty to regard ...
... objective and superficial subjective apparent Nature which manifests all these minds, lives and bodies. The supreme Nature, Para Prakriti, concealed behind it is the very nature of the Divine—a supreme Consciousness-Force which manifests the multiple Divine as the Many. These Many are in themselves eternal selves of the Supreme in his supreme Nature, Para Prakriti. Here in relation to this world they appear ...
... one in being; the Parashakti manifests the universe, manifests too the Divine in the universe as the Ishwara and herself appears at his side as the Ishwari Shakti. Or, one may say, it is the Supreme Consciousness-Power of the Supreme that manifests or puts forth itself as Ishwara Ishwari, Atma Atmashakti, Purusha Prakriti, Jiva Jagat. That is the truth in its completeness as far as the mind can formulate ...
... into the supreme Permanence, the ascetic casting away as an illusion life in the world and its activities, enjoyments, attractions with the one will to enter into the absolute truth and the supreme consciousness are witnesses to this imperative of knowledge, its extreme examples and exponents. The intention of Nature, the spiritual justification of her ways appears at last in this turn of her energies ...
... that have attained to the light of thought and the voice of self-expression. They are behind all thought and speech as its impellers and they battle towards the Light, Truth and Bliss of the supreme Consciousness. There are also female energies; for theDeva is bothMale and Female and the gods also are either activising souls or passively executive and methodising energies. Aditi, infinite Mother of ...
... of the spiritual Reality. All these variations were necessary; the evolutionary endeavour of Nature has experimented on all lines in order to find her true way and her whole way towards the supreme consciousness and the integral knowledge. For each of these means or approaches corresponds to some thing in our total being and therefore to something necessary to the total aim of her evolution. There ...
... manifest which, though inherently possible, an inevitably self-contained power of spirit, is not a first active element of the absorbed intrinsic self-luminousness and self-evidence of the supreme consciousness. This regard belongs to or brings in another status of the supreme spiritual consciousness, a status in which knowledge as we know it begins; there is a state of consciousness and in it, intimate ...
... must be determined by it and be it, its self-formation. All this can become complete in him only when he has evolved out of the Ignorance into the Knowledge and through the Knowledge into the supreme Consciousness and its dynamis and supreme delight of existence; but some essentiality of these things and their sufficient instrumentation can come with the first spiritual change and culminate in the life ...
... in its orbit by its own inner consciousness and power at one with the universal, at one with a supreme Transcendence. Its madness is a wise madness of Ananda, the incalculable ecstasy of a supreme consciousness and power vibrating with an infinite sense of freedom and intensity in its divine life-movements. Its action is supra-rational and therefore to the rational mind which has not the key it seems ...
... always let things alone? One has the right not to intervene only when one is constantly—constantly and intimately—united with the Supreme: when one is the REPRESENTATIVE of the Force, of the supreme Consciousness. That's all. Otherwise, one must intervene. And he had that sense to the utmost, you understand, it was with him that I learned not to intervene. Otherwise, it's the play of forces, and it's ...
... just when I was capable of replying. It's marvelous! Yes, all that is really microscopically precise. Page 275 Yes, yes, exactly! It's the precision, the exactness—it's the Supreme Consciousness everywhere. We even have difficulty conceiving it, but its obvious... blindingly obvious. ( silence ) Do you have something to say? No, I only have a question of spelling! Oh, ...
... ): an Anguish weighing down, and that's terrible. It's not in the thought, you understand ( same suffocated gesture ). But Mother, this pain of the earth, isn't it to make it call the Supreme Consciousness there too, deep down? Yes, of course. That's what I say to myself, what I try to find, but... There is something to be found. ( very long silence ) It's like this ( same gesture ...
... thing. This ( Mother points to her note ) seems hollow in comparison. To use a very childlike metaphor, it's as if the creation unfolded on a screen, were projected on a screen. Or rather, the Supreme Consciousness is projecting itself on a sort of infinite screen. The experience was... it was obviousness itself! That was IT. But it lasted only a moment. Then, I tried to put it in words. And these words ...
... text again], and there's another ambiguity: "What will that being be like who will come after the superman? I don't know.... Because we are still much too human; when we visualize the Supreme Consciousness in a form, the Supreme Being and so on—the Supreme—we tend to give it a form similar to the human one, but that's our old habit.... I saw that being... So here, are you referring to the ...
... the physical mind and senses. In reality all even here is spiritual co-existence, identity and coincidence; but that is a fundamental truth which we cannot apply until we get back to the supreme consciousness. Till then such an idea would only be an intellectual concept to which nothing corresponds in our practical experience. We have to say, then, using these terms of relation in space and time ...
... also be a realisation of Self in its power. Self as the condition of world-activity and world-existence." 16 The Self in its power is what Sri Aurobindo calls "the self-force" of the supreme Consciousness "conceptually creative of all things, Maya" - Maya in the old Vedic sense: no illusive inexplicable magic somehow superimposed on the Self but that Self's own marvellous energy of measurement ...
... treatment of the problem of waste becomes no more than half the answer of his spiritual philosophy. That half is part of the vision of the world as perfect from the standpoint of the Supreme Consciousness, the vision that all is Brahman. There is another vision which is more typically Aurobindonian on the whole: according to it, perfection has to emerge and evolve, Brahman has to manifest ...
... firmly yet tenderly towards its diamond jubilee. When we shall look back upon the occasion we shall surely record, with a phrase from Savitri, that on that happy date, out of the depths of the Supreme Consciousness, blessing and rewarding her eager workers, There poured awakening streams of diamond light. Page 111 ...
... man to superman; this is the gulf that she has to bridge, the supreme miracle that she has to perform before she can rest from her struggle and discontent and stand in the radiance of that supreme consciousness, glorified, transmuted, satisfied with her labour. The subhuman was once here supreme in her, the human replacing it walks now in the front of Time, but still, aim and goal of the future ...
... you clearly feel it's only an intermediary being. What will that being be like who will come after the superman? I don't know.... Because we are still much too human; when we visualize the Supreme Consciousness in a form, the Supreme Being and so on—the Supreme—we tend to give it a form similar to the human one, but that's our old habit.... I saw that future being (I saw it many years ago): it was ...
... one is conscious of ALL the layers of consciousness and when they form nothing but a unity (but a unity conscious of its multiplicity), it's only then that what's in the deepest depths... the Supreme Consciousness can manifest fully. And in bodies, there are still layers that aren't fully conscious; there are still layers that remain as a residue of all that preceded: the mineral, the vegetable, the animal ...
... when you want to do something, when you cannot do something, when you act, when the body can no longer act... In EACH and EVERY case, that alone—that alone: make conscious contact with the Supreme Consciousness, unite with it, and... wait. There. Then one receives the exact indication of what one has to do every minute—to do or not to do, to act or to remain still. That's Page 292 all ...
... noisy world into woods and hills. One band of them, pressing with a motionless mind beyond the confines of thought to sheer spiritual Light, comes back from there with the native word of the supreme Consciousness, the mantra such as we find in the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Gita: Intuitive knowledge leaping into speech, Hearing the subtle voice that clothes the heavens, Carrying ...
... my room that day, so tall ( laughing ) that his head touched the ceiling! He was bathed in his own special light, a play of red and gold... magnificent! Just as he is when he manifests his supreme consciousness—a formidable being! So I stood up and... (I too must have become quite tall, because my head was resting on his shoulder, just slightly below his head) then he told me, 'No, I'm not tying ...
... similitude of man-man, the supreme terrestrial evolutor. 6 Page 285 × Sachchidananda is the Supreme Consciousness in its triple aspect of Existence ( Sat ), Consciousness ( Chit ) and Bliss ( Ananda ). × ...
... you have to give us a message for the Darshan [of April 24 ]. ( after a silence ) Page 398 This is what comes to me: Beyond man's consciousness Beyond speech O thee, Supreme Consciousness Unique Reality Immutable Truth... ( Mother hesitates and corrects herself ) Divine Truth. 1 ( Mother plunges in ) × ...
... For if she did not participate in their nature, she could not lead them farther … But she does not forget: she has adopted their consciousness but she remains in relation with her own, her supreme consciousness … If she did not adopt their consciousness, if she did not suffer their pain, she would not be able to help them. Hers is not a suffering because of ignorance, it is a suffering because of identity ...
... gives the feeling of imprisonment. How is it to disappear? That I don’t know yet.’ 46 Later, she said that the substance of which we are built is not sufficiently purified to express the supreme Consciousness without deforming it, and that she had the impression that there would be ‘a waste product.’ ‘It will only be the untransformable residue that will really be death,’ she said. 47 Then ...
... forms of being in her heart and above her head] is so natural that I do not pay attention to it anymore: it is my way of being.’ 17 ) Or ‘I’ was ‘the high Lady Above,’ or it was the central Supreme Consciousness, or simply a consciousness enabling her to converse with other people. One could fill pages with definitions of that personal pronoun ‘I’ as used by the Mother in later years. It is therefore ...
... the standpoint of evolution and of everything that is of vital importance to us. ‘The Earth has been formed in a special way by a direct intervention, without anything intermediary, of the supreme Consciousness [the Great Mother] in the Inconscient [after the fall of the four original Beings] … I have taken great pains to tell you that it was a symbolical creation and that every action on this special ...
... this is what is actually happening now, and we can say with certitude that the supramental world already exists, but that the time has come for it to become the goal of the Journey of the supreme Consciousness, that little by little a conscious link will be formed between our world and that new one, and that they will have a new relation as a result of this new turn of the journey.” And the Mother ...
... CWM 8 p. 134) × ‘The atmosphere of the earth is too contrary to the magnificence of the Supreme Consciousness and veils it almost constantly. From time to time It can show and express Itself, but then again this Inconscient atmosphere veils It. It was like that when in 1956 the Supramental Power came ...
... before evening all the sadhaks were asked to assemble. One after another we trooped to the upper hall. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother blessed us all with both hands. I was told: "Mahashakti, the Supreme Consciousness-Force, has descended into Sri Aurobindo." I could myself see light and glory bursting out of his body. End of a Chapter Next day when I was carrying with me two garlands of tulasi leaves ...
... Aurobindo's integral vision reveals to us. Key to the World-Enigma "There is a Permanent above the transience of this manifested world we live in;" 15 there exists a supreme Consciousness beyond and above "this limited consciousness in whose narrow borders we grope and struggle"; 16 there is an Absolute beyond and behind every relative form and figure in this universe. The ...
... [The Mother] has descended upon earth to participate in [her children’s] nature. Because if she did not participate in their nature, she could not lead them farther. If she remained in her supreme consciousness where there is no suffering, in her supreme knowledge and consciousness, she could not have any contact with human beings. It is for this that she is obliged to take on the human consciousness ...
... better than democracy―that is, the system which wants to rule by the greatest number and the lowest level―I mean social democracy, the latest trend. If there is no representative of the supreme Consciousness―that can happen, can't it?―if there isn't any, there could be instead, it could be tried, government by a few―a small number set between four and eight, something like that, four, seven, eight―who ...
... Inconscient rather quickly (in fact, I think it can happen just as soon as one has found the Divine within). But does this give the power to TRANSFORM DIRECTLY? Does the direct junction between the supreme Consciousness and the Inconscient (because that is the experience) give the power to transform the Inconscient just like that, without any intermediary? I don't think so. I simply haven't had that experience ...
... splendour, all will be marvellous. The whole creation speaks of the Divine to him who knows how to hear within his heart. 8 December 1965 There is no other consciousness than the Supreme Consciousness. There is no other will than the Supreme Will. There is no other life than the Supreme Life. There is no other personality than the Supreme Personality, the One and the All. 17 ...
... in Notes on the Way , Volume 11 of the Collected Works of the Mother. To be able to receive the new consciousness without deforming it: One must be able to stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow. 16 April 1969 Page 105 There is only one new fact—from the beginning of this year a new consciousness has manifested and is working energetically ...
... drop without any artificial means? Page 111 (3) In case the population decreases in the future, what will be the fate of so many souls that have evolved so far? There is a Supreme Consciousness that governs the manifestation. His wisdom is certainly much greater than ours. So we need not bother about what will happen. Blessings. The Lord is always victorious―in his own way ...
... and aspects―Light and Knowledge, power, Love and Beauty. This is our conception of it and the aim we follow. 24 February 1936 The usual sadhanas have for aim the union with the Supreme Consciousness (Sat-chit-ananda). And those who reach there are satisfied with their own liberation and leave the world to its unhappy plight. On the contrary, Sri Aurobindo's sadhana Page 33 starts ...
... play. To get entirely free from these limitations one must reach the Transcendent Divine. Page 230 The only hope is in the capacity of the invisible Power! Only the supreme consciousness can have an effect on your Karma and this consciousness is independent, above all human consciousness. The Supreme Power is taking up all the movements. It will turn them into the Truth ...
... es but from inner liberation. Find your soul, unite with it, let it govern your life and you will be free . Blessings. 31 August 1966 Freedom is to do only what the Supreme Consciousness makes us do. In every other case one is a slave, whether of the will of others, or of conventions, or of moral laws, or of vital impulses, or of mental fancies, or, above all, of the desires ...
... explain? Those beings have an independence, an absolute freedom of movement (although at the same time, they are all a single Being), but they had the true sense of perfect Unity only with the supreme Consciousness. And now with this present intervention [Mother's], with this incarnation Page 224 and the establishment of the Consciousness here, like this ( Mother makes a fist in a gesture of ...
... omnipotent monster. Page 260 But Sri Aurobindo adds that it is better to try to understand instead of condemning. And surely the best way to understand is to unite with this Supreme Consciousness so as to see as It sees and understand as It understands. This is certainly the only true wisdom. And Yoga is the true way of uniting with the Supreme. 15 October 1969 ...
... necessary. Above all, it is this: all that the Mind has brought of the rigid, the absolute, the almost invincible... will disappear. And simply that, by transferring the supreme power to the Supreme Consciousness. Perhaps it is that which the ancient seers meant when they spoke of transferring the power of Nature or the power of Prakriti to Purusha, transferring it from Prakriti to Purusha. It is ...
... should be done, I do not know? That, my child... Page 214 ( Silence ) It is difficult. Yes.... But when you turn upward or you aspire or you are like this, open to the supreme Consciousness, it is concrete? Ah, yes, it is solid. It is concrete? One must... You understand, there is only one way, the ego must go, that is all. It is that. Only when, there, instead of "I" there ...
... the Mahashakti. The four central petals are the four aspects of the Mother—and the twelve petals, Her twelve attributes. 1955 It is the symbolic design of the white Lotus of Supreme Consciousness, with the Mahashakti (the form of the Mother as universal creation) at the centre in her four aspects and twelve attributes. Sri Aurobindo says, "The true basis of education is the study ...
... the appearance of a new type—a descent from above. The previous descent was a mental one, while this is what Sri Aurobindo calls a "supramental descent"; the impression is, a descent of the supreme Consciousness infusing itself into something capable of receiving and manifesting it. Then, out of that, once it has been thoroughly kneaded (there's no knowing how much time it will take), a new form will ...
... this ( gesture of intense aspiration ). There. As a result, my impression was that unless the whole universe becomes THAT, well ... what's the use? All, all that isn't Consciousness, the supreme consciousness, I mean, yes, supreme and supremely divine, all the rest ... It's the first time I've felt so intensely the uselessness of all outward activities—their uselessness IN THEMSELVES, like a blossoming ...
... things or the activities that are high or low, it is the consciousness of the doer which is true or false.... That is the interesting point. "If you unite your consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness and manifest It, all you think, feel or do becomes luminous and true. It is not the subject of the teaching which is to be changed, it is the consciousness with which you teach that must be ...
... back just now, like a demonstration.... What could we call it? A sort of mode of being in the cells and their relationships with each other, under ... (how can I put it?) the government of the supreme Consciousness. And the difference in the functioning. The way to establish the inner balance. It can't be explained. So that's what was being done ( last night and during the whole meditation ). And ...
... "democracy," I mean the system that wants to rule through the greatest number and lowest masses (I am referring to "social democracy," the latest trend). If there is no representative of the supreme Consciousness (which can happen, of course), if there isn't any, we could perhaps (this would be worth trying) replace him with the government by a small number—we would have to choose between four and eight ...
... clearly the phenomenon of material transformation. It begins with what we may call a "change of government": instead of a personal, inner being governing, it's directly the Consciousness, the supreme Consciousness. So then, there is the transfer of all movements, all activities—the entire functioning. The transfer of the personal being. Instead of obeying a personal being, it's under the Influence of ...
... that: all that the Mind has brought in terms of rigidity and absoluteness and near invincibility—that's what ... is going to disappear. And simply by ... handing the supreme power over to the Supreme Consciousness. That may be what the sages of old meant when they spoke of handing the power of Nature or the power of the Prakriti over to the Page 422 Purusha —handing it from the Prakriti ...
... (the cells may possibly still be subject to a subconscious suggestion, that's possible...), otherwise, with a few seconds of... ( gesture of drawing within ), like that, plunging back into the Supreme Consciousness—everything Page 63 is fine, I am never hungry (and don't feel the need to eat), I am never sleepy (and don't feel the need to sleep). Only, there is, still the old suggestion, and ...
... convinced—of the multiplicity of souls (they don't say "souls"), of the divine being in individuals? Because those people were very logical: had there been a single soul, that is, a single supreme consciousness, anywhere, at any time, once it had experienced liberation (flight into Nirvana, the renunciation of everything, the whole illusion of life and creation), if there had been only one soul, the ...
... Beauty of the Light! I have sacrificed longing and parted from grief, I can bear Thy delight. The Beauty invoked is that which is a blissful harmonious manifestation of a Supreme Consciousness free from all the shadows and shortcomings of the common objects of human love. Not that these objects are to be disdained and rejected, but the usual way they are approached and valued has ...
... fumbling and stumbling world, 2. What should be our attitude towards the Supermind? Self-offering to Sri Aurobindo who has offered the Supermind to us. 3. How do I live in the Supreme Consciousness? Before you 4. If all is Grace-ordained, where can be any cause for delay in our sadhana? Your question seems to be just clever words meant to do away with some inconvenient uneasiness ...
... it's a means of catching hold of the Divine. For there is nothing—nothing, nothing exists from the point of view of Security, except the Supreme. If we ARE the Supreme, that is to say, the supreme Consciousness, supreme Power, supreme Existence, then there is Security—outside of that, there is none. Because everything is in perpetual motion. What exists at "one moment in time," as Sri Aurobindo says ...
... thumb and index finger ). I know—this morning, it was very clear. You see, everything is the Supreme's action to hasten the return of the individual consciousness to the Consciousness—the supreme Consciousness; so then, through the individual (I don't know if you'll be able to follow), the pressure of the Force to be accepted is turned into a will to make itself understood. That's the distortion. ...
... the sensation because I don't live in the sensations. It's a problem of consciousness, of the consciousness of this body. And I clearly feel that the problem could disappear only if the supreme Consciousness truly took possession of the cells and made them live, act, move, like that, so they had the sense of the Omnipotence taking hold of them; then it would be over, they would no longer be responsible ...
... But it takes a great deal of time. And everything is a question of changing the habit. The whole automatic habit of millennia must be changed into a conscious action, directly guided by the supreme Consciousness. The tendency is to say that it takes much more time and is more difficult because you are surrounded with people and you act in the world, but if you weren't in those conditions, a lot of ...
... . oh, an accumulation of heaps of sordid little things we constantly live in, sordid tiny little things. And then, there is only one way—only one way, always the same: to offer it. This Supreme Consciousness almost seems to put you in contact with quite forgotten things that belong to the past—that are even, or that were or seemed, completely erased, with which you no longer had any contact: all ...
... ignorant people. They should first learn the matter and know what they're talking about. There is the soul. There is the soul, which is quite simply an emanation of... we can call it the supreme Consciousness, supreme Reality, supreme Truth, anything, whatever they like, it's all the same to me—any words they like. But anyway, the soul is an emanation of That, a direct emanation. In the body, That ...
... the top of her voice, as though an inspired Prophetess of the old mysteries, 'The Lord has descended. He has conquered death and sorrow. He has brought down immortality.'" 4 Obviously, a Supreme Consciousness ¹. Ibid., p. 296. ² The Life of Sri Aurobindo, p. 217. ³ . "24 November, 1926", Mother India, December 5,1962, p. 28. 4 . "Reminiscences, IX", ibid., ...
... the calm of Nirvana and could, and that would be an apt and live phrase and not an ugly artifice or twist of rhetoric. It should be remembered that the calm of Nirvana or the calm of the supreme Consciousness is to spiritual experience something self-existent, impersonal and eternal and not dependent on the person — or the face — which manifests it. In these two passages I take then the liberty ...
... noisy world into woods and hills. One band of them, pressing with a motionless mind beyond the confines of thought to sheer spiritual Light, comes back from there with the native word of the supreme Consciousness, the Mantra such as we find in the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Gita: Intuitive knowledge leaping into speech, Hearing the subtle voice that clothes the heavens, Carrying the ...
... realise the Divine's Will . Things must be asked for only when truly needed. The Ashram is meant for those who want to consecrate their lives to the Divine. There is a supreme Consciousness. We want to manifest this Divine Consciousness in the physical life. The habit of always furnishing in presence of a mistake a favourable explanation —this favourable explanation seems ...
... the Infinite, the universe and the individual. It becomes certain here that the individual is at once identical in essence with the Infinite and yet in manifestation a concentration of the Supreme Consciousness of the Infinite; it is thus from the point of knowledge a self- objectivisation of the Infinite so that the Infinite can look at itself from the point of view of the individual. In this relation ...
... contacts and happenings their secret divine sense Page 29 and essence, their divine use and purpose, so that by experience our mind and life may grow out of the Inconscience towards a supreme consciousness, out of the divisions of the Ignorance towards integralising consciousness and knowledge. Role of the Individual The role of the individual in the evolutionary process is, according ...
... ends. But these arguments are not conclusive, and they miss out some of the essential aspects of the relationship between the Infinite and the finite and the manner and method by which the Supreme Consciousness works in the world. The Infinite is indivisible, and there is no gulf between the Infinite and the finite. Every finite is a form of the Infinite, and every finite is essentially the Infinite ...
... for you and what will be bad for you, what to shun and what to pursue — oh, how wearisome it is! But when one lives like this, quite open, like a flower blossoming in the sun before the Supreme Consciousness, the Supreme Wisdom, the Supreme Light, the Supreme Love, which knows all, which can do all, which takes charge of you and you have no more worries — that is the ideal condition." (MCW, ...
... entire machinery of action in the world and how ultimately action originates in the world. The aim of the Page 16 teaching is to show that the real origin of action is in the Supreme Consciousness, which is at once immobile and mobile, as described often in the Upanishads (e.g. "It moves and It moves not"), and that all action originates from that state of consciousness which is entirely ...
... who can speak about it." The reason is that Yama has been called Vaivasvata, he is born of Vivasvan, the Sun-god, Surya Savitri. Surya Savitri stands for the highest Knowledge, He is the Supreme Consciousness from which comes the creation of the universe. Yama is the Life-Force, the Ordainer of the worlds with their rhythms of life. He is here in this manifestation of the play of life the representative ...
... determinism which is absolute in its way with a complementary movement of liberty, the unforeseen addition into a fixed existing sum. This addition comes from the aspiration of the supreme consciousness. There is nothing to wonder at the phenomenon. There is an aspiration acting in the world, moving with a certain end in view; the purpose is to bring back the fallen and obscured consciousness ...
... between there are gradations whose number varies according to the mode of the outlook. Reverting to the image of the serpent, one can say that its head represents the spirit, the supreme consciousness, and the tail the other end, matter or supreme unconsciousness. The image, furthermore, gives a graphic picture of the great truth that extremes meet, the head bends round and catches the ...
... highest formulation of language, the supreme Word— v ā k —is 'OM'— n ā da — ś abda-brahma . That is the supreme speech-vibration. Page 60 the rhythmic articulation of the Supreme Consciousness Sachchidananda; the expression there is nearest to silence, almost merges into silence. Our human language cannot expect to attain that supreme height of felicity of expression but wherever ...
... consciousness advances the nature of the best is also transformed. There is an absolute best but that can happen only when the consciousness has arrived at, attained union with the Supreme Consciousness. In fact there is then no longer any path to traverse, the path has lapsed or merged into the goal, the path and the goal have become one. This does not mean that dangers and difficulties ...
... interested in the human destiny and some of them appear as presiding deities or Ishta-devata and establish individual relations with men. Now this process of devolution has gone on; from the supreme Consciousness, it has entered into the Supramental, then into the Overmental and then into the mental regions, Page 16 and peopled all of them with gods and divinities. In the lower regions ...
... events have then an air of the absolutely free and the totally unexpected. It is only when you live consciously and constantly on the highest level, that is to say, the level of the supreme consciousness, that you are able to see that everything is absolutely determined, but at the same time by the very complexity of the intermixture of these determinisms everything is absolutely free. You may ...
... the Rishi says: Paliknïrid yuvatayo bhavanti —even those of them who were grey with age, became young again. (Rig Veda, V.2.4) Naturally it does not matter at all to the Divine, the supreme consciousness—the whole of eternity is His playfield, a million years this side or that do not count for Him anything. And yet we are human beings and we can have other vistas equally divine. The Mother became ...
... can speak about it." The reason is that Yama has been called Vaivasvata, he is born of Vivasvan, the Sun-god, Surya Savitri. Surya Savitri stands for the highest Knowledge, He is the Supreme Consciousness from which comes the creation of the universe. Yama is the Life-Force, the Ordainer of the worlds with their rhythms of life. He is here in this manifestation of the play of life the representative ...
... disorder, of our normal life and consciousness. The time taken simply indicates that the process is being worked out; it is an expression of the rhythm of procedure. But to the Divine, the Supreme Consciousness that works, time itself has no separate meaning or intrinsic value; for it a thousand or a million years do not mean more than what is one moment for us. Indeed, the slowness of time simply ...
... other thing will surely come about", and that is how you put, as it were, an iron curtain between yourself and the free action of the Grace. How good would it be to imagine that the Supreme Consciousness, essentially free, that presides over the universal manifestation, is fanciful in its choice and that it makes things succeed each other, not according to a logic that is accessible to the ...
... being. Where Supermind and Overmind Page 16 meet, one can see the multiple godheads, each distinct in his own truth and beauty and power and yet all together forming the one supreme consciousness infinitely composite and inalienably integral. But stepping back into Supermind one sees something more— Oneness gathering into itself all diversity, not destroying it, but annulling and forbidding ...
... the world— on a miniature scale, the mikros reproducing all the features and characters of the makros. Such being the case, a wholly conscious body governed and inspired by the supreme Consciousness lives and moves in the cosmic rhythm: not only does it register in itself the world happenings, but also possesses an active power to control and even to change those happenings by its individual ...
... mean isolation: it is a close union, indeed, it is an indivisible unity for all units, all individual formations are identical, for in a sense all are identified with the only reality, the one supreme consciousness. The soul-consciousness is the golden thread running through the chain of light and when it comes forward and becomes dynamic it gradually engulfs and purifies what was its covering ...
... the one eternal truth of being. Where Supermind and Overmind meet, one can see the multiple godheads, each distinct in his own truth and beauty and power and yet all together forming the one supreme consciousness infinitely composite and inalienably integral. But stepping back into Supermind one sees something more—Oneness gathering into itself all diversity, not destroying it, but annulling and forbidding ...
... of the Supreme plus reality, 'the Supreme Consciousnes'. That is the negative infinite, the great shadow of the Infinite Light. The absolute Nescience is the mere reversal of the Supreme Consciousness, the ever-lasting Nay is the everlasting Yes turned inside out. Death making a right aboutturn is Immortality. Modern science speaks of anti-matter and the possibility of a world ...
... the earth-consciousness incarnate. But the point is to be this individual consciousness anywhere or everywhere and still to maintain the higher, the universal and transcendent, the supreme consciousness, to be simultaneously conscious in both the modes to the utmost degree. Page 107 ...
... of his being, the other parts, however dormant, keep the stamp of ignorance and ego. If you want the Divine in his fullness, you must plunge in, whole and entire—or rather, you must let the supreme Consciousness come down and inundate your being, possess it and mould it into its own being—and what else is Grace if not this delivering approach and touch of the Divine. To love the Divine means ...
... Truth, (3) Love and (4) Life. They are the first and primal godheads with whom creation starts and who preside over the whole play of the manifestation. These gods that emanated out of the supreme consciousness of the Divine Mother as her fundamental aspects and personalities had automatically an absolute freedom of action and movement, otherwise they would not be divine personalities. And this freedom ...
... the j īvatman, the Individual Self, the central being of each individual formation. The Jivas are centres of multiplicity thrown up in the bosom of the infinite Consciousness: it is the supreme Consciousness eddying in unit formations to serve as the basis for the play of manifestation. They are not within the frame of manifestation (as the typal formations in the Supermind are), they are above ...
... the one eternal truth of being. Where Supermind and Overmind meet, one can see the multiple godheads, each distinct in his own truth and beauty and power and yet all together forming the one supreme consciousness infinitely composite and inalienably integral. But stepping back into Supermind one sees something more – Oneness gathering into itself all diversity, not destroying it, but annulling and f ...
... disorder, of our normal life and consciousness. The time taken simply indicates that the process is being worked out; it is an expression of the rhythm of procedure. But to the Divine; the Supreme Consciousness that works, time itself has no separate meaning or intrinsic value; for it a thousand or a million years do not mean more than what is one moment for us. Indeed, the slowness of time simply ...
... typal realities. The distinction is necessary, as there does seem to be such a level of consciousness intermediary, again, between man and the Absolute, between self-consciousness and the supreme consciousness. The simplest thing would be to give that intermediate level of consciousness a negative name-since being as yet human we cannot foresee exactly its composition and function — the supe ...
... manifest itself. April 8, 1969 * The new consciousness has itself given the condition required to manifest itself without deformation: “One must be able to stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow.” This signifies the abolition of the ego. April 15, 1969 * A new creation will take place upon earth. May Thy grace permit me to take part consciously in ...
... epitome of the world – on a miniature scale, the mikros reproducing all the features and characters of the makros. Such being the case, a wholly conscious body governed and inspired by the supreme Consciousness lives and moves in the cosmic rhythm: not only does it register in itself the world happenings, but also possesses an active power to control and even to change those happenings by its individual ...
... was the earth-consciousness incarnate." But the point is to be this individual consciousness anywhere I or everywhere and still to maintain the higher, the universal and transcendent, the supreme consciousness, to be simultaneously conscious in both the modes to the utmost degree. Page 287 ...
... Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 Towards Redemption As I have often said, creation is the self-objectivisation of the Supreme Divine; it is the supreme consciousness putting itself lout of itself so that it may look at itself. In so doing – in self-objectifying and self-dividing – it scattered itself abroad: the one infinite multiplied itself into infinite ...
... is a determinism which is absolute in its way with a complementary movement of liberty, the unforeseen addition into a fixed existing sum. This addition comes from the aspiration for the supreme consciousness. There is nothing to wonder at the phenomenon. There is an aspiration acting in the world, moving with a certain end in view; the purpose is to bring back the fallen and obscured consciousness ...
... a world of compact unity in human achievement and also alas, in human distress! Now if one goes to the very source, the very root of the matter, the cardinal fact of unity is that of the supreme Consciousness, Page 196 the original oneness of the one Divine Existence. It is the Ultimate One, inviolate, inviolable – ekam sat. That unity is transferred or translated or imaged ...
... below the brain stuff, is a task very few have done or even attempted to do. The Tantriks devised a different way, an about-turn way. Instead of trying to bring down the superior or the supreme consciousness into these lower darknesses, they sought to attack these from below, set a blazing fire below that would shoot up its tongues into those nether regions of the brain or mind. Instead of a force ...
... itself and its bliss, it became suffering. "That is how the world that ought to have been so beautiful became so ugly." Our eyes were riveted on Mother's face. "Then, when the Supreme Consciousness you may call her the Divine Mother, if you like - saw that, she was very much bothered, you see. She told herself, 'Really, it is not a success!' Then turning to the Divine, to God, the Supreme ...
... That ... the Divine, the Lord, the Supreme, the Supramental, whatever—the next stage of evolution, the next consciousness. But it is that. The Obvious Fact. Personally, I call it “Supreme Consciousness” because I don’t want to say “God".... It's full of... the very word is full of deception. It’s not that way, it’s: We ARE—We ARE the Divine who has forgotten Himself. And our task, the task ...
... And what of all their wonderful cosmic and nirvanic and celestial consciousnesses? In short, we humans have been too dense to have any access to this "Thing" we call "Divine" or "God" or "Supreme Consciousness," except through a little opening in our minds, a little hole in the shell—whereupon off we dash to heaven. Amen. But it is merely our own evolutionary thickness that concealed from us something ...
... at the very summit necessarily have the least needs; their material needs become less as their capacity of material vision grows.... The man at the top should be a representative of the supreme Consciousness because an integral and pure power of consciousness alone is "capable of ordering material things in a way that is truer, happier and better for everyone" and its very contact brings a "power ...
... the possible states of consciousness, from the sole reality of the body, of Matter at one end to liberation at the other. But the general condition was one of total identification with the Supreme Consciousness: "What Thou wiliest, Lord, what Thou willest". On 24 May, when the disciple remarked that her "body was "a symbol of the whole earth", the Mother said, "It looks like that." Once something ...
... would be no hope... it is because the world is very bad, very dark, very ugly, very unconscious, full of misery and suffering, that it can become the supreme Beauty, the supreme Light, the supreme Consciousness and supreme Felicity. 11 Another evening, the talk was about books, imaginative literature, and especially about the sort of books that evoked the ugly or terrible side of life; and the ...
... seen: "forerunners of the divine multitude" are coming, "architects of immortality" are descending into man, and they will do the work of perfecting mankind. Then he appeals to the supreme consciousness, praying to her at the end of his argument: "O truth defended in thy secret sun, Voice of her mighty musings in shut heavens On things withdrawn within her luminous depths, ...
... supramental integral transformation and divine manifestation in Matter which are the dual aim of our sadhana, and it is impossible of achievement except by the Grace of the Divine Mother, the supreme Consciousness—Force, Chit-tapas, of Sachchidananda. The Gita is a monumental synthesis of the various principles and aims of the Yogas current at that stage of human evolution. Mankind has moved on ...
... noble enough to renounce desire. How humiliating ¹ Bases of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo. ² ibid. Page 239 to ask something/or oneself from Life or from the Supreme Consciousness which animates it! How humiliating for us, how ignorant an offence against Her ! "For, all is within our reach; only the egoistic limits of our being prevent us from enjoying the whole ...
... the omnipresent Reality, the sole all-constituting and all-transcending Being, whose progressive self-manifestation in Matter is the goal of evolutionary terrestrial Nature; that it is the supreme Consciousness- Force of this Being, or rather the Being Himself as Consciousness-Force or Shakti, the Magna Mater, or the Megale Dunamis of the Gnostics, that has woven out of Himself this immense and ...
... easy to bring down the spiritual transformation. SRI AUROBINDO My dear child, on this day of your birth anniversary, let your aspiration leap forward pure and straight towards the supreme consciousness which is all joy and all beatitude. `With my tender love and blessings, THE MOTHER (Translated from the original message in French.} Page 102 Page ...
... place, there, among all those recalcitrant little axolotls. Now, She understood. And they “treated” him … as in medical books. “But that pain of the earth, I told Mother, is it not to call the supreme Consciousness there too, in the very depths? Yes, of course. That’s what I say to myself, what I try to find. There is something to find And She stopped, out of breath, as if suffocating. And it’s still ...
... instrument." On May 4 she prayed to the Lord to "dissolve all the darkness of this aggregate which Thou hast formed for Thy service, Thy manifestation in the world. Realise in it that supreme consciousness which will generate an identical consciousness everywhere.... O Lord, all my being cries to Thee in an irresistible appeal; wouldst Thou not grant that I may become Thyself in my integral c ...
... supramental consciousness, we have nothing to worry. Mind and mental principle have operated for millions of years without being able to check the downward trend of human consciousness. But the supreme truth consciousness will be able to achieve it in course of a few hundred years which is nothing compared to the age of earth-history. In the meantime, we must also evolve and progress in consciousness from... principle of "Supermind" or the Supreme truth-consciousness which is leaning down on earth for co-operation for its descent from the supramental world. This is what he and the Mother have brought down to earth which will ultimately change the whole tenor of terrestrial life. The supermen will be men who are identified with the Divine always in their consciousness but they will maintain the... be no need for religion because the goal of all religions which is to find God or Truth, will have been already attained by individual and collective humanity, who will always live in the Supreme Truth Consciousness. If religions still remain they will do so as lower manifestations of Spiritual Truth as the hglrarchy of life from the physical to the mental will also remain as part of the Supramental ...
... Surendranath Jauhar's Correspondence Surendranath Jauhar's Correspondence with The Mother 13 August 1969 There is a Supreme Divine Consciousness. We want to manifest that Divine Consciousness in the physical life. Bonne Fête to Surendranath. With love and blessings 13 August 1969 ...
... is only with the full and complete emergence of the Supermind or the supreme Truth-consciousness out of its involution in the inconscience Page 103 that a change of earth life is not only possible but inevitable for then the basis of the ignorance will have completely disappeared and the supreme Truth consciousness or the Divine gnosis as Sri Aurobindo calls it will work unhampered... aspect of human life and activity. Sri Aurobindo's title to immortality rests on his success in bringing down the Supermind or the Supreme Truth-consciousness which the ancient Vedic seers had only glimpsed and visited but not brought down to the earth consciousness for the transformation of earthly life. This initiates a new principle in the earth life like the mental principle and will be generalised... life. He found the inconscience or the nescience at the base of existence pervaded by a supreme but involved Consciousness that strove through various successive mediums or forms of expression like matter, life and mind to emerge fully into its own sovereign and independent Reality. This Consciousness has taken millions of years and myriads of physical forms—insentient matter, plants, insects ...
... a sort of... something I might call a "pressure of the Supreme." It's as if the Supreme's Consciousness were exerting a pressure, and it produces a certain type of stillness with a solidity and a consistency not found anywhere else. You know, it's even more solid and substantial than the most inert inertia. And it's the pressure of the Supreme Power. It's almost intolerable or unbearable for Matter... Matter, for material substance. And it goes like this ( gesture of massive descent ), absolutely impossible to budge, and at the same time you feel it's the Supreme Power. Well, it lasted for hours that night, and I was extremely attentive in order to know what it meant. And the next Page 240 day, I was told things had all of a sudden broken out like a war: all that friction that had been there ...
... the world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation through it. This Yoga insists on both the aspects; the surrender to the Divine Mother is essential, for without it there is no fulfilment of the object of the Yoga. In regard to the Purushottama the Divine Mother is the supreme divine Consciousness and Power above the worlds, Adya Shakti; she carries the Supreme in herself and manifests the Divine... the multiplicity and through whom all these worlds are created by the Supreme and he himself descends as the Avatar. The Gita follows the Vedantic tradition which leans entirely on the Ishwara aspect of the Divine and speaks little of the Divine Mother because its object is to draw back from world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation beyond it; the Tantrik tradition leans on the Shakti or Ishwari ...
... three must be combined. One, naturally the most important one, is the way that may be called "spiritual", which is that of contact with the Consciousness—Love-Consciousness-Power, yes, it is that; it is these three aspects: the supreme Love-Consciousness-Power, and the contact, the identification: to render all the material cells capable of receiving That and expressing That—to be That. Of ...
... from the supreme divine consciousness, that is, these intelligent human beings are still subject to the original inconscience illumined -to some extent by progressive growth of knowledge and consciousness culminating in the attainment of the supreme divine consciousness through various turns and vicissitudes of ignorance in several lives of continuous self-progression towards the supreme self-knowledge... call the. world of phenomena in which He hides himself for discovery by the supreme head of this creation, namely, men. He is no doubt the summit of the present creation and far exceeds the rest of it in intelligence. But he is still masked by the ignorance and obscurity of the material creation and only by a supreme effort at self-finding does he at last discover Ih is true nature, that is the... of creation. Now with all this data of creation given, of involution and evolution of the -divine consciousness, it will not Page 460 be difficult to follow the evolutionary process which is the sole theme of the Divine Life. Sat or existence becomes Matter, Chit or Consciousness hides itself in conscience and Ananda into its opposite insensibility. 'The first to emerge from this ...
... unity and identity. Even so the Brahman and the world or the Purusha and the Prakriti are apparent negations to each other, the duality is in the ordinary ignorant consciousness, but the two are one in the supreme indivisible consciousness. Page 46 ...
... unity and identity. Even so the Brahman and the world or the Purusha and the Prakriti are apparent negations to each other, the duality is in the ordinary ignorant consciousness, but the two are one in the supreme indivisible consciousness. Page 205 ...
... Transformation There is a Supreme Divine Consciousness. We want to manifest this Divine Consciousness in the physical life. Blessings. The goal is not to lose oneself in the Divine Consciousness. The goal is to let the Divine Consciousness penetrate into Matter and transform it. The Divine Consciousness is at work to transform you and you must open to it in... for you will find that the true contact with it is sufficient to fill at once the whole of your being. And when the day will come for the manifestation of the supreme Love, for the crystallised, concentrated descent of the supreme Love, that will indeed be the moment of Transformation. Because nothing will be able to resist That. Page 87 ... outside noise, aspire for the Divine's help; open integrally to it then it comes and surrender to its action, and it will effectively bring about your transformation. With the Divine Love is the supreme power of Transformation. With the Divine's Love is the power of Transformation. It has this power because it is for the sake of Transformation that it has given itself to the world and manifested ...
... them into a new spiritual consciousness according to Sri Aurobindo's vision. When, after bringing down the Supramental Consciousness, he left his body in 1950, the Mother "continued to live in order to do his work which is : By serving Truth and enlightening mankind to hasten the rule of Divine's Love upon the earth." She declared, "There is a Supreme Divine Consciousness. We want to manifest this... this Consciousness in the physical life." In furtherance of the realisation of Sri Aurobindo's ideal of human unity, the Mother inaugurated 'Auroville' on 28 February, 1968, "which is meant to be an International City, a living embodiment of that unity built upon the Divine Consciousness. It will be the effective way of preventing World War." In 1973 she left her body, after she had built... eleven and thirteen", she says, "a series of psychic and spiritual experiences revealed to me, not only the existence of God, but man's possibility of meeting with Him or revealing Him integrally in consciousness and action, of manifesting Him upon earth in a life divine. This along with a practical discipline for its fulfilment was given to me, during my body's sleep, by several teachers some of whom I ...
... getting more and more pronounced), every minute: do you want life, do you want death; do you want life, do you want death?... That's how it is. And life is union with the Supreme. And consciousness, a COMPLETELY new consciousness is coming. That's how it is, like this ( Mother makes a gesture of swinging from one side to the other ). But yesterday or the day before, I don't know, all of a sudden the... lotus is the flower of Sri Aurobindo, but specially for his centenary we shall choose the blue lotus, which is the colour of his physical aura, to symbolise the centenary of the manifestation of the Supreme upon earth." A little later I heard (yesterday, I think, or the day before) a letter of Sri Aurobindo's in which he said that for the Supermind to be fixed Page 343 here ...
... Durga Puja 1955, Victory Day ) A verbal notation of the experience I transmitted during meditation. The annual battle and victory of Durga symbolise the rhythmic intervention of the Supreme Divine Consciousness that periodically gives a new impetus to the universal progress. 26 October 1955 ( About the "victory" referred to in the message for Durga Puja 1957, Victory Day ) But this... a great aspiration towards the new Light. 31 October 1955 Kali Puja 1955 Long, long ago, in the dry land which is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated upon earth to awaken in it the supreme love. As expected it was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, pursued. Mortally wounded by its assailants, it wanted to die quietly in solitude in order to be able to accomplish its work, and... say, physical. 2 October 1957 Comments on Puja Days ( Durga Puja 1953, Victory Day ) Today was truly a day of victory, victory over all that yet remained human in the physical consciousness. O Nature, I bring to thee force and light, truth and power; it is for thee to receive and utilise them. It is thou who wilt be receptive in the fruit of thy creation, man, and open the doors ...
... and quality. I said social qualities, I might say also mental qualities. The consciousness of the teacher has to be other than mental, something deeper, more abiding, more constant, less relative, something absolute. Do we then prescribe the supreme Brahma-consciousness for the teacher? Not quite. We mean the consciousness of a soul, the living light that is within every aspiring human being. It is... A happy luminous consciousness within is the teacher's asset, with that he achieves all; without it he fails always. If the teacher is to be a yogi, the pupil on his side must be at least an aspirant. But I suppose a pupil, so long as he is a child, is a born aspirant. For, as the Mother says, a child's consciousness retains generally something of the pure inner consciousness for sometime at least... or without the brilliant riches of a cultivated brain. And one need not go so far as the vedantic Sachchidananda consciousness. That is the first and primary necessity. When the teacher approaches the pupil, he must know how to do it in and through that inner intimate consciousness. It means a fundamental Page 202 attitude, a mode of being of the whole nature rather than a scientific ...
... I said social qualities, I might say also mental qualities. The consciousness of the teacher has to be other than mental, something deeper, more abiding, more constant, less relative, something absolute. Do we then prescribe the supreme Brahma-consciousness for the teacher? Not Page 124 quite. We mean the consciousness of a soul, the living light that is within every aspiring human... A happy luminous consciousness within is the teacher's asset, with that he achieves all without it he fails always. If the teacher is to be a yogi, the pupil on his side must be at least an aspirant. But I suppose a pupil, so long as he is a child, is a born aspirant. For, as the Mother says, a child's consciousness retains generally something of the pure inner consciousness for sometime at least... or without the brilliant riches of a cultivated brain. And one need not go so far as the vedantic Sachchidananda consciousness. That is the first and primary necessity. When the teacher approaches the pupil, he must know how to do it in and through that inner intimate consciousness. It means a fundamental attitude, a mode of being of the whole nature rather than a scientific procedure: all the ...
... and quality. I said social qualities, I might say also mental qualities. The consciousness of the teacher has to be other than mental, something deeper, more abiding, more constant, less relative, something absolute. Do we then prescribe the supreme Brahma-consciousness for the teacher? Not quite. We mean the consciousness of a soul, the living light that is within every aspiring human being. It is... A happy luminous consciousness within is the teacher's asset, with that he achieves all; without it he fails always. If the teacher is to be a yogi, the pupil on his side must be at least an aspirant. But I suppose a pupil, so long as he is a child, is a born aspirant. For, as the Mother says, a child's consciousness retains generally something of the pure inner consciousness for sometime at least... with or without the brilliant riches of a cultivated brain. And one need not go so far as the vedantic Sachchidananda consciousness. That is the first and primary necessity. When the teacher approaches the pupil, he must know how to do it in and through that inner intimate consciousness. It means a fundamental Page 256 attitude, a mode of being of the whole nature rather than a scientific ...
... complete, one should combine the three. One—the most important, naturally—is the way we could call "spiritual," which is that of the contact with the Consciousness—Love-Consciousness-Power, that is; these three aspects: supreme Love-Consciousness-Power. And the contact, the identification: to make all the material cells capable of receiving Him and expressing Him—of BEING That. Of all the ways ...
... supermind. It is described there as the Truth, the Right, the Vast; as the supreme step of Vishnu; and some Vedic Rishis endeavoured to rise into its solar glory. But there is no trace of a collective ascent into it or of any attempt on their part to bring it down into the material life for a conversion of the earth-consciousness. It was even held by some Rishis that it was not possible to pass through... through the gates of the Sun, i.e. the Supermind, and yet retain the human body. The Upanishadic Rishis knew of the existence of this supreme Truth-consciousness, which they called the Vijnana, but the Vedic urge towards it was no longer there in its ancient intensity and amplitude. However that may be, it was Sri Aurobindo who first fixed upon the creative Supermind as the goal of human evolution... Force for the birth of a new race of humanity, the race of gnostic supermen. This new birth will be an emergence of man, as the culmination of his evolutionary progression, into the supreme Truth-Consciousness, which will admit of a simultaneous Page 2 realisation of and union with the transcendent Sachchidananda and His universal Immanence—a consummation not yet achieved by ...
... is described there as the Truth, the Right, the Vast; as the supreme step of Vishnu; and some Vedic Rishis endeavoured to rise into its solar glory. But there is no trace of a collective ascent into it or of any attempt on their part to bring it down into Page 335 the material life for a conversion of the earth-consciousness. It was even held by some Rishis that it was not possible to... to pass through the gates of the Sun, i.e. the Supermind, and yet retain the human body. The Upanishadic Rishis knew of the existence of this supreme Truth-consciousness, which they called the Vijnana, but the Vedic urge towards it was no longer there in its ancient intensity and amplitude. However that may be, it was Sri Aurobindo who first fixed upon the creative Supermind as the goal of human evolution... g Force for the birth of a new race of humanity, the race of gnostic supermen. This new birth will be an emergence of man, as the culmination of his evolutionary progression, into the supreme Truth-Consciousness, which will admit of a simultaneous realisation of and union with the transcendent Sachchidananda and His universal Immanence—a consummation not yet achieved by man. But in order that this ...
... Page 19 neglected. The world without no less than the world within is the field of our sadhana. The ultimate goal is not only to rise above the ordinary world to some supreme Existence, Consciousness and Bliss, some infinite and eternal Oneness in which everything gets merged, or else some sovereign Being beyond with whose light and love we unite. The ultimate goal is also to bring... leaving nothing untouched. There is a supreme original, an eternal truth, a perfect model, as it were, of all that is here partial, broken, groping and discordant. That luminous "archetype" has to be evolved here and now. The evolution of this "archetype" needs the operation of what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother call the Supermind, the creative Truth-Consciousness, which has never been brought into... our outer being, with its manifold dynamic turns, can be dedicated to the Divine. Every kind of work, all life-activity, is embraced by the Integral Yoga. But it has to be offered to the Supreme, launched upon for Sri Aurobindo, carried out for the Mother. Thus it cannot be accepted in any crude shape. Not that one has to be finicky and over-choosy. The Integral Yogi should be ready to take ...
... covering the face of Truth", as the ultimate dynamic side of the Divine. The "golden lid" Sri Aurobindo distinguishes from the Supermind as the Overmind, a similar-dissimilar delegate of the supreme Truth-Consciousness. Since the Overmind lacks the power to divinise the nature-part of man's existence, the sages began to be convinced that this part which looked undivinisable could not be a real feature of... concentrated on the infinite "Atman", the sheer Page 174 Self of selves, which is one with the eternal "Brahman", the ever-silent One without a second, instead of taking it as a supreme basis in the ultimate Reality for that Reality's illimitable power of expression or manifestation. The reason, to Sri Aurobindo, for this concentration on the inactive all-transcending Brahman-Atman... last infirmity of noble minds (to adapt a Miltonic phrase to our purpose). In the Gita we have a great attempt to go back to the ancient integrality of spiritual vision. The "purushottama" — the Supreme Being — who is higher than the "kshara (mutable) purusha" and the "akshara (immutable) purusha" and who subsumes them — does strike one as a Supramental reality, especially when accompanied by the ...
... arrives and can arrive at yet greater degrees of freedom and in the end eliminate altogether the element of bondage and transmute it into the self-expressed rhythm of the higher consciousness. The supreme Divine Consciousness or Being is that where Nature's determinism is dissolved in the self-law of the All Spirit, the Divine Will becoming the law of the being. The whole process of creation, the... unconscious field. Thus where there was the absolute determinism of matter, sparks from the free consciousness intervene and modify the settled balance. That is the inner sense of the aberrations that one observes in the play even of physical laws. It is just the beginning of the stress of consciousness in unconscious matter. That stress increases in the march of time, in the process of evolution; and... not merely liberates himself from this nature but transmutes it into an expression and emanantion of the Divine Consciousness. Even so the cosmic Godhead buried in Page 377 the universe grows, evolves and slowly spreads and establishes the radiance of its consciousness in the cosmic nature, makes this also the expression and embodiment of his conscious energy. That is the liberation ...
... Swami Ramalingam into and as the Truth-Light of Supreme Grace which contains or possesses in itself Supreme Compassion and Bliss of Grace. Though I have had occasions to ascend into and remain for sometime in the Truth-World of Grace -Light wherefrom I could see the earth as part of the universe, the said Vision came to me when my consciousness was on the earth itself, though aware of the Truth-World... Swami’s soul is inseparable from the conscious white particles of Substance which he has become and pervadingly distributed everywhere. When the Supreme Truth-Consciousness manifests in the physical world, it becomes the golden Light of Grace. The Will of the Supreme Divine in the Vast Truth-Light of Grace shall be fulfilled on the earth. The Golden Light of Grace will purify and transform man and the physical... Munificent, was seen entering the house. His face was calm and peaceful. He was seen as the very embodiment of Compassion and his body was filled with the Fire of Tapas of Truth-Consciousness as of the Purity of the Supreme Divine (Suddha Sivam). His whole body was radiating the Light of Grace. Besides, his body was of silken or light golden shining colour. He entered into the verandah and kindled the ...
... divine consciousness of the Psyche. This too is an immortalisation of the personal identity which can be achieved and is achieved by the gnostic man who is to come, who will wholly psychicise and divinise his personality. The second stage is the reorganisation and individualisation of the material sheath itself. The very cells of the body are impregnated with the radiant substance of the supreme spiritual... the meanwhile, however, actually the vital is an executive agent of the lower consciousness: it is an anonymous force of universal nature canalised into a temporary figure that is the normal individual man. The individualisation of the vital being would mean an immortal formulation of an immortal soul as energy consciousness with a specific role for the Divine to play. It maintains its identity, its... may demand a mode of reshuffling and redisposition which physically appears like death, but it is inevitably followed or accompanied by the process of integration or recreation. Perhaps this supreme and dangerous gesture only the Master can make-as the pioneer and pathfinder-and he has made it. Page 299 ...
... divine consciousness of the Psyche. This too is an immortalisation of the personal identity which can be achieved and is achieved by the gnostic man who is to come, who will wholly psychicise and divinise his personality. The second stage is the reorganisation and individualisation of the material sheath itself. The very cells of the body are impregnated with the radiant substance of the supreme spiritual... the meanwhile, however, actually the vital is an executive agent of the lower consciousness: it is an anonymous force of universal nature canalised in to a temporary figure that is the normal individual man. The individualisation of the vital being would mean an immortal formulation of an immortal soul as energy consciousness with a specific role for the Divine to play. It maintains its identity, its... may demand a mode of reshuffling and redisposition which physically appears like death, but it is inevitably followed or accompanied by the process of integration or recreation. Perhaps this supreme and dangerous gesture only the Master can make—as the pioneer and pathfinder—and he has made it. Page 181 ...
... world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation through it. This Yoga insists on both the aspects; the surrender to the Divine Mother is essential, for without it there is no fulfilment of the object of the Yoga. Page 443 In regard to the Purushottama the Divine Mother is the supreme divine Consciousness and Power above the worlds, Adya Shakti; she carries the Supreme in herself and manifests... I do not know that there is anything like a Purushottama consciousness which the human being can attain or realise for himself ,—for, in the Gita, the Purushottama is the Supreme Lord, the Supreme Being who is beyond the Immutable and the Mutable and contains both the One and the Many. Man, says the Gita, can attain the Brahmic consciousness, realise himself as an eternal portion of the Purushottama... ma and live in the Purushottama. The Purushottama consciousness is the consciousness of the Supreme Being and man by loss of ego and realisation of his true essence can live in it. The Gita and the Integral Yoga It is not a fact that the Gita gives the whole base of Sri Aurobindo's message; for the Gita seems to admit the cessation of birth in the world as the ultimate aim or at least the ultimate ...
... covering through which can pour down the rains and streams of the universal consciousness with its purificatory ablution of the lower nature and conciousness. But this again becomes not only possible but inevitable when this new consciousness contacts openly and directly its master and overlord, the supreme Supramental Consciousness, which is the true reality pressing down always upon the lower creation... truer truth – nearer the pure fundamental reality – the Eternal and Infinite, the supreme Spirit, the bedrock of existence. Higher and higher means formulations of the Reality in a gradually evolving expansion up the ladders of the physical, the vital, the mental consciousness and towards the higher mental and overmental, indeed towards the Supramental. II ... self – has its delegated selves everywhere in the global being. Indeed each particle of the being must itself be a psychic or psychicised particle: a consciousness-photon. There is thus a vital photon, a mental photon, a photon of the physical consciousness even as the material photon. And all these in their hierarchic harmonious arrangement shall constitute the global system of the new person. Even ...
... cosmic consciousness?" So you reply: "Certainly it exists in the cosmic consciousness.... The cosmic consciousness is the universal consciousness, the MATERIAL consciousness; there it exists. I know it, in fact, because it's a consciousness I constantly have, so I know that pain exists. Page 198 But it's what follows: "It is in the Supreme, Divine Consciousness that pain... Page 200 It's so new for the material consciousness that each time you feel as if... on the verge of mental derangement. (Derangement of CONSCIOUSNESS—it's not mental derangement, the mind has nothing to do with that, thank God! That's a wonderful help I was given.) But the consciousness, there's a minute of panic in the consciousness. Because from the beginning and constantly, there's... Just like that. I don't know. Simply to make contact. R., something's stirring inside! ( Mother laughs a lot ) He is torn between the old man full of ties there and the new life, the new consciousness which is beginning to be interesting. ( long silence ) There were interesting things again by Sri Aurobindo, did you get them? ( Satprem reads the latest aphorisms ) 517—Until thou ...
... the history of the political evolution of the country had there been such a precious acquisition in the cause of the country's fight for freedom ... because there was no equal to him in the supreme self-consciousness he possessed of his God-ordained mission of which he was to be the chosen instrument some day to work out this Divine will ....... as a spark of fire to burn up all that was base and false... emotion, the voice of God in man, the invincible demand on the part of the great Indian spiritual culture for expression through the reawakened soul to the world.... The supreme regeneration which India demands can only come from this supreme call of the Motherland—so deep, so religious, so passionate that it carries all before it....' Those who had seen Sri Aurobindo from afar were struck by his e ...
... therefore, this cannot be the term of evolution. There is scope for a further series of transcendence, a further widening and heightening of the consciousness, till it reaches the infinite Supermind, the supreme Truth- Consciousness, the creative Consciousness of saccidānanda. This consummating transcendence will inevitably be followed by a corresponding supramental metamorphosis or transformation of... ultimate destiny of his earthly existence. A perfect radiation of the supreme divine Light, rtamjyotih is the inalienable birth-right of his life.¹ If we study the course of evolution, we find that it has two striking features, invariably marking its progress from stage to stage—transcendence and metamorphosis. The consciousness of the being that is released more and more from the darkness of... the Divine, and a constant union and communion with Him, each part must choose the supreme Light and give itself without reserve to its transforming Force. This necessity of consent and collaboration rests upon the profound truth that each part of our being is an autonomous whole, having a centralised consciousness in it, which is called in Indian philosophy the purusa, and that all parts together ...
... those not supremely divine, for they live in a greater mind power or life power only, but they do not live in the supreme Truth, and only the supreme Truth is divine. Only those who live in a Page 365 supreme Truth consciousness and embody it are inwardly made or else remade in the Divine image. The aim of supramental Yoga is to change into this supreme Truth-consciousness, but this... n down to the very principle of Matter. Only a supreme Grace can effect this miracle. The supreme Power has descended into the most material consciousness but it has stood there behind the density of the physical veil demanding before manifestation, before its great open workings can begin, that the conditions of the supreme Grace shall be there, real and effective. And the first condition is ... Its method is an integral opening of the whole consciousness, mind, heart, life, will, body to that Reality, to the Divine Existence, Consciousness, Beatitude, to its being and its integral transformation of the whole nature[.] 148 Our Yoga is the integral Yoga. Its object is the harmony of a total spiritual realisation and experience, a supreme consummation of the spirit and the nature. ...
... creative of the descending splendours? Is perfection possible if the mind's idea and experience be the last word on matter and no evaluation be made of the material in terms of a supreme spiritual Consciousness? My impression of you is of a man of great mental plasticity and breadth, a man capable of meeting the challenge of many unknown directions: there is no blind rigidity in you to check... of some other reality which contains the archetypes of them both, archetypes from which they have derived and deflected. Only when the mind is stilled, there dawns a deeper and higher consciousness which bears golden within it the harmony we are hungering for. Yes, it bears it within itself, but for us to get that harmony we need profound progress in the supramental domain. The limitation... these powers, but the real and final miracle to work on Nature is what Sri Aurobindo calls transformation - the utter divinisation of the physical body so that it becomes a form of the Consciousness that is luminous and immortal. Remember that Sri Aurobindo's teaching is Integral Yoga. The word "integral" denotes the Aurobindonian search. Sri Aurobindo says it is no use denying that ...
... just a book, just a good book, just a masterpiece? No. For me it embodies the veritable consciousness of Sri Aurobindo. The Mother has referred to it as ‘the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo's vision’. This revelation of vision is an output of Sri Aurobindo's tapas, fruits of his supremely developed consciousness. What Sri Aurobindo remarks about Savitri, the Person, I have felt to be equally valid... faith and openness that is enough. Besides, there are two kinds of understanding—understanding by the intellect and understanding in the consciousness. It is good to have the former if it is accurate, but it is not indispensable. Understanding by the consciousness comes if there is faith and openness, though it may come only gradually and through steps of experience.” For those who have approached ... valid for Savitri the book as well—‘Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save’ and that Savitri is ‘incarnations or emanations of living and conscious Forces with whom we can enter into concrete touch’. Many of us who have had the privilege of entering into concrete touch with Savitri the Power through Savitri the book and growing by ...
... thing, the presentation of a divine name and form. And this distinguishes it from the mystic consciousness which is not the supreme solar consciousness but the nearest approach to it. Or, perhaps, the mystic dwells in the domain of the Divine, he may even be suffused with a sense of unity but would not like to acquire the Divine's nature and function. Normally and generally he embodies all the aspiration... holocaust of the Supreme. The great World-Mother by her sacrifice Has made her soul the body of our state; Accepting sorrow and unconsciousness Divinity's lapse from its own splendours wove The many-patterned ground of all we are. An idol of self is our mortality.¹ or this chiselled bit of diamond, An inconscient Power groped towards consciousness, Matter smitten... into a living and burning symbolism of an inner world. But all that is left far behind, when we hear a new voice announcing an altogether new manner, revelatory of the truly and supremely spiritual consciousness, not simply mystic or religious but magically occult and carved out of the highest if recondite philosophia: A finite movement of the Infinite Came winging its way through ...
... 4 The dialogue is a scope for the majestic future tense. Shelley had been in the borderline of a great truth. He had used the future tense with a blank foreknowledge of a supreme truth-consciousness. Sri Aurobindo uses the "shall" with more authenticity. The Lore of Death used directive verbs as a gesture of offering some comfortable alternatives to tempt Savitri, which she refuses... context, it is quite significant. This feminine force, or the force of the World-Mother, is directly empowered by the Supreme. The initiated reader of Sri Aurobindo's literature instantly remembers the word in The Mother : "The Grace of the Divine Mother is the sanction of the Supreme." 4 That is why Gokak sees in Savitri a doctrine which incarnates as imagination. 5 This is not wholly true... s. He knows what he is doing. Contrary to Jussawala's view of Savitri as an "onion" opening to nothingness, 11 I find, every image of the poem intellectually scrutinised by the Master. Some supreme archetype of intellect is always at play. Let us check the next three lines of Savitri on p. 393: His look was a wide daybreak of the gods, His head was a youthful Rishi's touched with ...
... devotion; for it is impossible to change the human nature into the divine or to make it an instrument of the divine knowledge, will and joy of existence, unless there is a union with the supreme Being, Consciousness and Bliss and a unity with its universal Self in all things and beings. A wholly separative possession of the divine nature by the human individual, as distinct from a self-withdrawn absorption... working of the spiritual being. It accepts human life, but takes account of the large supraterrestrial action behind the earthly material living, and it joins itself to the divine Being from whom the supreme origination of all these partial and lower states proceeds so that the whole of life may become aware of its divine source and feel in each action of knowledge, of will, of feeling, sense and body... spiritual being for the imperfect action of the superficial nature and spiritualises and transfigures its mental, vital and physical parts by the spiritual ideality. These three elements, a union with the supreme Divine, unity with the universal Self, and a supramental life action from this transcendent origin and through this universality, but still with the individual as the soul-channel and natural instrument ...
... imposing its ignorant and ineffective will upon others in the same state of consciousness, but, as I have said, a universalised individual, who has identified himself with all and everyone in his being and consciousness, who has also at the same time transcended himself and others and attained a supreme unitary consciousness and being. It is such a person who is called the leader of human or terrestrial... towards which it is groping or moving in its own way: the secret spirit-consciousness that is alive in and through the material cosmos, that alone gives its total sense and significance. And the secret spirit must embody itself here below in material life, the status must be made supremely dynamic – the transcendent consciousness, even while maintaining its transcendence, has to deploy its immanence... mechanical matter. It is vibrant energy, but energy that conceals within it life and consciousness. Besides, the whirl and motion of energies is not all, something inherently static looms large behind: you call it ether, field, space or substratum – it is being, one would like to say, infused with a secret consciousness and will. We say then, symbolically at least, if not literally, that the West ...
... which one gets united by the power of divine love with the supreme divine consciousness and its delight in states of supernal ecstasy. The methods of the yoga of Devotion, when followed with regularity and constancy, confirm the repeated experiences and realizations of the human individual with the universal consciousness and with the consciousness of the Lord of the universe. 33 Yoga of Knowledge... higher forces of energy and action in the world, one begins to discover that there is a supreme originator of action, a supreme originator even of the universal Prakriti. The offering of one's action then is directed to that supreme originator, to the divine will. By constant offering of one's actions to that supreme will, the personal will and desire of action get ultimately eliminated, and the sense... the capacity of our total consciousness far exceeds that of our organs, the senses, the nerves, the brain, but that even for our ordinary thought and consciousness these organs are only their habitual instruments and not their generators. Consciousness uses the brain which its upward striving has produced; brain has not produced consciousness, nor does it use the consciousness. In abnormal instances of ...
... imposing its ignorant and ineffective will upon others in the same state of consciousness, but, as I have said, a universalised individual, who has identified himself with all and everyone in his being and consciousness, who has also at the same time transcended himself and others and attained a supreme unitary consciousness and being. It is such a person who is called the leader of human or terrestrial... towards which it is groping or moving in its own way: the secret spirit-consciousness that is alive in and through the material cosmos, that alone gives its total sense and significance. And the secret spirit must embody itself here below in material life, the status must be made supremely dynamic—the transcendent consciousness, even while maintaining its transcendence, has to deploy its immanence... mechanical matter. It is vibrant energy, but energy that conceals within it life and consciousness. Besides, the whirl and motion of energies is not all, something inherently static looms large behind: you call it ether, field, space or substratum—it is being, one would like to say, infused with a secret consciousness and will. We say then, symbolically at least, if not literally, that the West ...
... spontaneously, irresistibly felt as nothing else but the active presence of the Divine, the shape of power of the supreme Self and Spirit. The Shakti in this higher status reveals itself as the presence Page 763 or potentiality of the infinite existence, consciousness, will, delight, and when it is so seen and felt, the being turns towards it in whatever way, with its adoration or its... spiritual action is formed and a higher knowledge applied to all the activities of our existence. That link is the supramental or gnostic energy in which the incalculable infinite power of the supreme being, consciousness, delight formulates itself as an ordering divine will and wisdom, a light and power in the being which shapes all the thought, will, feeling, action and replaces the corresponding individual... of the Divine which are present and have to be taken account of in all living existences. In our ordinary consciousness we see these three as ourselves, the Jiva in the form of the ego, God—whatever conception we may have of God, and Nature. In the spiritual experience we see God as the supreme Self or Spirit, or as the Being from whom we come and in whom we live and move. We see Nature as his Power ...
... impersonal consciousness were the only eternal factor, there would be no personal existence anywhere: personality implies a divine truth of itself which is trying to get manifested in the earth-consciousness: a supreme Personal Consciousness is also an eternal factor and it is this that carries on the transforming process of which Sri Aurobindo speaks and this, whenever a special call for... attempted with full consciousness of its possibility - since this work is carried on by that frontal instrument of his own highest being, it is quite appropriate that he should occasionally employ terms with a colour of individuality in them. Furthermore, who told you that it is the impersonal consciousness of the Eternal that works the transformation of the earth-consciousness? If the impersonal... its manifold texture and so cannot grasp in an "interior" way its warp and woof. The Divine's consciousness is not like the mind, it is not divided from the essence of things but is aware of it by an identity because that essence is ultimately the Divine Himself. If there is such a consciousness - and we cannot doubt its existence once the soul in us has put its radiant finger upon our ...
... Supernature Sri Aurobindo means the authentic, eternal Nature of the Supreme, the Consciousness-Force of saccidānanda as the creatrix of the world. Supernature is the supramental Nature, the self-Nature ( prakṛtim swām ) of the Divine. In Super-nature there is no duality of puruṣa and prakṛti —they are one. Consciousness and Force, Knowledge and Will, status and dynamism form the warp and woof... mask of death is the unfading light of immortality, and suffering is only "a violent backwash of the waters of universal delight." An ascent of the human consciousness to the Supernature, and a descent of the Supernature into human consciousness and nature can alone release these divine principles and accomplish the evolutionary' purpose of the material existence. WHAT IS THE HIGHER NATURE? ... of the possibilities inherent in the infinite Being. It is a free and flexible play of illimitable energies, faultlessly following the rhythms of the dynamic Truth and the silent impulsion. of the supreme Will, the Truth-Will. Therefore, action, instead of being a bondage, is there the thrilled self- expression of an infinite freedom. It is an undammed flow of the self-manifesting Force of the Divine ...
... but still supramental, from level to divine level, a building up of Page 561 divine gradations, a free growth to the supreme Supermind or beyond it to yet undreamed levels of being, consciousness and Ananda. The supramental knowledge, the truth-consciousness of the Supermind is in itself one and total: even when there is a voluntary limitation of the knowledge or what might seem to be... of the truth-consciousness and all that it carries in it; it will bring with it the realisation of the Divine in self and the Divine in Nature. All that is sought by the God-seeker will be fulfilled in his spirit and in his life as he moves towards spiritual perfection. He will become aware of the transcendent reality, possess in the self-experience the supreme existence, consciousness, bliss, be one... to rise out of the domination over it of its veils of mind, life and body into the full consciousness and possession of its spiritual reality, and its nature also would have to be lifted out of the consciousness and power of consciousness proper to a mental, vital and physical being into the greater consciousness and greater power of being and the larger and freer life of the spirit. It would not lose ...
... Later, by a further purification and transformation of our consciousness and nature, another centre opens high above, beyond the ranges of the spiritual mind, which gives an immediate and infallible lead to all the movements of our being. It is here, in the supreme creative Consciousness, called by the Upanishads the Truth-Consciousness, that the conquest of the money-power is fully consummated and... been won from the hands of the vital forces whom it serves, it has to be diverted into the developing channels of the divine work. Not to the animal or the Asura in man, but to the Divine Shakti, the supreme Creative Force alone has it to be offered; for, it belongs to Her and has been created by Her for the purpose of Her work in the material world. "In your personal use of money look on all you have... oppose its progress but which, once conquered and converted, would substantially contribute to its creative fullness. If the whole of human life has to be organised anew on the basis of divine Consciousness, fall its energies are to be marshalled and mobilised for the revelation of the splendours of the Divine on earth, the money-power has to be utilised with a disinterested control and a perfect knowledge ...
... eternity: a timeless immobile status, supremely self-absorbed, Page 96 without developments of consciousness in movement or happening - a status of simultaneous integrality of time, which is a stable whole-consciousness of the successive relations of all things manifested - a status of processive movement of consciousness and its successive working out of... but the overruling can never be justifiable in the moment of action. If it can, the process of upward evolution by us would lose support altogether and could never be a plan of the supreme Creative Consciousness for our freewill to carry out. 1947 Page 98 ... and Nature. Wherever consciousness plays, this biune reality is present in one form or another, openly concordant or apparently divided. We have thus in the realm of evolutionary existence a mental being facing mental Nature, a vital being fronting vital Nature, a physical being opposite physical Nature: these beings are experienced by us according as our consciousness assumes a mental or ...
... to something beyond but still supramental from level to divine level, a building zip of divine gradations, a free growth to the supreme Supermind or beyond it to yet undreamed levels of being, consciousness and Ananda. The supramental knowledge, the truth-consciousness of the Supermind is in itself one and total: even when there is a voluntary limitation of the knowledge or what might seem to be... the truth-consciousness and all that it carries in it; it will bring with it the realisation of the Divine in self and the Divine in Nature. All that is sought by the God-seeker will be fulfilled in his spirit and in his life as he moves towards spiritual perfection. He will became aware of the: transcendent reality, possess in the self-experience the supreme existence, consciousness, bliss, be... rise out of the domination over it of its veils ' of mind, life and body into the full consciousness and possession of its spiritual reality and its nature also would have to be lifted out of the consciousness and power of consciousness proper to a mental, vital and physical being in to the greater consciousness and greater power of being and the larger and freer life of the spirit. It would not lose ...
... unites the human consciousness with the divine consciousness in a permanent, integral and dynamic identification. On the sun-bathed heights of the Supermind, the Yogi enjoys at once the invariable bliss of the transcendent Sachchidânanda, and the variable, multifarious delight of the cosmic existence. He walks. in the steps of the supreme Truth, and works by the Will of the supreme Force, and wears... Him is born life and the mind and all the organs of sense, and of Him are Ether and Air and Light and Water and Earth' that holdeth all." (Mundaka:2 , I . ) Page 59 THE SUPREME TRUTH-CONSCIOUSNESS OR SUPERMIND This all-embracing monism being the philosophical foundation of the Integral Yoga, the means and method of its practice and the way of its attainment must necessarily... possession. What then is the secret of God's possession. of both? The supreme Divine includes and transcends the ksara 1 and the aksara 2 at the same time, because He is greater than the universe of His own creation and "higher than the highest Immutable". He takes His stand upon the plane of the Truth-Consciousness, the rta-cit of the Vedic description, the plane of the Truth, the ...
... centration of the consciousness from the outer to the inner self, a firm foundation on this new basis, a habitual action from this inner self and its will and vision and Page 110 an opening up of the individual into the cosmic consciousness — is another necessary condition for the supramental change. It would be chimerical to hope that the supreme Truth-Consciousness can establish itself... obedience to the remoulding truth and will of the greater Consciousness of the Infinite. A long, difficult stage of constant effort, energism, austerity of the personal will, tapasyā, has ordinarily to be traversed before a more decisive stage can be reached in which a state of self-giving of all the being to the Supreme Being and the Supreme Nature can become total and absolute. There has to be a... l change; the psychic movement inward to the inner being, the Self or Divinity within us, must be completed by an opening upward to a supreme spiritual status or a higher existence. This can be done by our opening into what is above us, by an ascent of consciousness into the ranges of overmind and supramental nature in which the sense of Self and Spirit is ever unveiled and permanent and in which the ...
... a note ). You know that a Commission came from the government, and when they left, they asked if I could give them something. I gave them this: "There is a Supreme Divine Consciousness. We want to manifest this divine Consciousness in the physical life." Soon afterwards Page 244 There was someone in America whom I would often see at night, a woman. I would go there, talk... as people call it, but a more subtle and less precise consciousness, and that the physical consciousness was quite concrete and precise ( Mother gestures as if to knock against something ). But now this distinction... the other consciousness has become almost more concrete and real than the physical consciousness; the purely material consciousness is more wobbly: the impression of something not too.... as real, as tangible as physical things; and after half an hour I realize that I have moved about here and done all kinds of things ENTIRELY in that consciousness!... 10 What's that consciousness?... It's a very clear, very harmonious consciousness, in which there Page 247 are no difficulties, and very creative.... I don't know what it is.... 11 This morning it was peculiar: for ...
... According to esoteric belief, there have been seven projections and withdrawals. Now there is, in the view of us Aurobindonians, a different kind of history because of the descent of the supreme dynamic consciousness which Sri Aurobindo called Supermind. The pralaya comes because the principle manifested at each projection so far has been limited: it can progress thus far and no farther. The Super... de Chardin. Teilhard spoke of the evolution of a collective being in the far future, a super-organism with a super-consciousness compassing the whole world. But, under the influence of orthodox Christian theology, he envisaged a world-end when the souls sharing the super-consciousness will break away from matter and pass into a non-spatial non-temporal dimension. The Omega Point postulated by the Anthropic... with the Page 86 vision of the Integral Yoga. But there is no sign in it, as there is none also in Teilhard's "super-consciousness", that man the mental being will go beyond the utmost possibility open to mind itself. A widening of the mental consciousness and its achievement of technological mastery on a grand scale are the limits of its prognosis. But, if the cosmos is anthropos-oriented ...
... his active human existence. Made Godlike, God-becoming, he can enjoy the infinite breadth of a supreme spiritual consciousness that is reached through works no less than through love and knowledge. Immortal and free, he can continue his human action from that highest level and transmute it into a supreme and all-embracing divine activity,—that indeed is the ultimate crown and significance here of all... Second Series Second Series The Supreme Secret Essays on the Gita XXIII The Core of the Gita's Meaning What then is the message of the Gita and what its working value, its spiritual utility to the human mind of the present day after the long ages that have elapsed since it was written and the great subsequent transformations of thought and experience... can only be based in the freedom of our highest self, can only be found by passing through its vast impersonality and universality beyond mind into the integral light of the immeasurable Godhead and supreme Infinite who is beyond all dharmas. The Gita's message to those, absolutist seekers of the Infinite, who carry impersonality to an exclusive extreme, entertain an intolerant passion for the extinction ...
... Omnipresent Reality and the Universe Omnipresent Reality and the Universe The Life Divine Chapter XV The Supreme Truth-Consciousness One seated in the sleep of Superconscience, a massed Intelligence, blissful and the enjoyer of Bliss.... This is the omnipotent, this is the omniscient, this is the inner control, this is the source of all. Mandukya... Force of consciousness into its works and reproduces there the act of self-division from which this apprehending consciousness is born. In each form this Soul dwells with his Nature and observes himself in other forms from that artificial and practical centre of consciousness. In all it is the same Soul, the same divine Being; the multiplication of centres is only a practical act of consciousness intended... though in a multiplicity. The one real change has been an unequal concentration of consciousness and a multiple distribution of force. Page 150 There is a practical distinction in consciousness, but there is no essential difference of consciousness or true division in its vision of itself. The Truth-consciousness has arrived at a position which prepares our mentality, but is not yet that of ...
... (satyam, ritam, brihat), and the supreme triple divine worlds. They discovered that the path to immortality is the path of truth and that this path is built by man's expansion into cosmic consciousness and by his interchange with cosmic powers who enable him to reach the Supreme creative consciousness, mother Aditi, who is one with the original substance, the Supreme Triple Reality. As Rishi Parashara... unbound by Time and Space and unseizable even by the highest flights of Thought. As Indra declares: "It is not now, nor is It tomorrow, who knoweth That which is Supreme and Wonderful? It has motion and action in the consciousness of another but when It is Broached by the thought It vanishes.'³ __________________________________ Page 91 The complexity and the richness of the... developed from the Vedic concept of how man takes the cosmic powers that are acting in the Universe upon himself, makes an image of Page 97 them in his own consciousness and endows that image with the life and power that the Supreme Being has breathed into His own Divine forms and world energies. It is for this reason that Indian image worship is not the idolatry of a barbaric or undeveloped ...
... aid it is necessary for him not to regard the Divine Mother as someone too far and too remote from him, reigning on some unattainable summit of consciousness. No doubt in her transcendent aspect the Mother is the Supreme Chitshakti, Consciousness and Power, even beyond the reach of the highest Gods. But that does not debar her from being nearer than the nearest, closer than the closest even... and nature provided he prays in a way so that his prayers may be heard. Therefore, whenever the sadhaka's consciousness tends to get clouded, whenever the black mood of doubt and depression threatens to overwhelm him, he should at once recall to his trepidant consciousness the following words of the Mother: Page 111 "One must aspire, it is indispensable; but there are... call. The Fifth Limb: Faith in the Potency of Mahashakti — The faith in the Presence and the nearness of the Divine Mother must now be coupled with an equally unflinching faith in the supreme effectivity of her Force. For the sadhaka should not forget that she is not only Love and Grace, she is at the same time the Mahashakti of the Divine. But it happens very often that whenever ...
... they were a secret favour to the people concerned and never .- as we might misconstrue them - an effusion of ordinary vindic-tiveness. To see them otherwise is to be dense to the way of a supreme spiritual consciousness. The Divine Light acts in two manners, (It lays bare to us our own depth, "the imprisoned Splendour", as Browning names it. It also reveals the darkness covering and constricting that... of spiritual consciousness. I don't believe that there is no possibility of freedom. An absolute impossibility would not fit within Sri Aurobindo's scheme. That is perhaps why he has nowhere a word on the alleged karma of such a type. A number of difficulties in one's being may not be amenable except to what Sri Aurobindo has called Supermind, the highest dynamic divine consciousness. These difficulties... wonderful way with the soul. In the ras lila, the traditional play of the Divine with the human, every Gopi felt that Krishna was all hers and that she was the whole world to him and that he gave her a supreme value. The Lord, we are told, multiplied himself innumerably in his dance with his devotees and each devotee had the experience that she and he were all in all to each other. Our Mother's Grace was ...
... to effect its transformation both on the higher levels of Nature and on the ordinary mental, vital and physical levels down to the subconscience and the basic Inconscience and up to the supreme Truth-consciousness or Supermind in which alone the dynamic transformation could be entirely integral and absolute. The Attempt at Physical Transformation Sri Krishna never set out to arrive at any physical... is only a beginning; spiritualisation and the descent of the higher consciousness is not enough, it is only a middle term; the ultimate achievement needs the action of the supramental Consciousness and Force. Something less than that may very well be considered enough by the individual, but it is not enough for the earth-consciousness to take the definitive stride forward it must take at one time or... not like the old ones in that it aimed not at an ascent or passing beyond life but at a descent of the divine consciousness into life. Its aim is double—two movements fusing themselves into one—an ascending into divine consciousness and a transformation of earth life by the divine consciousness coming down here. All the old Yogas put the emphasis on going to Nirvana or to heaven, Vaikuntha, Goloka, Brahmaloka ...
... vari6us formations and expressions on various levels and degrees. This is the knowledge and experience given by the supreme spiritual consciousness. Page 240 ... things—matter and mind and life and all—being but vibrations of consciousness, even as the colours of a spectrum are vibrations, electro-magnetic waves of different frequency, mystic discipline enables one to enter into that condition in which one's consciousness mingles with all consciousness or with another particular consciousness (Patanjali's term is samyama), and one can have all knowledge that... heure! That runs close to Upanishadic knowledge. It means that the world is objective—it is not the figment of an individual observer; but it is not material either, it is consciousness in vibration. (Note the word "consciousness" is Jeans' own, not mine). Jeans is not alone to have such a revolutionary and unorthodox view. He seems to take courage from Dirac also. Dirac too cannot admit an an ...
... open or with shut eyes holding an image of the portrayal. By whatever means a vivid sense of us as we were in our recent incarnations on earth is called for - an incarnation carrying the supreme Truth-Consciousness with its all-penetrating light and its all-enfolding love. Concentratedly, devotedly, silently conjure up our image or, if silence does not come naturally, let the heart whisper: ' Ma-Sri... which the consciousness is most in-drawn, represents the Divine Being, creator of both the dream-state and the waking one from its own depth of omnipotent vision. What is beyond is simply called Turiya, meaning "Fourth". It is the final ground of all and at the same time overarches all. As such, this utter Absolute, this basic stuff of Being, may be considered a universal consciousness in all... Page 231 needed to be traversed by the consciousness when it has struck out beyond the accustomed human boundaries, before a superior mode of living is experienced. The luminous pillar from above is the descent of the transforming power of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The lit-up ball-shaped structure is the earth-consciousness in a state of response to that power. The light coming ...
... life-energy, the hampered and unstable body we possess. Difficulties, sufferings, failures are unavoidable - until the glorious hour in the future when what Sri Aurobindo has called the Supreme Truth-Consciousness, the all-transformative Supermind, descends in its fullness and evokes the same Godhead lying deep-hidden in Page 64 each of our parts and the two by their combination begin... to complete the visionary drive behind his utterance. If "in His Will is our peace", we may also consider the other side of the human-divine relationship, the traffic of truth between the Supreme Spirit and the aspiring soul, and deliver the message: "In our peace is His Will." This would Page 61 mean three things. First, a natural state of peace in us would be the sign that ...
... formations and expressions on various levels and degrees. This is the knowledge and experience given by the supreme spiritual consciousness. Page 320 ... things – matter and mind and life and all – being but vibrations of consciousness, even as the colours of a spectrum are vibrations, electro-magnetic waves of different frequency, mystic discipline enables one to enter into that condition in which one's consciousness mingles with all consciousness or with another particular consciousness (Patanjali's term is samyama), and one can have all knowledge that... That runs close to Upanishadic knowledge. It means that the world is objective – it is not the figment of an individual observer; but it is not material either, it is consciousness in vibration. (Note the word "consciousness" is Jeans' own, not mine). Jeans is not alone to have such a revolutionary and unorthodox view. He seems to take courage from Dirac also. Dirac too cannot admit an ...
... and sustaining in itself the whole flow of the indivisible Force that is all things; his whole nature has to reproduce in the individual the unity, the harmony, the oneness-in-all of the supreme Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. Through all this play the secret reality is always one and the same delight of existence,—the same in the delight of the subconscious sleep before the emergence of the individual... foundation in the substitution of the Sachchidananda consciousness which is All-Bliss for the ego-consciousness which enjoys and suffers. The Sachchidananda consciousness may be transcendent of the universe and aloof from it, and to this state of distant Bliss the path is equal indifference; it is the path of the ascetic. Or the Sachchidananda consciousness may be at once transcendent and universal; and... fundamental and immutable Unity. If, on the other hand, we look at world-existence in relation to consciousness only and to force of consciousness, we may regard, describe and realise it as a movement of Force obeying some secret will or else some necessity imposed on it by the very existence of the Consciousness that possesses or regards it. It is then the play of Prakriti, the executive Force, to satisfy ...
... the turn of the being. What is important is that turn and the call within you. The knowledge that there is a Supreme Existence, Consciousness and Bliss which is not merely a negative Nirvana or a static and featureless Absolute, but dynamic, the perception that this Divine Consciousness can be realised not only beyond but here, and the consequent acceptance of a divine life as the aim of Yoga, do... is taken into the higher consciousness that the understanding can come. Meanwhile what one has to follow is the dictates of the deeper psychic heart within based on that faith and love which is the only sure guiding star. Faith in its essence is a light in the soul which turns towards the truth even when the mind doubts or the vital revolts or the physical consciousness denies it. When this extends... of this world. The Cosmic Will is not, to our ordinary consciousness, something that acts as an independent power doing whatever it chooses; it works through all these beings, through the forces at play in the world and the law of these forces and their results. It is only when we open ourselves and get out of the ordinary consciousness that we can feel it intervening as an independent power and ...
... and sustaining in itself the whole flow of the indivisible Force that is all things; his whole nature has to reproduce in the individual the unity, the harmony, the oneness-in-all of the supreme Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. Through all this play the secret reality is always one and the same delight of existence, — the same in the delight of the subconscious sleep before the emergence of the individual... foundation in the substitution of the Sachchidananda consciousness which is All-Bliss for the ego-consciousness which enjoys and suffers. The Sachchidananda consciousness may be transcendent of the universe and aloof from it, and to this state of distant Bliss the path is equal indifference; it is the path of the ascetic. Or the Sachchidananda consciousness may be at once transcendent and universal; and... and immutable Unity. If, on the other hand, we look at world-existence in relation to consciousness only and to force of consciousness, we may regard, describe and realise it as a movement of Force obeying some secret will or else some necessity imposed on it by the very existence of the Consciousness that possesses or regards it. It is then the Page 135 play of Prakriti, the executive ...
... on them during the last years of her earthly sojourn, but with the background of a supreme divine consciousness held within her body and acting upon the cells from its profundity and its altitude and its circum-ambience. Without overlooking the cells, let our primary aim be to catch something of that consciousness. Now I come to the German woman who proffered the information "that Sri Aurobindo... the time of the definite installation of the higher consciousness (of which I don't even know whether you have already achieved it), we may expect you to be seen on earth for much longer than we shall have eyes to see. So what 1 wanted to ask you is whether you may not have something more to say on the subject - which at least to me is of supreme interest and importance - than what you have already... become strong? How long these lower limbs will drag me on is anybody's guess. Possibly much will depend on the way the rest of Amal's body fares under the influence of that part of his consciousness which is the Supreme Mother's child. Let us look forward to a progressive "second childhood" of this sort accompanying his advance towards a tottering, though hopefully not doddering, nonagenarianism. ...
... being towards the possession of the supreme Reality, the supreme existence, consciousness, beatitude. But of this it would be premature to speak: what has been written is per haps as much as the human mind as it is now constituted can venture to look forward to and the enlightened thought understand in some measure. These consequences of the Truth-Consciousness descending and laying its hold upon Matter... material universe. That cannot be unless the body too undergoes a transformation, unless its action and functioning attain to a supreme capacity and the perfection which is possible to it or which can be made possible. (...) A development of the physical consciousness must always be a considerable part of our aim, but for that the right development of the body itself is an essential element; health... conscious body might even discover and work out the right material method and process of a material transformation. For this, no doubt, the spirit's supreme light and power and creative joy must have manifested on the summit of the individual consciousness and sent down their fiat into the body, but still the body may take in the working out its spontaneous part of self-discovery and achievement. It would ...
... Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine Lecture IX Chap. 14. The Supermind as Creator Chap. 15. The Supreme Truth-Consciousness We are in the 14th chapter and I would like to compress, if possible, the 14th and the 15th together. We have worked up to what might be called self-possession of the One on one side : the Infinite is, of course, the... of enlightenment. In the Supermind, that is the Truth-Consciousness, there is unity but it is not a negative unity. Rather, it is original self-concentration of the Infinite which is greater than the All. Therefore to say that it is One does not seem logical. It is true that the nature of the absolute self-concentration of the Supreme is unity, the One. But in the Supermind it becomes vast se... and idea. In the Supermind all being is consciousness and all consciousness is being. In the Supermind consciousness of being, consciousness of knowledge and consciousness of will— all is one movement. There is, we may say, Idea in the Supermind but it is only light of the Reality,—not an abstraction of the mind. One may say it is vibration of consciousness and Page 149 being which ...
... surrender by the Mother at one gesture from Sri Aurobindo the long laborious period of gradual preparation for the Supermind's world started - on the one hand the drawing down of the supreme Truth-Consciousness from above and on the other the digging into what Sri Aurobindo designates the Inconscient, the apparent origin of evolution on earth, the seeming negation of the Divine within which... The One whom we call the Supreme is the utter Unmanifest. The creative Conscious Force of the Supreme is the Divine Mother in Her transcendent poise, Aditi, holding the Truths that have to be manifested out of the absolute Mystery. Through the transcendent Mother and by Her creativity the whole universe has taken birth. And when the Supreme manifests in the world His own personal... production." Marvellously full indeed has been the Mother's productiveness, for it is rich with the power of a consciousness more than human. Even at the age of five she was aware that she did not belong to this world, that she did not have a merely human consciousness. Her Yoga may be said to have begun in that early period. Her parents had a small chair, with a little back, made for ...
... to bring a many-sided direct impulsion from a spiritual state that is vaster than the mental and beyond all merely ethico-religious rule. Again, it can take place straight from the supreme Truth-Consciousness, the Supermind, where the ultimate marvel of the Transcendent is organised for time-creation and the all-transformative archetype of earth-existence is dynamic. The Avatarhood from... the Integral Yoga, one understands fairly well the need of entire detachment from the non-divine and of absolute love for the Supreme and of perfect service to the Master. What is not often understood is the way of action in the midst of the world where the Supreme's manifestation has to take place, the way of dealing with the humans amongst whom the Divine has put us. There are two extremes... attitude and action, we have here an oblivion of two ingredients of the Integral Yoga. First, this is a Yoga of manifestation no less than realisation. Not only is the Supreme to be centrally reached: the Supreme is also to be radiated to the farthest peripheries of the world. The innermost soul has to look forth and touch the outermost: all crudity of attitude, all meanness of action ...
... obedience and surrender by the Mother at one gesture from Sri Aurobindo the long laborious period of gradual preparation for the Supermind's world started—on the one hand the drawing down of the supreme Truth-Consciousness from above and on the other the digging into what Sri Aurobindo designates the Inconscient, the apparent origin of evolution on earth, the seeming negation of the Divine within which the... PERSONAL FACTS The One whom we call the Supreme is the utter Unmanifest. The creative Conscious Force of the Supreme is the Divine Mother in Her transcendent poise, Aditi, holding the Truths that have to be manifested out of the absolute Mystery. Through the transcendent Mother and by Her creativity the whole universe has taken birth. And when the Supreme manifests in the world His own personal being... divine consciousness that had been realised so far in the world: he brought it down into the very material being, thus carrying one step forward the work done by the previous Avatar Sri Krishna who had brought down its influence into earth-life. With the descent of this consciousness into Sri Aurobindo the ground was prepared for the future descent of the Supermind, the integral Truth-Consciousness of ...
... normal mind- 1 The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 427. Page 109 consciousness and consequently at present superconscient to it. A supreme Truth-Consciousness, Rita-Chit, which Sri Aurobindo terms as Supermind, tops the series and this is a Power not merely static and introspective but supremely dynamic and creative. It is this Supermind that must be consciously possessed and... mental being and finally the plane of Supermind are not consciously possessed and made active and organised in the normal consciousness of the embodied being, so long as the spiritualised mind approaches the Supreme directly and not passing through this Truth-Consciousness, the supramental Gnosis, one is bound to experience difficulties from the point of view of the realisation of our goal, both... For even beyond the avyaktam, the Unmanifest, beyond the divine Darkness, tamasaḥ parastāt, is the Supreme One Existence, ekam advaitam, the Para Purusha who holds in His vast integral Reality the truth of cosmic consciousness as well as that of the Nirvana of world-consciousness. He is beyond the duality and the non-duality, parata ḥ para ḥ 4 and is ādityavarṇa in contrast to ...
... liberated being towards the possession of the supreme Reality, the supreme existence, consciousness, beatitude. But of this it would be premature to speak: what has been written is perhaps as much as the human mind as it is now constituted can venture to look forward to and the enlightened thought understand in some measure. These consequences of the Truth-consciousness descending and laying its hold upon Matter... cannot be unless the body too undergoes a transformation, unless its action and functioning attain to a supreme capacity and the perfection which is possible to it or which can be made possible. I have already indicated in a previous message a relative perfection of the physical consciousness in the body and of the mind, the life, the character which it houses as, no less than an awakening and ... conscious body might even discover and work out the right material method and process of a material transformation. For this, no doubt, the spirit's supreme light and power and creative joy must have manifested on the summit of the individual consciousness and sent down their fiat into the body, but still the body may take in the working out its spontaneous part of self-discovery and achievement. It would ...
... towards the possession of the supreme Reality, the supreme existence, consciousness, beatitude. But of this it would be premature to speak: what has been written is perhaps as much as the human mind as it is now constituted can venture to look forward to and the enlightened thought understand in some measure. These consequences of the page - 142 Truth-consciousness descending and laying its... cannot be unless the body too undergoes a transformation, unless its action and functioning attain to a supreme capacity and the ' perfection which is possible to it or which can be made possible. I have already indicated in a previous message a relative perfection of the physical consciousness in the body and of the mind, the life, the character which it houses as, no less than an awakening and... conscious body might even discover and work out the right material method and process of a material transformation. For this, no doubt, the spirit's supreme light and power and creative joy must have manifested on the summit of the individual consciousness and sent down their fiat into the body, but still the body may take in the working out its spontaneous part of self-discovery and achievement. It would ...
... being towards the possession of the supreme Reality, the supreme existence, consciousness, beatitude. But of this it would be premature to speak: what has been written is perhaps as much as the human mind as it is now constituted can venture to look forward to and the enlightened thought understand in some measure. These consequences of the Truth- Consciousness descending and laying its hold upon Matter... cannot be unless the body too undergoes a transformation, unless its action and functioning attain to a supreme capacity and the perfection which is possible to it or which can be made possible. I have already indicated in a previous message a relative perfection of the physical consciousness in the body and of the mind, the life, the character which it houses as, no less than an awakening and... conscious body might even discover and work out the right material method and process of a material transformation, For this, no doubt, the spirit's supreme light and power and creative joy must have manifested on the summit of the individual consciousness and sent down their fiat into the body, but still the body may take in the working out its spontaneous part of self-discovery and achievement. It would ...
... wisdom something cold, dark, empty, gloomy. Has it not occurred to you that if they really sought for something cold, dark and gloomy as the supreme good, they would not be sages but asses? The sages sought after the Divine as the supreme existence, consciousness and Bliss, the Light beyond lights by which all this shineth, the joy beyond all other joys. Even the seekers of the Absolute Indefinable find... turn away from all other ties. But besides that a new consciousness must be created in it—first a consciousness of pure and purifying Divine Peace from above which must take hold of all down to the most physical—then in that peace an increasing inner strength pure and unegoistic—then the Divine Light and Knowledge transforming all the consciousness and movements. When this has been done, then the human... Ananda are usually momentary or brief, they cannot remain. In an impure consciousness the Divine Love if it came in would create a perturbation and possibly be attacked by a mixture which would make it impossible for it to stay. It is therefore that touches only can come. I understand that it is the physical consciousness which has come up forcibly with the old vital human movements and feelings ...
... past and not only of a few supreme ones? This means that in many lives he played the role of a human Vibhuti and did not look like an Avatar in the conventional sense, although inwardly he was always the Supreme Divine Person. This means, to follow Sri Aurobindo's words, that in Avatarhood there is a Consciousness behind which is that of the Godhead and a frontal consciousness, human or apparently human... growing aware of the Divine Consciousness in full: the awareness came almost at a touch, but the incident of discipleship is significant. Then take Chaitanya. The Krishna-being manifested here in an intensely recognisable way - but intermittently, as it were. In certain periods Chaitanya was a supreme Bhakta and nothing more, and he was certainly not born in Divine Consciousness. I don't argue that no Avatar... stillness of the whole consciousness and attended at first by the overwhelming feeling and perception of the total unreality of the world, though this feeling disappeared after his second realisation which was that of the cosmic consciousness and of the Divine as all beings and all that is, which happened in the Alipore Jail. To the other two realisations, that of the supreme Reality with the static ...
... only be by the supramental consciousness in the supreme Sachchidananda consciousness—so why should the question arise? Why should there be a difference between the supreme Sachchidananda version of the cosmos and the Supermind's version of it? Your difficulty probably comes from thinking of both in terms of the mind. The Supermind is an entirely different consciousness not only from the spiritualised... the Being and the Planes of Consciousness The Parts of the Being and the Planes of Consciousness The Vertical System: Supermind to Subconscient Letters on Yoga - I Chapter II The Supermind or Supramental Supermind and the Purushottama Purushottama of the Gita is the supreme being; the supermind is a power of the Supreme—or proceeding from him, if you... has to annul itself in order to enter into the supreme Truth—or, at least, so it thinks. But the supermind being the Truth-Consciousness and the Divine Knowledge has no need to annul itself for the purpose. The Will of Sachchidananda can act under different conditions in the Knowledge or the Ignorance. The Supermind is the Truth Consciousness, the Knowledge, and the will there works out sp ...
... delight of the meeting and fulfilment and embrace, the pain of separation, the wrath of love, the tears of longing, the increased delight of reunion. The heart is the scene of this supreme idyll of the inner consciousness, but a heart which undergoes increasingly an intense spiritual change and becomes the radiantly unfolding lotus of the spirit. And as the intensity of its seeking is beyond the highest... mould and medium of being, but rather as the presence of the ineffable Godhead to our consciousness, and then too love and adoration find their place. And even when our personality seems to disappear into unity with it, it may still be — and really is — the individual divine who is melting to the universal or the supreme by a union in which love and lover and loved are forgotten in a fusing experience... earth is the meaning of all the toil of humanity. She adds that humanity need not suffer always, and that the struggle and the suffering are meant to be the prelude to the coming of the Supreme Divine Consciousness on the earth so that humanity and the Divine can join together and humanity can partake of the manifestation of the Divine Bliss on the earth and rejoice in the Rasa of Sri Krishna. Let ...
... movement characteristically its own, a growth of consciousness according to its nature, Swabhava, and rhythm of self-development, Swadharma. All lived. The Ultimate Reality is not only the supporting consciousness of all but That is the moving dynamic consciousness of all. But all the multitudinous organisations of consciousness are still the One Supreme Being. She felt all being one. The vision of Oneness... transcending all dynamism is all for them. 4 The Avyakta, Akshara or Shunya to which the experience of Nirvana leads is only an aspect of the Supreme Truth-Consciousness, which somehow includes it along with all mutable consciousness. The supreme Brahman, in the words of the ancient wisdom of the Upanishads, is at the same time the Quality-less and the All-Qualitied, nirguṇo guṇi The Great... Plenitude of the Higher and sometimes even the Highest Truth-Consciousness remains an isolated miracle of creation, a Siddha or Perfect Man in a world of imperfect beings. For, even the formation of one Gnostic Individual does not solve the problem of earth-consciousness. But Savitri has offered even this very Gnostic individuality of hers to the Supreme Lord by passing through the experience of Nirvana, the ...
... holocaust of the Supreme. The great World-Mother by her sacrifice Has made her soul the body of our state; Accepting sorrow and unconsciousness Divinity's lapse from its own splendours wove The many-patterned ground of all we are. An idol of self is our mortality. 1 or this chiselled bit of diamond, An inconscient Power groped towards consciousness, Matter... thing, the presentation of a divine name and form. And this distinguishes it from the mystic consciousness which is not the supreme solar conscious-ness but the nearest approach to it. Or, perhaps, the mystic dwells in the domain of the Divine, he may even be suffused with a sense of unity but would not like to acquire the Divine's nature and function. Normally and generally he embodies all the... living and burning symbolism of an inner world. But all that is left far behind, when we hear a new voice announcing an altogether new manner, revelatory of the truly and supremely spiritual consciousness, not simply mystic or religious but magically occult and carved out of the highest if recondite philosophia: A finite movement of the Infinite Game winging its way through ...
... only the first manifestation of the Supreme, you get an imperfect idea of the Reality. You must take all the three poises together. Unless and until the One is known as the Individual Self of the One, the Cosmic Self of the All, and the Transcendent above with individual and the All you have not got the right perspective of the Truth-consciousness. Truth-consciousness is itself at Page 161 ... this Divine in the human to ascend or rather to reascend to its own Divine Consciousness. And you can say that this being that wants to ascend to the Divine consciousness is already contained in the essential Satchidananda. The soul, the psychic being, behind the ego wants to ascend, but it is self-contained in the Supreme. That is the Divine Soul and you may call that the J ī v ā tman, the Central... contained in the Divine Maya. When this aspect of mind is realized by the mental Consciousness of man, then mind will not be rejected. Supposing one reaches this Reality, the supreme Page 169 Truth Consciousness—what would be the use of mind afterwards ? Would there be nothing left for the mind to do ? Mind would not be necessarily abrogated. Mind is not an instrument to be thrown away ...
... according to Sri Aurobindo, Supermind, — a supreme Truth-Consciousness, an expressive term, which Sri Aurobindo has taken from the Rigveda, which describes the Supermind as rta-chit, the consciousness of essential truth of being (satyam), of ordered truth of active being (rtam) and the vast self-awareness (brhad\ in which alone this consciousness is possible. According to Sri Aurobindo, because... eternal Self the foundation of all cosmic existence; nor is it qualified Monism although it places in the One his eternal supreme Prakriti manifested in the form of the Jiva and lays a great stress on dwelling in God rather than dissolution as the supreme state of spiritual consciousness. It avoids every rigid determinism as would injure its universal comprehensiveness. 7 Page 28 Sri Aurobindo... is to establish the higher principle in the earth- consciousness in such a way that it will remain and go on strengthening and spreading itself in the earth-life. That is how a new principle in the evolution must necessarily work. It is first through the individuals that it [the supramental consciousness] becomes part of the earth-consciousness and afterwards it spreads from the first centres ...
... infinite possibilities. Through the play of possibilities a definite, decisive movement is acting all the time. Of all the possibilities, there are some that are approved and sanctioned by a supreme Truth-Consciousness. Only, they are allowed to materialise. In the world we live in all the potentialities are given a trial;—in fact they make up the play of the complex of forces which is the world. Many results... Life and Body take place from the Truth-Consciousness, from the Supermind ? Truth-Consciousness is the first projection from the nature of the Divine Being, from the Satchidananda. How did it lapse into Mind ? This lapse is not yet explained. Mind, being the consciousness of division, is the basis of ignorance. Supermind being based on the infinite consciousness, existence and bliss is founded on Truth... Intuition may be compared to the edge of the Sun of knowledge. Above these levels is the Overmind consciousness and there one finds that the Overmind consciousness is not individual. The first thing one realizes is that it is no one man's consciousness. It is global. So far as intuitive consciousness is concerned one may say that it is working in him. One might feel that one is there all the time in ...
... cosmic Individual, to get beyond itself and know and live in some supreme Being, Consciousness and Bliss of existence. For this immense task it is equipped only with the instruments of its original Ignorance. Its limited being is the cause of all the difficulty, discord, struggle, division that mars life. The limitation of its consciousness, unable to dominate or assimilate the contacts of the universal... Spirit; it imposes on the evolving life and soul the law of a difficult emergence. Life and consciousness, no less than Matter, obey in their first appearance the law of fragmentation. Life organises itself physically round the plasm, the cell, psychologically round the small separative fragmentary ego. Consciousness itself has to concentrate its small beginnings in a poor surface formation and hide behind... 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. There is no other true cause; for all apparent causes are themselves circumstance and result of this original sin of the being. Only when it rises and widens out of this limited separative consciousness into the oneness of ...
... heaven and to the supreme Reality." 2 In fact, the required solution of the problem of harmonisation of the threefold demand of human nature lies in the recognition of the fact that "the lower consciousness of mind, life and body cannot arrive at its full meaning until it is taken up, restated, transformed by the light and power and joy of the higher spiritual consciousness, while the higher... spiritual Illumination underlying the Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, "the supracosmic Reality stands as the supreme Truth of being; to realise it is the highest reach of our consciousness. But it is this highest Reality which is also the cosmic being, the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic will and life: it has put these things forth, not outside itself but in its own being, not as an opposite... the logic of the inner significance of the whole process, evolution is bound to proceed on its upward and forward march and bring out in due course a far greater consciousness than what we call Mind, indeed a supreme Truth-Consciousness — or what the great Vedic mystics termed Rita-Chit and Sri Aurobindo calls Supermind — that by its full manifestation will liberate not partially, not imperfectly ...
... Infinite Sat-Chit and Ananda—infinite Being,—consciousness—and delight—"the triune being who is all and one" "And yet is no one but himself apart". Savitri knew all this "not by some thought" but "by the self", by identity. She passed from room to room of the soul and felt one with everything. "She knew herself Beloved of the Supreme: "Mother was she of Beauty and Delight,... arose was "a consciousness of being without its joy," 'out of some sullen monstrous vast arisen," "imagined by some blind regardless self". Savitri heard in her heart words "that made unreal the world and all life meant". Page 325 The abyss said: there is no soul, no personality,—"hope not to be happy in a world of pain". Do not try "to burden with bliss the silent still Supreme." "I am Death... "There was no temptation of the joy to be"—the delight of Existence was not there. CANTO SEVEN Savitri's daily life went on plodding as usual. She was living in the supreme Mother's consciousness but nobody knew anything about her inner condition. "They saw a person where was only God's vast". All people found her "the same perfect Savitri." To all she spoke the same words, she ...
... imperfect reading, even perhaps itself an illusion?" And next, "Is illusion the sole or the highest Power which the Divine Consciousness or Superconsciousness possesses?" The Absolute is an absolute Truth free from Maya, otherwise liberation would not be possible. Has then the supreme and absolute Truth no other active Power than a power of falsehood and with it, no doubt, for the two go together, a power... final and exhaustive—came after and by the exclusion and silencing of all thought—there was, first, what might be called a spiritually substantial or concrete consciousness of stillness and silence, then the awareness of some sole and supreme Reality in whose presence things existed only as forms but forms not at all substantial or real or concrete; but this was all apparent to a spiritual perception... to effect its transformation both on the higher levels of Nature and on the ordinary mental, vital and physical levels down to the subconscience and the basic Inconscience and up to the supreme Truth-consciousness or Supermind in which alone the dynamic transformation could be entirely integral and absolute. 4 November 1946 Silence, Thought and Action While at the top of the staircase, after ...
... that truth can only be accepted when it has been raised to the spiritual level, tested in the supreme Truth-consciousness and extricated from the soil and error of the Ignorance. In sum, it may be safely affirmed that no solution offered can be anything but provisional until a Supramental Truth-consciousness is reached by which the appearances of things are put in their place and their essence revealed... is the seat of a divine Truth-consciousness that has native in it, as no other consciousness below it can have, the power to organise the works of a Truth which is no longer tarnished by the shadow of the cosmic Inconscience and Ignorance. There to reach and thence to bring down a supramental dynamism that can transform the Ignorance is the distant but imperative supreme goal of the integral Yoga. ... a Light from above poured into all our movements of mind, heart, will, sense, life and body. An increasing light of divine consciousness will make us close in soul and one by identity in our inmost being and spiritual substance with the Master of the world-sacrifice,—the supreme object of existence proposed by the ancient Vedanta; but also it will tend to make us one in our becoming by resemblance to ...
... getting more and more pronounced), every minute: do you want life, do you want death; do you want life, do you want death?... That's how it is. And life is union with the Supreme. And consciousness, a COMPLETELY new consciousness is coming. That's how it is, like this (Mother makes a gesture of swinging from one side to the other). But yesterday or the day before, I don't know, all of a sudden the... open up the consciousness of the cells by fixing the supramental consciousness in the body-consciousness. This work was done; the rest was a secondary consequence. As Mother said: 'It must be "worked out" as one says, it has to be realised in all details, but the change IS DONE—the change is done.... The physical is CAPABLE of receiving the Superior Light, the Truth, the true consciousness and to ma-ni-fest... original Unity. And that, that's the work which is being accomplished, that is to say each infinitesimal element of that Consciousness is in the process of rediscovering the original total consciousness, while keeping that state of consciousness—and the result is the original Consciousness conscious of its Unity AND conscious of the whole play: all the innumerable elements of that Page 201 ...
... portion of the Supreme and not a fraction of Nature. But equally any view that sees the universe as existent only in the individual consciousness must very evidently be a fragmentary truth: it is justified by a perception of the universality of the spiritual individual and his power of embracing the whole universe in his consciousness; but neither the cosmos nor the individual consciousness is the fundamental... true that the soul can ascend into worlds of a greater consciousness beyond the earth, but it is also true that the power of these worlds, the power of a greater consciousness has to develop itself here; the embodiment of the soul is the means for that embodiment. All the higher powers of Consciousness exist because they are powers of the Supreme Reality. Our terrestrial being has also the same truth;... being, seven gradations of the manifesting Consciousness of which we can get a perception or a concrete realisation of their presence and immanence here or a reflected experience. The first three are the original and fundamental principles and they form universal states of consciousness to which we can rise; when we do so, we can become aware of supreme planes or levels of fundamental manifestation ...
... heart of the creatures and in the highest half of the most high is their dwelling.” "As of light and shade God-knowers speak of them...” An ascent of the integrated consciousness of the individual to the supreme Truth-Consciousness, ṛta-cit, of the Divine by an absolute and integral aspiration and self-surrender induces a delivering and transforming descent of the ṛta-cit into the whole being... the one "I" conscious of itself in all forms and powerful to achieve everything. The blind, sense-embedded, separate "I" will disappear for ever, even from the physical consciousness, even from the subconscient. This supreme consummation, unrealised by man up to the present day, but inevitable as the crown of his evolutionary endeavour, will be possible by a descent of the transforming Light ... they are imbued with the consciousness of that Law, which is not a law of practical application capable of being translated into principles or rules in the ordinary human consciousness, but which is a law of attitude, of a constant and general consciousness, something which is not at all expressed by formulas, but which is lived.”¹ In that unbanked consciousness "all problems regarding we ...
... also the psychological nature of the clarified butter and its connection with the vision of the Sun. Who is this cow that "cannot be slain" if not the cow aditi —the Infinite Mother—the supreme Divine Consciousness creative of the cosmos, of the gods and the demons, of men and of all that is? × These... first and supreme in the Rivers, 8 in the foundation of the vast mid-world, in his native seat; without head, without feet, concealing his two ends he joins them in the lair of the Bull. 9 प्र शर्ध आर्त प्रथमं विपन्याँ ऋतस्य योना वृषभस्य नीळे । स्पार्हो युवा वपुष्यो विभावा सप्त प्रियासोऽजनयन्त वृष्णे ॥१२॥ 12) He came forth with a vibrancy of light, the first and supreme force, in... illumined seers of the Dawn, the mother, supreme creators creating the Gods within us; may we become the Angirasas, sons of Heaven and, shining with light, break the hill that has within it the riches. अधा यथा नः पितरः परासः प्रत्नासो अग्न ऋतमाशुषाणाः । शुचीदयन् दीधितिमुक्थशासः क्षामा भिन्दन्तो अरुणीरप व्रन् ॥१६॥ 16) Now, too, O Fire, even as our supreme and ancient fathers, desiring to possess ...
... this tale of conjugal devotion armed with an extreme Will to Life, Sri Aurobindo intuited a wealth of symbol; for the name "Savitri" the Rig Veda Page 4 had given to the supreme creative consciousness emblemed forth as the Sun. It means the Truth-force of the divine Light, and by analogy "Satyavan" would mean that Light's Truth-being. So the carrying away of Satyavan by Yama the God... difference was of the plane of consciousness from which the writing took place. Nor was Sri Aurobindo growing and maturing only as Goethe did during the composition of the second part of Faust; he was moving from plane to plane of Yoga. Not alone the ideas and the emotions were undergoing a change and reaching to ripeness as with Goethe: the very stuff of consciousness was turning increasingly from... and passionate, yet it has not in itself the amplitude and puissance as experienced in the overhead planes, the amplitude and puissance which attain their extreme in the consciousness whence the Mantra comes. This consciousness is implied in Sri Aurobindo's mention, of Truth's inspiring and ruling vault as well as of the gods in whose cavern the priestess is dancing. The spiritual state he describes ...
... wisdom something cold, dark, empty, gloomy. Has it not occurred to you that if they really sought for something cold, dark and gloomy as the supreme good, they would not be sages but asses? The sages sought after the Divine as the supreme Existence, Consciousness and Bliss, the Light beyond lights, by which all this shineth, the Joy beyond all other joys. Even the seekers of the Absolute Indefinable... and judge of spiritual experience. "Is the Divine something less than Mind or He is something greater? Is mental consciousness with its groping enquiry, endless argument, unquenchable doubt, stiff and unplastic logic something superior or even equal to the Divine Consciousness or is it something inferior in its action and status? "If it is greater, then there is no reason to seek after the... absurdity and Avatarhood also to an absurdity. For my Yoga is done not for myself who need nothing and do not need salvation or anything else, but precisely for the earth-consciousness, to open a way to the earth-consciousness to change. Has the Divine need to come down to prove that he can do this or that or has he any personal need of doing it? Your argument proves that I am not an Avatar but ...
... assuming him into it—a greater light of Consciousness and a greater action of Force: his natural existence would be the instrumentation of a superior Power, an overmental and supramental Consciousness-Force, the power of the original Divine Shakti. All the processes of the evolution would be felt as the action of a supreme and universal Consciousness, a supreme and universal Force working in whatever... position and centration of the consciousness from the outer to the inner self, a firm foundation on this new basis, a habitual action from this inner self and its will and vision and an opening up of the individual into the cosmic consciousness,—is another necessary condition for the supramental change. It would be chimerical to hope that the supreme Truth-consciousness can establish itself in the narrow... said about the intermediate consciousness must perforce be inadequate; only certain abstract generalisations can be hazarded which may serve for an initial light of guidance. The one enabling circumstance here is that, however different in constitution and principle, the higher consciousness is still, in its evolutionary form, in what we can first achieve of it here, a supreme development of elements which ...
... thus: "By ‘Sole Reality’, ‘Love supreme’, ‘Absolute Consciousness’ is meant the Divine Mother who will save the world by bringing it back to its original purity and power and light and life, by a fuller manifestation for which it is being moulded through suffering and darkness. For this consummation to be possible there must be a readiness in the physical consciousness to open to the influence of the... the other souls of the same Family, [5] and their collective call merged in Mother’s prayer of 15 February 1914: O Thou, Sole Reality, Light of our light and Life of our life, Love supreme, Saviour of the world, grant that more and more I may be perfectly awakened to the awareness of Thy constant presence…. Give me the peace of perfect disinterestedness, the peace that makes Thy presence... wrote his Gayatri mantra: Om, tat savitur varam roopam jyotih parasya dheemahi, yannah satyena deepayet : Let us meditate on the most auspicious form of Savitri, on the Light of the Supreme, which shall illumine us with the Truth. [32] When he was studying in France, he was once mistaken for a spy and arrested. When word reached Mother, she arranged for his release through ...
... invented and brought into use by the temporal consciousness of man, when we happen to employ it in order to conceive in terms of Time things that have their origin and spiritual validity only in the Eternal. Indeed, what is meant by 'the awareness of the beginningless, endless, evernew moment,' a fact of capital importance in the supreme spiritual consciousness, cannot be verbally expressed to one who himself... himself has not experienced that realisation. (E) Our mental nature and mental thought are fundamentally based on a consciousness of the finite; the supreme spiritual perception is, on the contrary, native to a consciousness of the infinite. Thus the standards and forms of mental cognition and thought are altogether insufficient to judge or appreciate the highest spiritual knowledge. It is,... Silence Ineffable, the impersonal omnipresent Person, the Mystery, translucent in highest consciousness to its own spirit, but to a lesser consciousness veiled in its own exceeding light and impenetrable for ever." 58 Now, how would the logical mind react to these self-contradictory affirmations about the supreme Reality which is,in fact, untranslatable into intellectual terms? The dimensional mind ...
... sublime spiritual perspectives of the poem. The first emanations from the Supreme Mother - Consciousness, Bliss, Truth, Life - lose contact with their Origin, get immersed in Darkness, and in consequence dwindle into Unconsciousness, Suffering, Falsehood, Death. To redeem these four perverted and lost emanations, the Supreme Mother sends out a new series of emanations, the Gods. The exordium thus... d to resignation and defeat, and her consciousness of mission and might to rectify the very engines of our incapacity and anguish - it was this radiant vision and experience of Savitri's personality and power that started Sri Aurobindo on this giant undertaking and sustained his inspiration during the long years of the thirties and forties when the supreme cosmic epic was being architectured into... the Reality that is secret in us and in ' all.... 73 There is no infallible Geiger counter to detect perfect perfection that is also supreme utterance. Recognition could come as in a blinding lightning flash: or it could steal over and fill the consciousness like rare unforgettable perfume: or course through the bloodstreams causing a sudden splendid exhilaration and ecstasy. All over Savitri ...
... an inner or upper poise: the mundane scene and the supra-mundane principalities and powers are given" their image and value and secret life-throb as realised from a consciousness aware directly of the supreme Spirit. That consciousness covers all phenomena with significances and suggestions which the mere mind cannot adequately gauge. It is necessary, therefore, for us readers to develop our ... existence. At the back of this tale of conjugal devotion armed with an extreme Will to life, Sri Aurobindo intuited a wealth of symbol; for the name "Savitri" the Rig Veda had given to the supreme creative consciousness emblemed forth as the Sun. It means the Truth-force of the divine Light, and by analogy "Satyavan" would mean that Light's Truth-being. So the carrying away of Satyavan by Yama the God... rhythm: the language-mould is all in all but it comes fused with a cast of consciousness — a form of vision and a form of emotion. Metrical speech without that vivid cast is the ghost of poetry. Neither does mere substance of consciousness, however weighty or profound, make on us the art-impact that is revelation: the consciousness has to take a particular pat- Page 75 tern before it can ...
... waiting to be "evolved" by the pressure from above helping out the upward push from the blind antres. The permeation of all our parts, finally even our most material part, by the Supreme Truth-Consciousness was the ideal, however strong might be the sense of impossibility. After all, the whole history of evolution gives such a sense: brute matter becoming alive and sentient, mere vitality and... life. Thy fine-curved jewelled hilt call Savitri, Thy blade's exultant smile name Satyavan... The Supreme accedes to her prayer and sends the two of them back to the travail of Time, making them his instru- Page 67 merits of the spiritual consciousness. She especially is marked out: O Sun-word, thou shalt raise the"earth-soul to Light.... Awakened from... things. A new art of words written from a new consciousness demands a new technique. AE himself admits that this rule makes a great difficulty because these 'highlight' words are few in the English language. His solution may be well enough where the realisations they represent are mental realisations or intuitions occurring on the summits of the consciousness, rare 'highlights' over the low tones of the ...
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