... though they exist; for then all that is put behind a veil by the waking mind and nothing remains except the surface self and the outward world — much as the veil of the sunlight hides from us the vast worlds of the stars that are behind it. Sleep is a going inward in which the surface self and the outside world are put away from our sense and vision. But in ordinary sleep we do not become aware ...
... are awake,... all that is put behind a veil by the waking mind and nothing remains except the surface self and the outward Page 312 world - much as the veil of the sunlight hides from us the vast world s of the stars that are behind it. Sleep is a going inward in which the surface self and the outward world are put away from our sense and vision ." (Letters on Yoga, p. 1023)... receive consciously only the outer touches and know things in ourselves and in our surroundings only or mainly by the Intellect and outer mind and senses. The ordinary man is aware only of this surface self and is quite unaware of all that functions from behind the surface. The 'subconscient' part of our being represents an obscure unconsciousness or half-consciousness submerged below ...
... awake, though they exist; for then all that is put behind a veil by the waking mind and nothing remains except the surface self and the outward world—much as the veil of the sunlight hides from us the vast worlds of the stars that are behind it. Sleep is a going inward in which the surface self and the outside world are put away from our sense and vision. But in ordinary sleep we do not become aware of ...
... knowledge of the Page 560 object, the object being itself part of our larger self; but owing to the double veil, the veil between our inner self and our ignorant surface self and the veil between that surface self and the object contacted, it is only an imperfect figure or representation of the inner knowledge that is formed on the surface. This affiliation, this concealed method of ...
... because "when we are awake,...all that is put behind a veil by the waking mind and nothing remains except the surface self and the outward world — much as the veil of the sunlight hides from us the vast worlds of the stars that are behind it. Sleep is a going inward in which the surface self and the outside world are put away from our sense and vision." 2 Our consciousness participates during this ...
... the eternal succession of Time. We are the river, the flame of the Buddhist illustration. But there is a supreme Page 84 experience and supreme intuition by which we go back behind our surface self and find that this becoming, change, succession are only a mode of our being and that there is that in us which is not involved at all in the becoming. Not only can we have the intuition of this ...
... superficial ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. 5 The second discovery through yoga is that the surface self which is all that we are ordinarily aware of is only the superficial stratum of our being; there are other vaster strata of being below, behind and above the surface consciousness. These ...
... a spiritual endeavour: for it is there veiled in our deeper and greater self; it is the very stuff of our own spiritual Page 659 consciousness, and it is by awaking to it even in our surface self that we have to possess it. There is an integral self-knowledge that we have to recover and, because the world-self also is our self, an integral world-knowledge. A knowledge that can be learned ...
... connections with the world outside us. In the spiritual opening, it is the awakened inner being that readily receives and assimilates the higher influences and puts on the higher nature; the external surface self, more entirely moulded by the forces of the Ignorance and Inconscience, is slower to awake, slower to receive, slower to assimilate. There is therefore a long stage in which the inner being is ...
... in it an inner mind, an inner vital being of ourselves, an inner or subtle-physical being larger than our outer being and nature. This inner existence is the concealed origin of almost all in our surface self that is not a construction of the first inconscient World-Energy or a natural developed functioning of our surface consciousness or a reaction of it to impacts from the outside universal Nature ...
... dissolved by death, it is not true of our real becoming in Time. For our real self in the cosmos is the Superconscient which becomes the subliminal Page 582 self and throws up this apparent surface self to act out the brief and limited part assigned to it between birth and death as a present living and conscious self-formation of the being in the stuff of a world of inconscient Nature. The true ...
... existence is a time-transcending eternity, the mind is still more ignorant of it; for it only knows the little of it that it can itself seize from moment to moment by fragmentary experience of its surface self-manifestation in Time and Space. If, then, mind is all or if the apparent mind in us is the index of the nature of our being, we can never be anything more than an Ignorance fleeting through ...
... The Subliminal - The Inner Being There is an inner as well as an outer consciousness all through our being, upon all its levels. The ordinary man is aware only of his surface self and quite unaware of all that is concealed by the surface. And yet what is on the surface, what we know or think we know of ourselves and even believe that that is all we are, is only a small part ...
... conscious activity there, a thought must first of all have passed through remoter states, through the unknown regions of what we call the subconscient. "It has come from the inner depths to our surface self like a meteor reaching us from inaccessible spaces. "What was the origin of this meteor, the source of this thought? We do not know, but they exist, the one beyond our sun, the other probably ...
... around us, primarily by their outward manifestations and only secondarily — and that too in a highly insecure way — through inferences drawn from these data. The ordinary man is aware only of this surface self and quite unaware of all that functions from behind the surface. And yet "what is on the surface, what we know or think we know of ourselves and even believe that that is all we are, is only ...
... is a limping Page 49 surface consciousness shut up in the body's limitation and within the confines of the little bit of personal mind. One is ordinarily aware only of his surface self and quite ignorant of all that functions behind the veil. "And yet what is on the surface, what we know or think we know of ourselves and even believe that that is all we are, is only a small ...
... being is a psychic being which uses mind, life and body as its instruments and is itself a projection of the delight of Satchidananda. You find a dichotomy even in his psychic being : there is a surface self, working as the desire-soul in mind, life and body. Each instrument of nature has a conscious part which is on the surface and a part that is subliminal, behind the veil. Mind has a surface con ...
... habits."³ (v) THE SUBLIMINAL " There is an inner as well as an outer consciousness all through our being, upon all its levels. The ordinary man is aware only of his surface self and quite unaware of all that is concealed by the surface. And yet what is on the surface, what we know or think we know of ourselves and even believe that that is all we are, is only a small ...
... outset that the union the Mother aspired for and realised, is not the traditional union experienced and held in the depths of the being and strenuously guarded against the disturbing elements of the surface-self and the surrounding world. That is a comparatively easy achievement—the outer personality hushed, the deeper layers of the consciousness are released into activity, and the soul either plunges headlong ...
... conversion and transfiguration of the physical being, the outer Page 12 personality, it is impossible to have an integral and uninterrupted union with the Divine in active life—the surface self will either lie quiescent and sterile while the soul is entranced in the beatitude of the inner union, or dilute and distort and spill what is transmitted to it for expression. A perfect physical ...
... worker. When you put your name to Page 269 it, it is the name of the instrumental creator; but for sadhana it is necessary to recognise that the real Power, the true Creator was not your surface self, you were simply the living harp on which the Musician played his tune. The true Ananda of creation is not the pleasure of the ego in having personally done well and in being somebody, that is ...
... awareness instead of its own obscure, limited half-subconscience. There is an inner as well as an outer consciousness all through our being, upon all its levels. The ordinary man is aware only of his surface self and quite unaware of all that is concealed by the surface. And yet what is on the surface, what we know or think we know of ourselves and even believe that that is all we are, is only a small part ...
... and intimately this drive in man towards something behind and beyond Man, towards the discovery or the expression of something hidden in his being and a world existence which is more real than his surface self even at its best, greater, fuller, truer, more divine. To arrive at that can come only by a change of consciousness, a reversal of consciousness, a new basis of consciousness which is not the lower ...
... Afterwards you will be able to have the two consciousnesses together, be in your psychic in one part of yourself with all the experience and activities of the psychic being and nature and yet with your surface self fully awake and active in physical things with the psychic support and influence behind this outer action. It is a very good sign that when the thoughts and the attempt at disturbance come ...
... of being alternate in him or else stand simultaneously over against each other; one silent in the inner being observes but is unmoved and does not participate; the other active in some outer or surface self pursues its habitual movements. He has entered into an intense separative perception of the great duality, Soul-Nature, Purusha-Prakriti. But as the consciousness deepens, he becomes aware that ...
... in our consciousness,—which can bring the concealed truth of things nearer to our comprehension, and, by opening ourselves more widely first in the inner being and then as a result in the outer surface self also to the messages of these higher ranges of consciousness, by growing into them, we can become ourselves also intuitive and overmental beings, not limited by the intellect and sense, but capable ...
... while all that it can do for the mind with regard to its direct self-consciousness is to remind it that it existed and was the same in the past as in the present, it becomes in our differentiated or surface self-experience an important power linking together past and present experiences, past and present personality, preventing chaos and dissociation and assuring the continuity of the stream in the surface ...
... Inconscience, but also by a descent from above, from its own plane, of that Power already self-realised in its own higher natural province. In all these previous stages there has been a division between surface self and consciousness and subliminal self and consciousness; the surface was formed mainly under the push of the upsurging force from below, by the Inconscient developing a slowly emergent formulation ...
... reminded of Plato's famous rejoinder to Diogenes — "Your pride peeps out through the holes of your raggedness", but here it is the high and rare splendour of the spirit taking by surprise the poor surface self: not only the so-called beautiful but even the wretched does the King of Kings use for a gateway into the universe. The language again joins the ideas of peace and power: Page 166 ...
... higher purposes, by higher motives, with a more divine instrumentation. Therefore by his very nature he serves the working of a Thought within him even when he is ignorant of it in his surface Page 140 self. The practical man who ignores or despises the deeper life of the Idea, is yet serving that which he ignores or despises. Charlemagne hewing a chaotic Europe into shape with his sword ...
... The inner being and nature has always a much less fettered gait: it awakens easily enough, receives freely the higher spiritual influences and gets more or less transformed. But the external surface self and nature are mostly moulded by the forces of the established Ignorance and the original Nescience. And hence they are tardy in awakening, sluggish in receiving and impervious to uninhibited ...
... n. I want to be your instrument, not the instrument of this ignorant and suffering ego. Mother, I ask only for the true, the Light, that which is my real self. I have had enough, enough of this surface self that invades virtually all my days. May your Will be done. Your child who desperately needs you, Signed : Bernard P.S. What is the obstacle? ...
... or Huxleyan or any other, would think, but has every chance of being the positive sign of an immortal individual entity. This entity would not be the "capsulated ego" (Jung's phrase) which is our surface self- hood: it would be something that is both projected into that ego and continuous beyond it, something that in spite of individuality can partake of universality, the "open" subliminal and whatever ...
... Equanimity and on the other for the accompanying principle and practice of "Remember and offer". Equanimity serves as the vast background, the standing back by the consciousness from the sensitive surface self, giving no ordinary responses to the touch of things, the impingement of persons - freedom from all reactions of hurt feeling, resentment, anger, frustration, despondency, sorrow. This is a poise ...
... interfering with what one sees and not accepting it either. Feeling an inner being within (what Eckhart calls the "witnessing Presence") that is separate and detached from the egoic surface self is the first principle. Observing the movements of the surface being as an impartial wiriness is the best way to bring about the separation between the surface being and one's true being ...
... it an inner mind, an inner vital being of ourselves, an inner or subtle-physical being larger than our outer being and nature. This inner existence is the concealed origin of almost all in our surface self that is not a construction of the first inconscient World-Energy or a natural developed functioning of our surface consciousness or a reaction of it to impacts from the outside universal Nature ...
... nor its true law discovered until we know all that is below or behind and supplies it — and know too all that is around it and above. 9 The yogic view that regards our observable surface self as only Page 306 a small part of our being is similar to the psychoanalytical view which compares the mind to an iceberg, nine-tenths of which lies below the surface. However, yoga ...
... real self-knowledge. The Life Divine, pp. 555-57 There is an inner as well as an outer consciousness all through our being, upon all its levels. The ordinary man is aware only of his surface self and quite unaware of all that is concealed by the surface. And yet what is on the surface, what we know or think we know of ourselves and even believe that that is all we are, is only a small ...
... the inner being, also called the subliminal self. There is an inner as well as an outer consciousness all through our being, upon all its levels. The ordinary man is aware only of his surface self and quite unaware of all that is concealed by the surface. And yet what is on the surface, what we know or think we know of ourselves and even believe that that is all we are, is only a small ...
... consciousness in the eternal succession of Time. We are the river, the flame of the Buddhist illustration. But there is a supreme experience and supreme intuition by which we go back behind our surface self and find that this becoming, change, succession are only a mode of our being and that there is that in us which is not involved at all in the becoming. Not only can we have the intuition of this ...
... in it an inner mind, an inner vital being of ourselves, an inner or subtle-physical being larger than our outer being and nature. This inner existence is the concealed origin of almost all in our surface self that is not a construction of the first inconscient world-energy or a natural developed functioning of our surface consciousness or a reaction of it to impacts from the outside universal Nature ...
... and without a total conversion and transfiguration of the physical being, the outer personality, it is impossible to have an integral and uninterrupted union with the Divine in active life—the surface self will either lie quiescent and sterile while the soul is entranced in the beatitude of the inner union, or dilute and distort and spill what is transmitted to it for expression. A perfect physical ...
... pecking bird's desire To fly in the mirror-space— Soul's fretting to wing higher Meets with no gentler grace. The hardness of that heaven Is answer to the bright Surface of self unrivens We take for earth-delight. When the small hungers gaze Inward, a pinion-sweep Knows the high mirror-space An all-enfolding Deep. 19.9.57 Page 596 ...
... necessarily of all being, but of being as we know it, extinction of ego, desire and egoistic action and mentality). outer (surface) being (self) —See under Being . Overmind —see under gradations between mind and Supermind . Paramatma —the supreme Self or Spirit, the Absolute. parārdha — See aparārdha . Prakriti —Nature; Nature-Force. "Existence is composed of Prakriti... different distinguishable parts of the indivisible Being. The part of our nature of which we are normally conscious is our surface or outer being consisting of the body, the (surface) vital (related to life-energy and emotions, desires, passions, etc.), and the (surface) mind (having to do with cognition, intelligence, ideas, thought perceptions, etc.). Behind this superficial consciousness there... Overmind. See under gradations between mind and Supermind. Jivatman (Jiva) —the individual Self; the individualised self or spirit of the created being; the Spirit individualised and upholding the living being in its evolution from birth to birth. The full term is Jivatman—the Atman or eternal self of the living being (Jiva). The Jivatman in its essence does not change or evolve; it stands above ...
... Mayavadin a freak of knowledge, an error on the surface of Self, a misconception of mind about Brahman; the world to the Seer is a running symbol of God and a means for His phenomenal self-manifestation in His own active being & to His own active knowledge. God, being unbound by His own activity and its free lord & disposer, man also, being one in self with God, is unbound by his works and, in God,... the play of active consciousness, jagati, & cast by it like a shadow or reflected image on the surface of the still, actionless & relationless soul. This play, this jagati is Maya which is and is not,—is in itself, for its works are there, but is not, for those works are unrealities; they are a mass of self-deceptions starting from an original selfdeception rooted in the principle of mind. What the mind... meditative reason. Shankara like Buddha refuses to explain or discuss how active consciousness came at all to exist on the surface of a sole Self-existence which is in its very being shanta and inactive; he drives, like Buddha, straight at the actual fact of our bondage, the practical cause of bondage and the most direct path of escape from the bondage. These he states for us as he holds them to be ...
... absolute and real Self of things which manifests in the Cosmos and not any Other, for there is no Other. It is anejad Ekam, the One who moveth not. The root ejri , as Shankara points out, means to shake or vibrate, and the reference is obviously to those vibrations of Prakriti on the tranquil surface of Self which are the beginning and cause of matter and its evolutions. But the Self does not vibrate... immobile and One, just as the Supreme Reality is immutable, immobile and One. Purusha or Spirit is therefore the noumenon of the true Self, Prakriti the noumenon of not-Self or apparent Self. It is in this true Self of Parabrahman that the evolutions of apparent Self take place. In It Matariswan ordereth the waters. XI. Long and difficult to follow as has been this account of the Nature of Things... which his evolution moves. They discovered that his higher self was the Self of his Universe and that by a certain manner of action, by a certain spirit in action, man escaped from his limitations and realised his higher Self. This way of Works is Karmayoga and Karmayoga therefore depends on the Hindu conception of Brahman, the Transcendent Self and its relations to the Universe. From this all Hindu ethics ...
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