... opened his third eye Kamadeva was burned to ashes. In the meanwhile, however, the deed was done and Skanda was bom. Later, at the pleading of Kamadeva's wife Rati, her husband was revived. This is an eye that is turned towards action in the destruction of all that is evil, a destruction by which the divine task is furthered. It is said that in the case of a Yogin the third eye in the middle... otherwise lying hidden from sight. Since the third eye will give him whatever he asks for, it is important that the Yogin should possess a certain capacity, adhikāara, to hold the gifts ensuing from its occult power which if misused can prove to be disastrous. The gift is meant to further his spiritual progress. According to the Tibetan lore the third eye is "the director of energy or force, and... party about the prediction made by the Rishi Nishakara who could by the power of his tapasya foresee future events, that Rama would succeed in getting Sita back. We have been told about the third eye of Shiva. It has another power. The bodacious demons were causing havoc and the world was in trouble. The gods were concerned, but they were also helpless. They knew that if only Shiva married and ...
... mountain were hardly able to prevent sensuous images from entering their minds; but when Kama had been ready to shoot his arrow of mango-buds at Shiva's heart, a blazing fire had flown out of the third eye of the great God, angry to be disturbed in his meditation. Only ashes were left where the god of Desire had stood. Not by desire indeed was Shiva's love to be won. Then Parvati understood that... Eternal Being makes it into a seeking for the divine; it gives it a strange charm which partakes of the body and of the spirit. Shiva's well-known marks, such as his blue throat, his moon-crescent, his third eye, which are part of a symbolic language and normally pertain to mythological stories or religious discourse, here are evoked by Parvati as things of physical beauty for which she pines, which she desires... in the darkness of her hair slides down". Kama is all set to discharge his arrow when Shiva discovers him. Angry to be disturbed, the great god burns him to ashes with flames shooting out of his third eye. The canto ends with the great Himalaya removing in haste his daughter from the scene "like the elephant of the gods holding a lotus sticking to his tusk". The fourth canto is devoted to the lamentation ...
... that he had lost the key. I was in a most collected and concentrated mood and by the Grace of the Mother, I followed the Light that was flowing out from my third eye, asking him to follow me. I proceeded with semi-closed eyes where my third eye led me and led the gate-keeper to the key which was lying in a corner of the garden. There were many such incidents of miraculous nature. However, I was ...
... to make the overmind view of these things comprehensible in mental language... [ incomplete ]. January 1933? Surely something is being done and the consciousness will emerge. The third eye takes time to open, but the opening must come. Ashalata indeed writes well. But her thesis seems a little doubtful when we have so many cases crowding on us (Maya's and others) which do not at... of the 24th—is that what he means?—the question of the darshan no longer arises, I suppose. I shall deal with your translation as soon as possible. November 23, 1933 It (the third eye) is sure. There has been a remarkable change in you recently as the Mother has several times seen in these days—and even others who have accurate vision have seen the descending light upon you. ...
... meaningless to a posterity that will, we may assume, know nothing about either Soul or Silence. I sometimes try to project my third eye into posterity and see the reactions in its mind regarding J's poetry. I at once cover up the sight. Is it your posterity that your third eye sees or posterity in general? Posterity has not had the reaction you speak of with B & M—their reputation grows with the lapse ...
... sense of harmony between himself and the world at large. We often confront a situation where our intellectual concepts are distinct from our actual life. There is, therefore, the need for the subtle “third eye” within the individual to know whether there is any reality behind the world we know and beyond the meaning we give to life. Man must learn to handle and combine the facts generally observed and the ...
... cannot change by itself, it changes by the growing vision, perception, descent of the higher consciousness belonging to the higher planes. Yoga experience often begins with some opening of the third eye in the forehead (the centre of vision in the brows) or with some kind of beginning and extension of subtle seeing which may seem unimportant at first but is the vestibule to deeper experience. ...
... Moksha comes when there is perfection of the being and then enjoyment follows. Is it possible to see the world by supramental sight as we see with our eyes and is there in man something like the third eye of Shiva? Yes, but the supramental vision is not of the same kind as the mental or sensational vision. The being that stands back sees all the forces working in the world. This has been attempted ...
... intermingled.) Still higher up there are the three mental chakras: mental expression and communication in the throat, mental concentration and formation between and slightly above the eyes (the “third eye”), and “the thousand-petalled lotus” of the higher mental levels just above the head and touching its crown. Humanity being what it is at present, the centre above the head does duty for all that ...
... my Ashram name "Amal Kiran" meaning "The Clear Ray". I picture this ray to be something like that streak of all-penetrating white light which Indian spiritual mythology sees issuing from Shiva's "third eye" in the centre of his forehead. It is natural that you should feel the Mother smiling, for surely it is the true Amal that the Mother kept always in gracious sight, overlooking all the obscurities ...
... Dickinson seems to catch through the wide-awake intelligence's two outward-gazing eyes intense twinkles from life's depths: Joyce Chadwick is an artist of what is termed by Eastern initiates the Third Eye and she operates with quick flashes in a dimension of which the wide-awake intelligence knows nothing but into which one might slip between waking and slumber. Something of this art but now ...
... being as separate from the outer and what can be called a Yogic consciousness with all its deeper movements develops in the place of the ordinary superficial mental and vital movements. A third eye does open there [ in the centre of the forehead ]—it represents the occult vision and the occult power which goes with that vision—it is connected with the Ajnachakra. The Throat Centre The ...
... overwhelmed today when he came down from your room than yesterday. It was physically visible. He said nothing, except again that you 'only' could understand. Then, suddenly looking at me with his third eye, he spoke of me, and said quite enigmatically, 'I don't know why THESE THOUGHTS come to me every time I think of you...' (I don't know what thoughts he is referring to) and he added, ' You will ...
... at all, with the wailings of Rati in Kumārasarhbhavam, Canto IV, when she was also unexpectedly deprived of her Love-Lord, Madana (Cupid), as he was reduced to ashes by fire originating from the third eye of Lord Śiva on account of His wrath at being disturbed during penance. There was an end to Aja's enjoyment once for all, for Indumatī was really the centre of all enjoyments for Aja who was ...
... sight"; "mind's sight"; "sight of the sage"; "dreamer's sight"; "eternal eye"; "wisdom's eyes"; "Immortal eyes"; "deathless eyes"; "Timeless Eye'; - , "the Eye of eternity"; "Inner eye"; "the third eye"; "Spirit's eye"; "dull body's eye"; "eyes of creative bliss"; "all-seeing Eye above"; "unsleeping eye"; "God's eye"; "gods' eyes"; "reason's gaze"; "Godhead's gaze"; "Omniscient's gaze"; "unborn ...
... or gift of this organ, the organ of sight, the eye. One sees the physical light, of course, but one sees also the supraphysical light. It is, as the Upanishad says, the eye of the eye, the third eye in the language of the occultists. What we say about the eye may be equally said in respect of the other sense-organs. Take hearing, for example. By the ear we hear the noises of the world, ...
... dramatization (to use a term of the Freudian psychology of dreams), a psychological alchemy, whose method and process and rationale are very obscure, which can be penetrated only by the vision of a third eye. I. THE SEVERAL LIGHTS The Brihadaranyaka speaks of several lights that man possesses, one in the absence of another, for his illumination and guidance. First of all, he ...
... ashamed now of professing scepticism, agnosticism as the hallmark of culture and enlightenment or the aristocracy of the intellect. This is the age of the luminous faith and vision – the age of the Third Eye. Falsehood is not the negation of Truth: it is the imitation of Truth, aping the Truth: it is the caricature of Truth. The World is false not because it is non-existent, but because it ...
... even to the activities of the earlier and narrower frames. For it was like viewing everything through the eyes of infinity and eternity, the eye wide extended in heaven as the Vedic Rishi says, the third eye. In other words, the yogi, the Divine, the Impersonal man in Sri Aurobindo was the real person always there from the very birth. Thus we see him starting life exactly with the thing where ...
... stood out in front. But those who associated with him in the National College saw his serene figure, glowing with a mellow lustre. These two aspects were fused into one in Sri Aurobindo as in the third eye of Shiva. "From among the days when I came into close contact with Sri Aurobindo, I can single out two in my memory: One day there was a meeting of the teachers of the National College. Sri ...
... acids from father to son, except for some pathological variations. “How are you going to change the sequence of nucleotides to produce another species?... And what will it have — fins, wings, or a third eye?” At one point in evolution, it was very difficult for a nodule of manganese to imagine an impertinent, ambling flagellate. A new species is very impertinent for the old. But all the same, there must ...
... New York, in Paris, in New Delhi and everywhere, and she was THERE – she was there PHYSICALLY. The consciousness OF HER BODY (it wasn't the vision of a psychic, experienced through the so-called third eye), it was the body that... communicated at once with everything. There is a cellular consciousness that isn't confined. Matter as... even as physicists see it, isn't confined – it's in motion, in ...
... stood out in front. But those who associated with him in the National College saw his serene figure, glowing with a mellow lustre. These two aspects were fused into one in Sri Aurobindo as in the third eye of Shiva. 1. An acknowledged authority on Tantra, the Swami had collaborated with Sir John Woodroffe in his exposition on Tantric sadhana. Our text is derived from Rishabhchand. Page ...
... planes of one's own being and one's own consciousness as distinguished from worlds or planes of the cosmic consciousness. Page 92 Yoga experience often begins with some opening of the third eye in the forehead (the centre of vision in the brows) or with some kind of beginning and extension of subtle seeing which may seem unimportant at first, but is the vestibule to deeper experience. Even ...
... awakening; there is the Purusha in the lotus of the heart which opens upward all our powers and the Purusha in the thousand-petalled lotus whence descend through the thought and will, opening the third eye in us, the lightnings of vision and the fire of the divine energy. The bliss existence may come to us through either one of these centres. When the lotus of the heart breaks open, we feel a divine ...
... vital (anger, fear), and behind the heart that of the higher vital, of the noble feelings. In the throat is the centre of mental expression, and between the eyes that of mental concentration (the third eye). And just above the head is the “lotus with a thousand leaves” which opens to the levels which earthly beings normally do not yet reach . What is more, in the human too there is the presence of ...
... Descent as portrayed in his Savitri. So, knowing full well how "our blind thoughts" must constantly "refuse what our souls 'accept,"* he came to show us how we may grow to see with the soul's third eye that "Heaven's touch fulfils but cancels not our earth," as he has stressed through his mouthpiece Savitri. Apropos, I am reminded of a question I once put to him when I was in the doldrums. He wrote ...
... one's consciousness. Yoga-experience — (Sri Aurobindo's note:) Note Raihana's contact with the Blue Radiance that was Krishna. Page 280 often begins with some opening of the third eye in the fore- head (the centre of vision in the brows) or with some kind of beginning and extension of subtle seeing which may seem unimportant at first, but is the vestibule to deeper experience. ...
... Parvati's Tapasya Parvati's Tapasya A blazing fire sprung from Shiva's third eye, had consumed Cupid, 1 the mind-born god, and reduced him to ashes in front of Parvati, thereby shattering her hopes. Then the daughter of the Mountain 2 blamed her own beauty in her heart. For what use is beauty if it does not attract the beloved? She decided to take ...
... "instinct's sight", "mind's sight", "sight of the sage", "dreamer's sight", "eternal eye", "wisdom's eyes", "immortal eyes", "deathless eyes", "Timeless Eye", "the Eye of eternity", "Inner eye", "the third eye", "Spirit's eye", "dull body's eye", "eyes of creative Bliss", "all-seeing Eye above", "unsleeping eye", "God's eye", "gods' eyes", "reason's gaze", "Godhead's gaze", "Omniscient's gaze", "unborn ...
... the Brahman. 32 (14)NB: I am wallowing again in the morass of the 3 Ds, now that I am free from my attendance on S. Sri Aurobindo: Stand up, man, and don't wallow! Stand up and fix your third eye on the invisibly descending Tail of the Supramental. NB: If I could apply myself to some pursuits that would be obligatory! Sri Aurobindo: How to make them obligatory unless you do something ...
... some good effect. Lactate away then. I am wallowing again in the morass of the 3 Ds, now that I am free from my attendance on S. Stand up, man, and don't wallow! Stand up and fix your third eye on the invisibly descending Tail of the Supramental. If I could apply myself to some pursuits that would be obligatory! How to make them obligatory unless you do something which will take ...
... character or gift of this organ, the organ of sight, the eye. One sees the physical light, of course, but one sees also the supraphysical light. It is, as the Upanishad says, the eye of the eye, the third eye in the language of the occultists. What we say about the eye may be equally said in respect of the other sense-organs. Take hearing, for example. By the ear we hear the noises of the world, its deafening ...
... dramatization (to use a term of the Freudian psychology of dreams), a psychological alchemy, whose method and process and rationale are very obscure, which can be penetrated only by the vision of a third eye. I. THE SEVERAL LIGHTS The Brihadaranjyaka speaks of several lights that man possesses, one in the absence of another, for his illumination and guidance. First of all, he has ...
... foremost and down, in other words, there is to be a reversal of consciousness; you stand on your head: you do not move clock-wise but perhaps anti-clockwise. You see things with another eye, the third eye – wide extended in heaven, ¹ Exodus, [20:5] Page 24 as the Vedic Rishi says ― you look from above down. Things take a different shape and value ...
... mind! Are you in quest of That ? O insane that you are dwelling in a dark dungeon! That is the very object of love, how can one seize it without love? O my mind, hold firm the third eye in front with all your gathered power. Within the chamber, there is a dark chamber, Oh, when it dawns, That will go into hiding! In all the visions of philosophy there was no vision ...
... intuitive mind, overmind, etc. (2) The Mind , with two centers: one between the eyebrows, which controls the will and dynamism of our mental activity (it is also the center of subtle vision, the "third eye" certain traditions speak of); the other, at throat level, controls all the forms of mental expression. (3) The Vital , with three centers: one at heart level, which controls our emotional being ...
... caterpillar (and there well may also be phenomena of this kind, but probably not as we imagine it), and we see ourselves facing strange variations, chubby megalocephalics, perhaps men growing a third eye or telepathic organs or changing their color—we constantly transpose the present, like incurable children. But what is going to mutate first and foremost is consciousness, the perception of the world ...
... felt along the heart". The experience of beauty of Nature could influence not only his inner being but almost his nervous system and the body. At the same time, it seemed to open the third eye of knowledge in his conciousness and illumine the world with its light and transform it, He says.— "while with an eye made quiet by the power of harmony and the deep power of joy ...
... blood, felt along the heart" The experience of beauty of Nature could influence not only his inner being but almost his nervous system and the body. At the same time, it seemed to open the third eye of knowledge in his consciousness and illumine the world with its light and transform it. He says: "while with an eye made quiet by the power of harmony and the deep power of joy we see into ...
... mind, we follow the lead of our soul, and have a firm faith in its guidance, the fiery intensity of the psychic aspiration will gradually infuse itself into our whole nature and force open the "third eye" which will see the Divine as naturally as the physical eyes see the material objects. "The least vibration in this perfectly pure and calm atmosphere is an obstacle to Thy manifestation ...
... those who associated with him in the National College saw his serene figure, glowing with a mellow lustre. Page 252 These two aspects were fused into one in Sri Aurobindo as in the third eye of Shiva. 12 Once at a meeting of the college staff, Sri Aurobindo took the chair, "his body framed in august silence"; the meeting discussed whether the Bankim Day should not be included ...
... forehead between but a little above the eyebrows. The lotus is white and has two petals. It "governs the dynamic mind, will, vision, mental formation." In a word all mental faculties . When the third eye opens, it is here; then we get the occult vision. All these six lotuses are upward turned. So Mother was quite surprised one day. It was August 1966. After the interview, having done his pranam ...
... (299) (7)"His sight surpassed creation's head and base" (300) (8)"An eye has opened upon timelessness" (311) (9) "A wide power of vision whence all could be seen" (514) (10)"A sight opened upon the invisible" (540) (11)"He opens that third mysterious eye in man, The Unseen's eye that looks at the unseen" (665) (12) "Realm upon realm received her soaring ...
... lotus secrecy, Came down and held the centre in her brow Where the mind's Lord in his control-room sits; There throned on concentration's native seat He opens that third mysterious eye in man, The Unseen's eye that looks at the unseen, When Light with a golden ecstasy fills his brain And the Eternal's wisdom drives his choice And eternal Will seizes the mortal's will. ... thou livest in thy inner bliss. Thou comest like a silver deer through groves Of coral flowers and buds of glowing dreams, Or fleest like a wind-goddess through leaves, Or roamest, O ruby-eyed and snow-winged dove, Flitting through thickest of thy pure desires In the unwounded beauty of thy soul. These things are only images to thy earth, But truest truth of that which in thee... interesting to study Savitri's appearance and the description of her inner state in different situations. Though the first Canto gives Savitri's detailed description, sequentially it should come third or fourth. The very first prophetic description is given on the occasion of the boon to Aswapathy by the Divine Mother. It is her description before the birth. The appendix begins with that description ...
... 521. 16 Ibid., pp. 663-64. Page 414 The Incarnation thrust aside its veil. 16 Then the Power and Presence came down and held the centre of her brow opening the third mysterious eye and the eternal Will stirred in the lotus centre of her throat and in her speech throbbed the immortal Word. Eternity looked into the eyes of Death, And Darkness saw God's living... All could be seen that shuns the mortal eye, All could be known the mind has never grasped; All could be done no mortal will can dare... Here all experience was a single plan, The thousandfold expression of the One. 5 In his ascent to this region, being in deep oneness with the Infinite, he could see all that the mortal eye cannot see and mind cannot grasp. From the... Satyavan, had in the meantime got back his eyesight and his lost kingdom with the boons from Yama. An indication of what the transformed Earth shall be, is only hinted here in The Epilogue. The eye of divine vision shall be restored to man. His lost kingdom with the riches of spiritual realms shall be re-established. The suffering humanity shall gain heavenly 24 Ibid. 25 Ibid., p. 697 ...
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