... rather than on the physical. This indicates a power of conscious thought-formation. Thoughts have an effective power—usually by creating an atmosphere or tendencies—thus when one is ill, those around should not have thoughts of gloomy foreboding, grief or fear, for that works against cure. But the capacity of conscious thought-formation is a special power and uncommon. It can be acquired or come of itself ...
... Mother's Force working, but this kind of assent from the mind and vital makes the result quick and easy—otherwise it takes time and more labour and struggle. Dissolution You can dissolve a thought formation which is made of subtle mental stuff—why not then a mental Asura? There are Asuras Page 792 who are predominantly mental—who live in the false Idea and can even be vitally ascetic ...
... movements, both of us made the air go out through the crown of the head—apparently that's only to be done when you want to die! ( Mother laughs ) It didn't kill us. No, the "danger" is MAINLY a thought formation. You can achieve excellent control of the heart. But I never practiced it violently, never strained myself. I think holding for 16 is too long. I used to do it simply like this: breathe in ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 Bad Thought-Formation A BAD thought is a bad act. You may not know it, but an evil thought is truly an evil act. If you think ill of a man and wish him ill, you are responsible for the mishaps that may befall him to the same degree as when you do him an ill turn. Unfortunately, an evil thought is not a ...
... true soul and not a semblance or substitute of it. The true soul is .man's spiritual or divine being – the consciousness in which man is one in substance and nature with God. It is not a mere thought formation, a mental and moral ideal. The only force that can succeed against a lower or undivine force is God's own force – and the success can be complete and absolute by the calling in or intervention ...
... belongs to a domain one is rarely conscious of. But this is not a special instance which occurs only from time to time: it is something constant. If a current of force is sing, with a particular thought formation, one sees it sing from one into another, and in each one it forms a kind of centre of light or force which keeps the imprint—more or less pure, more or less clear, more or less mixed—of the initial ...
... not excluded: they too in their solid material dead body enshrine something of the god in devolution. There is no question here of any human intervention – of the infusion of man's will and thought-formation. That is another subject altogether. Here I am speaking of the inherent intrinsic spiritual status or even divinity of a material body – Its dravya-guna – that which a lingam or a Kaaba possesses ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 7 BAD THOUGHT-FORMATION A bad thought is a bad act. You may not know it, but an evil thought is truly an evil act. If you think ill of a man and wish him ill, you are responsible for the mishaps that may befall him to the same degree as when you act ill towards him. Unfortunately, an evil thought is not a recognised crime ...
... Swami appeared at three places! ( Laughter ) Page 248 Disciple :It may be only the psychic presence. Sri Aurobindo : That is quite another thing ; it is possible, even thought-formation and psycho-vital formation is possible. Disciple : Vivekananda came to Shashi Maharaj after leaving his body and told him "Shashi ! I have spat out my body", Sri Aurobindo : That ...
... this Truth-Thought (i. e. Higher Mind ) we can distinguish a greater illumination instinct with an increased power and intensity and driving force, a luminosity of nature of truth-sight with thought formation as a minor and dependent activity." " It has an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the co ...
... this Truth-Thought (i.e. Higher Mind) we can distinguish a greater illumination instinct with an increased power and intensity and driving force, a luminosity of. nature of Truth- Sight with thought formation as a minor and dependent activity." — Life Divine. Illumined-Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of Spiritual light. It has "an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination ...
... the evening, just at the time of meditation, the sexual thoughts began to rush up. They were so haphazard that I do not know how to express them. I suppose my mind and vital have nothing to do with them; for they were seen to be coming exactly from the front part of the sex-centre. Absolutely no sensations or impulsions (only thought-formations). From where does this sexuality come? It rises... intrude mechanically. These things are seen coming from the front part of the sex centre. There are sometimes physical sex sensations too. However, all these reactions are in thought formations — there is never any impulse or conscious desire for the sex enjoyment in any part of the being— vital or physical. It is therefore only the body and the most material part of the mind that are still... So long as sex presents itself before me as thoughts I can turn it out as you suggested the other day. But the difficulty is about its impulses. The will ought to have the same mastery over impulses as over the thoughts. Many people find it easier to control an impulse than to prevent a thought. With what is the sexual impulse to be replaced? And ...
... The force of the vital breath enables us to bring up and speed outward from the body this speech that we use to express, to throw out into a world of action and new-creation the willings and thought-formations of the mind. It is propelled by Vayu, the life-breath; it is formed by Agni, the secret will-force and fiery shaping energy in the mind and body. But these are the agents. Who or what is the... existence which can never be constructed or put together ( akṛta ) but is anterior to all these workings. The Gods work only by this Power anterior to themselves, live only by its life, think only by its thought act only for its purposes. We look into ourselves and all things and become aware Page 20 of it there, an "I", an "Is", a Self, which is other, firmer, vaster than any separate or individual ...
... you are thinking of" means probably that in the silence will come the true dynamic thought formations which can effectuate or realise themselves. Thought can be a force which realises itself, but the ordinary surface thinking is not of that kind, there is in it more waste of energy than anything else. It is in the thought that comes in a quiet or silent mind that there is power. "Talk less and gain... yourself from the thoughts, feel them as coming from outside and reject them before they enter. But everybody cannot do that at once. It is quite possible for thoughts to pass without disturbing the silence—but for that you must be perfectly detached from the thoughts and indifferent to them. If there is absolute silence within it is quite natural that the thoughts on entering and touching... Letters on Yoga - II Chapter V Silence Freedom from Thoughts Silence means freedom from thoughts and vital movements—when the whole consciousness is quite still. It is the silence of the mind and vital—silence implying here not only cessation of thoughts but a stillness of the mental and vital substance. There are varying degrees of depth of this ...
... You can create by ideas, thought-forms, images a whole world in yourself or for yourself; but it stops there. Some have the power of making consciously formations that Page 27 go out and affect the minds, actions, vital movements, external lives of others. These formations may be destructive as well as creative. Finally, there is the power to make formations that become effective realities... Chapter III Inner Experience and Outer Life Subjective Experience and the Objective Existence Experiences on the mental and vital and subtle physical planes or thought formations and vital formations are often represented as if they were concrete external happenings; true experiences are in the same way distorted by mental and vital accretions and additions. One of the first needs... are such things as mental formations—but, to begin with, mental formations are or can be very powerful things, producing concrete results; secondly whether what one sees or hears is a mental formation or a real subjective object can only be determined when one has sufficient experience in these inward things. You have a strong power of (subjective) creative formation, mostly, I think, on the ...
... and effectivity. Our thought- formations will become useful and luminous messengers going forth to do their work of goodness and harmony wherever material circumstances prevent us from doing it physically. And by a little effort of concentration we shall rapidly succeed in becoming conscious of these actions while at the same time remaining in touch with the emanated thought. ... often. That is why it is said: "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings comes forth truth." For if the thought of a child cannot have the precision of the thought of a man, neither does it have the fixity which results from laziness of habit and which in the adult prevents the thought from expressing itself whenever it does not belong to the categories which are familiar to him. Moreover,... Part 3 Part 3 Words of Long Ago On Thought - II You probably remember that, last month, we made two observations. The first is that thought is a living, active, autonomous entity. The second is that in order to contend victoriously with the injurious effects of the polluted mental atmosphere in which we live, we must build up within ourselves a pure ...
... Beyond the musical zone lies thought: thoughts, organized thoughts for plays and books, abstractions for philosophies. But what used to interest me particularly were the combinations that give birth to novels or plays. That is the third zone. Page 388 Does one hear sounds in the intellectual zone? No, what you find there are thought formations that are expressed in each person's... a pure thought, which then formulates itself in any language in any brain: in all those who are receptive. These formations are at anyone's disposal—nobody can say, "It's MY idea, it's MY book." Anyone capable of ascending to that zone can get hold of the formations and transcribe them materially. I once made an experiment of that kind; I wanted to see what would happen, so I made a formation myself... language. There are thought combinations for novels, plays, even philosophical systems. They are combinations of pure thought, not formulated in any language, but they are automatically expressed in each one's brain according to his particular language. It is the domain of pure thought. That's where you work when you want to work for the whole earth; you don't send out thoughts formulated in words ...
... perceives in the world of thought, that in which the mind is still capable of primary thought-formations and that in which, all out-darting of the mind even within itself having ceased, the soul rises beyond thought into the silence of the Incommunicable and Ineffable. In all Yoga there are indeed many preparatory objects of thought-concentration, forms, verbal formulas of thought, significant names, all... special and more limited sense. It means that removal of the thought from all distracting activities of the mind and that concentration of it on the idea of the One by which the soul rises out of the phenomenal into the one Reality. It is by the thought that we dissipate ourselves in the phenomenal; it is by the gathering back of the thought into itself that we must draw ourselves back into the real... condition for the attainment of divine knowledge and the principle of all Yoga of knowledge. This concentration proceeds by the Idea, using thought, form and name as keys which yield up to the concentrating mind the Truth that lies concealed behind all thought, form and name; for it is through the Idea that the mental being rises beyond all expression to that which is expressed, to that of which the ...
... flashes and dazzling manifestations which by going beyond our powers elude expression in right form and confuse the receptive mind. Indra must be not only illuminer, but a fashioner of right thought-formations, surūpakṛtnu . The Rishi, next, turning to a comrade in the collective Yoga, or, perhaps, addressing his own mind, encourages him or it to pass beyond the obstruction of the adverse suggestions... the illuminated intelligence. Right thoughts, right sensibilities,—this is the full sense of the word sumati ; for the Vedic mati includes not only the thinking, but also the emotional parts of mentality. Sumati is a light in the thoughts; it is also a bright gladness and kindness in the soul. But in this passage the stress of the sense is upon right thought and not on the emotions. It is necessary... principle which Indra represents is Mind-Power released from the limits and obscurations of the nervous consciousness. It is this enlightened Intelligence which fashions right or perfect forms of thought or of action not deformed by the nervous impulses, not hampered by the falsehoods of sense. The image presented is that of a cow giving abundantly its yield to the milker of the herds. The word go ...
... d by a silence of the ordinary mental thought. Our thoughts are not really created within ourselves independently in the small narrow thinking machine we call our mind; in fact, they come to us from a vast mental space or ether either as mind-waves or waves of mind-force that carry a significance which takes shape in our personal mind or as thought-formations ready-made which we adopt and call ours... sense of the true distinction and demarcation between different fields of reality. All that takes place in these experiences must not be taken as true—one has to discriminate, see what is mental formation or subjective construction and what is true, what is only suggestion from the larger mental and vital planes or what has reality only there and what is of value for help or guidance in inner sadhana... physical mind we begin to see inwardly and to feel this wideness, in the end this universality and infinity of the mental self-space. Thoughts are not the essence of mind-being, they are only an activity of mental nature; if that activity ceases, what appears then as a thought-free existence that manifests in its place is not a blank or void but something very real, substantial, concrete we may say—a mental ...
... So we are not aware of them. But I told you the other day that the atmosphere is full of countless formations which are usually made up of thoughts, desires, impulses, wills, and which are as mixed as men's thoughts. There are good ones, there are bad ones; and behind that there are all the formations of the vital world, a world essentially hostile to the Divine. Only the vital in man, under the psychic... instance, a thought that is completely independent of the brain, whereas the materialistic theories say that it is the brain which creates mental activity. But this is not correct. The brain is the material transcription of the mental activity, and mental activity has its own domain; the mental domain has its reality, its own substance. One can think outside one's brain, think, act, make formations outside... absolute silence is of all things the most difficult, for many things of which one was not aware, become enormous ! There were all kinds of suggestion, movements, thoughts, formations which went on as though automatically in the outer consciousness, almost outside the consciousness, on the frontiers of consciousness; and as soon as one wants to be absolutely silent, one becomes aware of all these things ...
... sufficiently to the action of the higher Force. P HYSICAL MIND All sorts of thought-formations take place in my mind, acting this way and that. What is it that brings them about? It is something in the physical mind which is accustomed to such thoughts and so readily receives them from any force that chooses to put them in. Sometimes a part... What is the difference between a thought of the physical mind and a thought of the mind proper? The field is different and the capacity. In the Mother Conversations I have read; "If the central being makes its surrender, these difficulties can be destroyed." Page 223 So I thought: How easy it is to get the difficulties out of the... meaning of "essential" here? Do you not know what "essential" means? There is a Page 220 difference between the essence of a thing which is always the same and its formations and developments which vary. There is, for instance, the essence of gold and there are the many forms which gold can take. I can understand the silence, peace etc. which the higher ...
... imparted to them. The first is our faculty of mental formation, thought; the second is our activity in states of sleep, which is usually known as dream and is very intimately linked with the first, as you will see. 3 The very ancient traditions, whether Chaldean or Hindu, have taught from all time that thoughts are formations: by his thought a human being has the power of giving birth to real... and active entities. And it should not be thought that this can be done only through some extraordinary and dangerous practice known as magic. Nothing of the kind. Any thought that is at all strong and persistent, any desire that is at all intense—which is again a way of thinking—determine mechanically, so to say, in their own medium, a formation whose duration and power of action will depend... more complete materialisation of its own distant and anterior modes, the last among the fields of life." "If we could perceive the living images which thoughts produce around us at each moment, if we could measure the force of their power of formation, we would understand what can be created by the concourse of our converging wills and the formidable concert of the collective ideas and beliefs of a ...
... you should ask yourself, "But didn't I have a bad thought against him?". Thoughts are real entities which usually last until they are realised. Some people are obsessed by their own thoughts. They think of something and the thought returns and goes round and round in their heads as if it were something from outside. But it is their own formations returning again and again and striking the mind that... receive knowledge from above and manifest it. For it is an instrument of formation, of organisation and action, and it is in these functions that it attains its full value and real usefulness." The mind is "an instrument of formation, of organisation and action". Why? The mind gives a form to the thoughts. This power of formation forms mental entities whose life is independent of the mind that has... leave everything and do what you have "thought". Well, that is the mind's power of action. Before you get it, you must learn to organise, harmonise and control your mind. But when you have that power, you can begin to act purposefully, whereas most people are tossed about by thoughts whose formation they were not even aware of. There are many people whose thoughts come from outside, who have not taken ...
... of supreme delight, Soma-wine. 17 Indra is connected with sumati, — light in the thoughts and a bright gladness and kindness in the soul and right sensibilities of consciousness. According to the Vedic psychology, Indra is not only the Page 18 illuminer, but also the fashioner of right thought-formations. It is Indra who shows man the path that leads him to the higher realms of knowledge... explains that he was not obstructing his path but he stands on the path to take him to the Supreme. The Supreme, as explained by Indra, cannot be attained merely by the power of thought; beyond the thought is the illumined thought of which he is the guardian and it is through him that the powers of the mind can be transcended and made ready for the realization of the Supreme who is wonderful. Indra, describing... conquest, the Angirasa rishis receive the aid of Ayasya, who has the seven-headed thought, and the world of the light of the supramental truth, swar, is attained. The seven-headed thought is the knowledge of the divine existence with its seven heads or powers, since the divine existence is seven fold. The seven headed thought of Ayasya enables him to become viswajanya, and thus he becomes universal, ...
... takes shape in our personal mind or as thought-formations ready-made which we adopt and call ours. Our outer mind is blind to this process of Nature; but by the awakening of the inner mind we can become aware of it. 144 Page 139 For him [the Yogi] the image of the factory of thoughts is no longer quite valid; for he sees that thoughts come from outside, from the universal... experiencing this truth. 146 The error comes from thinking that your thoughts are your own and that you are their maker and if you do not create thoughts (i.e., think), there will be none. A little observation ought to show that you are not manufacturing your own thoughts, but rather thoughts occur in you. Thoughts are born, not made—like poets, according to the proverb. Of course, there is... principal business of our mind is either a response of acceptance or a refusal to these thought-waves (as also vital waves, subtle physical energy waves) or this giving a personal-mental form to thought-stuff (or vital movements) from the environing Nature-Force. 145 ... the real truth is that all these thoughts and activities are Nature's and come into us or pass through us as waves from the universal ...
... the physical senses. The stillness of the mind means, first, the falling to rest of the habitual thought movements, thought formations, thought currents which agitate this mind-substance. That repose, vacancy of movement, is for many a sufficient mental silence. But, even in this repose of all thought movements and all movements of feeling, one sees, when one looks more closely at it, that the min... ion here; it cannot enter into and know it. As long as we remain in the domain of the intellect only, an impartial pondering over all that has been thought and sought after, a constant throwing up of ideas, of all the possible ideas, and the formation of this or that philosophical belief, opinion or conclusion is all that can be done. This kind of disinterested search after Truth would be the only... Philosophy, Science, Religion and Society Problems of Philosophy, Science, Religion and Society Thought, Philosophy, Science and Yoga Letters on Yoga - I Chapter III Philosophical Thought and Yoga Metaphysical Thinkers, East and West European metaphysical thought—even in those thinkers who try to prove or explain the existence and nature of God or of the ...
... pressure on the world's actualities. Imaginations that persist in the human mind, like the idea of travel in the air, end often by self-fulfilment; individual thought-formations can actualise themselves if there is sufficient strength in the formation or in the mind that forms it. Imaginations can create their own potentiality, especially if they are supported in the collective mind, and may in the long... ever seeking, ever active, never arrives at a firmly settled reality of life's aims and objects or at a settled reality of its own certitudes and convictions, an established foundation or firm formation of its idea of existence. At a certain point of this constant unrest and travail even the physical mind loses its conviction of objective certitude and enters into an agnosticism which questions... and consciousness which is of quite another order. Normally it is a subconscient part in us, intermediate between consciousness and pure inconscience, that sends up through this surface layer its formations in the shape of dreams, constructions marked by an apparent inconsequence and incoherence. Many of these are fugitive structures built upon circumstances of our present life selected apparently at ...
... Kutthumi represents a Deva, not a Jnana Deva, but a certain kind of thought deva who responds with a limited light but a great abundance of curious thought formations to the greater Idea that comes from the supramental level. Maurya represents an Asura who has stopped short on the way to Devahood, a being of aggressive thought force and great vital vehemence, but of a very limited power in the true... several centres, and the whole thing will be of a fluid character before there is any decisive formation. I should say, do not fix things beforehand, but let the force that descends have freedom of movement, the freedom as of waters descending and flowing in many directions, afterwards the solid formation. My opinion is of no great value in that matter. The progress in these matters comes usually... interference with its control or any dissolvent action on the frame of thought and organised movement it has stamped on the society. (Gandhi) A big Karma Deva risen to a certain thought region into which he has carried his habit of rigid and definite action, associated with a psychic Deva of great purity but no great knowledge. The thought region is one which reflects rather than possesses a higher light ...
... (By the way, many allopathic doctors do that, when they think it necessary, according to their own confession). Third help (though the trick would be unYogic); the power of conveying one's own thought-formations, vital energy, will—decisions etc. to others being an element in Yogic action: he has that. Fourth, a knowledge of homeopathic medicines and what seems to me a very supple and daring use of them... was normal, his feeling can't be due to T.B. suggestion, for he doesn't know what T.B. is. He is writing very aghast notes and demanding an explanation from me of his perilous condition—so I thought it better to refer the matter to the medical authorities. A's urine was examined. The specific gravity was rather high and we advised him to take less sugar, after that we didn't enquire and he... Amal or Arjava? Amal is willing. Either. Everyone is doing something. I am only Tennysonning. Don't you feel pity for me, Sir? Not so much. If you were browning, I might. On second thought, I keep the poem one day more. December 16, 1935 I don't say that images, expressions may not sweep in, but one has to beat, beat and beat. Beat-beating is not sweeping in. I have ...
... towards Him — who is our goal. First of all, to begin with, one must know, understand and distinguish the different parts of one’s being — the sensations, the impulses and the vibrations, the thoughts, the formations, the mixed ideas, the quasi-moral or benign developments — all these things that touch you, you must distinguish them and know from where each one comes, what is its role, and if it helps... and the next moment it has disappeared. It is more mysterious than thought, more evanescent than the foam on the waves of the ocean, miraculous in its action. Just a wind that blows and it is no longer there, just a breathing in and it has moved, just a lowering of the eyelids and the concentration strays. It is enough that a thought comes, that a sensation awakes you, you make a slight movement and... joy that reigns. But to find it, an untiring effort is needed — sometimes for entire lives. Not only must you go within, but you must concentrate all your consciousness, all your efforts, all your thoughts, all your will, all your actions and plunge deep within, without letting even a single strand of your entire consciousness or of your entire effort loiter here and there or go wandering, but being ...
... are thinking of means probably that in silence will come the true thought-formations Page 275 which can effectuate or realise themselves. Thought can be a force which realises itself, but the ordinary surface think ing is not of that kind, there is in it more waste of energy than in anything else. It is in the thought that comes in a quiet or silent mind that there is power. 'Talk... They want to have a fixed mental formation there, so that whenever you make the attempt there will be in the physical mind an expectation of difficulty, a dwelling on the idea of difficulty and unsuccess and incapacity, if not always in the front of the mind, yet at the back and by that they hope to prevent the experience from coming. It is these mental formations that you must reject, for they are... summit and then I saw a thought and then another thought coming in a quite concrete way from outside; I flung them away before they could enter and take hold of the brain and in three days I was free. From that moment, in principle, the mental being in me became a free Intelligence, a universal Mind, not limited to the narrow circle of personal thought as a labourer in a thought factory, but a receiver ...
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