... supermental manifestation as taking place in time and space. But my understanding of the final state of man is that it transcends both time and space. This seems more in accord with the present understanding of time and space as conditions of our present mode of consciousness. When we transcend our present state of consciousness, we shall transcend time and space. In my understanding this is what happened... happened to the body of Jesus at the resurrection. He appeared in time and space for a short time, and then he passed beyond into a final state beyond time and space - that is, the eternal state. On this theory death is a passage to this higher state of consciousness. Jesus opened the way through death so that others can now pass through death into eternal life. This was a cosmic event - as Sri Aurobindo... because two kinds of bodies are both transcendent of time and space they are essentially of the same kind. All subtle bodies go beyond the temporal and spatial conditions under which the gross body operates. Even the bodies which Sri Aurobindo calls subtle-physical, vital, mental and which many Yogis have brought into action exceed our laws of time and space. But all of them can act under our conditions and ...
... Sri Aurobindo : Yes, demonstration to the mind again. 26-12-1939 Discipl e : N. was puzzled about time and space because it is not clear whether time and space are properties of matter. Page 90 Sri Aurobindo : Time and space can't be properties of matter, at least time is not material. Space and time are the extensions of the Brahman. For instance... observes conservation of Matter, but that is because the mind is such that in order to observe Reality it must posit conservation first. Time and Space also, in the new Physics, seem to be our mind's formations of something which is not divisible or separable into time and space. Sri Aurobindo : What do you mean by mind ? You try to appropriate mind to yourself. But really there is no Page 76... world he must know how to protect himself or someone must protect him. Disciple : Do not space and time exist on the vital plane ? Sri Aurobindo : The vital plane has its own time and space. There is a relation between the physical and the vital planes. There is an Infinite with extension and an Infinite without extension. One creates space and time and the other is caitanya ...
... ing harmony to the Supermind because it views all things in a multiple unity. Besides, the mind sees only a given time and space and views many possibilities pell-mell as all more or less realisable in that time and space; the divine Supermind sees the whole extension of Time and Space and can embrace all the mind's possibilities and very many more not visible to the mind, but without any error, groping... in Space to which the succession of Time gives the aspect of Causality. Time and Space, according to the metaphysician, have only a conceptual and not a real existence; but since all things and not these only are forms assumed by Conscious-Being in its own consciousness, the distinction is of no great importance. Time and Space are that one Conscious-Being viewing itself in extension, subjectively as... Time. At certain moments we become aware of such an indivisible regard upholding by its immutable self-conscious unity the variations of the universe. But we must not now ask how the contents of Time and Space would present themselves there in their transcendent truth; for this our mind cannot conceive,—and it is even ready to deny to this Indivisible any possibility of knowing the world in any other ...
... something which is not in time and space, for we ourselves are in time and space; we attempt an approximation to attain some small understanding of a "Something" which is Page 384 not expressible and is simultaneously everything, eternally and beyond time. We may try, yes, and we use all sorts of words, but we are not able to understand it unless we go outside time and space. Well, to reverse the... the problem, for That which is beyond time and space, time and space are something paradoxical and incomprehensible: they don't exist, they are not there. And Sri Aurobindo says: "Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being", that is, He changed his non-existence into existence—if you like to put it humorously, in order to know... conceivable. And this is what Sri Aurobindo tells us. This temporal universe, that is, a universe which is unfolding, a universe which does not exist all at the same time at the same place outside time and space, a universe which becomes temporal and spatial, which is successive—for That which is beyond the manifestation it is truly an absurdity, don't you think so, and a paradox; it is its very contradiction ...
... individual soul is all Brahman regarding Itself and world from a centre of cosmic consciousness. For That is identical, not single. It is identical always and everywhere in Time and Space, as well as identical beyond Time and Space. Numerical oneness and multiplicity are equally valid terms of its essential unity. These two terms, as we see them, are like all others, representations in Chit, in the... He is One because there is nothing else, since all existence and non-existence are He. He is stable or unmoving, because motion implies change in Space and change in Time, and He, being beyond Time and Space, is immutable. He possesses eternally in Himself all that is, has been or ever can be, and He therefore does not increase or diminish. He is beyond causality and relativity and therefore there... active consciousness which, by its motion and multiplication in different principles (different in appearance, the same in essence), creates oppositions of unity and multiplicity, divisions of Time and Space, relations and groupings of circumstance and Causality. All these things are real in consciousness, but only symbolic of the Being, somewhat as the imaginations of a creative Mind are true rep ...
... not bound by any clime and time. That does not mean he neglects them. He utilises the elements supplied by time and space to create a world-literature which is eternally infinite, true for ever and everywhere. On the other hand, the kind of literature which is solely confined to time and space, the suggestiveness of which has been exhausted in a particular form and name, in which the universal spirit... language known as the world-language. But it is a matter of no consequence. The poet's genius consists in his ability to show the universal in the particular: that is to say, how a thing limited in time and space can be used as the symbol of the Eternal and the Infinite; how a glimpse of the Infinite can be made to manifest itself in the finite. Just as a poet has not to view a temporary truth confined... main reason why man remains confined to a particular time and clime is this that he clings to a particular avocation or religion or institution – his very nature is to live within the confines of time and space. External life (life of the outside world) – that is to say, mixing with men of various countries, acquaintance and intimacy with the experiences and realisations of the different countries and ...
... 380-81 Sweet Mother, can one go out of Time and Space? Page 2 If one goes out of the manifestation. It is the fact of objectivisation, of manifestation which has created time and space. To go out of it one must return to the origin, that is, go out of the manifestation. Otherwise from the very first objectivisation time and space were created. There is a feeling or a perception... an impersonal abstraction, the one reasonable end would be annihilation. For it is obvious that if one goes out of time and space, all separate existence automatically ceases. There, now. So one can , without much result! Is that all? Have you tried to go out of time and space? ( The child shakes his head vigorously. ) Mother will you explain the New Year Message? What is the meaning... perception or an experience of eternity and infinity in which one has the impression of going out of time and space.... It is only an impression. One must pass beyond all forms, even the most subtle forms of consciousness, far beyond the forms of thought, the forms of consciousness, to be able to have this impression of being outside space and time. This is what generally happens to people who enter ...
... spaceless and timeless absolute of conscious existence that is bliss; but the world is, on the contrary, an extension in Time and Space Page 153 and a movement, a working out, a development of relations and possibilities by causality—or what so appears to us—in Time and Space. The true name of this Causality is Divine Law and the essence of that Law is an inevitable self-development of the truth... and Force are the twin essential aspects of the pure Power of existence; Knowledge and Will must therefore be the form which that Power takes in creating a world of relations in the extension of Time and Space. This Knowledge and this Will must be one, infinite, all-embracing, all-possessing, all-forming, holding eternally in itself that which it casts into movement and form. The Supermind then is Being... its own being, Page 154 takes form as self-knowledge, as Truth-Consciousness, as Real-Idea, and, that self-knowledge being also self-force, fulfils or realises itself inevitably in Time and Space. This, then, is the nature of the Divine Consciousness which creates in itself all things by a movement of its conscious-force and governs their development through a self-evolution by inherent ...
... this is infinity with regard to Time and Space, an eternal duration, interminable extension. The pure Reason goes farther and looking in its own colourless and austere light at Time and Space points out that these two are categories of our consciousness, conditions under which we arrange our perception of phenomenon. When we look at existence in itself, Time and Space disappear. If there is any extension... natural limits and are striving to express a Reality in which their own conventions and necessary oppositions disappear into an ineffable identity. But is this a true record? May it not be that Time and Space so disappear merely because the existence we are regarding is a fiction of the intellect, a fantastic Nihil created by speech, which we strive to erect into a conceptual reality? We regard again... stability and movement, beyond unity and multitude,—nor is that at all our business,—we must accept the double fact, admit both Shiva and Kali and seek to know what is this measureless Movement in Time and Space with regard to that timeless and spaceless pure Existence, one and stable, to which measure and measurelessness are inapplicable. We have seen what pure Reason, intuition and experience have to ...
... in universal Time and Space. " The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 115 Yes, that's it, that's exactly what I was saying: from one side it is as if it did not exist, and then it is "put forth", you see, He does that ( gesture ), He puts it forth and it becomes visible and existent, and then, instead of being one thing existing all at once, it develops, it is manifested in Time and Space. This is what... what Sri Aurobindo says, this is where the idea of Time and Space begins, for it is no longer simultaneous. Sri Aurobindo has first spoken of the duality Brahman-Maya [eternal Existence and the existence of the world], and now he speaks of the duality Ishwara-Shakti [the Divine in his Being and the Divine in his Force of cosmic realisation]. This duality Ishwara-Shakti, it isn't very clear, is it... is within oneself comes out. And then, for this to become perceptible, it must be continuous. When it is within, it can be simultaneous, for it is unmanifest, so all is in an eternity outside Time and Space―immobile, inexistent. In the opposite direction, everything becomes and so there is a continuity of perceptions which follow one after another and spread out in Space and Time. And it is the ...
... may probe further the question of space and time. All cosmicity argues relation of event to event, object to object: in other words; time and space. But, when all is in each and each in all and everything is held within one Consciousness variously disposed, time and space are only that Consciousness viewing itself in extension; and in this extension our past, present and future would be regarded in one... aspects.... First, there is the Self in whom all beings exist. The Spirit, the Divine has manifested itself as infinite self-extended being, self-existent, pure, not subject to Time and Space, but supporting Time and Space as figures of its consciousness. It is more than all things and contains them all within that self-extended being and consciousness, not bound by anything it creates, holds or becomes... Single with the Transcendent and the Multiple with the cosmic? No doubt, we may say that the ultimate Plenitude is at once the Eternal that is timeless and spaceless and the Infinite that is all time and space—at once the Absolute that is an undifferentiated whole and the Godhead that is a whole where every part is fulfilled in its individuality. But in the Godhead a part finds its fulfilment without ...
... character would not give us the co-existence of continuously consecutive volumes we want. The loss would indeed point to something more than inseparableness of time and space: it would be an index to indistinguishableness and make the time and space we know a truer limited projection of what is beyond Nature, but it could never cover the full character of the Wonder that is the authentic being of the world... most commonly underlined by also pointing out that from different co-ordinate systems in relative motion at different rates the interval between any two events will be differently split up into time and space. Suppose we take the famous eruption of Krakatoa and the outburst on the star Nova Persei. The interval between these two events may be measured from a coordinate system on the earth as so many... of this was obscured by the absolute character of the pre-relativity time." Is not Einstein forgetting that the new role played by time in his theory has converted the old inseparableness of time and space into indistinguishableness? Is he not ignoring the essence of the situation by labelling the old inseparableness as four-dimensionality? To count a continuum's dimensions just by the descriptive ...
... conceived in terms of Time and Space, an eternal duration, interminable extension. In the philosophy oflmmanuel Kant, 14 for instance, Time and Space are conceived as conditions of consciousness under which we arrange our perceptions of phenomena. But existence — in itself has to be conceived as something beyond Time and Space, if the antinomies that attend on Time and Space, as also those in respect... avoided. In the philosophy of Bradley, 15 which describes the movement of Pure Reason in the analysis of appearances, we find self-contradictions inherent in all appearances, including Time Page 27 and Space. Eternity comes to be conceived as the same all-containing ever-new moment, and infinity comes to be conceived as the same 'all-containing, all pervading point without magnitude. It ...
... this is infinity with regard to Time and Space, an eternal duration, interminable extension. The pure Reason goes farther and looking in its own colourless and austere light at Time and Space points out that these two are categories of our consciousness, conditions under which we arrange our perception of phenomenon. When we look at existence in itself, Time and Space disappear. If there is any extension... striving to express a Reality in which their own conventions and necessary oppositions disappear into an ineffable identity. Page 106 But is this a true record? May it not be that Time and Space so disappear merely because the existence we are regarding is a fiction of the intellect, a fantastic Nihil created by speech, which we strive to erect into a conceptual reality? We regard again... stability and movement, beyond unity and multitude, — nor is that at all our business, — we must accept the double fact, admit both Shiva and Kali and seek to know what is this measureless Movement in Time and Space with regard to that timeless and spaceless pure Existence, one and stable, to which measure and measurelessness are inapplicable. We have seen what pure Reason, intuition and experience have to ...
... process of the cosmos. First there is the Brahman, the highest immutable self-existent being which all existences are behind the play of cosmic Nature in time and space and causality, deśa-kāla-nimitta . For by that self-existence alone time and space and causality are able to exist, and without that unchanging support omnipresent, yet indivisible they could not proceed to their divisions and results... self-principle of being of each becoming, she creates the varied mutations by which she strives to express it, unrolls all her changes in name and form, in time and space and those successions of condition developed one out of the other in time and space which we call causality, nimitta . All this bringing out and continual change from state to state is Karma, is action of Nature, is the energy of Prakriti ...
... objections. Time and Space are not limited, they are infinite—they are the terms of an extension of consciousness in which things take place or are arranged in a certain relation, succession, order. There are again different orders of Time and Space; that too depends on the consciousness. The Eternal is extended in Time and Space, but he is also beyond all Time and Space. Timelessness and Time ...
... man; but there is everything to widen, to widen endlessly. What we take for a final truth is most often only a partial experience of the Truth, and certainly the total Experience exists nowhere in time and space, in no place and no being however luminous he may be; for Truth is infinite, forever marching onward. But man always takes upon himself an endless burden , said the Mother in a talk about Buddhism... their secret foundation and secret need to grow. No one wants to give up life because this joy is there – everywhere. It needs nothing to exist; it is , irrefutably, like a bedrock throughout time and space, like a smile behind everything. There lies the entire Riddle of the universe. That's all there is. An imperceptible smile – a mere nothing that is everything. All is Joy because all is the Spirit... falsehood, God versus Satan, and this ordinary mind moves along like a donkey on a road, glancing at one tuft of grass after another. In short, the ordinary mind keeps punching out little pieces of time and space. The more one goes down the ladder of consciousness, the smaller the pieces. We can suppose that to a beetle, whatever crosses its path comes from the future to its right, cuts the line of its ...
... as inseparable shadows of the three substances, and with them come the objective triad, Falsehood, Ignorance, Limitation; Limitation necessitates Divisibility, Divisibility necessitates Time and Space; Time and Space necessitate Causality; Causality, the source from which definite phenomena arise, necessitates Change. All the fundamental laws of Duality have sprung into being, necessitated in a moment... the universe of subtle phenomena. Here the difference that divides it from the Supreme Self is less acute; for the bonds of matter are lightened and the great agents of division and disparity, Time and Space, diminish in the insistency of their pressure. The individual here comes to realise a certain unity with the great Whole; he is enlarged and aggrandized into a part of the Universal Self, but the ...
... Spirit is the fundamental reality, Time and Space must either be conceptive conditions under which the Spirit sees its own movement of energy or else they must be fundamental conditions of the Spirit itself which assume a different appearance or status according to the status of consciousness in which they manifest. In other words there is a different Time and Space for each status of our consciousness... ess and even different movements of Time and Space within each status; but all would be renderings of a fundamental spiritual reality of Time-Space. In fact, when we go behind physical Space, we become aware of an extension on which all this movement is based and this extension is spiritual and not material; it is Self or Spirit containing all action of its own Energy. This origin or basic reality ...
... 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 Time and catching at knowledge... only by the removal of the veil return to eternal self-knowledge. For it would be irrational to suppose that the superconscient Knowledge is so aloof and separate as to be incapable of knowing Time and Space and Causality and their works; for then it would be only another kind of Ignorance, the blindness of the absolute being answering to the blindness of the temporal being as positive pole and negative... have not yet taken up, coined and used in our mental experience or have ceased to coin or use. Behind, all is known and all is ready for use according to the will of the Self in its dealings with Time and Space and Causality. One might almost say that our surface being is only the deeper eternal Self in us throwing itself out as the adventurer in Time, a gambler and speculator in infinite possibilities ...
... universe and all its forms, actions, egos are only becomings of that Being ( verse 7 ). World is a becoming which seeks always to express in motion of Time and Space, by progression in mind, life and body what is beyond all becoming, beyond Time and Space, beyond mind, life and body. Thus Avidya becomes one with Vidya. By Avidya man passes beyond that death, suffering, ignorance, weakness which were... hatred, pleasure and suffering. This state comes by limitation and self-division from the One who is all and in all and beyond all and by attachment of the idea of self to a single formation in Time and Space of body, life and mind, by which the Self excludes from its view all that it verily is with the exception of a mass of experiences flowing out from and in upon a particular centre and limited by ...
... birth and action, the moving power of life, the inhabiting and associating consciousness in the myriad mutabilities of Nature; it is the constituting reality of all this stir in Time and Space; it is itself Time and Space and Circumstance. It is this multitude of souls in the worlds; it is the gods and men and creatures and things and forces and qualities and quantities and powers and presences. It... not only so opposite in nature, but so difficult to unify in experience? For when we live in the mobility of the becoming, we may be aware of but hardly live in the immortality of timeless being, Time and Space and circumstance fall away from us and begin to appear as a trouble dream in the infinite. The most persuasive conclusion would be, at first sight, that the mobile of the spirit in Nature is an ...
... confuse the psychic realisation with the spiritual realisation, because the psychic realisation will leave you within time and space, within the manifested universe. Whereas the effect of the spiritual realisation will be to project you outside all creation, outside time and space. 27 The Mother * What is the work of the psychic being? ... What do you want to say... I did not understand the explanation of the psychic you have given: "One could say, for example, that the creation of an indi- vidual being is the result of the projection, in time and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the supreme origin of all manifestation which, through the medium of the one and universal consciousness, takes con- crete form in ...
... is CHIT, Consciousness that becomes Power. Consequently, Consciousness goes voyaging along in SAT, in Being—static, eternal, infinite and necessarily outside time and space—and this movement of Consciousness is what produces time and space within this Infinity and Eternity. 8 This leads Page 175 to the understanding that things can simultaneously be absolutely free and absolutely determined... × Once again, Mother's experience coincides with modern science, which is beginning to discover that time and space are not fixed and INDEPENDENT quantities—as, from the Greeks right up to Newton, we had been accustomed to believe—but a four-dimensional system, with three coordinates of space and one of time ...
... It's clear, isn't it? It's easy to understand. The notion of error belongs to time and space. The same goes for the feeling that a thing cannot both BE and NOT BE at the same time. And yet that's the way things are: Page 371 something both is and is not at the same time. The notion of time, of time and space, is what brings in the notion of error. What do you mean, something both... that the Manifestation is a comedy He's playing with and for Himself! He has put Himself in the role of spectator and He's watching Himself. And to watch Himself, He has to accept the notion of time and space—otherwise He can't watch Himself! And immediately the whole comedy begins. But it's a comedy and nothing more! And we're the puppets, eh! That's why we take it so seriously. But as soon as we ...
... Spirit is the fundamental reality, Time and Space must either be conceptive conditions under which the Spirit sees its own movement of energy or else they must be fundamental conditions of the Spirit itself which assume a different appearance or status according to the status of consciousness in which they manifest. In other words there is a different Time and Space for each status of our consciousness... ess and even different movements of Time and Space within each status; but all would be renderings of a fundamental spiritual reality of Time- Space. In fact, when we go behind physical space, we become aware of an extension on which all this movement is based and this extension is spiritual and not material; it is Self or Spirit containing all action of its own Energy. This origin or basic reality ...
... cases in which one finds that it is cured. Time and Space are the Conscious-Being viewing itself in extension subjectively as Time, objectively as Space. Space is, thus, the self-extension of the Infinite—the Brahman. Space is not empty, it is filled with the silence of the Infinite. "Mind measures time by event and space by matter." Time and Space are only two aspects of the universal force of... predetermined, predestined. Law can be said to be the expression of self-natate, svabh ā va, which is "determined by the compelling truth of the Real-Idea" in each thing. The world is a movement in time and space, its development is "a regulated interaction of related things in space to which succession of time gives the aspect of causality." The causality perceived by mind is not a law without exception ...
... ) You have something to ask? Mother, are Time and Space particular only to the physical world or to other worlds also? As there are forms, there is necessarily a Time, a Space, but it is not at all the same as the physical. It is neither the same Time nor the same Space. For example, as soon as you come to the vital there is a Time and Space which are similar to the physical but without... and simultaneous consciousness, that is, what has always been and what will be are as though united in a single instant, a single beat of the universe, and it is only there that one goes out of Time and Space. Mother, you said that if we think mentally of something we are immediately in the presence of that thing, but if, for example, we think mentally of something higher, of the Divine, for example ...
... isn't it? It is easy to understand. This concept of error is a concept that belongs to time and space. It is like the feeling that something cannot be and not be at the same time. And yet this is true, it is and it is not. It is the concept of time which introduces the concept of error—of time and space. What do you mean, that a thing is and is not at the same time? How is that? It... is acting for Himself and with Himself. He has taken the stand of the spectator and He looks at Himself. And so in order to look at Himself, He must accept the Page 146 concept of time and space, otherwise He cannot! And immediately the whole comedy begins. But it is a comedy, nothing more. But we take it seriously, because we are puppets! But as soon as we stop being puppets, we can ...
... movement so as to lose the rest; it has then to recover the rest by linking together the succession of moments, the succession of points of Space, the succession of forms in Time and Space, the succession of movements in Time and Space. It has thus lost the truth of the indivisibility of Time, the indivisibility of Force and Substance. It has lost sight even of the obvious fact that all minds are one Mind... will and knowledge appropriate to each particular form. Thus the elements of division have come into being. First, the infinity of the One has translated itself into an extension in conceptual Time and Space; secondly, the omnipresence of the One in that self-conscious extension translates itself into a multiplicity of the conscious soul, the many Purushas of the Sankhya; thirdly, the multiplicity ...
... something altogether different. There are no words for it! "It's a change of state WITHOUT a change of place. "This state is clearly outside time and space, that's certain. So you go from the state in time and space to the state where you're outside time and space, and NOT by a change of place ... something! It's something that happens inside, instantaneously. It's not a long passage like the long and ...
... (Sachchid-ananda) beyond all Time and Space and outside of all manifested relativities. To know That and to be united with That is the primary aim of all spiritual sadhana. But what is important to note in Page 67 this connection is that this absolute Existence-Consciousness is not utterly and absolutely a Transcendent Reality; it is no doubt beyond Time and Space but it is at the same... cosmos, Viśveśvara. The question, then, is: "Is there any goal towards which this divine guidance is directed? Yes, the goal is to manifest all the divine Sachchidananda in the bosom of Time and Space, in earthly embodiments, here is the material world. The evolutionary movement that we see unfolding upon earth is the appointed means for that progressive manifestation of the immortal divine ...
... July 2, 1967 THE MOTHER ABOVE TIME AND SPACE Bonjour! Bonjour, Douce Мèrе. Everyday, it is like this. It is almost 4 o’clock, and so late…. Mother, you say that every day it is like this, that You are late,… but, Mother, for you, what is time? You are above time and space. Yes, my child, all this does not touch me. I am beyond time and space. Time, as men understand it, does not ...
... think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if out of myself, I could not launch to those superior universes? Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God, At Nature and its wonders. Time and Space and Death, But that I, turning, call to thee, 0 soul, 0 actual Me, And lo, thou gently masterest the orbs, Thou matest Time, smilest content at Death, And fillest, swellest full... sight which has brought into his consciousness the symbolic image of the suprarational Reality as the Magnetic Mountain. The Reality, says the poet further, is not only suprrational but is beyond time and space, for there:— "Compass and clock must fail For space stands on its head there And time chases its tail". When he reaches the mountain the poet finds there will be enough girders... day, and in the night We are watching you". Page 78 seem to be telling a simple child-like story till we come to grasp the symbolism used by the poet,—the two rocks symbolising time and space, which accompany all operations of human mind. Over and above the use of such symbolism, Auden, like Spender, has the sense of the occult and subliminal levels of being and a perception of their ...
... whole, our greater Self, our completeness, our universe, yet is it more than any universe. If no universe were, it still would be. This Eternal and Infinite is not only an Eternal of endless Time and Space. For its eternity can be realised not only in Page 178 the endless progression of the years and aeons but in a single moment of Time, its infinity not only in the boundless extension... essence we are convinced of perfection or of perfectibility—perfection in our deepest spiritual being, perfectibility in our nature; we have the instinct and intuition of the Divine. Even to Time and Space our mind cannot fix or conceive a beginning or an end; it cannot conceive a first bound or a last, a primary or ultimate moment without at once looking beyond it. If we see the imperfection of ...
... opposition and the collision and strife of numberless contending truths and forces. Truth to the supramental sight is at the same time single and infinite and the complexities of its play in time and space bring out with an abundant facility the rich significances of the Eternal's many-sided oneness. The supramental gnosis starts from the truth and shows the appearances in the light of... Savitri, p. 44. 117 Ibid, p. 356. 118 Ibid, p. 540. 119 lbid, p. 32. 120 Ibid, p. 401. 121 Ibid, p. 695. 122 Ibid, p. 604. Page 172 Time and Space of something real, not arbitrary inventions out of nothing. Therefore the essentials of form carry always in them secret values and significances of an unseen reality made visible and sensible ...
... ascending and descending of the Self. The mortal self through 3 Savitri, p. 276. 4 Ibid ., PP. 88-89 Page 304 an integral striving can ascend to what is beyond time and space and make this unbounded supreme Self descend into time. It is a worldly and heavenly ascending and descending, never separated from each other but at the same time clearly distinguished in the... its knowledge. It is able to rise 33 Ibid., p. 100. Page 320 above the common categories of knowledge and is in immediate knowledge of itself. The conditions of time and space disappear. The self-conscious spirit sees beyond division, it sees unity, reality, limitlessness and timelessness. This in essence is the being that Heidegger sought but could not find; it is ...
... You and You answer. Doesn’t this disturb Your sleep or Your rest?’ She answered: ‘Day and night hundreds of calls are coming — the consciousness is always alert and it answers. One is limited by time and space only materially.’ 29 ‘I am constantly seeing some beings, consciousnesses, concentrated parts [of beings], subtle bodies around me, all kinds of elements and movements — aspirations, desires... constantly doing in spite of my usual work. And it is difficult to meet every one physically. But in this plane everything happens very quickly and simultaneously. I am not limited by what people call time and space. You understand, I am doing many things at the same time without anybody seeing it or being aware of it.’ 30 Her body consciousness, the consciousness of the cells of her body, was present ...
... there and push it towards the Mother, delivering it into her ever-outstretched hands or laying it at her feet which are ever-waiting to receive the world-wanderer back to his starting-point beyond time and space. Page 128 This instantaneous gesture has to be made in a very realistic way as if one were physically plucking something from the heart-region, freeing oneself from all relationship... "tordz" or "twordz",) The other passage - "Thy goal, thy road... the indwelling God" - seems a counterpart to the Page 135 earlier one. While the latter gives the feel of outer time and space as the field of spiritual realisation, the former points inward, the "road" of days and nights leading to a discovery of the Immortal within - "thy secret self", "the indwelling God." Book ...
... the T I was now experiencing had existed long before the physical me was born and would continue to exist long after the organism was dead. In fact, this newly discovered T', outside of physical time and space, is responsible for the creation in space and time of the physical universe...." Gerald Heard, himself the subject of an LSD-experiment, has given a description in general terms of "the full... rites there seems to have been some sort of intoxication by whose help the individual caught a glimpse of supraphysical realities and became convinced that the visible and tangible of earth's time and space were not all. Even in the days of the Rigveda there was the sacred wine of delight and immortality: Soma. Soma, to the spiritual seer, is the Godhead of transcendental and world-creative Bliss ...
... protector." As I sat complaining thus and weeping inwardly near Your body which lay in state in the Meditation Hall, I felt a strong Force pulling me deep within myself until I lost all sense of time and space. My physical mind, which is usually very active, ceased its noise. My body, which was full of pain and discomfort after a long and tiring journey, became so quiet that I was hardly aware of... greatly heartened by Your Message. All sorrow and forlornness passed from me. The vision withdrew as if You had gone into another room, and I gradually woke up and became conscious once more of time and space and all that they hold for us. LALITA Page 179 ...
... refuses to confine truth to any one aspect. Brahman is the stable and the mobile, the internal and the external, all that is near and all that is far whether spiritually or in the extension of Time and Space; it is the Being and all becomings, the Pure and Silent who is without feature or action and the Seer and Thinker who organises the world and its objects; it is the One who becomes all that we... first, the original ignorance. We are ignorant of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self; we take the constant mobility and mutation of the cosmic Page 680 becoming in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence,—that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being ...
... and reality and to know them only with a partial and mistaken knowledge subject to the limitations, errors, incapacities of the mental ignorance. All that determines their manifestation in our time and space is also beyond and here only in the hidden secrecy within them, and therefore the mind following their line of manifestation misses that which determines them and can only see a part of the actually... manifestation in eternal time. Page 909 This supreme of infinite being is supreme in the sense of being above the manifestation in time, its eternal origin, support, control, itself beyond time and space. It is this of which the supermind, itself a luminous power of this supreme of infinite being, is always and fundamentally conscious. Page 910 ...
... one must fulfil the conditions... One can do something else! I believe that if you take the world in its totality, in Time and Space, it is obvious that you can say, "Nothing is impossible", and that probably everything will be; but that's in the totality, and in Time and Space, that is, through eternities of time and infinities of space all is possible. But at a given moment, at a Page 258 ...
... we must give some idea, however relative it may be, of what we mean by the psychic being. One could say, for example, that the creation of an individual being is the result of the projection, in time and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the supreme origin of all manifestation which, through the medium of the one and universal consciousness, takes concrete form in the law or the... ve change, unbroken continuity in the universe of forms. The spiritual consciousness, on the other hand, means to live the infinite and the eternal, to be projected beyond all creation, beyond time and space. To Page 35 become conscious of your psychic being and to live a psychic life you must abolish all egoism; but to live a spiritual life you must no longer have an ego. Here also ...
... calling You and You answer. Doesn't this disturb Your sleep or Your rest? Day and night hundreds of calls are coming―but the consciousness is always alert and it answers. One is limited by time and space only materially. 3 January 1968 X is always present in our thoughts and living in our hearts. For the thought the world is small, for the heart there is no distance. Days when... and still be in my small room to answer to Y who is sitting with me there, how nice it would be!... So, you see, I fear I have accepted to become too human, too much bound by the human laws of time and space, and thus not capable of doing half a dozen things at the same time! 12 January 1932 Lord, I lament my limitations... but it is through them, by virtue of them, that men can approach ...
... confuse the psychic realisation with the spiritual realisation, because the psychic realisation will leave you within time and space, within the manifested universe. Whereas the effect of the spiritual realisation will be to project you outside all creation, outside time and space. There is no joy more perfect than to give oneself totally to that which is greater than oneself. God, Supreme Origin ...
... volume Collected Poems which you presented to me in 1962 and which has a good number of pages annotated by me in some detail): The laws of blind unrest, not art Have built this room in time and space, The furniture of human sense That bounds my sorrow, curbs delight. But to the grail, these fragile walls Are thinner than a floating dream, Page 17 And... Aurobindo's 'Indian'? And Chaucer's phrase is related to the ascension of the slain Troilus's soul to the heavens from where he looks down on the small terrestrial scene: his viewpoint is of infinite time and space. From high above he laughs at the mourning of his friends over his death, people whose thoughts are entirely fixed on trivial transitory things. Contrary to your intention, you are directing me ...
... act is morally good or bad. This gives life a purpose in the light of which man is able to develop a moral code for himself. This also gives man a set of permanent moral values which transcend time and space and act as a beacon to guide and lead our lives on the right path. The Holy Quran accords a great deal of importance to reason. That man should think over what he is, why he has been created... act is morally good or bad. This gives life a purpose in the light of which man is able to develop a moral code for himself. This also gives man a set of permanent moral values which transcend time and space and act as a beacon to guide and lead our lives on the right path. The Holy Quran accords a great deal of importance to reason. That man should think over what he is, why he has been created ...
... integrally everywhere. The world is not cut off from the Supreme; it is His own manifestation in infinitely multiform ways. To seek Him, find Him, and recognise His manifestation in Time and Space as beyond Time and Space, and in every object and in every creature, even in every phenomenon, is the valid goal of human existence. Everything else is a part of this achievement. And if it is so, all ...
... changes and witnesses the course of events and circumstances, brings Peace and hastens the divine manifestation upon earth; how this gaze moves further and further and disappears in the eternity of time and space. Whereas the other one concentrates and sees all that goes on inside as well as outside, judges and measures the value of the person, his attitude and of course his possibilities of realisation... child, I am the Unknown that is unseizable, yet I consent to be seized; I am the Unknowable, yet men pretend to know me. I am the Infinite but I am constrained to limit myself in a physical body by time and space. I am the Eternal who has submitted itself to be bound in evolution. I am Immortality which awakes in its innumerable aspects that perish, in order to climb back towards the One, and which has ...
... on of matter, (2) conservation of energy, (3) uniformity of nature and (4) the chain of causality and continuity. Above all, there was the fundamental implication of an independent—an absolute—time and space in which all things existed and moved and had their being. The whole business of experimental science was just to find the absolutes of Nature, that is to say, facts and laws governing facts... failed to detect any difference in the velocity of light whether it moved with or against a moving object, which is an inconsistency according to the mechanistic view.1 The absolute dependence of time and space upon each other was further demonstrated by the fact that it was absolutely impossible to synchronise two distant clocks (moving with different speeds and thus forming different systems) with ...
... that is to say, there is the law of succession. But in the higher regions, higher or subtler regions, this separation due to time and space loses much of its exclusive force. Things tend to coalesce, even to get identified with each other. The obstructions that time and space offer to intercommunication are minimised more and more as our consciousness or being soars up or dives down into deeper and ...
... more thousands and thousands of years will pass, you immediately see the inconsequence of this little point of time; you need not enter into a high spiritual condition, you have simply to contact Time and Space, with all that is before and all that is after and all that is happening at the time, and if you are not an idiot you say immediately: "Ah, well, I am giving importance to something that has no... loses then and there all its importance if you can visualise simply the immensity of the creation. I am not speaking of rising to spiritual heights, I speak only of the immensity of the creation in time and space and the small event on which you are concentrated as if it were of great consequence. All that dissolves immediately if you go about the thing in a sincere spirit. Naturally there is a part in ...
... as a general idea, but in every detail, though as it were on a microscopic scale, something like the chromosomes in life plasm. The transcendent is beyond time and space. Manifestation or creation begins with the formulation of time and space, the frame in which what lay latent is gradually brought out and displayed. The transcendent is consciousness absorbed in itself, identified with itself; ...
... Time." Savitri had gone not only beyond Ignorance and found her Soul but that Soul was Cosmic, it was also Supracosmic—Transcendent. She lived in it and so was beyond Time and space—and yet was omnipresent in Time and space. Page 331 SUMMARY OF BOOK EIGHT CANTO THREE DEATH IN THE FOREST SAVITRI gazed on her "sleeping husband" and felt like one who ...
... one being and another, between today and tomorrow is as fragile and illusory as the tuft of grass separating one caterpillar from another in the same field. And we shall step over the wall of time and space as today we step over the caterpillar's tuft of grass. We have cut little pieces out of that great indivisible oneness, that fullness of the world, that global self. We have sliced little... lovely sect, the little iridescent bubble of a moment's enthusiasm or faith is short-lived – they are brought together through a finer and more discreet law, a tiny little searchlight across time and space, and touches a similar ray here and there, a twin frequency, a light source with the same intensity – and he goes. He goes haphazardly, takes a train, a plane, travels to this country and that ...
... relative it may be, of what we mean by the psychic being. Thus one can say, Page 122 for example, that the creation of an individual being is the result of the projection, in time and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the Supreme Origin of all manifestation which, through the one and universal consciousness, is concretised in the law or the truth of an individual... change, unbroken continuity in the world of forms. The spiritual consciousness, on the other hand, means to live the infinite and eternal, to throw oneself outside all creation, beyond time Page 127 and space. To become fully aware of your psychic being and to live a psychic life you must abolish in you all selfishness; but to live a spiritual life you must be selfless. Here also ...
... we call the Universe. Sa paryagāt . In this extension we have, therefore, two aspects, one of pure infinite relationless immutability, another of a totality of objects Page 43 in Time and Space working out their relations through causality. Both are different and mutually complementary expressions of the same unknowable "He". To express the infinite Immutability the Upanishad uses... blissful, perfect, whether inactive or participating in action. The Self is all things and exceeds them. It exceeds always that in which the mind is engrossed, that which it takes in a particular time and space as a figure of itself. The boundless whole is always perfect. The totality of things is a complete harmony without wound or flaw. The view-point of the part taken for a whole, in other words the ...
... manifestation; it is within it all, but it is superior to it all. Because of that all this exists, but that does not exist because of all this; it is too great to be limited by the movement in Time and Space which it inhabits and supports. This foundation enables us to possess in the security of the divine existence the whole universe within our own being. We are no longer limited and shut in by what... it is still itself in the infinity of its workings, not changed by their variations, not broken up by their multiplicity, not increased or diminished by their ebbings and flowings in the seas of Time and Space, not confused by their apparent contrarieties or limited by their divinely-willed Page 412 limitations. Sachchidananda is the unity of the many-sidedness of manifested things, Sach ...
... t of the world-play, but possess all existence as our own; not only know ourselves as an infinite unegoistic consciousness beyond all change in Time and Space, but become one with all the outpouring of consciousness and its creative force in Time and Space; not only be capable of a fathomless peace and quiescence, but also of a free and an infinite delight in universal things. For that and not only ...
... experience. First, there is the Self in whom all beings exist. The Spirit, the Divine has manifested itself as infinite self-extended being, self-existent, pure, not subject to Time and Space, but supporting Time and Space as figures of its consciousness. It is more than all things and contains them all within that self-extended being and consciousness, not bound by anything that it creates, holds ...
... speaking makes me short of breath—without reason, simply because... because it's not natural anymore. ( silence ) And then, the way of perceiving time and space is becoming very different. It's completely changing. The notion of time and space, objectivity and subjectivity—whether things are concrete or not—all that seems to have been... devices for preparing the consciousness for a new way ...
... delicate balance so that the other side, the spiritually receptive part, might not go down. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo never saw things in small blocks of time and space: a boundless vista was ever in their eyes. And even beyond time and space their sense of being extended. Vividly does one of her disciples remember what she said apropos of her own paintings. Himself an amateur with the brush ...
... can neither be diminished nor increased, nor divided."² Sri Aurobindo goes on to say that Brahman is "identical, not single. It is identical always and everywhere in Time and Space, as well as identical beyond Time and Space. Numerical oneness and multiplicity are equally valid terms of its essential unity."³ The whole question of trying to explain away multiplicity can arise only ...
... Aurobindo a repetitive process. He conceives it to be one extreme possibility of self-revelation adopted by the Divine in the course of His varied "adventure of consciousness and joy" in terms of time and space. For, as Sri Aurobindo says in The Riddle of This World, 1 "once manifestation began infinite possibility also began and among the infinite possibilities, which it is the function of the universal... elements of the Creation, which Christ, reappearing, will gather up into God. Sri Aurobindo has in view a crowning of the world's evolutionary effort by an establishment of the Supermind here in time and space with a divinised mind, vitality and body. Unlike the Christian visionary, he is spiritually this-worldly not only in "organic process" but also in ultimate achievement. We may note in passing ...
... cannot remain subject to the laws we scientifically regard as inexorable. Not only his own being but also his environment will be subject to the Divine Will set active fully in the universe of time and space. The physical sun is a symbol of the highest supramental creative and transformative Light: when that Sun of the Truth-Consciousness which is apostrophised in the Rigveda and the Upanishads and... from matter and pass into a non-spatial non-temporal dimension. The Omega Point postulated by the Anthropic Principle is unlike Teilhard's, a perpetual fullness of being within the framework of time and space. There it makes contact from the scientific side 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" ...
... Aurobindo a repetitive process. He conceives it to be one extreme possibility of self-revelation adopted by the Divine in the course of His varied "adventure of consciousness and joy" in terms of time and space. For, as Sri Aurobindo says in The Riddle of This World, 1 "once manifestation began infinite possibility also began and among the infinite possibilities which it is the function of the universal... elements of the Creation, which Christ, reappearing, will gather up into God. Sri Aurobindo has in view a crowning of the world's evolutionary effort by an establishment of the Supermind here in time and space with a divinised mind, vitality and body. Unlike the Christian Page 259 visionary, he is spiritually this-worldly not only in "organic process" but also in ultimate achievement ...
... delicate balance so that the other side, the spiritually receptive part, might not go down. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo never saw things in small blocks of time and space: a boundless vista was ever in their eyes. And even beyond time and space their sense of being extended. Vividly does one of her disciples remember what she said apropos of her own paintings. Himself an amateur with the brush, he ...
... is determined by energy, and this energy determines my rhythm. The stops between climbing are already longer than the 15 paces I make now each time. This is my measure of time, step be step. Time and space are one.... During the ascent I am like a walking corpse. What holds me upright is the world around me: air, sky, earth, the clouds which press in from the west. The experience of proceeding... weather has cost me additional energy. And the ever-recurring question of the descent. But simultaneously in the thickening mist I experience an inspiring hope, something like curiosity outside of time and space. Not the demoralizing despair which a visible and unendingly distant summit often triggers. It is now all about the struggle against my own limitations. This becomes obvious with each step; with ...
... very sine qua non of all true sadhana; without it the sadhaka cannot take even a single small step on the Path. He will stagnate on the spot for ever and for ever. So let us not waste here our time and space by stressing the obvious. Next comes surrender. And it is precisely what is the subject-matter of the present essay. The third essential element is 'faith' and it is indeed the lynchpin of the... and Page 97 ordeals, confront us on the Path. But true faith shines steadily as an unquenchable flame: it is self-existent and altogether independent of the vicissitudes of time and space and situations and circumstances. This faith cannot be acquired by personal effort and hard labour. It is a precious gift of Grace granted by the Divine himself to any sincere and self-surrendered ...
... Being, the cosmic Consciousness, the cosmic Will and life; it has put these things forth, not outside itself, but in its own being as its own self-unfolding and self-expression in the framework of Time and Space. There is a divine significance and truth in this cosmic becoming. The manifold self-expression of the Spirit is its high sense. Thus, a perfect self-expression of the Spirit is the only... queer Page 12 to those readers who are not well acquainted with the spiritual teachings of Sri Aurobindo, the propounder of the Yoga of Integral Self-Perfection. Constraints of time and space do not allow us to elaborate further on this topic here. However, we may content ourselves with mentioning in brief a few salient principles that the Master-Yogi has recommended for making education ...
... thousands and thousands of years will pass, you immediately see the inconsequence of this little point of time; you need not enter into a high spiritual condition, you have simply to contact Time and Space, with all that is before and all that is after and all that is happening at the time, and if you are not an idiot you say immediately: "Ah, well, I am giving importance to something that has... then and there all its mportance if you can visualise simply the immensity of the creation. I am not speaking of rising to spiritual heights, I speak only of the immensity of the creation in time and space and the small Page 59 event on which you are concentrated as if it were of great consequence. All that dissolves immediately if you go about the thing in a sincere spirit. Naturally ...
... must have an idea, however relative it may be, of what we mean by the psychic being. Thus one can say, for example, that the creation of an individual being is the result of the projection, in time and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the Supreme Origin of all manifestation which, through the one and universal consciousness, is concretised in the law or the truth of an ... ever-progressive change, broken continuity in the world of forms. The spiritual consciousness, on the other hand, means to live the infinite and eternal, to throw oneself outside all creation, beyond time and space. To become fully aware of your psychic being and to live a psychic life you must abolish in you selfishness; but to live a spiritual life you must be selfless. Here also in spiritual education ...
... of matter, (2) conservation of energy, (3) uniformity of nature and (4) the chain of causality and continuity. Above all, there was the fundamental implication of an independent – an absolute – time and space in which all things. existed and moved and had their being. The whole business of experimental science was just to find the absolutes of Nature, that is to say, facts and laws governing facts... failed to detect any difference in the velocity of light whether it moved with or against a moving object, which is an inconsistency according to the mechanistic view.! The absolute dependence of time and space upon each other was further demonstrated by the fact that it was absolutely impossible to synchronise two distant clocks (moving with different speeds and thus forming different systems) with perfect ...
... work. On her way from Sri Aurobindo's room to the collective meditation below, she went for a while to her room to take some rest, as it was probably too early to go down. But once she sat down, time and space vanished and she was deep in trance, while below the crowd was waiting till it was about 1 a.m. Sri Aurobindo, on being informed, sent word that all should disperse and go home. The Mother, on... Mother remaining on her feet all the time! From Sri Aurobindo's room we used to hear people holding long talks with her on personal or departmental matters. The Mother would be quite oblivious of time and space or of persons. She would go on hearing the various complaints, reports and sometimes discussing some points, no matter for how long, while the queue behind would wait and wait jammed on the narrow ...
... simply as a general idea, but in every detail, though as it were on a microscopic scale, something like the chromosomes in life plasm. The transcendent is beyond time and space. Manifestation or creation begins with the formulation of time and space, the frame in which what lay latent is gradually brought out and displayed. The transcendent is consciousness absorbed in itself, identified with itself; ma ...
... out into a multiplicity so to say, or into innumerable variety in matter or in Page 40 life or in mind. But the individual is the concentration of the Divine within limits of time and space, and matter. And then we try to see in what consists this conscious individuality which makes possible the breaking of the Dawn. What is the meaning of this coming into existence of a... existence becomes self-aware in man, in the subjective self, in the individual. And this individual is the centre of reception or of self-awareness or of concentration of the Divine in limited time and space and then the whole of the universe comes to this individual. The universe comes to the individual,—the living and thinking human being—in the form of life. The individual meets first the ...
... One can answer : infinite existence is timeless and spaceless. When it puts forth energy then one feels infinite time and infinite space. When the Pure Existent is put forth into energy then time and space come into existence. By space we do not mean spatial exten-tion, wideness of direction. In the Pure Existent space is psychological self-expansion, it is 'Being' widening itself. When there... is not a fixed something. Time as perceived by man is only movement, action, process, growth, change. If no change takes place one hardly notices time. When a man is inspired by a high ideal, time and space have a different value for him. Even in science the time for a process is not always fixed. One cubic centimeter of water may normally take a certain time for boiling —in that sense 'time' may ...
... basic truth of our existence. Besides, transcendence transfigures. The Hegelian Absolute can weave on endless webs of relativities out of the elements of the universe and within the limits of Time and Space, but it cannot bring down—from where will it ?—a new principle, introduce a revolutionary rhythm, initiate a radical departure. Its creations will be but permutations and combinations of the... "To turn towards Thee, live in Thee and for Thee, is supreme happiness, unmixed joy, immutable peace; it is to breathe infinity, to soar in eternity, no longer feel one’s limits, escape from Time and Space.”¹ And she wonders : "Why do men flee from these boons, as though they feared them ? What a, ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Page 273 strange thing ...
... small part.... Its clear, isn't it? It's easy to understand. The notion of error belongs to time and space. The same goes for the feeling that a thing cannot both BE and NOT BE at the same time. And yet that's the way things are: something both is and is not at the same time. The notion of time, of time and space, is what brings in the notion of error. 1 All the same, this was a bit too much, even ...
... his knowledge? Then he remembered the completeness of his absorption and how utterly his mind had withdrawn into itself. "Nothing wonderful in that!" he said. "How often have I been oblivious to time and space and circumstance outside when absorbed in a train of thoughts or in an experiment." The visitor must have thought him asleep in the easy chair and moved quietly. There was nothing more to be done ...
... Something watches behind, Spirit or Self or Soul, Viewing Space and its toil, waiting the end of Time. Witness, who then art thou, one with thee who am I, Nameless, watching the Wheel whirl across Time and Space? Page 577 ...
... goal. Too small was it to meet the giant need That only infinitude can satisfy: He keeps it still, for in the folds is hid His secret passport to eternity. In his front an endless Time and Space deploy The landscape of their golden happenings; His heart is filled with sweet and violent joy, His mind is upon great and distant things. How grown with all the world conterminous ...
... the creative evolution.—The presence of the seven principles is essential to all cosmic being. For cosmic being cannot exist except as the All-existence figuring itself in its self-conception as Time and Space, nor can this figuration take place except by an infinite Force which being of the nature of an all-determining and all-apprehending Will must repose on the action of an all-comprehending infinite ...
... faith and made real and living to the mind, heart and life? It is the knowledge of the supreme Soul and Spirit in its oneness and its wholeness. It is the knowledge of One who is for ever, beyond Time and Space and name and form and world, high beyond his own personal and impersonal levels and yet from whom all this proceeds, One whom all manifests in manifold Nature and her multitude of figures. It is ...
... al device that It uses in order to repeat Its transcendence and universality in the scheme of the individual Brahman. The Transcendent, the Supracosmic is absolute and free in Itself beyond Time and Space and beyond the conceptual opposites of finite and infinite. But in cosmos It uses Its liberty of self-formation, Its Maya, to make a scheme of Itself in the complementary terms of unity and mu ...
... view of the soul in Nature which he has put forth into Nature as his representative, who is all the time evolving the mutations of our personality in Time and our sensational existence in Space,—Time and Space that are the conceptual movement and extension of the Godhead in us. All is this self-seeing Soul, this self-representing Spirit. For ever from within all beings, from within all conscient and ...
... secret ways Through moments of communion When the myriad cosmos grows aware That by some Will it works as one. Each night the slumberer soul in things Wakes for a while from time and space To the love by which the spheres are moved And feels, unveiled, Eternity's Face. 26.6.54 Page 585 ...
... gly concrete, but it diverts the consciousness from the earth's normal activities and gives no final raison d'etre to them. Why did the Eternal bring about or permit the pageant of Time and Space if its aim was merely to renounce it? Such a renunciation is indeed not unpractical escapism towards a sort of day-dream — it is escapism without being unpractical, for what its escape leads, to ...
... to time and place, the latter will not entail any definitive retribution. In the absence of a judgment, we shall begin to understand what the new beings will spontaneously know: that nothing in Time and Space results of nothing; contrary to what the mental imagines in the linearity of its perception, all is a single movement which goes beyond Space and Time. As long as we believe that we shall ...
... with the children. By 1943, when the school officially opened, French became the language of instruction, as Mother would speak in French. The greetings of “Bonjour!” and “Bonne Fete!” have defied time and space and even now form that beautiful bond that unites us all with her. Also, the Mother encouraged all forms of art and handiwork — embroidery, painting, carpentry, leather work — all means of expressing ...
... above, in the Transcendent. There, distant from our mire-obscured appearances, bums the Logos, the vast solar Truth (satyam bṛhai) that projects the "unfolding Image" birthing the Infinite in Time and Space: All we attempt in this imperfect world, Looks forward or looks back beyond Time's gloss To its pure idea and firm inviolate type In an absolute creation's flawless skill ...
... and still be in my small room to answer to D who is sitting with me there, how nice it would be!... So, you see, I fear I have accepted to become too human, too much bound by the human laws of time and space, and thus not capable of doing half a dozen things at the same time! 12 January 1932 The Mother ...
... reminds me of one of those majestic ancient temples like Konarak or of a Gothic architecture like Notre Dame before which you stand and stare in speechless ecstasy, your soul takes a flight beyond time and space. Before I knew much about Sri Aurobindo, I asked him in my foolish way, why, himself being the master of inspiration and having all higher planes at his command, sending inspiration to others ...
... actualities of past, present and future. Page 245 Its first faculty, that which most readily attracts attention, is its power of seeing by the psychical sense images of all things in time and space. As exercised by clairvoyants, mediums and others this is often, and indeed usually, a specialised faculty limited though often precise and accurate in action, and implies no development of ...
... and the essential domestic catalyst of change in 1989.” (p. 133) – “I have found treasures: examples of great moral courage and intellectual integrity; comradeship, deep friendship, family life; time and space for serious conversation, music, literature, not disturbed by the perpetual noise of our media-driven and obsessively telecommunicative world; Christian witness in its original and purest form; ...
... me as an extremely moving bit of inner autobiography, which shows what supreme sacrifice goes hand in hand with the spiritual liberation when the Yogi is bent on being the Eternal's Worker in time and space and does not rest with liberation into Eternity; Often, in the slow ages' long retreat On Life's thin ridge through Time's enormous sea, I have accepted death and borne defeat ...
... the human consciousness and to become progressively a part of earth or, rather, to make earth progressively a part of it. What is eternally in bloom in the Divine is asked to blossom anew in our time and space — a Brightness that, unlike in Nashe's line, never falls from the air. The nature of this Brightness can be gauged by a brief review of the figures under which the spiritual Reality is shown. The ...
... The philosopher must be master of his nerves: circumstances belonging to the shadowy phenomenal world should never affect the poised intellect contemplating the Eternal Ideas of a world beyond time and space and mutability. Socrates was perhaps the most tested, though the least testy, of all philosophers. For he was married to a woman who has become as famous for her nagging ways as he for his equanimity ...
... Dawn "departs"? To bury her aura's seed of grandeur in the hours is surely not tantamount to the Dawn herself getting buried! The Dawn merely impregnates with a spark of the Divine the world of time and space and she does this not by herself disappearing but by building her aura of magnificent hues. The disappearance of the light preceding the sunrise -the fading of the Dawn, that is to say - comes ...
... earlier cultivated scattered moments of such suspense time and again. In the midst of talk, in the midst of dealing with people, you get out of everything, there is a transcendence of the usual time and space holding us. If one could remain like this always, it would be marvellous, with a physical translation of what Sri Aurobindo's Savitri calls A poised serenity of tranquil strength, ...
... every corner of our long-labouring, grief-pursued yet immensity-haunted and mortality-challenging speck of a globe careering, secretly all-important among millions of galaxies, through endless time and space. (8.12.1991) You have asked, "What is it to be an Aurobindonian?" To me an "Aurobindonian" is essentially one who constantly carries on the practice of the presence of ...
... decay and death, a soul that is in bliss independently of all objects and circumstances and is in spontaneous harmony with everyone and everything - in short, a completely Godlike existence in time and space. The extant religions have dreamt, each in its own manner, of a Kingdom of God here and now, but never known how to achieve it and have therefore fixed their eyes finally on a supraterrestrial ...
... only given the poet his best chance to complete his complex play of idea, emotion and image at one stretch but also helped him convey to us the sense of a long sustained continued movement through time and space, a life's journey of repeated risks with yet the Divine's presence subtly assured as going with it. And both the companionship and the risks are hinted at as being constant by the r-note running ...
... and huge frames that excel only in violent effort.” 379 This text would become the principal document to justify the German claim to racial purity and superiority. Neither the obvious distance in time and space from which Tacitus wrote nor the conjectural phrasing of the sentences would deter even some of the best German brains from accepting Tacitus’ statement as the word of God. “Each one of the German ...
... word "plane" suggests, a different level in the scale of being and adopt a different system and ordering of its principles. We need not inquire, for our present purpose, whether they coincide in time and space with our own world or move in a different field of space and in another stream of time,—in either case it is in a more subtle substance and with other movements. All that directly concerns us is ...
... Man or the one Divine in all men or, more largely, discover the One whose presence enables us to become unified in consciousness or in works or in life with all beings, unified with all things in Time and Space, unified with Nature and her influences and even her inanimate forces,—the truth behind must ever be the same because all is the one Divine Infinite whom all are seeking. Because everything is ...
... have to expend too much energy continuously on other things to have any left for poetry. Psychologically, I have no push to poetry just now even if I had the time, which I haven't. Poetry needs time and space to be born and neither exists for me now. Temporally, your undeniable decrease in correspondence means only that instead of having no time to finish the correspondence except by a breakneck hurry—and ...
... actualities of past, present and future. Its first faculty, that which most readily Page 893 attracts attention, is its power of seeing by the psychical sense images of all things in time and space. As exercised by clairvoyants, mediums and others this is often, and indeed usually, a specialised faculty limited though often precise and accurate in action, and implies no development of the ...
... the self in and around us. There is then a higher interpretative action of the supramental knowledge, a greater scale less insistent on actualities, that opens out yet greater potentialities in time and space and beyond. And lastly there is a highest knowledge by Page 823 identity that is a gate of entrance to the essential self-awareness and the omniscience and omnipotence of the Ishwara ...
... in its own being could impel or induce such a Sole Existence complete in its very essence, blissful in its eternity, containing nothing to be manifested, timelessly perfect, to create an unreal Time and Space and people it to all eternity with an interminable cosmic show of false images and happenings. This solution is logically untenable. The other solution, the idea of a purely subjective unreal ...
... His terrible all-deluding Maya? Or is it rather some divine principle that thus expresses itself, some power of the Delight of eternal being that had to express and has thus thrown itself into Time and Space in this constant outburst of the million and million forms of life which people the countless worlds of the universe? When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as ...
... of waves of being and force, pressing from outside and rising from within, which become stuff of consciousness and formulate in a mental cognition and mentalised sensation of self and things in Time and Space. Time presents itself to us as a flow of dynamic movement, Space as an objective field of contents for the experience of this imperfect and developing awareness. By immediate awareness the mental ...
... we see that it is really both of these things at once; that is to say, it is the All-Existent figuring Himself out in an infinite series of rhythms in His own conceptive extension of Himself as Time and Space. Moreover we see that this cosmic action or any cosmic action is impossible without the play of an infinite Force of Existence which produces and regulates all these forms and movements; and that ...
... Page 521 × The active cosmic Truth of things diffused and arranged in their mutability and divisibility of Time and Space veils the eternal and unchanging Truth of which it is a manifestation. × The eternal Truth is ...
... as it were awake even in [ ] 16 sleep, then one may get [accurate] 17 records of true and actual experiences. These are not dreams but internal visions. Part of the mind is ranging through time and space or in other worlds. Another part is on the watch to receive its experiences and report them to the physical consciousness. Sushupta Samadhi, the third stage, is when the whole physical ...
... the riddle of cosmos, the Godhead in all existences and their workings. Thus only can we aspire through the offering of all our nature and being to a living union with the One who has become in Time and Space all that is. Here is the place of bhakti in the scheme of the Yoga of an integral self-liberation. It is an adoration and aspiration towards that which is greater than imperishable self or changing ...
... If we would know all, we must turn our gaze to that which is beyond all. That being known all else is comprehended. A beginningless and endless eternity and infinity in which divisible Time and Space manage to subsist is the mould of existence. They succeed in subsisting because they are upheld by God's view of Himself in things. God is all existence. Existence is a representation of ineffable ...
... and eagerness to acquire knowledge of the other world and communication with those we knew and loved in this, in fact, the ordinary human and earthly feelings existing between souls sundered by time and space, but still capable of communication. But Lord Curzon still seems to be labouring under the crude Christian conception of the blessed dead as angels harping in heaven whose spotless plumes ought ...
... Something watches behind, Spirit or Self or Soul, Viewing Space and its toil, waiting the end of Time. Witness, who then art thou, one with thee who am I, Nameless, watching the Wheel whirl across Time and Space? Page 376 ...
... her father, the wife of Vishnou and shares the preservative energy of her husband; Vasuqie, also, and Seshanaga, the great serpent with his hosts, whose name means finiteness and who represents Time and Space; he upholds the world on his hundred colossal hoods and is the couch of the Supreme who is Existence. There were also the angels who were a little less than the Gods; Yukshas, the Faery attendants ...
... form, or a sangsāric mind; these are but its illusory creations. It is in itself non-sangsāric, being uncreated, unborn, unshaped, beyond human concept or definition; and, therefore, transcending time and space, which have only relative and not absolute existence, it is beginningless and endless" [p. 5]. Whether by pressure of arguments against the non-acceptance of soul, or through modernisation, they ...
... than objective, for the aim, the motive of creation is objectivisation; but there is a first step in this objectivisation in which there is a plenary consciousness, total and simultaneous, beyond Time and Space, of what will constitute the content of this universe; and there, the universe is pre-existent, but not manifested, and Time begins with objectivisation. Can it be said that Time begins with ...
... hierarchy. But generally, in the world as it is, there are so many gaps in this hierarchy that it seems a confusion. The perfect hierarchy is a total hierarchy, and it is not concerned with time and space. But when you want to realise this physically it becomes very difficult. It's like weaving a piece of cloth with lots of holes everywhere; and the holes disturb the general harmony. Always people ...
... its importance, immediately. If you can visualise, you know, simply the immensity of the creation—I am not now speaking of rising to spiritual heights—simply the immensity of the creation in time and space, and this little event on which you are concentrated with an importance... as though it were something of some importance... immediately it does this ( gesture ) and it dissolves, if you do it ...
... which—yes, to go there. I did not understand the explanation of the psychic you have given: "One could say, for example, that the creation of an individual being is the result of the projection, in time and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the supreme origin of all manifestation which, through the medium of the one and universal consciousness, takes concrete form in the law or the ...
... is a play which He is acting for Himself and with Himself. He has taken the stand of the spectator and He looks at Himself. And so in order to look at Himself, He must accept the concept of time and space, otherwise He cannot! And immediately the whole comedy begins. But it is a comedy, nothing more. But we take it seriously, because we are puppets! But as soon as we stop being puppets, we can ...
... we must give some idea, however relative it may be, of what we mean by the psychic being. One could say, for example, that the creation of an individual being is the result of the projection, in time and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the supreme origin of all manifestation which, through the medium of the one and universal consciousness, takes concrete form in the law or the ...
... Objectivisation—universal objectivisation—is something like a projection in space and time, like a living image of what is from all eternity. And as the image is gradually projected on the screen of time and space, it becomes objective: The Supreme contemplating His own Image. Page 177 ...
... a considerable number of steps! But this is to give you the point of view of perfection. Besides, divine perfection implies infinity and eternity; that is to say, everything coexists outside time and space. It is like the word "purity"; one could hold forth interminably on the difference between divine purity and what people call purity. The divine purity, at the lowest, allows no influence other ...
... level. The progressive victory of the Truth brings automatically certain results complex and often unexpected by the human mind which always wants clean cuts. It is only a total vision both in time and space that can understand. 14 June 1967 How is one to explain this age-old enmity between the Jews and the Arabs (although having a common ancestor) hating each other, generation on generation ...
... manifest them—they jostle and elbow one another, they try to push back those which do not agree with them or even form armies marching in good order, always to take up the available room both in time and space—it is only a very small space compared with the countless number of creations. So, individually, this is what happens. Some people do all that without knowing it—perhaps everybody—and they are ...
... You answer. Doesn't this disturb Your sleep or Your rest? Day and night hundreds of calls are coming—but the Consciousness is always alert and it answers. One is limited only materially by time and space. 3 January 1968 How is it that ordinarily the richer one is (materially), the more dishonest one is? It is because material wealth is controlled by the adverse forces—and because ...
... Page 47 men, because they have turned their back on the Divine. But, with Him one finds supreme happiness, unalloyed joy, immutable peace. One breathes infinity, escapes from time and space. 17/20 good Le Divin est la realite Unique, l'Amour supreme, la Paix immuable. Sans la realite Unique la vie est une illusion. Elle est douloureuse parce que ...
... that is, the more complex the instrument is, the more numerous the difficulties are), all the difficulties, all the opportunities to overcome them, all the possible experiences, and limited in time and space so they can be innumerable. And it has repercussions and consequences all over the earth (I am not concerned with what goes on in the universe because, for the time being, that isn't my work). ...
... I myself had an experience lasting the full half hour of the meditation. Nothing was left but an immensity, without beginning, without end, neither in space nor in time—outside time. Outside time and space: an immensity of light. It was something of the same nature as light, but not light—far brighter, far... not bright: far more intense than light. It was white, but not our physical white; it was ...
... Dawn "departs"? To bury her aura's seed of grandeur in the hours is surely not tantamount to the Dawn herself getting buried! The Dawn merely impregnates with a spark of the Divine the world of time and space and she does this not by herself disappearing but by building her aura of magnificent hues. The disappearance of the light preceding the sunrise—the fading of the Dawn, that is to say—comes only ...
... Christ in his ascent heavenward—that's how they take it! It all happens on the heights. Yes, heavenward. ( long silence ) Have you sometimes had that kind of very global vision in time and space, in which each thing has its place and everything is coordinated by a total consciousness?... (It must be new only to me.) It is a knowledge-vision. My consciousness, the consciousness there ( ...
... understand: things that aroused that reprobation, horror.... Then it organizes itself in its totality and the whole thing was taken up like that ( Mother opens her arms ), all those movements in time (time and space merge into something ... an immensity—immensity, 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 ...
... it is no small achievement and yet how far from the all-transcending Nirvana in which the mental consciousness is overpassed, the infinite self-luminous abyss of the Silent Brahman beyond the time and space of the entire "sevenfold chord" of manifested existence! I have no quarrel with this limited status as such but I don't feel happy with the clever word-play that goes on with topics like "change" ...
... the human consciousness and to become progressively a part of earth or, rather, to make earth progressively a part of it. What is eternally in bloom in the Divine is asked to blossom anew in our time and space—a Brightness that, unlike as in Nashe's line, never falls from the air. The nature of this Brightness can be gauged by a brief review of the figures under which the spiritual Reality is shown. ...
... individual existence that artificially cuts itself off from 'the One who is all and in all and beyond all' and, by an ignorant exclusive attachment of the idea of self to a single formation in Time and Space, stands out from the rest of the cosmos as a separate existence different in being. Because of this liability of separative ego , the individual fails to realise itself as but a conscious form ...
... is changed and the experiencing mind is thrown into new forms in new circumstances of time, place and environment, the necessary variation of experience which the very nature of existence in Time and Space demands, cannot be effectuated. And it is only the process of Death by dissolution and by the devouring of life by Life, it is only the absence of freedom, the compulsion, the struggle, the ...
... means and instrument for the latter's self-manifestation in this world of evolutionary becoming. But this Becoming is in its nature an infinite play of Force or Shakti, a 'measureless Movement in Time and Space'. Phenomenally, there is nothing stable or stationary there. All that appears to be stable or inert, passive or immobile, is in reality 'a block of movement' maintained in its covert and unceasing ...
... on a finite basis." 3 Indeed, this stupendous cosmic Becoming has for its secret purpose and goal the discovery and enjoyment, in Space and Time, of all that already exists beyond Time and Space. And in this cosmic Drama, viśva-līlā , The soul is a figure of the Unmanifest, The mind labours to think the Unthinkable, The life to call the Immortal into birth, The body ...
... (God guides to His Light whom He will.) (And God strikes similitudes for men, and God has knowledge of everything.) 1 (V.35) According to the Koran, God is the creator of time and space, far beyond the grasp of the minds of men. He is supreme over all, nowhere and yet everywhere: To God belong the East and the West; whithersoever you turn, there is the Face of God; ...
... physical, the artistic, the spiritual, and other elements of the invisible world. Life does not consist entirely of what we see and hear and feel, the visible world which is undergoing change in time and space; it is continually touching an invisible world of other, and possibly more stable or equally changeable elements, and no thinking person can ignore this invisible world. Science does not tell ...
... need That only infinitude can satisfy: He keeps it still, for in its folds is hid His secret passport to eternity. In his front an endless Time and Space deploy The landscape of their golden happenings; His heart is filled with sweet and violent joy, His mind is upon great and distant things. ...
... rosary of godly grace. I have shattered the hard rocky prison Like a spring my spirit has risen And flooded the desert horizon; My life illumines the death-dark night of time and space. TRIPLE TREMOLO A mystic land, a world of magic wonder; A picture painted with subtle light and shade; A white moon lotus of deep and delicate splendour; A rainbow ...
... greater awakening”. [89] In his own words: I have shattered the hard rocky prison Like a spring my spirit has risen And flooded the desert horizon; My life illumines the death-dark night of time and space. [90] And hence Sleep, sleep, O my bird, in your glorious nest Like a pearl in the deep’s delight, Like a star of the sky in its radiant rest, Like a flower on a timeless height. [91] ...
... Sri Aurobindo And The Mother APPENDIX I.1 Cosmic Consciousness I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self And Time and Space my spirit's seeing are. I am the god and demon, ghost and elf, I am the wind's speed and the blazing star. All Nature is the nursling of my care, I am its struggle and the eternal rest; ...
... spoken language as a great set of symbols followed by the equally important development of its written counterpart, man provided himself with a most potent means for carrying information across time and space. "The bee stores honey for posterity, the bird teaches its young to fly, but what are these compared with the enormous hoards of material and spiritual wealth that man accumulates from generation ...
... y of the soul substance; (2)The teleological argument, which employs the concept of man's destiny and function, his disposition to free himself more and more from the conditions of time and space, and to develop completely his intellectual and moral potentialities, which development is impossible under the conditions of earthly life; (3)The theological argument: the wisdom and ...
... embodiment, or may not do so but stay permanently in any desired supernal world such as Brahmaloka, Vishnuloka, Sivaloka, etc., or crossing the bounds of all cosmic manifestation may pass beyond time and space and merge in the Transcendent Absolute. To quote Sri Aurobindo: "[The Jivanmukta] can go wherever his aim was fixed, into a state of Nirvana or one of the divine worlds and stay there or ...
... of views: the views held by the orthodox Karmavada and the positions adumbrated by the Integral Yoga-philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. The indications given below cannot but be very brief; for, both time and space forbid a detailed discussion here. Readers interested in a more elaborate exposition are advised to consult various books of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, notably The Life Divine and The Problem ...
... ive change, unbroken continuity in the universe of forms. The spiritual consciousness, on the other hand, means to live the infinite and the eternal to be projected beyond all creation, beyond time and space. To become conscious of psychic being and to live a psychic life, you must abolish all egoism; but to live a spiritual life, you must no longer have an ego. As far as the supramental consciousness ...
... real, and the manifestation is real and not illusory without any purpose behind it. There is a great purpose and that purpose is to usher in the full manifestation of the Transcendent Divine in time and space. And if we adopt this hypothesis, that leads to two important inferences: (i) the reality of the persistent individual; and (ii) the necessity of the rebirth of some kind of the individual ...
... to his being tied down to the chain of Karma, na karma lipyate nare. So one need not be scared on that account and seek to terminate the ever-unfolding self-manifestation of the soul in time and space and escape into the peace of Static Brahman. Sri Aurobindo has expressed in the following words the right attitude of the sadhaka of the Integral Yoga: "... who shall persuade me that my ...
... something that realizes without argument, frequently without what is called education (though I think it the goal and apex of all education deserving the name), an intuition of the absolute balance, in time and space, of the whole of this multifariousness, this revel of fools, and incredible make-believe and general unsettledness, we call the world; a soul-sight of that divine clue and unseen thread which ...
... the end to be attained. The existence of finality within the organism is undeniable. Each part seems to know the present and future needs of the whole, and acts accordingly. The significance of time and space is not the same for our tissues as for our mind. The body perceives the remote as well as the near, the future as well as the present. When pregnancy, is nearly completed, the tissues of the vulva ...
... river in the same place twice," because the river is constantly being changed by new water rushing in. The same holds true for the body. All of us are much more like a river than anything frozen in time and space. If you could see your body as it really is, you would never see it the same way twice. Ninety-eight percent of the atoms in your body were not there a year ago. The skeleton that seems so ...
... higher level of silence, even the witnessing consciousness is transcended, or even if there are traces of witnessing consciousness, they are submerged in Silence beyond Silence, and what are called Time and Space disappear in overwhelming infinity, where even the word infinity does not apply; that silence, that infinity, that spacelessness and timelessness is not only indescribable but there can be even ...
... physical world and its events by means nearer to the divine than those possible to our egoistic capacity."¹² Cosmic Consciousness ¹³ I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self And Time and Space my spirit's seeing are. I am the god and demon, ghost and elf, I am the wind's speed and the blazing star. All Nature is the nursling of my care, I am the struggle and the eternal ...
... science or shastra, one single experience or experiment is not enough. There should be multiplicity of experiments, multiplicity of repetitions, multiplicity of variations, not only with respect of time and space but also in respect of constituents and modes. It was the varied and repeated experimentation stretched over long periods of time that provided a sound ground for some kind of systemization of ...
... which He lived for so many years. Not as a fighter all along, nor as a charioteer, but as a commander of a great spiritual power, marshalling and directing that spiritual power which knows no time and space, He has moved, He has guided the world-chariot. When Hitler was in the ascendant, all of you know that it was Mother and Sri Aurobindo who championed the cause of the Allies; and Mother declared ...
... etc., has been very well put here, in this somewhat long article. I'm not quite sure that we'll be able to finish it within the limited amount of time we have, unless you allow me to go beyond time and space for a while. (Laughter) So I'll read it without further delay or introductory remarks. He wrote this piece after the passing of the Master. He says that he had already published, in two ...
... was caught in its net. And, suddenly, I heard a very sweet voice, not the thundering one, calling: "Nirod-da!"Hello!" I said. Nirod-da?! Whose is this tempting voice ? I had forgotten all about time and space. I was wondering whose this sweet voice, so familiar, could be. I looked at the watch that I keep by my side, saw that it was 4 o'clock. Then I understood, got up, and went down. I started working ...
... in French. Yes, bring it to me the next time. Yes, Mother. And Mother, you could also add a little what I remember very vaguely 'Why Savitri has descended, and how Savitri is beyond Time and Space.'You can add this, Mother, so that it becomes something complete. Yes, I shall see, you can bring it to me next time, a part; I will correct it. It needs to be done. All right. ...
... her one look or a little touch? Is it not because of their time-born ego which keeps them in ignorance and darkness? They do not know or rather refuse to conceive that there is no limitation of time and space with the Divine, that she can create wonders in the fraction of a moment. Thus their minds deny rigidly that she, the Divine Mother, can help them adequately by a mere look or a touch. As they ...
... must have an idea, however relative it may be, of what we mean by the psychic being. Thus one can say, for example, that the creation of an individual being is the result of the projection, in time and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the Supreme Origin of all manifestation which, through the one and universal consciousness, is concretised in the law or the truth of an individual ...
... Your study is of not much importance at present. The passive self has to be fixed and extended. When in the consciousness of the Self why do I seem to lose the sense of time and space? In the self or pure existence there is no time or space — except spiritual space or wideness. Does the universal aspect of the Self take a long time to follow the ...
... different line that is more subtle, more comprehensive and complete. Naturally, there is a physical limit somewhere to your comprehensiveness; for on the physical plane you are confined in respect of time and space; and also it is true that great things are difficult to achieve unless there is a special concentration. But if you want to lead a higher and deeper life, you can command capacities which are much ...
... Unexampled offering of the eternal Becoming. Second Tableau: The Festival HE-SHE Mariner on the unknown gulf-streams of time and space; drunk with the silvered air even as the condor, above the peaks of snow; mad with light even as the nova; stamped with a strange massiveness as ...
... human form. The human form is not just one among the hundreds and thousands of forms in Nature; it is not merely a perishable receptacle manifested in the process of the evolution and confined to time and space. The Vaishnava philosophy teaches us that there is an eternal truth of the human form and it has an intimate connection with the divine Body. To look upon God as a man is not mere anthropomorphism ...
... more comprehensive and complete. Naturally, there is a Page 429 physical limit somewhere to your comprehensiveness; for on the physical plane you are confined in respect of time and space; and also it is true that great things are difficult to achieve unless there is a special concentration. But if you want to lead a higher and deeper life, you can command capacities which are much ...
... and inconscient, but in reality there is a basic consciousness behind, upholding, maintining all and everything. That is the Self, Sachchidananda, Brahman. It is the static consciousness beyond time and space but standing behind as a support. This here moves but That does not move – grow or evolve. That is fixed, stagnant. The soul comes out – out of That in the ultimate analysis – in the process of ...
... however great in the world. The ideal is ever mutable. A certain ideal may prevail in a certain epoch to attract the heart of the world. The artist's genius does not follow that ideal. Art is beyond time and space. The artist sees only the eternal truth. He meditates upon the endless mysteries of the divine Nature at play in virtue and vice, in the small and the great, in the present and in the future. He ...
... is that he has lived in fullness the human life and experienced the true truth of man and the universe. He lives in the truth and hears the truth and reveals the truth and the limitations of time and space do not apply to him. At the highest, the rishi has the knowledge of the past, of the present and the future, possessed of trikalajnana and trikaladrishti (the knowledge of the three times ...
... e change, unbroken continuity in the world of forms, the spiritual consciousness, on the other hand, means to live in the infinite and the eternal, to throw oneself outside all creation beyond time and space. When we go deeper behind the mental, we enter into the field of the psychic, when we go above the Page 32 mental, we enter into the domain of the spiritual experiences of the ...
... the old and the young, a very old and ancient story. Indeed it is from the Veda. Once upon a time – of course I am speaking of a time when there was no time nor space, before the existence of time and space, when there existed only One Being, the nameless Being – named Brahman! To us, human beings, it is the Supreme Existence, the Lord, God or whatever one chooses to call him. He is also the Lord ...
... right and immediately does so, if things were done in a trice, through miracles, there will be then no point in creating a world. Creation means a play of growth: it is a journey, a movement in time and space through graded steps and stages. It is a movement away—away from its source—and a movement towards: that is the principle or plan on which it stands. In this plan there is no compulsion on any ...
... the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of your synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise. It goes without saying that the work of organisation can not ...
... supreme Light. Nothing was repressed or renounced, but all was illumined and transmute to serve the Cosmic Will. This Cosmic Will or the self-fulfilling Will of the Eternal operating in Time and Space, is the teleological secret and source of all action, collective and individual. To know this Will by inner identity and fulfil it through our integral being, perfectly attuned to its working ...
... destined to fulfil its widest and deepest aspiration. Man has to be a bridge between That which eternally is, but is not manifested, and that which is manifested. High above, beyond the frontiers of Time and Space, are the ineffable and unthinkable transcendences and infinitudes of the Unmanifest, and below, at the polar end, are the obscure, travailing expanses of the material existence, ignorant and sorrowful ...
... with equanimity and with a truer spiritual attitude. I got some experiences also which confirmed my faith in Sri Aurobindo’s path. I got the confident faith in a divine Power that is beyond time and space and that can and does work in the world. I came to know that any man with a sincere aspiration for it can come in contact with that Power. There were people who thought that Sri Aurobindo ...
... with its preconceived ideas of conditions. Fire-walking, it maintains, is impossible. Not only it is possible, it is done. It does not matter in what way. Disciple : The question is whether time and space exist there also. Sri Aurobindo : Whether they exist or not need not trouble you. I have written at enough length on it. Philosophy Page 341 is the art of talking intelligently ...
... 22 August. Talk on the form of the Gods. 24 August. Talk on the plane of the Gods. 26 August. Talk on education. 27 August. Talk on art and beauty. 31 August. Talk on science and time and space. 2 September. Three or four sadhikas (lady disciples) began to go to the Mother for meditation. After a few days sadhaks as well were allowed to go to her for meditation. 3 September. Dolatram ...
... movements with equanimity and with a truer spiritual attitude. I got some experiences also which confirmed my faith in Sri Aurobindo's path. I got the confident faith in a divine Power that is beyond time and space and that can and does work in the world. I came to know that any man with a sincere aspiration for it can come in contact with that Power. There were people who thought that Sri Aurobindo had ...
... the fundamental unity that binds the peoples of the world together". Perhaps we can apply to the Dove of Peace these lines from Sri Aurobindo's poem "The Blue Bird": My pinions soar beyond Time and Space Into unfading Light; I bring the bliss of the Eternal's face And the boon of the Spirit's sight. 21 Nehru was all appreciation for the inspiration behind the model as well as its ...
... development to learn to accomplish the expansion of knowledge and its organisation around a central idea; and "the higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise". After such exercises in expansion and central organisation, the ...
... and refuge". The action of the Karmayogi is not decided by his mind and .its ideas; nor does it follow the demands of the society or community to which he belongs. Nothing pertaining to Time and Space can determine his movements. His actions well straight out of his swabhāva , his essential self-nature, which is in perfect union with the Will of the Divine. His life is a spontaneous flowering ...
... substance of its infinite consciousness. Whatever truth of the eternal existence floats up in its knowledge, Page 201 finds an omnipotent Will ready to realize and express it in terms of Time and Space. It never happens that the Will falls short of the full realization, or that the Knowledge lacks the plenary force. But the Will works through a Law and a network of self-imposed conditions and ...
... You answer. Doesn't this disturb Your sleep or rest ? Day and night the calls come in hundreds — but the Consciousness is always alert and it answers. One is limited only materially by time and space. 3.1.1968 How is it that ordinarily, the richer a man is {materially), the more dishonest he is? It is because material wealth is controlled by the adverse forces —and because ...
... but a far more serious illusion. And I'm not a baby, I have been doing a conscious yoga for something like sixty years, and there you are.... 71.0112 It's a new mind. The way of perceiving time and space is becoming very different, it's changing totally. With sight, for instance, I can see more clearly with my eyes shut than with my eyes open, and yet it's the SAME vision! It's the PHYSICAL vision ...
... by putting it in its microscopic place, here, before the ocean that stretches all the way to Malaysia and the Pacific, and beneath the revolving galaxies, I said—a microbe amidst the eternity of time and space. To be sure, cosmic consciousness is an excellent way of drowning the little beast. But the little beast takes its revenge—it never drowns. And this person quite simply replied, "Yes, but microbes ...
... A passing invention to make an individual cage. But this is not the truth of Matter, this is false matter. This is the material, experimental conclusion Mother was coming to: The notion of time and space, objectivity and subjectivity—whether things are concrete or not—all that seems to have been... devices for preparing the consciousness for a new way of being. 37 It is like... death, food ...
... existence,—this is the first, the original ignorance. We are ignorant of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self, we take the constant mobility and mutation of the cosmic becoming in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence,—that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all ...
... the vision of the whole and the vision of all the details are united in a single active consciousness, the creation will have attained its progressive perfection. 8 January 1972 * * * In time and space no two human beings have the same consciousness, and the sum of all these consciousnesses is but a partial and diminished manifestation of the Divine Consciousness. That is why I said “progressive ...
... their warfare. Page 443 Calm he arose and left our earth for his limitless kingdoms. Far from this lower blue and high in the death-scorning spaces Lifted o'er mortal mind where Time and Space are but figures Lightly imagined by Thought divine in her luminous stillness, Zeus has his palace high and there he has stabled his war-car. Thence he descends to our mortal realms; where the ...
... of the adventure of Time with our lives for her spinet Maya or Nature, the wonderful Mother, strikes out surprising Strains of the spirit disprisoned; creation heavenward rising Wrestles with Time and Space and the Unknown to give form to the Formless. Bliss is her goal, but her road is through whirlwind and death-blast and storm-race. All is a wager and danger, all is a chase and a battle. Vainly ...
... Not sound, nor silence, neither world nor void, But the unthinkable, absolute, unalloyed One, multitudinous, nameless, yet a Name, Innumerably other, yet the same. Immeasurable ecstasy where Time And Space have fainted in a swoon sublime! Of silence I have tired, from the profounder Night I come rejected. All the immensities overhead Are given to my fierce upwinging soul at last Rapt into ...
... and the seraph's ear. I rise like a fire from the mortal's earth Into a griefless sky And drop in the suffering soil of his birth Fire-seeds of ecstasy. My pinions soar beyond Time and Space Into unfading Light; I bring the bliss of the Eternal's face And the boon of the Spirit's sight. I measure the worlds with my ruby eyes; I have perched on Wisdom's tree Thronged ...
... Manuscripts (Circa 1934-1947) Collected Poems Cosmic Consciousness Know more > I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self And Time and Space my spirit's seeing are. I am the god and demon, ghost and elf, I am the wind's speed and the blazing star. All Nature is the nursling of my care, I am the struggle and the eternal ...
... Being and all, if there too there is any multiplicity, are eternal beings; nor can the spatial idea of indwelling come in, since a supracosmic absolute being is not affected by the concepts of time and space which are created here by the Lord's Yogamaya. There a spiritual, not a spatial or temporal coexistence, a spiritual identity and coincidence must be the foundation. But on the other hand in the ...
... part of his opulent possessions. But it is nothing that the senses can grasp or the mind envisage, for as soon as Indra approaches it, it vanishes. The mind can only envisage what is limited by Time and Space and this Brahman is that which, as the Rig-veda has said, is neither today nor tomorrow and though it moves and can be approached in the conscious being of all conscious existences, yet when the ...
... towards Thee, unite with Thee, live in Thee and for Thee, is supreme happiness, unmixed joy, immutable peace; it is to breathe infinity, to soar in eternity, no longer feel one's limits, escape from time and space. Why do men flee from these boons as though they feared them? What a strange thing is ignorance, that source of all suffering! How miserable that obscurity which keeps men away from the very thing ...
... unreservedly to Thee. Thou art the perfect peace and the marvellous accomplishment; Thou art all that the universe is, immutably, beyond time, and wants to be more and more in the consciousness of time and space. Thou art all that is in the infinite stillness and the divine hope of all that wants to be.... Lord, dispense to the world Thy unbelievable boons. Peace, peace upon all the earth! Page ...
... life. Even if we do not attain to the marvellous depths of the divine life, of which only very rare individuals are constantly conscious, already in the domain of thought we escape the laws of time and space. To think of someone is to be near him, and wherever two beings may find themselves, even if they are physically separated by thousands of kilometres, if they think of each other they are together ...
... indeed can perceive the very precise reality which lies beneath them. "It needed a Plato to identify this thing which lives and vibrates, which moves and shines, travels and is propagated through time and space, which acts and wills and freely chooses its own time and place—in short, to know the Idea as a being." Let us take especially one phrase from this beautiful page: "There is a love of the mind ...
... normal functioning, but one can arrive at a different working that's more complete, more subtle. Naturally, physically one is bound to be limited, for in physical life one depends a great deal on time and space, and also it is difficult to realise great things without special concentration. But if one wants to lead a higher and deeper life, I believe one can acquire perhaps much greater capacities by ...
... what it is if it had not expressed itself in a creation. Well, the return from creation—which, mark it, is not something that takes place in time—is very difficult to conceive, for we conceive time and space and for us things are successive, one thing follows another, but if it were possible to conceive a total movement which would englobe everything and be at once the beginning and the end, and which ...
... it "will evolve itself"? Such a phrase can stretch itself out to the end of the cosmos. When the yogi Baroda Babu was asked about this, he replied "Independence? Not within 50 years!" We live in time and space and would like to hear something in terms of time. I am not a prophet like Baroda Babu. All I can say is that the coming of independence is now sure (as anyone with any political sense at all ...
... Psychic Being I did not understand the explanation of the psychic you have given: "One could say, for example, that the creation of an individual being is the result of the projection, in time and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the supreme origin of all manifestation which, through the medium of the one and universal consciousness, takes concrete form in the law or the ...
... the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of your synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise. It goes without saying that the work of organisation cannot ...
... word “plane” suggests, a different level in the scale of being and adopt a different system and ordering of its principles. We need not inquire, for our present purpose, whether they coincide in time and space with our own world or move in a different field of space and in another stream of time,—in either case it is in a more subtle substance and with other movements. All that directly concerns us is ...
... beings in the mental worlds? Yes, many. They are completely independent; they have their own life, their own relations among themselves, as in other worlds. Only for a physical consciousness, time and space are not the same in the vital or the mental worlds as in the physical world. For example, those who are in the physical consciousness have the impression that shiftings in the mind are instant ...
... are the exceptions, the forerunners showing the way to the race, leading it towards its future realisation, not the average man. But that which was the privilege of a few beings scattered through time and space, shall become the central characteristic of the new type which is to appear. At present, man governs his life through reason; all the activities of the mind are of common use for him; his means ...
... and itself still in the infinity of its workings, not changed by their variations, not broken up by their multiplicity, not increased or diminished by their ebbings and flowings in the seas of Time and Space, not confused by their apparent contrarieties or limited by their divinely-willed limitations. Sachchidananda is the unity of the many-sidedness of manifested things, the eternal harmony of all ...
... the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of this synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise. It goes without saying that this work of organisation cannot ...
... How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if out of myself I could not launch to those superior universes? Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God, At nature and its wonders, Time and Space and Death, But that I, turning, call to thee, O soul, O actual Me, And, lo, thou gently masterest the orbs, Thou matest Time, smilest content at Death, And fillest, swellest full the vastnesses ...
... taken from the future so as to be made valuable for Time-experience and valid for Time-activity. But, behind, all is known and ready for use according to the will of the Self in its dealings with Time and Space and Causality. Page 491 ...
... that is manifesting and not three. It is Self manifesting as spirit, Self manifesting as soul, Self manifesting as matter or body. The Page 244 three manifestations are coincident in Time and Space and each condition of phenomena is a triple state with Spirit and Matter for its extreme terms and Soul for its middle. In the evolution of the spirit-states Purusha determines itself so as to ...
... oppositions where there is no opposition but simply relations of one consciousness in itself. The ego in the body says, "I am within, all else is outside; and in what is outside, this is near to me in Time and Space, that is far." All this is true in present relation; but in essence it is all one indivisible movement of Brahman which is not material movement but a way of seeing things in the one consciousness ...
... he becomes aware of the same Godhead in effectuating consciousness and power put forth as a self-aware Force that contains and carries all within her and is charged to manifest it in universal Time and Space. It is evident to him that here there is one supreme and infinite Being represented to us in two different sides of itself, obverse and reverse in relation to each other. All is either prepared ...
... habitation and its changing world-experience. Therefore there is, as well as a shifting or change of Time-point and Space-field, a constant modifying change of the sum of circumstances experienced in Time and Space and as the result a constant modification of the mental personality which is the form of our superficial or apparent self. All this change of circumstance is summed up in philosophical language ...
... form-type is changed and the experiencing mind is thrown into new forms in new circumstances of time, place and environment, the necessary variation of experience which the very nature of existence in Time and Space demands, cannot be effectuated. And it is only the process of Death by dissolution and by the devouring of life by Life, it is only the absence of freedom, the compulsion, the struggle, the pain ...
... inhabiting a mortal tenement, a single and universal consciousness representing itself in limited minds and divided egos, a transcendent, indefinable, timeless and spaceless Being who alone renders time and space and cosmos possible, and in all these the higher truth realisable by the lower term, justify themselves to the deliberate reason as well as to the persistent instinct or intuition of mankind. Attempts ...
... children. ( Mother takes Satprem's hands ) The end isn't... I mean, the result isn't decided yet in my consciousness. It may be... the Attempt, it may be... ( vague gesture spreading out in time and space ). Page 304 It's preparing something prodigious, but I don't know whether this body... whether it's this body that will do it. That's all. ( Mother takes Sujata's hand in her left ...
... × Mother later added the following clarification to her note: "No two consciousnesses are alike among human beings in time and space. The total sum of all these consciousnesses is a partial and diminished manifestation of the Divine Consciousness. That is why I said 'progressive perfection,' because the manifestation of the ...
... completeness, unimaginable because we know only finite and flawed entities except in Page 263 the realm of abstractions where by extending in thought our limited experience of time and space we can conceive them as endless and boundless. Even there the notion of perfection is absent. Works of art give a feeling of faultless form, but form is itself a coming short. God alone can contain ...
... the human consciousness and to become progressively a part of earth or, rather, to make earth progressively a part of it. What is eternally in bloom in the Divine is asked to blossom anew in our time and space - a Brightness that, unlike in Nashe's phrase, never falls from the air. Now read the fivefold apostrophe, as Yeats wanted his own incantations to be read - audibly yet softly and slowly, letting ...
... thing, Pluck from it fires that light up earth's abysm— Fires that were veiled by being locked together, But now a fourfold seizure from without Of splendours and terrors ruling time and space And then a sudden self-sight, a fifth flame That knows by a sheer eternity within! . . . Words have not come to measure things that are; They plunge to the unheard, leap to the ...
... Man or the one Divine in all men or, more largely, discover the One whose presence enables us to become unified in consciousness or in works or in life with all beings, unified with all things in Time and Space, unified with Nature and her influences and even her inanimate forces,—the truth behind must ever be the same because all is the one Divine Infinite whom all are seeking." This sentence ...
... constitutes the converging point for a multitude of personal centres enjoying a "differentiating union", of love with it. When the peak of development is attained, there will be a breakthrough outside Time and Space by the very excess of unification and co-reflection of the numerous personal consciousnesses. There will be a final "critical point" of evolution at which mankind, Page 33 its ...
... my poise, grown sudden unaware, Offering up its noontide and its gloam, Withdrawn in a lost attitude of prayer. I have grown illimitably alien To the brief gaudiness of time and space, A thing immortal beyond mortal ken, Evasive essence that you cannot trace. Here, even here, amidst a crowd of men I hide the light behind a human face. The inner state ...
... and hardly noticeable corner of one of the smallest provinces of a possibly minor universe among these many boundless finites, these countless universes. If it were so, we could still reply that time and space matter not to the Infinite and Eternal; it is not a waste of labour for That—as it would be for our brief death-driven existences—to work for trillions of years in order to flower only for a moment ...
... Above on the summits of existence is all that is beyond Mind and all that is the complete splendour of the Spirit. These too wait for their hour of manifestation, their turn for revelation in Time and Space and the evolving series of the powers of the Eternal. 57 All existence upon earth is an evolution of what has come down from a superconscious Eternity to be involved here in a subconscious ...
... he forgets himself and identifies himself with her so as to have the illusion of agency and, by thus forgetting himself, ceases to be lord of himself, becomes subject to Causality, imprisoned in Time and Space, bound by the work which he sanctions. He himself, being a part of God, is made in His image, of one nature with Him. Therefore what God is, he also is, only with limitation, subject to Time, Space ...
... Ah, the experience is constant and total! ( Mother goes within ) It's interesting: EVERYTHING is useful—everything is useful, Page 166 everything is necessary, in its place in time and space (it's something that is neither time nor space: in the Manifestation, we could say), and it becomes falsehood when it tries to last after its time is over. So what is needed is to be able to be ...
... there that contradicts: the effect is lasting, but imperceptible as long as it isn't general; so immediately it's a translation into the world of Time, Space, and so on. Whereas "That" is beyond Time and Space. When you have gone from the Creation to Noncreation (which do not follow each other, they are concomitant), if you go beyond, you encounter this "something" which, I don't know why, I call Love ...
... 'exactly as He wants to be' takes us down quite a few steps, but it still gives an idea of what I mean by 'perfection'! Divine perfection implies infinity and eternity—all is coexistent beyond time and space. ( silence ) While 'walking' in my room, a series of invocations or prayers have come to me 2 (I didn't choose them—they were dictated to me) Page 254 in which I implore the ...
... could never be even an Einstein rejecting the evident world as the basis of the ultimate theory of physics and constructing by what he calls an intuitive act a four-dimensional continuum of fused time and space as the foundation for all practical calculation. The poet, or in general the artist, can never be the reflective adult: he would regard such a person as not the pure stuff of what humanity should ...
... Finding an echo of her own ways in Amal's utterance she was glad to give her sanction. About her talks which were primarily meant for our young students, they actually transcended all time and space leaving the Students gaping with wonder at the Mother's face and hearing the rhythmic intonation of her voice as torrents of ideas from above would fertilise our poor indigent earth. Similar ...
... still later. Against the proved presence of this commodity we have the utter lack of the veriest allusion to it in Indian books until we reach the Sutras. So sustained a lack, extending over varied time and space, must carry the Rigveda and its documentary progeny short of the Sutras into an antiquity beyond the post-Harappan epoch and even past the cotton-cultivating Harappa Culture. 96. Ibid., ...
... vibrant substantiality in the mystic's vision. What the skylark merely yearns for, it is that which as a "boon of the Spirit's sight" the symbol-bird brings from its native regions beyond time and space, inaccessible to us. We might as well say that the traditional romanticism is jemal - like , in quite good contrast to the dynamic lyricism of a spiritual symbolist possessing a strong ...
... of God, though its exact connotations remain elusive. The limitless expansion of the sky is restricted in the single epithet' ample' implying that the liberated soul can ignore all restraints of time and space. The Divine is portrayed as the 'Magic gem-cutter, the lapidary of light in the poem "Vision Splendid" (p.271).Out of the dead resistance of stone the Master Jeweller hews a race of beings ...
... on our planet still seems to be a generatio spontanea as it was in former times. ‘The improbability involved in generating even one bacterium is so large that it reduces all considerations of time and space to nothingness’ (p. 128). If life on Earth indeed has come into existence by an ontological discontinuity or ‘quantum leap’, then its gestation and its essence cannot but remain out of reach ...
... asked what he had done in his previous lives, Sri Aurobindo answered simply: “Carrying on the evolution.”) Events in the material and the occult worlds always take place against a background where time and space are quite different from the dimensions we move in. The supramental manifestation, or the beginning of the new age, in 1956, should be seen in this kind of perspective. One could interpret the ...
... existence, — that is the first, the original ignorance. We are ignorant of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self; we take the constant mobility and mutation of the cosmic becoming in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence, — that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with ...
... the individual soul, because of which it suffers a "limitation and self-division from the One who is all and in all and beyond all", 4 and has its idea of self fixed to "a single formation in Time and Space of body, life and mind," 5 thus excluding from its view "all that it verily is with the exception of a mass of experiences flowing out from and in upon a particular centre and limited by the ...
... towards Thee, unite with Thee, live in Thee and for Thee, is supreme happiness, unmixed joy, immutable peace; it is to breathe infinity, to soar in eternity, no longer feel one's limits, escape from time and space. Why do men flee from these boons as though they feared them?" (18 June 1913) Why don't men want to rise above the falsehood and ignorance that reign everywhere in the world? Because ...
... When the vision of the whole and the vision of all the details are united in a single active consciousness, the creation will have attained its progressive perfection. 8 January 1972 In time and space no two human beings have the same consciousness, and the sum of all these consciousnesses is but a partial and diminished manifestation of the Divine Consciousness. That is why I said "progressive ...
... To discover the Transcendent Divine one has to follow the intellectual discipline, the way of knowledge, and by successive eliminations arrive at the one sole Truth, the Absolute beyond form and time and space. It is a long and difficult path, a very arduous path. Whereas with one's heart, one can set out to discover the Immanent Divine. And if one knows truly how to love, without desire or egoism ...
... about material details: all things turn into psychological facts). It was something so simple, luminous, harmonious, far removed from all our usual preoccupations—those very preoccupations with time and space. It was a spontaneous life, extremely beautiful, and so close to Nature—a natural flowering of animal life. There were no oppositions or contradictions, nothing of the kind—everything happened ...
... of "That." Naturally, according to the times and epochs and milieus, it has been said in different words, but it seems to be the supreme experience. And the conclusion, when you go outside of time and space, is that all is from all eternity. Sri Aurobindo regarded this (we talked about it), he regarded it as the realization (not just the knowledge: the realization) which gives supreme Peace and ...
... value only inasmuch as it measures out a nearer and nearer approach to the Light of our Gurus. We are - in the depths of our beings - always at the Great Goal, but our surfaces have to trace in time and space a running golden reflection of that eternal Truth. When I look back I feel ashamed of so many opportunities missed, so many fallings-away. But Sri Aurobindo and the Mother never encouraged the ...
... Power that is a palpable substance, as it were, going forth to create and transform without losing a self-possession and a poise and an inherent plenitude as if what it seeks to achieve in terms of time and space has alrady been achieved beyond them. There can be no disturbance in the Divine despite his millionfold activity. The German version, construing "Force" as a verb, would signify that the "Arms" ...
... commonly diffused being finds itself unified, there takes place by force of the psychic concentration an opening into a new dimension so that the future going forth of one's consciousness into the time-and-space experience, which we know as our life from day to day in the midst of changing Page 94 circumstance and shifting company, is no longer a diffusion as before but a laser beam moving ...
... eternal, Page 33 but is a time all the time. And for Him, the change is timeless. What is it? What does it correspond to? I don't know. Because the consciousness [Mother's] is outside time and space, completely, and yet there is this... ( silence ) ( Mother starts coughing ) Someone has given me a present: a head cold—a lavish present! Who gave it to you? ( Laughing ) ...
... artistry that is elaborate in design but sure in its effect. So is the Immortals' vision drawn closer to us: Only the Immortals on their deathless heights Dwelling beyond the walls of Time and Space, Masters of living, free from the bonds of Thought, Who are overseers of Fate and Chance and Will And experts of the theorem of world-need, Can see the Idea, the Might that changes ...
... level. The progressive victory of the Truth brings automatically certain results complex and often unexpected by the human mind which always wants clean cuts. It is only a total vision both in time and space that can understand. (14 June 1967) 15 June 1967 × In the reply to question (2) below, Amal typed the ...
... and the definite actualities of past, present and future. Its first faculty, that which most readily attracts attention, is its power of seeing by the psychical sense images of all things in time and space. As exercised by clairvoyants, mediums and others this Page 79 is often, and indeed usually, a specialised faculty limited though often precise and accurate in action, and implies ...
... itself still in the infinity of its workings, not changed by their variations, not broken up by their multiplicity, not increased or diminished by their ebbings and flowings in the seas of Time and Space, not confused by their apparent contrarieties or limited by their divinely-willed limitations. Sachchidananda is the unity of the many-sidedness of manifested things, the eternal harmony ...
... experience. Sri Aurobindo presents the Mother as the Witness. The quality of passivity is brought out in another passage. When Aswapati moves from the very home of the World-Soul, the heart of Time and Space, to the Kingdom of Greater Knowledge He moved through regions of transcendent Truth Inward, immense, innumerably one 13 and sees A wisdom waiting on Omniscience 14 ...
... the Transcendental and so becomes the conscious bridge between the Eternal and the Temporal, the Infinite and the Finite, the Superconscient and the Inconscient. From this she rose where Time and Space were not; The superconscient was her native air, Infinity was her movement's natural space; Eternity looked out from her on Time. Within a few days the new conquest was established ...
... 35 At its most elementary, it gave him "the live sense of universal relationships of interdependence". At the next deeper step it disclosed that "the universe forms a system endlessly linked in time and space" and constitutes un bloc . At the final Stratum it provided the inevitable conclusion from the word "bloc": "the world constitutes a whole. " This whole laid itself bare as "a global ...
... thing. Pluck from it fires that light up earth's abysm - Fires that were veiled by being locked together, But now a fourfold seizure from without Of splendours and terrors ruling time and space And then a sudden self-sight, a fifth flame That knows by a sheer eternity within!... Words have not come to measure things that are; They plunge to the unheard, leap to the ...
... Infinity. That extension is what we call the universe (sah paryāgat). In that extension, there are two aspects, one of pure infinite relationless immutability, another of a totality of objects in Time and Space working 'out their relations through causality. .Both are different and Page 46 yet complementary expressions of the same unknowable "He". To express the infinite Immutability ...
... reading, writing, reasoning and eloquence, and to regard all else as secondary or as mere decoration -- these tendencies are inimical to the conception of all life as education. We have fear of time and space. We want our children to get at the certificates as soon as possible. We want them to elbow their places in a limited corner of the world fraught with merciless competition. We want them to be ...
... life of immortality and of endless time, and limitless space, the spiritual consciousness, on the other hand, means .to live the infinite and eternal, to throw oneself outside all creation beyond time and space. And there is still a higher ingredient, supramental consciousness, which reconciles the transcendental tendency of the spiritual and the immanence of the psychic as also the powers and p ...
... web could be disentangled and hold of adverse forces can be loosened and annulled. But the loftiest discovery was that of the One, the mysterious and the wonderful, the eternal, 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 ...
... first, the original ignorance. We are ignorant of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self; we take Page 55 the constant mobility and mutation of the cosmic becoming in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence,—that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being ...
... change, unbroken continuity in the universe of forms. The spiritual consciousness, on the other hand, means to live the infinite and the eternal; to be projected beyond all creation, beyond time and space. To become conscious of your psychic being and to live a psychic life you must abolish all egoism; but to live a spiritual life, you must no longer have an ego. 6 As far as the supramental ...
... confine truth to any one aspect. It declares that Brahman is the stable and the mobile, the internal and the external, all that is near and all that is far whether spirituality or in the extension of Time and Space; it is the Being and all becomings, the Pure and Silent who is without feature or action and the Seer and Thinker who organises the world and its objects; it is the One who becomes all that we ...
... living to the mind, heart and life? It is the knowledge of the supreme Soul and Spirit in its oneness and its wholeness. It is the knowledge of One who is for Page 78 ever, beyond Time and Space and name and form and world, high beyond his own personal and impersonal levels and yet from whom all this proceeds, One whom all manifests in manifold Nature and her multitude of figures. It is ...
... from different epochs and different cultural backgrounds. No particular pattern or method was followed in making the selection, and in a sense it is rather random. Considering the limitations of time and space, the compilation suffers from various deficiencies. It is neither representative of the full span of the theme, nor devoted exclusively to it. Some passages are brief, others very long. The selections ...
... fates in their warfare. Calm he arose and left our earth for his limitless kingdoms. Far from this lower blue and high in the death-scorning spaces Lifted above mortal mind where Time and Space are but figures Lightly imagined by Thought divine in her luminous stillness, Zeus has his palace high and there he has stabled his war-car. Thence he descends to our mortal realms; ...
... body of stories from diverse cultures that often closely resemble each other in subject, although the treatment of each theme naturally varies from one society to another. Forming a bridge across time and space, they are like an open window on the mind of the people who created them, allowing us to better access deeper layers of their psyche. Sri Aurobindo, in his preface on the philosophy of the Upanishads ...
... writing, reasoning and eloquence, and to regard all else as secondary or as mere decoration — these tendencies are inimical to the conception of all life as education. We have fear of time and space. We want our children to get at the certificates as soon as possible. We want them to elbow their places in a in a limited corner of the world fraught with merciless competition. We want them ...
... of vision and sight. Indeed, there are, as we have hinted before, forms and forms of an ever ascending order reaching up to the extreme border of manifestation. For forms are manifestations in Time and Space of something real, not arbitrary inventions out of nothing. Therefore the essentials of form carry always in them secret values and significances of an unseen reality made visible and sensible ...
... opposition and the collision and strife of numberless contending truths and forces. Truth to the supramental sight is at the same time single and infinite and the complexities of its play in time and space bring out with an abundant facility the rich significances of the Eternal's many-sided oneness. The supramental gnosis starts from the truth and shows the appearances in the light of ...
... steps and degrees, its principles and processes. Such is then the evolutionary import attached by Sri Aurobindo to our cosmic existence. A perfect self-expression of the Divine in the frame of Time and Space being the ultimate secret of evolution and the sole raison d' ê tre and the only object of our terrestrial existence, the earth-life, in Sri Aurobindo's all-reconciling Integral Vision, cannot ...
... sought after by every seeker after trance. In this ultimate trance-state of pure superconscient existence, in this supra-mental immersion in the infinite being and the unconditioned bliss, time and space and hence the world of names and forms vanish into nothing, all action of mental awareness whether of outward or of inward things is altogether abolished and everything is drawn up into the ...
... e change, unbroken continuity in the world of forms, the spiritual consciousness, on the other hand, means to live in the infinite and the eternal, to throw oneself outside all creation beyond time and space. When we go deeper behind the mental we enter into the field of the psychic, when we go above the mental we enter into the domain of the spiritual experiences of the transcendental self or ...
... like a human being. It is not encased in its little body, but it is everywhere and wherever it wants to go. It has extraordinary capacities, it can do many things at the same time. It is beyond time and space, it is unseizable, ephemeral, but at the same time it exists. For me, it is this which has a value. And the one who finds me there, lives constantly in my consciousness and has no need of this ...
... from on high by an invocation. The tongue of this Flame lies hidden in the heavenly worlds of pure mind. The Fires spoke of the form or extension of Brahman, its manifested cosmic expansion, in time and space, inner and outer Satyakama completes the picture by revealing the supracosmic reality of Brahman, its transcendent essence beyond manifestation. That essence, Satyakama says in our first approach ...
... high by an invocation. The tongue of this Flame lies hidden in the heavenly worlds of pure mind. The Fires spoke of the form or extension of Brahman, its manifested cosmic expansion, in time and space, inner and outer. Satyakama completes the picture by revealing the supracosmic reality of Brahman, its transcendent essence beyond manifestation. That essence, Satyakama says, in our first approach ...
... Upanishad says that within this Cosmic creation there is a great Void and it is this that the Rishis have called 'anim' or 'daharakash'. This is considered to be Space. That is how I see Time and Space. In my understanding there is no confusion. This gentleman from Oxford was going to Benares for a seminar and on his return he would come to see me.' "You are like Buno Ramnath of Nabadwip ...
... Mother, You are... But everything is told there, then why do you want me to explain all this? And You will add, Mother, clearly, who is Savitri. You. And how Savitri transcends time and space — it is an Eternal Book. I shall see, my child, if at that time the inspiration comes to me. I shall do as He wants. It will be as He wants. I shall see, my child, I can say nothing ...
... if things were done in a trice, through Page 295 miracles, there would be then no point in creating a world. Creation means a play of growth: it is a journey, a movement in time and space through graded steps and stages. It is a movement away – away from its source – and a movement towards: that is the principle or plan on which it stands. In this plan there is no compulsion on ...
... reminds me of one of those majestic ancient temples like Konarak or of a Gothic cathedral like Notre Dame before which you stand and stare in speechless ecstasy, your soul takes a flight beyond time and space. Before I knew much about Sri Aurobindo, I asked him in my foolish way, why, himself being the master of inspiration and having all higher planes at his command, sending inspiration to others, ...
... ornaments on her body, she is the sole origin of the Universe, constantly sought by the highest scriptures. "The Yogi must dissolve all the five causes into the supreme Shiva, who is beyond Time and Space etc., into the Void that Page 154 is nothing else but Consciousness, and is not dependent on anything. He must fix and finally settle himself into that Void Shiva ...
... And for ages I know not myself. Tremblingly I await : I know not when you may arrive Just from behind my own self! TIMELESS Time and Space endless, seamless the grey ocean, Then aeons of trance broke into a voiceful play of tossing waves And last an insentient earth now holds in her womb the seed of consciousness . ...
... The origin of creation is freedom: it is a free choice in the consciousness that has projected itself as the objective world.... Creation means a play of growth: it is a journey, a movement in time and space through graded steps.... And yet there is compulsion. It is the secret pressure of one's own nature that drives it forward through all vicissitudes back again to its original source.. ...
... the fleeting fragments of time? One rather glimpsed then the splendorous truth. There shall be no more time\ Eternity was implicated in a grain of Time... one all but crossed the boundaries of Time and Space! And, alas, one was already out of the room. Page 596 The pulses of life would then start beating again; the wires, the machinery of the mind would resume their work once more ...
... excessive indulgence in thunderbolts. How did he happen to meet Alma, this soft English woman from the Isle of Wight—by what inscrutably circuitous route? Truly, the meetings of beings through time and space make up a strange geography; we are still unaware of the invisible little beacons that guide our skiffs and hail one another in the night across trans-natal distances, while we go haphazardly ...
... space in which the stars are moving, each star a world by itself, and there are millions and millions of them, only a few of which we have seen with our telescopes. Imagine the marvels that are in time and space, which is only a tiny part of the manifestation of the Divine. He is so much more than all this. He whom we are here to realise, and with whom we have to unite in consciousness. You must have noticed ...
... the world, by whom they are done in the divine mystery of Nature .... Thus only can we aspire through the offering of all our nature and being to a living union with the One who has become in Time and Space all that is .... All knowledge then becomes an adoration and aspiration, but all works too become an adoration and aspiration. 13 Again, in July 1919, on "The Way of the Bhakta": This ...
... the unity of mankind is attained a major step will have been taken towards human perfection. Three factors seem to be driving towards that culmination : ( 1 ) Scientific progress that has reduced time and space and helped in removing outer barriers between man and man (2) Drive towards. economic unification throughout mankind : collective life today, all over the world, centres round economy; far greater ...
... revolutionaries. We yearn to "break all chains, to tread upon all crippling conditions, to transcend all limitations and—be free. We yearn to "breathe infinity, to soar in eternity,...escape from Time and Space." The fiery intensity of this yearning has been movingly expressed by Sri Aurobindo in his poem, "The Vedantin's Prayer": Spirit Supreme Who musest in the silence of the heart, ...
... appearances to get at the one eternal reality within them."¹ The core and essence of things and creatures, the basic harmony and unity of their existence, the truth and purpose of their becoming in Time and Space, the meaning of their mutations, and the significance of their interrelation and interaction, all lie beyond the farthest confines of our waking mind, and inaccessible to our normal thought and ...
... knowledge is, according to Sri Aurobindo, the supramental gnosis, which unites in itself not only the knowledge of the timeless and featureless Absolute and the knowledge of its manifestation in Time and Space, but also includes a full and perfect knowledge of the basic principles and processes of that manifestation. It is at once the plenary self-vision and the world-vision of the Divine; and since ...
... involved yearning in Matter for a permanent union with the Divine; for essentially Matter is the death- less substance of the divine Existence, and its conversion into that substance even here, in Time and Space, will be its supreme fulfilment, and assure the immortality of the human body. This too can only be achieved by the Supermind and by no other agency. We can have some idea of the nature of ...
... Him, in an impeccable harmony of descending hierarchies, the Powers and Principles that sway the varying rhythms and patterns of manifestation and creation. Majestic and august She stands, above Time and Space, above all unity and multiplicity, above the Gods and their orchestral movements, releasing out of the unfathomable abyss of the ultimate Being the infinite possibilities of His self-formulation ...
... Shiva in his "mystic loneliness of nude ecstasy" nor the passion of Krishna's flute and the beauty of his immortal eyes: I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self And Time and Space my spirit's seeing are. I am the god and demon, ghost and elf, I am the wind's speed and the blazing star. All Nature is the nursling of my care, I am its ...
... intense. The difference is too obvious! But why should it be so? If it is your force acting I should sing equally well everywhere. If I have a psychic connection with you, such difference as regards time and space should not be there. Is it not then my inability to remain in the true consciousness, the true condition, that makes the difference?” Sri Aurobindo wrote in reply: “You have seen very accurately ...
... Higher Consciousness. It is the mind's way of functioning that brought the elements of division into being. For example, the infinity of the One came to be translated into extension in conceptual time and space. In the same way the Omnipotence Page 171 in that self-extension translated itself into "multiplicity of conscious souls", and that multiplicity of soul-forms is constituted into ...
... to therefore examine the workings of this strange Vibration more clearly. For instance, could our "concrete" Matter simply be the product of a particular perception of time? Change the sense of time, and space also changes, with everything that is in it, yet you are still very much in the same thing. Now, that Vibration of extreme speed (yet as if motionless) alters the sense of time, freezes it, if ...
... existence... is inconsolable. 30 He plays at being the materialist, He plays at being the spiritualist, He plays in the cage and outside the cage, He plays at taking every possible position throughout time and space—perhaps the time has come to play out a third position... natural at last, divine. Because there has never been anything but That in the world, only we have chosen to forget it awhile in order ...
... Matter in the body and cells, it is as if Matter itself changed, in vision, in power, in touch, even in law, as if the Being itself, above, upon its summits, changed its eternity, as it were, its time and space, changed even itself in its skin of being—it is no longer the same being! And it is no longer the same Matter, ft is something else ... something divine, She would say. A supreme conjunction ...
... mind is the great divider. Such is its evolutionary necessity and its mortal feature. It has divided everything, not a single thing escapes its fragmentation: good and evil, truth and falsehood, time and space, far and near, hell and salvation, spirit and matter, and you and me and millions of little selves at sidereal distances from one another—but who know themselves as a self. And all the impotence ...
... and the same moment; each part is He Himself, one and indivisible, but each part is different from the other. Brahman extends Himself in Time, Space & Causality which do not condition Him but exist in Him and can at any time be changed or abolished, and in Time, Space & Causality He attaches Himself to many namarupas which are merely existences in His universal being. They are real in manifestation, unreal... difficult of all their knots is egoism, the delusion that we have an individual existence sufficient in itself, separate from the universal and only being, ekamevadwitiyam, who is one not only beyond Time, Space and Causality. Not only are we all Brahman in our nature and being, waves of one sea, but we are each of us Brahman in His entirety, for that which differentiates and limits us, nama and rupa, exists ...
... God-grades Space is the infinite of God's witness Self Permitting the endless will of God that is time; But still the twin near glories shine apart. Beyond them burns a mingle of mysteries— Divinity reaches every goal at once And a boundless Eye draws into its living deeps The distances of future and of past— Time merged in space through a supracosmic fire... intense totality Is the freedom of an all-forgetting light: No space, no time, no four-dimensional muse. Yet the pure Being rapt in its own immense Marks not the sovereign term. Outtopping each Grade, dwells a lustre of absolute victory: Three golden faces of a single bliss In which the whole time-drama and space-sight— With changing mood or mood unchangeable— Are lost ...
... Space is the infinite of God's witness Self Permitting the endless will of God that is time; But still the twin near glories shine apart. Beyond them burns a mingle of mysteries— Divinity reaches every goal at once And a boundless Eye draws into its living deeps The distances of future and of past— Time merged in space through a supracosmic fire... intense totality Is the freedom of an all-forge ting light: No space, no time, no four-dimensional muse. Yet the pure Being rapt in its own immense Marks not the sovereign term. Outtopping each Grade, dwells a lustre of absolute victory: Three golden faces of a single bliss In which the whole time-drama and space-sight— With changing mood or mood unchangeable— Are lost ...
... us and we would pursue, But who has found Him or what arms possessed? He is not anything, yet all is He; He is not all but far exceeds that scope. Both Time and Timelessness sink in that sea: Time is a wave and Space a wandering drop. Page 217 Within Himself He shadowed Being forth, Which is a younger birth, a veil He chose To half-conceal Him, Knowledge, nothing... Know more > These wanderings of the suns, these stars at play In the due measure that they chose of old, Nor only these, but all the immense array Of objects that long Time, far Space can hold, Page 216 Are divine moments. They are thoughts that form, They are vision in the Self of things august And therefore grandly real. Rule and norm Are processes that... they themselves adjust. The Self of things is not their outward view, A Force within decides. That Force is He; His movement is the shape of things we knew, Movement of Thought is Space and Time. A free And sovereign master of His world within, He is not bound by what He does or makes, He is not bound by virtue or by sin, Awake who sleeps and when He sleeps awakes. He ...
... remain outside action like that and you are here, that's always what comes, always. Last time also, when I saw those two curves of your being—the curve of the past and the curve of the future meeting on your birthday—well, it was again in this light. But today... And limitless, you know, outside time, outside space—magnificent! The great, great repose. And when you are here, it's always like that. That... like meditating with you. It's not "meditating," it's a silent and very pleasant contemplation-concentration. That's why, when you are here, I sit without uttering a word! But you lose the sense of time altogether. ...
... Hinduism has selected; the human mind cannot arrive at anything final because there is nothing final, for all the universe is OM and OM is Infinite, without beginning and without end either in Time or in Space. It has indeed been advanced that the human mind can realise only the Finite and not the Infinite,—a sorry paradox, for it is truer to say that the only fact which the human mind can realise is... conceive as a limited phenomenon in relation to that which is not the house; limit is only imaginable in relation to something beyond the limit; a final limit to everything is unimaginable whether in Time or Space. Outside the house is the province and outside the limits of the province is the country Page 341 and outside the limits of the country is the earth and outside the limits of the earth... that exists, all that Man can know or conceive & there can be nothing outside it because it has no limits; but if there does exist such inconceivable thing as is beyond illimitable Space it does not by becoming beyond Space, put itself beyond OM. He is within the Universe and He is outside the Universe . All Hindu Scripture is precise upon this point, our God is not a gigantic polypus, not a term for ...
... change, but it's continuous. The mode of being or way of being may cease and give place to another, but that state of consciousness is perpetual, uninterrupted, universal, eternal—outside time—outside time, outside space. It's the state of the consciousness. ( a gust of wind sweeps away the letters on Mother's table ) I am bombarded with letters! It's to stop me. ( silence ) So then, the so-called... of habit and also old ideas floating about in the air ( gesture of a swarming in the atmosphere ): none of that is personal. As a work, it's tremendous. And continuous. Continuous. There was a time when it would be forgotten now and then; now it's beginning not to be forgotten anymore. It's continuous. There's only one thing that interrupts it, it's the work with the outside, the relationship... body's protest]: "Oof! Page 180 Oh, too much, too much!" Just give it a little slap, it gets ashamed and goes back to work. It's very interesting. Very interesting. So then, till next time. × Mother indeed looks increasingly interiorized and is speaking as though from very deep within. ...
... of my usual work. And physically it is hard to meet everyone. But in that domain everything happens very quickly and simultaneously. I am not limited by what is called time or space. You understand, I do many things at the same time without anybody seeing them, or being aware of them. You see, you are not conscious of what is happening, not even what has happened in you. And how can you know all that... help, others for relief, for protection, for Grace, for my blessings, and all kinds of things, and so on. It is not only miserable instances or unpleasant stories that I have to hear all the time. No, there are beautiful things too, and joyous meetings of souls, pure thoughts, noble aspirations that come directly to me and all kinds of interesting things that happen around me. It is a real game... . Then, prepare me in that way. Only if you collaborate. It is not a question of a will that aspires for the transformation only for five minutes a day and is sleeping most of the time. No, one must be able to aspire constantly and at every minute collaborate with the Divine. A constant vigilance and an aspiration to live in my Consciousness, this is the base. Then one can advance ...
... the inner Truth? It organises itself around it and enters into contact with it. The psychic is moved by the Truth. The Truth is something eternally self-existent and dependent on nothing in time or space, whereas the psychic being is a being that grows, takes form, progresses, individualises itself more and more. In this way it becomes more and more capable of manifesting this Truth, the eternal... defeating you. That is why we are here in Pondicherry and not on some Himalayan peak. Although I admit that a Page 304 Himalayan peak would be delightful—but perhaps not so effective. Next time I shall speak about mental discipline, for I have quite a lot of things to say on this subject. It is a terrible stumbling-block: people think they have a superior intellect and on that basis judge... progressive being, which means that the relation between the psychic being and the Truth is a progressive one. It is not possible to become aware of one's psychic being without becoming aware at the same time of the inner Truth. All those who have had this experience—not a mental experience but an integral experience of contact with the psychic being, not a contact with the idea they have constructed of ...
... Him would I win through words that strain afar, Each sound a listening trance, self-unaware, Flooding with a life that overflows all form, Thrilling awhile to ethers older than time, Spaces of shadowless superconscious sleep Where star on star is effortlessly dreamed Ere every dream is read through crooked eyes By some clairvoyant buried in a cave Of coiling darkness ...
... dynamis of its self-existence." 3 The supramental Truth-Consciousness is the conscious power that manifests the timeless eternity and Spaceless infinity of the Supreme Sat-Chit-Ananda in Time-Eternity and Space-Infinity. The Supreme is not a rigid Indeterminable and all-negating Absolute. It is Indeterminable 4 in the sense that no determinations proceeding from It can limit It and exhaust It. All ...
... another level, things seem to possess absolute freedom. Looked at from the higher source of things, the time-factor itself appears as an illusion. What is true is a certain set of conditions in which forces work themselves out. And in this pattern of conditions, time (along with space) does not give the absolute and fixed frame of reference, as is usually taken for granted, but is a varying background... 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 marks the steps of events... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 5 IV THE MEASURE OF TIME When it is said that the Realisation is decreed, is it meant also that the time for it has been fixed? If so, all individual effort and freedom of action seem to go out of the picture, being irrelevant—neither hastening nor retarding the process. The fact is somewhat different, not so simple and ...
... on another level, things seem to possess absolute freedom. Looked at from the higher source of things, the time-factor itself appears as an illusion. What is true is a certain set of conditions in which forces work themselves out. And in this pattern of conditions, time (along with space) does not give the absolute and fixed frame of reference, as is usually taken for granted, but is a varying background... 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 marks the steps of events... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 The Measure of Time WHEN it is said that the Realisation is decreed, is it meant also that the time for it has been fixed? If so, all individual effort and freedom of action seem to go out of the picture, being irrelevant-neither hastening nor retarding the process. The fact is somewhat different, not so ...
... calm and smiling: it is a sweet symphony, almost imperceptible and yet full of power. Then silence returns, deeper and vaster, yes, vast unto infinity, and the being exists beyond all bounds of time or space. O my sweet Lord, my beloved God, all my being cries out to Thee in an irresistible surge: "I love Thee! I love Thee! I love Thee!"... with a love no words can ever express. The whole being... when it has entered into relation with Him through certain forms, feels an almost irresistible reluctance to recognise Him through other forms of sensation. What is this "I" that speaks from time to time, perceiving its limitation in the very midst of the consciousness of the infinite? It is the point of concentration where the Will which is beyond becomes individually conscious so that it can manifest... Supreme Page 123 Reality. The first contact with this Supreme Reality expresses itself in our consciousness by a flowering of the being in a plenitude of vast and peaceful delight. Each time that art can give the spectator this contact with the infinite, however fleetingly, it fulfils its aim; it has shown itself worthy of its mission. Thus no art which has for many centuries moved and ...
... That is Sattwic Vairagya. Pure Sattwic Vairagya is when one gets the perception of the littleness of everything personal—actions, desires, thoughts—and when one sees the vast world, eternal time and infinite space spread out before oneself and feels all human action as if it were nought. The same truth is behind the saying, "It will be the same a hundred years hence"; and it is true so far as the ...
... The Signature Of Truth SPACE AND TIME Space and time do not begin and end with the mental consciousness: even the Ovcrmind has them. They are the forms of all cosmic-existence: only, they vary on each level. Each world has its own space and time. Thus the mental space and time do not tally with what we observe here in the material universe. In the mind-world... the will has to be exercised. The knowledge of different space-times can be of great practical value in Yoga. For, so many blunders are due to the inability to act in the right way when you are in your vital and mental bodies. In dreams, for instance, you must remember that you arc in the Page 64 space and time of the vital world and not try to act as if you were still in your... the state of things there, you can deal much more effectively with those vital beings who terrify you and give you such unpleasant nightmares. One of the characteristics of activity in the vital space and time is that these beings are able to assume huge shapes at will and create the vibration of fear in you which is their most powerful means of invading and possessing you. You must bear in mind their ...
... that there is a being witnessing all, how will it help thy passionate desire? It is the One that lives for ever. There is no Satyavan and there is no Savitri. There is no love in the One, nor Time, nor space. It has no name, no form. If you desire immortality, live in thyself alone, forget the man thou lovest. Savitri replied: "0 Death, who reasonest, I reason not" "Reason that... on man. All this happened to Savitri "in a moment's depth". She remembered everything of her past "where she had worked in her lone mind" and created her human self, "a power projected into cosmic space". She saw that she was "the passionate instrument of an unmoved Power". This Higher Power descended into Savitri and "she was changed". She found herself covered with "immortal wings" of the Power.... Savitri; there was no Sun or earth, "All was the violent ocean of a will" "Where lived.. .her aim, joy, origin, Satyavan alone". He was thus imprisoned in her heart, "a treasure saved from the collapse of space." Savitri surged around him nameless and in- finite. It seemed "as if Love's deathless moment had been found, —A pearl within eternity's white shell". Then her mind arose out of that ocean and the ...
... manifest. They are already there in Being, not in Time. The universal Thought expressing itself as Time reaches them, they seem to be born; It passes away from them, they seem to perish; but there they still are, in Being, but not in Time. These Page 282 two greatnesses of the appearance of things in Time & Space & their disappearance in Time & Space act always & continuously so long as the Horse... this image about Time the idea of it as an unknown power—for Time which is its self or body, is itself an unknown quantity. The reality which expresses itself to us through Time—its body—but remains itself ungrasped, must be still what men have always felt it to be, the unknown God. In the images that immediately follow we have the conception of Space added to the conception of Time and both are brought... & intentionally of the connection of Time to Space. The seasons, determined for us by the movements of the sun & stars, are the flanks of the horse and he stands upon the months and the fortnights—the lunar divisions. Space, then, is the flesh constituting materially this body of Time which the Sage attributes to his Horse of the worlds,—by movement in Space its periods are shaped & determined. Therefore ...
... all else is unreal and ends. This is Adwaita. But even though Brahman be the One Self, He has become Many by His own Iccha or Will and the exercise of His Will is not for a moment or limited by time & space or subject to fatigue, but for ever. He is eternal and therefore His Iccha is eternal and the Many Selves which live in Him by His Iccha are eternal and do not perish, for they also being really... is much lower than the better sort of men and, as an inferior, unworthy of the adoration of the saints. An omnipresent God cannot be separate from His world, an infinite God cannot be limited in Time or Space or qualities. Intellectually the whole concept becomes incredible. Science, Philosophy, the great creeds which have set Knowledge as the means of salvation, have always been charged with atheism... s can only convince him logically that they ought to be conquered—an immense difference. For this reason philosophy has never been able to satisfy any except the intellectual few and was even for a time relegated to oblivion by the imperious contempt of Science which thought that it had discovered a complete solution of the Universe, a truth and a law of life independent of religion and yet able to ...
... Higher Mind level far below Overmind. The Self and Time In the self or pure existence there is no time or space—except Page 397 spiritual space or wideness. Yes—in the silence of the self there is no time—it is akāla . Yes, that is correct. In the first realisation of silence in the higher consciousness there is no Time—there is only the sense of pure existence, consciousness... or conscious existence in itself independent of the body. As yet the experience is still limited by the body, but when it is felt without that limit then it is a sense of a wide ether filling all space, Akash Brahman. As this grows, the body sense Page 398 disappears and when the mind also is quite inactive, one feels oneself to be that spreading out to all Infinity. The feeling... shall become a wideness which you can realise as the Self, (2) the extension of the silent consciousness upwards as well so that you may feel its source above you, (3) the presence of peace etc. all the time. These things need not all come at once, but by realising what has to be in your mind, any falling towards a condition of inertia can be avoided. What one feels first [ in the silence ] is the ...
... exactly. There are analogies, there are similarities, there are families, families of movements that can be called families of vibrations, but there are no two things that are identical, neither in time nor in space. Nothing is repeated, otherwise there would be no manifestation, no becoming; there would be only one creation, one single thing. The manifestation is just this diversity. It is the One that ...
... manifestation. This is the central truth arid it has a value as much for today as for tomorrow and the future, for he deals with eternal verities which are not subject to fluctuations caused by time, space and Matter and Spirit have throughout the ages been Page 15 the subject matter of divergence of philosophy both Eastern and Western and their effect upon the thought and life... constituted today, no perfection is to be found anywhere other than in the Spirit because it is the only perfect power and principle of our being. But at the same Page 14 time, these limited worldly things and actions are not to be despised or discarded because they too are a play, a manifestation of the Spirit. All can change, says Sri Aurobindo, if the God-touch ...
... is already a little better than to be oneself egoistically, but it has advantages, it has inconveniences, and it is not the Truth; the Truth is... the Divine as the totality—the totality in time and in space. And that is a consciousness which the body can have, for this body had it (momentarily, for Page 288 moments), and so long as it has it, everything is so much... well, it is not... Page 289 × "For while the reason proceeds from moment to moment of time and loses and acquires and again loses and again acquires, the gnosis dominates time in a one view and perpetual power and links past, present and future in their indivisible connections, in a single continuous map of knowledge, side by side... else an attitude in which one is ( gesture of wideness ) in all things, in movement, in life, and an attitude in which one gives importance only to the Divine; if one is able to be like this all the time, there is no difficulty—and things remain the same. This is the experience: the thing in itself is of a certain kind, and it is our reaction with respect to the thing which differs. The experience is ...
... laws of time, space and causality, and we have to wait for its fulfilment till the time is ready, the environment prepared, the immediate causes brought about. The will once at work infallibly brings about the necessary conditions; all we have to do is to allow it to work. Apply this great psychological law to what is happening in India. The aspiration towards freedom has for some time been working... host of selfless workers who will make it their sole life-work. It cannot Page 939 be done by men whose best energies and time are given up to the work of earning their daily bread and only the feeble remnant to their country. The work is enormous, the time is short, but the workers are few. One institution is required which will train and support men to help those who are now labouring under... under great disadvantages to organize education, to build up the life of the villages, to spread the habit of arbitration, to help the people in time of famine and sickness, to preach Swadeshi. These workers must be selfless, free from the desire to lead or shine, devoted to the work for the country's sake, absolutely obedient yet full of energy. They must breathe the strength of the spirit, of selfless ...
... exactly. There are analogies, there are similarities, there are families—there are families of movements which may be called families of vibrations—but there are no two identical things; neither in time nor in space. Nothing is repeated. Otherwise there would be no manifestation, there would be only one single thing. Manifestation is simply diversity. It is the One deploying Himself in the innumerable... ego become an instrument? When it is ready to become it. How does that happen? How does it happen?... In each one, I believe, it happens in a different way. It may happen suddenly, in the space of a moment, Page 360 by a kind of inner reversal; it may take years; it may take centuries; it may take several lives. For each one there is a moment when it happens: when he is ready.... determinisms and it will be able to bring about in a so-to-say almost inexistent span of time what would have otherwise taken either years or lives to be accomplished. But this is the only way. Page 361 If at the time of some event or circumstance—take for instance, to simplify things, of a danger—if at that time instead of trying to struggle in the domain where one is, one can traverse in a great ...
... secret soul has really a cosmic compenetration and comprehension, and also that it is at the same time supracosmic, beyond space and time, beyond all imaginable beyonds. Her secret soul is infinity, it is all infinities; lost in the transcendent, it is lost, and is still functioning here in phenomenal space-time; of the secret soul it can indeed be said, infinity minus infinity is infinity still. ... invaded by a nameless new force. An utter void seems to seize and swallow her "and end the fable of the joy of life"; it is a black Page 190 infinity stretched across the space of a dark eternity; it is superlative emptiness, it is the zero of all zeros, it is the ultimate Nihil. This all negating featureless spectre taunts Savitri that she is but hugging the illusion of her... consciousness, know herself, .. .older than the birth of Time, Creation an incident in its consciousness, Arcturus and Belphegor grains of fire Circling in a corner of its boundless self, The world's destruction a small transient storm In the calm infinity it has become. 303 Savitri should for a time "banish all thought...and be God's void"; in the absolute condition ...
... should be bound by time, space and causality and by the swabhava and the dharma. It consents to virtue or sin, good fortune or evil fortune, health or disease, joy or suffering, or it refuses them. What it is attached to, that Nature multiplies for it; what it is weary of, has vairāgya for, that Nature withdraws from it. Only, because the enjoyment is in Page 49 space and time, therefore, even... even after the withdrawal of consent, the habitual action continues for a time just as the locomotive continues to move after the steam is shut off, but in a little while it slows down and finally comes to a standstill. And because the enjoyment is in causality, the removal of the habit of action is effected not spontaneously and freely, but by an established process or one of many established processes ...
... appearances. It does not run, for where should it run when it does not exist in time & space, but time & space exist in the Brahman. All things are created in God's consciousness which has no more to move than a man has to move when he follows a particular train of thought. He who was before Time, is still just what He was after Time is finished—drawn back, that is to say, into supratemporal consciousness... conception of Time, Space & Causality; it does not move in reality, because these are mere symbols, conceptual translations of the actual truth, & movement itself is only such a symbol. The Habitation is the creation of a formative movement of Prakriti, who is indeed always recurrent in her doings because she & her ways are eternal, but also always mutable & inconstant because she works in Time, Space & Causality... inhabitant is one & constant, because He is beyond Time & Space. Surrounded apparently by the whirl of Prakriti, to the ignorant tossed about in it, He in reality exists both as its continent & creator as well as its informing soul, master & guide. That therefore in Itself is unmoving, immutable and eternal; in Its movement in Itself, Time-movement, Space-movement, Condition-movement (although as we shall ...
... what the time-space fusion implies. Not that time becomes a space-dimension but it acquires the character, in time-terms, of what a fourth dimension would have in space-terms, exactly as all points of length, breadth and height have to be conceived as coexistent in space, so also by being held in a single though not necessarily symmetrical formula with these points all moments of time past, present... wrong and showed the physical universe to be inexplicable in their terms. This is the fundamental revolution by relativity theory: its crowning concept is the "curved" continuum in which space-measures and time-measures are indistinguishably fused, a mysterious continuum underlying the world we study with our instruments. The revolution has been interpreted in several ways by philosophers and, though... it than an object going at the same speed away from it or that two events in different places can be said to occur simultaneously or that, given the facilities, a straight line can be drawn through space as far as we like or that the sum of the angles of a triangle always equals two right angles. What came to be known as Newtonian physics was an immense development of such "laws." The opposite of these ...
... with their Page 382 rumour the now silent spaces of Time for countless millenniums before Egypt and Assyria rose into their historic greatness. Brief lapse of time is not indeed the cardinal point of the savage theory and even if larger time-spaces are allowed, the theory itself need not fall. But I have urged the question of time as of primary moment not for the overthrow of the modern... remnants and ruins,—the question then arises, what was the nature of these forgotten civilisations and how was the relapse to barbarism often of an extreme form, so completely effected. These gigantic spaces of time, this worldwide rise and fall of human society, this swaying to and fro from darkness to light and light to darkness leave the ground open for another explanation which is in some respects the... is the voyaging in Space of the planets which describe always the same curve round their flaming & luminous sun, image of the perfect strength, joy, beauty, beneficence and knowledge towards which our evolution yearns. The cycle is always the same ellipse, yet by the simultaneous movement of the whole system the completed round finds the planet at a more advanced station in Space than its preceding ...
... the inner Truth? It organises itself around it and enters into contact with it. The psychic is moved by the Truth. The Truth is something eternally self-existent and dependent on nothing in time or space, whereas the psychic being is a being that grows, takes form, progresses, individualises itself more and more. In this way it becomes more and more capable of manifesting this Truth, the eternal... the result of inner progress, but not for itself or in itself. Source Come Out of Words The main trouble is that you think with words, but these words are empty of meaning; most of the time they are mere words—you talk of the Divine, you talk of the Supreme, you talk of Yoga, you say many things, but does all that correspond in your head to something concrete, to a thought, a feeling,... parts, all these contradictory movements of your being. Once you have got the consciousness of the psychic being and its aspiration, these doubts and difficulties can be destroyed. It takes more or less time, but you will surely succeed in the end. Once you have turned to the Divine, saying, "I want to be yours", and the Divine has said, "Yes", the whole world cannot keep you from it. When the central being ...
... perfect, eternal, outside time, outside space, outside movement... beyond everything, in... I don't know, in an ecstasy, a beatitude, something ineffable. ( silence ) It was the consciousness OF THE BODY. I have had this experience before in exteriorization and trance, but this time it was THE BODY, the consciousness of the body. It remained like that for a certain time (I knew it was a quarter... purely physical form) became ONE vibration, extremely rapid and intense but immobile. I don't know how to explain this, because it did not move in 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... —the enemies of the Light. And this Force that came was very clearly a power like Indra's 5 (though something far, far greater), and at war with darkness everywhere, like this ( Mother sketches in space a whirling force touching points here and there throughout the world ), this Force attacked all darkness: ideas, people, movements, events, whatever made stains, patches of shadow. And it kept on going ...
... from space-time. The original matrix is space-time. Time is the mind of space. In course of time, space-time breaks up into finites of ever-increasing complexity. At a certain point in the history of things, finites assume new empirical qualities which are distinctive levels of experience — primary qualities, matter, and secondary qualities, life and mind. As explained in his book, 'Space, Time and... actualities, on the one side, and a world of ideal possibilities, on the other. He maintains that eternal objects, in interaction with creative passage, manifest themselves in actuality, reckoning with space-time limitation, casual push or drag of the past, and that ultimate irreducibility which we may call God. It is God who envisages a realm of possibilities and the word of actuality so as to focus the... genius are preparing mankind for this next state of development. The divine quality or deity is a state in time beyond the human. The whole world is now engaged in the production of deity. As time is the very substance of reality, no being can exhaust the future. Even god is a creature of time. Alexander's philosophy is called the philosophy of Page 10 emergent evolution. According to ...
... world is an illusion. The third experience is that in which the individual and cosmos are found to be free expressions of the Supreme Reality (Purushottama) which, although above Space and Time, determines Space and Time and all activities through various intermediary expressions of itself. This experience and some variations of it form the basis of various theistic philosophies of India. These theistic... the sense of ego and the activities of Nature in the universe. This experience is the basis of the Samkhya philosophy. The second experience is that of the eternal and infinite Reality above Space and Time in which all that we call individuality and universality are completely silenced and sublated, and the experiencing consciousness discovers itself to be That Reality ( tat sat ), one, without the... presented itself throughout the history both of India and the rest of the world from time to time and different answers have been given at different epochs according to the needs and circumstances and possibilities of circumstances. In early times, the individual was subordinated to the collectivity; in due course of time, the individual began to gain some freedom against the demands of the collectivity; ...
... world is an illusion. The third experience is that in which the individual and cosmos are found to be free expressions of the Supreme Reality (Purushottama) which, although above Space and Time, determines Space and Time and all activities through various intermediary expressions of itself. This experience and some variations of it form the basis of various theistic philosophies of India. These theistic... the sense of ego and the activities of Nature in the universe. This experience is the basis of the Sdmkhya philosophy. The second experience is that of the eternal and infinite Reality above Space and Time in which all that we call individuality and universality are completely silenced and sublated, and the experiencing consciousness discovers itself to be That Reality ( tat sat), one, without the... presented itself throughout the history both of India and the rest of the world from time to time and different answers have been given at different epochs according to the needs and circumstances and possibilities of circumstances. In early times, the individual was subordinated to the collectivity; in due course of time, the individual began to gain some freedom against the demands of the collectivity; ...
... central truth of Sri Aurobindo's teachings and it has a value as much for to-day as for to-morrow and the future for he deals with eternal Verities which are not subject to fluctuations caused by time, space and causation. Sri Aurobindo's Vision of the Future "The Iron age is ended. Only now The last fierce spasm of the dying past Shall shake the nations, and when that has... famous as the Alipor Bomb Case. His jail life in the solitary cell was productive of deep and far-reaching experiences of mystic and spiritual character which completely changed him from being at one time an agnostic to a total and confirmed believer in God whose knowledge, power, bliss and oneness we can all share by uniting with Him in our enlarged highest consciousness as much in static as in dynamic... limited perspective, no perfection can anywhere be found except in relation to the Spirit because it is the only unborn, undying, eternal and infinite power and principle of our being. But at the same time, these limited worldly things and actions are not to be despised or discarded because they too are a manifestation of the spirit. All our outlook can change, says Sri Aurobindo, if the God-touch is ...
... 23/06/98 2:30 PM Page 6 Heard- Unheard I have heard many songs in the course of time But many more songs have remained unheard; But then there is no end to the course of time And there are yet wide silent spaces to be stirred. All these hours must pass like fading dreams And all the notions of life and its mystery Deepen into... nature well — Hears a voice rising from the midnight: "Comes the queen of the day, Open wide your spaces for her tread, For her to walk in her way. "Let your simple heart will in her will, Adoration be the only speech." Early hues have set him on the move In time the temple to reach. Now do the birds get up betimely And fill the air with her praises, And in their... hole; Distances condense into a point And pole joins anti-pole. Suddenly a star explodes at the edge And rises uncurling smoke; Yes, there was a fire burning long ago Before time from space broke. Now great masses are drifting, Drifting no one knows where; But a red light is sent as a signal To tell what's happening there. Everything is happening in the Void ...
... Blossoms into undying words of light! For Sethna writing poetry is yoga and in yoga there can be no place for sadness, hopelessness, death. Life is a seamless spread in the Time-Space continuum and it will be futile to waste one's breathing moments in the baubles of mundane pleasures or in weeping and wailing about the inevitability of ageing and death. You turn page after... fruit he found Within his own magnificence. The watchful ravener below Felt his time-tortured passion cease, And flying upward knew himself One with that bird of golden peace. The Secret Splendour has to be read at a steady pace, twice. The first time it is to be the poems alone to get the full impact of Sethna's creative ability as an extension of... Perhaps the early hold of French symbolists on Sethna's poetic spirit could never be loosened after. Also, it is quite possible that Sethna has understood his path and preferred not to waste time where his heart would not dictate: paradharma bhayavahah ! Yet another reason would be that his sunny genius prefers not to plumb despair, helplessness and tragedy which are indispensable ...
... from space-time. The original matrix is space-time. Time is the mind of space. In course of time, space-time breaks up into finites of ever-increasing complexity. At certain points in the history of things, finites assume new empirical qualities which are distinctive levels of experience—primary qualities, matter; and secondary qualities, life and mind. As explained in his book, Space, Time and... ideal possibilities, on the other. Like Plato, Whitehead believes in eternal objects. He maintains that eternal objects in this interaction with creative passage issue in actuality, reckoning with space-time, limitation, causal push or drag of the past, and that ultimate irreducibility which we may only call God. It is God who envisages the realm of possibilities and the world of settled fact so as... genius are preparing mankind for this next stage of development. The divine quality or deity is a stage in time beyond the human. The whole world is now engaged in the production of deity. As time is the very substance of reality, no being can exhaust the future. Even God is a creature of time. Samuel Alexander (1859-1938) Page 50 Alexander's philosophy is ...
... busy with this ill-lit scene. Ourselves incapable to build our fate Only as actors speak and strut our parts Until the piece is done and we pass off Into a brighter Time and subtler Space. Page 244 Thus they inflict their little pigmy law And curb the mounting slow uprise of man, Then his too scanty walk with death they close. This is the... immortal things; A fragile human love that could not last, Ego's moth-wings to lift the seraph soul, Appeared, a surface glamour of brief date Extinguished by a scanty breath of Time; Joy that forgot mortality for a while Came, a rare visitor who left betimes, And made all things seem beautiful for an hour, Hopes that soon fade to drab realities. And... we pass On our road from Matter to eternal Self, To the Light that made the world, the Cause of things, Well might interpret our mind's limited view Existence as an accident in Time, Illusion or phenomenon or freak, The paradox of a creative Thought Which moves between unreal opposites, Inanimate Force struggling to feel and know, Matter that chanced ...
... the spirit's realms" becomes visible in the following lines: The million-pointing undivided grasp Of its vision of one same stupendous All, Its inexhaustible acts in a timeless Time, A space that is its own infinity. ( Savitri , II. 15.) Page 354 Here we have the same kind of clarity of vision as in the Upanishads and expressed in the same kind of diction... Page 346 Spiritual poetry, as distinguished from psychic poetry, has "a wider utterance, a greater splendour of light, a stronger sweetness, a breath of powerful audacity, strength and space. "4 Psychic poetry is fundamentally love-poetry, for, it is through love that delight and beauty, sweetness and loving light can best express themselves. But although the origin of love is... more vast than the blind distances Between our reveries and the flame they reach Is spread between that flame and fathomless truth's Gigantic star seen like one diamond speck Lost in a time-transcending loneliness. ("Suns") As the psychic poetry should not be confused with the poetry of religious devotion so the spiritual poetry should not be confused with the philosophical ...
... a work he felt had to be done even though there was small chance of success. Einstein's death in 1955 concluded a lifetime of work in which he joined light to time and time to space, energy to matter, matter to space, and space to gravitation. These theories must be brought together, and after fifty years of work scientists still do not know how. Einstein opened new doors on the frontiers of... structure of classical physics, but at the same time it involved radical changes in the traditional concepts of space and time. Ten years later Einstein proposed his general theory of relativity, in. which the framework of the special theory is extended to include gravity. This is achieved by further drastic modifications of the concepts of space and time. The other major development in twentieth-century... completed, its conceptual framework was by no means easy to accept. Its effect on the physicists' view of reality was truly shattering. The new physics necessitated profound changes in concept of space, time, matter, object, and cause and effect; and because these concepts are so fundamental to our way of experiencing the world, their transformation came as a great shock. To quote Heisenberg, "The violent ...
... way. On the other hand the peacocks you saw were powers of victory, the victory of the energies of light over the energies of darkness. The serpent Ananta is the infinite energy in infinite Time-Space which supports the universe. It is in answer to your aspiration that the Mahakali force descended—the Serpent is the Energy from above working in the vital answering to the Serpent Kundalini... or undivine according to its nature. Here, it looks as if it were the Kundalini trying to ascend to the Brahmarandhra, but it has not yet reached beyond the vital and is stopped—probably because the time has not yet come. This [ vision ] is the symbol of the opening of the centres to the Light. The swan is the Indian symbol of the individual soul, the central being, the divine part which is ...
... world becomes concrete, palpable, immediate. Everything is a single plane, a single dimension embracing all dimensions. We no longer need "visions" because everything is a lived vision, anywhere in time or space. It is ANOTHER world... in this world. But not "inside" this one: it is the true world that is emerging and the other is like a kind of distorted caricature, indeed a dream—that is where the dream... question of cells in, well, quite a lot of people, hundreds, maybe thousands.... It is THE body—this is not my body any more than other bodies it is seized with such things all the time! All the time, all the time, all the time, you know, they spring tip, brrm! pounce on it, brrm! from this side, that side, every which way. So I have to keep still, and then I start waging the battle.... But then what ... It can truly be said that for a short while the body went out of my consciousness completely. I didn't leave my body; the body left the consciousness.... Its the first time I have tried to explain it. In fact, it's the first time I am looking at it. And it's interesting. An interesting phenomenon.... For instance, I am walking a little now, with someone's assistance, to get the body used to it again ...
... of all time & space & to exceed & go beyond all time & all space, a principle we can not only perceive, feel & possess but in which we can live. Hallucination or no hallucination, this is a thing which can be seen, can be grasped, can be sensed by the mind, can be entered into, can be lived. Fact of material existence or no, it is an indubitable fact of spiritual experience and seems for a time to be... complicated by the belief inherited from Vedic Hinduism that death is not a release; personality survives & in other states, other births, continues to suffer & enjoy, enjoy & suffer through unending Time unless & until the knot is cut, the renunciation of the self-idea envisaged and effected. Then we escape from these running figments of heaven & earth & hell, pleasure & pain, life & death, self & not-self... of the dividing ego-sense in our mentality; but the practical conclusions they draw from these premises reveal somewhere an abyss of divergence. Abstain from actions, cries Shankara, except, for a time, from those that are indispensable and Shastra-enjoined,—and even these do with a view to their early cessation; for action is the master-key of the chain of Maya and only by ceasing from action can ...
... physical any longer and you enter the mind itself, there are relations which may be rendered by a certain time and certain space which do not exist for the physical consciousness but which exist for the mental consciousness. That then would be, if you like, the explanation of what you were saying, that Time changes; for it is evident that in the universal formation there is an infusion of progressive con... three dimensions is not infinite: it is bent back upon itself in a space of more than three dimensions. This closed universe of three dimensions is continually expanding and all the objects of the universe are running away from each other at a speed increasing with their distance. If one goes back into the past, one reaches a time when the universe was almost condensed at one point and that would give... would there be beyond this universe?... Immediately our small human mind conceives of something quite empty and a universe occupying more and more place in this void, which means that there would be a space in this void, which is an absurdity. In fact, one should say, "It is as though", because that is not really what happens, it is only a way of expressing it. To catch hold of a notion even a little bit ...
... of 1973, the real, great Mystery of this whole story which is perhaps the world's own Mystery. Eleven years in which the incredible ((process" unfolded, step by step, with all its changes of time, vision, space and sense organs: really the making of a new body. Until the year 1973, when something took place. Something happened... what? Perhaps the complete fusion of the two worlds. Sometimes we seem... 1962, just before the great Turning Point, when Mother fainted once again, but this time with a better perception of the phenomenon: This time I was alone in my bathroom.... For a long time my body had been telling me, "I've got to lie down, I've got to lie down." And I would very sternly reply, "You don't have time!" So then this happened. But it had its own way of lying down! It just stretched out... (how can I put it?)... its center of coagulation—without it dissolving into the surrounding mass. Although, if one were in a natural environment, with mountains and forests and rivers, with lots of space and lots of natural beauty, it could be rather pleasant! But it's physically impossible to take a single step outside one's body without meeting unpleasant, painful things. At times you come in contact ...
... though the Newtonian absolutes of space and time are abolished the relative space and time of Einstein are in fundamental nature the same as Newton's: Newton too was aware that at different stand- points different quantities are obtained for space and time and if he believed that the difference could be adjusted and a uniformity calculated in terms of absolute space and time it was because he did not know... this continuum as being not of space and time but of space-time. The general framework is not at all still the same. The fourth school of interpreters, no less than the third Or "formalist" group, is off the mark. Space-time is not only real: it is also a radically revolutionary reality. 2 If Einstein's four-dimensional continuum of space-time is, as we have shown, a reality... actual fusion of space and time in it, is the revolution introduced by it confined to physics, with no bearing on a philosophical view of the world, or does it call for a look by us in a direction beyond materialism? The actual fusion does not, of course, reduce time to a space-dimension: time is still time, but it acquires the properties of space. A fourth dimension of space would break the ...
... the workings of the universe in the light of the single mind and life of man; but those workings are much too vast, ancient, unbrokenly continuous in Time and all-pervading in Space,—not in material infinity alone, but in the eternal time and eternal space of the soul's infinity,—to be read by so fragmentary a glimmer. Since the Eastern idea and name of the law of Karma was made familiar to the modern... Nature, though she leaves behind it all a great unanswered query, an agnosticism, a blank of some other ungrasped Infinite,—here covered by the concept of Chance,—the Buddhist conception too fills the spaces of our mental and moral being with the same sense of a government of mental and moral Law: but this too erects behind that Law a great unanswered query, an agnosticism, the blank of an ungrasped Infinite ...
... and this inexplicable phenomenon that each point of consciousness (a point that doesn't take up any space), each point of consciousness is capable of having ALL experiences.... It's very hard to express. We could say it's only limits that make differences: differences of time, differences of space, differences of scale, differences of power. They are only limits. And the minute the consciousness... sentences: each point contains the Consciousness of the Infinite and of Eternity (these are words, nothing but words). But the possibility of the experience is there. It's a sort of stepping back outside space.... We could say for fun that even the stone, even...—oh, certainly water, certainly fire—has the power of Consciousness: the original (all the words that come are idiotic!), essential, primordial (all... existed without it, and it's not something that will vanish into nonexistence when we have the true consciousness—it's something that's an ADDITION in a special way (and it was perceived and lived at that time in the essential Consciousness). It was like a justification of the creation, which made possible a certain mode of perception (which we could describe with the words "precision," "exactness" in ...
... reversals, and so on—it allows everything. It’s the very opposite of human creations. 12 Nothing is enclosed anymore. Each second total, pure. We have locked up everything in our heads, even time, space and chromosomes, but the world is not like that, it is a caricature of the world, a scientific and mathematical hell. An illusion of the world. The “miracle” is only when there is a breach in our... piles of small seconds, “riddled with holes.” No one will know what Mother lived. She was always asking what time it was: what time is it? What time is it?... And they thought She was exaggerating, or going senile. They would even tell her “to get lost” up to the day when She no longer asked the time. But it's really the consciousness of the cells that must change, you understand? ... And there are no... Code Mother or The Mutation Of Death - III 7: Conscious Automatism The traversing of the second web is what is most simple and most difficult at the same time. Maybe because it is, or should be, extremely simple in a certain way. So radical a simplicity, in effect, and which eludes us so totally, we who are built on complications, that it is almost vertiginous ...
... govern the functioning of a living organism. In the formulations as given by Dr. Vernet, 1 these "Laws of Life" may be stated as follows: (i) Law of organisation — All life realises in time and in space a specific organisation which is characteristic of the species concerned, of course under normal conditions. (ii) Law of assimilation — A living organism has the power to transform... Various theories have been advanced from time to time to account for the phenomenon of senescence and death but none of these has stood the test of universal scientific validation. The more significant of these theories of ageing are as follows: (1)The life-span of the members of a species is in direct ratio to the period of time the individuals take to reach the stage of biological... all its sacredness; we are not in the least able to the present time to say what life is — still less, perhaps, what death is. We say of certain things — they are alive; of certain others — they are dead; but what the difference may be, what is essential to these two states, science is utterly unable to tell us at the present time." (Dr. Minot, Age, Growth and Death) The phenomenon ...
... below in cosmic Time-Space the splendours of the timeless Reality. The material body came into existence bringing with it inevitably, as it seemed, mortality; it appeared even to be fashioned out of mortality, in order that in this very frame and field of mortality, Immortality, the eternal Spirit Consciousness which Page 19 is the secret truth and reality in Time itself as well as... being and knowing themselves to be but various self-expressions of the One ; it develops the 1 The Supermind is not merely synthetic. "The Supermind is synthetic only on the lowest spaces of itself, where it has to prepare the principles of Over-mind,—synthesis is necessary only where analysis has taken place, one has dissected everything, put in pieces (analysis), so one has to piece... ever-shifting veils upon the face of one ineffable reality, as a mysterious cycle of perpetual creation and distruction—it is the overwhelming vision given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita. At the same time, the initial and most intense experience which this cosmic consciousness brings is the extreme relativity, contingency and transitoriness of the whole flux, and a necessity seems logically and psyc ...
... express here below in cosmic Time-Space the splendours of the timeless Reality. The material body came into existence bringing with it inevitably, as it seemed, mortality; it appeared even to be fashioned out of mortality, in order that in this very frame and field of mortality, Immortality, the eternal Spirit Consciousness which is the secret truth and reality in Time itself as well as behind it,... through the Mayic consciousness of the Overmind enters into the static Bliss, ecstatic Nihil, and the 1 The Supermind is not merely synthetic. "The Supermind is synthetic only on the lowest spaces of itself, where it has to prepare the principles of Overmind, —synthesis is necessary only where analysis has taken place, one has dissected everything, put in pieces (analysis), so one has to piece... ever-shifting veils upon the face of one ineffable reality, as a mysterious cycle of perpetual creation and destruction—it is the overwhelming vision given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita. At the same time, the initial and most intense experience which this cosmic consciousness brings is the extreme relativity, contingency and transitoriness of the whole flux, and a necessity seems logically and psy ...
... express here below in cosmic Time-Space the splendours of the timeless Reality. The material body came into existence bringing with it inevitably, as it seemed, mortality; it appeared even to be fashioned out of mortality, in order that in this very frame and field of mortality, Immortality, the eternal Spirit Consciousness which is the secret truth and reality in Time itself as well as behind it,... lines-one through the Mayic consciousness of the Overmind enters into the static Bliss, ecstatic Nihil, and the ¹ The Supennind is not merely synthetic. "The Supermind is synthetic only on the lowest spaces of itself, where it has to prepare the principles of Overmind, – synthesis is necessary only where analysis has taken place, one has dissected everything, put in pieces (analysis), so one has to piece... ing veils upon the face of one ineffable reality, as a mysterious cycle of perpetual creation and destruction – it is the overwhelming vision given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita. At the same time, the initial and most intense experience which this cosmic consciousness brings is the extreme relativity, contingency and transitoriness of the whole flux, and a necessity seems logically and psyc ...
... its effect. But it produces it in time, space and causality. To demand a result now here and under given conditions is Ajnanam. The time, space and causality of every event and its development have been fixed ages ago by yourself and Parameswara, when the Kalpa began. It is ignorance to struggle and try to alter what you have yourself decreed. Care not about time, space or conditions, but will, and leave... life. You have nothing else to do. Kali will do the rest. Be not troubled, be not anxious, be not in haste, you have all eternity before you, why be in haste? Only do not be tamasic or idly waste your time. Yogic Sadhan - II I shall speak to-day of the Shakti or Will, since that is the foundation of Yoga. The Shakti is situated in the Sahasradala just above the crown of the head and from that seat... him support and direct the Will and the Will will introduce order into the government and compel the officials each to do obediently and perfectly his own duty. Not of course all at once. It will take time. The officials have become so much used to confused work and misgovernment that at first they will not be willing to work properly and, secondly, even when they wish, they will find it difficult. They ...
... idea and image to the divinely revelatory pitch. But the overall feature of the poetry is the metaphor "seas". In Milton's brief masterpiece the concrete suggestion of a passage through space and time and beyond space-time through an experienced eternity is not openly metaphorical and therefore we have Phanopoeia shaded off into Logopoeia: a concisely colossal creation of word-thought confronts us. To... set up in the deep layers of our receptive consciousness: they occur in a layer which is deep enough to be named, in Sri Aurobindo's terminology of "planes", Higher Mind, but the sense of space on widening space, expanse on expanse of mystery, continuity on endless continuity of conceptual explora-tion, is lost. "Wander" has a plunging rhythmic effect which in collocation with "thoughts" and "eternity"... hundred under Leonidas were ordered by the State to delay the march of the thousands sent by King Xerxes of Persia. At the narrow pass of Thermopylae they fought for several hours, thus giving precious time to the Athenians to reach up from far away. Every one of them perished. The epitaph by Simonides is a short address by the dead to their countrymen of Lacedaemon, which is another name for Sparta: F ...
... that state. It takes a few seconds. It should be kept in the background all the time, all the time, all the time, as if supporting everything from behind. By nature it is absolutely silent, immobile, luminous.... Yes, it gives the sense of Eternity and Infinity. It is eternal, infinite, outside of time, outside of space, it's... it's Sat . If one can keep that constantly in the background of one's... silence; it's something permanent, yes, but not an annihilation. It's Sat —the Sat that comes before Chit-Tapas . 3 In other words it can last an eternity with no sense of time, and be an infinity with no sense of space. But I tell you, it also has an EXTRAORDINARY utility: it automatically renews all the energies. Actually, that's the true reason for sleep: to be able to enter that state.... fell backwards, and it was Nothingness. And he could remain in that state indefinitely! We did in fact stay like that for a rather long time; I don't remember how long, three quarters of an hour or an hour, but anyway it was long enough. I was keeping alert the whole time to see if, by chance, he would go on into something else, but there he stayed—he stayed there nice and calm, without stirring. Then ...
... move according to a more complex rhythm, the experience seems to follow a distant, unending curve through the forest, with days upon days of walking: you touch point B, point C, D..—changes in time, in space, in sleep, in vision, in the sense organs—then another small clearing, another river, each one like a world in itself, and the experience A1, A2, A3... seems now far, far "behind," as if it no... being, she said at the beginning; I am not yet sure, but at any rate it's a far more conscious mode of being. I see it all the time: with eyes open, eyes closed, all the time. It gives a strange perception (with regard to the body), a strange perception at the same time of subtlety, permeability (if I may call it that), of suppleness of form, and not exactly When that effort takes place, which... being, she said at the beginning; I am not yet sure, but at any rate it's a far more conscious mode of being. I see it all the time: with eyes open, eyes closed, all the time. It gives a strange perception (with regard to the body), a strange perception at the same time of subtlety, permeability (if I may call it that), of suppleness of form, and not exactly a removal but a considerable lessening ...
... All; and this inexpressible phenomenon that each point of consciousness—a point that does not occupy any space—each point of consciousness is capable of all experiences.... It is very difficult to express. One could say that only limits make differences—differences in time, differences in space, differences in size, differences in power. It is only the limits. And as soon as the consciousness goes... " To use words: every point contains the Consciousness of Infinity and Eternity—these are words, nothing but words. But the possibility of this experience is there. It is like stepping back out of space.... It might be amusing to say that even stone, even... oh, water certainly, fire certainly, has the power of Consciousness—the original—all the words that come are stupid—essential, primordial—all... in the consciousness of the earth"; then, "I am exactly like a dead person living on earth..." and so on. I went on behaving, speaking, acting as usual. But it has been like this for a long time. For a long time, for more than two years, I have been seeing the world like this ( upward gesture from one level to another ) and now I see it like this ( downward gesture ). I do not know how to explain this ...
... of space and time retains the absolute character which, according to the earlier theory, belonged to both space and time separately..." 59 In the general theory, absolutism or relativism would result from the way we answer the question: "Are particles to be thought of as singularities of space-time or is space-time to be understood... old-fashioned linkage of Page 257 three space-readings with one separate time-reading but in what Minkowski designated as the four-dimensional continuum of indivisible space-time — with a semi-Euclidean or "hyperbolic" geometry in the special theory of relativity and a "curved" ... Along Barnett's line of vision, the fusion of time with space must imply that they are expressions, essentially alike, yet with a dual functional shade, of one and the same reality which is a substratum existing beyond immediate experience and appearing in that experience as relative space and time. We seem to be in ...
... from space-time. The original matrix is space-time. Time is the mind of space. In course of time, space-time breaks up into finites of ever-increasing complexity. At certain points in the history of things, finites assume new empirical qualities which are distinctive levels of experience - primary qualities, matter; and secondary qualities, life and mind. As explained in his book Space, Time and Deity... ideal possibilities, on the other. Like Plato, Whitehead believes in eternal objects. He maintains that eternal objects in their interaction with creative passage issue in actuality, reckoning with space-time, limitation, causal push or drag of the past, and that ultimate irreducibility which we may only call God. It is God who envisages the realm of possibilities and the world of settled fact as to focus... genius are preparing mankind for this next stage of development. The divine quality or deity is a stage in time beyond the human. The whole world is now engaged in the production of deity. As time is the very substance of reality, no being can exhaust the future. Even God is a creature of time. Alexander's philosophy is called the philosophy of emergent evolution. According to him, when physical ...
... indeterminables; we can assign to them no distinct characters or features, nothing which would predetermine their determinations. To describe the fundamental character of the universe as Space or Time or Space-Time does not help us; for even if these are not abstractions of our intelligence which we impose by our mental view on the cosmos, the mind's necessary perspective of its picture, these too are... Infinite which contains our formed universe, although this conception is imperatively demanded by our mind as a necessary basis to its conceptions,—for it is unable to fix or assign a limit whether in Space or Time or essential existence beyond which there is nothing or before or after which there is nothing,—although too the alternative is a Void or Nihil which can be only an abyss of the Infinite into which... the mind's psychological actions: for the body is not mere unconscious Matter; it is a structure of a secretly conscious Energy that has taken form in it. Itself occultly conscious, it is, at the same time, the vehicle of expression of an overt Consciousness that has emerged and is self-aware in our physical energy substance. The body's functionings are a necessary machinery or instrumentation for the ...
... there are—other systems of consciousness where Force organises itself in life and in mind as its fundamental continent & movement.—It is not necessary to consider here what would be the relations in Time & Space of such worlds with ours. Life & mind might descend, ready organised, from such worlds and attach themselves to forms of matter here; but not in the sense of occupying physically these material... mind are correspondingly hampered, rendered difficult or for a time impossible—& even altogether impossible unless life & mind are given time, impulse & opportunity to readjust themselves to the new circumstances & either recreate or patch up the old means or adopt a new system of function. It is obvious that such a combination of time, impulse & opportunity cannot usually or even often occur,— ... subjective & objective experiences by which the validity of the perceptions is firmly established in the reason, the very fact that the Knower emerges in matter shows that He must have been there all the time. And if He was there in some form of matter He must be there generally & in all; for Nature is one & knows no essential division, but only differences of form, circumstance and manifestation. There ...
... Gods and the fairies and the thousand woeful faces Have disappeared into a mighty Single nameless Vibration. The most powerful Presence of the indefinable One Pervading all space, filling out all Time - indivisibly, The most beloved Being, the body of the ever-veiled Mystery, The compassionate Mother restores sight to my born-blind soul. My soul, a white candle bums on... Supreme Musician I am the mystic golden cord of Divine Love and Ananda, Uniting all creation in My embrace, holding all in My Ocean. Become aware of Me alone, filling endless time, occupying empty space. This apparent world with its fog, wind, rain and warm sunshine, Its earthquakes, revolutions, volcanoes, typhoons and huge tidal waves, Its ceaseless sombre dramas, moments of brittle... heaven or extinction, A handful of common sand withholds in it unborn divinities. O Great Spirit, my life is now an unbroken song of Glory. Pulsating somewhere in the immeasurable Spirit-Space Mystery beyond all existence, You are the resplendent Reality. My heart kneels down before You in loving adoration. All faces are Your reflections, countless rays of the Original Sun. All ...
... Trampled to tormented postures the torn sense.... A bull-throat bellowed with its brazen tongue... A travelling dot on downward roads of Dusk... In a slow suffering Time and tortured Space... [pp. 211-18] In the use and choice of words, too, Savitri comes often with highly original gestures. There is the uplifting of a non- Page 112 poetic word... Power, A face, a form came down into her heart And made of it its temple and pure abode. But when its feet had touched the quivering bloom, A mighty movement rocked the inner space As if a world were shaken and found its soul: Out of the Inconscient's soulless mindless Night A flaming serpent rose released from sleep– [pp. 527-28] Page 115 ... which seems to take the longest time to read is on p. 348: The great schemed worlds that they had planned and wrought... [p. 307] Every word is. a monosyllable and six out of the ten words - "great, schemed, worlds, they, planned, wrought" - are quantitatively long, being either supported on a vowel-sound of intrinsic length or else having the vowel-time drawn out by succeeding consonants ...
... dynamis of the 'active Brahman' and identify ourselves, freely and in the infinite self-delight of the Being, with all the outpouring of Chit-Tapas, of Consciousness and its creative Force, in Time and in Space. Page 108 But the goal is easier stated than realised. For, almost on universal evidence, any great stress of dynamism generally obscures the inner vision, brings in a relative... in human Time, ⁂ Out of some far expanse they seemed to come As if carried on vast wings like large white sails, And with easy access reached the inner ear. ⁂ As yet their path lay deep concealed in light. Then looking to know whence the intruders came She saw a spiritual immensity Pervading and encompassing the world-space Page... rose to escape its law That it might sleep in some deep shadow of self Or fall silent in the silence of the Unseen. ⁂ Then all grew tranquil in her being's space, Only sometimes small thoughts arose and fell * From Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, Book VII, Canto VI, pp. 538-49. (Italics ours) Page 119 Like quiet waves upon ...
... eternal, not in time, not at a particular date & season, but eternally, before Time was. The Law did not spring into being, but was, is & for ever shall be. The forms of objects, it is true, vary in Time, but the law of their nature is of eternal origin. In the act you do today, you are obeying a Law which has existed during the whole of eternity. Try to realise it, and you will see Time & Space vanishing... implies. And yet all the time He who outstrips all others, is not running, but standing. While we are toiling after Him, He is all the time here, at our side, before, behind us, with us, in us. Really He does not move at all; all this motion is the result of our own Avidya which by persuading us to imagine ourselves as limited, subjects our thoughts to the conditions of Time & Space. Brahman in all his... his creative activity is really in one place; He is at the same time in the Sun & here; but we in order to realise Him have to follow Him from the Sun to the Earth; and this motion of our thoughts, this sensitory impression of a space covered & a time spent we attribute not to our thought, but to Brahman, just as a man in a railway-train has a sensitory impression that everything is rushing past, but ...
... that the change is not really a change, but only a successive presentation of ever recurrent phenomena to the Time-governed eye of conscious Mind. These changes are a play of self-ideas in Conscious Being existing for ever beyond Time & Space, but represented for us in the symbols of Time & Space. Such as they are, the succession of these changes affected by action of man or action of Nature are not binding... Pure-Self-Awareness; Sat = Chit,—this is the first formula on which becoming depends. Atman extends itself in the secondary terms of Space & Time, which are conscious values of this biune Being that is Consciousness, Space in this formula representing the term of Being, Time the term of Consciousness; but when analysed or realised, they inevitably reduce themselves back into mere figures of extension of... in that timeless, time-regarding conscious self of which we all are the habitations. So is the divine attitude towards existence constituted, the attitude of the Ishwara; a perfect & blissful calm & quietism of the divine soul harmonised & become one with a colossal activity of the divine Power driving before it the ordered whirl of a myriad forces occupying limitless Space & Time towards an eternally ...
... I have heard, from you alone, that (motiveless) compassion is the highest virtue. I know you to be endowed with extraordinary valour, extraordinary vigour and extraordinary might, limitless (in time or space), incapable of being disturbed and resembling the ocean in profundity, the lord of the earth including the oceans and a compeer of Indra. (39 40) Wherefore, 0 scion of Raghu, do you not employ your... climb up my back and reach beyond the vast sea through space (the very next moment as it were). (27) Surely all the dwellers in Lankā will not be able to follow my speed as I depart from this place bearing you (on my back), 0 fair one! (28) Lo, bearing you (on my back), 0 princess of the Videha territory, I shall undoubt edly return through space precisely as I came here." (29) Thrilled all over... as yours. (44) My going with you, however, 0 jewel among monkeys, is not proper. Your speed, which is equal to that of Page 171 the wind, may render me unconscious. (45) Besides, in space, even as you sweep with speed all over the sea, I may actually tumble down from your back. (46) Nay, fallen insensible into the sea, teeming with sharks, crocodiles and giant fish, I may become the ...
... impulses press upon man in his ignorant condition, and man succumbs to them and becomes their mere tool. Page 183 "Until the piece is done and we pass off Into a brighter Time and subtler Space." The action of these forces is to hamper and retard the progress of man towards the higher state to which he has the possibility of reaching. So long as man is subject to the... driven by Force". Out of this state of inconscience, etheric space arose and gave rise to tremendous vibrations. These vibrations seemed to be maintained by "a supreme original Breath". The process of expansion and contraction that went on in this etheric space created "touch and friction", "clash and clasp". "On the hearth of Space it kindled a viewless Fire That, scattering worlds as one... CANTO - I THE WORLD-STAIR ASWAPATHY'S vision was widened beyond the confines of human limits, he could see the whole cosmos as "A limitless movement" that "filled a limitless space". He saw it as a selfcreation of the Unknown without end or pause, revealing the grandeurs of the Infinite. He saw there "The world-shapes that are fancies of its Truth". The chequered fields of experience ...
... absolute Immobility. And very curiously, that Vibration creates another type of time. Entering into it is like entering a time frame (without a frame!) in which the past, the present and the future are as if side by side, or simultaneous! Indeed, it is timeless. And everything is there. It is instantaneous. All space is there also, instantaneously: there is no over there, no tomorrow. And yet it... the catastrophe of life. But I believe it is only the catastrophe of an individual life enclosed in an individual body, in which the Vibration cannot flow, in which we are trapped in false time, which is a false space divided by distances of not-I. It is the "I" that creates all distances because it places everything else outside itself. It is life far away, divided, separated, out of breath—abrasive... But instead of falling into the spiritual illusionism of the universe, we come upon the overwhelming Truth of the universe. Instead of cosmic evasion, we rediscover the cosmic invasion in a new time, a new space, at the very heart of Matter and in the absolute repose, absolute extension and absolute knowledge of a little ubiquitous cell. Another Life in life, just behind this little mortal tremor. ...
... training in the beginning of the century: she had to be able to confront her opponents at least on an equal footing on this plane too. Life and work of the Avatar form a whole, preordained in time(s) and space(s), connected by a web of invisible threads spun by Providence or by the Unity-Consciousness, without which the execution of his or her Work would be impossible. The withdrawal of the Mother... presence hastens the terrestrial evolution … I made the descent of the Supramental possible. Otherwise I wouldn’t be here. It is not worth spending my time uselessly upon earth if my presence doesn’t help humanity to make a decisive progress. I can’t spend my time uselessly, I have many important things to do in other worlds. But because my presence helps, I am still here, otherwise I would have left already... difference appeared to her as big as the difference between the new human being and the animals. To realize the importance of the birth of the New World, one had ‘to find a comparison, to go back to the time of the transition between the creation of the animal and the creation of the human being.’ 4 This is why she said with such emphasis to her audience, the young ones sitting there in the sand ...
... letters of the cosmic script "And search for the secret meaning of the whole." The million-sided movement of the one Reality was subjected by these forces of knowledge to the limitation of time, space and form and to all the exactness that is necessary for a material manifestation. Above this region of higher mind stood a race of beings in whose eyes "A light of liberating Knowledge... questions, nor did he answer the eager hopes that were directed towards it. It appeared as if the hierarchy of the worlds paused here. And, there Aswapathy "...stood on a wide arc of summit Space Alone with an enormous Self of Mind "Omnipotent, immobile and aloof, In the world which sprang from it, it took no part". Page 220 This Self of mind was a cause of everything... It seemed as if "to be was a prison, extinction the escape". CANTO XIV THE WORLD-SOUL In response to his seeking for an escape, Aswapathy saw in the background of mind-space a brilliant opening. It extended into the Unknown like "A well; a tunnel of the depths of God". There he felt "As one drawn to his lost spiritual home Feels now the closeness of ...
... to create though with pangs". For "She carries crucified God upon her breast." This vast and splendid life that marches in her procession towards the Infinite through eternal time and unlimited space is a spectacle of such a dazzling glory. Aswapathy saw that "This world is her long journey through the night, The suns and planets lamps to light her road, Our reason is the... unsure things". In this higher vital world there was always the zest: of achievement, of trial and dream but none of these things ever fulfilled itself. For "To achieve would have destroyed that magic Space". They were worlds of marvels, beauty, wonder, fancy which reflected dimly some great spiritual splendour above. But the life here was only an ineffectual search which never ended in a victory. Everything... were by no means highest in the rung of the ladder of creation. They were of a middle world, having "A darkness under them, a bright Void above, Uncertain they lived in a great climbing space". They did not know yet the full purpose of creation nor did they know themselves. Even Aswapathy when he was there "Himself he grew a riddle to himself" and "As symbols he saw all and sought their ...
... whole teaching with a single one of those experiences, and I have at least several a day.’ 69 During the time she was discussing one of those experiences again so much more happened. ‘I am not limited by what people call time or space. You understand, I am doing many things at the same time without anybody seeing it or being aware of it. You see,’ she said to Mona Sarkar, ‘what is happening [while... there at the same time. I shall be able to communicate with many people at the same time. To have something in my hand, I’ll just have to wish for it. I think about something and I want it and it is already in my hand. With this transformed body I shall be free of the fetters of ignorance, pain, of mortality and unconsciousness. I shall be able to do many things at the same time. The transparent, luminous... happens to experience this in one’s dreams. But matter? The cells? How could they be present here and somewhere else at the same time? A cell is a thing; therefore when it is here it cannot be there and when it is there it cannot be here. She had stressed it time after time, she had explained it and illustrated it with examples from her experiences: supramentalization was a phenomenon of consciousness ...
... associated with the one non- spatial dimension that is time but fused with time to form a single four-dimensional continuum of "world-lines" in which space and time lose their difference and separateness to become equal and interchangeable - a single continuum of space-time which is describable in terms of deterministic causality in the sense that it is unbroken in its "world-lines" but in which causality and... cannot be thought of as operating from past to present any more than from present to past or even from future to present since by the fusion of time with space past and present and even future are co-existent just as all objects in space are co-existent - space-time in which the mathematical expressions for some quantities associated with matter, like density, velocity, internal stresses, can be matched... material masses may themselves be considered in some o their properties not as different from space-time but as singularities of an abstractly measurable geometrical structure hire in it and as interpretable in terms like density, velocity,. internal stresses only when the single continuum is divided into space and time: such, in some central aspects, is the state of affairs in relativity physics. Energy ...
... of Nature's beauty; xii.Architectural wonders of the world; xiii.Wonder and power of smile; xiv.Wonder of flowers; xv.Wonder of twinkling stars; xvi.Wonder of time; xvii.Wonder of space; xviii.Wonder that is God. *** Page 634 NATIONAL SEMINAR ON PHILOSOPHY OF VALUE-ORIENTED EDUCATION THEORY AND PRACTICE 18-20 January, 2002... Human Values must decide their target groups and take appropriate steps to convey to them effectively the desired messages. The progress of the programmes needs to be monitored and evaluated from time to time. 4.4Value oriented education need not be prescriptive. The student may be given liberty to analyse the materials related to value education and draw meanings out of these. 4.5Both print... himself with the Universe as harmoniously as possible. This pursuit constitutes the very theme of human culture. And education derives its fundamental thrust from the cultural setting at a given point of time. b.Secondly, there is a process of transmission of the accumulated results of the past to the growing generation so as to enable it to carry forward the cultural heritage and to build the gates ...
... Vibration to me dozens of times over the years, each time, however, with a sense of wonderment. What is very remarkable is that the perception of that Vibration seems to cause a triple transformation or alteration of our material data: an alteration ot the material boundaries or apparent divisions of Matter, an alteration of the sense of Time—space and time are modified—and a totally radical alteration in... perception of the Mind in its cage was obviously a protection. Thus there is a problem of "adaptation." And time changes too. If you let yourself go with the ((movement," that universal movement which flows through the little powder-like concentrations, time is no longer the same, as space is no longer the same: A Movement so total—total and constant, constant—that to any perception it gives an ... Movement which is a sort of eternal Vibration, without beginning or end.... Something existing from all eternity, for all eternity, and without any division of time: it's only when it is projected onto a screen that it begins to assume the division of time. 7 All right, but the apparent body, what we might now call the mental body, for it seems to be our mental creation, continues to live from minute ...
... g and eternal in its essence because it is not bound by Space or by Time. It is One but it is also multitudinous, its multitudes are the self-expression, not the denial, the abundance, not the division or fragmentation of its oneness. Each being of its multitudes seems to be a portion of the One, a finite of the Infinite, a time-face and time-form of the Eternal; but in and behind this appearance is... God? It is the fact of the Is Not, the Is & the Becoming. And what is the personality of God? It is the fact that all this, the Is like the Becoming, the Is not like the Is, is aware of itself in Time & Space & beyond them. The Impersonality of Love is a self-existent Delight which embraces, possesses & makes one in being all that manifests in Brahman. The Personality of Love is One who is aware of... One Infinite Personality reflected in a limiting form of consciousness & distorted by the limitation. The form itself is a face of the All which has forgotten in the succession of Time moments, in the coherence of Space-units all that is behind itself & involved in itself. Ego is a bridge by which it awakes to self-Ignorance & returns towards self-Knowledge. If we stand on the bridge facing the ...
... conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the timeless and Time; he is Space and all that is in Space; he is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all... existence by taking refuge in our concept of Time. In reply to that argument, Sri Aurobindo points out that Time, as we know or conceive it, is only our means of realizing things in succession, it is a condition and cause of conditions, it varies on different planes of existence, it varies even for beings on one and the same plane. In other words, Time is not Absolute and cannot explain the primary... detail by Time and seem to our mental and vital being to be determined by it; but that seeming does not carry us back to their sources and principles. "We make the distinction of conditioned and unconditioned," Sri Aurobindo points out, "and we imagine that the unconditioned became conditioned, the Infinite became finite at some date in Time, and may cease to be finite at some other date in Time, because ...
... we mean that it exceeds them, that it is something into which they pass in such a way as to cease to be what we call Space, Time, quality, quantity, form and out of which Page 262 they emerge as form, quality and quantity in the movement of Space and Time or Space-Time. They do not pass away into one form, one quality, one quantity which is the basis of all the rest, - for there is none... which are present everywhere in the world, and you cannot escape them. These are : space and time. Thus, you will find that there is in our awareness an operation that is capable of forming conceptions and these conceptions can all be subsumed under the concepts of quantity, quality, relationship, modality, space and time. The Page 261 capacity that is in us which deals with these six concepts... subsist only on a foundation of infinity which exists in itself. Existence-in-itself in which infinity of extension of Space and Time is founded or contained is the farthest point to which our Pure Reason can reach in its flight of understanding. Existence-in-itself without Space and Time and without the categories of quantity, quality, relation and modality is not only conceivable, but it is the one thing ...
... eternal, outside time, outside space, outside movement..! beyond everything, in... I don't know, in an ecstasy, a beatitude) something ineffable. (silence) It was the consciousness OF THE BODY. I have had this experience before in exteriorization and trance, but this time it was THE BODY, the consciousness of the body. It remained like that for a certain time (I knew it was... were made of countless, imperceptible points—points that occupied no place in space (there was no sense of space), that were of a deep warm gold—but this is only a feeling, a transcription. And all this was absolutely LIVING, living with a power that seemed infinite. And yet motionless. It lasted for quite some time, for the rest of the meditation. It seemed to contain a whole wealth of possibilities... exceeding the purely physical form) became ONE vibration, extremely rapid and intense but immobile. I don't know how to explain this, because it 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 ...
... hundreds and thousands. (19-22) Seeing those arrows, Rāvana completely covered the sky with his own. Due to that dazzling shower of shafts discharged by the two (contending) warriors at that time, the shining space looked like a second heaven raised with a network of arrows. No arrow (discharged by them) failed to reach the mark; there was not one that failed to pierce its target and not one that was... loosed by Śrī Rāma (on the one hand), and Rāvana (on the other) as they struck each its opponent. (59) Split asunder and scattered, the shafts with flaming points of Śrī Rāma and Rāvana fell from the space to the earth's surface. (60) The mighty sound produced by the impact of the bowstring on the palms of the two heroes, which struck terror in all living beings, was astonishing as it were to hear. (61)... universe. He is blissful by nature, the ruler of all, the bringer of day and the Teacher. A son of Aditi, he bears the fire of dissolution in his womb, is bliss personified and all enveloping (like space), the destroyer of cold, the lord of the heavens, the disperser of darkness, a master of the three Vedas (Rk, Sāma and Yajur), the sender of thick showers and the friend (giver) of water. He courses ...
... 22,85. 133. Mackenzie, Cosmic Problems, p. 113. 134. God, p. 44. 135. See Mackenzie, Cosmic Problems, p. 113. 136. See Stace, Time and Eternity, p. 75. 137. Space, Time and Deity, Vol. II, p. 345. 138. Quoted in Johnson, The Imprisoned Splendour, p. 148. 139. My Philosophy, p. 21. 140. The Secret of the Golden... 476 82. ibid., p. 300. 83. The Concise Oxford Dictionary. 84. Savitri, p. 913. 85. Cf: Henry Adams: "Life, Time, Space, Thought, the World, the Universe End where they first begin, in one sole Thought Of Purity in Silence." 86. Savitri, p. 827. 87. ibid... 195. ibid., p. 559. Some other examples are: A long lone line of hesitating hue... (p. 4) Never a rarer creature bore his shaft...(p. 18). Pause or pass slowly through that perilous space... (p.238). A bull-throat bellowed with its brazen tongue... (p.245). Neighbouring proud palaces of perverted Power... (p.240). 196. The Adventure of the Apocalypse, ...
... But the perception which remained saw all things as utterly unreal; this sense of unreality was overwhelming and universal. Only some undefinable Reality was perceived as true which was beyond space and time and unconnected with any cosmic activity, but yet was met wherever one turned. This condition remained unimpaired for several months and even when the sense of unreality disappeared and there was... pomps... Trampled to tormented postures the torn sense... A bull-throat bellowed with its brazen tongue... A travelling dot on downward roads of Dusk... In a slow suffering Time and tortured Space... In the use and choice of words, too, Savitri comes often with highly original gestures. There is the uplifting of a non-poetic word beyond its common connotation into poetic ef... of Ilion, apropos of Deiphobus, already slain by the Gods in their minds, though yet "clanging in arms" in the Trojan streets- Even as a star long extinguished whose light still travels the spaces, Seen in its form by men, but itself goes phantom-like fleeting Void and null and dark through the uncaring infinite vastness, So now he seemed to the sight that sees all things from ...
... of the Lover only now entirely & finally accomplished. Intensity has yet to be given. 8) Siddhi on the basis of the largeness in the five worlds is prepared, but not yet accomplished 9) Time, Space & Circumstance still appear as determinative, not yet as instrumental factors. Intensity is now being brought into the Suddha-Chidghana-Ahaituka-Prema Ananda and prepared in the Madhura Dasya... involved in indeterminate sparsha, incipient certainty & considerable intensity in sravana (chiefly in habitual sounds), spasmodic recurrence of darshana. Trikaldrishti of things distant in space & time is beginning to be generalised (telepathy was already working & occasional trikaldrishti); but as yet there is no certainty, as there is still the siege of possibilities. Ritam is not yet certified... The general power of the Aishwarya has increased. Trikaldrishti of time continues to occur, but there is a wavering sometimes between possible general appreciations of time, sometimes of the exact minute or a falling short by a minute or two, eg. 11.22 (the right time) & 11.23 (a possibility), 11.35 instead of 11.34½ (right time) or 11.27 instead of 11.34. After the morning reaction of the ...
... of Kriti. The lesser trikaldrishti is now very active & usually accurate,—that which comes in passivity by a sort of vyapti. The trikaldrishti of great things, distant things (distant in time & space), & that corresponding to prakamya, is less active[,] correct or organised. Vijnana, not in the least depending on experience, is now becoming more active but does not yet command entire... perception and increasing in tendency. 8) Siddhi must be on the basis of the largeness in the five worlds and not of a selecting and limited siddhi. 9) Time must be no longer a determinative, but only an instrumental factor in the siddhi. So with Space & Circumstance. Utthapana 1 hour 8 minutes—interrupted for an hour by outside circumstance, then half hour. The depression of the physical... lipi. 2) The intensity of the delight. 3) The liberty of the body. These, it seems, are three of the siddhis that are now to be evolved. 4) The intellectuality resists the ideality for a space. 5) It is longing to be justified in the ideality. Vijnana In vangmaya the vak suddenly attained to the entirety of the pure inevitable form & recovered intensity of force, light & ananda ...
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