... from 1914 onwards for accomplishing this work. This entire work required the treading of an uncharted path and hewing a new path. This path is called the path of triple transformation. In a briefest description of the triple transformation, Sri Aurobindo points out that "there must first be the psychic change, the conversion of our whole present nature into a soul-instrumentation; on that or along with... place as the crowning movement the ascent into the Supermind and the transforming descent of the supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature." 92 It is this process of triple transformation that is described in detail in Sri Aurobindo's 'The Life Divine', 'The Synthesis Page 67 of Yoga', 'The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth', and in his many thousand letters ...
... The Knowledge and the Spiritual Evolution The Life Divine Chapter XXV The Triple Transformation A conscious being is in the centre of the self, who rules past and future; he is like a fire without smoke.... That, one must disengage with patience from one's own body. Katha Upanishad. (II. 1. 12, 13; II. 3. 17.) An intuition in the heart... the gulf between mind and supermind has to be bridged, the closed passages opened and roads of ascent and descent created where there is now a void and a silence. This can be done only by the triple transformation to which we have already made a passing reference: there must first be the psychic change, the conversion of our whole present nature into a soul-instrumentation; on that or along with that ...
... the self and spirit. 164 In the integral Yoga there is a progressive discovery of our spiritual status; this progression is accompanied by a dynamic new-creation of our nature. A triple transformation is its process and the revelation of its entire significance. A first discovery is the unveiling of the soul out of its disguising mask, concealing curtain, blockading wall of mind, life... are no longer a changing formulation of the nature of the Ignorance. 165 Yoga is not only a discovery of our concealed spiritual status but a dynamic spiritual self-creation; a triple transformation is the heart of its process and the revelation of its entire significance. Its first step is the unveiling of the soul; 1 for there [is a] secret psychic being, a divine element in our ...
... processes of purification and developments of powers and instruments of Prakriti. Page 61 Recapitulation of the Process of the Triple Transformation There are, as we have seen, several steps involved in the complete process of the triple transformation. The first step consists of the manifestation of the psychic entity which functions as the guide and ruler of the nature as a result of ...
... of the new evolution that would lead humanity into superhumanity or the mutation of human species into a new supramental species has at its core what Sri Aurobindo has called the process of triple transformation, — the psychic transformation, the spiritual transformation and the supramental transformation. Sri Aurobindo has given precise significance to all these terms. By transformation, Sri Aurobindo... opened; there are voids and silences between the mind and supennind and these have to be crossed and connected and new roads of ascent and descent have to be created. This can be done only by the triple transformation. In the words of Sri Aurobindo, "There must first be the psychic change, the conversion of our whole present nature into a soul-instrumentation; on that or along with that there must be the ...
... Incarnation and Evolution The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Triple Transformation and Control over Death There are three stages of the sadhana, psychic change, transition to the higher levels of consciousness—with a descent of their powers, conscious forces—the supramental. In the last even the control over death is a later, not an initial stage ...
... above the others, sometimes behind the scenes." 18 × Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - II: The Triple Transformation × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Psychic Being ...
... make it the master of his life and action that a quicker conscious method of evolution intervenes and a psychic transformation becomes possible. Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine - II: The Triple Transformation How does the soul influence a being who is normally unconscious? The soul's influence is a kind of radiance that penetrates through the most opaque substances and acts even in the ...
... of an assent: but it is in a spiritual substance and being of them and of itself that That which they represent has to come into our experience. Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine - II: The Triple Transformation The soul in itself contains all possible strength, but most of it is held behind the veil and it is what comes forward in the nature that makes the difference. In some people the psychic ...
... Supermanhood : A New step in Evolution Distinction between Nietzschean Superman and Divine Superman When Sri Aurobindo and the Mother speak of the supramental manifestation as a result of triple transformation and of the emergence of supermanhood, they make it clear that the supramental supermanhood must not be confused with past and present ideas of supermanhood. There have been in the past great ...
... at various stages of evolution, and which are particularly related to human evolution and to what Sri Aurobindo puts forward as the supramental evolution of the divine body by a process of triple transformation. In the development of this method, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother found it necessary to work out something that was colossally important and indispensable but which was not found in any earlier ...
... mukti, 'the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the divine.' IV The entire process of transformation is that of a triple transformation, the psychic, the spiritual and the supramental. Sri Aurobindo uses the word 'psychic', where it does not mean Page 30 merely the inner psychological powers, but stands for the ...
... the reader wishes to know Sri Aurobindo's views on the later stages of human evolution, he is reffered to the last six chapters of The Life Divine, in which Sri Aurobindo deals with the triple transformation (psychic, spiritual, supramental) and the advent of a race of supramental beings. The compilation The Future Evolution of Man is a selection of quotations from Sri Aurobindo on the subject ...
... Three: Experiences and Realisations; Visions and Symbols; Experiences of the Inner and the Cosmic Consciousness. Volume 24 Letters on Yoga, PART FOUR: The Triple Transformation — Psychic, Spiritual, Supramental; Transformation of the Mind; Transformation of the Vital; Transformation of the Physical; Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient; Di ...
... 4. The Psychic Being and Sadhana The Psychic Being Three Steps of Self-Realisation and the Triple Transformation In the spiritual knowledge of self there are three steps of its self-achievement which are at the same time three parts of the one knowledge. The first is the discovery of the soul, not the outer soul of thought and emotion and desire, but the ...
... other of the part beings in him that rules, and this representative of the soul, this deputy self he can mistake for the inmost soul principle. Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine - II: The Triple Transformation This unification is indispensable if one wants to be the master of one’s being and of all its actions. It is a long and meticulous work that requires much perseverance, but the result ...
... make it the master of his life and action that a quicker conscious method of evolution intervenes and a psychic transformation becomes possible. Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine - II: The Triple Transformation The psychic part of us is something that comes direct from the Divine and is in touch with the Divine. In its origin it is the nucleus pregnant with divine possibilities that supports this ...
... the gulf between Mind and Supermind has to be bridged, the closed passages opened and roads of ascent and descent created where there is now a void and a silence. This can be done only by the triple transformation to which we have already made a passing reference: there must first be the psychic change, the conversion of our whole present nature into a soul-instrumentation; on that or along with that ...
... XLVII XXIII Entirely new chapter. Man and the Evolution XXIV Entirely new chapter. The Evolution of the Spiritual Man -- XXV Entirely new chapter. The Triple Transformation -- XXVI Entirely new chapter. The Ascent towards Supermind -- XXVII Entirely new chapter. The Gnostic Being -- XXVIII Entirely new chapter. The Divine ...
... in the deepest recesses of our being. This psychic transformation has been achieved by only a limited number of human beings up to the present. But this is only a first step in his yoga, the triple transformation of psychic, spiritual and supramental change will achieve a complete and radical change of human nature so as to usher in a new birth, a new life and a new consciousness in the human life. Speaking ...
... towards supramentalisation of the mental planes that presently govern our evolutionary consciousness. There was soon to follow the supramentalisation of the vital. The last stage of the great triple transformation was to be preceded in 1926 by what Sri Aurobindo called overmentalisation of the physical. But before this Siddhi Yoga we also have two remarkable poetic creations of the Master-Poet. ...
... lower Nature into the Supreme and supramental Nature, this has been the aim and also the achievement of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. This achievement implies what Sri Aurobindo has called the triple transformation. In the words of Sri Aurobindo:'. . . there must first be the psychic change, the conversion of our whole present nature into a soul-instrumentation; on that or along with that there must ...
... the divine way of super manhood." (The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, Vol. 16, p. 281) An attempt has been made in this book to provide a brief outline of the main steps of the triple transformation, but readers will do well to study the last six chapters of Sri Aurobindo's 'The Life Divine', as also Sri Aurobindo's, 'The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth'. Kireet Joshi ...
... that can take place in humanity's own evolutionary process. But still the processes and methods of integral yoga would fully hold good and the practice of the processes and methods of the triple transformation which are essentials of the integral yoga will remain inevitable. Page 98 Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the ...
... "Then only the passage into the supramental consciousness begins to become possible..." (The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 267-68 Paragraphing ours.) (3) "This can be done only by the triple transformation... there must first be the psychic change, the conversion of our Whole present nature into a soul-instrumentation; "on that or along with that there must be the spiritual change, the ...
... explained at length the philosophy of ascent and descent in the context of spiritual evolution and provided a detailed exposition of the entire process of integral transformation, consisting of a triple transformation, the psychic, the spiritual and the supramental. Sri Aurobindo uses the word 'psychic' in the Greek sense where it does not connote merely the inner psychological powers, but stands for the ...
... refuge in Me." I don't see then why should be any controversy between Anilbaran and him. I was wondering if this sloka, "Be my-minded, my devotee." would do for a quotation for your chapter "The Triple transformation". Though it is more related to Bhakti, I thought it could as well as applied to psychic transformation because Bhakti may lead to it. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but Bhakti is only one aspect of ...
... Meditation, Love and Devotion, and similar topics; and Tome Two comprises letters on the Transformation of the Mind, the Vital, the Physical, the Subconscient and the Inconscient, and on the Triple Transformation, Psychic, Spiritual and Supramental. The letters have been graded and arranged with infinite care, and in their totality the two Tomes constitute a many-limbed but unforbidding treatise co ...
... Ashram and Outside; Part Three: Experiences and Realisations; Visions and Symbols; Experiences of the Inner and the Cosmic Consciousness. Volume 24 — Letters on Yoga, PART FOUR: The Triple Transformation — Psychic, Spiritual, Supramental; Transformation of the Mind; Transformation of the Vital; Transformation of the Physical; Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient; Difficulties ...
... supramental 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 ...
... condition is not known and in the Yoga it is regarded not as siddhi but only as a beginning. 20 What the Mother and Sri Aurobindo aimed at was, not just Brahman consciousness, but the triple transformation - psychic, spiritual and, finally, supramental - of one's whole nature. And it was this insistence on the highest possible aim that made the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo so exceedingly difficult ...
... Divine, which the human soul secretly aspires after, can be not only possessed but sovereignly expressed in life, a natural outcome of this supramental transformation. Evidently, this triple transformation is not an easy work. Nothing like it on such a vast collective scale has ever been conceived and attempted in the history of spiritual culture. It is not, as we have already affirmed, a moral ...
... and Jnanayoga, as woven into the composite texture of the Integral Yoga, and constituting the basis of its synthetic philosophy, have been elaborately explained. The double liberation, the triple transformation, and the fourfold perfection are the special features of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga, and I have tried, as best I could within the limited scope of the present book, to give a clear and comprehensive ...
... realisation, something mixed and inconclusive, does not meet the demand I make on life and Yoga. 12 The complete process of transformation is described by Sri Aurobindo as triple, — psychic transformation, spiritual transformation, and supramental transformation. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: ... there must first be the psychic change, the conversion of our whole present nature into... acquired by the transformation of the lower being. Transformation is the keyword of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo explains this as follows: By transformation I do not mean some change of the nature - I do not mean, for instance, sainthood or ethical perfection or yogic siddhis (like the Tantric's) or a transcendental (cinmaya) body. I use transformation in a special sense... fullness of the cosmic can be made perfect and fulfil themselves. It includes also the high and profound synthesis of the Upanishadic spiritual knowledge. It places the Bhagavadgita's synthesis of the triple path of love, knowledge and works as something central in its processes. It also acknowledges the synthesis of the Tantra and utilises the methods of tantric Yoga for purposes of its new aims. It also ...
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