... with the Higher Consciousness and reflects something of it, though it is not altogether that—it is also in tune with the cosmic Truth. Page 98 The True Consciousness The condition you describe 1 is the true consciousness, psychic and spiritual, which will become the base of the sadhana. If it is only for a brief time that it comes, it is always so at the beginning of its coming,... separateness is maintained always. Living in the true consciousness is living in a consciousness in which one is spiritually in union with the Divine in one way or another. But it does not follow that by so living one will have the complete, exact and infallible truth about all ideas, all things and all persons. It is the true consciousness growing within that gives the power [ to be free from... The Concentric System: Outer to Inner Letters on Yoga - I Chapter II The True Being and the True Consciousness The True Being The true being may be realised in one or both of two aspects—the Self or Atman and the soul or antarātman , psychic being or caitya puruṣa . The difference is that one is felt as universal, the other as individual supporting ...
... materialization or individualization—'transformation of consciousness' would be more exact. It is the process of changing from the true Consciousness to the distorted consciousness—that's it exactly. You say it yourself: the transition from the true Consciousness to ______________________________ ¹ Mother will suffer from this same sore for nearly twelve years. ² Later, Mother ... expression of a disorder, such as swollen legs or a malfunctioning liver—not an illness, a disorder, a functional disorder. Well, it was all utterly unimportant: IT IN NO WAY CHANGES THE BODY'S TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS. Although we are in the habit of thinking that the body is very disturbed when it's ill, when something is going wrong, it's not so. It isn't disturbed in the way we understand it. Then... ______________________________ ¹ Mother's Agenda, Vol. 3, pp. 131-2. ²As we will see, 'descent' is not the right word Page 146 It took an hour and a half to change from that true Consciousness to the individual consciousness. Because throughout the experience this present individuality no longer existed, this body no longer existed, there were no more limits, I was no longer here—what ...
... rid of them is to be always above, in your true consciousness, in contact with the Mother's light and force. The light and force will then descend upon them, at once showing what they are and dissolving and eliminating them and changing that part of the nature. But first you must learn to keep always in contact with the Mother, always in the true consciousness, only then can these things be dealt with... you. If you feel yourself down, remain quiet, call on the Mother and her force, but do not try to deal with it by your mind. But as far as possible resist the downward movement so long as the true consciousness is not settled in you. It is certainly possible to draw forces from below. It may be the hidden divine forces from below that rise at your pull, and then this motion upward completes the... only one way to deal with it,—to cast the whole thing away—depression, demands, doubts, sex-thoughts, the whole undesirable baggage,—and have in its place the one true movement, the call for the true consciousness and the presence of the Divine. It may be that behind this persistence of the lower vital demand for satisfaction there was something not quite clear—in the obscurer part of the physical mind—in ...
... One has to be a little attentive and careful not to bump into things, or drop them: the gestures are somewhat wobbly. It's very interesting. It must be a transitional phase, until the time the true consciousness is established; then it will have a wholly different functioning from what it had previously, but with a precision that can be foreseen to be incalculable, and of a very different order. With... fell back into the old way of being. But to transform this matter, is incomparably superior! It gives an extraordinary stability and consciousness and REALITY. Things become the true vision, the true consciousness; it becomes so concrete, so real [yes, true Matter]. Nothing — nothing else, nothing else can give that fullness. Escaping, fleeing, dreaming, meditating, going into higher planes, all that is... many fears, how many combinations, how many... would crumble away, would have no meaning anymore.” What we take to be “laws of Nature,” “ineluctable” things, were absurd, an absurdity! With the true consciousness, it crumbles away. You are the one who decides it's ineluctable! It's probably a ... there's a POSITION to be changed, a position of the consciousness to be changed. A position on this or ...
... Maya. But if Brahman is the percipient, how is it possible that the illusion can persist for a moment, since the true consciousness of the Percipient is consciousness of self, an awareness solely of its own pure self-existence? If Brahman perceives the world and things with a true consciousness, then they must all be itself and real; but since they are not the pure self-existence, but at best are forms... itself that Brahman the Reality is in that way the percipient of Maya. Maya may be his power of differentiating perception, for the power of Maya consciousness which distinguishes it from the true consciousness of sole spiritual Self is its creative perception of difference. Or Maya must be at least, if this creation of difference is considered to be only a result and not the essence of Maya-force,... of the being but unable to touch or affect or penetrate it. Brahman, then, whether as the supreme sole Self-Existence or the Self of the real-unreal individual in Maya, would be aware by his true consciousness of the illusions imposed on him and would know them as illusions; only some energy of Maya-nature or something in it would be deluded by its own inventions,—or else, not being really deluded ...
... challenge, and one takes appropriate action to meet it. Another related meaning Eckhart gives to the Now is the state of true consciousness, the state of Presence. In such a state there are no problems. As the Mother remarks: ... if one attains the true consciousness, there is no longer any problem to solve. What you have to be, you become. What you have to know, you know. And what you have... told you, you cannot expect all [parts of the being] to be enlightened at once. Even the greatest yogis can only proceed by stages and it is only at the end that the whole nature shares the true consciousness which they first establish in the heart or behind it or in the head or above it. It descends or expands slowly conquering each layer of the being one after the other, but each step takes time... steps or stages.) Page 28 Enlightenment—Slow or Sudden? Paradoxically, the change from the ordinary consciousness, in which one is identified with one's illusory self, to the true consciousness of identification with one's real Self—a "reversal of consciousness," as the Mother describes it—is both a slow process and a sudden happening. This paradox has been well explained by the Mother ...
... be no reason why the human being would ever seek the Divine. He would remain satisfied in the ordinary earth life. It is only when the Divine is found and the consciousness lifted up into the true consciousness that the true relations with others can come. Relations which are part of the ordinary vital nature in human life are of no value in the spiritual life—they rather interfere with the progress;... for the Divine. It is only when he has that fully that he can love others in the right way. Yes. First, one should enter into union with the Divine, and learn to live in the true light, true consciousness, true force. Yogic relations with others should come only when one lives in the Divine—then it will be safe and then there can be no influence [ from others ], for the only influence will be... Love exists for its own sake and does Page 300 not offer itself on conditions. These feelings do not spring from the psychic and it is only by the psychic prevailing in you that the true consciousness can become free and full in the nature and all these repinings and unhappinesses disappear. The love in the vital or other parts is the true thing, good for the spiritual life, only when ...
... to concentrate. Page 299 The Object of Meditation What do you call meditation? Shutting the eyes and concentrating? It is only one method for calling down the true consciousness. To join with the true consciousness or feel its descent is the only thing important and if it comes without the orthodox method, as it always did with me, so much the better. Meditation is only a means or device... have to go still deeper within and bring out the full force of the psychic into the physical. This can most easily be done by regular concentration and meditation with the aspiration for this true consciousness. It can be done by work also, by dedication, by doing the work for the Divine only without thought of self and keeping the idea of consecration to the Mother always in the heart. But this is... received or most of it. Your meditation is all right, as Mother saw—but when you came out of it, you fell into the ordinary consciousness, that is the difficulty. You must try to keep the true consciousness always, even in activity—then the sadhana will begin to be there all the time and your difficulty will disappear. The Difficulty of the Mechanical Mind That [ the constant recurrence of ...
... the work somewhat more difficult, but taken on the whole, it is a GREAT help—I understood that were I young, I could never have done what I am doing. And when I am in the true consciousness, the moment I am in the true consciousness, the number of years is nothing!—The body feels so young, so full of... something else than young (for it, young is immature and ignorant, it's not that), it's... you're... must be "worked out" as one says, it has to be realised in all details, but the change IS DONE—the change is done.... The physical is CAPABLE of receiving the Superior Light, the Truth, the true consciousness and to ma-ni-fest it.' Again, as Mother said: 'Still one must struggle, one must have patience, courage, .will, confidence,—but it is no longer "like that". It is the old thing which tries to... don't yet know, which seems at once extremely dangerous and absolutely marvellous Dangerous: the least mistake has catastrophic consequences. And marvellous. It is the consciousness, the true consciousness of immortality not 'immortality' as we understand it, something else. Something else. Our natural tendency is to want certain things to be true (those we deem favourable) and other things ...
... strength and light of which you speak, it means a great progress—for this is the real beginning of the spiritual and yogic consciousness and it shows that the foundation of the true being and the true consciousness is being laid in you. The psychic centre is that turned in all things towards the Divine, while the vital is that preoccupied with the desires and sufferings and enjoyments of the ego. If you... Others have great capacities which they are content to use in the small and obscure work of the Asram without figuring before the public in something big. What is important now is to get the true consciousness from above, get rid of the ego (which nobody has yet done) and learn to be an instrument of the Divine Force. After that the manifestation can take place, not before. 24 October 1935 It... the conscious and subconscient parts. Something came up that made you get out of poise and stray into a past round of feelings. The one thing to do is to quiet yourself and get back into the true consciousness and poise.... Always keep within and do things without involving yourself in them, then nothing will happen or, if it does, no serious reaction will come. The idea of leaving for any reason ...
... , you will see that a little gleam of true consciousness begins to dawn in your ordinary consciousness. At first it will be faint, very far behind all the din of desires, preferences, attractions, likings. But you must go behind all this and find that true consciousness, all calm, tranquil, almost silent. Those who are in contact with the true consciousness see all Page 2 the possibilities... secret of the sphinx of eternity become that active and creative Power. To choose without preference and execute without desire is the great difficulty at the very root of the development of true consciousness and self-control. To choose in this sense means to see what is true and bring it into existence; and to choose thus, without the least personal bias for any thing, any person, action, circumstance ...
... the true Consciousness to come down into the vital. Your analysis [ of certain vital movements ] is perfectly accurate—with this clear knowledge of the mechanism of the whole thing it should be easier to get rid of these ignorant forces. It is true that they care nothing for truth or reason and appeal only to the blind feelings of the vital, but still the light of the true consciousness turned... ess, entering into a brighter domain and purer experience, but sometimes, on the contrary, feels the necessity of going back into the vital, doing sadhana there and bringing down into it the true consciousness. There is no real contradiction between these two movements; they are complementary and necessary to each other, the ascension enabling the divine descent, the descent fulfilling that for which... is still worse if the vital desire-soul opens to experience before the mind has been touched by the things of the spirit. Aspire always for the mind and psychic being to be filled with the true consciousness and experience and made ready. You must aspire especially for quietness, peace, a calm faith, an increasing steady wideness, for more and more knowledge, for a deep and intense but quiet devotion ...
... into this inferior consciousness, everything seems hopeless to you, because you lose hold for a time of the true consciousness. But the suggestion is untrue, because you have an opening to the Divine and are not bound to remain in the inferior consciousness. When you are in the true consciousness, then you see that everything can be done, even if at present only a slight beginning has been made; but... the revolt. It is the consent that makes them strong to recur. Refuse the consent and they will be obliged to retire either immediately or after a time. Remain fixed in the sunlight of the true consciousness—for only there is happiness and peace. They do not depend upon outside happenings, but on this alone. The Need of Resolution There is no reason why you should abandon hope of success in... just as well say that memory is memory only when it remembers the Divine and it is not memory when it remembers other things. Lack of Will Why cannot you see that this condition is not a true consciousness, but only a clouding of the truth, a clouding which you can always get rid of if you firmly choose to do so? What you express here is not a lack of understanding, but a lack of will—and this ...
... rises by an independent birth from our depths where it has a native existence. Again, of good and evil it can be said that one exists by true consciousness, the other survives only by wrong consciousness: Page 621 if there is an unmixed true consciousness, good alone can exist; it is no longer mixed with evil or formed in its presence. Human values of good and evil, as of truth and error... of knowledge and ignorance, to the penetration of true consciousness by wrong consciousness, so that there is an ignorant or mistaken application of our good, or it is due to the intervention of afflicting forces. In the opposite case of evil producing good, the happier and contradictory result is due to the intervention of some true consciousness and force acting behind and in spite of wrong consciousness ...
... that mode was gained through the "error" of this creation and would Page 55 not have 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... (which we could describe with the words "precision," "exactness" in the objectification), which couldn't have existed without that. Because when that Consciousness—the perfect Consciousness, the true Consciousness, THE Consciousness—was there, present and lived to the exclusion of any other, there was a "something," like a vibratory mode, if I may say so, a vibratory mode of objective precision and exactness... expressed in the human consciousness by suffering and misery and helplessness and all, all the horrors of the ordinary consciousness—why? Why this? And then, the answer was like this: In the true Consciousness, there is a vibratory mode of precision, exactness, clearness in the objectification, which couldn't have existed without that, which wouldn't have had an opportunity to manifest. That's certain ...
... the practice of quiet detachment and rejection to which he gives an original turn of considerable value. "The first condition for getting rid of desire is...to become conscious with the true consciousness; for then it becomes much easier to dismiss it than when one has to struggle with it as if it were a constituent part of oneself to be thrown out from the being. It is easier to cast off an accretion... it has only aspirations and a seeking and love for the Divine and all things that are or tend towards the Divine. The constant prominence of the psychic being tends of itself to bring out the true consciousness and set right almost automatically the movements of the nature."² What the Gitâ calls self-knowledge Sri Aurobindo calls consciousness. But what does it really mean? In Sri ... and unidentified with the mutable nature it puts on for its self-expression in the world; and because it is not identified with anything, it has no separative ego in it. When we live in the true consciousness, we live in unity and harmony, and can clearly observe the divisions and discords of our lower nature, the myriad masks and ruses of the ego and its multiplying desires. The ego then appears ...
... subconscient comes up. The true consciousness comes at first in the waking state or in meditation, it takes possession of the mental, the vital, the conscious physical, but the subconscious vital and physical remain obscure and this obscurity comes up when there is sleep or an inert relaxation. When the subconscient is enlightened and penetrated by the true consciousness, this disparity disappears... consciousness which can intervene. This [ unconsciousness in sleep ] is quite usual. Consciousness in Page 449 sleep can only be gradually established with the growth of the true consciousness in the waking state. You cannot expect to be conscious at once in sleep: it takes a long time. If you can be always conscious in waking, then it will be easier to be conscious in sleep ...
... to one's true consciousness and true self, rejects them and calls in the Mother's Force into these movements to eliminate them and bring the true consciousness and its movements there. The firm will of rejection must be there, the pressure to get rid of them, but not any wrestling or struggle. When you felt the Force, the concentration, the peace, it meant evidently the true consciousness coming; ...
... of becoming aware of things, was gained through the "error" of this creation and would not have existed without it, and it is not something that will vanish into non-existence when we gain the true consciousness—it is something that is added in a special way—which was perceived, lived at that moment in the essential Consciousness. It was like a justification of the creation that has made possible... described by the words "precision", "exactness" in objectivisation—which could not have existed without it. Because when this Page 221 Consciousness—the perfect Consciousness, the true Consciousness, the Consciousness—was there, present and lived to the exclusion of any other, there was something like a mode of vibration, so to say, a mode of vibration with objective precision and exactness... everything that the human consciousness interprets as suffering, misery and helplessness and everything, all the horrors of ordinary consciousness—why? Why is it? And so this was the answer: in the true Consciousness there is a mode of vibration, of precision and exactness and clarity in objectivisation, which could not have existed without that, which would not have had any opportunity to manifest. That ...
... correspond to a certain realm of experience; I understood all those who say, 'If it has to be like this, if it can never be otherwise, then ...' (this opposition, this abyss between a TRUE life, a TRUE consciousness, a TRUE activity, something living, powerful, fulfilling ... and life as it now is), 'if there must always be this difference between the physical expression as it is or as it can be in the present... effort upwards I have made since that time IN MATTER (I'm not speaking of leaving Page 479 Matter behind, but IN MATTER, IN action)—if that doesn't further reduce this gap between the true consciousness and the possible material realization, then I understand ... I understand why people say, 'It's hopeless.' (Of course, this 'hopeless' is meaningless to me.) But I ... (how can I put this... holds together like an agglomerated mass. I had seen this earlier from another angle. In the beginning, when I started having the consciousness of immortality and when I brought together this true consciousness of immortality and the human conception of it (which is entirely different), I saw so clearly that when a human (even quite an ordinary human, one who is not a collectivity in himself—as is a ...
... manifest for the needs of the creation. 5 February 1968 Last Monday You spoke to me about the Transcendent which is both one and two at the same time. Naturally, I shall wait for the true consciousness to come in order to have this knowledge. But yesterday I tried to note down what You had said: "The mind thinks about things in succession. But beyond and above, everything exists at the... myself at Your feet. Page 377 According to my experience, one should not try to destroy or to eliminate. One should concentrate all one's effort on building up and strengthening the true consciousness , which will automatically do the work of unifying the being. In this way, everything that has to be transformed will be transformed quite naturally, without clash or damage. 13 May 1968... effective way is to offer it to the Divine ; the more sincere and radical this offering is, the more quickly the result will come. 28 May 1968 To remain turned upwards and to live in the true consciousness—the two seem complementary to each other. Are they not two ways of saying the same thing?—certainly two ways of doing the same thing. 3 June 1968 Who should be put on guard to give ...
... of materialization or individualization—"transformation of consciousness" would be more exact. It is the process of changing from the true Consciousness to the distorted consciousness—that's it exactly. You say it yourself: the transition from the true Consciousness to ordinary consciousness. That's it exactly. "Descent" doesn't convey the actual sensation—there was no sensation of descent. None... done." Then began the process of descent, 1 and the Voice was explaining it to me—I lived through it all in detail, and it wasn't pleasant. It took an hour and a half to change from that true Consciousness to the individual consciousness. Because throughout the experience this present individuality no longer existed, this body no longer existed, there were no more limits, I was no longer here—what ...
... consciousness and nature begin to grow and come out. Of course we want them also to use their will and reject the desires and wrong movements of the vital, for by doing that the emergence of the true consciousness becomes possible. But rejection alone cannot succeed: it is by rejection and by inner experience and growth that it is done. Compassion and gratitude are essentially psychic virtues... of a larger deeper truth of nature, can realise the Self and liberate and transform the nature. To quiet the surface mind and begin to live within is the object of this concentration. Of this true consciousness other than the superficial there are two main centres, one in the heart (not the physical heart, but the cardiac centre in the middle of the chest), one in the head. The concentration... planes of consciousness, you may have memories of such intensity, such vibrant colour, so to say, even more intense than the colours and things of the physical world. For these are the moments of true consciousness, and everything then puts on an extraordinary brilliance, everything is vibrant, everything is imbued with a quality that escapes the ordinary eye. These minutes of contact with the ...
... they seldom need to touch their lower nature. They merely keep it quiet by the force of their higher or inner being. Since they consider the world as Maya, these Yogis do not bother to fix the true consciousness in the lower being. But is it not rather an excuse for not leading a yogic life? All that is simply an excuse. The Yogis of other Yogas do at least try to keep the lower nature quiet... psychic or spiritual development. They prefer to give a greater importance to the intellectual pursuits. It is quite true that hardly any try to lead a truly Yogic life by fixing the true consciousness in all the being. Some experience and a contented ordinariness seems to be the rule. Page 151 You ask, "What circumstances? A Yogi or seeker of Yoga is supposed to... of Yoga is to overcome the lower nature, and for that he must try to lead the Yogic life and not sit contentedly in the lower nature. Under such conditions how are we to fix the true consciousness in all the being and lead the Yogic life in all circumstances? Everybody has to deal with the lower nature. No Yoga can be done without overcoming it, neither this Yoga nor any other ...
... phrase I use for the Supermind. Maharshi is not in the Supermind. He may be and is in a true Consciousness, but that is a different matter. If he lives in the true consciousness, has he not always the full knowledge? Is he not using the intuitive mind? Living in the true consciousness is living in a consciousness in which one is spiritually in union with the Divine in one ...
... all the time and let my external actions be directed by the Mother's Force so that they may come automatically from the true consciousness? No, it is not yet possible. The true consciousness must be there in the mind and vital before that is done and the true consciousness is the psychic and the higher. What one can do before that is to use the mental will to direct the actions in the right ...
... possible for me now to remain centrally in the pure-existence and direct the actions of the outer being by the true consciousness? Page 141 No, it is not yet possible. The true consciousness must be there in the mind and vital before that is done and the true consciousness is the psychic and the higher. What one can do before that is to use the mental will to direct the actions ...
... That is what is being done. Being in the Self, am I now living in the Mother's consciousness? And are not all actions coming from that true consciousness? What do you mean by coming from the true consciousness? The pure existence consciousness does not initiate any action. Actions come through it either from the ordinary nature or from the Mother's Force. ... only the first step towards living in the Mother's Consciousness. Yes, it is the first step. Afterwards the silent self gets filled up with the Mother's active consciousness, the true consciousness, without the fundamental silence being disturbed — then all the action can become more and more the true action. I wrote to you that the Mother has brought down what I had e ...
... Mahashakti will manifest for the needs of the creation. 5.2.1968 Last Monday You spoke to me about the Transcendent which is one and two at the same time. Naturally, I shall wait for the true consciousness to come in order to have this knowledge. But yesterday I tried to note down what You had said: The mind thinks about things in succession. But beyond and above, everything exists at the same... continue to hold on to Your feet. According to my experience, one should not try to destroy or to eliminate. One should concentrate all one's effort on building up and strengthening the true consciousness and it is this consciousness that will automatically do the work of unifying the being. In this way, everything that has to be transformed will be transformed quite naturally without clash... feel at once that He is there, everywhere, luminous, radiant, vibrant with force and love, and that without Him nothing could be. 30.5.1968 To remain turned upwards and to live in the true consciousness—the two seem complementary to each other. Are they not two ways of saying the same thing?— certainly two ways of doing the same thing. 3.6.1968 Who should be put on guard ...
... comparison. To become indifferent to the attraction of outer Page 148 objects is one of the first rules of Yoga, for this non-attachment liberates the inner being into peace and the true consciousness. It is only when one sees the Divine in all things that objects get a value for the Yoga, but even then not for their own sake or as objects of desire, but for the sake of the Divine within and... first thing to do in the sadhana is to get a settled peace and silence in the mind. Otherwise you may have experiences, but nothing will be permanent. It is in the silent mind that the true Page 149 consciousness can be built. A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface and you will feel your true being within... within separate from them, observing but not carried away, able to watch and judge them and reject all that has to be rejected and to accept and keep to all that is true consciousness and true experience. Passivity of the mind is good, but take care to be passive only to the Truth and to the touch of the Divine Shakti. If you are passive to the suggestions and influences of the lower nature, you will ...
... passivity taking the form of inertia—inertia brings the consciousness down towards the ordinary physical level which is soon fatigued and prone to tamas. The cure here is to get back into the true consciousness and rest there, not in inertia. (3) It may be due to mere overstrain of the body—not giving it enough sleep or repose. The body is the support of the Yoga, but its energy is not inexhaustible... and the ordinary physical nature with its strong habits and outwardness are the chief obstacles that have to be overcome in the nature. When they fall quiet, then it is easier to enter into the true consciousness and unite with the Mother. But they are not accustomed to quietness and as soon as it is felt they want to come out of it and resume their ordinary movements. But this will go when the inner... and then master of the nature. Externalisation It is inevitable that in the course of the sadhana all sorts of conditions should come through which one is led towards the fullness of the true consciousness. You are now, as are most, in the physical consciousness and its principal difficulty is externalisation and this covering up of the active experience so that one does not know what is going ...
... Page 264 The difference between suppression and an inward essential rejection is the difference between mental or moral control and a spiritual purification. When one lives in the true consciousness one feels the desires outside oneself, entering from outside, from the universal lower Prakriti, into the mind and the vital parts. In the ordinary human condition this is not felt; men become... found a lodging or a habitual harbourage and so they think it is their own and a part of themselves. The first condition for getting rid of desire is, therefore, to become conscious with the true consciousness; for then it becomes much easier to dismiss it than when one has to struggle with it as if it were a constituent part of oneself to be thrown out from the being. It is easier to cast off an accretion... it has only aspirations and a seeking and love for the Divine and all things that are or tend towards the Divine. The constant prominence of the psychic being tends of itself to bring out the true consciousness and set right almost automatically the movements of the nature. It is true that the mere suppression or holding down of desire is not enough, not by itself truly effective, but that does ...
... inward which is open to the Truth; you will then feel your physical consciousness as something external which can be worked upon through the true consciousness and changed by the Force. It is very good that all should have gone like that and the true consciousness affirmed its control in the physical. These things are indeed attacks intended to prevent the control being established in the physical... ss, to get rid of the inertia of the physical, the doubts, limitations, external tendency of the physical mind, the defective energies of the vital physical (nerves) and bring in instead the true consciousness there so that the physical may be a perfect instrument for the Divine Will. The food and care for the body is only to get it into Page 367 good condition, afterwards it would not ...
... he himself had said he needed to be alone. He had two hernias and cured one (he told you all that), and deliberately didn't cure the second because he got it into his head that when he has the true consciousness, it will heal on its own.... Theoretically it's true, but... Can it be realized in one lifetime? I don't know. As for me, I saw that if he brought it back inside (it can be done), it would heal... without aspiration—it's woken up by an anguish as if it were about to die! To that point, you understand. For it, stillness is... Yes, it feels that the highest vibration, the vibration of the true Consciousness, is SO INTENSE that it's... it's the equivalent of the inertia of stillness—with an intensity that's not perceptible (for us). That intensity is so great that, for us, it's the equivalent of... that's really... For it now, as soon as it falls back into the consciousness of mortality, there's a dreadful anguish; it's only Page 386 when it emerges from that, when it enters the true consciousness, that it passes. I understand why some people, yogis, spoke of the unreality of the world, because, for the consciousness of Immortality, the consciousness of mortality is an unreal absurdity ...
... convenient station (detached and uninvolved, therefore not subject to Prakriti) from which one can act on the wrong movements by refusal of assent and by substituting for them the action of the true consciousness from within or above. 114 Therefore, as stated in the previous chapter (p. 73), the inner being (Purusha) must emerge not only as Sakshi, the Witness, but also as Anumanta, the giver... responsible is not the desire itself, but the habit of responding to the waves or the currents of suggestion that come into it from the universal Prakriti. 140 When one lives in the true consciousness one feels the desires outside oneself, entering from outside, from the universal lower Prakriti, into the mind and the vital parts. In the ordinary human condition this is not felt; men become... found a lodging or a habitual harbourage and so they think it is their own and a part of themselves. The first condition for getting rid of desire is, therefore, to become conscious with the true consciousness; fort then it becomes much easier to dismiss it than when one has to struggle with it as if it were a constituent part of oneself to be thrown out from the being. It is easier to cast off an ...
... conscious. You say, "There is a transformation to be made." In the actual work, how are our actions to be trans-formed? It is first by having the true consciousness in it, — the true consciousness would give the action the right form. You are always asking how, as if everything could be done by a device or mental or other method. It is only by a change of consciousness... consciousness taking up the actions. Before the dynamic self pours itself down into me, is there no possibility to start the actions from the Page 196 "true consciousness"? Activity would mean either directing work by the ordinary vital or mental consciousness or else handing it over to the Mother's Force. But for that you must be conscious of the ...
... frequent reincarnations is still quite common. 30.7.1967 When I offer You money it is the "I" that spoils the offering. May the "I" disappear, O Divine Mother. .. may the pure and true consciousness install itself in Your child. Page 17 That he knows it is already very good. He is en route for liberation. 1.8.1967 Each time that I go to You to make Pranam, You do... to be simply what you want. That is the best state for advancing swiftly on the path. 26.10.1967 O Mother Divine! May Your Grace make me live more and more in the true consciousness. So it be! With my blessings in Light and Joy. 2.11.1967 Page 24 One morning when I was reading in "Prayers and Meditations": "My soul is in prayer. ... is it that accompanies Your words? Consciousness. 27.12.1967 Consciousness is just the problem when I translate Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's works into Hindi. How to bring the true consciousness into the translation ? Mother explained while drawing the illustration that to pass directly from English to Hindi was bad, and to go up in the consciousness starting from English and ...
... "the vibration of the true Consciousness... equivalent to the inertia of immobility", so intense that it is not even perceptible to us! Since creation had begun with unconscious perfection and later fallen into imperfection, it must now fulfill itself through a process of conscious perfection, and this would be possible only if one re-enacted creation in the true consciousness, instead of in the old... There was also the background of unconscious 'negation', and it was a colossal work to change this Everlasting Nay into the Everlasting Yea. But when one was in the 'other' state or the true Consciousness, the difficulties seemed to disappear. If one could be trustfully patient, all would be well. Again, on 19 November, the Mother related an experience of the early hours of that morning ...
... from immortality, which look almost like twin sisters with just a tiny difference of aspiration]. For the body, stillness is ... Yes, it feels that the highest vibration, the vibration of the true Consciousness, is so intense that it’s ... it’s the equivalent of the inertia of stillness. That intensity is so great that, for us, it’s the equivalent of inertia. That’s what is now being established. That’s... consciousness of mortality, and that’s really ... As soon as it falls back into the consciousness of mortality, there’s a dreadful anguish; it’s only when it emerges from that, when it enters the true consciousness, that it passes. So now it’s like this, now it’s like that [Mother made a to-and-fro gesture, from one consciousness to the other]. And the other state, the state of Immortality, is immutably... eternity? Or else the cataleptic trance? And the question became increasingly acute: There is an impression of fluidity and plasticity asserting itself increasingly with the growth of the true consciousness. The hardening seems to be the result of Unconsciousness; the lack of fluidity and plasticity seems to be the result of unconsciousness. Not only in the body: for everything the impression is ...
... reason....”—quite a material thing, absolutely physical: poff! Gone. Your consciousness changes: it comes back. Then Mother went on in her small, slow voice: And if you stay LONG ENOUGH in the true consciousness, the appearance, that is, what we call the physical “fact” itself disappears, not just the pain I have the feeling of having touched the central experience. 16 With time the physical fact... fears, how many combinations, how many would crumble away, would lose all meaning!” It was ... what we see as “laws of Nature,” “ineluctable” things, it all was absurd, an absurdity! With the true consciousness, it crumbles away. And Mother concluded: Several times like that, when people tell me they feel as if in front of an ineluctable law (“There is this + this, and therefore that is inevitable”)... manipulations, but the fact is that all modifications of movement or of time engender modifications of structure and this joins up with Mother’s central experience. “If one remains long enough in the true consciousness, the physical fact changes.” But scientists only know an exterior time, superficial, if one can say so, which they have to brutally and somewhat barbarically manipulate like the apprentice sorcerers ...
... it must be part of the yogic discipline. It is only when it is done in the wrong way, by an ascetic principle as a hard moral rule, that it can be called suppression. When one lives in the true consciousness one feels the desires outside oneself, entering from outside, from the universal lower Prakriti, into the mind and vital parts. In the ordinary human condition this is not felt; men become aware... when it is there, when it has come inside and so they think it as their own and a part of themselves. The first condition for getting rid of desire is, therefore, to become conscious with the true consciousness, for then it becomes much easier to dismiss, than when one has to struggle with it as if it were part of oneself to be thrown out from the being. When the psychic being is in the front, then... desire becomes easy; for the psychic being has in itself no desires, it has only aspiration and love for the Divine. The constant prominence of the psychic being tends of itself to bring out the true consciousness. This is what is happening in you; so you need not be over-anxious about the desires, only careful that they do not get in and bring a vital mixture. (21.3.31) ...
... utmost possibility of consciousness. This peace and fullness and joy given by the psychic contact they naturally find everywhere, in everything and everybody. It gives an openness towards the true consciousness pervading here and working out everything. So long as the openness is there, the peace, the fullness and the joy remain with their immediate results of progress, health and fitness in the physical... ninety-nine and a half times out of a hundred.... "Take for instance... you see something which is -which seems to you or is - very beautiful, very harmonious, very pleasant; if you have the true consciousness, you experience this joy of seeing, of being in a conscious contact with something very beautiful, very harmonious, and then that's all. It stops there. You have the joy of it - that such a thing ...
... different from joys and pleasures. And even Ananda one cannot demand or make it a condition for pursuing the sadhana—it comes as a crown, a natural outcome and its true condition is the growth of the true consciousness, peace, calm, light, strength, the equanimity which resists all shocks and persists through success and failure. It is these things which must be the first objects of the sadhana, not any hedonistic... notice. The next step is for the sadhaks themselves to take; they must make it possible (by their change of attitude, by their resolution to rise on the lower vital and physical plane into the true consciousness) for a union with the Mother on that plane in the right way and with the right result to become possible. More I cannot say just now; but I fully intend to be more explicit hereafter— so far ...
... an ascent which substitutes the principle of knowledge, of a fundamental true consciousness, the consciousness of the Spirit, for the inconscience and ignorance. An evolution in the Inconscience is the beginning, an evolution in the Ignorance is the middle, but the end is the liberation of the spirit into its true consciousness and an evolution in the Knowledge. This is actually what we find to be the ...
... Writing and reading absorb the mind and fill it with images and influences; if the images and influences are not of the right kind they naturally turn one away from the true consciousness. It is only if one has the true consciousness well established already that one can read or write anything whatever without losing it or without any other harm. 17 May 1934 To acquire a good style in prose I ...
... the inner being which makes them felt as something external to the being, and the light of the psychic which instantly exposes and rejects Page 450 them, then that is to have the true consciousness which keeps one safe while the more positive transformation is preparing or taking place. That transformation comes by the descent of the Force, Light, Knowledge, Ananda etc. from above. So... would be a trance and not a swoon. The good condition of openness with the Force descending and the constant remembrance—or whatever other form the condition takes—is the beginning of the true consciousness and its duration is always short at the beginning, because the ordinary consciousness is not accustomed to it, but to something else. But it always increases in duration and power until it is ...
... for the change. The wideness of light you saw was the wideness of the true consciousness liberated from the narrow limits of the human mind, human vital, human body consciousness. It is true that the mind is narrow, not only yours, but all human minds even the most developed,—compared with the wideness of the true consciousness which has no limits. It is precisely this wideness which will come by the ...
... the Mother's Force to push it away. In this way the habit Page 665 of these recurrences diminishes, the strength and intensity also, and on the other side one is able to recall the true consciousness and the true force, the bright, happy, peaceful, open condition more and more easily and quicker. One can then proceed on an assured basis to a more and more positive progress. Do not... is something of the ordinary consciousness that is still left and it comes up to be dealt with. One has to understand this and not get upset—for getting upset only delays the process. If the true consciousness were constant in its fullness, the sadhana would be finished and there would be the siddhi. That cannot come at once. Page 666 × ...
... am glad to see that the right consciousness is returning and the attack is over. As it is past, I need not say anything about what you wrote in the interval since you can with the sight of the true consciousness see for yourself what is the right answer. Only one thing I must note that no wrong idea may linger in your understanding. You seem to say in one passage of a letter that the Mother had said... remedy is the descent into the consciousness of that golden lotus which you saw in your vision. Everyone in whom it is established or even who feels its influence will become a centre of the true consciousness and true action which will change life in the Asram. 14 February 1936 Small movements of depression caused by unhappiness, dullness, etc. do not usually touch me. But there are also strong ...
... the individual mirror. Then through this reflection, if we go back slowly to the origin of what is reflected, we can enter into contact with the Consciousness—the True Consciousness. And once we come into contact with the True Consciousness, we become aware that it is the same everywhere, that it is only deformation which divides it; without deformation everything is contained in one and the same Co ...
... true being is discovered, the utility of the ego is over and this formation has to disappear—the true being is felt in its place. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The True Being and the True Consciousness … man is not aware of the self or Jivatman, he is aware only of his ego, or he is aware of the mental being which controls the life and the body. But more deeply he becomes aware of his... the Higher Consciousness and reflects something of it, though it is not altogether that—it is also in tune with the cosmic Truth. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The True Being and the True Consciousness There is behind all the vital nature in man his true vital being concealed and immobile which is quite different from the surface vital nature. The surface vital is narrow, ignorant, limited ...
... 1968 ( Message for the recipients of the essential material items distributed by Auroville prosperity ) Auroville is meant not for the satisfaction of desires but for the growth of the true consciousness. 16 June 1968 Any sincere attempt to bring peace and unity among men is welcome in Auroville. 20 July 1968 Page 196 The push towards the future is to be ready to... fall into inconscience and the very opposite of progress and light. To surmount one's ego and to live only in the service of the Divine, that is the ideal and the shortest way to acquire the true Consciousness. 27 April 1971 I disapprove totally of violence. Each act of violence is a step back on the path leading to the goal to which we aspire. The Divine is everywhere and always supremely ...
... consciousness and nature begin to grow and come out. Of course we want them also to use their will and reject the desires and wrong movements of the vital, for by doing that the emergence of the true consciousness becomes possible. But rejection alone cannot succeed; it is by rejection and by inner experience and growth that it is done. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - III: Inner Experience and Outer... of a larger deeper truth of nature, can realise the Self and liberate and transform the nature. To quiet the surface mind and begin to live within is the object of this concentration. Of this true consciousness other than the superficial there are two main centres, one in the heart (not the physical heart, but the cardiac centre in the middle of the chest), one in the head. The concentration in the ...
... April 13 experience: ) About that promise you received.... I didn't receive a promise—this Voice made me remember a promise I had made. I was saying to myself, "How to connect this true Consciousness to the other one—it's impossible!" And just then I seemed to hear... not Sri Aurobindo exactly, because then you immediately think of a particular body, but that sort of Voice saying to me, "Your... "Your promise. You said you would do the Work." So that's when I said, "Yes, I shall do the Work." And from that moment on the process of materialization began, the entire transition from the true Consciousness to the ordinary consciousness. I didn't receive a promise, but a reminder of the promise I had made. And was that what allowed you to say, "The thing is done"? No—it was the experience ...
... eternity" and that there isn't any "new" element; but that does nothing to alter the fact that this intervention is what stopped the accident (which gives an exact image of the power of this true consciousness over the other one). If we project our way of being onto the Supreme, we may conceive that He enjoys carrying out many experiments to see how it all plays (this is something else, it doesn't... with utterly inadequate words), but that does nothing to alter the fact that, when we look at the process, this intervention is what was able to make the accident miscarry: the substitution of a true consciousness for a false consciousness stopped the process of the false consciousness. And it seems to me it occurs often enough—much more often than people think. For example' every time an illness is ...
... scenes unfolding in which I am one of the characters; but it isn't "me," it is some character or other that I play in order to have the double consciousness, the ordinary consciousness and the true consciousness at the same time. There was a whole series of experiences to show simultaneously the True Thing and the sort of half-death (it's his word that Page 237 makes me think of this—"I am... those who are apparently quiet, it's there constantly—that tension to know). And it's a sort of superficial thing, shallow, cold and dry, WITHOUT VIBRATION. At the same time, as if in gusts, the true consciousness comes, as a contrast. And it happens in almost cinematographic circumstances (there is always a story, to make it more living). For instance, last night (it's one story among many, many others) ...
... awareness of the two states that must be simultaneous? Not divided. It's the union of the two states that constitutes the true consciousness; the union of the two ("union" still implies division), the identification of the two states is what constitutes the true consciousness. Then you get the sensation that it's this consciousness which is the supreme Power. You understand, Power is limited by o ...
... what the other was able to understand. That's why apparently there seem to be contradictions, but it's only an appearance. ( silence ) With the passing by—very brief passing by—of the true consciousness, the supramental consciousness, there has been in its wake a certain... it's between an attitude and a vision in the body (the Page 480 physical being), and it no longer sees things... (they're seen all the time, constantly), but it takes some time (what, for us, is expressed as "time") between the vision and the execution ( Mother draws a downward curve ), and if one is in the true consciousness and the true vision, what was there like that ( fluid gesture above ) can be changed. You understand, the whole creation is in a movement of such tremendous rapidity that it's imperceptible for ...
... division: there is the perception of diversity (that's becoming very interesting)... the diversity (if it weren't for what we might call the "latching on" of separateness), the diversity that, in the true consciousness, would be perfectly harmonious and would make a whole that would be perfection itself ( Mother makes a round gesture ). It's the latching on—what happened?... What happened?... It remains... of what is. There is also the perception that little by little, following all these experiences, every aggregate (what, for us, is a body) is getting used to having the power to bear the true Consciousness.... It requires a play of adaptation. But you know, Sri Aurobindo too wrote in Thoughts and Glimpses, I think, that suffering was a preparation for Ananda. 2 Page 331 Yes ...
... Supreme with... "Let Your Will be done," whatever it is. "It doesn't concern me, it's not my business: let Your Will be done." So when that is well settled, little by little the true consciousness can come; the true consciousness that truth is Harmony, truth is Progress, truth is Light, truth is... Then, little by little, it comes. But it's a long work. Only, as I said in the last "Notes," 2 what ...
... because as the Work progresses, true consciousness develops—but I don't want to say that. But is it in good French? Yes, yes, it's fine! It's very good! (laughter) ( silence ) And what about your own progress? Well, I very much wonder! ( Mother laughs ) Same here! ( silence ) But it's an incredible situation, you know: either true consciousness or the sensation of an impending ...
... I be informed how far the transformation has progressed and when it will be completed? When will the true consciousness be established? If the vital is so strong in its reactions, we cannot speak of transformation having progressed or how long it will take until the true consciousness begins to work and drive it out. At times the vital opens itself to the Mother and at ...
... aspiring? Page 129 Keep the aspiration always. What kind of aspiration should one have during such a state? Aspiration for the growth of the true consciousness. I hope that this first descent of the silence does not fade away soon. Remain very quiet in your mind and do not disperse it. It is a little... usual state of the ordinary people. What is the function of the peace and silence in us? What purpose do they serve? Page 131 As the basis of the true consciousness that is to replace the ordinary restless and troubled human consciousness. Regarding the diffusion of my consciousness you said, "Probably some quite involuntary relaxation in ...
... develops so much that the superconscient overmind and supermind cease to be superconscient. You once said: "In the true consciousness things appear differently from what they do now." Were you referring to the supramental consciousness? In any true consciousness, intuition or spiritual or overmental or supramental. Something in me, when I have made a mistake, goes on shouting ...
... emergence of the fully formed living creature within. One creates through one's consciousness, not through one's hands. A true creation must have at its origin the true consciousness, and a true consciousness has always the power to create invincibly; for consciousness is identified with essential energy. Chit and Tapas are one and the same. The seed of consciousness ...
... imperfection in work, hedges it with doubt. When this consciousness in work is changed to right consciousness, then I can get back the unity or identity between the worker and the work; in the true consciousness there thus comes a conscious identity between subject and object. To repeat what I have already said: When I run, my running, the goal of my running, and myself – these three become unified in... to become conscious does not mean that one becomes mentally conscious, only with the external mind. This may serve a temporary need, namely, that of removing unconsciousness, but it is not the true consciousness. To be truly conscious, one has to be conscious with the inner self, and that implies a union or unification that preserves the sense of individuality, a new kind of differentiated monism. ...
... others as of how you yourself are. I don’t know how to explain that.... When someone else sees you, you see yourself the way others see you. But there is a way of being which results from the true consciousness and is felt quite concretely, but which is ... not exactly in contradiction with, but wholly different from the way you see yourself according to others’ vision of yourself. That’s why something... Matter from that dreadful hypnotism. Oh! how they believe in death. The power of Death is that they all want to die! 2 she said one day. But there was “the other way,” “the product of the true consciousness,” that “son of the cells” that had been slowly built up, aggregated by the prayer of the body, the aspiration of the body, the millions of Mantras repeated night and day. A second time, She had ...
... centuries was inescapable.... It weighs down. It's very difficult. It takes a very slow and constant work to replace that sort of habit... of defeat, basically, with a faith, a true consciousness.... The true consciousness that truth is Harmony, truth is Progress, truth is Light, truth is .... 3 And the body, the physical consciousness falls back constantly into its old habit, what Mother called ...
... is not just the union, but the fusion, the identification of the two. It's the union of the two states that constitutes the true consciousness; the union of the two ("union" still implies division), the identification of the two states is what constitutes the true consciousness. 9 The fusion of "life" and "death"?... A third state of... something. At the border between "life" and "death," on that ...
... secure that better do not spend the time at your disposal in speech — especially if anything of the depression remains with you, it will waste the time in discussing things which cannot help the true consciousness to Page 19 predominate. Concentrate, open yourself and let the Mother bring you back to the psychic condition by what she will pour into you in meditation and silence. ... conscious and the subconscient parts. Something came up that made you get out of poise and stray into a past round of feelings. The one thing to do is to quiet yourself and get back into the true consciousness and poise. There is nothing in what you have written about what happened that has any wrong turn or mistake except the imprudence of intervening and becoming a messenger of the Ys to X; it ...
... the Falsehood of the world suddenly fills up with grey or black, and fades from sight But we do not know how many humans would suddenly “fade out,” if the only measurement and weight is that of true consciousness. I have no idea whether the false appearance wouldn’t still exist for those not ready to see the true thing, Mother asked herself. At any rate, it would be an intermediary period: those whose... invisible contagion. But.… There is a formidable “but.” The appearance of the world changes for those whose eyes are open. The very appearance of the body changes: the true light, the true consciousness, the true content imposes itself. And it is certain that the more the true vibration becomes evident, visible, the more it will, as if automatically, rectify the false, lying vibration—and the ...
... all one after the other). The first time, I didn't say anything, but after some time (laughing) I simply said (I don't remember the words, but rather the sense) that to be in Auroville the true consciousness is to look at one's own faults before complaining about the faults of others, and to correct oneself first before insisting that others correct themselves (I put it in a more... literary way)... ... our human consciousness is VERY SMALL, my child! Even when you're identified with the general Consciousness, you feel yo u r se lf so small, so microscopic in comparison to the true Consciousness which contains everything. We can't contain everything ! Even, even when we are identified with this Consciousness, we become like that (gesture indicating a blank at the level of the forehead) ...
... puzzling in that. 27 April 1936 Meditation as a Means What do you call meditation? Shutting the eyes and concentrating? It is only one method for calling down the true consciousness. To join with the true consciousness or feel its descent is the only thing important and if it comes without the orthodox method, as it always did with me, so much the better. Meditation is only a means or device ...
... fact of the day's experiences are signs of the true consciousness coming. The Mother's consciousness with the wideness of the light, the white light in the vital, the golden light in the silence of the outer mind, the change in the vital, the quiet and natural trust and confidence are all signs and circumstances of this opening to the true consciousness. As you say, there must be established Page ...
... very persistent analysis, a very keen discernment of what is pure in the movement and what is not. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 24 March 1951 When one lives in the true consciousness one feels the desires outside oneself, entering from outside, from the universal lower Prakriti, into the mind and the vital parts. In the ordinary human condition this is not felt; men become... found a lodging or a habitual harbourage and so they think it is their own and a part of themselves. The first condition for getting rid of desire is, therefore, to become conscious with the true consciousness; for then it becomes much easier to dismiss it than when one has to struggle with it as if it were a constituent part of oneself to be thrown out from the being. It is easier to cast off an accretion ...
... difficult to see it. Now, if one comes down again from this consciousness to a more external consciousness, naturally one begins to feel, very precisely, the things which help one to reach the true consciousness and those which bar the way or pull one back or even struggle against the progress. And so the outlook changes and one has to say, "This is divine, or this helps me toward the Divine; and that... amiable slowness of Nature, with all her fantasies, one finds it quite natural and doesn't even notice it. It is not an image, it is not just fine words when it is said that if one enters the true consciousness, if one changes one's consciousness, well, the world itself changes for you. And it is not only an appearance or an impression: one sees differently than one does in the ordinary consciousness; ...
... conscious of the Divine, because it has cut off the connection in its consciousness, because its consciousness is separated from the Divine. That is to say, it has become unconscious. For the true consciousness is the divine Consciousness. If you cut yourself off from the divine Consciousness, you become absolutely unconscious; that is exactly what has happened. And so, everything there is, the world... It is as if you asked me, "What is unconscious in us?" But in fact, everything is unconscious except the Divine. And it is only when one can unite with the Divine that one re-establishes the true consciousness in one's being. The rest is a kind of mixture of semi-consciousness and semi-unconsciousness. Anything else? No? ( Turning to a disciple ) Oh! he is longing to speak! Mother, there ...
... perception of division; there is the perception of diversity and this becomes very interesting.... The diversity which, if it were not for what one might call the "hitch" of separation, would, in the true consciousness, be perfectly harmonious and would make a whole that would be perfection itself ( Mother makes the sign of a circle ). It is the hitch—what has happened?... What has come to pass?... It remains... what is. There is also the perception that gradually, through all these experiences, each aggregate (which is for us a body) is accustoming itself so that it may have the capacity to bear the true Consciousness. That does need a movement of adaptation. But Sri Aurobindo has written also, in Thoughts and Glimpses, I believe, that suffering was the preparation for Ananda. 1 Yes. I must say ...
... the emergence of the true consciousness becomes possible. But rejection alone cannot succeed; it is by rejection and by inner experience and growth that it is done. You say that all these things were hidden within you. No; they were not deep within, they were in the outer or surface nature, only you were not sufficiently conscious of them because the other true consciousness had not opened and grown ...
... not a fixed machinery which one can manage by devices or by pulling this or that button. It is only by the inner Will, the constant aspiration, by detachment and rejection, by bringing down the true consciousness, force etc. that it can be done. I can only say as before, that there is no specific reason [ for fluctuations in the working of the Force ] which the mind can determine. It depends on... is difficult to say [ why the veiling of consciousness persists ]—usually it is when something in the mind and vital accepts and indulges the lower forces that this inability to re-enter the true consciousness remains so obstinate. Physical tamas can produce long interregnums of obscure consciousness, but not usually with such a violent obstruction—usually only dull and obstinate. Page 67 ...
... order that one may have completely the knowledge of oneself and the true consciousness. These two parts are the inner being and the outer being. The outer being (mind, vital and physical) has now become capable of quietude and it sits in meditation in a free, happy, vacant quietude which is the first step towards the true consciousness. The inner being (inner mind, vital, physical) is not lost but gone ...
... wrong in itself—it depends on the way in which one is interested. If it is done as part of the sadhana, looking on them from the true consciousness, then they become a means for the growth of the being. It is that Page 59 that matters, to get the true consciousness—and it is this that comes in you when you have the sense of the Peace and the working of the Force in it. There is no real reason ...
... Writing and reading absorb the mind and fill it with images and influences; if the images and influences are not of the right kind, they naturally turn away from the true consciousness. It is only if one has the true consciousness well established already, that one can read or write anything whatever without losing it or without any other harm. The use of your writing is to keep you in touch ...
... thousands of lives and are the very nature of man's vital and mental ignorance. It is not surprising that they should have a power to stick and take time to disappear. But there is a true being and a true consciousness that is there in us hidden by these surface formations of nature and which can shake them off once it emerges. By taking the right attitude of selfless devotion within and persisting in it in... the conscious and subconscient parts. Something came up that made you get out of poise and stray into a past round of feelings. The one thing to do is to quiet yourself and get back into the true consciousness and poise. Always keep within and do things without involving yourself in them, then nothing adverse will happen or, if it does, no serious reaction will come. The idea of leaving for any ...
... become fit for the descent. Otherwise there will always be these ups and downs in some part of the being at least, delay, confusion and disorder. This is the only true basis for fixity in the true consciousness and for a smooth course in the sadhana. 14 December 1931 For the rest, it is not a fact that the Mother is retiring more and more or that she has any intention of going inside entirely... notice. The next step is for the sadhaks themselves to take; they must make it possible (by their change of attitude, by their resolution to rise on the lower vital and physical plane into the true consciousness) for a union with the Mother on that plane in the right way and with the right result to become possible. More I cannot say just now; but I fully intend to be more explicit hereafter—so far ...
... the work somewhat more difficult, but taken on the whole, it is a GREAT help—I understood that were I young, I could never have done what I am doing. And when I am in the true consciousness, the moment I am in the true consciousness, the number of years is nothing!—The body feels so young, so full of... something else than young (for it, young is immature and ignorant, it's not that), it's... you're ...
... great battle between all the materialistic ideas and the true consciousness, and the result... ( grating gesture ). In the space of a quarter of an hour, everything starts grating—you have some pain, you're ill at ease, everything seems about to be torn apart, with dreadful contradictions—and then, with the pressure of the true consciousness, suddenly pfft! everything vanishes in a minute, and it becomes ...
... Auroville? Most of it, yes. Listen, there's quite a lazy group in Auroville! Oh, that, yes! People who don't want to work. Now they say that according to your book, to get the true consciousness, one doesn't have to work! Yes, that's it. I heard that also. They say, "Work belongs to the old world"...! Yes, that's how they understand it. So, what can you do?... What did you reply... into unconsciousness, it is contrary to all progress and light. "To overcome one's ego, to live only in the service of the Divine—that is the ideal and the shortest way towards acquiring the true consciousness." × Nor do we know what kind of report Mother was getting from the trio of intriguers who were ...
... April 20, 1956 ( Letter to Mother from Satprem ) Pondicherry, April 20, 1956 Sweet Mother, The difficulties of the past weeks have taught me that as soon as one strays from the true consciousness, in however trifling a way, anything may happen, any excess, any aberration, any imbalance—and I have felt very dangerous things prowling about me. Mother, you told me in regard to Patrick 1... freedom, even the freedom to choose wrongly. This evening, it has been my very deep perception that this freedom is virtually always a freedom to choose wrongly. I harbor a great fear of losing the true consciousness once again. I have become aware of how fragile everything in me is and that very little would be enough to carry me away. Therefore, Sweet Mother, I come to ask a great grace of you, from ...
... consecration. Page 36 Whatever one does, it becomes useful if one puts a spark of true consciousness into it. The consciousness one has is much more important than the act one performs. And the most apparently useless acts can become very productive if they are performed with the true consciousness. 10 August 1966 It is the spirit and the consciousness from which it is done that ...
... s of the two states that must be simultaneous? Page 113 Not divided. It is the union of the two states which makes the true consciousness, the union of the two—"union" still implies division—the identification of the two which makes the true consciousness. And then one has the feeling that it is that, it is that consciousness, which is the supreme Power. Power is limited by oppositions ...
... know it mentally. And when it knows, it has power: this gives the power. And it is this that is worked out slowly, slowly—and for the ignorant consciousness, slowly and painfully. But for the true consciousness, it is not so: pain, delight, all this is a way... so absurd a way of seeing things—of feeling them, seeing them. There is a perception more and more concrete that everything... that there... And this perception of suffering and delight, almost of evil and good, all this, these are necessities for the work, to allow the work to be done in a certain field of inconscience. Because the true consciousness is something altogether, altogether different. And this, it is this which this consciousness of the cells is now learning, and learning through a concrete experience, and all these evaluations ...
... 193 anguish as though it were going to die! You understand? It is to that degree. For it, immobility means... yes, it has the feeling that the highest vibration, the vibration of the true Consciousness, is so intense that it is... it is equivalent to the inertia of immobility—an intensity which is not perceptible to us. So great is this intensity that it is, for us, equivalent to inertia. ... consciousness of mortality, and that is truly... for it now to fall back into the consciousness of mortality is an awful anguish; and it is only when it comes out of it, when it returns to the true consciousness, that the thing vanishes. And I understand why there have been people, there have been Yogis who spoke of the unreality of the world; because, to the consciousness of immortality, the consciousness ...
... physical substance, of the body, and having illnesses you get cured of or not, depending on... other laws than physical laws. But there is every minute—every minute—the possibility to choose the true consciousness, or there is, yes, a disorder or disequilibrium. It's something which is unable to follow the movement of progressive harmony, or sometimes even which doesn't want to. I am talking about cells... is in proportion to the unconsciousness. You understand, it has reached a point where there is an impression of fluidity and plasticity asserting itself increasingly with the growth of the true consciousness. The hardening seems to be the result of Unconsciousness; the lack of fluidity and plasticity seems to be the result of Unconsciousness. Not only in the body: for everything the impression is ...
... know it mentally. When it knows, it has the power: knowing gives it the power. That's what is being slowly, slowly worked out. For an ignorant consciousness it's slow and painful—but for the true consciousness, it's not that! Pain, joy, all that is... such an absurd way of seeing things—of feeling and seeing things. There is an increasingly concrete perception that everything—that there is nothing... hard to express. And this perception of suffering and joy (almost of evil and good), all of that is necessities of the work to enable it to be done in a certain field of unconsciousness. Because true consciousness is something entirely, totally different. Page 80 That's what the consciousness of the cells is now learning, and learning through a concrete experience; and all those appreciations ...
... gesture around the head ]): "In my Consciousness, things are different." Or, "In my Consciousness, things have a different appearance." And there was this insistence: "Work to have the true consciousness." The TRUE consciousness that contains everything. And this morning, the body understood: the problem was very clearly understood. (None of this is thought out, I don't know how to explain... it's not ...
... conceive of a considerable improvement with the establishment of the true Consciousness, because, as I said, there are experiences (quite fleeting, but still) that are very concrete, of even a material harmonization which, seen in that way, looks very much like a miracle. But one conceives that reestablishing the True Consciousness and, along with it, the Harmony it brings, would make a considerable ...
... Page 255 It's as if a fantastic amount of things were made known to me: people whom I don't know physically, things that I don't know physically. And with the clear vision of the true Consciousness behind it all: the workings of the Consciousness. It's interesting, but anyway... It would be wonderful for a writer, he would have books and books to write! I even hear sentences; when things... see them written—it's even more precise than in a film. And all the answers. And then the two consciousnesses side by side: the superficial consciousness, the way it works in people, and the true Consciousness that moves it all as it would puppets. It's interesting, obviously. And for a long while after I wake up in the morning, I only have to stop for a second, stay still for a second, and it ...
... Rtam is the true being, the true consciousness and the true delight of existence which manifests the right action. The right action results from Truth- consciousness which has to be attained, as also the process of that attainment. That process is a process of thoughts, emotions and works in their upward journey, which is guided by the growth of true consciousness, true being and true delight of ...
... — it is just Light of Divine Consciousness. If you mean the result, it is supposed to illumine, to remove darkness and obscurity, to make the nature fit for true consciousness. Knowledge etc. How do you define true consciousness? The consciousness that is aware of the Divine and the truth and does not look at things from the ego — it is wide and calm and strong and aspires ...
... vanity—that is to say, when in order to be good you observe certain rules and you feel you are virtuous, you are dutiful—then it is not the true way, not the true attitude and the true consciousness. The true consciousness is that you do the right thing not because it is your duty to do it, not because it is worth doing and it is expected of you to do it, but because your nature impels you towards it ...
... active, a marvel of mercy and solicitude, and that it is our utter foolishness that was not letting us have this perception . 11.2.1969 Page 73 The time I pass without the true consciousness no longer seems to me to be a life. In truth it is not a life, it is hardly its appearance and most often a false appearance. But this can be eliminated from the being and replaced by... exclusively mental phenomenon, are of a very superior quality and much less mechanical. 12.4.1969 From today I stop having fixed hours of meditation. I aspire to live more and more in the true consciousness at Your feel. . . It is good. Yesterday I asked this Consciousness what was the condition required to be able to receive it without deforming it. It replied, "One must be able to ...
... contain the delight of being, because... without [it] there is no being"! The consciousness of her cells seemed to be getting beyond the dualities of good and bad, suffering and happiness into the true consciousness which is altogether different. But the concrete Thing or Truth had not yet been seized. If one had it, one would be truly "the omnipotent master". And this could be achieved "only when the entire... suffering and Ananda, it was a movement "to stop all separation and realise the total consciousness in every part". And she concluded that it was the "identification of the two which makes the true consciousness... which is the supreme Power". The matter was further clinched by a question from the disciple, and the Mother's answer: Is it the material equivalent of a psychological experience one ...
... on the light laid bare By my dense clay she treats now like thin air. 11 In her talk of 23 September 1953, the Mother had spoken of the physical world as simply an image, "but in the true consciousness, all that happens behind or before is the true thing and what one sees externally is only an image, that is to say, a projection on a screen, of something which exists altogether independently"... done. That's all. It was not with the ordinary consciousness that mistook the image on the screen for the reality (without any awareness of the antecedents and consequences); it was with the true consciousness alone that one could scent and detect and assess new movements and phenomena engineered by the Spirit: "If one changes one's consciousness, well, the world itself changes for you." But this was ...
... the Bengali expressions. I give here some tokens of his exquisite translations — rather to demonstrate his love and grace flowing through these translations. I wrote: “Let me grow into the true consciousness and the veil of darkness that still keeps you separate from me drop down and with your light let my temple become...” Then I continued in Bengali which Sri Aurobindo translated thus: “a-gleam... 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 (as expressed in today’s letter) the reason for the difference between your ...
... another, back and forth from a world of pain to another... inexplicable one—the same, but completely different. One has reached the consciousness of the body: the body itself, as it really is, its true consciousness, free from the character that covers it up with its magma of howling catastrophe. Almost as if there were two bodies: a body of pain and the other; a body imprisoned and the other; an "undulatory"... external, physical signs, whether they were like this or like that... such as swollen legs or a malfunctioning liver.... Well, it was all utterly unimportant: IT IN NO WAY CHANGES THE BODY'S TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS. Although we are in the habit of thinking that the body is very disturbed when it's ill, when something is going wrong, it's not so. It isn't disturbed in the way we understand it. 27 "But ...
... transitory device. It is a transitory phase, which seems terribly long to us, but in fact is rather short. Even our consciousness is an adaptation of the Consciousness—THE Consciousness, the true Consciousness is something else.... But what? And so the conclusion for my body is ... to curl up in the Divine. Not to try to understand, not to try to know: try to BE And “like this” [in that “being”]... step towards the Divine. 21 Then everything tears open, gets clearer: It is the next step, the next state of human consciousness, a state that transforms both life and death. It is the true consciousness of immortality. 22 That which has the power to undo death because death no longer exists, it is something else. Something that has melted into a third state where both sides are one. No more ...
... decomposition⎯the whole damned story. Not a hundred things: only one. And that little distorted vibration is perhaps even the very one that creates the whole carbon layer. Change that, and the true Consciousness flows into the tissues, the bones, the nerves … the earth. Then nothing is impossible. A change of position in the physical consciousness. Something that annuls the distorting little vibration... earth.” More and more I am convinced that we have a way of receiving things and reacting to them that CREATES difficulties—I am more and more convinced of it. If you succeed in being in the true Consciousness all the time, there are no difficulties—and yet things are the same. 12 There is no such thing as illness, tiredness, unbalance⎯no death⎯and yet things are the same. The microbes are the ...
... as pain or suffering is only Ananda turned against itself, a distorted and tortured Bliss of existence. These contradictions are real in the Ignorance and because of the Ignorance, but to the true consciousness they are only phenomenal and superficial, not true truths of being. Non-Being, Being and the Absolute 16 Nothing can arise from Nothing. Asat, nothingness, is a creation of our mind; ...
... supreme discipline. Truth is its home; and this Truth is not merely intellectual verity,—for that is not the sense of the word in the Vedic writings,—but man's ultimate human state of true being, true consciousness, right knowledge, right works, right joy of existence, all indeed that is contrary to the falsehood of egoism and ignorance. It is by these means, by Page 90 using works and self ...
... when he knows himself, knows the real nature of the world in which he lives and, most of all, knows the Eternal from whom he comes and in whom and by whom he exists. When he has once achieved a true consciousness and knowledge, there is no longer any problem; for then he acts freely out of himself and lives spontaneously in accordance with the truth of his spirit and his highest nature. At its fullest ...
... roles—and if each one of us tries, following the example of the great ones, to fulfil each his own mission, maybe we will be able one Page 96 day to meet and understand them in the true consciousness, being all one with the One and also with the Many. So what is really our true token of love and gratitude to them is to try to be honest and sincere in our love and self-giving to the Divine ...
... making a smaller preliminary foundation, a spiritual training ground and the first form of a community of spiritual workers. Here they will practise and grow in this Yoga and learn to act from the true consciousness and with the true knowledge and power. Here too some first work will be undertaken and institutions founded on a small scale which will prepare for the larger and more definite work of the future ...
... (Correspondence with Debou) Debou's Correspondence with The Mother 21 February 1949 Give me true consciousness and perfect consecration. 21 February 1949 ...
... adventurers who wish to solve the mystery of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophecies, all that is going to come is presented with a precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness ...
... behind and away from them it is surprising how superficial they are, what ridiculously weak and little-penetrating pin-pricks they prove to be, — and we have to realise true existence, and true consciousness, and true experience of existence and consciousness, Sat, Chit and Ananda. Chit, the divine Consciousness, is not our mental self-awareness; that we shall find to be only a form, a lower ...
... as it comes must be observed, as quietly and with as much unmoved detachment as you would observe something going on outside you, and allowed to pass, rejected from the consciousness, and the true consciousness steadily put in its place. But for that these things of eating and drinking must be put in their right place, which is a small one. You say that many have left the Ashram because they did ...
... taken us to such a state of conscious understanding, knowledge and love that misunderstanding, disharmony, intolerance and anger have no place. What you say is quite true. There is a deep and true Consciousness in which all can meet in love and harmony. 28 June 1934 ...
... its process, the attitude of the sadhaks not of a few only, must change. They must cling less to the conditions and feelings of the external physical consciousness and open themselves to the true consciousness of the Yogin and sadhaka. If they did that, the inner eye would open and they would not be bewildered or alarmed if the Mother again manifested externally something of the Divine Personalities ...
... passivity taking the form of inertia—Inertia brings the consciousness down, towards the ordinary physical level which is soon fatigued and prone to tamas. The cure here is to get back into the true consciousness and rest there, not in inertia. 3) It may be due to mere overstrain of the body—not giving it enough sleep, etc. The body is not inexhaustible and needs to be husbanded. A certain moderation ...
... dream. I wrote to the Mother in order to make sure, because what I had seen had the look of a living thing, which I can never forget. She answered: Happily, the true worlds and the true Consciousness are not a dream, but the only real Reality for those who are sincere and conscious. Bonne Année for 1970 with all my love and blessings . Then I did the painting of my vision ...
... To lead the Divine Life does not depend on any exterior activity of circumstances whatever you do from the highest work to the most ordinary; you can lead the Divine Life if you are in the true consciousness and the right attitude. ...
... the degradation of śama , as rajas is the degradation of Tapas, the Divine Force. The physical consciousness is always trying to substitute its own inertia for the calm, peace or rest of the true consciousness, just as the vital is always trying to substitute its rajas for the true action of the Force. It [ sleepiness ] is the physical tamas trying to push itself into the place of the calm. ...
... defeats them and helps to open to the true spiritual will and action; physical faith keeps one firm through all physical obscurity, inertia or suffering and helps to open to the foundation of the true consciousness; psychic faith opens to the direct touch of the Divine and helps to bring union and surrender. Faith can be tamasic and ineffective, e.g. "I believe the Mother will do everything, so I ...
... you had undertaken to do. Keep to it and, however slowly, the consciousness will open and light come. Keep quietude, persevere. These are the clouds that cover the growing Light; but the true consciousness is there increasing behind the clouds. There is no such impossibility of your victory over the harder parts of your nature as you imagine. There is only needed the perseverance to go on ...
... past itself, but only the ghost of it, a conceptual shadow of a reality which is now to him dead, non-existent, no longer in being. But all this is an action of the superficial ignorance. The true consciousness within is not unaware of its past; it holds it there, not necessarily in memory but in being, still active, living, ready with its fruits, and sends it up from time to time in memory or more ...
... get behind and away from them it is surprising how superficial they are, what ridiculously weak and little-penetrating pin-pricks they prove to be,—and we have to realise true existence, and true consciousness, and true experience of existence and consciousness, Sat, Chit and Ananda. Chit, the divine Consciousness, is not our mental self-awareness; that we shall find to be only a form, a lower and ...
... বিলাপ ও নিরাশা সৃষ্টি করে ৷ যেমন প্রাণের বাধাকরী বেগে কোন লাভ নাই, তেমন বাধাজনিত নিরাশায়ও লাভ নাই ৷ তার চেয়ে নম্র সরলভাবে শ্রদ্ধা ও সমর্পণ করে প্রাণের সব অশুদ্ধ movementকে ত্যাগ করে প্রাণে true consciousness (সত্য চেতনা)কে নামাবার চেষ্টা ভাল ৷ 28.6.34 স: মা, আমার শুধু কেন বােধ হচ্ছে তুমি কঠোর নির্দয়? প্রতি মুহূর্তে আমি এত অন্যায় করি তবুও যে তুমি এক বিন্দু বিচলিত না হয়ে আমাকে শান্তি দাও ...
... falling off or else an obstacle to the free development of their sadhana. What is meant by bāhyapūjā ? If it is purely external, then of course it is the lowest form; but if done with the true consciousness inside, it can bring the greatest completeness of the adoration by allowing the body and the most external consciousness to share in the spirit and act of worship. Page 364 What ...
... convenient station (detached and uninvolved, therefore not subject to Prakriti) from which one can act on the wrong movements by refusal of assent and by substituting for them the action of the true consciousness from within or above. You can certainly go on developing the consciousness of the Witness Purusha above, but if it is only a witness and the lower Prakriti is allowed to have its own way ...
... the consciousness either in the physical or some part of the vital according to the shade. Lotus A lotus flower indicates open consciousness. A lotus signifies the opening of the (true) consciousness. The lotus is always the sign of the consciousness opening somewhere—when the consciousness opened from above, you became aware of a new plane of being of which you were not aware before ...
... created in you. You have only to do what I have been trying to tell you. Draw back from them and, having seen what was lingering in the nature, dismiss them quietly and turn back again to the true consciousness, opening yourself to receive once more the Truth that is creating you anew and let it come down into all your nature. Wounded Feeling Your letter of the morning came entirely from the disturbed ...
... rightly in a particular case is another matter. The disturbance in talking to people comes of course because they throw their own vibrations upon you and revive your old movements. Once the true consciousness is well fixed in your Page 333 physical being, that effect need no longer happen. To discuss with others, especially when they are in a bad state, is always a mistake. It is ...
... observed, as quietly and with as much unmoved detachment as you would observe something going on outside you, and must be allowed to pass, rejected from the consciousness, and the true movement, the true consciousness steadily put in its place. About food, tea etc. the aim of Yoga is to have no hankerings, no slavery either to the stomach or the palate. How to get to that point is another matter—it ...
... the consciousness and prevented the psychic being from manifesting. The physical troubles that belong to the constitution of the body are usually the last things to disappear. When the true consciousness fixes itself in the body as elsewhere, then they can be reduced and dispelled by the same process as that which removes the wrong habits of the mind and vital. Care for the Body No need ...
... external physical consciousness—but in reality it is there in your inner being working in you. When you recover the inner consciousness, you feel it again within and it wakes in you your own true consciousness, the psychic—and it is only the psychic that gives faith and devotion. It is however a great progress if, even when in the external physical consciousness, you feel the Peace enveloping you. ...
... anywhere—all is at the mercy of the play of forces. In Yoga there is the period of struggle and difficulty in which the difficulty and suffering can be acute and the period of the foundation in the true consciousness after which there is no serious disturbance of the peace and freedom leading to the state of realisation in all the being in which grief etc. are impossible. All X 's troubles are due ...
... strength and Page 282 sustenance is the best for you—meat is not advisable. Let the wide opening that has come in you develop and your whole being down to the material fill with the true consciousness and the true power. That is true. 2 As things are, the vital falsehood seems to take a temporary advantage over the superior sattwic nature. Avoiding Disturbance Whenever anything ...
... French language as an instrument. If the Force wants to express anything through you hereafter or not, is a thing you should leave to the Divine Will; once you give yourself into its hands in the true consciousness, it will know what to do or not to do through you and will make full use of whatever instrumentation you can put at its disposal. Painting Painting also is sadhana; so it is perfectly possible ...
... rise. The way to realise is through a quiet mind and a vital free from desires. To reject the desires and demands of the vital and to quiet the excessive activity of the mind, so that a true consciousness and spiritual perception and knowledge may take the place of the mind's activity, are the requisite conditions of the Yoga. Page 44 The further method is,—(1) To concentrate in the ...
... These things come to everybody in the early stages of the sadhana and are sometimes very persistent, even later on they continue—but the sadhak rejects them and regards them as no part of his true consciousness or worthy to determine his action and life, but as untrue suggestions which he has to overcome. If Page 65 that is always done, they begin after a time to lose their force of invasion ...
... is again from the highest standpoint—the truth as one knows it in the mind is not enough, for the mind's idea may be erroneous or insufficient—it is necessary to have the true knowledge in the true consciousness. Why should it be lying [ to leave something unsaid ]? One is not bound to tell everything to everybody—it might often do more harm than good. One has only to say what is necessary. Of ...
... prevail. To call the higher calm and peace down into the system from above is the main thing—if you feel that coming down, it will be the beginning of the liberation. You were getting the true consciousness down into the vital, but as the old difficulty rose again in the physical, there is again the vital attack. The sign of complete liberation will be when your vital can face this attack always ...
... a rule of the sadhana. c. January 1934 You have written [in the preceding letter] that the "old forms ... may fall away"; but I think it would be proper if they fell away only after a true consciousness was established. That is what I meant. It would seem to me that there would be no impropriety if forms like Pranam, Dhup, Dip or Naivedya are continued even after a true inner consciousness ...
... readiness for the touch of the Divine Light and Power. 9 September 1945 When the Light enters into the Inconscience which hedges in all our being and prevents or limits the manifestation of the true consciousness in us, when it inhibits the habits and recurrences and constant repetition of the same stimuli which besiege us and rise from the subconscient, then only can the nature be wholly free and respond ...
... attack; now they are only spending what force is left to them and losing it. Besides once the psychic being is awake, it is bound to recover control and confirm the mind in the truth so that the true consciousness in the being becomes each time stronger. All is well. The Mother's child will always grow more in you and the Mother's little star burn brighter and brighter. 20 November 1935 It is ...
... to give them. In fact, if you have such desires as that, it is a very good reason for not giving them to you, as it would only feed the desire. Get rid of these movements once for all. Let the true consciousness grow and reject these things. 22 September 1934 ...
... are certain conditions which the sadhak must satisfy, and the Divine veils his power and knowledge so that the sadhak may have the occasion to love and will and think and act and grow into the true consciousness. As for writing, the Mother has no time any longer, that is why she leaves it to me. X formerly used to tell the Mother to take full rest and not wear herself out etc.—how is it now she ...
... form as the centre of this unity is possible. Perhaps you mean that? But how are you going to do that if the other parts are left to remain as they are? They will go on pulling you out of the true consciousness as they do now. And how are they to be changed if the Mother's Force is not there in them to change them? 14 January 1936 It is true that the Mother is one in many forms, but the distinction ...
... cannot become altogether this at once, but if one aspires at all times and calls in the aid of the Divine Shakti with a true heart and a straightforward will, one grows more and more into the true consciousness" [ cf. p. 27 ]. It is of course said that the success will come sooner or later,—it is for that reason that patience is indispensable. But these are not Himalayan conditions—it is not putting ...
... one who regards it with devotion towards her. It was her true presence that was there, her subtle physical presence and all you felt was true. It shows that your physical mind is opening to the true consciousness. It is quite sure that this will grow and the remnants of the old movements are bound to disappear. 2 May 1936 ...
... be? Has it any direct relation with my artistic creations? Yes. It is the result of the pressure put by the Mother to see and do things in the true light. What you feel coming down is the true consciousness with the presence and action of the Mother. Mother gave me a quiet mind today. Ever since pranam I have been feeling her atmosphere; some force which I feel to be hers is upon my head ...
... Yoga, are guilty of a stupid and irrational inconsequence. As for understanding, that is another matter. I would suggest that you must grow out of the ordinary mind and become conscious with the true consciousness before you can hope to do it. And for that faith and surrender and fidelity and openness are conditions of some importance. 6 November 1929 Are there sadhaks in the Asram who do not understand ...
... have no profit for her spiritual future from her stay here? 5 May 1936 Can the physical mind have a correct understanding of the Mother's dealings? Not until it is enlightened by the true consciousness and knowledge from above. 4 July 1936 Why should the Mother be obliged to treat everybody in the same way? It would be a most imbecile thing for her to do that. Page 352 ...
... things and persons and forces. Or he knows because he lives in a plane of consciousness or is in contact with a consciousness in which there is the truth and the knowledge. If you are in the true consciousness, the knowledge you have will also be of the truth. Then, too, you can know directly, by being one with what you know. If a problem is put before you, if you are asked what is to be done in a ...
... hearts keep all the desires, ambitions, the need for show, and live to satisfy this ambition and these desires instead of living for the only thing that is worth living for: attainment of the true consciousness, integral self-giving to the Divine, the peace, the light and the delight that come from the true wisdom and self-forgetfulness. One could easily replace throughout this text the word fool ...
... of the sense of the falsehood of the world, which comes to those who have risen to the higher consciousness. What happened with Shankara and others like him was that they had a glimpse of the true consciousness, which threw the falsehood of this world into such sharp contrast that they declared the universe to be not only false but also a really non-existent illusion which should be entirely abandoned ...
... utmost possibility of consciousness. This peace and fullness and joy given by the psychic contact they naturally find everywhere, in everything and everybody. It gives an openness towards the true consciousness pervading here and working out everything. So long as the openness is there, the peace, the fullness and the joy remain with their immediate results of progress, health and fitness in the physical ...
... spiritual life, if one wants even to become simply Page 367 a higher type of man, the limitations of the ego are the worst obstacles, and the ego must be surpassed in order to enter the true consciousness. And indeed, for the ordinary elementary life of man, all the qualities belonging to the animal nature, especially those of the body, were indispensable, otherwise man would not have existed ...
... is a great change, a great difference. And this phenomenon may occur very often, may repeat itself for many years. Suddenly you get a sort of revelation, like an illumination, you are in the true consciousness and have the feeling of having got hold of the real thing. And then, slowly or suddenly, it seems to recede behind you, and you seek but do not find that there is any great change in you.... ...
... something, an attraction, a need to take, you see. Take for instance... you see something which is—which seems to you or is—very beautiful, very harmonious, very pleasant; if you have the true consciousness, you experience this joy of seeing, of being in a conscious contact with something very beautiful, very harmonious, and then that's all. It stops there. You have the joy of it—that such a thing ...
... a fantasy on another plane; it is another kind of desire, but it is a desire." However, in the normal course, to the degree that you progress inwardly, every step that you take towards the true consciousness is accompanied by a certain number of experiences corresponding to it which allow you to understand the situation you are in: this of course is normal. It ought to be like that. But these ...
... has to be made. But the moment has come when this progress is possible. June 1968 * Auroville is meant not for the satisfaction of desires but for the growth of the true consciousness. 16.6.1968* Page 34 One does not live in Auroville to be comfortable but to grow in consciousness and to serve the Divine. 1.3.1971 As long as they have desires ...
... into in-conscience and the very opposite of progress and light. To surmount one's ego and to live only in the service of the Divine, that is the ideal and the shortest way to acquire the true Consciousness. 27.4.1971 * "As for the principle that everyone should be allowed to do according to his nature, that can apply only where people do independent work by themselves; where many ...
... after—the liberation. What still remains to be lived, that is to say, the experience still to be realised is... the next forward move of creation, of Matter—the next step to return to the true Consciousness. That, it is... It seems decided that something like a beginning, or a trial experience, is about to be gone through ( Mother touches her body ). It is a question of the intensity of faith ...
... to be circulated everywhere. Never put the blame on others or on circumstances, because whatever the circumstances, even those that appear the worst, if you keep the true attitude and have the true consciousness, they will have no importance at all for your inner progress, no importance—I say this and I include even death. Indeed, that seems to be the first lesson to learn. ( Silence ) Sri Aurobindo ...
... the weight of its own ignorance and blindness, it struggles desperately to rise above them. The ordinary consciousness is ignorant of what things are in reality; it sees their shell. But the true consciousness is at the centre, at the heart of reality and has the direct vision of the origin of all movements. Seated within and above, it knows the source, the cause and effect of all things and forces ...
... with time? How can the physical being prevent this deterioration? That is precisely what the transformation of the body is: the physical cells not only become conscious, but receptive to the true Consciousness-Force; that is, they allow the working of this higher Consciousness. That is the work of transformation. How does the will, the central light, which is not material, act on the gross matter ...
... suppleness and spontaneity, it could very well be that now I err through the opposite excess. I have come to accept peacefully the state I am in and to tell myself that Thou wilt bestow upon me the true Consciousness, the absolute Consciousness when Thou thinkest it best. I look at all this changing world as a game unfolding itself, and I take part in this game with the same energy and conviction with ...
... world, but no answer. I can still see that smile: "Don't try to know, it is not yet time." (the clock strikes) Page 239 If we knew how to remain always in the true consciousness, there would be... a smile. But we have a tendency to become tragic. It's our weakness. It is our limitations that make a drama. We are too small — too small and too short-sighted. But. ...
... Page 219 Listen, there's quite a lazy group in Auroville! Oh, that, yes! People who don't want to work. Now they say that according to your book, to get the true consciousness, one doesn't have to work! Yes, that's it. I heard that also. They say, "Work belongs to the old world"...! Yes, that's how they understand it. So, what can you do?... What did ...
... planes of consciousness, you may have memories of such intensity, such vibrant colour, so to say, even more intense than the colours and things of the physical world. For these are the moments of true consciousness, and everything then puts on an extraordinary brilliance, everything is vibrant, everything is imbued with a quality that escapes the ordinary eye. These minutes of contact with the soul are ...
... all eternity" and that there is no new element, Page 189 but nevertheless, it was this intervention which stopped the accident—which gives an exact picture of the power of this true consciousness over the other one. And if you project your own way of being onto the Supreme, you can imagine that it amuses Him to make all kinds of experiments, to see how things play themselves out. That ...
... n of the habit and the taste for drama in the most material consciousness. That was the starting-point. As soon as it became conscious, that habit became, as it were, foreign, foreign to the true consciousness, and from then on the transfer has been going on. It is a very delicate and difficult work. It means fighting against a habit thousands of years old. It is the automatism of the material ...
... true child. Help me to become worthy of You. My dear child, I was very glad to read what you have written. The day of your birth will truly be your birth into a new consciousness, the true consciousness that will lead you to the Divine realisation. Page 367 But just now I want to tell you that my love and help are always with you to help you on the way. Blessings. 2 July 1971 ...
... consciousness and those who have not? Those who have done it and done it well become conscious; the others remain half conscious like the vast majority of human beings. Consciousness, the true consciousness, gives control over one's own character and, to a large extent, over events. 23 December 1969 Page 415 Sweet Mother, Do you think it isn't good to visit the churches ...
... it's almost imperceptible.... Now, if you descend from this consciousness towards a more external consciousness, you begin naturally to have a very precise feeling of what helps you attain the true consciousness and what bars the way or pulls you backwards or even fights against your progress. And so the perspective changes and you are obliged to say: this is divine or a help towards the Divine; and ...
... false reality—what we call concrete reality is a false reality. And the proof—I have the proof because I experienced it myself—is that from the minute you are in the other consciousness, the true consciousness, all these things which appear so real, so concrete, change INSTANTLY. There are a number of things, certain material conditions of my body—material—that changed instantly. It did not last long ...
... ng ); I acted, if at all, to defend myself... But I understood very quickly that even this was a reaction of ignorance and that things would be set right automatically if one remained in the true consciousness. A consciousness that sees and makes you see. Which is why things go amiss when people try to force me to act: I am outside of myself, so to speak. As soon as I come back here, with no ...
... disorder, such as swollen legs or a Page 52 malfunctioning liver—not an illness, a disorder, a functional disorder. Well, it was all utterly unimportant: IT IN NO WAY CHANGES THE BODY'S TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS. Although we are in the habit of thinking that the body is very disturbed when it's ill, when something is going wrong, it's not so. It isn't disturbed in the way we understand it. Then what ...
... consciousness, you may also have memories with this same intensity, this vibrant hue, as it were, so much more intense than the colors and things of the physical world. These being the moments of true consciousness, all assumes an extraordinary radiance, everything is vibrant, everything is charged with a quality that eludes our ordinary vision. These minutes of contact with the soul are often those ...
... most material consciousness was already completely permeated with the transforming supramental truth, and it could no longer follow the rhythm of normal life. It was much more attuned to the true consciousness than to the world! I couldn't possibly blame it for lagging behind; on the contrary, it was in front, too far ahead! There was a discrepancy between the rhythm of the transformation of my being ...
... insecurity—how absurd! Of course, with a concentration of the true being ( gesture above ), it disappears instantly—but that means it isn't the body that feels a sense of security! It's the true consciousness (and quite naturally so, for it would not be true if it didn't have that sense). But what we want is the body to exist in ITSELF, by ITSELF, with all qualities WITHIN ITSELF. In other words, ...
... TRUE—intense and intensely true. And then, that sort of thing he was holding with his hand [Mother], which was watching all that, was simply the consciousness, the consciousness that works, the true consciousness; and the feet were my physical presence on the earth. It was truly very interesting. And I learned the exact place, the relationship of those who work. But I cannot reveal it. But what ...
... unexpected, is gone; there only remains the mechanism of habit. But it holds on, it clings, oh!... It will go. And now and then (now and then: quite rarely), a spark, so to say, of the true Consciousness making an attempt, descending, but it still causes... ( gesture of upheaval and turmoil ). It isn't yet received and manifested in the supreme Peace, so it goes away. If previously (before ...
... into unconsciousness; it is contrary to all progress and light. To overcome one's ego, to live only in the service of the Divine—that is the ideal and the shortest way towards acquiring the true consciousness. You must do the work as an offering to the Divine and take it as part of your Sadhana. In that spirit the nature of the work is of little importance and you can do any work without losing ...
... birth. I suppose the obstacles which were standing in the way of your joining me represent the difficulties (inner and outer) which are to be overcome in order to realise the union with the true consciousness. The second dream seems to be an embodiment of old impressions left in the subconscient of social surroundings and your reactions to them. Page 133 In the third the train is, as ...
... the falsity of that consciousness and its activities was when I made that effort—a tremendous effort—to recall that my brother had died years earlier; from that I saw the distance between my true consciousness and the consciousness I was in for that dream. I saw the distance of falsity of that consciousness. It gave me a very clear indication. Instead of that quiet and peaceful consciousness which ...
... speak), as soon as you try to formulate in one way or another: finished. Yet there OBSTINATELY remains a certitude that the creation is Page 97 NOT a transitory way to recapture the true Consciousness: it's something that has its own reality and that will have its own existence IN THE TRUTH. That's the next step. That's why that realization [the Void] isn't the goal, that's exactly why ...
... what I said). I told her that from the standpoint of the manifestation (I didn't speak about beyond the manifestation), from the standpoint of the manifestation, there is only one thing that is true: Consciousness. And that all the rest is the APPEARANCE of something, Page 134 but not the thing; that THE thing is Consciousness, and all the rest is a sort of play in which everyone has the illusion ...
... should be spread everywhere. Never lay the blame on others or on circumstances because whatever the circumstances may be, even apparently the worst, if you are in the true attitude and have the true consciousness, it doesn't matter in the least for your inner progress, not in the least—and I'll say, including death. That really seems to be the first lesson to be learned. ( silence ) Page 467 ...
... of them in succession). The first time, I didn't say anything, but after a while ( laughing ), I simply said (I don't Page 304 remember the exact words, only the meaning) that the true consciousness needed to live in Auroville is to look at one's own faults first, before complaining about others' faults, and to mend one's ways before demanding others should mend theirs (I put it in a more ...
... might say: "It's for this reason, that reason..."—quite a material thing, absolutely physical: poff! gone.... Your consciousness changes—it comes back. And if you stay long enough in the true consciousness, the appearance, that is, what we call the physical "fact" itself, disappears, not just the pain.... I have the feeling of having touched... (there's no mind to understand, thank God!), of having ...
... consciousness: simply the Pressure. So there. That's a proof.... Everything would be done automatically, like an imposition of the Truth, without any need to intervene: simply remaining in the true consciousness, that's all, it's enough. There. But then, despite everything, the body retained some slight consciousness of its needs all these days (though it's not concerned with itself—I always said ...
... . But if you transform that ... it's in-com-pa-rably, vastly superior, in the sense that it gives an extraordinary STABILITY and consciousness and REALITY. Things become the TRUE vision, the TRUE consciousness; it becomes so concrete, so real! Nothing—nothing else, nothing else can give that fullness. Escaping, fleeing, dreaming, meditating, going into ... all that is very nice, but how poor ...
... after that, just after: liberation. What remains to be lived, that is, the experience that remains to be had, is... the next progress of the creation, of matter—the next step to return to the true Consciousness. That's... It seems to have been decided that something like a beginning, or an attempt of experience, is going to be made ( Mother touches her body ). It's a question of intensity of faith ...
... there was an intense love, and in the second a dignity, you know, a superior dignity. It's interesting. Death was the first, and the other was the second. Page 186 That was the true consciousness. And it was my BODY that had it, not the psychic being or the higher beings (there, those things have been quite familiar for a long time), but the BODY, the very body, THIS, this, this. ...
... sensations, it's... this and that ( same gesture of tipping over to one side or to the other ), this kind of shift, and a shift SO VERY different, you know, and in total immobility! But in this true consciousness, matter... seems to lose something, or else something is transmuted into... I don't know.... Will it be so permanently, or is it the transition? I don't know. I mean, will the supramental body ...
... completely cured, everything, but everything works well, a minute later, everything breaks down. It's not a cold you "cure." Taking a medicine does not make any difference, while if you go into the true consciousness, everything is over. But it is incapable of staying there. It's not so much the contact with people, it's that it is incapable of staying there, that's what it is. It can't blame anyone else ...
... thoughts. And things come to demonstrate—not just personal things, but also things from people around me; people, things, circumstances, all that comes for teaching, teaching the body to have the true consciousness. It's... it's marvelous. ( Mother goes within ) It seems that the problem was to create a physical being capable Page 232 of bearing the Power that wants to manifest—all ordinary ...
... inertia. The quiescence of ego or inertia does not automatically bring love, joy or bhakti. Now I feel that to have desires, attachments, ego, is something strange to my true consciousness! Yes, these things are foreign to the true being. During one of the meditations, I found that the ego was disturbing my life and sadhana. So I separated myself from it ...
... not a fixed machinery which one can manage by devices or by pulling this or that button. It is only by the inner Will, the constant aspiration, by detachment and rejection, by bringing down the true consciousness, force etc. that it can be done. You said, "It is a stage [in which one cannot aspire freely] from which you must come out as soon as possible." What is this stage? Your ...
... rule. || 3.36 || Later I asked Maniben about the leaves the Mother had given. She explained, "It is sweet marjoram ... the Mother has given them the significance, New Birth—birth to the true consciousness, that of the Divine Presence in us." It was truly my new birth! Dyuman introduced me to Chandanben C. Shah from Africa, who had settled in the Ashram with her husband and children. She ...
... look for. We do not compete with them. We move in a different sphere, on a different level." (Ibid., p. 119) (5)"But this does not mean that I ask you to feel superior to others. The true consciousness is incapable of feeling superior. It is only the small consciousness that seeks to show its superiority.... Rise above all that. Do not be interested in anything other than your relation with ...
... discipline. Truth is its home; and this Truth is not merely intellectual verity, — for that is not the sense of the word in the Vedic writings, — but man's ultimate human state of true being, true consciousness, right knowledge, right works, right joy of existence, all indeed that is contrary to the falsehood of egoism and ignorance. It is by these means, by using works and self-discipline for mastery ...
... made to read this Page 155 book. It should be read by everybody. This remark was made apropos of the citation K read about the Supermind: "The Supermind is in its very essence a true consciousness... a march to Light, to Ananda." The Mother said, "It is very, very, very important. All the people who pretend to manifest the Supramental will be quietened down." One evening T and K ...
... things that are constantly going on inside us. As regards the talk on sadhana, the only part I remember was that the Mother said she would not abandon Sanyal. She would even force down the true consciousness into him. I wished inwardly that she would do the same for me, for the two doctors were similar in some respects. But surprisingly as soon as I formulated my desire, she, addressing me as if ...
... that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But the mystery is well hidden behind the lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All the prophecies, all that is going to happen is presented with a precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Con ...
... there intervene some forces of light against the ego and the vital being. May I be told what forces of light are concerned with my present condition? Forces that try to bring the true consciousness and to replace these stupidities of the ordinary vital nature (ego, 1 I soon found out that H's difficulties were much more serious than those of many of us. Finally he ...
... the methods and the process. Wait, wait with patience and perseverance. But, if you want to be strong, perfect in your action, intelligent, clever, formidable in each sphere of knowledge and true consciousness, in an instant I can turn you into a formidable being. I have all the powers. Do not doubt it. Voilà! My child, I do not reveal myself, neither do I declare nor show what I am. But I am the ...
... your brain supplies to buttress you against your perception that you have done something wrong. You have to disentangle all this, put each thing in its place, throw upon each the light of your true consciousness and judge—burn, purify or transform. Page 122 ...
... the kind of success you look for. We do not compete with them. We move in a different sphere, on a different level. But this does not mean that I ask you to feel superior to others. The true consciousness is incapable of feeling superior. It is only the small consciousness that seeks to show superiority. Even a child is more developed than such a being; for it is spontaneous in its movements. ...
... sphere, on a different level. ¹ Now the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education Page 32 But this does not mean that I ask you to feel superior to others. The true consciousness is incapable of feeling superior. It is only the small consciousness that seeks to show superiority. Even a child is more developed than such a being; for it is spontaneous in its movements. ...
... windows of the senses, whatever they are, all openings should be closed, shut up, hermetically scaled. One should then return within away from them, if one is to come into contact with the true consciousness, the true reality. Even the Gita says, the conscious being is seated in tranquillity within, closing all the nine gates of the city, himself doing nothing nor causing anything to be done ...
... emergence of the fully formed living creature within. One creates through one's consciousness, not through one's hands. A true creation must have at its origin the true consciousness, and a true consciousness has always the power to create invincibly; for consciousness is identified with essential energy. Chit and Tapas are one and the same. The seed of consciousness has to be sown in the field ...
... work in peace and quite. Can you say it is a decline and a fall? It is only facing life, meeting its problems from another angle, another point of view. You must know that for consciousness, the true consciousness – the consciousness of the psychic – glory and obscurity are the same, success and failure are the same. What Page 403 is important is the growth of consciousness. Certain ...
... the vital, the source of passions and prejudices. It is the lower mind, the physical mind as it is called, which is the one obstacle that shuts out the light Page 405 of true consciousness. The source of all doubt is here. The physical mind has its own role, a truer role; for it is the instrumental consciousness that formulates things, gives a form – a name and local habitation ...
... remains intact is one among many forces of equal strength. But the saving grace lies in the third person which is the Divine Person, man's true person and real identity. This is composed of true consciousness, true force, and the supreme truth of being, the delight and immortality. This is as we call it man's psychic being or soul. This being made of light and power and delight is not a formless ...
... over years and years that led the Mother ultimately to that point of irreversible accomplishment so as to state in 1970: "The physical is CAPABLE of receiving the higher Light, the Truth, the true Consciousness and of man-i-festing it." 67 page - 116 Thus the integral object that Sri Aurobindo had formulated for the integral yoga stands today as a fulfilled object, even though it is envisaged ...
... a larger deeper truth of nature, can realise the Self and liberate and transform the nature. To quiet the surface mind and begin to live within is the object of this concentration. Of this true consciousness other than the superficial there are two main centres, one in the heart (not the physical heart, but the cardiac centre in the middle of the chest), one in the head. The concentration in the ...
... novelist). But, as we have already said, man is not condemned to this malady of schizophrenia: he is not by nature a Manichean creature. He is whole and entire in his inner reality and true consciousness and he can assert his integrality: he has the freedom and the power to do so—he has to and will do so, since it is not merely a possibility but an inevitability that is to come about in the course ...
... vanity – that is to say, in order to be good you observe certain rules, and you feel you are virtuous, you are dutiful, then it is not the true way, not the true attitude and consciousness. The true consciousness is that you do the right thing not because it is your duty to do it, not because it is worthy to do it and it is expected of you to do it, but because your nature impels you towards it. The flower ...
... under the weight of its ignorance and blindness it struggles desperately to rise above them. The ordinary consciousness is ignorant of how things are in reality, it sees only the shell. But the true consciousness is at the centre, in the heart of reality, in the direct vision of the origin of all movements. Situated within and above, it knows the source, the cause and the effect of all things and forces ...
... I will not be able to join the meditation because I will be on gate duty. I don't think it would be good to give up the meditation, which is an opportunity to immerse oneself again in the true consciousness. c. 1938 ...
... Raja yogis get it by what they call Sanyama. Sri Aurobindo : I suppose they meant by Sanyama putting the pressure of consciousness upon the thing to be known. But if one has the true consciousness it does not require concentrating. One has only to put it. Page 239 ...
... by Sanyama concentration of consciousness on the object. That is by putting the pressure of consciousness on the thing to be known. It need not necessarily require concentrating on it when the true consciousness is there and it comes in contact with the object; it knows it directly. Disciple : Raja Yoga speaks of Siddhis also e. g. control over matter or knowledge of Suryaloka and Chandraloka ...
... Disciple : The animals have it in a greater degree than man. Sri Aurobindo : You may call it an instinct but when you become conscious, it is more than an instinct, it is the true consciousness in the physical being. The animals may have it more than man, but it is not complex because the animal has to rely on food which is not secure and so when it finds it is hungry, it does not ...
... becomes strong her creative power in art will also develop. When I say "Strong vitality" and "India's advance" I mean by the phrases India's spiritual strength, the development of her soul, her true consciousness apart from national egoism and desire-soul. The differences that divided the East and the West have not remained constant. Political and economic considerations and also the swift and ...
... secure that, better do not spend the time at your disposal in speech — especially if anything of the depression remains with you, it will waste the time in discussing things which cannot help the true consciousness to predominate. Concentrate, open yourself and let the Mother bring you back to the psychic condition by what she will pour into you in meditation and silence. (16.5.33) ...
... who wert the motive and the goal; Thou art the worker and work. 19 Her comment on this prayer on 7 October 1947, partly by way of explication, has thus been recorded by Purani: The True Consciousness had already been reached. It was only the physical consciousness that now reached the complete identification with the Divine. It happened in Paris. Now all the sense-experiences were ...
... could that ever pass ? Her body was the site where it strove to enter the earth: to “be established,” as She would say. It’s a relentless struggle. Then, if you remain there [in the true Consciousness] , everything is fine—EVERYTHING is fine: the body is fine, everything is fine. And as soon as you go out of that state and get into other movements, you see that all, but all is a world of ...
... of the Bulletin, the Mother pleaded for "an Page 479 integral transformation, the transformation of the body and all its activities", and to this end there was the need for the true consciousness which "is at the centre, at the heart of reality and has the direct vision of the origin of all movements". The same issue of the Bulletin carried her note "What a child should always remember" ...
... ng the monthly requirements to the sadhaks. And to all who came upstairs she gave some fragrant leaves of Sweet Marjoram to which she had assigned the significance: "New Birth - Birth to the true consciousness, that of the Divine Presence in us." This time I looked at the Mother and our eyes met in utter silence, and it was as if our souls had embraced.... Then my heart whispered: "Yes, this is ...
... and slow there is "a revolution in the basic poise... like turning a ball inside out... the ordinary consciousness... ignorant of what things are in reality... sees only their shell. But the true consciousness is at the centre, at the heart of reality and has the direct vision of the origin of all movements.... Something opens within you and all at once you find yourself in a new world." But, she cautions ...
... still to be Page 783 worked out, but the main breakthrough had come about at last: it was established that the physical was capable of receiving the higher Light, the Truth, the true Consciousness and manifesting it. 5 Three months after, on 27 June, the Mother revealed that for several days past there had been moments when her body would scream in pain and then, "just a little change ...
... Consciousness... all-embracing. 8 If she saw somebody, whoever he might be, her instinctive action was to offer that person to the Light. But for herself, all the time she was one with the true Consciousness. Outwardly, the routine of the Mother's life seemed only slightly changed, though from 1st February she was generally indrawn. On 21 February, her 95th birthday, she consented to give Darshan ...
... condition of India is becoming worse and worse, at least in appearance. The old financial power and the so-called communists are at daggers drawn. Soon there will be the time for the true Consciousness to intervene and put a little order in this chaos. 18.11.1970 The mind is no longer proud of itself, and it wants to have the light from above. May it remain silent, turned ...
... of South India, Sri Aurobindo's consciousness ranged over men and affairs and developments all over the world, and whenever it chose to act, or could act, as a power behind the scenes - and true consciousness is power, if anything - it did have a salutary influence: at any rate, even when apparently ineffective, it left open the possibility of future rectification. Some media were more responsive ...
... if one has the calm of the inner being which makes them felt as something external to the being and the light of the psychic which instantly exposes and rejects them, then that is to have the true consciousness which keeps one safe while the more positive transformation is preparing or taking place. That transformation comes by the descent of the Force, Light, Knowledge, Ananda from above. So you ...
... creates in you. You have only to do what I have been trying to tell you: Draw back from them and, having seen what is lingering in the nature, dismiss them quietly and turn back again to the true consciousness opening yourself to receive once more the Truth that is creating you anew and let it come down into all your nature. ...
... everything, a radical, dangerous contradiction at every minute, basically between the state of life and the state of death, the new state and the old one. It's an incredible situation: either true consciousness or the sensation of an impending and general danger. Everything— eating , taking a bath—is a danger, you see. 30 It’s as if the body were shown how, in all sorts of circumstances—innumerable ...
... as a first task to build a symbolic center around Sri Aurobindo's symbol, like an enormous lotus bud ("Aurobindo" means lotus) rising from the earth, from the mud of the earth into which the true consciousness, the supramental Truth-Consciousness, must infiltrate. It is what Mother called with her delightful sense of humor "the Tower of Babel in reverse." They united and divided in the construction ...
... obscurity. * It is the Divine Grace that must be prayed for — if justice were to manifest, very few would be those who could stand in front of it. * There is a deep and True Consciousness in which all can meet in love and harmony. * Closeness to the Divine will always grow with the growth of consciousness, equanimity and love. * Keep always this awareness ...
... Growing up with the Mother Growing up with the Mother Tara Jauhar 18.10.67 To a true child of her true Mother, on the way to the true consciousness. With my tenderness and my blessings 1.8.1971 27 years of growth of progress and useful work have given you a special place in the Ashram with special love from Sri Aurobindo; as ...
... true child. Help me to become worthy of You. My dear child, I was very happy to read what you have written. The day of your birth will truly be your birth into a new consciousness, the true consciousness that will lead you to the divine realisation. But just now I want to tell you that my love and help are always with you to help you on the way. Blessings. 2 July 1971 * * * When ...
... the darkness of Ignorance and by the conquest of the Truth the conquest also of Immortality. For the Vedic Ritam is a spiritual as well as a psychological conception. It is the true being, the true consciousness, the true delight of Page 241 existence beyond this earth of body, this mid-region of vital force, this ordinary sky or heaven of mind. We have to cross beyond all these planes in ...
... by current methods. It can only be done by rising to a higher spiritual plane and working silently from there on the forces in action so as to prepare a favourable field for the growth of the true consciousness and the true life-action. So long as that is not done, to engage in any activity which means opposition and struggle on the lower plane or to resort to its methods can only put it at a disadvantage ...
... have been too exclusively on the vital plane; aspire for a full opening of the psychic, clear your movements of all ego and strive to make yourself open and aspire only to be a receptacle of the true consciousness and an instrument of the Divine. As for outward things, what has been lacking in you has been discipline, order, self-consecration in your work. You have acted according to your impulse and ...
... Prayers and Meditations February 16, 1914 O supreme, sole Reality, true Consciousness, permanent Oneness, sovereign repose of perfect light, with what an intensity I aspire to be conscious of only Thee, to be only Thyself. This incessant whirl of unreal personalities, this multiplicity, this complexity, this excessive inextricable confusion of conflicting ...
... reactions. If you remain high up like that, saying, "Let God's will be done", you may get killed all the same. For your body may be quite undivine, shivering with fear: the thing is to hold the true consciousness in the body itself and not have the least fear and be full of the divine peace. Then indeed there is no danger. Not only can attacks of men be warded off, but beasts also and even the elements ...
... the thing rather glaringly, as though under a small microscope, so that it may look a little bigger. But it is like that. And so long as it is like that, you are a million miles away from the true consciousness. When you are unable immediately, instantaneously to step back, put yourself in the place of the other person, understand why he has this feeling, have a glimpse of your own weakness, compare ...
... one point of view, you say: "How is it? what is this downfall?" It is not a downfall. It is meeting the problem from another angle, from another point of view. For the consciousness (I mean the true consciousness, the divine consciousness) success or failure are the same, glory or mediocrity are the same. What is important is the growth of the consciousness. And certain conditions that appear very favourable ...
... invisible, if there were no screen to stop the vibrations. For the ordinary consciousness it is the image alone that is true, and what happens behind it is more or less problematical, but in the true consciousness, all that happens behind or before is the true thing and what one sees externally is only an image, that is to say, a projection on a screen, of something which exists altogether independently ...
... deeper aspiration. For the moment there are not very many. Now, as we have spoken about difficulties, I am going to read to you two things which will give you just a little glimpse of what true consciousness is, that which is free from all difficulties, that which is above all conflicts. The first one goes like this—you have read it perhaps but I don't think you could have quite understood it ...
... Yoga , Chapter 2, "Faith—Aspiration—Surrender". What does this mean exactly: "In Yoga it is out of the inner victory that there comes the outer conquest"? Yes. First you must attain the true consciousness, be in contact with the Divine and let Him govern your action; and then you can act upon outer circumstances, even actions, and overcome outer difficulties. You must have the inner experience ...
... imagination is a force of propulsion, with it one begins to act, and then finally one lives a novel in his life, if he is in the least imaginative.... This has absolutely nothing to do with the true consciousness, with the psychic being, nothing at all, but people come to speak to you in a florid style and tell you stories—all that is in wandering imaginations. If one could see, that is, if you could ...
... its process, the attitude of the sadhaks, not of a few only, must change. They must cling less to the conditions and feelings of the external physical consciousness and open themselves to the true consciousness of the Yogin and sadhaka. If they did that, Page 331 the inner eye would open and they would not be bewildered or alarmed if the Mother again manifested externally something of the ...
... is not the only means of sadhana. Especially when one has to deal with the physical, it is not good to be always drawn within in meditation. What you have to learn is to keep at all times the true consciousness, calm, large, full of a quiet strength, looking at all in you and around you with true perception and knowledge, a calm unmoved observation and a quiet will ready to act when necessary. No overstress ...
... secure that better, do not spend the time at your disposal in speech—especially if anything of the depression remains with you, it will waste the time in discussing things which cannot help the true consciousness to predominate. Concentrate, open yourself and let the Mother bring you back to the psychic condition by what she will pour into you in meditation and silence. 16 May 1933 Mother, you ...
... observed, as quietly and with as much unmoved detachment as you would observe something going on outside you, and must be allowed to pass, rejected from the consciousness, and the true movement, the true consciousness steadily put in its place. But for that these things of eating and drinking must be put in their right place, which is a very small one. You say that many have left the Asram because they ...
... making a smaller preliminary foundation, a spiritual training-ground and the first form of a community of spiritual workers. Here they will practise and grow in the Yoga and learn to act from the true consciousness and with the true knowledge and power. Here too some first work will be undertaken and institutions founded on a small scale which will prepare for the larger and more definite work of the future ...
... same morbid ideas and language about "méfiance" and being "misunderstood" etc. When will you discover finally that these movements and expressions of this kind are not and cannot be part of the true consciousness, that they are and can only be the expression of something small, morbid, vitally weak and petty and obscure that was in your past nature, still clings and is used by the adverse Powers to pull ...
... have to go still deeper within and bring out the full force of the psychic into the physical. This can most easily be done by regular concentration and meditation with the aspiration for this true consciousness. It can be done by work also, by dedication, by doing the work for the Divine only without thought of self and keeping the idea of consecration to The Mother always in the heart. But this is ...
... circumstances without allowing yourself to be upset by these things. Any improvement in the conditions of life or work in the Asram depends on each one trying to progress and open within to the true consciousness, growing spiritually within and not minding about the faults or conduct of others. No change can come by outer means; for this reason the Mother has long ceased to intervene outwardly in the ...
... lives in the light, does it follow that his light is absolute and complete? The "Truth-Consciousness" is a phrase I use for the supermind. Maharshi is not in the supermind. He may be and is in a true Consciousness, but that is a different matter. They were not misusing their gifts, rather they were making spiritual progress through them. He discouraged his disciples because his aim was the realisation ...
... the existence and of which the psychic being is the representative in the manifested nature. It is what is called the Jivatman. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The True Being and the True Consciousness The Jivatman is for me the Unborn who presides over the individual being and its developments, associated with it but above it and them and who by the very nature of his existence knows ...
... seek in the universe as a whole. The sense of separation is spread everywhere, but it is an illusion; it is one of those false moods of which we must be cured if we want to enter into the true consciousness. The mind cuts the world into small bits: it says, here this stops, there that begins, and by this fragmentation it succeeds in distorting the universal movement. There is one great flow of a ...
... you in one way or another. In this state of perfect sincerity you do not need to appear good or to be approved by others, for the first thing you experience when you are in harmony with your true consciousness is that you do not care what you look like. Whether you look like this or like that, whether you seem indifferent, cold, distant, proud, all this is of no importance; provided, I repeat this ...
... longer. Therefore, so long as one lives in the ego this illusion is necessary to make you act; it is necessary to keep up action until one is completely transformed or, in any case, till the true consciousness is established. I have said this and I repeat it ( Mother takes up her book ): "Whatever you do, whatever the process you use, and even if you happen to have acquired in it a great skill ...
... reactions. If you remain high up like that, saying, "LetGod's will be done", you may get killed all the same. For your body may be quite undivine, shivering with fear: the thing is to hold the true consciousness in the body itself and not have the least fear and be full of divine peace. Then indeed there is no danger. Not only can attack of men be warded off, but beasts also and even the elements ...
... your aspiration hides a desire and as long as in your heart there is the spirit of bargaining with the Page 101 Divine, things will come and give you blows till you wake up to the true consciousness within you which makes no conditions, no bargains. That's all. Since the time I have been doing yoga I find that all my affairs are going better than before. So I conclude... Perhaps ...
... to realise have had this at least once in their life. It may be very fleeting, it may have come when they were very young, but always at least once in one's life one has the experience of what true consciousness is. Well, that is the best indication of the path to be followed. One may seek within oneself, one may remember, may Page 404 observe; one must notice what is going on, one must ...
... longer have to do anything." But if it no longer exists, if it becomes conscious that it is the Divine, then it can't have this impression. It does the work, continues to do it, but with the true consciousness, instead of having the distorted consciousness. ( Silence ) That's all? Sweet Mother, how can one feel the divine Presence constantly? Why not? Page 403 But how can ...
... each minute, etc.—everything disappeared, she could not even write a single line without making mistakes and it was totally unrefined stuff. So you see, this proves that if one attains the true consciousness, there is no longer any problem to solve. What you have to be, you become. What you have to know, you know. And what you have to do, you have the power to do. And it naturally follows that all ...
... ess, entering into a brighter domain and purer experience, but sometimes, on the contrary, feels the necessity of going back into the vital, doing sadhana there and bringing down into it the true consciousness. There is no real contradiction between these two movements; they are complementary and necessary to each other, the ascension enabling the divine descent, the descent fulfilling that for which ...
... you hear mine." Some people understood this as an announcement that the Lord was on earth in flesh and blood. I said ( laughing ): "No, it is not that! What he meant is that if you enter the true consciousness, you can hear Him—I say, hear much more clearly than you hear physically and see much more clearly than you see physically."—"Oh! But..."—Immediately they open their eyes wide, it becomes something ...
... alternately inwards and outwards ). How? Where? It cannot be described, it is only, only a movement of consciousness, nothing else. A movement of consciousness. And the difference between the true consciousness and the false consciousness becomes more and more precise, and at the same time, thin —you don't have to do "great things" to come out of it. Before that, one has the impression that one is ...
... experience that Siddhartha Buddha had had and that it was while he was in this experience that he had said: "There is only one way out: Nirvana." And at the same time I was in the state of true consciousness: his solution and the true one. It was really interesting. How the Buddhist solution is only one step taken—one step. And it is beyond that (not in another way, but beyond that) that the ...
... this, because of that and that", quite a material thing, altogether physical; and pouf! it goes away.... The consciousness changes and back it comes. If one remains sufficiently long in the true consciousness, the appearance, that is to say, what we call physical "fact", that itself disappears, not merely the pain.... I feel as though I had touched (there is no mind which understands, thank God!) ...
... all ordinary things are like a substance lacking life—the true life. Artificial and false. It is strange. It is not so much in others, it is not that: it is the inner training. And this true Consciousness, this true Attitude is something so for-mi-da-bly strong, powerful, in a peace so smiling! So smiling that it cannot be annoyed, it is absolutely impossible... so smiling, so smiling... and ...
... transition. It is a period of transition which to us appears long, long, but it is in fact quite short. Even our consciousness is an adaptation of the Consciousness— the Consciousness, the true Consciousness, that is another thing. And so the conclusion for my body is... (as well as I can translate it): to nestle in the Divine. Not to try to understand, not to try to know—but to try to be... ...
... not with words nor with thoughts. And things are coming just to demonstrate—not only personal things but things all around: people, circumstances—all that, it is to teach the body to have the true consciousness. That, it is... wonderful. ( Mother goes within herself. ) The problem seems to have been to create a physical capable of bearing the Power that wants to manifest itself. All ordinary body ...
... there the kind of success you look for. We do not compete with them. We move in a different sphere, on a different level. But this does not mean that I ask you to feel superior to others. The true consciousness is incapable of feeling superior. It is only the small consciousness that seeks to show its superiority. Even a child is superior to such a being: for it is spontaneous in its movements. Rise ...
... of the Divine. Once recognised it is admitted,—not glossed over or defended,—and it is offered to the Divine for the Light and Grace to descend and substitute for it the right movement of the true consciousness. Complete samata takes long to establish and it is dependent on three things—the soul's self-giving to the Divine by an inner surrender, the descent of the spiritual calm and peace from ...
... and if these are not ready or inclined for the sadhana, it ceases. The sadhaka has first to purify and open them and call in the Force to work there and make all ready until he can bring the true consciousness and experience there. Yoga implies a long and difficult work and one must be ready to accept the necessity of years of preparation and purification and increasing consecration before the greater ...
... of a larger, deeper truth of nature, can realise the self and liberate and transform the nature. To quiet the surface mind and begin to live within is the object of this concentration. Of this true consciousness other than the superficial there are two main centres, one in the heart (not the physical heart, but the cardiac centre in the middle of the chest), one in the head. The concentration in the ...
... if there were two parts of oneself—one watching and supporting from behind and remembering the Mother and offering to her and the other doing the work. When this happens, then to work with the true consciousness becomes more and more easy. It is the same with all the rest. It is by the development of the inner consciousness that all the things you speak of will be set right. For instance it is a part ...
... into which experiences can come, the sense of coolness and release. When that is in possession of the consciousness fully, then something else will come into it which is also essential to the true consciousness and fix itself—it proceeds usually like that. There is nothing strange therefore in the special forms of experience ceasing and being followed by others after you have written about or brought ...
... the quietude and brings back the things that had been thrown out. It is this that is creating the difficulty and the obstruction for the moment. If you can accept emptiness as a passage to the true consciousness and true movements, then it will be easier to get rid of the obstacle. All in the Asram are not suffering from the sense of dullness and want of interest, but many are because the Force that ...
... your mother, it is always a symbol in your consciousness of the old nature and the old life—that is why it gets force when the confusion comes. Remain firm and the cloud will pass and the true consciousness reassert itself with more firmness and vigour. Not to allow the mind to bubble up with all sorts of ideas and feelings etc. but to remain quiet and learn to think and feel only what is ...
... first result was the detachment from personal connections, the freedom, lightness, openness of heart, fearlessness, and also the sense of the Mother's presence. These things are signs of the true consciousness and part of the spiritual nature. They come first as experiences, afterwards they become more frequent, endure longer, settle into the nature. It is the pressure of the Divine Power which ...
... and that light will afterwards come down into you and your consciousness will be changed into the light and wideness and all that is in them. It is evident from what you write that the true consciousness is growing in you and that when it is there all is right—for what you describe in this morning's letter is the true psychic consciousness come up in some fullness. This fullness was not Page ...
... courage of the sadhak. Fear nothing, open yourself, reject the weaknesses that remain—then the progress that had begun here will complete itself and the body also become an abiding place of the true consciousness and force. Page 569 Inertia and Illness The human body has always been in the habit of answering to whatever forces chose to lay hands on it and illness is the price it pays for ...
... inevitable part of life in the ignorance. The dualities of pleasure and pain, joy and grief, good fortune and ill fortune are the inevitable results of the ignorance which separates us from our true consciousness and from the Divine. Only by coming back to it can we get rid of suffering. Karma from the past lives exists, much of what happens is due to it, but not all. For we can mend our karma by our ...
... As I have constantly told you, you cannot expect all to be enlightened at once. Even the greatest Yogis can only proceed by stages and it is only at the end that the whole nature shares the true consciousness which they first establish in the heart or behind it or in the head or above it. It descends or expands slowly conquering each layer of the being one after the other, but each step takes time ...
... [ the Divine Light ] has no function—it is just Light of Divine Consciousness. If you mean the result, it is supposed to illumine, to remove darkness and obscurity, to make the nature fit for true consciousness, Knowledge etc. Light is a general term. Light is not knowledge but the illumination that comes from above and liberates the being from obscurity and darkness. But this Light also assumes ...
... they are rejected, the more difficult it becomes for them to recur—or, if they recur, they hold only for a moment and then drop away. To entertain them means to give them a chance to cover the true consciousness once more. It [ depression ] comes back if you give it a chance. Do not give it a chance. Do not give it a room to live in if it comes. Depression should not be indulged, for all ...
... have not approved of your action of what you Page 115 said to Y , no matter what that might be,—you renounce us forever. I must ask you to return to your better self and your true consciousness and throw off these moods of vital passion which are unworthy of your soul. You have repeatedly written of your love for the Mother, the Ananda which you received from her and the number of spiritual ...
... your thoughts, feelings, actions and nature. You must not hunger after any relations with anyone. The relations of the sadhaka with others must be created for him from within, when he has the true consciousness and lives in the Light. They will be determined within him by the power and will of the Divine Mother according to the supramental Truth for the divine life and the divine work; they must not ...
... error and is the cause of all life's confusions and discords, will yield its place to the right will of self-knowledge and its false or imperfect values recede before the divine values of the true Consciousness-Force and Ananda. For right consciousness, right action and right being, not in the imperfect human sense of our petty moralities but in the large and luminous movement of a divine living, the ...
... something flimsy, like a thin film, something without... Those awesome laws were something very flimsy. Yes, yes! You could almost have blown them away. Yes, that's right. Yes. With the true consciousness, it crumbles away. ( silence ) Several times like that, when people tell me they feel as if in front of an ineluctable law, "There is this and this, and therefore that is inevitable," the ...
... to emerge into the Godhead, to expand out of our limited sense of existence into freedom and infinite wideness, out of the half figure of consciousness we have realised to be illumined into true consciousness, out of weakness to realise divine Mastery, out of the dual experience of pain and pleasure to emerge into possession of the cosmic Bliss of existence, out of the dull chrysalis of our limited ...
... (that's the cause of all those theories and beliefs), now things are no longer like that. Now things are no longer like that. The physical is CAPABLE of receiving the higher Light, the Truth, the true Consciousness, and of man-i-fest-ing it. It's not easy, it calls for endurance and will, but a day will come when it will be quite natural. It's only just the open door—that's all, now we have to go on ...
... did I write?..." I had forgotten. Then I read it again (they brought it to me yesterday evening), and when I read it again, I said, "Oh, that's it!..." I had forgotten. It was so much the true consciousness, in which death does not exist: What is it?—Nothing. That was the impression while I was writing, as if he had suddenly made me enter a world of truth in which this whole world of illusion and ...
... you're being chased and fighting against things.... Why is it like that? What can dissolve that? Oh, is it like that? Yes. What can dissolve that? The Supreme's consciousness, the true consciousness. Yes, but then you feel as if you close your eyes and are someone else, and that's that. ( Mother gasps for breath ) It's true, I spent years and years and years changing that—that ...
... I don't expect it at all to be that way, it doesn't correspond to anything at all-suddenly, bah! babah!... ( gesture of pain ) And when they go away, it calms down; when I concentrate in the true consciousness, then it dies down and the nerves recover. That's what is called "neuritis," it's the nerves that are sick. I had it in France, because when I went away from here, I left my psychic being ...
... It is a transitory phase, which seems terribly long to us, but in fact is rather short. Page 225 Even our consciousness is an adaptation of the Consciousness—THE Consciousness, the true consciousness is something else. And so the conclusion for my body is... (as best as I can translate it): to curl up in the Divine. Not to try to understand, not to try to know: try TO BE.... And to curl ...
... you know, a smile as big as the world, but no answer. I can still see that smile: "Don't try to know, it is not yet time." ( the clock strikes ) If we knew how to remain always in the true consciousness, there would be... a smile. But we have a tendency to become tragic. It's our weakness. It is our limitations that make a drama. We are too small—too small and too shortsighted. But... the ...
... some lines, one whole short poem and just one stanza of a poem, which are a very magnificent illustration of our message for the next year and which will give you a little sketch of what the true consciousness is, that which is free from all difficulties, that which is above all conflicts." The one stanza was the end of the piece called Even in rags I am a god; Fallen, I am divine; ...
... n, this individual personalization is the Page 294 Truth, a real, authentic divine phenomenon—the only falsehood is the deformation of consciousness. Well, when we rediscover the true consciousness of Unity—that Unity which is both in and above the manifest and the non-manifest ('above' in that it contains both the manifest and non-manifest equally), well, this Truth includes material ...
... we don't yet know, which seems at once extremely dangerous and absolutely marvelous. Dangerous: the least mistake has catastrophic consequences. And marvelous. It is the consciousness, the true consciousness of immortality—not "immortality" as we understand it, something else. Something else. Our natural tendency is to want certain things to be true (those we deem favorable) and other things to ...
... If I saw clearly what should be done, I would tell you and the problem would be solved. My comment today was made more to correct a state of mind than to change the state of things. First the true consciousness of things has to come before we can usefully change the aspects of action. This morning I said that everything will be fine when the Light comes down into the subconscient. This in fact is the ...
... the fear and horrors of the past millennia, into a divine Consciousness had taken place in a great number of her cells. ‘The physical is capable of receiving the higher Light, the Truth, the true Consciousness, and to manifest it.’ 32 When stating this, however, she asked herself how far her body would be able to express this change, to what extent her body could be transformed. As early as ...
... through bahyapuja he has had remarkable objective experiences. What is meant by bahyapuja? If it is purely external, then of course it is the lowest form; but if done with the true consciousness inside, it can bring the greatest completeness of the adoration by allowing the body and the most external consciousness share in the spirit and act of worship. The experience which ...
... result will come almost like a bolt of lightning,’ the Mother said. Was the Work finished? ‘The change has been accomplished. The physical is able to receive the higher Light, the Truth, the true Consciousness.’ (14 March 1970) ‘It is in the year 2000 that it will take a clear turn,’ she said too. But in the meantime ‘it’ is active everywhere. Sri Aurobindo’s fifth indication was ‘the rise of persons ...
... subjects unnatural to me: the world, its curiosities and many other things. I am really puzzled over the matter. Let him talk, you need not answer. Simply keep living in you the thought of the true consciousness and the will that he should awake to it. 18 October 1934 ...
... It would be a misfortune now to return to the old vital reactions, suggestions, despondencies and despairs and obscuration of the consciousness. I know that it is not easy to maintain the true consciousness and attitude even when one has found it; but it has to be done, for it is the only way which will lead to anything. If the tension is too great and relief is needed, we have no objection ...
... fully and continuously also to the sleep state. It is true that at the beginning and for a long time it becomes difficult to maintain the consciousness at the same pitch at night, for "the true consciousness comes at first in the waking state or in meditation, it takes possession of the mental, the vital, the conscious physical, but the subconscious vital and physical remain obscure and this obscurity ...
... feeling. I got down to redoing all the paintings which the Mother had rejected. I concentrated fully on her instructions. If the paintings were not being done with deep contemplation, true consciousness, real feeling, sincerity, right attitude and proper understanding, the Mother rejected them totally without any hesitation. Then I had to do them all over again on new canvas boards. Not a ...
... dream. I wrote to the Mother in order to make sure, because what I had seen had the look of a living thing, which I can never forget. She answered: Happily, the true worlds and the true Consciousness are not a dream, but the only real Reality for those who are sincere and conscious. Bonne Annee for 1970 with all my love and blessings Then I did the painting of my vision and ...
... Auroville On 16.6.68 the Mother gave these messages for Auroville: Auroville is meant not for the satisfaction of desires but for the growth of the true consciousness . The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Aims and Principles It is true that to live in Auroville a great progress of consciousness has to be made. But the moment has come when this ...
... . I am here all right and not hiding myself—It is the children who are too blind and unconscious to see. They must open their true eyes and then they will see—they must wake up to the true consciousness and then they will understand. If you do not feel my presence it must be that you received some bad thought or that you have had some feeling of doubt or disbelief, it is enough to veil ...
... well—really very well. It's a wonderful story, seen as I see it. And I have observed it very carefully: it isn't an ordinary story seen with an exceptional knowledge, but a true Knowledge and a true Consciousness witnessing an exceptional story. Those three people may not be aware of how utterly exceptional it is, but that's simply because their consciousness is not sufficiently awake. But they too have ...
... else is ready to follow." That, more than anything else, may be why I needed a bit of solitude: to reactivate that part of the psychic being which was the individual intermediary between true Consciousness and the body-consciousness: the part which had lived THAT, was aware of THAT, knew THAT—knew that wondrous miracle. ( silence ) What's really almost miraculous is that I can speak of it ...
... aspiration can change the course of circumstances. Collective harmony is the work undertaken by the Divine Consciousness; It alone has the power to realise it. There is a deep and true consciousness in which all can meet in love and harmony. It is only in union with the Divine and in the Divine that harmony and peace can be established. 20 July 1935 Page 184 Surely ...
... disputed, it is well understood, because what we call consciousness (what "we" call, that is to say, what man calls consciousness) is the power to objectify and mentalise things. It is not the true consciousness, but it is what men call consciousness. So in this human way, it is understood that man is much more conscious than the animal. But with man comes sin and perversion, which do not exist outside ...
... movements of the being towards the Divine. Resurrection: the falling off of the old consciousness, followed by the awakening of the true being out of it. New birth: birth of the true consciousness, that of the Divine Presence in us. Realisation: the goal of our efforts. Realisation—that is what we aspire for and for which we shall strive unceasingly however long it may take ...
... superfluous. Sri Aurobindo gives us a striking description of the nightmare in which we live, in order to awaken within us an unwearying aspiration towards the salvation that comes from the true consciousness and an exclusive faith in the Divine's omnipotence. 18 March 1970 Page 326 ...
... consciousness for putting pressure. There you are. That is a proof.... All is done automatically, as an imposition of the Truth without any necessity of intervention: simply to remain in the true consciousness, that is all, that is sufficient. But then, in spite of everything, the body kept just a little consciousness of its needs all the while (although it was not busy with itself; I was always ...
... in the truth (that is the basis of all these theories and faiths); but now it is no longer like that. The physical is capable of Page 229 receiving the higher Light, the Truth, the true Consciousness and of manifesting it. It is not easy, it needs endurance and will, but a day will come when this will be quite natural. It is just, just the door opened—that is all, now one must go on ...
... no question about it, it's a fact, although what we call consciousness (what 'we' call it, that is, what man calls consciousness) is the power to objectify and mentalize things. It is not the true consciousness, but it's what men call consciousness. So according to the human mode, it is obvious that man is much more conscious than the animal, but the human brings in sin and perversion which do not exist ...
... (at least as much) the result of how you are seen by others, at least as much as of how you yourself are.... I don't know how to explain that. But there is a way of being which results from the true consciousness and is felt quite concretely, but which is... not exactly in contradiction with, but wholly different from the way you see yourself according to others' vision of yourself.... The eyes are beginning ...
... that habit and that taste for drama in the most material consciousness. 1 That was the starting point. As soon as that part became conscious, that habit became alien, so to say, alien to the true consciousness, so the transfer is now taking place. It's a very delicate and difficult work. It means fighting against a millennial habit, you understand. It's the automatism of the material consciousness ...
... How can the physical being prevent this deterioration?" That's just what the body's transformation is about! It's when the physical cells become not only conscious, but RECEPTIVE to the true Consciousness-Force, that is, when they allow the working of that higher Consciousness. That's the work of transformation.... Not so easy! The other question: "How does the central Will and Light, which ...
... substance; all ordinary things are like a substance lacking life—TRUE life. Artificial and false. It's strange. It's not so much in others, that's not it: it's the inner training. And this true Consciousness, this true Attitude is something so tre-mendous-ly strong, powerful, in such smiling PEACE! So smiling, incapable of getting angry—that's absolutely impossible—so smiling, so smiling... and watching ...
... to be a little attentive and careful not to bump into things or drop them: the gestures are somewhat wobbly. It's very interesting. It must be a transitional phase, which will last until THE true consciousness is established; then it will have a wholly different functioning from the one it had previously, but with a precision that one can foresee will be incalculable. And of a very different order ...
... cold—a lavish present! Who gave it to you? ( Laughing ) He didn't do it purposely. But it's a lesson. I could have been cured immediately (it was yesterday). At first, it met with the true consciousness and the true attitude (even in the body), and for hours it was under control. Then came the people who come every day, some in the morning and some in the afternoon (but it was in the afternoon ...
... of a certain difficulty you complained about in your letter, and which persists. So it's to get rid at the same time of a certain state of consciousness and, yes, of a certain difficulty. Your true consciousness, you know, the consciousness of your true being, is in a very rapid ascent; something in you isn't aware of that and lags behind, and that's what causes an unease in you. So it's clear that writing ...
... hear His voice just as you hear my voice." Some people took this as a declaration that the Lord was on earth in the flesh (!) I said, "No, that's not it! What he meant is that if you enter the true consciousness, you can hear Him—I say, much more clearly than you hear physically and see Him much more clearly than you see physically."—"Oh, that..." Immediately their eyes open wide, it becomes something ...
... the Mother. On 14 March 1970 we are told of a great change in the Mother's sadhana. It is crystallised in the words: "The physical is capable of receiving the higher Light, the Truth, the true Consciousness and of manifesting it.... It took a little more than a year for this Consciousness to win this victory. And still, naturally, it is not visible except to those who have the inner vision ...
... observed, as quietly and with as much unmoved detachment as you would observe something going on outside you, and allowed to pass, rejected from the consciousness, and the true movement, the true consciousness steadily put in its place. But for that these things of eating and drinking must be put in their right place, which is a small one. You say that many have left the Ashram because they did ...
... with attitudes of aspiration, courage, hope, trust and faith. The following are examples of mantric affirmations, relevant to a practitioner of yoga: "Remain fixed in the sunlight of the true consciousness - for only there is happiness and peace. They do not depend upon outside happenings, but on this alone." 9 "At the very moment when everything seems to go from bad to worse, it is then ...
... what I had seen had the look of a living thing, which I can never forget. She answered: 16 Ibid., pp. 40-41. Page 39 Happily, the true worlds, and the true Consciousness are not a dream, but the only real Reality for those who are sincere and conscious. Bonne Annee for 1970 with all my love and blessings Then I did the painting of my vision ...
... the personal sense is that which affects the little human egocentric 'I' and all the consequence of its self-will, habits and notions and to efface it is to be released into the wideness of the true consciousness and in the full awareness of the true self? There are two forms of personality in the being — the little ego personality which is what you describe and the true person which is a conscious ...
... birth. I suppose the obstacles which were standing in the way of your joining me represent the difficulties (inner and outer) which are to be overcome in order to realise the union with the true consciousness. The second dream seems to be an embodiment of old expressions left in the subconscient of social surroundings and your reactions to them. In the third the train is, as always, an image ...
... cannot become altogether this at once, but if one aspires at all times and calls in the aid of the Divine Shakti with a true heart and a straight- forward will, one grows more and more into the true consciousness." It is of course said that the success will come sooner or later—it is for that reason that patience is indispensable. But these are not Himalayan conditions—it is not putting an impossible ...
... On 14th March, 1970, Mother declared that the work that Sri Aurobindo had given to her was accomplished. She said, "The physical is capable of receiving the Superior Light, the Truth, the True Consciousness and to manifest it." Thereafter, she continued to accelerate the evolution of the new species, a task which is still continuing, even though she left her physical body on 17th November, 1973 ...
... On 14th March, 1970, Mother declared that the work that Sri Aurobindo had given to her was accomplished. She said, "The physical is capable of receiving the Superior Light, the Truth, the True Consciousness and to manifest it." Thereafter, she continued to accelerate the evolution of the new species, a task which is still continuing, even though she left her physical body on 17th November ...
... the cause of all those theories and all those beliefs), but now, it is no more like that. Now, it is no more like that. The physical is CAPABLE of receiving the Superior Light, the Truth, the true Consciousness and to ma-ni-fest it. It is not easy, it requires endurance and will, but the day will come when it will be totally natural. The door has just—just been opened—that's all, now we must ...
... into the body? The body is mostly unconscious or rather subconscious — it has to be made conscious. How is one to make it conscious? By bringing down the true consciousness into it and by being quiet, vigilant and conscious in the mind and vital. Page 9 During the whole day I have been so much filled with tamas that I have not even succeeded ...
... form as the centre of this unity is possible. Perhaps you mean that? But how are you going to do that if the other parts are left to remain as they are? They will go on pulling you out of the true consciousness as they do now. And how are they to be changed if the Mother's Force is not there in them to change them? There are not many Mothers, there is One in many forms. The Page ...
... Not quite physically, but in the process of their subconscient formation, in their mental, in their dynamism, even in their actions and reactions, there will be a new guide — a light of the true consciousness to illumine them. It becomes something benign, something sacred where the past with its pernicious load will be effaced. Men and Nature have utilised these elements and these atoms for their ...
... which you become aware of all that is going on in you and of the real character of the movements and aware too of the right working. You can get it by aspiration. What is the "true consciousness"? The consciousness that is aware of the Divine and the Truth and does not look at things from the ego — it is wide and calm and strong and aspires to union and surrender—it is many ...
... towards them. That is all right if the inner being had separated itself firmly from the outer and was free from the pressure of its desire and inertia, manifesting at all moments the true consciousness - but it is not so yet. I want to attempt a full stabilising of my central consciousness in the higher nature, so that there will be a complete separation between the lower and ...
... and windows of the senses, whatever they are, all openings should be closed, shut up, hermetically sealed. One should then return within away from them, if one is to come into contact with the true consciousness, the true reality. Even the Gita says, the conscious being is seated in tranquillity within, closing all the nine gates of the city, himself doing nothing nor causing anything to be done. ...
... work in peace and quiet. Can you say it is a decline and a fall? It is only facing life, meeting its problems from another angle, another point of view. You must know, for consciousness, the true consciousness —the consciousness of the psychic—glory and obscurity are the same, success and failure are the same. What is important is the growth of consciousness. Certain conditions which to your human ...
... and windows of the senses, whatever they are, all openings should be closed, shut up, hermetically sealed. One should then return within away from them, if one is to come into contact with the true consciousness, the true reality. Even the Gita says, the conscious being is seated in tranquility within, closing all the nine gates of the city, himself doing nothing nor causing anything to be done. ...
... all intellectual activity, make your mind a total blank before you can hope to reach there. And indulgence even in so-called higher or philosophical speculations can only block the way to the true consciousness and knowledge. And yet you cannot leave the intellectual faculties uncared for or undeveloped on the plea that something higher is needed. In the physical body it need not be your ideal to ...
... for an outside object in order to embrace it, swallow it, make it part of itself and so grow bigger. Now, suppose you have before you something beautiful, harmonious, pleasing: if you have the true consciousness, you enjoy and are happy to the full, by simply looking at the thing, by having an inner contact in consciousness with the beauty and harmony that is there. And there the matter ends. You have ...
... famous novelist. But as we have already said, man is not condemned to this malady of schizophrenia: he is not by nature a Manichean creature. He is whole and entire in his inner reality and true consciousness and he can assert his integrality, he has the freedom and the power to do so-he has to and will do so, since it is not merely a possibility but an inevitability that is to come about in the course ...
... consciously in this new creation. August 1969 * The first condition is to know in an absolute way that one knows nothing . Then in all simplicity and all sincerity, to aspire for the true Consciousness and to open oneself to the knowledge which is coming from above. November 1969 * Bonne Année With the nobility of character which makes one capable of responding fully to the new C ...
... degradation of shama, as rajas is the degradation of Tapas, the Divine Force. The physical consciousness is always trying to substitute its own inertia for the calm, peace or rest of the true consciousness, just as the vital is always trying to substitute its rajas for the true action of the Force. At present when the descent of the Mother's Force is the only movement prominent, why ...
... also getting the presence—they are the same. SRI AUROBINDO: How? When you are not here, we remember you; when you are here, we have your presence. SATYENDRA: That means you haven't got the true consciousness; you still have to go by the mind. (Laughter) DR. MANILAL (after some time) People who worship images do they get their Ishta (chosen deity) SRI AUROBINDO: It depends on their faith ...
... all intellectual activity, make your mind a total blank before you can hope to reach there. And indulgence even in so-called higher or philosophical speculations can only block the way to the true consciousness and knowledge. And yet you cannot leave the intellectual faculties uncared for or undeveloped on the plea that something higher is needed. In the physical body it need not be your ideal to become ...
... your brain supplies to buttress you against your perception that you have done something wrong. You have to disentangle all this, put each thing in its place, throw upon each the light of your true consciousness and judge – burn, purify or transform. Page 89 ...
... is why Sri Aurobindo insisted on the need for outer work and basic physical exercises, because such activities are the only way to measure oneself against Matter and to drive a little bit of true consciousness into it, or, rather, to allow Agni to emerge. This is why, too, he used to walk for many hours every day and then work at night. Page 285 Through this external work, and because ...
... does not depend on the victory of a party, but on the union of all parties.' 1970 Mar 14 Recognition by the body that the physical 'is capable of receiving the higher Light, the Truth, the true Consciousness and of manifesting it.... It took a little more than a year for this Consciousness to win this victory.' - Jun 27 'There are moments when the body would scream in pain and... just a little ...
... wiliest, as Thou wiliest" says the Mother; it may also be, "As the Mother wills, as the Mother wills!" - who can say? V Aside from observing as Witness Spirit or directing from the true Consciousness the excruciating - and exhilarating - battle of the cells for victory over the habit of thousands of years, the Mother's almost microscopic concern for the affairs of the Ashram, the Centre ...
... position of consciousness, which produces cancer, which produces tuberculosis, which produces death." We can eliminate every conceivable illness, for not one of them is true; there is only a true consciousness and a false consciousness. There is only an illness of consciousness, a death of consciousness. And all the non-miraculous miracles are there from the minute you restore the natural, i.e., ...
... suggest that the body would understand better and quicker than *we). And the proof—I have the proof because I experienced it myself—is that from the minute you are in the other consciousness, the true consciousness, all these things which appear so real, so concrete (all the so-called physical laws, the causes, effects and consequences, everything science has discovered physically and materially) change ...
... Consciousness, "at the very least a Yogic consciousness", it would be wrong to judge it by mental categories. As for understanding her and her actions one must first "become conscious with the true consciousness"; and for that "faith and surrender and fidelity and openness are conditions of some importance." 22 Sri Aurobindo also found that in some disciples the vital being seemed to have ...
... knowledge is differentiated from yogic (or spiritual) knowledge. Contrasting Shankara's rnāyāvāda with Sri Aurobindo's world-view, the Mother explains how the former had "a glimpse of the true consciousness", and hence declared the phenomenal world to be false or verily nonexisting, an illusion; but Sri Aurobindo, while perceiving the falsehood, realised also "that it has to be replaced and ...
... to stop all intellectual activity, make your mind a total blank before you can reach there. And indulgence in even so-called higher or philosophical speculations can only block the way to the true consciousness and knowledge”.¹ The Fetish of Reason Modem man has made a fetish of his intellect and reason, and that is why the evolutionary progress of his consciousness ¹ The Yoga ...
... really new. The body has to be a little attentive and careful not to bump into things or drop them: the gestures are somewhat wobbly. It must be a transitional phase, which will last until THE true consciousness is established; then it will have a wholly different functioning from the one it had previously, but with a precision that can be foreseen to be incalculable... . [Of course, because if you ...
... must be unearthed in the minutest vibration, there where it takes root. Every day she would perform the operation again and again with the little specimens around her. For instance, in this true Consciousness (what Sri Aurobindo called the Truth-Consciousness and Mother sometimes called, in the manner of the Vedic Rishis, the Straight Consciousness, ritam, because there everything is simple, straight ...
... further incentive to talk. Everything seems to become quiet. SRI AUROBINDO: What you say about ordinary conversations is quite correct and that all should fall away is very necessary for the true consciousness. MYSELF: Now, the matter of food doesn’t appear to be a problem. If anything good is sent to me the taste is enjoyable, but the former pleasure has changed its character. Once you said that ...
... birthday Happy New Year Happy life Happy realisation to Tara in peace, light and joy. 5 July 1970 Happy to Tara birthday With all my tenderness to celebrate the victory of the True Consciousness and my blessings to lead you towards the Realisation. 5 July 1971 Happy birthday to my dear child Tara With all my tenderness and my blessings. 5 July 1972 The ...
... translation. Below only the English is given.) WORDS OF THE MOTHER To break with old traditions and not to obey old rules is good — provided you discover within yourself a higher and truer consciousness which manifests harmony, peace, beauty and a superior order vast and progressive. (26 August 1967) It is all right. P.S. About a week back I sent you two short notes about M’s son F. One ...
... conventions: prove that you are in relation with a higher consciousness and a truer truth. It is time to do it ( gesture of a leap upward ). And from the point of view of organising power, it is a power... extremely powerful. It is a wonder. And then, if this power is placed at the disposal of the higher order, the truer consciousness, something can be done. One must... must make a leap upward ...
... thou hast sown the seeds in the field and traced the signs on the screen, thou mayst return to thy calm silence, thou mayst go back to thy calm retreat to renew thy strength in a deeper and truer consciousness. Thou canst forget thy own person and find again the charm of the universal. "May peace be upon thee in these hours of repose; but do not forget the reveille which will sound soon. "Thou... "I know thy adherence, but I would increase thy consciousness, and for that awaken what still sleeps within thee. Open thy eyes to the light, and in the limpid mirror of the mind will be reflected what thou shouldst know." Lord, all is silent within my being and waits.... Page 355 "Knock at the door of consciousness and the door will be opened to thee." The river... burnt: it is the immaculate phoenix, the bird come from the sky who knows how to return to it. "The first is the Power of realisation. "The other is the Light. "And the third the sovereign Consciousness." Page 357 O Lord, I listen to Thee and lie prostrate at Thy feet: Thou hast opened the door to me; Thou hast opened my eyes, and a little of the night has been illumined.... ...
... with a higher consciousness and a truer truth. It's the time to make a ...( gesture of a leap upward ). As for the power of organization, it's... an extremely powerful power that has come—I feel that just by doing this ( Mother quietly closes her hand ), I can crush things. It's quite surprising. And so, if this power is put at the service of a higher order, of the truer consciousness... something ...
... do all things else in the right consciousness, offering all he does to the Mother and keeping in inner touch with her. All work done in that spirit and with that consciousness becomes Karmayoga and can be regarded as part of his sadhana. 10 March 1932 What you received and kept in the work is indeed the true basic consciousness of Karmayoga—the calm consciousness from above supporting and the strength... strength from above doing the work, with that the Bhakti which feels it to be the Mother's consciousness present and working. You know now by experience what is the secret of Karmayoga. 15 September 1936 ...
... painting right from the very beginning. At that time she had said: Here you must remember that the growth of consciousness is indispensable for your painting, because what you learn from books or from professors is of no use until you get into the higher true artistic consciousness. I had crossed the barrier and was on the other side. This was the starting point of vast vistas opening before... of "New Birth" I am always speaking of the birth of a new consciousness. This time it was the birth (that is, the expression) of a higher artistic consciousness. With love and blessings The Mother has stated about the "New Birth": What is called 'New Birth' is the birth into the spiritual life, into the spiritual consciousness: it is to carry in oneself something of the Spirit which, through ...
... to escape social and moral rules that are artificially practiced everywhere, but it is not to live in the licentiousness of the satisfaction of every desire: it is to rise above desires in a truer consciousness." Something like that.... It appears they quite need this! ( Mother laughs ) So we should add it. We could draw up a whole program, that would be interesting enough. Yes, but in the practical... the same being I always saw later on. And it's true, absolutely true! ( Mother, laughing, shows the jumble around her ) Later, when I saw Théon, he explained to me; but at that time, I knew nothing at all, it wasn't made up by my thought, it came without my knowing anything: "What you need you will always have in abundance." ( Mother laughs ) It's true! Page 227 ... So we started yesterday ( Mother takes out a piece of paper ). Yesterday I asked C. [a resident of Aspiration], "But why does one live in Auroville? So he gave me the first paragraph: TO BE A TRUE AUROVILLIAN 1) The will to consecrate oneself entirely to the Divine. That's what HE said. I found it fine. After listening inwardly, I added this: 2) The Aurovilian must not be a slave ...
... better—of the true intuitive intellectual attitude, and—naturally the capacity would be still more preferable—at least the knowledge that the true way of knowing is mental silence, an attentive silence turned towards the truer Consciousness, and the capacity to receive what comes from there. The best would be to have this capacity; at least, it should be explained that it is the true thing—a sort of... and leading an ordinary life, having a spiritual consciousness and having an ordinary consciousness—there is only one consciousness. In most people it is three-quarters asleep and distorted; in many it is still completely distorted. But what is needed, very simply, is not to leap from one consciousness into another, but to open one's consciousness ( upward gesture ) and to fill it with vibrations... "spiritual life"! It is still the old idea, still the old idea of the sage, the sannyasin, the... who represents spiritual life, while all the others represent ordinary life—and it is not true, it is not true, it is not true at all. If they still need an opposition between two things—for the poor mind doesn't work if you don't give it an opposition—if they need an opposition, let them take the opposition ...
... catastrophic, you see. Now and then, for a few seconds, the true beatific consciousness comes—but only now and then and for a few seconds. That's all. Otherwise, I am like this ( gesture, fists clenched to stand firm in the struggle ). Page 313 ( silence ) And you? I have a lot of difficulties with my outer consciousness. I seem to be unable to open it up. ( Mother vigorously... constant discomfort. There's obviously discomfort for you, but for us, the only moments we feel truly alive are those spent with you. Oh, mon petit... ( Mother takes Satprem's hands ). It's true, the factual truth. I know the Grace it is to be here. ( long silence holding Satprem's hands ) That is the conviction the body needs to have: that INDEED it serves some purpose. 1 Oh... nods her head ) And so it's very painful, you know, everything is very painful. That's it, exactly that! One quite feels the inability of the outer consciousness to participate in the experience... to be up to the mark. Yes! Exactly, absolutely. Well, that's my continuous condition. How to...? And then once a day—once, twice, for a few seconds ( tone of amazed wonder ): "Oh!..." ...
... that the ego-sense becomes distinct and disengaged from its aids.—But it is itself only a device and basis for self-development of true self-knowledge; it is a stage in the evolution from nescience to partial knowledge and from partial knowledge to true self-consciousness. The evolving Mind becomes by it aware of an "I" that becomes and then of a self superior to the becoming. It may fix on either to... becomes, but one immutable who sees changing phenomena of his being, the immutability evident to a direct and pure self-consciousness, the mutable evident indirectly through a conditional and secondary mental consciousness.—It is the character of this indirect mental consciousness which can experience only by succession of Time that brings in the device Page 492 of Memory. Memory is not... ignorant of all even of the individual Page 493 becoming which is not superficial; ignorant of the universal becoming except indirectly, as a not-self exterior to it. Its attempt to find the true relation of the self and its becomings is based therefore on an Ignorance; that can only be truly known by an attempt to live out the relation in an integral development of self-knowledge. That is the ...
... better) of the true intuitive intellectual attitude, and ... (naturally, the capacity would be still preferable) but in any case the knowledge that the true way to know is mental silence: an attentive silence turned towards the truer Consciousness, and the capacity to receive what comes from there. The best would be to have that capacity; in any case, it should be explained that it's the true thing, a kind... life or living the ordinary life, having a spiritual consciousness or having an ordinary consciousness—there is only ONE consciousness! In most people it's three-quarters asleep and distorted; in many it's still quite distorted. But what's necessary is not to leap from one consciousness to the other—it is, quite simply, to open one's consciousness ( gesture upward ) and fill it with the vibrations... life'!" It's still the old idea. Still the old idea of the sage, the yogi, the sannyasi, the ... who represents spiritual life, while all others represent ordinary life—but it's not true! It's not true, not true at all. If they still need to oppose one thing to another (because that wretched mind doesn't work when it's not given an opposition), if they need an opposition, let them take the opposition ...
... surface consciousness that they are withdrawn. The inner Page 292 being still has them in the deeper regions of the consciousness. For, if he is fully aware of his true self with a ceaseless aspiration, he will not be denied the experiences for a long time. For this he has of course to learn to observe things deep behind the surface layers. That is all true and I... THE TRUE YOGIC CONSCIOUSNESS DETACHMENT AND LIBERATION Now it is as if the Mother were carrying me into herself, leaving behind only a projection of her Force which works in my external nature. That was what was needed — on one side the dwelling in the Mother, on the other the consciousness of her Force working in the physical... Force while I remain merged in her consciousness. It is very good. That was what was needed. I feel myself far from the ignorance and falsehood and close to the Mother. Not that the ordinary nature and its movements are gone for ever, but due to my separateness their reactions do not touch me. It is the true Yogic consciousness in which one feels that oneness ...
... Fourth Annual Conference: 10 September 1967 To break away from the old traditions and not to obey the old rules is good—but on condition that one discovers in oneself a higher and truer consciousness which manifests Harmony, Peace, Beauty and a superior Order, vast and progressive. 26 August 1967 Thirteenth Seminar: 26 November 1967 The new outlook on education. 14 What... 24 1) What is the big change for which the world is preparing? A change of consciousness. And when our consciousness will change we will know what the change is. 2) How can one help this change to come? The change does not need our help to come, but we need to open ourselves to the consciousness so that its coming is not in vain for us. 19 February 1970 Page 310 ... 2) What is true freedom and how to attain it? 7 1) To progress oneself. 2) a. Freedom from the ego. 2) b. Get rid of the ego. 13 October 1965 Seventh Seminar: 20 February 1966 How to serve the Truth? 8 Eighth Seminar: 14 August 1966 What is the destiny of Man? 9 Page 303 Ninth Seminar: 27 November 1966 What is true love and how to find ...
... Paramatma who is really none else than their own highest self, and when they forget themselves in this way through the maya of this world, bitterness comes to dispel the maya and revive the true self-consciousness. The parable is equally applicable to national mukti . We in India fell under the influence of the foreigners' maya which completely possessed our souls. It was the maya of the alien... to them. But can you depend on God and maya at the same time? In proportion as you depend on others the bondage of maya will be upon you. The first thing that a nation must do is to realise the true freedom that lies within and it is only when you understand that free within is free without, you will be really free. It is for this reason that we preach the gospel of unqualified Swaraj and it is... free and the Britishers could not bind him; his death is a parable to our nation. There is no power so great that can make India subject; when we will say this, God will make us free. Herein lies the true significance of national education, boycott, Swadeshi, arbitration. Do not be afraid of obstacles in your path, it does not matter how great the forces are that stand in your way, God commands you to ...
... moral training, discipline, obedience, acceptance of work for the Mother. The spiritual value and result come afterwards when the consciousness in the vital opens upward. So with the mental work. It is a preparation. If you cannot yet do it with the true spiritual consciousness, it, the work as well as the mental occupation, must be done with the right mental or vital will in it. The Mother says in... a way to increase thought power in poetry? There is no device for that. You have to open from within to a deeper or higher source of inspiration or grow from within into a deeper or higher consciousness—there is no other way for it. May 4, 1934 I seem to be contented with myself, in peace and bliss and have nothing to pray for. Is this not tamasic peace in a sattwic garb? It is ...
... stir, the physical hard narrow concreteness leads more often, not to a darkness, but to a wide emptiness and silence which begins afterwards to fill with the light of a deeper greater truer consciousness, a consciousness full of peace, harmony, joy and freedom. I think Lawrence was held back from realising because he was seeking for the new birth in the subconscient vital and taking that for the Invisible... stage between ordinary consciousness and the Superconscient Light. 26 June 1936 The passage you have quoted certainly shows that Lawrence had an idea of the new spiritual birth. What he has written there could be a very accurate indication of the process of the change, the putting away of the old mind, vital, physical consciousness and the emergence of a new consciousness from the now invisible... invisible Within, not an illusory periphery like the present mental, vital, physical ignorance but a truth-becoming from the true being within us. He speaks of the transition as a darkness created by the rejection of the outer mental light, a darkness intervening before the true light from the Invisible can come. Certain Christian mystics have said the same thing and the Upanishad also speaks of the luminous ...
... large part of the activity I have left to this Consciousness, that's true. This Consciousness, I let it work actively, because... I've noticed it really knows. Otherwise, the sense of closeness with all of you is much greater than before—much greater. I almost feel I am moving about within you all (I didn't feel that before). But before, maybe my consciousness was exerting a pressure on yours ( gesture... understand... unless the Grace makes her understand. ( long silence ) This Consciousness which came more than a year ago (a year and a half now), it seems to be working very, very hard, very positively for sincerity. It doesn't admit pretenses , people pretending to be something they aren't. It wants it to be the TRUE THING. Yes, everything is coming out into the open. And it disrupts a... "in school," it wants to Page 295 be shown where it goes wrong and to learn things. And it's constantly learning. But what comes from outside... This is very interesting: the Consciousness (the Consciousness there [ gesture above ]) is influenced by nothing; it's a witness, it sees, but it doesn't receive. The body still receives vibrations: with some people, when they sit in front of me, ...
... apparent to our true being, from an outer phenomenal mental vital material life-existence to an inner spiritual existence and a spiritualised nature. By Yoga we pass from the phenomenal to the real Man, from the consciousness of our own apparent outer nature to the consciousness of our real self, Atman, an inner and inmost man, Purusha, that which we truly and eternally are. This self or true being remains... the Eternal. By Yoga we pass also from our consciousness of the phenomenal appearance or appearances of the cosmos or world around us to a consciousness of its truth and reality. We become aware of the world as a manifestation of or in universal being who is the true truth of all that we see, hear, experience. We become aware of a cosmic Consciousness which is the secret of the cosmic Energy, a cosmic... inner and real. Yoga consciousness does not exclude the knowledge of the outer apparent world but it sees it with the eyes of an inner, not an outer seeing and experience, alters and sets right all its values in the light of an inner deeper greater truer consciousness and applies to it the Law of the reality, exchanging the law of the creature's Ignorance for the rule of a divine Will and Knowledge. ...
... Sometimes it denotes the consciousness behind the veil of the outer being, the mental or vital or physical within, which is in direct touch with the universal mind, the universal life forces, the universal physical forces. Sometimes, on the other hand, we mean an inmost mental, vital, physical, more specifically called the true mind, the true vital, the true physical consciousness which is nearest to the... more enlightened, more balanced—no. It is more subtle, it is less dull than our outer consciousness. Our external consciousness is so dull, it has no depth; as our outer understanding has no depth, our sensations have no depth; all this is something as though flat. So here it is fuller, but not necessarily more true. Then why is it the most important? Because it is internal. This is what supports... * Environmental Consciousness *The individual is not limited to the physical body—it is only the external consciousness which feels like that. As soon as one gets over this feeling of limitation, one can feel first the inner consciousness which is connected with the body but does not belong to it, afterwards the planes of consciousness above the body—also a consciousness surrounding the body ...
... give it up the very next moment with a smile”¹ These words transport us from the stale and stuffy atmosphere of traditional asceticism into the serene freedom and amplitude of the true spiritual consciousness. No longer do we take our stand upon the vital or mental will injuring and impairing the manifoldness and elasticity of our nature, but upon the ¹ Words of the Mother. ... from this new angle of vision. Man is essentially a consciousness, a certain individual formation of consciousness with major and minor vibrations in it, and his complex nature is only an instrumental mechanism, a realising and revealing medium, of that consciousness. The greater the limpidity and lightness and wideness in the consciousness, the greater its freedom from the yoke of the sense-objects... cannot yield any substantial and abiding results. The question is essentially one of consciousness. If the being is enslaved to sense-pleasures, it means that the consciousness has not risen beyond the sense-mind. Not a rigorous renunciation of all sense-objects—if that were at all possible—but a raising of the consciousness will bring the desired freedom. A totally different vista opens before our eyes ...
... be safely entered unless one is (I can't even say a saint, because it's not true; some saints enter the vital world and get right into it!)... unless one is transformed, unless one has the true spiritual consciousness. On this condition alone are you perfectly safe. So where are the people with the spiritual consciousness? There are really very few of them, very few. And above all, in those who have... are beings of the vital world, and can assume an appearance of overwhelming beauty. They are the biggest impostors in the world, and dangerous at that; it takes the spiritual instinct, the instinct of true spiritual purity, not to be deceived by them. Page 116 Many religions and sects are founded on revelations and miracles, and every bit of it comes from vital beings. It's one of the greatest... life of people who deal with the beyond. There are skies (not heavens) in the vital world that are truly paradises. Naturally the real divine element is lacking, but only spiritual purity and the true spiritual sense can show you the difference. All who remain within the vital or mental worlds are completely deluded. They see marvelous things, miracles in profusion (that's where you find the most ...
... better - of the true intuitive intellectual attitude, and - naturally the capacity would be still more preferable at least the knowledge that the true way of knowing is mental silence, an attentive silence turned towards the truer Consciousness, and the capacity to receive what comes from there. The best would be to have this capacity; at least, it should be explained that it is the true thing - a sort... woman. But this is true only so long as we understand what is meant by the word maternity. For to bring children into the world as rabbits do their young - instinctively, ignorantly, machine-like, that certainly can-not be called maternity! True maternity begins with the conscious creation of a being, with the willed shaping of a soul coming to develop and utilise a new body. The true domain of women... is not ready for an explanation - if you are ready yourself- replace the false vibration by a true one. But this... this is to demand from the teachers a perfection which they rarely have But it would be very interesting to make a programme for the teachers and the true programme of study, from the very bottom - which is so plastic and which receives impressions ...
... more subtle and less precise consciousness, and that the physical consciousness was fully concrete and precise. But now this distinction [is no longer valid]. The other one [the subtle, true physical consciousness] has become almost more concrete and real than the physical consciousness. The purely material consciousness is more vague than [the true physical consciousness]. It gives the impression of... replaced by an intervention in the subtle physical, which was sufficient.’ In the true physical. ‘It was really unexpected. I had never thought of something like it … And all objections were answered.’ The supramentalized consciousness of the cell supramentalizes the inner substance of the cell and makes the Unity-Consciousness in the cell concrete and active. The psychic being covers itself with the ... permanent way but they are not visible to the ordinary vision. But their existence is logical and continuous. Well, there the form is the true expression of the consciousness, while here the form is the result of … one could say: the lies disseminated in the consciousness. ‘Those who see me during the night, those who have that vision in the subtle world, do not see me like this [the Mother points ...
... things. To fix the consciousness within, to keep it concentrated on the Divine alone is a great difficulty for all, it is what makes sadhana a thing for which long time and a slow development of the consciousness is usually necessary, at first at any rate. So that need not discourage you. In your inner vital there is plenty of strong will and deep down in your psychic there is the true aspiration and love... physical mind), not shared in by the emotional being—a wave brought from outside into the material body consciousness. These small things of the physical mind [ such as being disturbed by the defects of others ] are such as everybody has and they will fall off when the truer wider consciousness comes out. You have the understanding in your mind, but these things persist because they really belong... that, but persist in the aspiration and will till it is done. The Mother's Force will be there to bring it about as soon as possible. You have only to allow the consciousness to develop—at first there will be mistakes as well as true ideas, but when there is sufficient development and the Mother's force and knowledge directly working in you, things will become more and more right—not only so, but ...
... the human consciousness bringing her Force to the disciples who could bear its Light and Power. 1. Nirodbaran and Deshpande, R.Y., Ed. Amal-Kiran : Poet and Critic, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1994, pp. 306-07. Page 62 The Mother and SriAurobindo are the guiding spirits of the Ashram. The Ashram is the nucleus of the Integral Yoga where the true Indian con... adornment or aggrandisement of common life, we have two movements - the unfoldment of man's power of the True, the Beautiful and the Good and the lifting of that power to its highest realisable creativity.... The second movement of Culture - the lifting ever higher of our power of unfolding the True, the Beautiful and the Good - directs attention beyond the intellect which seeks to catch the whole of... the outer system of civilisation, the arts and crafts, the literature, the physical and psychological sciences, the social-political organisation, the economic and industrial set-up. In a deeper and truer sense, the culture of India is a way of life intended to prepare man for a greater existence. Both the individual and collectivity seek to achieve that aim through this culture. But each depends on ...
... likely to occur. As for those who can live in the true divine consciousness, certain powers are not "powers" at all in that sense, not, that is to say, supernatural Page 571 or abnormal, but rather their normal way of seeing and acting, part of the consciousness—and how can they be forbidden or refuse to act according to their consciousness and its nature? I suppose I have had myself an... of the spiritual life and to be on one's guard against it is a necessity for the seeker if he wishes to arrive at his goal. It is true that many supraphysical or supernormal powers come with the expansion of the consciousness in Yoga; to rise out of the body consciousness, to act by subtle means on the supraphysical planes etc. are natural activities for the Yogi. But these powers are not sought after... uncertain in their application and precarious depending on the maintenance of the process by which they were attained. It is certainly possible to have consciousness of things going on at a distance and to intervene. The idea that true Yogins do not or ought not to use such powers, I regard as an ascetic superstition. I believe that all Yogins who have these powers do use them whenever they ...
... of the true psychic consciousness,. Page 251 which alone can enable us to detach ourselves from the lower nature and its desires, but a mere detachment from conscious desires is not enough, there must also be a probing and penetration of the depths, and a vigilant observation of the subtle action of the essential craving of the citta. In proportion as the psychic consciousness or the... the consciousness of the soul grows in the being, the observation of the working of the nature and an analysis of its hidden mechanism will become easier and more precise. But still there will be enough working going on below the surface and occult to our consciousness. It is, therefore, essential that the Mother's Light be called down and directed to these arcane regions. Her Light will illumine the... impersonal?¹ And how can he become an impersonal witness, so long as he has not discovered and realised something in himself that surpasses his shifting phenomenal personality? All ancient tradition bases true knowledge on the discovery and attainment of the soul, the imperishable entity in our perishable earthly tenement. This soul must be made the priest and leader of our spiritual journey. In the Integral ...
... amis attained by himself. From cosmic consciousness or the consciousness of Unity (which, although it may lead to personal felicity, will really be "an escape instead of a victory"), the next stage will be to see the Unity as a creative duality of Two-in-One: Pure Existence and Power of ,Consciousness, Purusha and Prakriti, Krishna and Kali. The true Yogi turns himself into a pure engine of... that thou hast sown the seeds in the field and traced the signs on the screen, thou mayst return to thy calm silence, thou mayst go back to thy retreat to renew thy strength in a deeper and truer consciousness. Thou canst forget thy own person and find again the charm of the universal. Taking "the veils of manifestation" to refer to "the three inanimate images" mentioned above, we might... returned to action and the ordinary consciousness, but the ladder is not withdrawn; she is free to make the ascent back to "the immutable Silence and the eternal Consciousness". What seems a descent into the obscurity and the ignorance was a necessity without which the being would not "grow wider and richer". The next day, she loses herself - mind, consciousness, all - in the depths of a divine ecstasy ...
... you wanted from life. Nothing but a radical change of consciousness can deliver the world from its present obscurity. Indeed, this transformation of the consciousness, this manifestation of a higher and truer consciousness, is not only possible but certain; it is the very aim of our existence, the purpose of life upon earth. First the consciousness must be transformed, then life, then forms; it is in... nature and scope. All six of you have come to a similar conclusion in spite of the success that has crowned your efforts. For you have been living in the surface consciousness, seeing only the appearance of things and unaware of the true reality of the universe. You represent the élite of mankind, each one of you has achieved in his own sphere the utmost of what man is capable of; you are therefore... manifesting something more of the universal consciousness. All goes to show that man is not the last step in terrestrial evolution. The human species will necessarily be succeeded by a new one which will be to man what man is to the animal; the present human consciousness will be replaced by a new consciousness, no longer mental but supramental. And this consciousness will give birth to a higher race, superhuman ...
... Synthesis of Yoga, p. 671) "Equality is the chief support of the true spiritual consciousness..." (Letters on Yoga, p. 661) Lord Krishna, the great proponent of spiritual synthesis, went so far as to define 'Yoga' as the 'attainment of equality', 'samatvam yoga ucyate'. According to him the consciousness of a true yogi is always established in equality, s ā mye sthitam, and a spiritual... the lack of sufficient sensitivity. is not judged as such in spiritual parlance. In fact, true equality is an elevated status of the being, very much positive and dynamic, surcharged with great power, but absolutely calm and quiet in every way. This equality is the reflection in the consciousness of the siddha-yogi, of the eternal and infinite Oneness of the supreme Reality, samam brahma. ... equal attitude towards men and things and events and situations." Yes, an equal attitude towards men and things and events and situations: as a firm achievement this is surely a sine qua non of true spirituality. But how is it then that most of us, in our daily conduct of life affairs, almost always miserably fail to maintain this laudable attitude of impartial equality ? What is the root-cause ...
... The Opening of the Physical Consciousness The physical consciousness? It opens just like the rest, receives a new consciousness, obeys the Force, feels a change even in the cells, aspires to and seeks self-giving and union with the Divine. Page 206 The True Activity of the Senses It [ the true activity of the senses ] is to record the divine or true appearance of things and return... Sometimes it denotes the consciousness behind the veil of the outer being, the mental or vital or physical within, which is in direct touch with the universal mind, the universal life forces, the universal physical forces. Sometimes, on the other hand, we mean an inmost mental, vital, physical, more specifically called the true mind, the true vital, the true physical consciousness which is nearest to the... The forces of the physical mind, vital physical, material consciousness [ are the forces of the physical plane ]. Of course, as I said, the statement must be taken with a qualification, for the true mind and vital are also there, but in this condition [ of passivity and inertia ] it is the forces of the physical consciousness that predominate and determine the general condition which is a proneness ...
... purity and such violent attacks as you have are impossible. When the true vital being comes forward, it is something wide and strong and calm, an unmoved and powerful warrior for the Divine and the Truth repelling all enemies, bringing in a true strength and Page 356 force and opening the vital to the greater Consciousness above. It has to be seen which of the two it is you feel within you... by the psychic and its action and influence. The vision you had of the other luminous and peaceful and beautiful world was a sort of symbolic image of the true physical consciousness and the world in which it lives, the physical consciousness as it is when it is directly under the control of the psychic, and the character of the world which it tends to create for itself. The Psychic and the Relation... By coming forward is meant that it comes from behind the veil, its presence is felt clearly in the waking daily consciousness, its influence fills, dominates, transforms the mind and vital and their movements, even the physical. One is aware of one's soul, feels the psychic to be one's true being, the mind and the rest begin to be only instruments of the inmost within us. The inner mental, vital, ...
... invited to Auroville all those who thirst for progress and aspire to a higher and truer life." Auroville's Charter 1. Auroville belongs to nobody in particular Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But to live in Auroville one must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness. 2. Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress... Auroville to escape from the social and moral rules that are practised artificially everywhere, but it is not to give license to the satisfaction of all desires: it is to rise above desires into a truer consciousness." Something like that.... It seems they have great need of it! (Mother laughs') So that should be added. We could make a whole programme, it would be rather interesting. Yes, but... by them. But when it's governed by the Spirit and the Consciousness, that gives it incomparable possibility and flexibility! And that's what will Page 18 give it the capacity to prolong its life, to last longer: it's by replacing the mental, intellectual government by the government of the Spirit, the Consciousness—THE Consciousness. Outwardly, it doesn't seem to make much difference, but ...
... life-forces. The True Vital Being and Consciousness There is behind all the vital nature in man his true vital being concealed and immobile which is quite different from the surface vital nature. The surface vital is narrow, ignorant, limited, full of obscure desires, passions, cravings, revolts, pleasures and pains, transient joys and griefs, exultations and depressions. The true vital being on the... with more potently and they also made free and perfect. The true vital is in the inner consciousness, the external is that which is instrumental for the present play of Prakriti in the surface personality. When the change comes, the true vital rejects what is out of tune with its own truth from the external and makes it a true instrument for its expression, a means of expression of its inner... strong distinction between the two practically disappears. The higher and lower [ vital ] are divisions of the ordinary vital and equally ignorant. It is the true vital that is in contact with the Divine. The true vital consciousness is one in which the vital makes full surrender, converts itself into an instrument of the Divine, making no demand, insisting on no desire, answering to the Mother's ...
... into this other true unifying consciousness which is the heart of existence and its continent and its whole containing and supporting, its whole original and eternal and final truth. Nirvana when we gain it, enter into it, is not only within us, but all around, abhito vartate , because this is not only the Brahman-consciousness which lives secret within us, but the Brahman-consciousness in which we live... Nirvana, the spiritual consciousness in which we lose the separative ego-consciousness, is not only within us but within all these existences, exists not only above and apart from all these universal happenings, but pervades them, contains them and is extended in them. Therefore by Nirvana in the Brahman must be meant a destruction or extinction of the limited separative consciousness, falsifying Page... be the ego, the little person limited by the mind and the body; he becomes the Brahman; he is unified in consciousness with the immutable divinity of the eternal Self which is immanent in his natural being. But is this a going in into some deep sleep of samadhi away from all world-consciousness, or is it the preparatory movement for a dissolution of the natural being and the individual soul into some ...
... original consciousness and power creative of illusions and unrealities with mind as its instrument or medium in the human and animal consciousness, so that the differentiated universe we see is unreal, a fiction of Maya, and only some indeterminable and undifferentiated Absolute is real. Or there is, we may equally suppose, an original, a supreme or cosmic Truth-Consciousness creative of a true universe... dream experience; it is found that then we are aware of ourselves passing from state after state of consciousness to a brief period of luminous and peaceful dreamless rest, which is the true restorer of the energies of the waking nature, and then returning by the same way to the waking consciousness. It is normal, as we thus pass from state to state, to let the previous experiences slip away from us;... illusory consciousness, our waking state no less illusory than our dream state or sleep state, since the only true truth or real reality is the incommunicable Self or One-Existence (Atman, Adwaita) which is the fourth state of the Self described by the Vedanta. But it is equally possible to regard and rank them together as three different orders of one Reality or as three states of consciousness in which ...
... sincere, cannot hold even the outer consciousness always: its apparent solidity will dissolve. Turning towards the Divine An idealistic notion or a religious belief or emotion is something quite different from getting spiritual light. An idealistic notion might turn you towards getting spiritual light, but it is not the light itself. Page 29 It is true however that "the spirit bloweth... things are done. It is the Divine Power that works and if one makes oneself its instrument, even what is impossible for the personal capacity can be done. When one once enters into the true (Yogic) consciousness, then you see that everything can be done, even if at present only a slight beginning has been made; but a beginning is enough, once the Force, the Power are there. It is not really on the... own incapacity or allow it to become an obsession; for such an attitude has no true justification and unnecessarily renders the way harder. Where there is a soul that has once become awake, there is surely a capacity within that can outweigh all surface defects and can in the end conquer. If your conclusion were true, the whole aim of this Yoga would be a vain thing; for we are not working for a ...
... source of the intuitive action and a more and more organised functioning of a true supramental consciousness acting not in the mind but on its own higher plane. This draws up into itself in the end the intuitive mentality it has created as its representative and assumes the charge of the whole activity of the consciousness. The process is progressive and for a long time chequered by admixture and ... seeings are purely mental, then they may but need not be true, for the mind is capable of both truth and error, both of a true and of a false representation. But as the mind becomes intuitivised and supramentalised, these powers are purified and corrected by the more luminous action of the supermind and become themselves forms of a supramental and a true seeing. The supramental vision, it may be noted, brings... action of Vidya. A second difference that we experience is a greater and a spontaneous harmony and unity. All consciousness is one, but in action it takes on many movements and each of these fundamental movements has many forms and processes. The forms and processes of the mind consciousness are marked by a disturbing and perplexing division and separateness of the mental energies and movements in which ...
... permanent establishment of whatever supreme experience is accessible to LSD in the consciousness of its user. The experience is a wonderful visitation and no more. Doubtless, as we have stated, a certain behavioural sequel of its eudaemonism is there, yet the immediacy of the "liberation" itself is short-lived. Mysticism, in the true sense, means a constant presence of the Infinite, the Eternal, the Divine... hope that all on a sudden we can fly straight into the "transcendental" by chemical reactions in our brain cells. Another point to remember is that, in its true connotation, the "transcendental" is even more than Cosmic Consciousness and the Ground of things. It is the Supra- cosmic, whose emanations are both the mutable universe and its immutable support of Self. And the Supracosmic is not only... barrier of the familiar self with indefinite expansion. This expansion may be allowed more freely if by any chance a real adept of Yoga - at once mystic and occultist and living in the true Cosmic Consciousness - can vouch that when the subject breaks out of the familiar self he somehow experiences something essentially or predominantly spiritual rather than the ambiguous lights and largenesses of ...
... one, the meeting or confluence of the Mind and the Vital is the Heart, the centre of emotion, the knot of the external or instrumental vehicle, of the frontal consciousness, behind which is born and hides the true individualised consciousness, the psyche. The mid-region is the Higher Vital consisting of larger (egoistic) dynamisms, such as high ambition, great enterprise, heroic courage, capacity for... soul, his true psychic centre. It is this soul that is the source of his personality. The formulation or revelation of the Psyche marks another Page 47 line of what we have been describing as the Descent of Consciousness. The phenomenon of individualisation has at its back the phenomenon of the growth of the Psyche. It is originally a spark or nucleus of consciousness thrown into... because it comes from elsewhere. It is true all the planes are imbedded, submerged, involved in the complex of Matter; but, in point of fact, all planes are involved in every other plane. The appearance or manifestation of a new plane is certainly prepared, made ready to the last—the last but one —degree by the urge of the inner, the latent mode of consciousness that is to be; still the actualization ...
... confluence Page 25 of the Mind and the Vital is the Heart, the centre of emotion, the knot of the external or instrumental vehicle, of the frontal consciousness, behind which is born and hides the true individualised consciousness, the psyche. The mid-region is the Higher Vital consisting of larger (egoistic) dynamisms, such as high ambition, great enterprise, heroic courage, capacity for... soul, his true psychic centre. It is this soul that is the source of his personality. The formulation or revelation of the Psyche marks another line of what we have been describing as the Descent of Consciousness. The phenomenon of individualisation has Page 51 at its back the phenomenon of the growth of the Psyche. It is originally a spark or nucleus of consciousness thrown... comes from elsewhere. It is true all the planes are imbedded, submerged, involved in the complex of Matter; but, in point of fact, all planes are involved in every other plane. The appearance or manifestation of a new plane is certainly prepared, made ready to the last—the last Page 36 but one—degree by the urge of the inner, the latent mode of consciousness that is to be; still the ...
... use all the other states of sense consciousness and their appropriate senses and organs adding to them what they have not, setting right their errors and supplying their deficiencies: for it is the source of the others and they are only inferior derivations from this higher sense, this true and illimitable saṁjñāna . The lifting of the level of consciousness from the mind to the supermind and... translation of the energies, and it has therefore no real or direct experience of the true nature of life, no actual realisation of the life force and the life spirit. It is by opening this other level or depth of experience within and by admission to the vital consciousness and vital sense that the mind can get the true and direct experience. Still, even then, so long as it is on the mental level, the... and other forms created by constant activity of consciousness in ourselves or in other human beings, and these may be according to the character of the activity images of truth or falsehood or else mixed things, partly true, partly false, and may be too either mere shells and representations or images inspired with a temporary life and consciousness and, it may be, carrying in them in one way or another ...
... form of "an inmost Page 345 mental, vital, physical, more specifically called the true mind, the true vital, the true physical consciousness". 23 The psychic being behind the outer being and the inner being and supporting them both is also a Purusha (Fig. 3). Purusha Prakriti figure 3. Purusha and Prakriti Explaining the nature of Purusha and Prakriti... corresponds to a plane of the universal being. Ego and Individuality In our normal consciousness, as stated previously, we are not conscious of our true being; we are aware only of our outer being — body, life and mind — with which we identify our self. This identification of the true being with the outer being gives rise to an ego — physical, vital, and mental — which gives us the... by Nature and is at once a mental, vital and physical formation meant to aid in centralising and individualising the outer consciousness and action. When the true being is discovered, the utility of the ego is over and the formation has to disappear — the true being is felt in its place. 34 This persistent soul-existence is the real Individuality which stands behind the constant ...
... one, the meeting or confluence of the Mind and the Vital is the Heart, the centre of emotion, the knot of the external or instrumental vehicle, of the frontal consciousness, behind which is born and hides the true individualised consciousness, the psyche. The mid-region is the Higher Vital consisting of larger (egoistic) dynamisms, such as high ambition, great enterprise, heroic courage, capacity for... soul, his true psychic centre. It is this soul that is the source of his personality. The formulation or revelation of the Psyche marks another Page 48 line of what we have been describing as the Descent of Consciousness. The phenomenon of individualisation has at its back the phenomenon of the growth of the Psyche. It is originally a spark or nucleus of consciousness thrown into... because it comes from elsewhere. It is true all the planes are imbedded, submerged, involved in the complex of Matter; but, in point of fact, all planes are involved in every other plane. The appearance or manifestation of a new plane is certainly prepared, made ready to the last – the last but one – degree by the urge of the inner, the latent mode of consciousness that is to be; still the actualisation ...
... of abandon, openness ) and receive the Force. Then all the inspirations will come, and not only the inspirations but the MEANS to execute them, and the TRUE Thing. Otherwise.. . And as none of them are that ready, I do as the Consciousness does: I put on the Pressure and say nothing I wait. (Mother laughs) (silence) Page 184 If you only knew everything that is going on... Auroville to escape from the social and moral rules that are practised artificially everywhere, but it is not to give license to the satisfaction of all desires: it is to rise above desires into a truer consciousness." Something like that.... It seems they have great need of it! (Mother laughs) So that should be added. We could make a whole programme, it would be rather interesting. Yes... have a... universal consciousness, you see, otherwise.... Wherever there is the personal consciousness, it is a being incapable of governing — we see what governments are like, it's dreadful! (long silence) There is a psychological viewpoint: there is something very interesting, which is that material needs diminish in proportion to the spiritual consciousness. Not (as Sri Aurobindo ...
... not likely to occur. As for those who can live in the true Divine Consciousness, certain powers are not 'powers' at all in that sense, not, that is to say, supernatural or abnormal, but rather their normal way of seeing and acting, part of the consciousness — and how can they be forbidden, or refuse to act according to their consciousness and its nature? "I suppose I have had myself an even... poetry and music come from the inner being and to write or to compose true and great things one has to have the passage clear between the outer mind and something in the inner being. That is why you got the poetic power as soon as you began Yoga — Yogic force made the passage clear. It is the same with the Yogic consciousness and its powers; the thing is to get the passage clear, —for they are... simple reason that we who have learned to live all along in our surface consciousness have thereby forfeited our birth-right to the inner view, so native to the Yogi. That is why we find a deal too much of head-shaking when men live in and act from a deeper consciousness and talk to us of values which our superficial consciousness cannot appraise. Not for nothing did the First Creator, Brahma, warn the ...
... Paramatma who is really none else than their own highest self, and when they forget themselves in this way through the Maya of this world, bitterness comes to dispel the Maya and revive the true self-consciousness. Page 293 The parable is equally applicable to national mukti. We in India fell under tile-influence of the foreigner's Maya which completely possessed our souls. It was... efforts great, our hearts vast, make us true to our resolve. May we no longer desire the small, void of energy, given to laziness, stricken with fear. Mother Durga! Extend wide the power of Yoga. We are thy Aryan children, develop in us the lost teaching, character, strength of intelligence, faith and devotion, force of austerity, power of chastity and true knowledge.... Mother Durga! Slay... persuaded to stop that line of attack. Turning now to Bankim Chandra Chatterji, about whom Sri Aurobindo wrote a series of articles in 1894 in the Indu Prakash, he found in the Bengali novelist a true patriot, not less a patriot and a fighter for using only his pen as the flashing sword and the genre of creative fiction as the field of battle for the inauguration of an era of awakening in the ...
... better -- of the true intuitive intellectual attitude, and --naturally the capacity would be still more preferable at least the knowledge that the true way of knowing is mental silence, an attentive silence turned towards the truer Consciousness, and the capacity to receive What comes from there. The best would be to have this capacity; at least, it should be explained that it is the true thing a sort... everything, everything... What you call consciousness is the thinking of things, that is what you call consciousness: the thinking of things. But it is not that at all, that is not consciousness. The consciousness must be capable of being totally lucid and without words. (Silence) There, everything becomes luminous and warm... strong! And peace, the true peace, which is not inertia and which... this has never led to anything and has only created confusion. There is only one true guide, that is the inner guide, who does not pass through the mental consciousness. Naturally, if a child gets a disastrous education, it Will try ever harder to extinguish Within itself this little Page-141 true thing, and sometimes it succeeds so well that it loses all contact with it, and also ...
... are all a portion of me, held by my consciousness and tied by my consciousness, one with me. When you understand what it means, then you will have taken a big step forward, you will have solved many a mystery. Here, take the flower and with it, the Grace. Never doubt it… what will follow … it is unforeseen…. But it is worth something…. It is direct and more true and real. You will see, my child... his disposal. He who seeks the Truth of existence finds the highest he can reach in its true revelation. It is so, each word He has written is charged with a consciousness and an ineffable light which projects itself according to what is proper to the plane and to the level of the development of the consciousness of the reader. And at each level the meaning is different, and yet it is the same word... away so quickly by the small visions and the experiences which are still restricted and stifled by your ignorance and your weaknesses. One must widen one’s consciousness to have the true perception of things, the truth that they contain, the true beauty, the revelation of the Divine in each atom and in each thing in the entire universe. It is this that is really unforgettable, marvellously perceptible ...
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