... knowledge arises self-born and the act is self-born out of the knowledge, out of a pre-existent truth of being conscious and self-aware. An essential and universal spiritual truth of being manifesting itself, freely fulfilling itself in its own nature and self-effectuating consciousness, a truth of being one in all even in an infinite diversity of its truth and making all to be felt as one, would also... with the still lower degrees of the gnostic evolution, the supramental Page 1045 life would use this innate power and movement of its Truth of being: it would relate in the light of that integral Reality its own truth of being with the truth of being that is behind the Ignorance; it would found all relations upon the common spiritual unity, accept and harmonise the manifested difference. The... degrees and successive constituent Page 1003 formations of the gnostic light and power in earth-nature. For the description of gnosis applies to all consciousness that is based upon Truth of being and not upon the Ignorance or Nescience. All life and living beings ready to rise beyond the mental ignorance, but not ready yet for the supramental height, would find in a sort of echelon or a ...
... life in an earthly body. A large relation of unity, an integration, restores the balance, illumines Page 705 the whole truth of being and links together the steps of Nature. In this integration the supracosmic Reality stands as the supreme Truth of being; to realise it is the highest reach of our consciousness. But it is this highest Reality which is also the cosmic being, the cosmic... perception a Divine Existence, Consciousness and Delight of Being which is a supracosmic Reality, self-existent, but also the secret truth underlying the whole manifestation; for the fundamental truth of Being must necessarily be the fundamental truth of Becoming. All is a manifestation of That; for it dwells even in all that seem to be its opposites and its hidden compulsion on them to disclose it is... necessity must determine the ultimate trend of the process of evolutionary Nature. All views of existence that stop short of the Transcendence and ignore it must be incomplete accounts of the truth of being. The pantheistic view of the identity of the Divine and the Universe is a truth, for all this that is is the Brahman: but it stops short of the whole truth when it misses and omits the supracosmic ...
... the obscure body of the universe. For the awakened individual the realisation of his truth of being and his inner liberation and perfection must be his primary seeking,—first, because that is the call of the Spirit within him, but also because it is only by liberation and perfection and realisation of the truth of being that man can arrive at truth of living. A perfected community also can exist only... and knowledge of others or affirm himself as an ego striving against other egos. For the spiritual self has its own inalienable joy and plenitude inviolable in all conditions, its own infinity of truth of being: that it feels always in fullness whatever may be the outward formulation. The truth of the spirit within would not depend on a particular formation; it would have no need, therefore, to struggle... in suitable relation to other formulations and each in its own place in the whole formulation. Truth of gnostic consciousness and being establishing itself can find its harmony with all other truth of being around it. A spiritual or gnostic being would feel his harmony with the whole gnostic life around him, whatever his position in the whole. According to his place in it he would know how to lead ...
... this action and these fruits of the Divine Consciousness can be called by us unreal in the sense of not being the eternal and fundamental truth of being or can be taxed with falsehood because they contradict what is originally and eventually the truth of being; but, all the same, they have their persistent reality and importance in our present phase of the manifestation, nor can they be a mere mistake... of the divine elements which robs them of their divinity, then in a various many-branching distortion, a perversion, a contrary Page 405 turn, a falsifying departure from some ideal Truth of being. To our minds which do not possess that Truth but can conceive it, this departure presents itself either as a state from which we have lapsed spiritually or as a possibility or promise which we... will of God in us to transcend evil and suffering, to transform imperfection into perfection, to rise into a higher law of Divine Nature. In our human consciousness there is the image of an ideal truth of being, a divine nature, an incipient godhead: in relation to that higher truth our present state of imperfection can be relatively described as an undivine life and the conditions of the world from which ...
... says that evolution is the result of the inevitable fulfilment of the Truth of Being which is the essential reality of the universe. The fulfilment of this Truth, the fulfilment of the Truth of Being, is the fundamental fact of evolution, that is, it is the cause and principle of the evolution; but naturally, if this Truth of Being is inevitably fulfilled, it must be by means of a will and a purpose... , and it may well be held that this urge is the evolutionary will of a secret Conscious-Being and its push of progressive manifestation the evidence of an innate intention in the evolution.... Truth of Being inevitably fulfilling itself would be the fundamental fact of the evolution, but Will and its purpose must be there as part of the instrumentation, as an element in the operative principle. " ...
... timeless Self, the Self possessing Time, Lord of Nature, creator and continent of the cosmos and immanent in all existences, the Soul from whom all souls derive and to whom they are drawn,—that is the truth of Being as man's highest God-conception sees it. The same Absolute revealed in all relativities, the Spirit who embodies Himself in cosmic Mind and Life and Matter and of whom Nature is the self of energy... so that all she seems to create is the Self and Spirit variously manifested in His own being to His own conscious force for the delight of His various existence,—this Page 728 is the truth of being to which man's knowledge of Nature and cosmos is leading him and which he will reach when his Nature knowledge unites itself with his God-knowledge. This truth of the Absolute is the justification... transcendent of it, arrive in them at the individual possession of its complete existence, when its presence and power are felt in one, in all and in the relations of one with all;—this is the truth of being to which man's entire knowledge of himself in God and in Nature rises and widens. A triune knowledge, the complete knowledge of God, the complete knowledge of himself, the complete knowledge of ...
... through the veil some illumining flashes come to us. We can see through these utterances the conception of this Supermind as a vastness beyond the ordinary firmaments of our consciousness in which truth of being is luminously one with all that expresses it and assures inevitably truth of vision, formulation, arrangement, word, act and movement and therefore truth also of result of movement, result of action... Vast all-comprehensiveness; luminous truth and harmony of being in that vastness and not a vague chaos or self-lost obscurity; truth of law and act and knowledge expressive of that harmonious truth of being: these seem to be the essential terms of the Vedic description. The Gods, who in their highest secret entity are powers of this Supermind, born of it, seated in it as in their proper home, are... divorced from each other. For the Supermind is the Vast; it starts from unity, not division, it is primarily comprehensive, differentiation is only its secondary act. Therefore whatever be the truth of being expressed, the idea corresponds to it exactly, the will-force to the idea,—force being only power of the consciousness,—and the result to the will. Nor does the idea clash with other ideas, the ...
... that mental abstraction so as to make the dominance of the idea practical and viable. A subjectivist pragmatic mentalism would try to act more subtly and plastically on life; it would seek for "truth of being", some idea or ideal of its perfection or practice or efficiency, right way of being or living, and attempt to let that grow in the individual and govern his nature, grow in the collective life... give to man his complete self. Mind is an instrument, not the self of man; nor the complete reality or highest reality of his being. It is a mediator between the being and life; it seeks to know truth of being and truth of life and bring them together. Truth of idea therefore is effective only so far as it can interpret truth of spirit and truth of life, it has itself no essential existence; when it... usually it ends by [. . .], exhausting or stereotyping and sterilising the force it uses; or it can become effective only when it canalises and brings out into action of mind and life an inner truth of being, a truth of spirit and it is then powerful only so long as it replenishes itself from its spiritual source and so keeps itself true and alive. Page 417 ...
... obscure body of the universe. For the awakened individual the realisation of his truth of being and his inner liberation and perfection must be his primary seeking, — first, because that is the call of the Spirit within him, but also because it is only by liberation and perfection and realisation of the truth of being that man can arrive at truth of living. A perfected community also can exist only... use Sri Aurobindo's own words, "must be to the Truth, the Self, the Spirit, the Divine which is in him and in all; not to subordinate or lose himself in the mass, but to find and express that truth of being in himself and help the community and humanity in its seeking for its own truth and fullness of being must be his real object of existence." 2 Indeed, Sri Aurobindo acknowledges that ...
... the obscure body of the universe. For the awakened individual the realization of his truth of being and his inner liberation and perfection must be his primary seeking,-first, because that is the call of the Spirit within him, but also because it is only by liberation and perfection and realization of the truth of being that man can arrive at truth of living. A perfected community also can exist only... not the whole life: his allegiance must be to the Truth, the Self, the Spirit, the Divine which is in him and in all; not to subordinate or lose himself in the mass, but to find and express that truth of being in himself and help the community and humanity in its seeking for its own truth and fullness of being must be his real object of existence. But the extent to which the power of the individual life ...
... dharman). By rising to Mahas in himself he enters into direct touch with ideal Truth, gets truth of knowledge by drishti, sruti & smriti, the three grand ideal processes, and by that knowledge truth of being, truth of action (satyadharma), truth of bliss (satyaradhas) constituting amritam, swarajyam & samrajyam, immortality, self-rule & mastery of the world. It is this evolution which the Vedic hymns... the moral akasha even,the akasha of the heart of which the Rishis spoke, but on higher levels also. I have pointed out that Ritam is the law of the Truth, of vijnana. It is this ideal Truth, the Truth of being, by which everything animate or inanimate knows in its fibres of being & serves in action & feeling the truth of itself, in which Law is born. This Law which belongs to Satyam, to the Mahas, is... delight which world is in Jana, in production or birth by Tapas, through Ananda, that is to say, into the manifest world, dwells in ideal knowledge & Truth and makes there Ritam or the Law of the Truth of Being his peculiar province. It is the very process of all creation, according to our Vedic&Vedantic Rishis. Descending into the actual universe we find Varuna master of the Akash or ether, matrix and ...
... adopted by Sri Aurobindo as expressive of the conception of the Supermind. As a result, Sri Aurobindo describes Supermind "as a vastness beyond the ordinary firmaments of our consciousness in which truth of being is luminously one with all that expresses it and assures inevitably truth of vision, formulation, arrangement, word, act and movement and therefore truth also of result of movement, result of action... Vast all-comprehensiveness, luminous truth and harmony of being in that vastness and not a vague chaos or self-lost obscurity, truth of law and act and knowledge expressive of that harmonious truth of being. The Truth, the Right and the Vast - this is the brief formula of the Supermind. Two primary faculties of which the Vedic seers speak in regard to the "truth-conscious" soul are Sight and... the Void nor a weaver of fictions. Sri Aurobindo has taken the phrase Real-Idea as description of the supermind from the Rig Vedic phrase "rta cit'' which means the consciousness of essential truth of being (satyam), of ordered truth of active being (rtam) and the vast self-awareness (brhat) in which alone this consciousness is possible. The supermind is thus conscious Reality throwing itself ...
... seven principles of existence and the seven Puranic worlds correspond to them with sufficient precision, thus:— Principle World 1) Pure Existence—Sat World of the highest truth of being (Satyaloka) 2) Pure Consciousness—Chit World of infinite Will or conscious force (Tapoloka) 3) Pure Bliss—Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka) 4)... in the trace of the hound, Intuition, the lost or hidden illuminations, makes the Sun of Truth mount high in the heaven of our mentality. Surya, the Sun, is the master of that supreme Truth,—truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of process and act and movement and functioning. He is therefore the creator or rather the manifester of all things—for creation is outbringing, expression by the Truth ...
... unknowable reality. We see, then, that all becoming in universe is a formal or symbolic manifestation of unknowable God or Brahman effected by Tapas, by the dwelling of self-knowledge on latent truth of being & the consequent forcing it out of its latency in figure of truth for the joy of God's cosmic self-knowledge. That which is to us unknowable X beyond thought & sensation is expressed here by Tapas... of being with the object contemplated or through unity in consciousness with the object or through self-delight in the object, but always it will be self-revealing truth of fact, self-existent truth of being & not formed truth of thought or opinion. Vijnana is also brihat; it is knowledge comprehensive of & containing the object of knowledge in the knower; it possesses, it does not approach—its process ...
... that self-awareness; the first is its foundation and status, the second is its power of being, the dynamis of its self-existence. All that a timeless eternity of self awareness sees in itself as truth of being, the conscious power of its being manifests in Time-eternity. To Supermind therefore the Supreme is not a rigid Indeterminable, an all-negating Absolute; an infinite of being complete to itself... delight of existence. Creation would then be a self-manifestation: it would be an ordered deploying of the infinite possibilities of the Infinite. Page 327 But every possibility implies a truth of being behind it, a reality in the Existent; for without that supporting truth there could not be any possibles. In manifestation a fundamental reality of the Existent would appear to our cognition as ...
... the millienia, through billions of years of earth's existence. He has been there all through the creation of our universe. Sri Aurobindo clarifies: "Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance." This single line gives the whole symbolism of Satyavan. Sat is the Truth and Satyavan is the carrier of the Divine Truth... 685. 29 Ibid., pp. 686-87. 30 Ibid., p. 692. 31 Collected Poems, SABCL, Vol. 5, pp. 99-102. Page 148 Satyavan, "the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance" is not only the link in the workings of Aswapati and Savitri, but also the medium and kshetra of Savitri's transformative work ...
... teleology, the element of purpose in the nisus is the translation of self-operative Truth of Being into terms of self-effective Will-Power of that Being, and, if consciousness is there, such a Will-Power must also be there and the translation is normal Page 393 and inevitable. Truth of Being inevitably fulfilling itself would be the fundamental fact of the evolution, but ...
... himself, a puppet-show in Time. We are driven back to the dual being of Brahman, the dual consciousness of Brahman involved in the Illusion and free from the Illusion, and a certain phenomenal truth of being for Maya: there can be no solution of our existence in the universe if that existence and the universe itself have no reality,—even though the reality be only partial, restricted, derivative. But... other truths of being there may be that are supraphysical and belong to another domain of manifestation, not realised here but still real. Even what is nowhere actual in any universe, may be a truth of being, a potential of being, and cannot, because it is not yet expressed in form of existence, be taxed as unreal. But our mind or this part of it still insists on its pragmatic habit or conception of ...
... light, a voice, compelling a change of thought, imposing a new discernment of ourselves and all around us. Truth of thought creates truth of vision and truth of vision forms in us truth of being, and out of truth of being ( satyam ) flows naturally truth of emotion, will and action. This is indeed the central notion of the Veda. Saraswati, the inspiration, is full other luminous plenitudes, rich ...
... harmony with the ritam, but only satyam & brihat. It is full of true & active possibilities out of which the actuality is determined. This is the reason why it is neither ritam nor anritam. It is truth of being, but not truth of eventuality. Page 486 Lipi. 1) It is the bygone attention to the spirit of the intellectuality (Akasha, with difficulty). 2) Turpitude —to be fought & expelled... that the discord may also bring a joy of progressive fulfilment & of strenuousness in the progress, not the discomfort of a baffled struggle. The use of error is to suggest or to maintain a truth of being which would otherwise be shut out by the limited precision of the truth of actuality. What we call truth is always an equivalence between a partial truth of fact & the perception in the human mind ...
... not elsewhere the highest Godhead has to be found, the soul's divine nature developed out of the imperfect physical human nature and through unity with God and man and universe the whole large truth of being discovered and lived and made visibly wonderful. That completes the long cycle of our becoming and admits us to a supreme result; that is the opportunity given to the soul by the human birth and... offering is according to the knowledge, the faith and the work and cannot exceed their limitations, and therefore from the point of view of the greater God-knowledge, which alone gives the entire truth of being and becoming, this inferior offering is not given according to the true and highest law of the sacrifice. It is not founded on a knowledge of the supreme Godhead in his integral Page 332 ...
... that self-awareness; the first is its foundation and status, the second is its power of being, the dynamis of its self-existence. All that a timeless eternity of self-awareness sees in itself as truth of being, the conscious power of its being manifests in Time-eternity. To Supermind therefore the Supreme is not a rigid Indeterminable, an all-negating Absolute; an infinite of being complete to itself... formulations of its delight of existence. Creation would then be a self-manifestation: it would be an ordered deploying of the infinite possibilities of the Infinite. But every possibility implies a truth of being behind it, a reality in the Existent; for without that supporting truth there could not be any possibles. In manifestation a fundamental reality of the Existent would appear to our cognition as ...
... Infinity Truth, Knowledge, Infinity, not as three separate things, but in their inseparable unity, are the supernal conscious being of the Eternal. It is an infinite being, an infinite truth of being, an infinite self-knowledge of self-being. Take one of these away and the idea of the Eternal fails us; we land ourselves in half-lights, in dark or shining paradoxes without issue or in a vain... mental and vital terms of something which is not mechanical causality, but the harmonies of a free self-determination of the being of the Eternal. Truth is truth of the infinite and eternal, truth of being, and truth of becoming only as a self-expression of the being. The circumstances of the self-expression appear to the mind as the finite, but nothing is really finite except the way the mind has ...
... material Nature; the teleology, the element of purpose in the nisus is the translation of self-operative Truth of Being into terms of self-effective Will-Power of that Being, and, if consciousness is there, such a Will-Power must also be there and the translation is normal and inevitable. Truth of being inevitably fulfilling itself would be the fundamental fact of the evolution, but Will and its purpose ...
... which It extends and houses Itself in material form and in that form unveils Itself to Its multiple centres of consciousness. Mind attains its self-fulfilment when it becomes a pure mirror of the Truth of Being which expresses itself in the symbols of the universe; Life, when it consciously lends its energies to the perfect self-figuration of the Divine in ever-new forms and activities of the universal... personality, but the self-conscient All, there must be some good and inherent reason in it for the manifestation, to discover which we must proceed on the hypothesis of some potency, some wisdom, some truth of being in all that is manifested. The discord and apparent evil of the world must in their sphere be admitted, but not accepted as our conquerors. The deepest instinct of humanity seeks always and seeks ...
... beyond manifestation and of which all is a manifestation, it is aware of what is eternal even in Time, it is aware of many planes of existence; it is aware of past truth of manifestation and of much truth of being yet to be manifested in the future, but already existing in the self-view of the Eternal. It does not mistake the pragmatic reality which is the truth of action and mutation for the sole truth... supermind as a memory of the preknown. The imagination transformed in the supermind acts on one side as a power of true image and symbol, always an image or index of some value or significance or other truth of being, on the other as an inspiration or interpretative seeing of possibilities and potentialities not less true than actual or realised things. These are put in their place either by an attendant intuitive ...
... through the veil some illumining flashes come to us. We can see through these utterances the conception of this Supermind as a vastness beyond the ordinary firmaments of our consciousness in which truth of being is luminously one with all that expresses it and assures inevitably truth of vision, formulation, arrangement, word, act and movement and therefore truth also of result of movement, result of... Vast all-comprehensiveness; luminous truth and harmony of being in that vastness and not a vague chaos or self-lost obscurity; truth of law and act and knowledge expressive of that harmonious truth of being: these seem to be the essential terms of the Vedic description. The Gods, who in their highest secret entity are powers of this Supermind, born of it, seated in it as in their proper home, are ...
... than of the Impersonal, of the individual and the cosmos no less than of the supercosmic, of the relative no less than of the Absolute. Ekam evadvitiyam Brahma . The Eternal is in his very truth of being Existence, Consciousness and Bliss of existence. These three are a trinity and inseparable—they are not three but one; it is only in a certain play of the Manifestation that they can be distinguished ...
... diviner light of thought and will, life towards deeper and truer emotion and action, towards a larger power of itself, towards high aims and motives. Whatever cannot yet be raised into its own full truth of being, it will bring nearer to that fullness; whatever is not ready even for that change, will still see the possibility open to it whenever its still incomplete evolution has made it ready for self ...
... ; they live here in fragments of that wide & mighty truth, but because of bheda, because they are broken up & divide truth against truth, they cannot enjoy Truth of knowledge, Truth of Nature, Truth of being & bliss, but have to strive towards it with much failure, pain & relapse. But if man can rise in himself to that plane and pour down its knowledge upon the lower system, then the whole system becomes ...
... period to period, from life to life, and not that in us which is eternal. We are ignorant of the world because we do not know God; we are aware of the law of appearances, but not of the law and truth of being. Our highest wisdom, our minutest most accurate science, our most effective application of knowledge can be at most a thinning of the veil of ignorance, but not a going beyond it, so long as ...
... Self-existence, Self-awareness, Self-delight of being that secretly supports and pervades the universe even while it is also beyond it, is, then, the first truth of spiritual experience. But this truth of being has at once an impersonal and a personal aspect; it is not only Existence, it is the one Being absolute, eternal and infinite. As there are three fundamental aspects in which we meet this Reality ...
... the Infinite. That, moreover, is the avowed objective of ascetic disciplines. It is this state of consciousness to which ascend the true yogis who, because without ego in their realization of the truth of being, are the unknown heralds of the future of humanity. Given such conditions in which the groundwork is done by those souls consecrated to spiritual research, it follows of itself that peace ...
... aware only when he emerged in man. Then could he (the Daemon, the Higher Awareness) say to man: Be ruled by me ... belong no more To misery and destruction; but to love Love is the truth of being. 6 Ultimately through love the purification of the world was effected and then 2 See Lascelles Abercrombie, Romanticism, London, (1926), p. 93. 2 Ibid., p. 94. 4 ...
... Matter? The answer provides a key to the nature of the mission Savitri will later undertake out of love for Satyavan, who in the poem at the level of symbol represents "the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance": 17 The secret Will that robes itself with Night And offers to spirit the ordeal of the flesh, Imposed a mystic ...
... story of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; Aswapati, the ...
... personality, but the self-conscious All, there must be some good and inherent reason in it for the manifestation, to discover which we must proceed on the hypothesis of some potency, some wisdom, some truth of being in all that is manifested. “The discord and apparent evil of the world must in their sphere be admitted, but not accepted as our conquerors. … For we cannot suppose that the sole Entity is compelled ...
... And there is Brahman in its “active” aspect, manifesting itself in the glory of its infinite riches through all eternity – for in that Being there is neither beginning nor end. “The fundamental truth of Being must necessarily be the fundamental truth of Becoming. All is a manifestation of That.” 12 According to Indian wisdom, the three ultimate attributes of Brahman are sat, chit and ananda ...
... p. 43. 11. Ibid. 12 Ibid., p. 45. Page 79 "All views of existence that stop short of the Transcendence and ignore it must be incomplete accounts of the truth of being. The pantheistic view of the identity of the Divine and the Universe is a truth, for all this that is is the Brahman: but it stops short of the whole truth when it misses and omits the supra-cosmic ...
... the Eternal in whom all the universal unity is founded. This trinity of self-manifestation, this prodigious Lila of the manifold Identity, this magic of Maya or protean miracle of the conscious truth of being of the Infinite, is the luminous revelation which emerges by a slow evolution from the original Inconscience. If there were no need of self-finding but only an eternal enjoyment of this play ...
... ground of manifestation for the subjective. The objective world is only an outward form of becoming of the Spirit; it is here a first form, a basis, but it is not the essential thing, the main truth of being. The subjective and objective are two necessary sides of the manifested Reality and of equal value, and in the range of the objective itself the supraphysical object of consciousness has as much ...
... flexible logic proper to that knowledge, the two are only coexistent and concurrent status and movement of the same truth of the Infinite. The timeless Infinite holds in itself, in its eternal truth of being, beyond this manifestation, all that it manifests in Time. Its time consciousness too is itself infinite and maintains in itself at once in a vision of totalities and of particularities, of mobile ...
... form, idea, significance, of the truths of being of the Eternal. All that manifests itself in time, is the coming into play, effective disclosure, result, form, power, evolution, movement of some truth of being, a truth of Sat, of the eternal existence of the Supreme and Eternal. The power that brings it into play is the infinite consciousness of the Supreme aware of itself and all that is itself, ...
... at all in the universe, we presume that it must be an Intelligence, a mental Consciousness. But intelligence only perceives, reflects and uses within the measure of its capacity the work of a Truth of being superior to itself; the power behind that works must therefore be another and superior form of Consciousness proper to that Truth. We have, accordingly, to mend our conception and affirm that not ...
... its purity or extinguish the flame. This spiritual stuff is immaculate and luminous and, because it is perfectly luminous, Page 924 it is immediately, intimately, directly aware of truth of being and truth of nature; it is deeply conscious of truth and good and beauty because truth and good and beauty are akin to its own native character, forms of something that is inherent in its own substance ...
... purification and concentration may be described as the right arm of the body of Yoga, renunciation is its left arm. By discipline or positive practice we confirm in ourselves the truth of things, truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of love, truth of works and replace with these the falsehoods that have overgrown and perverted our nature; by renunciation we seize upon the falsehoods, pluck up their ...
... transform the conflict of our dualised emotions and sensations into a certain totality of serene, yet profound and powerful love and delight. Moreover, revealing the universal action, it shows the truth of being out of which each of its movements arises and to which each progresses, the force of effectuation which each carries with it and the delight of being for which and from which each is born, and ...
... seems to me impossible to see in these expressions anything else than the indication of a state of illumined consciousness the nature of which is that it is wide or large, bṛhat , full of the truth of being, satyam , and of the truth of knowledge and action, ṛtam . The gods have this consciousness. Agni, for instance, is termed ṛtacit , he who has the Truth-Consciousness. Page 95 Mahi ...
... in them as the increaser of strength. With offerings we dispose the sacrifice for thee, do thou then become today to us perfect-minded and our keeper here in our havings, O thou who art of the truth of being. Page 128 प्र त्वा दूतं वृणीमहे होतारं विश्ववेदसम् । महस्ते सतो दि चरन्त्यर्चयो दिवि स्पृशन्ति भानवः ॥३॥ 3) Thee we choose out for our messenger, the priest of offering who ...
... perception of the triloka, (thrice seven), in the forces & purushas that constitute it. There is finality in the perception of the brihat satyam, without finality in the ritam. Satyam means truth of being, in thought, force, tendency etc, not truth of fact in actual eventuality. The finality of illuminated thought & ritam is Page 643 being prepared. When it is complete ...
... and nivṛtti , meet, are united, are possessed together and in each other. In God all things find their secret truth and their absolute reconciliation. All truth of works must depend upon the truth of being. All active existence must be in its inmost reality a sacrifice of works offered by Prakriti to Purusha, Nature offering to the supreme and infinite Soul the desire of the multiple finite Soul ...
... them the same powers, energies or laws must act in a different type and in another sense and light of their effectuality. First, then, we see that if Karma be a universal truth or the universal truth of being, it must be equally true of the inly-born mental and moral worlds of our action as in our outward relations with the physical universe. It is the mental energy that we put forth which determines ...
... revelatory processes, the large universal comment of Nature upon a single text. Mark that it is the first fact of experience from which we start and up to a certain point an undeniable universal truth of being. Matter surely is here our basis, the one thing that is and persists, while life, mind, soul and all else appear in it as a secondary phenomenon, seem somehow to arise out of it, subsist by feeding ...
... fount of poetry. Poetry too is an interpreter of truth, but in the forms of an innate beauty, and not so much of intellectual truth, the truths offered by the critical mind, as of the intimate truth of being. It deals not so much with things thought as with things seen, not with the authenticities of the analytic mind, but with the authenticities of the synthetic vision and the seeing spirit. The ...
... and the egoistic mind and life. This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth,—truth of being, truth of divine consciousness, truth of force and action, truth of Ananda. As a result instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the light of the divine Gnosis, we have ...
... behind it which acts infallibly and the steps of the Ignorance itself are guided even when they seem to stumble.... In this vast and apparently confused mass of existence there is a law, a one truth of being, a guiding and fulfilling purpose of the world-existence. 143 Page 254 On December 5, 1950, Sri Aurobindo left his body. For ten years he had worked to free India from ...
... experience can pollute its purity or extinguish the flame. This spiritual stuff is immaculate and luminous and, because it is perfectly luminous, it is immediately, intimately, directly aware of truth of being and truth of nature; it is deeply conscious of truth and good and beauty because truth and good and beauty are akin to its own native character, forms of something that is inherent in its own substance ...
... pollute its purity or extinguish the flame. This spiritual stuff is immaculate and luminous and, because it is perfectly luminous, it is immediately, intimately, directly aware of truth of being and truth of nature; it is deeply conscious of truth and good and beauty because truth and good and beauty are akin to its own native character, forms of something that is inherent ...
... dark and still, hardly visible—a bit of a pond imbedded in the obscurity; and slowly upon it a moonbeam is cast and in the cool dim light emerges the calm liquid surface. That is how your secret truth of being will appear and present itself to you at your first contact with it: there you will see gradually reflected the true qualities of your being, the traits of your divine personality, what you really ...
... enrichment acquired by both at once—that is good, that is absolutely necessary, but it is not enough. Beyond all that, in the depths, at the centre, at the summit of the being, there is a Supreme Truth of being, an Eternal Light, independent of all the circumstances of birth, country, environment, education; That is the origin, cause and master of our spiritual development; it is That which gives a permanent ...
... aesthesis, there will be found in the future a poetic word equal to Homer and Shakespeare and Valmiki but packed with a superhuman awareness which is man's profoundest though as yet unrevealed truth of being and the archetype of his body, his vital force and his mind. Mystical verse can be written from any inner level—a contact with the Superhuman can be made when one goes anywhere below the surface; ...
... But this conservatism, which is another name for tamas is fatal to the living truth within. Even like the é lan vital so gloriously hymned by Bergson, the inmost consciousness, the central truth of being, the soul é lan has always a forward-looking reference. And it is precisely because the normal instrument of the body and life and mind has always a backward reference, because it slings ,back ...
... According to Sri Aurobindo, Supermind starts from unity, not division. It is primarily comprehensive, differentiation is only its secondary act. Therefore, Sri Aurobindo points out, whatever be the truth of being expressed, the idea corresponds to it exactly, the will ________________ ¹ Ibid., pp. 279-80. ² Ibid., p. 130. Page 266 force to the idea, and the result to the will. In ...
... the whole of life : his allegiance must be to the Truth, the Self, the Spirit, the Divine which is in him and in all; not to subordinate or lose himself in the mass, but to find and express that truth of being in himself and help the community and humanity in its seeking for its own truth and fullness of being must be his real object of existence." Unity, not uniformity, is the law of life ...
... Once we have grown into this Truth-Consciousness or into Supermind as Sri Aurobindo has termed it, once we have opened ourselves to its descent and unveiled action in us, its divinely potent truth of being will shape and determine everything in its victorious stride. No obscuration or limitation of the earth-nature will be able to prevail against its omniscient light and omnipotent force, for ...
... beings in a perfected economic society. On the other is the Eastern ideal imbued with a spiritual preoccupation, a mystic élan towards the Beyond and Unknown, a search for the self and the inmost truth of being, to which "every passing thing is nothing but a symbol". An undue overstress on any one of these ideals to the detriment of the other can only lead to reductivist-omissive fallacy that misses ...
... of existence and the seven Puranic worlds correspond to them with sufficient precision, thus: Principle 1. Pure Existence-Sat World World of the highest truth of being (Satyaloka) 2. Pure Consciousness -Cit World of infinite Will or conscious force (Tapoloka) 3. Pure Bliss-Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka) ...
... Aurobindo, Supermind, — a supreme Truth-Consciousness, an expressive term, which Sri Aurobindo has taken from the Rigveda, which describes the Supermind as rta-chit, the consciousness of essential truth of being (satyam), of ordered truth of active being (rtam) and the vast self-awareness (brhad\ in which alone this consciousness is possible. According to Sri Aurobindo, because the supermind is the ...
... is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal and a power of self-determination inherent in that self-awareness. All that a Timeless eternity of self- awareness seizes in itself as truth of being, a conscious power of its being manifests in Time-eternity. To supermind, therefore, the Supreme is not a rigid Indeterminable, and all- negating Absolute; the Infinite of Being is also an Infinite ...
... and seven worlds corresponding to these principles, and they can be stated as follows: Principle World 1. Pure Existence — Sat World of the highest truth of being (Satyaloka) 2. Pure Consciousness — Chit World of infinite Will or conscious force (Tapoloka) 3. Pure Bliss — Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka) ...
... According to Sri Aurobindo, Supermind starts from unity, not division. It is primarily comprehensive; differentiation is only its secondary act. Therefore, Sri Aurobindo points out, whatever be the truth of being expressed, the idea corresponds to it exactly, the will-force to the idea, and the result to the will. In the supermind, the idea does not clash with other ideas, the will or force with other wills ...
... Existence, Reality. The first principle according to Buddhism is Asat, Non-Being, Non-Reality. This creation has a fundamental basic reality. Behind the fleeting appearances there is a solid truth of Being. Everything else may pass away but That abides for ever. This is Hindu or Vedic tradition. The Buddha says, take off the elements that compose the creation one by one, nothing would remain ...
... 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 entity but a real being, a person and possesses ...
... transcendent, universal, original and sempiternal divinity or divine Essence, Consciousness, Force and Bliss and that this Divinity is the fount and continent and inhabitant of things. But this Truth of being was not seized only as a philosophical speculation, a theological dogma, an abstraction contemplated by the intelligence. Indian religion did not consider the idea of this Truth to be indulged ...
... principles of existence and the seven puranic worlds correspond to them with sufficient precision, thus: Principle world 1 Pure Existence -Sat World of the highest truth of being (Satyaloka) 2 Pure Consciousness Chi World of infinite Will or conscious force (Tapoloka) 3 Pure Bliss -Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka ) ...
... According to Sri Aurobindo, Supermind starts from unity, not division. It is primarily comprehensive; differentiation is only its secondary act. Therefore, Sri Aurobindo points out, whatever be the truth of being expressed, the idea corresponds to it exactly, the will-force to the idea, and the result to the will. In the Supermind, the idea does not clash with other ideas, the will or force with other will ...
... that self-awareness, the first is its foundation and status, the second is its power of being, the dynamics of its self-existence. All that a timeless eternity of self-awareness sees in itself as truth of being, the conscious power of its being manifests in Time-Eternity.'³ In its own plane, Supermind already and always exists and possesses its own essential law of being. Its own life on its own plane ...
... mean, however, the void; for it contains all that is to be manifested, each and everything in its potentiality, its essence, in a seed form. All is there as a secret possibility, a fundamental truth of being—all is there not simply as a general idea, but in every detail, though as it were on a microscopic scale, something like the chromosomes in life plasm. The transcendent is beyond time and space ...
... story of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; Aswapati, the ...
... only so to a greater or less extent so long as a mental ignorance clings and hampers our ascent; but once we have grown into the truth-consciousness its Page 144 power of spiritual truth of being will determine all. Into that truth we shall be freed and it will transform mind and life and body. Light and bliss and brainy and a perfection of the spontaneous right action of all the being ...
... It can, one day, and even now when the consciousness rises to the supra-conscient; then trees will cease to be what they are now. They will become very conscious expressions of some universal truth of being, consciousness and delight. Not only that, but you can also have a communication with them—then you know what they mean. One of the Mother's prayers is very fine, in which she says that when she ...
... phenomena of Inconscience becomes a possibility and a certainty. If you take Supermind and Overmind, you will see that the two have an agreement and a difference. Supermind is the chord of essential Truth of being, it holds essential Truth: in the Overmind the integrality of the Truth is absent. Truth is present but the integrality of the truth is not present. In the Supermind the essential truth is completely ...
... 168 A small list of psychological words5 used in the Rig Veda showing clearly that the Vedic Rishis were far from a. primitive state of culture. Satyam----------------- Truth of being Ritam------------------- Truth of movement, of action, a law Brihat------------------- Vast, all-pervading Dhi----------------------- Intellect Mati------- ...
... truth of our being and our becoming. Disciple : Is the Transcendent Power the same as the Supramental Power ? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, when that Power awakens, one knows not only the truth of being but also that of manifestation. There is inherent harmony on that plane between Truth knowledge and Truth-action. Disciple : Manifestation may mean limitation; is that so? Sri Aurobindo ...
... Vast all-comprehensiveness; luminous truth and harmony of being in that vastness and not a vague chaos or self-lost obscurity; truth of law and act and knowledge expressive of that harmonious truth of being.. . 22 The link-principle is therefore described as Truth-consciousness or even as supramental Truth-consciousness, and it operates between the unitarian and indivisible Sachchidananda ...
... seal and sanction of integral success in marriage. What, then, is the ultimate secret of success? Beyond all that, in the depths, at the centre, at the summit of the being, there is a Supreme Truth of being, an Eternal Light, independent of all circumstances of birth, country, environment, education; That is the origin, cause and master of our spiritual development; it is That which gives a permanent ...
... conquering Page 200 death. But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; Aswapati, the ...
... its progressive self-finding, its constant varying self-expression, its apparently uncertain but secretly inevitable growth to fullness. That is our Swabhava, our own real nature; that is our truth of being which is finding now only a constant partial expression in our various becoming in the world. The law of action determined by this Swabhava is our right law of self-shaping, function, working, ...
... him at one and the same time. The one is a relation of self-existence to the universal movement; the other, the immanence, is a relation of the universal existence to its own forms. The one is a truth of being in its all-containing Page 319 immutability, self-existent: the other is a truth of Power of the same being manifest in the government and information of its own self-veiling and s ...
... integral in being, completed in will, absolute in love, perfected in knowledge. In him the Jiva's cosmic existence is justified because it has exceeded itself and so found its own whole and highest truth of being. Page 288 × Obviously, by the true inner puṇya , a sattwic clarity in thought, feeling, temperament ...
... and Bliss is the fount and continent and inhabitant of things. Soul, nature, life are only a manifestation or partial phenomenon of this self-aware Eternity and this conscious Eternal. But this Truth of being was not seized by the Indian mind only as a philosophical speculation, a theological dogma, an abstraction contemplated by the intelligence. It was not an idea to be indulged by the thinker in ...
... aphorisms of Patanjali. This Sankhya is not the system of the Karikas,—at least as that is generally understood; for the Gita nowhere for a moment admits the multiplicity of Purushas as a primal truth of being and it affirms emphatically what the traditional Sankhya strenuously denies, the One as Self and Purusha, that One again as the Lord, Ishwara or Purushottama, and Ishwara as the cause of the universe ...
... in the world can, being of and in our world, escape from its governing incidence. Sri Aurobindo Essays in Philosophy and Yoga: Karma … if Karma be a universal truth or the universal truth of being, it must be equally true of the inly-born mental and moral worlds of our action as in our outward relations with the physical universe. It is the mental energy that we put forth which determines ...
... guides behind this multitude of minds and creatures and objects which seem each to be following its own law of nature; in this vast and apparently confused mass of existence there is a law, a one truth of being, a guiding and fulfilling purpose of the world-existence. The Supermind is veiled here and does not work according to its characteristic Page 200 law of being and self-knowledge, but ...
... evolution; it will be only so to a greater or less extent so long as a mental ignorance clings and hampers our ascent; but once we have grown into the truth-consciousness its power of spiritual truth of being will determine all.... " It might be also that the transformation might take place by stages; there are powers of the nature still belonging to the mental region which are yet potentialities ...
... to the aesthetic response of the soul to all that touches it in self or world; it is one of the high and beautiful powers of our inner and may be a power of our inmost life. All of the infinite Truth of being that can be made part of that life, all that can be made true and beautiful and living to that experience, is poetic truth and a fit subject matter of poetry. But there are always three things ...
... be the inspired imagination fixed on earth or the soul of life or the inspired reason or the high intuitive spiritual vision which gives the form, the genius of the great poet will seize on some truth of being, some breath of life, some power of the spirit and bring it out with a certain supreme force for his and our delight and joy in its beauty. But nevertheless the poetry which can keep the amplitude ...
... ideas which in their own strength impose themselves upon our life and compel it into their moulds. Only the forms we give these ideas are intellectual; they themselves descend from a plane of truth of being where knowledge and force are one, the idea and the power of self-fulfilment in the idea are inseparable. Unfortunately, when translated into the forms of our intelligence which acts only by a ...
... conception is in question in both Veda and Vedanta. This psychological conception is that of a truth which is truth of divine essence, not truth of mortal sensation and appearance. It is satyam , truth of being; it is in its action ṛtam , right,—truth of divine being regulating right activity both of mind and body; it is bṛhat , the universal truth proceeding direct and undeformed out of the Infinite ...
... be Sachchidananda, then knowledge is perfected. For we see Matter to be only a play of Life, Life a play of Mind energising itself in substance, Mind a play of Truth or causal Idea representing truth of being variously in all possible mental forms, Truth a play of Sachchidananda, Sachchidananda the self-manifestation of a supreme Unknowable, Para-Brahman or Para-Purusha. We perceive the soul in all ...
... evolution; it will be only so to a greater or less extent so long as a mental ignorance clings and hampers our ascent; but once we have grown into the truth-consciousness its power of spiritual truth of being will determine all. Into that truth we shall be freed and it will transform mind and life and body. Light and bliss and beauty and a perfection of the spontaneous right action of all the being ...
... generates nothing: it is movement of energy in Existence which is active, which determines forms, which generates appearances of finite being and brings about phenomena of Becoming as opposed to fixed truth of Being. Therefore every objective existence in the world and all subjective forms, being forms of Existence in motion, being inconstant, being always mutable and always changing, progressing from a past ...
... Satya, of pure being, Tapas, of pure will or force, Jana, of pure delight, Mahas, of pure idea, Swar, of pure mentality, Bhuvah, of pure vitality, Bhuh, of pure matter. The soul in Sat is pure truth of being and perceives itself as one in the world's multiplicity. The soul in Tapas is pure force of divine will & knowledge and possesses universe omnisciently and omnipotently as its extended self ...
... English language. If there are any mistakes of rendering they can be adjusted. At the day-end behold the Golden Daughter of Imaginations— She sits alone under the Tree of Life— A form of the Truth of Being has risen before her rocking there like a lake And on it is her unwinking gaze. But from the unfathomed Abyss where it was buried, upsurges A tale of lamentation, a torrent-lightning passion ...
... of his being. Such a station of consciousness there is in our supramental ranges. When the soul is one with the Supreme and with the universal not only in essence of consciousness and spiritual truth of being, but in expressive act too of consciousness and being, when it enjoys an initiating and relating truth of spiritual will and knowledge and the soul's overflowing delight in God and existence, when ...
... multitude of minds and creatures and objects which seem Page 591 each to be following its own law of nature; in this vast and apparently confused mass of existence there is a law, a one truth of being, a guiding and fulfilling purpose of the world-existence. The Supermind is veiled here and does not work according to its characteristic law of being and self-knowledge, but without it nothing ...
... solar world, the true light where there is no fear for the soul, no possibility of any wound to the large and equal bliss of its existence. This supramental vastness is also the fundamental truth of being, satyam , out of which its active truth wells out naturally and without strife of effort into a perfect and faultless movement because there is upon those heights no division, no gulf between ...
... in the trace of the hound, Intuition, the lost or hidden illuminations, makes the Sun of Truth mount high in the heaven of our mentality. Surya, the Sun, is the master of that supreme Truth,—truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of process and act and movement and functioning. He is therefore the creator or rather the manifester of all things—for creation is out-bringing, Page 26 ...
... reduces philosophy to an endless maze of sterile disputes; religion has been invaded by this misprision and infected with credal dogmatism, bigotry and intolerance. The truth of the spirit is a truth of being and consciousness and not a truth of thought: mental ideas can only represent or formulate some facet, some mind-translated principle or power of it or enumerate its aspects, but to know it one ...
... creates exist only as aspects of the original Truth; oneness and multiplicity are poles of the same Reality; the dualities that trouble our consciousness are contrasted truths of one and the same Truth of being. All multiplicity resolves itself into a manifoldness of the one Being, the one Consciousness of Being, the one Delight of Being. Thus in the duality of pleasure and pain, we have seen that pain ...
... Power, Idea, Force, Delight which is liberated into independent action, the truth of the consequences of its reality in that independence. There is no exclusiveness asserting each as the sole truth of being or the others as inferior truths: each God knows all the Gods and their place in existence; each Idea admits all other ideas and their right to be; each Force concedes a place to all other forces ...
... the plant and animal or half-consciously as in man, the real-idea of the divine Supermind within it. But it is not a mental Intelligence that informs and governs all things; it is a self-aware Truth of being in which self-knowledge is inseparable from self-existence: it is this Truth-consciousness which has not to think out things but works them out with knowledge according to the impeccable self-vision ...
... Page 129 × I take the phrase from the Rig Veda,— ṛta-cit , which means the consciousness of essential truth of being ( satyam ), of ordered truth of active being ( ṛtam ) and the vast self-awareness ( bṛhat ) in which alone this consciousness is possible. ...
... the buddhi is only a pratiṣṭhā or chief support of the ego-sense in its manifold play, ahaṅkāra ; but in its source it is a degradation or deformation of a truth of our spiritual being. The truth of being is that there is Page 677 a transcendent existence, supreme self or spirit, a timeless soul of existence, an eternal, a Divine, or even we may speak of it in relation to current mental ...
... divine being, and therefore according to our conception of divine being will be the aim, effort and method of our seeking after this perfection. To the Mayavadin the highest or rather the only real truth of being is the impassive, impersonal, self-aware Absolute and therefore to grow into an impassive calm, impersonality and pure self-awareness of spirit is his idea of perfection and a rejection of cosmic ...
... Truth, Vast, the same triple idea differently expressed. Ṛtam is the action of the divine knowledge, will and joy in the lines of the truth, the play of the truth-consciousness. Satyam is the truth of being which so acts, the dynamic essence of the truth-consciousness. Bṛhat is the infinity of Sachchidananda out of which the other two proceed and in which they are founded. ...
... it tries to get back from their effects on our personality and to arrive at whatever general and impersonal truth may be behind them; it is inclined to treat that kind of truth as the only real truth of being or at least as the one superior and permanent power of reality. Therefore it is bound by its own nature to end in its extremes at an absolute impersonality and an absolute abstraction. This is ...
... soul with Nature in its cosmic birth and becoming. One Sachchidananda everywhere, self-existent, illimitable, a unity indestructible by the utmost infinity of its own variations, is the original truth of being for which our knowledge seeks and to that our subjective existence eventually arrives. From that all other truths arise, upon that they are based, by that they are at every moment made possible ...
... spiritual sensuousness or the rejection by an attached and ignorant soul of the pure and high austerity of the supreme Truth. On the contrary, it aims in its positive part at a deep and mysterious truth of Being which no human language can utter, of which human reason can give no adequate account, to which the heart has the key and which no pride of the soul of knowledge insisting on its own pure austerity ...
... and a disturbance or an injury to other parts of the being. It not only acquires its own right order within itself but its right relation with the physical life on one side and with the spiritual truth of being on the other and the whole becomes a harmonious manifestation of the embodied spirit. It is always the originating supermind that contains within itself the true values, significances and relations ...
... itself could only give us philosophical opinions, psychological verification makes Vedantic truth a firm guide in life. It gives us a tangible ladder of ascension by which we rise to our highest truth of being[.] 105 The knowledge at which psychology arrives in its largest generalisations, is that there is one absolute and indefinable Reality which we call for psychological purposes the Self ...
... self-weaving in Time, is the ultimate secret of evolution and inner sense of this universe. For in Sri Aurobindo's integral vision, it is true that "the supra-cosmic Reality stands as the supreme Truth of being; to realise it is the highest reach of our consciousness. But it is this highest Reality which is also the cosmic being, the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic will and life: it has put these things ...
... of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the Supreme Truth who comes down and is bom to save; Aswapati, the ...
... Aurobindo further underlines the symbolic intention and implications: ... this legends is... one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born 17 Nirodbaran ...
... of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is bom to save; Aswapati, the ...
... story of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; Aswapati, ...
... story of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is bom to save; Aswapati, the ...
... original and sempiternal divinity Page 109 or divine Essence, Consciousness, Force and Bliss and that this Divinity is the fount and continent and inhabitant of things. But this Truth of being was not seized only as a philosophical speculation, a theological dogma, an abstraction contemplated by the intelligence. Indian religion did not consider the idea of this Truth to be indulged ...
... Vedic cosmology with the seven Puranic worlds with sufficient precision in the following way: Principle World 1 Pure Existence - Sat World of the highest truth of being (Satyaloka) 2 Pure Consciousness - Chit World of infinite Will or conscious-force (Tapoloka) 3 Pure Bliss - Ananda World of creative delight ...
... Sarama, symbolising intuition, the lost or hidden illuminations. He makes that Sun of Truth mount high in the heaven of our mentality. Surya is the sun, the master of the Supreme Truth, truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of possession and act and movement and functioning. Surya is also Savitri, the creator or manifester of all things, and illuminations we seek are the herds of this ...
... According to Sri Aurobindo, Supermind starts from unity, not division. It is primarily comprehensive, differentiation is only its secondary act. Therefore, Sri Aurobindo points out, whatever be the truth of being expressed, the idea corresponds to it exactly, the will-force to the idea, and the result to the will. In the Supermind, the idea does not clash with other ideas, the will or force with other will ...
... the verdict of the all-embracing, all-transcending and all-fulfilling spiritual Illumination underlying the Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, "the supracosmic Reality stands as the supreme Truth of being; to realise it is the highest reach of our consciousness. But it is this highest Reality which is also the cosmic being, the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic will and life: it has put these ...
... Eng. language. If there are any mistakes of rendering they can be adjusted. At the day-end behold the Golden Daughter of Imaginations— She sits alone under the Tree of Life— A form of the Truth of Being has risen before her rocking there like a lake And on it is her unwinking gaze. But from the unfathomed Abyss where it was buried, upsurges A tale of lamentation, a torrent-lightning passion ...
... magician who creates out of chaos a dancing star. But what knows has in its turn to be surpassed by what is;-' the light of knowledge has to give place to the overhead illuminations, the utter Truth of Being: Yet always there is another life, A life beyond this present knowing... Not to be reached but to be known, Not an attainment of the will But something illogically ...
... separativeness has not yet arisen. The ego, the knot of separativity, appears at a later and lower stage of involution ; what is here is indivisible nexus of individualising centres of the one eternal truth of being. Where Supermind and Overmind Page 16 meet, one can see the multiple godheads, each distinct in his own truth and beauty and power and yet all together forming the one supreme ...
... visible—a bit of a pond imbedded in the obscurity, and slowly upon it a moonbeam is cast Page 41 and in the cool dim light emerges the calm liquid surface. That is how your secret truth of being will appear and present itself to you at your first contact with it: there you will see gradually reflected the true qualities of your being, the traits of your divine personality, what you really ...
... separativeness has not yet arisen. The ego, the knot of separativity, appears at a later and lower stage of involution ; what is here is indivisible nexus of individualising centres of the one eternal truth of being. Where Supermind and Overmind meet, one can see the multiple godheads, each distinct in his own truth and beauty and power and yet all together forming the one supreme consciousness infinitely ...
... is dedicated to the youth of India, to those among her children who cherish in some part of their being an aspiration, a living flame of light that yearns towards an ever-growing perfection, a truth of being and becoming as yet vaguely surmised or only partially revealed. Throughout the many and varied domains of the human adventure, seen here in the light of Sri Aurobindo's vision of the future ...
... means if you want to rise to the Supermind you have to attain the mahas – the wide, infinite and universal consciousness which is its basis : Ritam means "Truth of movement". Satyam is "Truth of being" ś raddhā is the acceptance of the Truth when it is there. Disciple : When the Truth is there present on the Supra-mental level, why is śraddhā – faith – required ? Sri ...
... separativeness has not yet arisen. The ego, the knot of separativity, appears at a later and lower stage of involution; what is here is indivisible nexus of in dividualising centres of the one eternal truth of being. Where Supermind and Overmind meet, one can see the multiple godheads, each distinct in his own truth and beauty and power and yet all together forming the one supreme consciousness infinitely ...
... Dharma is of the gods, godly (cf. Virabhava and Divyabhava of the Tantras). The principle of Dharma then inculcates that each individual must, in order to act, find out his truth of being, his true soul and inmost consciousness: one must entirely _nd integrally merge oneself into that, be identified with it in such a manner that all acts and feelings and thoughts, in fact all movements ...
... mean, however, the void; for it contains all that is to be manifested, each and everything in its potentiality, its essence, in a seed form. All is there as a latent possibility, a fundamental truth of being – all is there not simply as a general idea, but in every detail, though as it were on a microscopic scale, something like the chromosomes in life plasm. The transcendent is beyond time and space ...
... dark ,and still, hardly visible-a bit of a pond imbedded in the obscurity, and slowly upon it a moonbeam is cast and in the cool dim light emerges the calm liquid surface. That is how your secret truth of being will appear and present itself to you at your first contact with it: there you will see gradually reflected the true qualities of your being, the traits of your divine personality, what you really ...
... SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, when there is the fullness of the supra mental state. In the intermediate stages there may be various ways of working. NIRODBARAN: Nolini Sen also speaks of individual truth of being. He says that since there will be various individuals, the truth of one will be different from that of another. So in their manifestation a certain selection will come in. SRI AUROBINDO: Selection ...
... Aurobindo further underlines the symbolic intention and implications: ...this legend is... one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; Aswapathy, ...
... about a change in us. Sri Aurobindo's own reading of the symbol behind the legend offers the necessary clue to the right understanding of the poem: Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save.... Still this ...
... diviner light of thought and will, life towards deeper and truer emotion and action, towards a larger power of itself, towards high aims and motives. Whatever cannot yet be raised into its own full truth of being, it will bring nearer to that fullness, whatever is not ready even for that change, will still see the possibility open to it whenever its still incomplete evolution has made it ready for self ...
... multitude of minds and creatures and objects which seem each to be following its own law of Page 212 nature; in this. vast and apparently confused mass of existence there is a law, a one truth of being, a guiding and fulfilling purpose of the world-existence. The Supermind is veiled here and does not work according to its characteristic law of being and self-knowledge, but without it nothing ...
... the wideness gained, a compulsion to change and a fresh integration become possible. All things may pass and change in the drama of Becoming, yet all things have their subsistence only in the truth of Being. It is in these terms that one has to interpret the struggle between the sea-monster and the Deliverer in Sri Aurobindo's play. But of course Perseus the Deliverer is essentially a play ...
... The Truth of the Being There is something I was asked some time ago to which I have not yet replied. It is this. I have written somewhere: “The absolute of every being is its unique relation with the Divine and its unique manner of expressing the Divine in the manifestation.” This is what is called here in India the truth of the being or the law of the being, the dharma of... of the being: the centre and the cause of the individuality. Everyone carries his truth within himself, a truth which is unique, which is altogether his own and which he must express in his life. Now what is this truth? This is the question I have been asked: “What is this truth of the being, and how is it expressed externally in physical life?” It is expressed in this way: each individual... ich is impossible. And this means that if one lives in the truth of one’s being, one is an indispensable part of the creation. Naturally, I don’t mean if one lives what one believes one should be, I am saying if one lives the truth of one’s being; if, by a development, one is able to enter into contact with the truth of one’s being, one is immediately in a unique and exclusive relation with the ...
... division in the being is insincerity. The greatest insincerity is to dig an abyss between your body and the truth of your being. When an abyss separates the true being from the physical being, Nature fills it immediately with all kinds of adverse suggestions, the most formidable of which is fear, and the most pernicious, doubt. Allow nothing anywhere to deny the truth of your being— this is sincerity ...
... catastrophe. Page 315 Will it have to come before they open their eyes to the truth? I ask an effort from all so that it has not to be. It is only the Truth that can save us: truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed. Page 316 ...
... it have to come before they open their eyes to the truth? I ask an effort from all so that it has not to be. It is only the Truth that can save us; truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed . The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Falsehood and Truth ...
... and say, "Never doubt your experience, for your experience is the truth of your being, but do not imagine that it is a universal truth; and never on the basis of this truth deny the truth of others, because for each one, his experience is the truth of his being. And a total truth would only be the totality of all these individual truths... plus the experience of the Lord Himself!" ...
... somewhere: "The absolute of every being is its unique relation with the Divine and its unique manner of expressing the Divine in the manifestation." This is what is called here in India the truth of the being or the law of the being, the dharma of the being: the centre and the cause of the individuality. Everyone carries his truth within himself, a truth which is unique, which is altogether... ich is impossible. And this means that if one lives in the truth of one's being, one is an indispensable part of the creation. Naturally, I don't mean if one lives what one believes one should be, I am saying if one lives the truth of one's being; if, by a development, one is able to enter into contact with the truth of one's being, one is immediately in a unique and exclusive relation with the... is this truth? This is the question I have been asked: "What is this truth of the being, and how is it expressed externally in physical life?" It is expressed in this way: each individual being has a direct and unique relation with the Supreme, the Origin, That which is beyond all creation. It is this unique relation which must be expressed in one's life, through a unique mode of being in relation ...
... first one. ) They came in succession. It's the experience I had at that moment: "When one lives in the Truth, one is above all contradictions." The other two came afterwards: "Living in the Truth means being above all contradictions." Then: "He who lives in the Truth is above all contradictions and all oppositions." It's completely silent here ( gesture to the forehead ...
... That was the message of hope. And then it continues ( Mother reads ): 8) All division in the being is an insincerity. 9) The greatest insincerity is to carve an abyss between one's body and the truth of one's being. 10) When an abyss separates the true being from the physical being, Nature immediately fills it with all the hostile suggestions, of which the most deadly is fear and the... not the last): 11) Allow nothing, nowhere, to deny the truth of your being: that is sincerity. × 'If mankind only caught a glimpse of what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal evolution ...
... the Truth that can save us; truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed. 26 November 1972 Page 195 For those who are eager to get rid of falsehood here is the way Do not try to please yourself, do not try either to please others. Try only to please the Lord. Because He alone is the Truth. Each... Elements of Yoga Elements of Yoga Truth and Speech Words of the Mother - II Falsehood and Truth Once falsehood is conquered, all difficulties will go. In all human beings is not falsehood always mixed with Truth? Falsehood is the great ally of Death. Page 193 There is one Truth but a million ways of distorting it in... 9 August 1954 Page 194 May the Truth be invincible, overwhelming, all-powerful, leaving no room for falsehood anywhere and for ever. 1956 Such is life! The world is a place of falsehood and it is only in the silent depths of the Divine that one can find the peace of truth. 15 December 1964 Truth is stronger than falsehood. There is an immortal Power that governs ...
... psychic manifest the truth? I have said that it manifests the truth? Page 394 "We give the name 'psychic' to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know and manifest this truth." On Education, CWM Vol. 12, p. 4 Oh! the truth of our existence—not just the Truth. The truth of the being, that is, the central... either more or less individualised and independent in its action. What is psychic in the being is always pure, by its very definition, for it is that part of the being which is in contact with the Divine and expresses the truth of the being. But this may be like a spark in the darkness of the being or it may be a being of light, conscious, fully formed and independent. There are all the gradations between... central raison d'etre of an existence. It is that, indeed, which organises circumstances so that the truth of the being may be expressed or the superficial outer being be led to turn round within not—find any support outside, for instance, and turn within to have a support; it finds the psychic support. "The body has a wonderful capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is fit to do so many more things ...
... thoughts, feelings, Page 16 sensations and actions should express nothing but the central Truth of our being." "Tournaments" , On Education When you are absolutely sincere, you make a constant effort to live in harmony with the highest ideal of your being, the truth of your being. At every moment, in all that you think, all that you feel and all that you do, you try as perfectly... as possible, to put yourself in harmony with the highest ideal or, if you are conscious of it, with the truth of your being—then you have reached true sincerity. And if you are like that, if truly you do not act from egoistic motives or for personal reasons, if you act guided by your inner truth, that is, if you are perfectly sincere, it is absolutely the same to you whether the whole world judges... that, but in this new state, instead of being obliged to go back to be able to start again, one can walk always forward, without ever stopping. As things are, one comes to a certain point and, as human beings as they are at present cannot progress indefinitely, one must pass to a higher species or leave the present species and create another. The human being as he is at the moment cannot attain perfection ...
... fugitive. Otherwise joy is constantly there in the truth of the being, in the reality of the being, in your true Self, in your soul, in your psychic being, joy is constantly there. It has nothing to do with pleasure: it is a kind of inner delight. But one is rarely in a state to feel it, unless one has become fully conscious of one’s psychic being. That is why when it comes it is fugitive, for the... longer. And if it persists, it becomes unpleasant for you. That is why you can’t have pleasure for a long time. The only thing which can be lasting is joy, if one enters into contact with the truth of the being which holds this joy permanently. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 20 June 1956 ... quite a long time; but when one feels a special kind of joy, it does not last. Yes, that is very true. Then what should one do to make it last longer? But it is not the same part of the being that has the depression and the joy. If you are speaking of pleasure, the pleasure of the vital is something very fleeting, and I think that in life―in life as it is at present―there are more occasions ...
... greater than mine must help me accept that my way is here. I need you, Mother, for without you I am lost. I need you to tell me that the Truth of my being is indeed here and that I am truly ready to follow this path. Mother, I beseech you, help me to see the truth of my being, give me some sign that my way is here and not elsewhere. I beg of you, Mother, help me to know. I also had a very clear sensation... casts me into a violent conflict. When I came here, I thought of staying for two or three years; for me the Ashram was a means of realization, not an end. I understand now that as long as my whole being has not ACCEPTED that it must finish its life here, there is no way out nor any 'recovery' possible. Through my mental force alone, this acceptance is impossible; I have been turning infernally in circles... Perhaps you cannot forgive some of my inner rebellions which have been so very violent? Am I totally guilty ? Is it true that you are abandoning me? I am broken and battered in the depths of my being as I was in my flesh in the concentration camps. Will the divine grace take pity on me? Can you, do you want to help me? Alone I can do nothing. I am in an absolute solitude, even beyond all rebellion ...
... not something true which carries its truth in itself. Sweet Mother, what is this "imperious law", this "spiritual and supramental law"? It is the truth of each being. Each being carries in himself his own spiritual law, his supramental law. It is not the same for everyone, it is not one single identical law. For each one it is the truth of his being, that is to Page 140 say,... these gods are representations which Sri Aurobindo calls "aesthetic and intellectual"―a way of conceiving the universe. This is not to say that they do not correspond to a truth―to a reality rather than a truth. There are beings like that; but this is a particular way of approaching the universal world or rather the universal worlds. Sweet Mother, hasn't morality helped us to increase our consciousness... the thing he must realise in the universe and the place he must occupy in the world. That is the truth of his being. " Inadequate too is the very frequent attempt at a misalliance between the vital and the spiritual, a mystic experience within with an aestheticised intellectual and sensuous Paganism or exalted hedonism outside leaning upon it and satisfying itself in the glow of a spiritual ...
... knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, the one thing for which we have been really created, that which we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the troth of our existence, whatever is in opposition to it. It is thus that little by little all the parts, all the elements of our being could be... endeavour. As we pursue this labour of purification and unification, we must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of our being. When the higher truth will manifest, it must find in you a mental being subtle and rich enough to be able to give to the idea seeking to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when... Page 38 so. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name 'psychic' to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know and manifest this truth. It is therefore of capital importance for us to become conscious of its presence within us, to concentrate on this presence and make it a living fact ...
... the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be Page 3 organised... indeed, this is preferable. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name "psychic" to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes... indispensable: the will to discover and to realise. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think ...
... knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, the one thing for which we have been really created, that which we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is in opposition to it. It is thus that little by little all the parts, all the elements of our being, could be... As we pursue this labour of purification and unification, we must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of our being. When the higher truth will manifest, it must find in you a mental being supple and rich enough to be able to give to the idea seeking to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when... is better to do so. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name 'psychic' to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know and manifest this truth. It is therefore of capital importance for us to become conscious of its presence within us, to concentrate on this presence and make it a living fact ...
... to realise a perfect union, to become a single being in two bodies, one thought, one will, one breath in two breasts, one beat in two hearts that live only by their love, in their love, for their love. It is the perfect truth of love that we want to discover and live: to that we have dedicated our lives. ASCETIC It does not seem to me that the Truth can be reached so easily. The path that leads... who have faith in a better life and in themselves. Two lovers who are seeking for perfection in human love. The ascetic who is prepared for any austerity in order to discover the Truth. Two beings brought together by a common aspiration, and who have chosen the Infinite because they have been chosen by the Infinite. The curtain rises. ARTIST My dear friends, our meeting... methods, but none has given me satisfactory results and I am now convinced that I must find the Truth if I want to succeed in my endeavour. Yes, unless one has found the true meaning of life, how can one help men effectively? All the remedies we use are mere palliatives, not cures. Only the consciousness of Truth can save humanity. PESSIMIST I have suffered too much in life. I have experienced too many ...
... only the lesson of catastrophe. Will it have to come before they open their eyes to the Truth? I ask an effort from all so that it has not to be. It is only the Truth that can save us, truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed. 26.11.1972* * To all those who are telling lies By the simple... those who want to do the Yoga of work. To live in Auroville means to do the Yoga of work. So all Auro-vilians must take up a work and do it as Yoga. 27.3.1973* Page 47 Truth and Falsehood Auroville must not lie. Everyone who aspires to be an Aurovilian must make the resolution never to tell a lie. * So long as we go on telling lies, we go on pushing... conceived in this way: six days of work for the collectivity to which the individual belonged; the seventh day of the week was reserved for the inner quest for the Divine and the offering of one's being to the divine will. This is the only meaning and the only true reason for the so called Sunday rest. Page 46 Needless to say, sincerity is the essential condition for realisation; ...
... division in the being is an insincerity. The greatest insincerity is to dig an abyss between your body and the truth of your being. When an abyss separates the true being from the physical being, Nature fills it up immediately with all kinds of adverse suggestions, the most formidable of which is fear, and the most pernicious, doubt. Allow nothing anywhere to deny the truth of your being―this is sincerity... value, I naturally forget the Divine, my one goal. Is it insincerity? If not, then what does it mean? Yes. It is insincerity of the being, in which one part wants the Divine and another part wants something else. It is through ignorance and stupidity that the being is insincere. But with a persevering will and an absolute confidence in the Divine Grace, one can cure this insincerity. As long... honest towards yourself―(no self-deception). Be sincere towards the Divine―(no bargaining in the surrender) Be straightforward with humanity―(no pretence and show). 25 June 1963 Human beings for the most part have the inveterate habit of deceiving themselves. They deceive themselves in hundreds of different ways, each more slyly tricky and subtle than the other, and all this with at once ...
... are already a sufficiently developed being, a thinking being, and have gone through many stages of refinement; you are not quite the lizard walking on the wall! Still you cannot tell what is the truth of your being. That is the secret of the deformation in the world. It is because there is all the unconsciousness—the Inconscient—that has been created by the fact of separation from one's origin. It is... has at its source a supreme truth, how is it then that the world has become ugly in its expression? Why are things at all ugly? Because there are other things that intervene between the Source and the manifestation. For example, if I asked you: "do you know your true being"? what would you say? You do not know; it would be wonderful if you did. It is the same with all beings and things. And yet you are... and is fallen into inconscience. For the Life of life is the Origin alone and if it is separated from that source, consciousness naturally turns into unconsciousness and you lose trace of the truth of your being. That is the process of the creation or formation of the world by which the pure origin does not manifest directly in its essence and Page 46 purity, but through deformation ...
... are already a sufficiently developed being, a thinking being, and have gone through many stages of refinement; you are not quite the lizard crawling on the wall! Still you cannot tell what is the truth of your being. That is the secret of the deformation in the world. It is because there is all the unconsciousness – the Inconscient – that has been created by the fact of separation from one's origin... has at its source a supreme truth, how is it then that the world has become ugly in its expression? Why are things at all ugly? Because there are other things that intervene between the Source and the manifestation. For example, if I asked you: "Do you know your true being?" what would you say? You do not know; it would be wonderful if you did. It is the same with all beings and things. And yet you are... and is fallen into inconscience. For the Life of life is the Origin alone and if it is separated from that source, consciousness naturally turns into unconsciousness and you lose trace of the truth of your being. That is the process of the creation or formation of the world by which the pure origin does not manifest directly in its essence and purity, but through deformation, that is to say, unconsciousness ...
... 1958 ( Letter from Mother to Satprem ) Sunday morning Satprem, Here is the wherewithal to go to Hyderabad. Whatever you may decide, I will always be with you, invariably, in the truth of your being. Signed : Mother Page 251 ...
... raise them up to its own proper station, the Truth-plane. × The gods. Swar is the "own house" of the Gods. × The divine force of the Truth-conscious being, called in the next verse "the force of the gods";... The Third Hymn to Mitra-Varuna The Leaders to the Blissful Home [The Rishi invokes the Lords of the infinite wideness and harmony whose arms embrace the soul's highest plane of the Truth and Bliss, to extend to him those arms of awakened consciousness and knowledge, so that he may have their all-embracing delight. He aspires by the path of Mitra to the joy of his harmonies in which... gods who bring,—to the pilgrim of the Light. 10 Page 528 × Swarnara. Swar is the solar world of the Truth and the herds are the rays of its solar illuminations, therefore it is compared to the pens of these shining Vedic cattle. × ...
... safety in life, the only way to escape from the consequences of past errors, is an inner development leading to conscious union with the Divine Presence; the only effective guide, the Truth of our being and of all beings. 25 November 1969 ...
... firm, I stand unshaken. Let death come to-day or tomorrow or at this very moment I do not care, I do not care, I do not care, I do not care, I care only for my aim, For my Dharma, for the truth of my being, Keep me always, constantly far away From the false beliefs full of illusion, Keep me always, constantly at Thy feet alone, This is my only prayer, This is my only prayer. At Thy ...
... and I am acting on each plane, gathering the information proper to each plane, so as to have the integral truth of things. Thus, when I have a decision to make in regard to one of you, I plug into you directly from that level of the supreme consciousness which sees the deep truth of your being. But at the same time, my decision is shaped, as it were, by the information given to me by the other planes... the facts—without preference, without prejudice, without personal will. Nothing escapes it. Its work is almost mechanical. Therefore I know what to tell or to ask you according to the integral truth of your being and its present possibilities. Ordinarily, in the normal man, the physical consciousness does not see things as they are, for three reasons: because of ignorance, because of preference, and because... 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 and the world's own rhythm. The supramental action ...
... suffering, falsehood and ignorance. It is true of every soul on earth that it is a portion of the Divine Mother passing through the experiences of the Ignorance in order to arrive at the truth of its being and be the instrument of a Divine Manifestation and work here. 15 February 1937 ... The Mother, the Jivatman and the Soul In the Chandi it is said that the Devi is in everyone in the form of consciousness. This is the Bhagavat Chetana in all beings. In the true state, in the psychic and the Jivatman, it is united, a divine portion. In the fallen state, it is the ego. Is this correct? Page 60 I don't understand exactly. Chitshakti ...
... sincere, always sincere, more and more sincere. Sincerity exacts from each one that in his thoughts, his feelings, his sensations and his actions he should express nothing but the central truth of his being. 1951 A new Light shall break upon the earth, a new world shall be born: the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. 1958 The descending triangle represents Sat-C ...
... seem. We need not appear to be good if our sincerity is perfect. And by perfect sincerity we mean that all our thoughts, feelings, sensations and actions should express nothing but the central Truth of our being. Bulletin, April 1950 Page 268 ...
... Essays on the Gita, Cent. Vol. 13, p. 372. * Page 57 It is for the sake and triumph of Truth that India is fighting and must fight until India and Pakistan have once more become One because that is the truth of their being. 16 September 1965 * In spite of your message of the 16th September to the Prime Minister and the Chief... ignorant prejudices. This is why, in full conformity to his will, we lift high the standard of truth, progress and transformation of mankind. * India is not the earth, rivers and mountains of this land, neither is it a collective name for the inhabitants of this country. India is a living being, as much living as, say, Shiva. India is a goddess as Shiva is a god. If she likes, she can... (a) The almost exclusive importance given to success, career and money. (b) Insist on the paramount importance of the contact with the Spirit and the growth and manifestation of the Truth of the being. * I have the deepest respect for Indian languages and continue to study Sanskrit when I have time. * Page 60 The Sanskrit ought to be the national ...
... descend first, before divine Truth, certain Page 335 beings with a special power or receptivity might draw it into themselves, personally, and then all those wrong impulses might occur. 1 But if this divine Love descends only in the Truth, in the Truth-Consciousness, it will enter someone only if that person is ready to receive it. Without a preparation of Truth, there might occur a very... whereas if the preparation of Truth has been done, with that preparation, It will CHOOSE, in order to manifest, the persons, the individualities, who are ready. Later: Are you still in "The Debate of Love and Death"? I haven't finished, I have no time left to work, that's the nuisance! I have so much work in the afternoon—I don't call it "work," it's being busy with people to see, letters ...
... Will does one gain the peace and calm joy that arises from the abolition of desires. The psychic being knows this definitely. Thus, by uniting with our psychic being, we can know it, too. But the first condition is not to be the slave of personal desires and mistake them for the truth of one's being. February 4 ... sincerity is the essential condition for peace and joy in life. Almost all human miseries come from the fact that human beings are almost always persuaded they know better than the Divine what they need and what life is supposed to bring them. The majority of human beings want other human beings to behave according to their own expectations and life circumstances to follow their own desires, hence they suffer ...
... understand only the lesson of catastrophe. Will it have to come before they open their eyes to the truth? I ask an effort from all so that it has not to be. It is only the Truth that can save us; truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed." ... thing will be realized in Tibet? It is not a dream. It will naturally be. But the time it will take, I do not know. This is something like what Sri Aurobindo has said about the Supramental. Truth, Love, Compassion will give a basis to the new creation. It is not birth but the value of men that should give the right to authority. If the teaching of Sri Aurobindo can spread over the world,... tremendously. But beyond the mind, there is a higher and deeper consciousness—they would find a Consciousness in which one can make use of all the capacities. It is a question of the consciousness being broad enough, so that each capacity can be put in its place in order to make a general harmony. (Dalai Lama:) There is good will, there is sincerity among people all over the world, but the number ...
... A falsehood is that which is not true, in the sense that it is not the expression of your truth— not at all—and yet, it is that of which you are mostly externally conscious. Very very few are there who have the inner perception of what they want to become, what they want to do, what the truth of their being is. There are not many of that kind. For some, the thing comes and is then veiled —just a lightning... there first, if it is to be materialised. But as I say, the gap is wide between what you know of yourself, what is actively conscious in you and what you are in the truth of your being. This intermediary region is somewhat difficult for me to be familiar with or comprehend : for it is a cloudy region for me, a domain of falsehood. You must note the distinction between a lie and a falsehood. A lie is that... There is a vast difference between what you know of yourself and what I know of you. What I know of you is evidently what you ought to become. Your external being one can see well. Page 111 But between that and the inner being that I see there is the vital-mental region which is the most important thing from the human point of view; for what one has to become must be repeated there ...
... external being one can see well. But between that and the inner being that I see there is the vital mental region which is the most important thing from the human point of view; for what one has to become must be repeated there first, if it is to be materialised. But as I say, the gap is wide between what you know of yourself, what is actively conscious in you and what you are in the truth of your being... expression of your truth – not at all – and yet, it is that of which you are mostly externally conscious. Very very few are there who have the inner perception of what they want to become, what they want to do, what the truth of their being is. There are not many of that kind. For some, the thing comes and is then veiled – just a lightning flash for a moment and then all is dark. For me it is a perpetual... most material vital there was a small region, very small indeed, that was not developed well enough to serve as a conscious link between the two. So what happened in the most material vital was not being accurately translated into the consciousness of the most subtle physical. Something was lost in the passage which was however not quite empty but only half-conscious, not adequately developed. I knew ...
... opposite is true! It is the inner realization that is the key to the outer realization. How can you possibly know the true thing you have to realize in the world as long as you do not possess the truth of your being? ...
... but it proved useful. Does the end justify the means? . . . It is the unsettled fight between the men of principles and the opportunists. I leave the problem unsolved, the point of view of the Truth being somewhat different! 7 March 1933 ...
... certainly not be fit to do the work I am doing and my coming upon earth would have no meaning. Do give up once for all this idea of defeat and this gloom which is so contrary to the inner truth of your being. I want you to pick yourself up and be perfectly cheerful and confident for your coming birthday. I hope to see you entirely yourself again this evening from the roof and tomorrow at pranam ...
... true: it is the inner realisation that is the key to the outer realisation. How can you expect to know the true thing which you have to realise in the world so long as you do not possess the truth of your being? Page 344 ...
... enrichment acquired by the two at the same time — it is good, it is absolutely necessary — but it is not enough. Beyond it all, at the bottom, at the centre, at the summit of the being, there is a Supreme Truth of the being, an Eternal Light independent of all circumstances of birth, of country, of environment, of education; the origin, cause and master of our spiritual development — it is this that ...
... Mother from Satprem ) Pondicherry, December 26, 1956 Mother, perhaps it would be good if I told you what is happening within me, as sincerely as I can: Page 94 I feel that this Truth of my being, this self most intensely felt, is independent from any form or institution. As far back as I can reach in my consciousness, this 'thing' has been there; it was what drove me at an early age to... Turkestan. Mother, this is the problem around which I have desperately been turning in circles. What is the truth of my destiny? Is it that which is urging me so strongly to leave, or that which is struggling against my freedom? For ultimately, sincerely, what I want is to fulfill my life's truth. If I have ever had a will, then it is: LET BE WHAT MUST BE. Mother, how can one truly know? Is this drive ...
... soon as they get back their previous consciousness. 1 Such people never progress; for they never establish a connection between their deeper consciousness, the truth of their being, and their external being. They take off their external being like a robe and put it aside in a corner telling it "keep quiet, my dear friend, you bother me"—and they enter into contemplation, meditation, their deep experience... Page 117 than ever. So they remain where they are or become worse, in their outward nature, in spite of their meditation. If you want to change your external being, you must remain conscious of it and while being conscious have other experiences: you must not lose contact with it if you wish to derive full benefit out of your experiences. There are many such people who meditate ...
... soon as they get back their previous consciousness.¹ Such people never progress; for they never establish a connection between their deeper consciousness, the truth of their being, and their external being. They take off their external being like a robe and put it aside in a corner telling it "keep quiet, my dear friend, you bother me" –and they enter into contemplation, meditation, their deep experience... might have become more dirty than ever. So they remain where they are or become worse, in their outward nature, in spite of their meditation. If you want to change your external being, you must remain conscious of it and while being conscious have other experiences: you must not lose contact with it if you wish to derive full benefit out of your experiences. There are many such people who meditate ...
... 1957 4) What you are in the truth of your being is ineluctably decreed and nothing and no one can prevent you from being it; but the path you will take to attain it is left to your own free choice. 19 May 1957 5) On the path of ascending evolution, each one is free to choose the direction he will take: the swift and steep ascent towards the summits of Truth, the supreme realisation, or, turning... only to confirm it at each new occasion; or else, if you have not taken the final decision at the outset, at each Page 349 moment you will have to make a new choice between falsehood and truth. 23 May 1957 7) But even supposing that you have not taken the irrevocable decision at the outset, if you have the good fortune to be alive at one of those extraordinary moments in universal ...
... realization. 4) What you are in the truth of your being is decreed in an irrevocable way, and nothing nor anyone can stop you from being it; but the path you take to get there is left to your own free choice. 5) On the road of the ascending evolution, every one is free to choose the direction he will take: the swift and steep climb towards the summits of Truth, to the supreme realization, or turning... then you have only to confirm it with every new occasion; or else if you do not take a definite decision from the beginning, you will have to choose anew at each moment between the falsehood and the Truth. Page 119 7) But even in the event you have not made the irrevocable decision at the outset, should you have the good fortune to live during one of these unimaginable hours of universal ...
... one express the particularity of one's being? You must live it, that is to say, live according to the inner law, the truth of your being. I have explained this at some length in "The Science of Living", I have said that this truth of the being is precisely the particularity of every one. But it differs with every one, doesn't it? The law of each being is different, yes, otherwise how would... conscious of the One and identifying oneself with it stopped one from being particular, one would cease existing as a personality. This is precisely what the Buddhists and the disciples of Shankara try to realise; they wish to abolish totally their personality, their individuality, abolish the truth of their being, the special law of their being. This is what they consider to be a fusion with the Divine. But... its origin, but each thing, each element, each being has as its mission the revealing of one part of this unity to itself, and it is this particularity which must be developed in everyone, while awakening at the same time the sense of the original unity. This is "to work for unity in diversity". And the perfection in that diversity lies in everyone's being perfectly what he ought to be. You have said: ...
... this inwardness we shall best be able both to see the truth of the high things which we now only speak with our lips and form into outward intellectual constructions, and to apply their truth sincerely to all our outward living. If we are to found the kingdom of God in humanity, we must first know God and see and live the diviner truth of our being in ourselves; otherwise how shall a new manipulation... Key to Human Unity Two great words of the divine Truth have forced themselves insistently on our minds through the crash of the ruin and the breath of the tempest and are now the leading words of the hoped-for reconstruction, - freedom and unity. But everything depends, first, upon the truth of our vision of them, secondly, upon the sincerity with which we apply it, last... interests; the result will then be only, as it was in the immediate past, a fiercer strife and new outbreaks of revolution and anarchy. No paltering mechanisms which have the appearance but not the truth of freedom, will help us; the new structure, however imposing, will only become another prison and compel a fresh struggle for liberation. The one safety for man lies in learning to live from within ...
... come back into their waking consciousness; and they never make any progress because they do not establish a relation between their deeper consciousness, the truth of their being, and their outer being. You see, they take off their outer being as though they were taking off a cloak, and they put it in a corner: “Come now, don’t trouble me, keep quiet. You are a nuisance.” And then they enter into c... then they come back, put on the cloak which of course has not changed—which perhaps is dirtier still than before—and they remain exactly as they were without any meditation. If you want the outer being to change, it is while remaining conscious of it that you should have the other experiences; and you must not lose contact with your ordinary outer consciousness if you want it to profit by the experience... they flew into a rage, a fury, they abused everybody, they became more intolerable than if they had never meditated, than any ordinary person. This happened because they neglected making their outer being participate in their deeper life. They cut themselves into two, so there is a portion inside which progresses and a portion outside which becomes worse and worse, because it is completely neglected ...
... the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous... indeed, this is preferable. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name "psychic" to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes... indispensable: the will to discover and to realise. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think ...
... all the ways of being of the Divine, all the forms of being in the manifestation are necessary to express the Divine. It is this manifestation as a whole, in its totality, which progresses towards a growing, infinite, eternal perfection. It is not each separate element, individually, it is all together, as a Page 324 collective and total expression of the divine Truth. All this is moving... affair. And there is a time when one understands very well, it is apparent, that no two paths are alike, no two paths can be alike, and that every man follows his own path and that this is the truth of his being. One can, if one looks from a sufficient height, see a difference in the speed of advance, but it does not always conform to the external signs; and one could say a little humorously, that it... its own law, what it should be in the whole, in order to do the utmost of what ought to be done. It is thus a conscious, an enlightened, one could almost say a disinterested, discovery of this truth of each being, which for it is the first and most important necessity. Page 325 × Until 1958, three times a week ...
... Mother, protect me. Grant me the grace of watching over me and of taking me in your hands completely, like a child whose steps are unsure. I no longer want this Freedom. It is you I want, the Truth of my being. Mother, as a Page 73 grace, I implore you to free me from my freedom to choose wrongly. I am your child and I love you. Signed : Bernard ( Mother's reply ) 21.4 ...
... a luminous uttermost Superconscience: at the other end of being it offers itself to cognition as the Spirit's potency of presenting to itself the opposites of its own truths of being, Page 31 — an abyss of non-existence, a profound Night of inconscience, a fathomless swoon of insensibility from which yet all forms of being, consciousness and delight of existence can manifest themselves... instead of a luminous inherent self-awareness there is a consciousness plunged into an abyss of self-oblivion, inherent in being but not awake in being. Yet is this involved consciousness still a concealed knowledge by identity; it carries in it the awareness of all the truths of existence hidden in its dark infinite and, when it acts and creates, — but it acts first as Energy and not as Consciousness... real. The reality is the infinite and eternal Divine, infinite and eternal Being, Consciousness-Force and Bliss. This Divine by his power has created the world or rather manifested it in his own infinite Being. But here in the material world or at its basis he has hidden himself in what seem to be his opposites, Non-Being, Inconscience and Insentience. This is what we nowadays call the Inconscient ...
... which are popular, which belong normally to entities of the vital world, at best to mental formations but which do not represent in any way the truth of the beings behind. All the idols in temples or the household gods worshipped by the many are inhabited by beings who know only how to lead you to unhappiness and disaster. They are so far away from the divinity that one means to worship. There are certain... this triple world of Ignorance man creates God Himself in his own image and beings that appear there are more or less the outcome of the creative human thought. So at times we do have things that are truly frightful. I have seen formations that are so obscure, so ununderstandable, so inexpressive! There are some divine beings that are treated worse than the others. Take, for example, this poor Mahakali... has man made of her, wildly terrible, a nightmare beyond imagination! Such creations however live in a very inferior world, in the lowest vital world; and if there is anything there of the original being, it is such a far off reflection that it is hardly recognisable. And yet it is that which is pulled by the human consciousness. When, for example, an image is made and installed and the priest calls ...
... exclusive importance given to success, career and money. b) Insist on the paramount importance of the contact with the Spirit and the growth and manifestation Page 130 of the Truth of the being. 5 August 1965 * I would like them (the Government) to recognise Yoga as education, not so much for ourselves, but it will be good for the country. Matter will be transformed... the present and the future of national and international living, what is it that India should aim at in education? Prepare her children for the rejection of falsehood and the manifestation of Truth. 2. By what steps could the country proceed to realise this high aim? How can a beginning in that direction he made? Make matter ready to manifest the Spirit. 3. What ...
... which are popular, which belong normally to entities of the vital world, at best to mental formations but which do not represent in any way the truth of the beings behind. All idols in temples or the household gods worshipped by the many are inhabited by beings who know only how to lead you to unhappiness and disaster. They are so far away from the divinity that one means to worship. There are certain... this triple world of Ignorance man creates God Himself in his own image and beings that appear there are more or less the outcome of the creative human thought. So at times we do have things that are truly frightful. I have seen formations that are so obscure, so ununderstandable, so inexpressive! There are some divine beings that are treated worse than the others. Take, for example, this poor Mahakali... wildly terrible, a nightmare beyond imagination! Such creations however live in a very inferior world, in the lowest vital Page 124 world; and if there is anything there of the original being, it is such a far reflection that it is hardly recognisable. And yet it is that which is pulled by the human consciousness. When, for example, an image is made and installed and the priest calls down ...
... 1957 What you are in the truth of your being is ineluctably decreed and nothing and no one can prevent you from being it; but the path you will take to attain it is left to your own free choice. 19 May 1957 On the path of ascending evolution, each one is free to choose the direction he will take: the swift and steep ascent towards the summits of Truth, the supreme realisation, or,... and then you have only to confirm it at each new occasion; or else, if you have not taken the final decision at the outset, at each moment you will have to make a new choice between falsehood and truth. 23 May 1957 But even supposing that you have not taken the irrevocable decision at the outset, if you have the good fortune to be alive at one of those extraordinary moments in universal ...
... creative. And a little further on Sri Aurobindo says that you must first be conscious of yourself, then think, and then act. The vision of the inner truth of the being must precede all action; first the vision of the truth, then this truth formulating itself into thought, then the thought creating the action. That is the normal process. And this is what Sri Aurobindo gives as the process of... point of view of the possibilities of the being, but also from that of the control and choice of what one will be, of what one wants to be. This makes us understand the necessity of not admitting into ourselves any thought which destroys aspiration or the creation of the truth of our being. It reveals the considerable importance of not allowing what one doesn't want to be or doesn't want to do to formulate... sincerity will be flagrant. However, you may deceive yourself and not perceive that you are being insincere. Then in that case, you have, as it were, the collaboration of mental insincerity. For it is true that there are insincerities of slightly different types according to the state of being or the parts of the being. Only, the origin of these insincerities is always a similar movement arising from desire ...
... to be the Truth of your being, the Source of all things, the supreme Good, the Answer to all we desire, the Solution to all problems; if there is this intense need in you and you aspire to realise it, you won't any longer say to the Divine, "Give me this, give me that", or, "I need this, I must have that." You will tell Him, "Do what is necessary for me and lead me to the Truth of my being. Give me... spiritual Truth and Right have convicted the good and evil of this world of imperfection or of falsehood and unveiled a supreme good.... But behind all these and in them he has felt a Divinity who is all these things, a Bringer of Light, a Guide and All-Knower, a Master of Force, a Giver of Bliss, Friend, Helper, Father, Mother, Playmate in the world-game, an absolute Master of his being, his soul's... not this supreme reason, of rediscovering the Divine and being Him, manifesting Him, realising Him externally, earthly life as it is would be something monstrous. Naturally, the more people are unconscious, the less do they understand this, for they do not objectify, they live mechanically, according to habit, without even objectifying or being aware of their way of living. And as the consciousness ...
... your soul develop in you that is to say, with the truth of your being and if you always strive that all you think, all your speak, all you do should be more and more the expression of this deep truth. When you will consciously live in it, you will fear nothing any longer, in any domain of your being, because you will be united with the universal Truth which governs the world. 8 August 1964 * ...
... associated with it but above it and them and who by the very nature of his existence knows himself as universal and transcendent no less than individual and feels the Divine to be his origin, the truth of his being, the master of his nature, the very stuff of his existence. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Jivatman in Other Indian Systems By Jivatma we mean the individual self. Essentially... our inmost being. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Jivatman in the Integral Yoga The true inner being—the true mental, the true vital, the true physical represent each on its plane and answer to the central being, but the whole of the nature and especially the outer nature does not nor the ordinary mental, vital or physical personality. The psychic being is the central being for the purposes... in the Integral Yoga The phrase “central being” in our Yoga is usually applied to the portion of the Divine in us which supports all the rest and survives through death and birth. This central being has two forms—above, it is the Jivatman, our true being, of which we become aware when the higher self-knowledge comes,—below, it is the psychic being which stands behind mind, body and life. The Jivatman ...
... Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of... appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead... be the intermediate being between humanity as it is and the supramental being created in the supramental way, that is, no longer belonging to animality at all and delivered from all animal needs. As we are, we have been created in the ordinary animal way, and therefore, even if we transform ourselves, there will remain something of this animal origin. The supramental being as he conceived of it ...
... दीर्घश्रुत्तमा । ता सत्पती ऋतावृध ऋतावाना जनेजने ॥२॥ 2) They are the Kings most glorious in light and most far in their hearing; 1 they are the masters of being in creature and creature and the increasers of the Truth in us, for the Truth is theirs. ता वामियानोऽवसे पूर्वा उप ब्रुवे सचा । स्वश्वासः सु चेतुना वाजाँ अभि प्र दावने ॥३॥ 3) Travelling on the path I call to them, the twain together... Lords of Light The Secret of the Veda The Fourth Hymn to Mitra-Varuna The Lords of the Journey [The Rishi invokes the two great increasers of the truth in our being to lead us in our journey to the plenitudes, to the vastness of our true existence which they conquer for us out of the narrow limits of our present ignorant and imperfect mentality.] ... अस्माकमृषीणां गोपीथे न उरुष्यतम् ॥६॥ 6) You twain, O Mitra, set this human creature travelling on your path and wholly you lead him. Set not your hedge around our lords of plenitude and our seers of the truth. Guard us in our drinking of the light. 4 Page 530 × They have the divine sight and the divine hearing ...
... the inner being that brings about the freedom in the outer life. The deeper the inner freedom, the truer and the more real is the outer freedom. The outer freedom does not mean the power to do whatever one chooses to do. True outer freedom means to be able to choose the right thing to do. It means finding the Truth and following the rhythm of the Truth. When one is the Truth in one's being and infallibly... infallibly expresses the Truth in becoming, when one is identified with Satyam and Ritam, there is founded the true freedom and its supreme status. Freedom therefore is utter self-discipline; for it means following the rhythm of the Truth. To follow the rhythm of the Truth is to follow the Divine. In being obedient to the Divine Will one acts absolutely freely, for obedience here means complete id... identification with the Master. The being one with the Divine Being, the consciousness one with the Divine Consciousness, the will one with the Divine Will – such is the condition and status of the perfect, absolute Freedom. Page 396 ...
... up, make discordant, wounded, limited his knowledge, will, strength, joy and being. 53 In Sri Aurobindo's poem, the two aspects of the first term are incarnated Page 275 as Satyavan and Savitri: the all-illuminating light and the all-creative truth, light's being and its truth-becoming. The second term, of course, is Yama or Death, not the Yama that is both... the passive and the active (rather like light and heat); Surya the light of Reality, which is satyam ritam brihat —or the truth, the right and the vast—and Savitri its dynamic or creative aspect, are inseparably linked, being but the reverse and obverse of the same ultimate Truth. But Savitri is also the power to approach from the human end, and this is the reason why the Gayatri mantra, the holiest... of the path is the divine beatitude, the illimitable joy of the Truth, of the infinity of our being. Bhaga is the godhead who brings this joy and supreme felicity into the human consciousness; he is the divine enjoyer in man.. .Bhaga is Savitri the Creator, he who brings forth from the unmanifest Divine the truth of a divine universe, dispelling from us the evil dream of this ...
... the success of their efforts. Each time we try not to be an ordinary man, not to live the ordinary life, to express in our movements, our actions and reactions the divine Truth, when we are governed by that Truth instead of being governed by the general ignorance, we are apprentice-supermen, and according to the success of our efforts, well, we are more or less able apprentices, more or less advanced... less successful attempts. All those who strive to overcome their ordinary nature, all those who try to realise materially the deeper experience which has brought them into contact with the divine Truth, all those who, instead of turning to the Beyond or the Highest, try to realise physically, externally, the change of consciousness they have realised within themselves—all are apprentice-supermen.... In reality, in this race to the Transformation, the question is to know which of the two will arrive Page 410 first: the one who wants to transform his body in the image of the divine Truth, or the old habit of the body to go on disintegrating until it is so deformed that it can no longer continue to live in its outer integrality It is a race between transformation and decay. For there ...
... type, that, for example, the pine will never become the oak and the palm never become wheat. This is obvious. But that is something else: it means that the truth of your being is not the truth of your neighbour's. But in the truth of your being, according to your own formation, your progress is almost unlimited. It is limited only by your own conviction that it is limited and by your ignorance of the... let it drop, let it go! Go farther. Source Get Rid of All Ties If your aim is to be free, in the freedom of the Spirit, you must get rid of all the ties that are not the inner truth of your being, but come from subconscious habits. If you wish to consecrate yourself entirely, absolutely and exclusively to the Divine, you must do it in all completeness; you must not leave bits of yourself... "Why hurry, why so soon, since the others are not doing it?" This is a frightful platitude!... But even if you must be the one and only being in the whole creation who gives himself integrally in all purity to the Divine, and being the only one, being naturally absolutely misunderstood by everybody, scoffed at, ridiculed, hated, even if you were that, there is no reason for not doing it. One ...
... answer that immediately came to me. I add to it the assurance that nothing has changed, nor can change, in my relationship with you, and that you are and always will be my child—for that is the truth of your being. Here is what I wrote: In your ignorance, you created a phantom of your destiny, and then, out of this non-existent ghost, you made a hobgoblin around which all the resistances of your ...
... every one of these possibilities becomes the reality of a being, of an individuality if you like, of something existing objectively. And it is that law which is the origin of the centre of the psychic being: it is the truth of the being or the law of the being. The Buddha called it the "law", he spoke of the Dharma . It is the truth of the being. It is that which binds it again indestructibly to its... the creation of an individual being is the result of the projection, in time and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the supreme origin of all manifestation which, through the medium of the one and universal consciousness, takes concrete form in the law or the truth of an individual and so, by a progressive development, becomes his soul or psychic being." It is a little philosophical... February 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " Psychic Education and Spiritual Education ". Once the being has entered into contact with the psychic, why does the psychic again hide itself? It is not the psychic that hides itself, it is the being which returns to its ordinary consciousness!... It is difficult for it to remain at its highest. One slides down, falls back. ...
... them? a) The almost exclusive importance given to success, career and money. b) Insist on the paramount importance of the contact with the Spirit and the growth and manifestation of the Truth of the being. 5 August 1965 1) How to prepare children for the rejection of falsehood (a) when the falsehood is still within the blood and every cell of my body? (b) when attachment to falsehood... of the present and the future of national and international living, what is it that India should aim at in education? Prepare her children for the rejection of falsehood and the manifestation of Truth. 2) By what steps could the country proceed to realise this high aim? How can a beginning in that direction be made? Make matter ready to manifest the Spirit. 3) What is India's true genius ...
... Savitr,̣ the Light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth. This is Sri Aurobindo's Gayatri Mantra. The meditation is on the auspicious form of the Sun, the Sun of Divine Light. The Mantra affirms that the Light shall illumine us with the Truth. It shall illumine all the parts of our being, even the very physical. In it shall be our true progress. The threefold reality... Page 84 through her action, the story of Love triumphing over Death. If it is through the agency of Supermind that the world came into being, it is the Supermind alone who will then bring genuine fulfilment to it in joyous glories of the Truth and Light and Force and Awareness. In it is the work of Surya-Savitri. It is that we celebrate in the Savitri-legend given to us as a great gift... Aurobindo's Savitri which is in fact the Word of Revelation adopting the fruitful form of a creative Myth, a myth that transcends the restrictive boundaries of space and time. It is a myth whose truth is being realised at every instance and on every spot. It is the Mantra of Transformation, which also implies that it is the Mantra of Manifestation. That Mantra is built into the very origin of the ...
... The Givers of Self-Rule [The Rishi invokes Varuna, the vast form of the Truth, and Mitra the beloved, godhead of its harmonies and large bliss, who conquer for us the perfect force of our true and infinite being, to change our imperfect human nature into the image of their divine workings. Then the solar Heaven of the Truth is manifested within us, its wide pasture of herding illuminations becomes... Swarajya. Swarajya and Samrajya, perfect empire within and without, rule of our inner being and mastery of our environment and circumstances, was the ideal of the Vedic sages, attainable only by ascending beyond our mortal mentality to the luminous Truth of our being, the supramental infinities on the spiritual plane of our existence. ... their purified discernment, their rapid inspirations become ours, our very earth becomes the world of that vast Truth. For then there is the perfect movement, the transcendence of this darkness of sin and suffering. We arrive at self-empire, a rich, full and vast possession of our infinite being.] आ चिकितान सुकतू देवौ मर्त रिशादसा । वरुणाय ऋतपेशसे दधीत प्रयसे महे ॥१॥ 1) O mortal who awakenest ...
... ss by the triple luminous soul of the Truth-being so that that higher consciousness becomes active, creative and fruitful in man. × The action of the sacrifice consists in the formation or "extension" of the universal being, sarvatāti , and of the divine being, devatāti . ... the upholders of the worlds or planes of being, especially the three luminous worlds in which the triple mental, the triple vital, the triple physical find the light of their truth and the divine law of their powers. The strength of the Aryan warrior is increased by them and guarded in that imperishable law. From the luminous worlds the rivers of the truth descend with their yield of bliss. In each... ss of the Truth; these, which make the luminous day of the soul, found in man the divine and infinite consciousness and in that the divine peace and the activity by which in the extended universality of our being there is the rich felicity and the creation of the godhead. The divine workings are impaired and restricted by the gods in the ordinary life of the vital and the physical being, but when Mitra ...
... thus, when they had eaten of the fruit they became full of sin. I say each fruit should be eaten in its own way. A being living according to its own nature, its own truth, should spontaneously discover its own way of using things. When you live according to the truth of your being, you have no need to learn things, you do them spontaneously, according to the inner law. When you follow your nature... that curve moves away from the Divine, and one must rise much higher to find again, naturally, a higher Divine, for it is a conscious Divine, whereas the others are Page 348 divine without being conscious, spontaneously and instinctively. And our whole moral notion of good and bad, we have thrown all that upon the creation with our deformed and perverted consciousness. It is we who have invented ...
... soon as they ate of this fruit, they were full of sin. I say that every fruit should be eaten in its own way. The being who lives according to his own nature, his own truth, must spontaneously find the right way of using things. When you live according to the truth of your being, you don't need to learn things: you do them spontaneously, according to the inner law. When you sincerely follow your... species is at a point in the spiral which is not very pretty. But isn't a dog more conscious, more evolved than a tiger, or higher in the spiral—that is, nearer the Divine? It's not a question of being conscious. There is no doubt that man is more evolved than the tiger, but the tiger is more divine than man. One shouldn't confuse things. These are two entirely different things. The Divine is ... swerves away from the Divine. So naturally, one has to climb much higher to find a higher Divine, since it is a conscious Divine, whereas the others are divine spontaneously and instinctively, without being conscious of it. All our moral notions of good and evil, all of that, are what we have thrown over the creation with our distorted and perverted consciousness. It is we who have invented it. Page ...
... knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, the one thing for which we have been really created, that which we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is in opposition to it. It is thus that little by little all the parts, all the elements of our being, could be... psychic being. Thus one can say, for example, that the creation of an individual being is the result of the projection, in time and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the Supreme Origin of all manifestation which, through the one and universal consciousness, is concretised in the law or the truth of an individual and so becomes by a progressive growth its soul or psychic being. ... endeavour. As we pursue this labour of purification and unification, we must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of our being. When the higher truth will manifest, it must find in you a mental being supple and rich enough to be able to give to the idea seeking to express itself a form of thought Page 512 Page 513 which preserves its ...
... in the higher Truth, what is it that makes it ugly when it expresses itself? Why are there ugly things at all? Because there are forces that intervene between the origin and the manifestation. If I ask you, "Do you know the truth of your being?" What will you say?... Do you know it? Well, the same holds for everything. And yet you are already a sufficiently evolved thinking being who has passed... of the truth of your being.... It is a process. You cannot argue whether it is inevitable or evitable; the fact is it is like that. This process of formation and creation is the reason why purity no longer manifests in its essence and in its purity but through the deformation of unconsciousness and ignorance.... If you had answered immediately: "Yes, of course, I know the truth of my being!" it would... passed through all kinds of refinements. You are no longer quite like, let us say, a lizard that runs on the wall; and yet you would not be able to say what the truth of your being is. That is just the secret of all deformations in the world. It is because there is all the inconscience created by the fact of separation from the Origin. It is due to this inconscience that the Origin, though always there ...
... it to be so, this Divine would have to be of your own size, your own stature. And towards what could He lead you if not towards yourself as you are . Is this what you really want in the truth of your being? I refuse to believe it. Child, you say to me, "To love me is to do what I want." But I say to you that for the Divine to love truly is to do what is best for the one He loves. May ...
... in an integral development of self-knowledge. That is the natural goal of our evolution which is the movement of the Ignorance to exceed itself and arrive at the conscious Truth of its being and conscious knowledge of all being. Page 494 ... of experience as a wave of the conscious being into a movement of emotion, vitality, sensation or thought-perception. There is also an act of mental observation and valuation of this wave in the sense-mind. There is also the subject or mental being who thus modifies his mental becoming and observes and values it by an act of mind. It is when the mental being stands back from the mental becoming and... —The ego-sense is a mental device by which the mental being develops towards knowledge of that which experiences as well as of that which is experienced. Memory only tells us that the successive experiences have happened in the same field of conscious being; it is the coordinating and distinguishing mind which tells us that it is the same mental being who experiences.—Mind-substance suffers the changes ...
... make up this book. It is not always that an editor comes across plentiful evidence of an understanding that grows bright Gazing on many truths. Reading the series of studies contributed by Jugal Kishore Mukherjee I could not help being exhilarated not only by the scholarly thoroughness of its knowledge but also by the wide-ranging vitality of its insight. The theme is one... processes as well as look behind or beyond them. This curious detachment and freedom shows it to be both subject and object at the same time and therefore the symbolic expression of some truth of physical being which is not exhausted by the present possibilities of living and conscious matter . There is here a sense of Infinite riches in a little room — riches that... by a technique of varying sound-patterns and a few repeated expressions, the twofold movement necessary to the Aurobindonian Yoga: first the discovery of what the one poem calls "my deep deathless being" which is absolutely independent and then the forceful extension of the inner immortality to what the other poem terms "the blind material sheath" which has so long been accepted as ...
... there is an earthly body or not. Then, Sweet Mother, is everyone's central being the same? No, for we are told that it is identified in multiplicity. It is the eternal truth of each being. From one point of view they are identical, from another they are multiple; because the truth of each being is an individual truth, but it is identified with the Page 223 Divine. It is outside the... may be close to the truth or far from the truth—it also depends upon the quality of your formation. You make a mental formation and there are people who have such a power of formation that they succeed in making what they imagine real. There are not many of these but there are some. They imagine something and their formation is so well made and so powerful that it succeeds in being realised. These are... Lights on Yoga , "Planes and Parts of the Being". Sweet Mother, here it is written: "Finally the soul or psychic being retires into the psychic world to rest there till a new birth is close." Then, Mother, what happens to the central being afterwards? This depends absolutely on the different instances. We said that the central being and the psychic being are the same thing but the part which stays ...
... call the Truth of your being. And as long as you are not conscious of the Truth of your being, you are moved by all kinds of things, without taking any note of it at all. Collective thought, collective suggestions are a formidable influence which act constantly on individual thought. And what is extraordinary is that one does not notice it. One believes that one thinks "like that", but in truth it is... "The Science of Living" , On Education "To know oneself and control oneself" 1 what does this mean? Page 33 This means to be conscious of one's inner truth, conscious of the different parts of one's being and their respective functions. You must know why you do this, why you do that; you must know your thoughts, know your feelings, all your activities, all your movements, of... and it is in effort that one finds joy. Exactly. It is the effort which gives joy; a human being who does not know how to make an effort will never find joy. Those who are essentially lazy will never find joy—they do not have the strength to be joyful! It is effort which gives joy. Effort makes the being vibrate at a certain degree of tension which makes it possible for you to feel the joy. Page ...
... me, one with me! The banyan tree vanished, burnt down, swallowed up into this I that suffers nothing but itself. I am the Delight of my Delight, the Truth of my Being, the Absolute of my immutable Wholeness. I am the One, I am the Unadored. But the Delight of my Delight is here with its very self. It breaks the virtue... SCENE 2: THE SERPENT OF THE INFINITE HE Here I am back again, Absolute, Solitary, rich with the innumerable unrollings of the Being. Here is the end and the beginning of the world, here I clasp myself in an eternal ecstasy. One and Two! O infinite abyss! My Source, my ...
... type, that, for example, the pine will never become the oak and the palm never become wheat. This is obvious. But that is something else: it means that the truth of your being is not the truth of your neighbour's. But in the truth of your being, according to your own formation, your progress is almost unlimited. It is limited only by your own conviction that it is limited and by your ignorance of the... higher consciousness coming Page 388 down into the being and expressing itself in action, but from impulses or influences from outside. We reserved the word will to express what in the individual consciousness is the expression of an order or impulse coming from the truth of the being, from the truth of the individual—his true being, his true self, you understand. That we call will. And all... people, and even in the very best at very rare moments in life, does the will of the being express that deep inner, higher truth. ( After a silence Mother continues :) The individual consciousness extends far beyond the body; we have seen that even the subtle physical which is yet material compared with the vital being and in certain conditions almost visible, extends at times considerably beyond the ...
... in the truth of his being. It is more difficult for me; this intermediate domain is a very cloudy one, for me it is a domain of falsehood, what I call falsehood. There are two words in English, "falsehood" and "lie"; well, it is the see of falsehood. It is not a lie in the see that one tells a lie, but it is a domain of what is not true, what is not at all the experience of the truth of a being, and... they say, "My health! I can't digest well!" All this is only in their head. There is not a word of truth in it. NOT ONE WORD OF TRUTH . It is a perpetual lie in which everybody lives, and in this matter, indeed, I may tell you what I think, you have not advanced any farther than the mass of human beings. I make an exception for the very, very, very rare ones who are not like that. They could be counted... and yet it is of this that he is almost solely conscious. Only a very few have the inner perception of what they want to be, what they want to do, of what the truth of their being is. Page 165 There are not many such. Or else it comes and then gets veiled; suddenly one has a flash and then it gets clouded over. And so the questions I put are always in order to know the state of this surface ...
... Page 134 103, 107, 109 supramental 100,108,111 See also Psychic transformation Trust 58; see also Faith Truth of the being 10, 11 -12, 22 Truth-Consciousness 109 Vital, the inner 99 progress from life to life 71 -72 usual governor of life xviii, 6 Page 135 ... Psychic being Psychic and spiritual 22-23, 23, 24 Psychic being XVI, 9, 12, 14, 19 choice of birth environment 74-75 discovery of 43 and the Divine 15,22,86 essential conditions 79 function (work) of 24-25, 29 growth of 63-79 guidance by 12 and individuality 16 nature of 1 and the outer being 19 and... 102 Buddha 10 Central being 4,80,104,105 Concentration 102-103 Consciousness cosmic 99.102,107,111 reversal of xxvi, 59 Consciousness-Force 108,110 Consecration 101 Desire 57 soul of, (desire-soul) 18,90, 94 Dharma 10 Divine Love 55, 56 Divine (Presence), the 14,18, 24, 25, 36, 55 and the psychic being 8, 15, 22 Divine spark ...
... contradiction, not with outer moral rules or social principles, but with the inner law of one's being, the particular truth of each one which ought to govern all the movements of our consciousness and all the acts of our body. The inner law, the truth of the being is the divine Presence in every human being, which should be the master and guide of our life. When you acquire the habit of listening... when you obey it, follow it, try more and more to let it guide your life, you create around you an atmosphere of truth and peace and harmony which naturally reacts upon circumstances and forms, so to say, the atmosphere in which you live. When you are a being of justice, truth, harmony, compassion, understanding, of perfect goodwill, this inner attitude, the more sincere and total it is, the more... appearances and that all the judgments you make from outward circumstances are always, necessarily false judgments. To have a glimpse of the Truth, one must take at least one step back in one's consciousness, enter a little more deeply into one's being and try to perceive the play of forces behind the appearances and the divine Presence behind the play of forces. 25 July 1958 Page 279 ...
... take the joy of this possibility of being Himself with the full knowledge of Himself. It becomes much more interesting. All physical life has the vital as its origin. The vital has the mental reality as its origin. The mental itself has another origin. And so on. Nothing can be manifested upon earth physically unless it has at its origin a higher truth. Otherwise the world would not exist... least apparently, and falls into inconscience, for the only thing that is the Life of life is the Origin. It is this inconscience that brings it about that you are not aware any longer of the Truth of your being. The secret of all deformation in the world is this inconscience which has been produced by the fact of separation from the Origin. And that explains why there are ugliness, wickedness, illness... of the Evil. There is what we call the Truth, the foundation of all things, because if that was not there nothing would be. There is nothing which does not carry within it an eternal Truth, otherwise it would not be. The universe would not exist for one thousandth part of a second if it did not contain in itself a Truth. And once you have found the truth, you find the Origin, you find out why things ...
... call the Truth of your being. And as long as you are not conscious of the Truth of your being, you are moved by all kinds of things, without taking any note of it at all. Collective thought, collective suggestions are a formidable influence which act constantly on individual thought. And what is extraordinary is that one does not notice it. One believes that one thinks “like that”, but in truth it is... the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be[p.3] organised into... changing it. But one must observe these things without being despondent or thinking “it is hopeless” or “I cannot change”. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - IV: Speech and Yoga “To know oneself and control oneself” what does this mean? This means to be conscious of one’s inner truth, conscious of the different parts of one’s being and their respective functions. You must know why you ...
... we shall best be able both to see the truth of the high things which we now only speak with our lips and form into outward intellectual constructions, and to apply their truth sincerely to all our outward living- If we are to found Page 21 the kingdom of God in humanity, we must first know God and see and live the diviner truth of our being in ourselves; otherwise how shall a new... members of the spirit, lucid means of its manifestation, themselves spiritual, illumined, more and more conscious and perfect. For, accepting the truth of man's soul as a thing entirely divine in its essence, it will accept also the possibility of his whole being becoming divine in spite of Nature's first patent contradictions of this possibility, her darkened denials of this ultimate certitude, and... the divine Reality, the conscious Infinite in man upon earth. The possible godhead of man because he is inwardly of one being with God will be its one solitary creed and dogma. Sri Aurobindo Key to Human Unity Two great words of the divine Truth have forced themselves insistently on our minds through the crash of the ruin and the breath of the tempest and are now ...
... joy of this possibility of being Himself with the full knowledge of Himself. It becomes much more interesting. ⁂ All physical life has the vital as its origin. The vital has the mental reality as its origin. The mental itself has another origin. And so on. Nothing can be manifested upon earth physically unless it has at its origin a higher truth. Otherwise the world would... apparently, and falls into inconscience, for the only thing that is the Life of life is the Origin. It is this inconscience that brings it about that you are not aware any longer of the Truth of your being. The secret of all deformation in the world is this inconscience which has been produced by the fact of separation from the Origin. And that explains why there are ugliness, wickedness, illness... Evil. There is what we call the Truth, the foundation of all things, because if that was not there nothing would be. There is nothing which does not carry within it an eternal Truth, otherwise it would not be. The universe would not exist one-thousandth part of a second if it did not contain in itself a Truth. And once you have found the truth, you find the Origin, you find out why ...
... would change if man could once consent to be spiritualised; but his nature, mental and vital and physical, is rebellious to the higher law. He loves his imperfection. " The Spirit is the truth of our being; mind and life and body in their imperfection are its masks, but in their perfection should be its moulds. To be spiritual only is not enough; that prepares a number of souls for heaven, but... the vehicle of a higher and more universal truth. A new religion would not only be useless but very harmful. It is a new life which must be created; it is a new consciousness which must be expressed. This is something beyond intellectual limits and mental formulae. It is a living truth which must manifest. Everything in its essence and its truth should be included in this realisation. This ...
... operations and to organize and place at the service of man her occult powers and processes, a vast system of physical magic – for there is and can be no other magic than the utilization of secret truths of being, secret powers and processes of Nature. It may even be found that a supraphysical knowledge is necessary for the completion of physical knowledge, because the processes of physical Nature have... her admiration for those of Madame Théon, for whom she always had the highest praise. Soon she herself learned everything there was to be learnt. “To know these [occult] things and to bring their truths and forces into the life of humanity is a necessary part of its evolution”, wrote Sri Aurobindo. “Science itself is in its own way an occultism; for it brings to light the formulas which Nature has... because of his relations with the dreaded Aurobindo Ghose. Whenever a terrorist act against the colonial authorities was committed, Ghose, in spite of his fame as scholar and yogi, was still suspected of being the master brain behind it although he was no longer involved in this kind of actions. Paul and Mirra Richard sailed back to a Europe at war. In 1916 Paul Richard managed to obtain a trade commission ...
... Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of... knowledge and ignorance, truth and error till it reached the spiritual perception and illumination and now can see as in a glass dimly the possibility of supermind and a truth-conscious existence. In this inevitable ascent the mind of Light is a gradation, an inevitable stage. As an evolving principle it will mark a stage in the human ascent and evolve a new type of human being; this development must... appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead ...
... law. 2) Spiritual being is Sachchidananda, which can be realised on the mental plane. One need not go to the Supermind at all. 3) First the whole physical being must be opened up; the Supermind must come and change the whole being from top to bottom; supramentalise it; then you get into the Supermind when you have the absolute truth. 4) Capacity of the physical being to extend depends upon... 20 April 1925 I mean by trained intelligence the capacity to think rightly and see the truth, the truth of things in themselves and in right relation to each other. I mean the ideative mind. I do not mean to say that people have no ideas, but having ideas does not mean they think or look for the truth. Being* idealistic does not mean that they have trained intelligence. It is just the opposite of... coming from these, have the nature of the true physical. 3) The Power is working in the material. 17 April 1925 1) Faith may be due to: (a) The awakening of the psychic being. (b) Fully developed emotional being turned upwards. (c) Fully developed mind, which sees the thing as certain. (d) Religious faith which is stupidity. (e) Faith may be due to the absence of intellectual d ...
... benevolent will and give you an indication, a help, a support to take decisions and turn you in the right direction. But once you have taken this decision, once you have decided to find the truth of your being, once you start sincerely on the road, then everything seems to conspire to help you to advance, and if you observe carefully you see gradually the source of your difficulties: “Ah! Wait a minute... the formation of the being a pure element, free from all contagion; I mean that if a psychic being enters there, it can gather elements favourable to its growth. In the world as it is, things are so mixed up, have been so mixed up in every way, that it is almost impossible to have elements of the vital sufficiently pure not to suffer the contagion of all other contaminated beings. I think I have already... what is happening. So, in these conditions how do you expect to be born with a vital being sufficiently pure to be of help to you? One is born with a slough to clean before one begins to live. And once you have made a good start on the way to the inner transformation and you go down to the subconscient root of the being—that exactly which comes from parents, from atavism—well, you do see what it is! And ...
... solution, because it goes back to the real truth of our being and to live according to the real truth of our being is evidently the highest solution and the sole entirely true solution of the problems of our existence. Our mental and vital personality is a truth of our natural existence, but a truth of the ignorance, and all that attaches itself to it is also truth of that order, practically valid for the... ignorance, but no longer valid when we get back to the real truth of our being. But how can we actually be sure that this is the truth? We cannot so long as we remain satisfied with our ordinary mental experience; for our normal mental experience is wholly that of this lower nature full of the ignorance. We can only know this greater truth by living it, that is to say, by passing beyond the mental into... its natural being and action, but exceeding them by its freedom and infinity. We may live in what is now our natural being or we may live in our greater and spiritual being. This is the first great distinction on which the Karmayoga of the Gita is founded. The whole question and the whole method lie then in the liberation of the soul from the limitations of our present natural being. In our natural ...
... with the psychic centre of the being." "The Science of Living" , On Education That is evidently the cure of all ills. "The body has a remarkable capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is fit to do so many more things than one can usually imagine. If instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that govern it, it is ruled by the central truth of the being, one will be surprised at what... case of those who have established a contact with their psychic being sufficient to keep alive in them the flame of aspiration and the consciousness of the ideal to be realised. They can, with the help of this consciousness, deal with their vital as one deals with a child in revolt, with patience and perseverance showing it the truth and light, endeavouring to convince it and awaken in it the goodwill... can get along in life. Nowadays, people recognise the value of a healthy and balanced life. And I have said that this harmony will be progressive: "This harmony will be progressive, for the truth of the being is never static, it is a continual unfolding of a growing, a more and more global and comprehensive perfection. As soon as the body learns to follow the movement of progressive harmony, it will ...
... realise on the conscious and dynamic levels, in the outer world, the truth which has thus already been seized in some secret core of our being. The intuition may not, of course, be present to the conscious mind, it may not be ostensibly sought for, one may even deny the existence of such a preconceived notion and proceed to establish truth on a tabula rasa; none the less it is this hidden bias that judges... the only static and separative reality? Is the flux of vital Mind-Energy the ultimate truth ? Matter forms the lowest level of reality. Above it is the elan vital. Above the elan vital there is yet the domain of the Spirit. And the Spirit is a static substance and at the same a dynamic creative power. It is Being ( Sat ) that realises or expresses itself through certain typal nuclei or nodi of ... and shall be the embodiment and fulfilment of that order— this is the secret Intuition which, as yet dimly envisaged, nevertheless secretly inspires all the human activities of today. Only, the truth is being interpreted, as we have said, in terms of vital life. The intellectual and physical man gave us one aspect of the reality, but neither is the vital and psychical man Page 75 the ...
... realise on the conscious and dynamic levels, in the outer world, the truth which has thus already been seized in some secret core of our being. The intuition may not, of course, be present to the conscious mind, it may not be ostensibly sought for, one may even deny the existence of such a preconceived notion and proceed to establish truth on a tabula rasa; none the less it is this hidden bias that judges... only static and separative reality? Is the flux of vital Mind-Energy the ultimate truth? Matter forms the lowest level of reality. Above it is the elan vital. Above the elan vital there is yet the domain of the Spirit. And the Spirit is a static substance and at the same a dynamic creative power. It is Being (Sat) that realises or expresses itself through certain typal nuclei or nodi... and shall be the embodiment and fulfilment of that order - this is the secret Intuition which, as yet dimly envisaged, nevertheless secretly inspires all the human activities of today. Only, the truth is being interpreted, as we have said, in terms of vital life. The intellectual and physical man Page 20 gave us one aspect of the reality, but neither is the vital and psychical man the ...
... inherently predetermined denouement is also and more convincingly possible. Ananda is the secret principle of all being and the support of all activity of being: but Ananda does not exclude a delight in the working out of a Truth inherent in being, immanent in the Force or Will of being, upheld in the hidden self-awareness of its Consciousness-Force which is the dynamic and executive agent of all its... part. There can be no objection to the admission of a teleological factor in a part movement of the universal totality, if the purpose,—not a purpose in the human sense, but the urge of an intrinsic Truth-necessity conscious in the will of the indwelling Spirit,—is the perfect manifestation there of all the possibilities inherent in the total movement. All exists here, no doubt, for the delight of existence... progressive execution, the objectless seried self-revelation. A universal totality may also be considered as something complete in itself; as a totality, it has nothing to gain or to add to its fullness of being. But here the material world is not an integral totality, it is part of a whole, a grade in a gradation; it may admit in it, therefore, not only the presence of undeveloped immaterial principles or ...
... divine Truth and its divine Law eternally perfect in the ether of our supreme being; thence they rain down the abundance of the heavens and its bliss upon the favoured soul. Seers in man of that world of Truth, as they are, by their guardianship of its law, rulers of all this becoming, they give us its rain of spiritual wealth and immortality. The Life-powers range with the voice of the truth-seeking... seeking in all the worlds of our being for the brilliant rays of the concealed knowledge to be gathered as a shining wealth; the voice of the Rain is full of the flashings of the Light and the movement of the divine Waters; its clouds become robes for the Life-Powers. Through it all by the formative knowledge of the mighty master of Truth and by the law of the Truth, the two kings maintain the divine... governing by the Truth all our being, and finally set in its sky the Sun, now revealed, as a chariot of the richly varied splendours of the knowledge, the chariot of the journey of the spirit to the highest heavens.] Page 522 ऋतस्य गोपावधि तिष्ठथो रथं सत्यधर्माण परमे व्योमनि । यमत्र मित्रावरुणावथो युवं तस्मै वृष्टिर्मधुमत्पिन्वते दिवः ॥१॥ 1) Guardians of the Truth, you ascend your ...
... words addressed to the Ashramites, residents of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, who have been actually participating in the task of translating the Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's dream into realized Truth. The author, being himself a resident of the Ashram for the last five decades, takes the liberty of making a humble and sincere appeal to all other fellow-Ashramites: Let this auspicious year 1997, the... ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order." (The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 69) Such being the case there are bound to arise occasionally some problems in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram which consists of almost two thousand... another publication from the same author. The book has rather an unusual title, Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Its Role, Responsibility and Future Destiny. Sri Aurobindo's 125th birth anniversary is being celebrated all over the world in this calendar year 1997. Everywhere in India and abroad people in large numbers are evincing a keen interest in the Mahayogi of Pondicherry and in all that he stands ...
... a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind .and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of... knowledge and ignorance, truth and error till it reached the spiritual perception and illumination and now can see as in a glass dimly the possibility of supermind and a truth-conscious existence. In this inevitable ascent the mind of Light is a gradation, an inevitable stage. As an evolving principle it will mark a stage in the human ascent and evolve a new type of human being; this development must... appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and . delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead ...
... Realisation or jnana of experience is the perception of things through bhava,—bhava of being or Sat, realising the truths of being,—bhava of Chit or knowledge, realising the truths of thought, bhava of tapas or force, realising the truths of force & action, bhava of love or ananda realising the truths of emotion & sensation and bliss. Satyadharma Satyadharma is the carrying out of the... mentioned to him. Intuition & viveka Intuition is the power which distinguishes the truth and suggests at once the right reasons for its being the truth; viveka the power which makes at once the necessary limitations and distinctions & prevents intellectual error from creeping in or an imperfect truth from being taken for the whole satyam. The importance of viveka for the purposes of man's progress... sana of the satyam. Sruti Sruti is the faculty by which we perceive as in a flash the truth hidden in a form of thought or in an object presented to our knowledge or in the word by which the thing is revealed. It is that faculty by which the meaning of the mantra dawns on the mind or on the being of the sadhaka, although when he first heard it, he did not know its meaning nor was it explained ...
... By discovering and using rightly the Truth of our being the barrier between our individuality and the universe will necessarily be forced open and cast away and the Truth that we realise in our own being cannot fail to realise itself to us in the universality which will then be our self. Realising in ourselves the "I am He" of the Vedanta, we cannot but realise in looking upon all around us the identical... though the universe is a fact and not a fiction, a fact of the divine and universal and not a fiction of the individual self, our state of existence here is a state of ignorance, not the true truth of our being. We conceive of ourselves falsely, we see ourselves as we are not; we live in a false relation with our environment, because we know neither Page 335 the universe nor ourselves for... embodied mind and vitality. Now, all this is a mixture of truth and falsehood. Mind, Life, Matter exist and mental, vital, physical individualisation exists as facts in Nature, but the identification of the soul with these things is a false identification. Mind, Life and Matter are ourselves only in this sense that they are principles of being which the true self has evolved by the meeting and interaction ...
... call the Truth of your being. And as long as you are not conscious of the Truth of your being, you are moved by all kinds of things, without taking any note of it at all. Collective thought, collective suggestions are a formidable influence which act constantly on individual thought. And what is extraordinary is that one does not notice it. One believes that one thinks “like that”, but in truth it is... disorder, in which are more and more at work vibrations of Truth and Harmony coming from the higher regions and pushing their way through the resistance. The Mother Words of the Mother - I: Relations with Others “Chance can only be the opposite of order and harmony. There is only one true harmony and that is the supramental—the reign of Truth, the expression of the Divine Law. In the Supermind... Supermind, therefore, chance has no place. But in the lower Nature, the supreme Truth is obscured: hence there is an absence of that divine unity of purpose and action which alone can constitute order. Lacking this unity, the domain of the lower Nature is governed by what we may call chance—that is to say, it is a field in which various conflicting forces intermix, having no single definite aim.” “Chance” ...
... canceled—but it might be like the relation of consciousness between the various parts of one's being. And it gives objectivity to those various parts, obviously. ( long silence ) To come back to that very easily understood example of the aborted accident, we may very well conceive that the intervention of the Truth-Consciousness had been decided "from all eternity" and that there isn't any "new" element;... have, except for a few minutes—a few minutes—when other bodies, as if through a grace, have the Perception. While for it, it's a natural and constant state; it's the effective result of this Truth-Consciousness being more constantly concentrated on this collection of cells than on others—more directly. But the substitution of one vibration for another in facts, in actions, in objects, occurs wherever the... world—of trees, of people, of a stone—what would it be like to a supramental eye? That's exactly what cannot be said! When you have the vision and consciousness of the Truth-Order, of that which is DIRECT, the direct expression of the Truth, you immediately feel something inexpressible, because all words belong to the other sphere; all images, all comparisons, all expressions belong to the other sphere ...
... with Your vision of Truth-Consciousness and act with Your invincible Force. Then I will be able to do Your work and shall be truly fulfilled!' With humility, ever Thy own. *** "Mother Divine: Grant that the New Year which is about to begin be filled with the blazing Light of Truth-Consciousness, penetrating all the elements of our being so that we may live and move in Truth, and collaborate in... to Thy law, true to my being as an individual centre of Thy manifestation and radiate Thy truth through the purity of my being. Let me have no other thought than Thine, no other love than Thine, no other will than Thine, no other consciousness than Thine. Let me ever wear the perfume of Thy Divine purity. Be ever present at all moments, I invoke Thee with the fire of my being, O supreme Mother, in every... Divine Love that it foods my being and yet Thou pourest more and more. It has lighted an eternal fame in my heart which ever purifies all the elements of my being and charges them with the Force of Thy Truth. All through my life Thou hast taught me one thing above all. how to love purely, selflessly, profoundly, infinitely and eternally and thus to be an instrument of Thy Truth. O Mother Supreme, my heart ...
... total manifestation of the Divine. The Divine is with you according to your aspiration. Naturally that does not mean that He bends to the caprices of your outer nature, — I speak here of the truth of your being. And yet, sometimes He does fashion Himself according to your outer aspirations, and if, like the devotees, you live alternately in separation and union, ecstasy and despair, the Divine also... am with you in a very concrete manner and they who have a subtle vision can see me. In a general way my Force is there constantly at work, constantly shifting the psychological elements of your being to put them in new relations, defining to yourself the different facets of your nature so that you may see what should be changed, developed, rejected. But that apart, there is a special personal... I would be flooded; the physical consciousness acts like a filter. Things are recorded in a subtle plane, they are there in a latent state, something like a piece of music that is recorded without being played. When I need to know with my physical consciousness, I make the contact with the subtle physical plane and the disc begins to turn. Then I see how things are, their development in time, the actual ...
... either case there is always an element of self-existent truth and a sense of absoluteness of origination suggestive of its proceeding from the spirit's knowledge by identity. It is the disclosing of a knowledge that is secret but already existent in the being: it is not an acquisition, but something that was always there and revealable. It sees the truth from Page 814 within and illumines with... the experience of the conscious being, but it may lack the embodying word, the out-bringing idea, the connected pursuit of its relations and consequences and may remain a possession in the self but not a thing communicated to and through the members. There may be the presence of the truth but not its full manifestation. The inspiration may give the word of the truth and the stir of its dynamis and... will or feeling above us, but only in the intuitive mind and on its level. Or we feel and are manifoldly aware of a great and infinite Purusha who Page 811 is the eternally living truth of that being and presence, a great and infinite knowledge which is the potency of that light and consciousness, a great and infinite will which is the potency of that power of consciousness, a great and infinite ...
... conclusion. The reason has to be led to a truth beyond itself, but by its own means and in its own manner. Offered a spiritually psychological solution, of the data of which it has no experience, it can only be assured of its validity if it is satisfied by an intellectual statement of the truths of being upon which the solution rests. So far the justifying truths that have been offered to it are those... all except for this spiritual force and this power of being; it comes from that and it exists in that and by that solely. If we dwell in the phenomenal nature only and see things only by the notions it impresses on us, we shall not get at the real truth of our active existence. The real truth is this spiritual power, this divine force of being, this essential quality of the spirit in things or rather... multiplicity of beings in the universe or in numberless universes could not be in their becoming the integral Divine, but only a partial manifestation of the infinite One. In them Brahman the one indivisible existence resides as if divided, avibhaktaṁ ca bhūteṣu vibhaktam iva ca sthitam . The unity is the greater truth, the multiplicity is the lesser truth, though both are a truth and neither of them ...
... All would change if man could once consent to be spiritualised; but his nature mental and vital and physical is rebellious to the higher law. He loves his imperfections. The Spirit is the truth of our being; mind and life and body in their imperfection are its masks, but in their perfection should be its moulds. To be spiritual only is not enough; that prepares a number of souls for heaven, but ...
... heartbeat to what the old tradition designated the music of the spheres, the concord of the universal OM. With that illumination he becomes the seer of truth just as with that rapture he becomes the hearer of it — the truth concerned being the sight achieved of any aspect of reality by means of the faculty of intuition, with its thrilled flash into the depths of any part of the world through... and all the others and God and Nature and the life of beings and sets flowing from its centre a surge of creative rhythm and word-images which become the expressive body of the vision; and the great poets are those who repeat in some measure this ideal creation, kavayah satyasrutah, seers and hearers of the poetic truth and poetic word." References 1. Savitri... Sri Aurobindo2 the defining phrase: "A direct spiritual perception and vision called by us intuition" ? We begin with the basic act of "intuitive knowledge" and its stirred seizures of truth that get moulded into language: the leap upon the heart of reality's significances is at the same time a leap into words answering to them. The intuitive knowledge has two sides: the revelatory ...
... fugitive. Otherwise joy is constantly there in the truth of the being, in the reality of the being, in your true Self, in your soul, in your psychic being, joy is constantly there. It has nothing to do with pleasure: it is a kind of inner delight. But one is rarely in a state to feel it, unless one has become fully conscious of one's psychic being. That is why when it comes it is fugitive, for the... longer. And if it persists, it becomes unpleasant for you. That is why you can't have pleasure for a long time. The only thing which can be lasting is joy, if one enters into contact with the truth of the being which holds this joy permanently. Page 191 Mother, in the heart there is a double action: the action of vital impulse and that of pure emotion. What makes this mixture possible?... understanding symbols, and that is in the psychic being. Prophets, for example, do not prophesy with the mind, it is through a direct contact, beyond emotions and sentiments. Sri Aurobindo even says that the Vedas, particularly, were not written with the mind and through the head. The form of the hymn welled up spontaneously from the psychic being, along with the words. Page 187 Mother ...
... stops sitting in judgment on the character of God and understands that the evolutionary working out of the full supramental Truth which can make man perfect and solve at length all the jarring riddles of his mortality is the grand aim set up by the Divine. The Truth is being manifested here by a process and play of possibilities through repeated births, in which each of us has to behave as if he... yet never satisfactorily accounted for. Page 162 This, in general, was Vivekananda's philosophy in which Dualism was regarded as a superficial truth and qualified Monism as a phenomenal edition of the authentic truth which was stark and utter Monism. In all his lectures, this threefold division is either explicit or implicit, and though he admits the provisional efficacy of the... the Divine, and the Divine as not a vast void but as an inexplicable yet genuine unity-in-multiplicity; for otherwise there would be no ground of truth in the Ultimate to support and correspond to Its phenomenal manifestation. It is this ground of truth or perfection that It brings out of Its stability not only to support but also to govern this lower manifestation, which is our world, by a higher ...
... beyond our lesser world, a freer and wider plane of consciousness and being. They described the first step of manifestation as the truth-manifestation, and they described it as the seat or own home of the Truth, the vast Truth or the Truth, the Right, the Vast (satyam, rtam, brhat). They also described it as the Truth hidden by a Truth where the Sun of Knowledge finishes his journey and unyokes his horses... cognition as a luminous uttermost Superconscience: at the other end of being it offers itself to cognition as the Spirit's potency of presenting to itself the opposites of its own truths of being, — an abyss of non-existence, a profound Night of inconscience, a fathomless swoon of insensibility from which yet all forms of being, consciousness and delight of existence can manifest themselves, — but... which is the unconsciousness of the Truth and Right, and citti, in contrast, signifies knowledge or a consciousness of the truth and the right, satyam rtam. As Sri Aurobindo explains: "Ignorance is the absence of the divine eye of perception which gives us the sight of the supramental Truth; it is the non-perceiving principle in our consciousness as opposed to the truth-perceiving conscious vision and ...
... consciousness should be able to protect the body sufficiently, shouldn't it? I don't know, that was the whole point. That just seems impossible to me. I can't imagine someone having the Truth-Consciousness and being afflicted with a Falsehood. ( silence ) If there is a falsehood in the body, it means there is falsehood in the consciousness. ( silence ) I can't imagine your getting cancer... example, take a supramental being having the supramental consciousness, if his body gets cancer, it will remain cancer, you follow?... He may not feel anything, but only if he detaches himself from his body; whereas, for the transformation to be genuine, the body ALSO has to attain a harmony above—above all illnesses and accidents. It is the only part. The other parts of the being can be transformed, ... impossible, it absolutely has to change. And that was so vivid... I was gripped by it all night and all day, even while seeing people, with such an intensity: it must change, it must change.... The being, the inner consciousness can say and be conscious that that suffering is unreal, but the physical consciousness can't—it can't, it HAS to change. It's not a matter of merging with a consciousness, leaving ...
... given access to the ballot-box. What was the comment of Bernard Shaw? He said, "Thank God women are at last equal to men. I can now kick a woman with impunity." This hits us in the eye with the truth that being officially equal is not an unmitigated advantage for women and can in fact rob them of certain privileges and superiorities enjoyed by them in private. Shaw's itch to kick an Englishman... Amal — not exactly rendered, as I would believe if I were of D'Annunzio's temper, belle or magni-fique by being made Amalienne. At the same time it tells us the characteristic of each important metrical foot and illustrates in the greater part of the line the very foot which is being spoken of. Coleridge is employing the old terminology of long and short for what we now call stress and slack... themselves to speak if they are to achieve English worth hearing. Shaw is famous for his neat inversion of common opinion in order to shake us up from conventional thinking. He sometimes hits on truths whose presence people do not realise. I remember what he said apropos of the result of the Suffragette Movement of nearly fifty years ago. The Suffragettes were the women who under leaders like Mrs ...
... is the Almighty Himself...." May 11, 1907 Page 246 Then I wrote this: "It is for the sake and the triumph of Truth that India is fighting and must fight 1 until India and Pakistan have once more become ONE because that is the truth of their being." September 16, 1965 A member of UNESCO has asked a stupid question, something to this effect: "There was a time when India... brought back to life: "The world situation is critical today. India's fate too is hanging in the balance. There was a time when India was absolutely secure, there was no danger whatever of her being a victim to Asuric aggression. But things have changed. People and forces in India have acted in such a way as to invite Asuric influences upon her; these have worked insidiously and undermined the ...
... that she may make progress and that more and more she may manifest, in full freedom, the truth of her being, is a fine and noble will which cannot be harmful for our yoga. But one must not get excited, one must not plunge prematurely into action. One can and should pray, aspire and will for the victory of the truth and, at the same time, continue to discharge one's daily duties and wait quietly for... sword of the Hero of the struggle and the word of its prophet." 5 8 September 1965 It is for the sake and triumph of Truth that India is fighting and must fight until India and Pakistan have once more become One because that is the truth of their being. 16 September 1965 Page 364 In spite of your message of the 16th September to the Prime Minister and the... ) Supreme Lord, Eternal Truth Let us obey Thee alone and live according to Truth. June 1971 As long as they are not determined to follow the Truth I can do nothing for them outwardly. Not the truth as they see it but the Truth as it is. To be able to know the Truth you must be without preferences and without desires, and when you aspire for the Truth your mind must be silent. ...
... represents itself to be, a discovery of the eternal truth Page 752 of our being and a passing above the limited truth of the mental, vital and physical to the full truth of our spiritual nature. But when we look, not at external mechanical Nature to the exclusion of our personality, but at the inner subjective experience of man the mental being, our nature takes to us a quite different appearance... Prakriti which emerges as one advances in the Yoga of self-perfection is the next thing that we have to understand carefully in this part of the Yoga. In the spiritual truth of our being the power which we call Nature is the power of being, consciousness and will and therefore the power of self-expression and self-creation of the self, soul or Purusha. But to our ordinary mind in the ignorance and to its... beyond Nature. But in a higher than our present mental consciousness we find that this duality is only a phenomenal appearance. The highest and real truth of existence is the one Spirit, the supreme Soul, Purushottama, and it is the power of being of this Spirit which manifests itself in all that we experience as universe. This universal Nature is not a lifeless, inert or unconscious mechanism, but ...
... the truth of your being, but do not imagine that truth to be universal; and basing yourself on that truth, do not deny the truth of another, for everyone's experience is the truth of his being. A total Truth could only be the totality of all those individual truths... plus the experience of the Lord Himself!" 98—Revelation is the direct sight, the direct hearing or inspired memory of Truth, drishti... tension in all the physical cells to know the truth, the truth, the truth... no illusions, and a call to the Lord, and a will for all this world of illusions to disappear—the Truth, we want the Truth. And when I opened the book, there was a great call to the Lord for things to be exactly as they are—not "as they are," but as they are according to the Truth. But the photo wasn't there! It gave me an... universally, but which, in its form, is always personal—always personal. It's as if you saw the Truth from one ANGLE. The minute it's put into words, it is necessarily, inevitably one angle. You have the experience, without words or thoughts, of a sort of vibration that gives you a sense of absolute truth, and then if you stay very still, without trying to know anything, after a time it seems to go ...
... fusion attaching to them, and turns them into distinct tangible realities, indispensable to the perfection of the Integral Yoga. Each aspect represents an essential truth of our being, a potential truth of our seeking, and a concrete truth of our ultimate becoming, and all have to be seized and harmonised in an ascending and descending experience, which culminates in the transmutation of the lower nature... Mahâshakti, a Power of divine omniscient Will and omnipotent Knowledge always apparent in its un- failing works and spontaneously perfect in every process. There all movements are the steps of the Truth; there all beings are souls and powers and bodies of the divine Light; there all experiences are seas and floods and waves of an intense and absolute Ananda." 1 The supramental Mahâshakti has manifested... inner. This is the pearl without price which is proposed for thee to realise."¹ Even so far back as 1915, the Mother knew, not only in the depths of Her being, where She has been fully awake ever since Her early childhood, but in the outer physical being, that "Thy will is that from the heart of this heavy and obscure Matter I must let loose the volcano of Thy Love and Light. It is Thy will that, breaking ...
... manifestation of the Divine. The Divine is with you according to your aspirations. This does not mean, naturally, that He bends to the whims of your outer nature—I am speaking here of the truth of your being. Yet sometimes He does fashion himself according to your outer aspirations; and if, like the devout, you live alternately in estrangement and embrace, ecstasy and despair, the Divine too will... between you and me is never cut. There are people who left the Ashram a long time ago, in a state of revolt, and yet I continue to know them and to take care of them. You are never abandoned. In truth, I feel responsible for everyone, even for people I have met for only one second in my life. Now, you know that Sri Aurobindo and I are always one and the same consciousness, one and the same person... your nature. Your individual consciousness is Page 117 like a filter, a pointer, as it were; it makes a choice and settles upon one possibility in the infinity of divine possibilities. In truth, the Divine gives to each one exactly what he expects from Him. If you believe the Divine to be distant and cruel, He will be distant and cruel, because it may be necessary for your supreme wellbeing ...
... Light; Ignorance has brought about the collapse of Knowledge. Who is Savitri, that she should resist Ignorance, Darkness and Death, and finally recover Light, which is Truth-being or Satyavan? Savitri partly harks back to the Sun God who is addressed in a Vedic hymn "as the source of divine knowledge and the creator of the inner worlds", 24 and partly to the infinite Mother, Aditi,... the Veda is the conquest of the Truth out of the darkness of Ignorance and by the conquest of the Truth also of Immortality". 23 Savitri too is a symbolic scripture when viewed from one angle, and its characters stand out both as persons and as powers, and the esoteric meaning is not less, but perhaps more important than the surface meaning. Death seizes Truth (Satyavan), Darkness swallows up Light;... got her Satyavan back, nor has Death succeeded in making her drop her demand and go back to her home on the earth. It is the perfect stalemate. Page 207 Savitri, being more than the 'legend' that it is in the Mahabharata and, in Sri Aurobindo's conception, a 'symbol' besides, the human and the symbolic figures, worlds and actions, generally run parallel; but sometimes ...
... time, and ignorance means ignoring the inner law, the truth of the being. And loyalty means not to take the illusion for the reality, the changing and fluctuating appearances for the inner and real permanence of the being. We can say then that self-control and self-mastery, measure, absence of desire, the search for the inner truth of the being and the law of its self-manifestation are very necessary... truly the error; one adopts the truth and rejects the error. But unfortunately one loves one's error, somewhere in the being there is an unwillingness to recognise what is true. My experience is like this: whenever you sincerely want to know the truth, you do know it. There is always something to point out the error to you, to make you recognise the truth. And if you observe yourself attentively... of the deepest truth of things, of the law of the being, of the Dharma. It is noteworthy that the two defects insisted upon here are lack of self-control and lack of loyalty. Loyalty means here sincerity, honesty; what the Dhammapada censures most severely is hypocrisy: to pretend that you want to live the spiritual life and not to do it, to pretend that you want to seek the truth and not to do it ...
... progressing, evolving, ascending from height to more elevated height, widening from limit to broader limit of its own possibilities. Yet in all this changing there are certain eternal principles or truths of being which remain the same and upon them as bedrock, with them as a primary material and within them as a framework our progress and perfection are compelled to take place. Otherwise there would be... she moulds on one general plan, she insists always on an infinite variation. The plan of the human form is one, yet no two human beings are precisely alike in their physical characteristics. Human nature is one in its constituents and its grand lines, but no two human beings are precisely alike in their temperament, characteristics and psychological substance. All life is one in its essential plan and... trying to bring to the surface and there would be no mental conflict. For we should then be able to identify ourself with her movement, know her aim and follow intelligently her course,—realising the truth on which the Gita lays stress that it is Nature alone that acts and the movements of our mind and life are only the action of her modes. The subhuman life vitally, instinctively and mechanically does ...
... eternal Truth without having any contact with one's psychic being? Some beings in the universe may have this direct contact with the eternal Truth without any contact with the psychic being, because they don't have any psychic being. But in man there is always a psychic being, and it is always through it that he comes into contact with the eternal Truth. And this contact with the psychic being is usually... becomes more and more capable of manifesting this Truth, the eternal Truth that is one and permanent. The psychic being is a progressive being, which means that the relation between the psychic being and the Truth is a progressive one. It is not possible to become aware of one's psychic being without becoming aware at the same time of the inner Truth. All those who have had this experience—not a mental... things that are infinitely superior to him. Does the psychic being identify itself with the inner Truth? It organises itself around it and enters into contact with it. The psychic is moved by the Truth. The Truth is something eternally self-existent and dependent on nothing in time or space, whereas the psychic being is a being that grows, takes form, progresses, individualises itself more and ...
... your soul develop in you that is to say, with the truth of your being and if you always strive that all you think, all you speak, all you do should be more and more the expression of this deep truth. When you will consciously live in it, you will fear nothing any longer, in any domain of your being, because you will be united with the universal Truth which governs the world. 8 August 1964 ... we are told what is good and what is bad. That's why we repeat the same all our life, "This is good! That is bad". How should one know, in fact, what is good and what is bad? You can know the truth only when you are conscious of the Divine. How can I abstain from error? By knowing what is true. Lord, we pray to Thee: May we understand better why we are here, May we do better ...
... this inwardness we shall best be able both to see the truth of the high things which we now only speak with our lips and form into outward intellectual constructions, and to apply their truth sincerely to all our outward living. If we are to found the kingdom of God in humanity, we must first know God and see and live the diviner truth of our being in ourselves; otherwise how shall a new manipulation... lot. He's fine, your brother. So he has felt the book? He has been... ( gesture of a wall opening up ). He's a man who gives himself very much to his profession, and he suffers from being too receptive. He gives himself to his patients, so he swallows... Page 128 He receives everything. As soon as a patient enters his office, he senses whether he will be able to cure ...
... highest and fullest truth of itself and of things, greatest truth of soul or self and greatest truth of Nature, and to an action and a status of being which shall be the result of or identical with that Truth, the power of this greatest knowledge and the enjoyment of that greatest being and consciousness to which it opens. This must be the final result of the evolution of the conscious being in Nature. ... secret Spirit in all knows its own truth, wills, manifests and governs its own being in Nature; to arrive at that, at communion with it or participation in it, must be part of our perfection. The object of the purification of the buddhi will then be to arrive at the possession of our own truth of self-being, but also at the possession of the highest truth of our being in Nature. For that purpose we must... animal life, a truth greater than the first truths or appearances perceived by the sense-mind, and can try to get at that truth and to labour towards a greater and more successful power of action and control, a more effective government both of our own nature and the nature of things around us, a higher knowledge, a higher power, a higher and larger enjoyment, a more exalted range of being. What then is ...
... beyond the changes of mind and life and body, it is yet the Reality which all these strive to figure. Even if the truth of our being were a thing less sublime, vast, intangible by death and life, if the self were constantly subject to birth and death, still the death of beings ought not to be a cause of sorrow. For that is an inevitable circumstance of the soul's self-manifestation. Its birth... to grieve, since they have neither gone out of existence nor suffered any painful or terrible change of condition, but are beyond death no less in being and no more unhappy in circumstance than in life. But in reality the higher truth is the real truth. All are that Self, that One, that Divine whom we look on and speak and hear of as the wonderful beyond our comprehension, for after all our seeking... upon the highest ideas of the general Aryan culture in which Arjuna has been educated, Page 60 secondly, another and larger founded on a more intimate knowledge, opening into deeper truths of our being, which is the real starting-point of the teaching of the Gita. This first answer relies on the philosophic and moral conceptions of the Vedantic philosophy and the social idea of duty and honour ...
... precisely this bewilderment of being able to think that what one is, what one considers as oneself is not true, and that what is the truth of one's being is something one doesn't know. You see, this should have been the normal reaction, the one she had, of saying, "But then what is myself? If what I feel as myself is an illusory formation and not the truth of my being, then what is myself?" For that... establish it back again in its truth. Earth is not something separated from Him and alien to Him. It is a deformation of Himself which must once again become what it was in its essence, that is, the Divine. Then why is He a stranger to us? But He is not a stranger, my child. You fancy that He is a stranger, but He is not, not in the least. He is the essence of your being—not at all alien. You may... is because, I think, you have kept the division in your being, that is, there is one part of your being which has refused to go along with the rest. It is usually like this that it happens. There is one part which has progressed, one part which holds on and doesn't want to move; so you feel it more and more as something which persists in being what it is. That's because you have dropped some of your ...
... quickly come rich with thought. SUKTA 59 A hymn to Agni Vaisvanara, the universal Force in all the worlds and in all beings who conducts the action of the universe and getting rid of the powers of darkness manifests to men the supreme heavenly world of light and truth and true being. वया इदग्ने अग्नयस्ते अन्ये त्वे विश्वे अमृता मादयन्ते । वैश्वानर नाभिरसि क्षितीनां ह्थूणेव जनाँ उपमिद् ययन्थ... Fire Nodhas Gautama SUKTA 58 A hymn to Agni of the woodlands, the Flame that feeds on and enjoys the pleasant things of the earthly being and when the emotional and vital being is offered to the gods becomes a creator of the divine birth and a giver of the supreme bliss and the immortal rapture. नू चित्सहोजा अमृतो नि तुन्दते होता यद् दूतो अभवद् विवस्वतः... sings our words even as might a man of discerning skill. To Vaishwanara, for this most strong god who brings with him the light of the sun-world, its many mighty waters because his strength is of the truth. दिवश्चित् ते बृहतो जातवेदो वैश्वानर प्र रिरिचे महित्वम् । राजा कृष्टीनामसि मानुषीणां युधा देवेभ्यो वरिवश्चकर्थ ॥५॥ 5) O universal godhead, O knower of all things born, thy excess of greatness ...
... consciousness in the human being. The silence of the Ineffable is a truth of divine being, but the Word which proceeds from that silence is also a truth, and it is this Word which has to be given a body in the conscious form of the nature. But, finally, all this equalisation of the nature is a preparation for the highest spiritual equality to take possession of the whole being and make a pervading atmosphere... sovereign will and wisdom and according to the inner truth and necessity of Page 698 what is behind their relations, but obliged rather to act according to the claim of temporary accident and phenomenon. The truth of all things is in the calm of their depths, not in the shifting inconstant wave form on the surface. The supreme conscious Being in his divine knowledge and will and love governs... we characterise. We see something of the real truth of them when we rise out of the phenomenal mind into the heights of the spiritual being. For then we perceive that whether in the silence of self or in its action in the cosmos, the Divine is always Sachchidananda, an infinite existence, an infinite consciousness and self-founded power of conscious being, an infinite bliss in all his existence. We ourselves ...
... the body of living Truth; for has matter ever been able to hold truth? Savitri tells Death who he really is and warns him he will cease to be when he touches the Embodied Truth Supreme, and then reveals her being all one with God. Death, still unconvinced, makes his last stand in support of his blind force and dares Savitri to reveal the Power of the Divine; for many have Truth but who has the Power... grandiose meaning of our lives, the story of the climb of the god-spark through the kingdoms of the earth to Godhood, how the Spirit-guardians of the Silence of the Truth work in the vicissitudes of our lives, what the true sources of our beings are, who the cosmic managers are, and how the secret God within makes himself felt in our lives. But still unexplained problems made Aswapati plunge into "unplumbed... the great Name" to protect him from its terrors and demoniacal creatures. What scenes of horror and yet grim majesty are portrayed! Even to the hidden heart of Night, the absolute denial of Truth and Being, this spirit-soul dives, where the "hypocrite blooms"; there we have a "spiritless hollow", a home of the dark Powers, "a studio of creative Death" and a dire place of torture. Passing through ...
... of the Atman, but that gets its full truth only when we get into our inner being and know the inner truth of ourselves. On the surface, in the Ignorance, it is the mental, vital, physical Prakriti that acts and the Purusha is disfigured, as it were, in the action of the Prakriti. It is not our true mental being, our true vital being, our true physical being even that we are aware of; these remain... represents itself to be, a discovery of the eternal truth of our being and a passing above the limited truth of the mental, vital and physical to the full truth of our spiritual nature. But when we look, not at external mechanical Nature to the exclusion of our personality, but at the inner subjective experience of man the mental being, our nature takes to us a quite different appearance... power of the Universal, the Supreme, the All-Self and Spirit acting freely through the human figure. Essays on the Gita, pp. 554-56 In the spiritual truth of our being the power which we call Nature is the power of being, consciousness and will and therefore the power of self-expression and self-creation of the self, soul or Purusha. But to our ordinary mind in the ignorance and to ...
... important key for the development of the being, and not only from the point of view of the possibilities of the being, but also from that of the control and choice of what one will be, of what one wants to be. This makes us understand the necessity of not admitting into ourselves any thought which destroys aspiration or the creation of the truth of our being. It reveals the considerable importance... you act only in conformity with what can lead you to the divine realisation, if you abolish in yourself all desires and impulses turned towards external things, if you calm your mental being, appease your vital being, if you shut yourself against suggestions coming from outside and become immune to the action of people surrounding you, you create such a spiritual atmosphere that nothing can touch it... importance of not allowing what one doesn't want to be or doesn't want to do to formulate itself into thought within the being. Because to think these things is already a beginning of their realisation. From every point of view it is bad to concentrate on what one doesn't want, on what one has to reject, what one refuses to be, for the very fact that the thought is there gives to things one wants to reject ...
... thing as true and the rest as false. For example, if the Impersonal is true, the Personal is false. But when you go above the mind you realise that the Truth, being infinite, has many sides and all of them are true. In the Overmind, all the different truths converge and are held together. EVENING We had great fun when we learnt that Dr. Rao had not reached Madras as expected. One of us joked that... Reason can perceive that there is something beyond itself and that this something is the Truth. But each reasoner tries to assert that this Truth is what he takes it to be. He sets up his own idea as the whole Truth. But the Truth is infinite and has an infinite number of sides. Each conclusion of Reason has some truth in it but we have to find something which is fundamental behind all the particular f... same thing differently. About Reason, what I may say is that if it was sufficient for arriving at the Truth, then all men by reasoning would arrive at the same conclusion. I am not speaking of abstract Reason. If Reason could work in the abstract and be an ideal faculty, it might perceive Truth. As it is, practical Reason deals with different ideas and there it differs in different individuals and ...
... the course of a message: Before dying falsehood rises in full swing. ... It is only the Truth that can save us; truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed. 26 Truth - or the Abyss! Again, on 30 December, on being asked about the coming year (1973), the Mother said, "Things had taken an extreme form." On one... poised for a decisive victory. On 16th September, the Mother had declared categorically: It is for the sake and the triumph of Truth that India is fighting and must fight until India and Pakistan have once more become One because that is the truth of their being. 29 But the armistice came, and the understanding at Tashkent was to prove a mirage and only prepare for the events of 1971. During... incompetent and helpless beings; with the Divine, if we give ourselves entirely to Him, all is possible and our progress is limitless. A special help has come upon the earth for Sri Aurobindo's centenary year; let us take advantage of it to overcome the ego and emerge into the light. When Sri Aurobindo left his body he said that he would not abandon us. And, in truth, during these twenty-one ...
... psychic are the same thing? No. The true self is what is also called the truth of the being. It is the divine element which is your individual reality. It is the divine element which makes you a separate individuality, and it is at the same time a fragment of the one Being and naturally the one Being itself; that is, while being a particular aspect which makes you an individual, it is an integral part... self. The psychic being is a terrestrial formation. It is human beings who have a psychic being which has been developed upon earth and by earthly life and which is a projection of the divine Consciousness into Matter to awaken Matter out of its inertia so that it takes the path back to the Divine. Page 104 But in certain cases the true self is found in the psychic being, that is, it dwells... dwells in the psychic being—but not always. There is always a divine Presence in the psychic being, but it is the divine Presence which was at the origin of the psychic formation, it is an emanation from the divine Consciousness; whereas the true self is not a terrestrial formation. It precedes the terrestrial formation. Is that all? No more questions? You have one still? You can ask. Sweet ...
... could bring a mountain of trouble. In the present case of this fray I ask you to be true to your faith in Sri Aurobindo and myself and to leave his fate to our responsibility. If it is the truth of his being that he should be liberated, he will surely be liberated. With my love and blessings. 14 February 1946 It has been repeatedly stated that all provincial spirit is quite out of place... should rise to a higher level of consciousness and stop all attacks of a petty political character on persons. They must learn to fight for the Truth and the Divine Realisation and not against any political party. From the Divine's point of view there is truth behind all sincere convictions. It is in the mental and practical application to life and action that the falsehood appears and disfigures everything... division, unconsciousness, ignorance, inertia and falsehood. Page 124 We are endeavouring to establish upon earth union, knowledge, consciousness, Truth, and we fight whatever opposes the advent of this new creation of Light, Peace, Truth and Love. 16 February 1965 At the time of the attack on the Ashram [in 1965] I tried to be confident, peaceful and called for your help. I ask ...
... inspirations that come from the divine Truth of which Agni is the seer. We have then a clear connection and interdependence of sense in the three epithets of Agni, he is the Truth in his being, therefore his will or works are those of the seer of the Truth and he receives all the varied inspirations of the Page 547 knowledge that comes from the Truth; for that reason he is the hotâ in the... must mean therefore that Agni is guided in his will or his works by the seer's vision of the Truth because he is himself true in his being, free from the cosmic falsehood. What then of chitraҫravastamah ? Has it no connection at all with the two preceding words or does it mean that because Agni is true in being and has the seer-will, therefore he gives man all sorts of food or all sorts of wealth? I... from which they descend to the aid of the seeker. We must also understand the weal or "good state of being" [in] the closing verse, "Be easy of approach to us as a father to his child; cleave to us for our happy being", as the state of bliss, the good, bhadram, which comes by the possession of the Truth. The Rishi is obviously not asking physical fire to allow him to approach Page 549 and ...
... the body, the cells accepting disintegration. There is a will like this ( Mother raises a finger upward ) or a will like that ( Mother lowers her finger ). The origin of that will lies in the truth of the being, but it seems (and that is something marvelous), it seems that the final decision is left to the choice of the cells themselves. I am not at all referring to the physical, vital, psychic ... endurance: that disappears, it becomes a glory. Then... That's what is being learned. ( silence ) But to be able to observe (this is something being worked out on a parallel line), to observe exactly what goes on in this cellular Page 168 realm, one must be perfectly free from and independent of other human beings' influence. And this is extremely difficult because of that habit of... material isolation in the physical; in the vital, in the psychic, in the mind, everywhere, it always consists in cutting oneself off, in separating oneself), all that is false; it's contrary to the truth. The truth is to... ( outspread gesture ) to feel the union. And yet, for the cellular work of cellular transformation, an isolation must be reached that isn't a contradiction of the essential unity. And ...
... integral spiritual truth of our being and nature. Page 273 It is this deeper sense in which we must accept the dictum of the Gita that action determined and governed by the nature must be our law of works. It is not, certainly, the superficial temperament or the character or habitual impulses that are meant, but in the literal sense of the Sanskrit word our "own being", our essential nature... salvation is necessary for the complete rejection of this basis of ego. If we seek the Divine, it should be for the sake of the Divine and for nothing else, because that is the supreme call of our being, the deepest truth of the spirit. The pursuit of liberation, of the soul's freedom, of the realisation of our true and highest self, of union with the Divine, is justified only because it is the highest law... in us. That is its sufficient justification and its one truest reason; all other motives are excrescences, minor or incidental truths or useful lures which the soul must abandon, the moment their utility has passed and the state of oneness with the Supreme and with all beings has become our normal consciousness and the bliss of that state our spiritual atmosphere. Often, we see this desire of personal ...
... perfect union, to become a single being in two bodies, one thought, one will, one breath in two breasts, one beat in two hearts that live only by their love, in their love, for their love. It is the perfect truth of love that we want to discover and live: to that we have dedicated our lives. Paage-303 ASCETIC It does not seem to me that the Truth can be reached so easily. The path... faith in a better life and in themselves. Two lovers who are seeking for perfection in human love. The ascetic who is prepared for any austerity in order to discover the Truth. Two beings brought together by a common aspiration, and who have chosen the Infinite because they have been chosen by the Infinite. .--------------------------------------------------------The... leave the others to their climb towards a problematic Truth — we have found our own, our own truth. That is enough for us. GIRL Yes, my love. Let us settle in this house and enjoy our love without a care for anything else. Still arm in arm, they leave the path and go towards the house. Page 310 The Ascent to Truth, by The Mother The mother ----------- ...
... foretaste of what will be, but it isn't at all suited to what is. Page 423 ( silence ) You see, when you have the certitude—the certitude—that Ananda, joy, blossoming are the Truth of your being, when you have that inner certitude and look at life as it is, it appears incredible (not the certitude, but life as it is!), an incredible deformation. Just recently I have been observing... clearly I was told that to have that very keen sense of discernment which sees all that is contrary to the divine Truth is very good, it's very good not to be disappointed or deceived (in particular not to deceive oneself), but that whenever you stress on that aspect, you give it a POWER OF BEING, a sort of power that prolongs or perpetuates its existence. So I took my notes and threw them into the wastepaper... be and what was to disappear; so they were very far away from my consciousness, I didn't bother about them. They came back only afterwards, when I had to take up the whole work. But, to tell the truth, if we could always keep in our consciousness, in a clear and living way, the vision of WHAT SHOULD BE, not with the illusion that it's already there (there must be no illusions), but a clear, positive ...
... benevolent will and give you an indication, a help, a support to take decisions and turn you in the right direction. But once you have taken this decision, once you have decided to find the truth of your being, once you start sincerely on the road, then everything seems to conspire to help you to advance, and if you observe carefully you see gradually the source of your difficulties: "Ah! Wait a minute... the formation of the being a pure element, free from all contagion; I mean that if a psychic being enters there, it can gather elements favourable to its growth. In the world as it is, things are so mixed up, have been so mixed up in every way, that it is almost impossible to have elements of the vital sufficiently pure not to suffer the contagion of all other contaminated beings. I think I have already... happening. So, in these conditions how do you expect to be born with a vital being sufficiently pure to be of help to you? One is born with a slough to clean before one begins to live. And once you have made Page 260 a good start on the way to the inner transformation and you go down to the subconscient root of the being—that exactly which comes from parents, from atavism—well, you do see what ...
... aeternitatis, under the figure or mode of eternity. Well, Tagore can be said to see things, in their essential spiritual reality, under the figure or mode of beauty. Keats indeed spoke of truth being beauty and beauty truth. But there is a great difference in the outlook and inner experience. A worshipper of beauty, unless he rises to the Upanishadic norm, is prone to become sensuous and pagan. Keats was... planners, Tagore grounded himself upon the eternal ancient truths that "age cannot wither nor custom stale"—the divine truths of the Spirit. Tagore was a poet; this poetic power of his he put in the service of the great cause for the divine uplift of humanity. Naturally, it goes without saying, his poetry did not preach or propagandize the truths for which he stood—he had a fine and powerful weapon... expressed it with such beauty and charm and compelling persuasion. It would be carping criticism to point out—as some, purists one may call them, have done—that in poetising and aesthetising the spiritual truth and reality, in trying to make it human and terrestrial, he has diminished and diluted the original substance, in endeavouring to render the diamond iridescent, he has turned it into a baser alloy. ...
... decided to find the truth of your being, once you start sincerely on the road, then everything seems to conspire to help you to advance. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 29 March 1951 When someone is destined for the Path, all circumstances through all the deviations of mind and life help in one way or another to lead him to it. It is his own psychic being within him and Divine... intervening in the details there would have to be a conscious union between the outer being, that is, the vital being and physical being, and the psychic being, but usually this does not exist. So externally, in the details... for example, there was someone who in deep perplexity said to me, "Well, if it is the psychic being or rather the Divine in the psychic who directs our life, is it He who decides the... 2. Role, Function and Action of the Psychic The Psychic Being Guidance through Organisation of Life Has the psychic any power? Power? It is usually the psychic which guides the being. One knows nothing about it because one is not conscious of it but usually it is that which guides the being. If one is very attentive, one becomes aware of it. But the ...
... " It is open also to doubt whether the evolution is likely to go any farther than it has gone already or whether a supramental evolution, the appearance of a consummated Truth-Consciousness, a being of Knowledge, is at all probable in the fundamental Ignorance of the earthly Nature.... " Admitting that the creation is a manifestation of the Timeless Eternal in a Time Eternity, admitting... that? Page 226 Yes, I am speaking of the outer world, the physical world as we see it. One dies and is born... No, that is something else. What you say—dying and being born again, dying and being reborn—that is the process of individual evolution, provided that something of the individual persists through life and death, for if he died entirely and disintegrated entirely, what... to another and, with each new form, makes a new progress and becomes capable of entering into a higher form, more and more, until this "something" becomes a perfectly conscious being at the end of the evolution. Then this being would have a personal evolution which would duplicate—it won't be independent but simultaneous—and complement the evolution of Nature or rather make use of the evolution of ...
... presents the truth of things in all sorts of aspects and mind, even the spiritual mind, fastens on one or the other as the very truth, the one real truth of the matter. It is the mind that makes these differences, but that does not matter, because, through its own way of seeing and experiencing the soul or individualised consciousness or whatever you may like to call it, the mental being goes where it... from below. 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 himself as universal and transcendent no less than individual and feels the Divine to be his origin, the truth of his being, the master of his nature, the very stuff of his existence. He is plunged in the... not indispensable for the usual spiritual purposes,—but it is indispensable for the purposes of this Yoga. For its aim is to become aware of and liberate and transform and unite all the being in the light of a Truth-consciousness which is above and cannot be reached if there is no entirely inward-going and no transcending and upward-going movement. Hence all the complexity of my psychological statements ...
... aeternitatis, under the figure or mode of eternity. Well, Tagore can be said to see things, in their essential spiritual reality, under the figure or mode of beauty. Keats indeed spoke of truth being beauty and beauty truth. But there is a great difference in the outlook and inner experience. A worshipper of beauty, unless he rises to the Upanishadic norm, is prone to become sensuous and pagan. Keats was... planners, Tagore grounded himself upon the eternal ancient truths that "age cannot wither nor custom stale" – the divine truths of the Spirit. Tagore was a poet; this poetic power of his he put in the service of the great cause for the divine uplift of humanity. Naturally, it goes without saying, his poetry did not preach or propagandize the truths for which he stood-he had a fine and powerful weapon... expressed it with such beauty and charm and compelling persuasion. It would be carping criticism to point out-as some, purists one may call them, have done-that in poetising and aesthetising the spiritual truth and reality, in trying to make it human and terrestrial, he has diminished and diluted the original substance, in endeavouring to render the diamond iridescent, he has turned it into a baser alloy. ...
... an Intelligence higher than discursive thought. The immutable truth of the world of phenomena, the basic and unmarred reality behind them, is held in that beatific vision; and this truth, by being the essential Form of earth's contour and colour, is necessarily and fundamentally Beauty. Eternity is essential Beauty that is essential Truth and it is both these by a perfect permanence from which the ... thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth, beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. The stanza begins phanopoeically: from the fourth line onwards it is logopoeic. Let us go over it slowly. "O Attic shape!" — the Page 292 Urn is of course addressed and it is called by the adjective referring to Attica, ancient Athens. In being called Attic its artistic... and all ye need to know. At first look Keats seems suddenly addressing his reading public and giving his own commendation of the phrase which the Urn is imagined as uttering to man: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." Some critics opine that both the lines are the utterance of the Urn. A third alternative was proposed — for the first time, I believe, in the history of criticism — by one of you when I ...
... it is abstract, as greater, more real and more enduring than the person. Such divisions may be useful to the mind for its own purposes, but it is not the real truth; in the real truth the being or person and its impersonality or state of being are one reality. The historicity of Krishna is of less spiritual importance and is not essential, but it has still a considerable value. It does not seem to... in itself a misleading truth. Man's mind is not an original creator, it is an intermediary; to start creating it must receive an initiating "inspiration", a transmission or a suggestion from the cosmic consciousness, and with that it does what it can. God is, but man's conceptions of God are reflections in his own mentality, sometimes of the Divine, sometimes of other Beings and Powers and they are... is within you; so He who reveals must be felt in your own heart. Your query here simply suggests that this is a truth which can be misinterpreted or misused, but so can every spiritual truth if it is taken hold of in the wrong way—and the human mind has a great penchant for taking Truth by the wrong end and arriving at falsehood. All statements about these things are, after all, mental statements and ...
... fundamental Truth which explains all others, the Reality at the basis of all things, — the fundamental truth of things, their basic reality must be found in some at once fundamental and universal Real; it is that which, once discovered, must embrace and explain all, — for "That being known all will be known": the fundamental Real must necessarily be and contain the truth of all existence, the truth of... then alone can we know the truth of our being and nature and of world-being and world- nature. Our principle in such an inquiry must be to see and know; the dialectical intellect is to be used only so far as it helps to clarify our arrangement and justify our expression of the vision and the knowledge, but it cannot be allowed to govern our conceptions and exclude truth that does not fall within... communication between their powers and beings and the human race. In the last rationalistic period of human thought from which we are emerging, this belief has been swept aside as an agelong superstition; all evidence or intimations of its truth have been rejected a priori as fundamentally false and undeserving of inquiry because incompatible with the axiomatic truth that only Matter and the material ...
... Upanishad. (IV. 5.) To dwell in our true being is liberation; the sense of ego is a fall from the truth of our being. Mahopanishad. (V. 2.) One in many births, a single ocean holder of all streams of movement, sees our hearts. Rig Veda. (X. 5. 1.) The direct self-consciousness of the mental being, that by which it becomes aware of its own nameless and... of the Conscient out of the Inconscient and for the persistent aspiration of our partial Consciousness or Ignorance to exceed itself and arrive at the whole conscious Truth of its being and the integral conscious knowledge of all Being. Our surface existence is only a surface and it is there that there is the full reign of the Ignorance; to know we have to go within ourselves and see with an inner... within and is represented on the surface only by the intuitive sense of self-existence and misrepresented by the mental, vital, physical ego-sense, its truth has to be experienced in the mind's silence. But also the dynamic parts of our surface being are similarly diminished figures of greater things that are there in the depths of our secret nature. The surface memory itself is a fragmentary and i ...
... possesses the spirit and power of the truth-Nature. In the gnosis the dualism of Purusha and Prakriti, Soul and Nature, two separate powers complementary to each other, the great truth of the Sankhyas founded on the practical Page 501 truth of our present natural existence, disappears in their biune entity, the dynamic mystery of the occult Supreme. The Truth-being is the Hara-Gauri 1 of the... nment to the great world-energy in its vitalistic dance. The outer being lives in a God-possessed frenzy careless of itself and the world, unmattavat , or with an entire disregard whether of the conventions and proprieties of fitting human action or of the harmony and rhythms of a greater Truth. It acts as the unbound vital being, piśācavat , the divine maniac or else the divine demoniac. Here too... the plane of mind as well as on the gnostic truth-plane of knowledge and above it. And the Yogin who enters into these lesser realisations, may find them so complete and compelling that he will imagine there is nothing greater, nothing beyond it. For each of the divine principles contains in itself the whole potentiality of all the other six notes of our being; each plane of Nature can have its own perfection ...
... is abstract, as greater, more real and more enduring than the person. Such divisions may be useful to the mind for its own purposes, but it is not the real truth; in the real truth the being or person and its impersonality or state of being are one reality. The historicity of Krishna is of less spiritual importance and is not essential, but it has still a considerable value. It does not seem to... itself a misleading truth. Man’s mind is not an original creator, it is an intermediary; to start creating it must receive an initiating “inspiration “, a transmission or a suggestion from the cosmic consciousness and with that it does what it can. God is, but man’s conceptions of God are reflections in his own mentality, sometimes of the Divine, sometimes of other Beings and Powers and they are... she is a Power, a Godhead, for all nations have such a Devi supporting their separate existence and keeping it in being. Such Beings are as real and more permanently real than the men they influence, but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence. Page 188 ...
... perfection. For the supermind is a Truth-Consciousness in which the Divine Reality, fully manifested, no longer works with the instrumentation of the Ignorance; a truth of status of being which is absolute becomes dynamic in a truth of energy and activity of the being which is self-existent and perfect. Every movement there is a movement of the self-aware truth of Divine Being and every part is in entire... most limited and finite action is in the Truth-Consciousness a movement of the Eternal and Infinite and partakes of the inherent absoluteness and perfection of the Eternal and Infinite. An ascent into the supramental Truth not only raises our spiritual and essential consciousness to that height but brings about a descent of this Light and Truth into all our being and all our parts of nature. All then... towards the supramental change. One must lose one's little lower self to find the greater self. Union with the Divine must be the master motive; even the discovery of the truth of one's own being and of all being, life in that truth and its greater consciousness, perfection of the nature are only the natural results of that movement. Indispensable conditions of its entire consummation, they are part ...
... state, will experience uneasiness, a grief deep in its being, because what it has done is contrary to its inner truth. For in spite of all teachings, in spite of all that thought can think, there is something in the depths which has a feeling of a perfection, a greatness, a truth, and is painfully contradicted by all the movements opposing this truth. If a child has not been spoilt by its milieu, by... psychic being has gone behind. Such boys do not respond to the vibration. One would say they are made of wood or plaster. If the inner truth, the divine presence in the psychic is so conscious in the child, it could no longer be said that a child is a little animal, could it? Why not? In animals there is sometimes a very intense psychic truth. Naturally, I believe that the psychic being is a little... by deplorable examples around it, that is, if it is in the normal state, spontaneously, without its being told anything, it will feel an uneasiness when it has done something against the truth of its being. And it is exactly upon this that later its effort for progress must be founded. For, if you want to find one teaching, one doctrine upon which to base your progress, you will never find anything—or ...
... of the being which is in contact with the Divine and expresses the truth of the being. But this may be like a spark in the darkness of the being or it may be a being of light, conscious, fully formed and independent. There are all the gradations between the two. Usually is it veiled? It is the outer consciousness that is not in contact with it, for it is turned outwards instead of being turned... 1. Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being The Psychic Being Nature of the Psychic Being It is the very nature of the soul or the psychic being to turn towards the Divine Truth as the sunflower to the sun; it accepts and clings to all that is divine or progressing towards divinity and draws back from all that is a perversion or a denial of it, from all... always towards Truth and Right and Beauty, towards Love and Harmony and all that is a divine possibility in us, and persists till these things become the major need of our nature. It is the psychic personality in us that flowers as the saint, the sage, the seer; when it reaches its full strength, it turns the being towards the Knowledge of Self and the Divine, towards the supreme Truth, the supreme Good ...
... courage to seize boldly her destiny. The hour was indeed for a decisive choice. The Mother declared categorically: "India is fighting for the triumph of Truth, and She must fight until India and Pakistan become ONE again, for such is the truth of their being." At Tashkent, we yielded on the crest of a petty compromise which was to lead us into a second, more bloody and painful reef, Bangladesh. There too... drastic action even if it leads to war." For the battle of India is the battle of the world. This is where the world's tragic destiny is brewing, or its last-minute burst of hope into a new world of Truth and Light, for it is said that the deepest darkness lies nearest the most luminous light. The last Asura must die at the feet of the Eternal Mother. A lover of India ...
... time when there was no time nor space, before the existence of time and space, when there existed only One Being, the nameless Being – named Brahman! To us, human beings, it is the Supreme Existence, the Lord, God or whatever one chooses to call him. He is also the Lord Surya, the luminous Truth, the sale Light of Lights. So then it once happened: this luminous Brahman looked at himself and found su... Upanishad reports, the Lord Brahman was long – in fact for eternity – single, alone, the One Existence, the One Truth, undivided, indivisible; but at one time of his existence he became conscious that he was alone. So long he had not thought of it at all. No thought of being alone or of other people being around was there. He was simply Existence, existing. But now he felt, he saw that he was alone, and once... not the end. You have to go beyond, beyond, into what is known as the Transcendent, there you find the Supreme, the total, the Supreme Truth of your being. So the Bride of Brahman from her universal realisation went into the Transcendent, into her Lord, her own total Self. From her ignorant material formulation in her upward march she was shedding her scales as it were, of her inferior formations, ...
... oneself; that is the personal and individual aspect. If it is pushed a little farther it means to be conscious of the truth of one's being: why are you born and what should you do? And if it is pushed still farther, you may become conscious of your relations with other human beings; and a little farther yet, you may ask what is the role, the aim of humanity in the world? And yet again, what is the... To realise the Divine, and for that one must perfect oneself. And you, why does Yoga interest you? Because I am able to know myself. And you? To do what one feels as the inner truth. And you, are you doing Yoga? At times. You are honest, but why at times?... ( Addressing another child ) Do you have any idea as to what Yoga is? I think it is a way by which...... of vague sensation that behind the universe there is something which is worth knowing, which is probably (for you do not yet know it) the only thing worth living for, which can connect you with the Truth; something on which the universe depends but which does not depend upon the universe, something which still escapes your comprehension but which seems to you to be behind all things.... I have said ...
... Divine and Its Aspects The Divine The Divine is the Supreme Truth because it is the Supreme Being from whom all have come and in whom all are. The Divine is that from which all comes, in which all lives, and to return to the truth of the Divine now clouded over by Ignorance is the soul's aim in life. In its supreme Truth, the Divine is absolute and infinite peace, consciousness, existence... personal and the impersonal side of the Divine and the Truth and it is a mistake to think the impersonal alone true or important—for that leads to a void incomplete ness in part of the being while only one side is given satisfaction. Impersonality belongs to the intellectual mind and the static self, personality to the soul and heart and dynamic being. Those who disregard the personal Divine ignore something... beyond mind altogether, even beyond the spiritualised mind, to have the real complete experience. "Rare", says Sri Krishna, "are the few among the seekers who know me in my totality in all the truth of my being." In fact, it is only in the supramental light that all opposition disappears and the aspects are indivisibly united in the Whole. One must go on enlarging knowledge, adding experience to experience ...
... Bishop of Troyes denounced it as false. He cited the charge which a predecessor of his had made that "after diligent inquiry and examination he had determined the cloth was cunningly painted, the truth being attested by the artist who painted it". Obviously, in the light of modern findings the predecessor was misled in speaking of any artist having painted it and having confessed his trick. But the ... the lesions suffered by the crucified man. There are blood flows from numerous puncture wounds on the top and back of the scalp and on the forehead. There is a wound on the left wrist, the right one being covered by the left when both the hands were placed together just below the abdomen. Scourge marks can be observed as if caused by a Roman whip called a flagrum. A swelling is apparent on both shoulders... but believing" (20:27). With this clear reference to hands, let us attend to some words of Dr. Buckley, on whose information we have already drawn: "There is a wound in the left wrist, the right one being covered by the left hand. This is the typical lesion for a crucifixion. The classical and legendary portrayal of a crucifixion by nails through the palms of the hands is spurious: the structures in ...
... will it found itself in the natural heart of man where there are plenty of other passions to combat it. It is in the soul that it must find its roots; the love which is founded upon a deeper truth of our being, the brotherhood or, let us say, - for this is another feeling than any vital or mental sense of brotherhood, a calmer more durable motive-force, - the spiritual comradeship which is the expression... uglinesses, but would deprive us also of many real and valuable gains." The inability of any "ism" to express the truth of the Spirit "But apart from these excesses of a too logical thought and a one-sided impulsion, apart from the inability of any "ism" to express the truth of the spirit which exceeds all such compartments, we seem here to be near to the real way out, to the discovery of the... were the secret, highest law of the universe or if man the mental being were limited by mentality, it might be possible for him by the power of the reason to evolve out of the dominance of infrarational Nature which he inherits from the animal. He could then live securely in his best human self as a perfected rational and sympathetic being, balanced and well-ordered in all parts, the sattwic man of Indian ...
... his personality; in his surface formation of being he is not that but what he is at the moment. Yet all the time this existence in the moment is not the real or the whole truth of his being, but only a practical or pragmatic truth for the purposes of the superficial movement of his life and within its limits. It is a truth, not an unreality, but a truth only in its positive part; in its negative parts... enough, but it is not the whole truth of our being and by regarding it by itself even its truth is misrepresented to our outer awareness. In that true truth of itself it is an involved Consciousness and Knowledge evolving back to itself, but it is dynamically effective as an Inconscience and an Ignorance. This being the root-nature of the Ignorance, a practical truth of a phenomenally but not really... of Consciousness-Force and the Ignorance From the kindled fire of Energy of Consciousness Truth was born and the Law of Truth; from that the Night, from the Night the flowing ocean of being. Rig Veda. (X. 190. 1.) Since Brahman is in the essentiality of its universal being a unity and a multiplicity aware of each other and in each other and since in its reality it is something ...
... the inspired seeing and creative goddess enthroned in our various soul-centres in her several forms and with her higher and higher stations, becomes here an actual and luminously perceptible truth of our being. But also there is in us a direct medium between that divine and this human mentality, an intuitive soul-mind supporting the rest, which has its share both in the transmission and the formal... These lines of Keats are Shakespearian in their quality, they have recovered the direct revealing word and intimate image of the full intuitive manner, but they enter into a world of thought and inner truth other than Shakespeare's; by the passage through the detaching intellect and beyond it they have got to the borders of the realm of another and greater self than the life-self, though there we include... be measured by taking the work of Chaucer or of subsequent poets almost at their best and of Shakespeare at a quite ordinary level and feeling the effect on the poetic listener in our own intuitive being. We take Chaucer with his easy adequate limpidity,— He was a very parfit gentle knight, and then pass on to Shakespeare's rapid seizing of the intuitive inevitable word and the disclosing ...
... enrichment acquired by both at the same time: it is good, it is absolutely necessary, but it is not enough. Beyond all that, in the depths, at the centre, at the summit of the being, there is a Supreme Truth of the being, an Eternal Light, independent of all circumstances of birth, country, environment, education. That, the origin, cause and master of our spiritual development, gives a definite ... 12.1971* * (On 30.10.72 The Mother gave three alternative forms of greeting for those Aurovilians who wish to use them.) Au Service de la Verite At the service of Truth Truth * (About the cyclone of 5-6.12.72) It is a warning that nature is giving, that those who do not have the true spirit of Auroville will have to change or to go if they do... respect. They would not have to hide things from one another or even commit crimes to be separated. Of course, if they truly love each other they will continue to live together always naturally, without being forced to do so by any law. That is why this ceremony and ritual of marriage is so childish. Children born in Auroville will have no family name. They will have just the first name. +15 ...
... in the fourth line of our quotation. Sri Aurobindo has written in The Future Poetry: 1 "The intellectual, vital, sensible truths are subordinate things; the breath of poetry should give us along with them or it may be apart from them, some more essential truth of the being of things, their very power which springs in the last resort from something eternal in their heart and secrecy, hridaye guh... affines his heartbeat to what the old tradition designated the music of the spheres, the concord of the universal OM. With that illumination he becomes the seer of truth just as with that rapture he becomes the hearer of it—the truth concerned being the sight achieved of any aspect of reality by means of the faculty of intuition, with its thrilled flash into the depth of any part of the world through the... the evanescence beats a triumph. The vision of life arises as though we were being shown what the phenomena of ordinary existence would look like when they are caught by the poet for some eternal eye and given their ultimate interpretation—or rather we have at once those phenomena and the deeper version of them that is truth in eternity. Further, you may notice that the whole event described here ...
... 164 from Savitri. Sri Aurobindo has written in The Future Poetry: 1 "The intellectual, vital, sensible truths are subordinate things; the breath of poetry should give us along with them or it may even be apart from them, some more essential truth of the being of things, their very power which springs in the last resort from something eternal in their heart and secrecy, hrdaye... his heartbeat to what the old tradition designated the music of the spheres, the concord of the universal OM. With that illumination he becomes the seer of truth just as with that rapture he becomes the hearer of it - the truth concerned being the sight achieved of any aspect of reality by means of the faculty of intuition, with its thrilled flash into the depth of any part of the world through... evanescence beats a triumph. The vision of life arises as though we were being shown what the phenomena of ordinary existence would look like when they are caught by the poet for some eternal eye and given their ultimate interpretation - or rather we have at once those phenomena and the deeper version of them that is truth in eternity. Further, you may notice that the whole event described ...
... phrase runs in the fourth line of our quotation from Savitri. Sri Aurobindo has written: "The intellectual, vital, sensible truths are subordinate things; the breath of poetry should give us along with them or it may be apart from them, some more essential truth of the being of things, their very power which springs in the last resort from something eternal in their heart and secrecy, hṛdaye guhāyām... heartbeat to what the old tradition designated the music of the spheres, the concord of the universal om. With that illumination he becomes the seer of truth just as with that rapture he becomes the hearer of it — the truth concerned being the sight achieved of any aspect of reality by means of the faculty of intuition, with its thrilled flash into the depth of any part of the world through... beats a triumph. The vision of life arises as though we were being shown what the phenomena of ordinary existence would look like when they are caught by the poet for some eternal eye and given their ultimate Page 211 interpretation — or rather we have at once those phenomena ana the deeper version of them that is truth in eternity. Further, we may notice that the whole ...
... come back into their waking consciousness; and they never make any progress because they do not establish a relation between their deeper consciousness, the truth of their being, and their outer being. You see, they take off their outer being as though they were taking off a cloak, and they put it in a corner: "Come now, don't trouble me, keep quiet. You are a nuisance." And then they enter into c... and look, without participating. This is what is called the witness. One has many witnesses inside oneself, and often one is a witness without even being aware of it. And if you develop this, it always gives you the possibility of being quiet and not being affected by things. One detaches oneself from them, looks at them as at a dramatic scene, without participating in it. This does not change things... are witnesses everywhere. It is a capacity of the being to detach itself, to stand back and look at what is happening, as when one looks at something happening in the street or when one looks at others playing and does not himself play, one remain seated, looking at the others moving but does not move. That's how it is. In all the parts of the being there is one side which can do this: put itself ...
... which you give constant thought, then indeed you are on the way towards the eternal existence, the truth of your being. Certainly there is a moment in the course of the inner growth when far from having to make an effort to concentrate, to become absorbed in the contemplation and the seeking of the truth and its best expression—what the Buddhists call meditation—you feel, on the contrary, a kind of... been translated here as "Law", and "Yasa" as "renown", whereas Dhamma should mean rather the inner truth and Yasa the spiritual glory. So we can interpret the text in this way: "Whosoever can sustain his zeal, remain pure in his actions, act wisely, restrain his passions, live according to the inner truth, he shall see his spiritual glory ever growing." Thus understood, this text is quite excellent... nearer the goal. There are two kinds of vigilance, active and passive. There is a vigilance that gives you a warning if you are about to make a mistake, if you are making a wrong choice, if you are being weak or allowing yourself to be tempted, and there is the active Page 202 vigilance which seeks an opportunity to progress, seeks to utilise every circumstance to advance more quickly. ...
... find that instead of being overwhelmed by the cause and effect. For each event, know how to stand back a little, detached, and find the clue that it gives for the progress — the Truth behind each action. One should use to the maximum the occasion that arises, without being externally involved. The external has no value. But also to recognise that it is He who is within, — the Truth of your existence,... one’s being, to the Immutable Truth that resides within. To feel His Presence, to give everything to Him, to entrust all to Him…. We can arrive at this when we have surpassed our ego. In fact, without Him nothing can move. Yes, it is like that. He is the Mover, that is why it is well to recognise the good that He does for us. For always He leads us and brings us closer to the truth of our being, always... it is the contrary. Without faltering, He invites us to progress more. He brings us into the sanctuary of Truth where is found the source of Peace, Light and Ananda, where the Lord resides — the Immanent Divine ( Mother indicates the heart ). There, in that immense cave of the inner being, one must plunge to find the inner support; one must descend and descend further, more and more, plane after ...
... the soul in a man consists of the faith which is in him, taken in this deeper sense, then it follows that the truth which he sees and wills to live is for him the truth of his being, the truth of himself that he has created or is creating and there can be for him no other real truth. This truth is a thing of his inner and outer action, a thing of his becoming, of the soul's dynamics, not of that in him... which will carry us nearer to a more complete and ample truth of our self and universal existence than has yet been seen and nearer therefore to that highest law which is one with the divine freedom. And in effect this movement is usually an attempt to lay hold on some forgotten truth or to move on to a yet undiscovered or unlived truth of our being. It is not a mere licentious movement of the unregulated... existence and therefore he can no longer bring to it the will to believe and practise. It does not correspond to his inner way of being, it is not to him sat, the thing that truly is, the right, the highest or best or real good; it is not the truth and law of his or of all being. The Shastra is something impersonal to the individual, and that gives it its authority over the narrow personal law of his members; ...
... effort from all so that it has not to be. It is only the Truth that can save us, truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed. 26 November 1972 Auroville has been created for a progressive superhumanity, not for an infra-humanity governed by its instincts and dominated by its desires. Those who belong to the... self-contradictory moralities and contending religions; a place where human beings, freed from all slavery to the past, can devote themselves wholly to the discovery and practice of the Divine Consciousness that is seeking to manifest. Auroville wants to be this place and offers itself to all who aspire to live the Truth of tomorrow. 20 September 1969 Auroville is the ideal place for those... At the service of Truth Truth 30 October 1972 Harmony Good will Discipline Truth I can work with you only if you do not say a lie and are at the service of Truth. 31 October 1972 Before dying, falsehood rises in full swing. Still people understand only the lesson of catastrophe. Will it have to come before they open their eyes to the Truth? I ask an effort ...
... and future of spatial points co-exist as if they them- selves were spread out in space. . Our heads are bound to grow dizzy with this import. But that is no test of its not being the truth. Nor can truth stop being truth when our heads grow dizzier still on our understanding what the scientific concept of causality and determinism becomes in connection with this import. Strict causality and d... direction dictated by that experience to causality and determinism can have only a certain degree of truth. Degrees of truth are possessed also by the directions suggested by our sense of freewill and our sense of pre-existing and purpose-realising future. Perhaps the greatest degree of truth is given by what is actually our time-experience. What we know as time is a continuous present with... all the three times is an immense multiple creativity. Such a conception does full Page 104 justice to both the truths involved in the irregular regularity ~f the four-dimensional continuum: the truth of space by which points stand together and the truth of time by which instants succeed each other - a co-existence coupled with dynamism so that the spread-out events of the three times ...
... and live in and by the truth. And since it is always the highest he can know or be capable of that must be the aim of the thinking man, it is the highest truth which the soul must seek out by thought and by life accomplish. Here lies the whole importance of the part of the Yoga of Knowledge which we are now considering, the knowledge 1 of those essential principles of Being, those essential modes... modes of self-existence on which the absolute Divine has based its self-manifestation. If the truth of our being is an infinite unity in which alone there is perfect wideness, light, knowledge, power, bliss, and if all our subjection to darkness, ignorance, weakness, sorrow, limitation comes of our viewing existence as a clash of infinitely multiple separate existences, then obviously it is the Page... subnormal selves and subhuman planes, so are there in us above our mental being supernormal and superhuman planes. There Chit as the universal conscious-stuff of existence takes other poises, moves out in other modes, on other principles and by other faculties of action. There is above the mind, as the old Vedic sages discovered, a Truth-plane, a plane of self-luminous, self-effective Idea, which can be turned ...
... own way, a system of knowledge; but while the proper Yoga of knowledge is a philosophy of being put into spiritual practice, a psychological system, this is a science of being, a psycho-physical system. Both produce physical, psychic and spiritual results; but because they stand at different poles of the same truth, to one the psycho-physical results are of small importance, the pure psychic and spiritual... Hathayoga as the power of mental immobility in the Yoga of knowledge, and for parallel reasons. To the mind unaccustomed to the deeper truths of our being and nature they would both seem to be a seeking after the listless passivity of inertia. The direct contrary is the truth; for Yogic passivity, whether of mind or body, is a condition of the greatest increase, possession and continence of energy. The normal... brought about by the mixed and irregular action of the energy of being in our physical, moral and mental system; secondly, concentration, that is to say, the bringing to its full intensity and the mastered and self-directed employment of that energy of being in us for a definite end; thirdly, liberation, that is to say, the release of our being from the narrow and painful knots of the individualised energy ...
... ion of consciousness is something that comes to all who have practised a yogic discipline and become aware of the divine Presence or the Truth of their being. I don't say that "many" people have realised this, but at least quite a few. What is the difference between this experience and the integral transformation? In the integral transformation both the outer nature and the inner consciousness... earliest formation of man. That has to be overcome before the cells can be spontaneously aware of the Truth, of the Eternity of matter. Of course, until now, those who have achieved this conscious transformation, who are aware of the eternal and infinite life within themselves, in the depths of their being, must, in order to preserve this consciousness, constantly refer back to their inner experience... For this transformation to succeed, all human beings—even all living beings as well as their material environment—must be transformed. Otherwise things will remain as they are: an individual experience cannot change terrestrial life. This is the essential difference between the old idea of transformation—that is, the becoming conscious with the psychic being and the inner life—and transformation as we ...
... sentence? "Because that was the truth of my being." Or the law—we could say "the truth" or "the law." Those questions are stupid, aren't they? They only ask you what your mind believed or imagined—it's meaningless. We could also say (but they would take it as an impertinence), "Because it was to be." But the true answer is, "Because such was the law of my being." I came on earth to meet him... India has made since Independence? (Yes or No) No. 5) What is our most outstanding achievement in recent times? Why do you consider it so important? Waking up of the yearning for Truth—because without Truth there is no real liberty. 6) Likewise, can you name the saddest failure? On what ground do you regard it as so tragic? Insincerity. Because insincerity leads to ruin. (November... course, their whole affair will be nothing but pure chatter, 1 but that's no reason to do as they do). And at the same time, it's a good lesson: we are showing goodwill—"Well, I am giving you the truth here; if that's not what you were expecting, too bad for you." It's a very good lesson. If they have some intelligence, they will publish it. If they publish it, it will be good for everyone... ...
... Nature-sentimentalism. He is not blind to "Nature red in tooth and claw" any more than he is blind to the wickedness in man, but beyond both goes his poetic sight to the secret Godhead that is the truth of man's being and he strives for a life-suffusing Apocalypse full of "the joy of elevated thoughts". Unfortunately it must be admitted that after an extra-ordinary decade of creative experience Wordsworth... subjectivity as a poet's being gets expressed in a poem and as a watchmaker's soul does not get expressed in a time-piece. The young Wordsworth, of course, is entirely an emanationist. To him God, even when seeming absent, is yet concretely within Nature and keeps everywhere a possibility of revealing the infinite and the eternal of His true Self which is also the ultimate being of Nature. It is such... language - organic, but in the ultra-Whiteheadian sense that finds perhaps its most philosophical account in Wordsworth's poetry when he writes in the Ninth Book of his Excursion: To every Form of being is assigned An active Principle: - howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds ...
... eternal and full of delight. The artist tries to manifest the essence of this truth. Whatever there is in the world may not appear conducive to welfare or convenient to a sadhu or a religious reformer. But there is nothing that is absolutely untrue. Everything manifests itself through some truth in the core of its being. This truth is the solid delight itself, and therein lies its beauty and this itself... He has unveiled a divine truth. Other people being duped by the mind say that this is pure, that is impure, this is the virtue, that is vice. But the artist with an insight like that of a seer sees what is the truth, the hidden principle, behind a thing, the perennial source of true delight. The poet or the seer creates something from the inspiration derived from the truth realised by him. Such an... this is the only truth then men will aspire for nothing except that which is helpful to the spiritual life. Men will keep aloof from whatever is an obstacle to it. Every branch of the ordinary knowledge should be made into a step towards the supreme knowledge. If there is any glory or beauty in the world then it belongs to God. So the usefulness of the ordinary knowledge lies in being subservient to ...
... Rakshasas, the fierce giant powers of darkness, flee destroyed, defeated and overpowered. But the Siddhas, but the complete and perfect who know and sing the names of the Immortal and live in the truth of his being, bow down before every form of Page 389 Him and know what every form enshrines and signifies. Nothing has real need to fear except that which is to be destroyed, the evil, the ignorance... for ever presides over the long evolutions of Time; of the original Godhead of whom Gods and men and all living creatures are the children, the powers, the souls, spiritually justified in their being by his truth of existence; of the Knower who develops in man the knowledge of himself and world and God; of the one Object of all knowing who reveals himself to man's heart and mind and soul, so that every... the first father of the divine creators of these different races of living things. On this truth there is a constant insistence. Again it is repeated that he is the All, he is each and every one, sarvaḥ . He is the infinite Universal and he is each individual and everything that is, the one Force and Being in every one of us, the infinite Energy that throws itself out in these multitudes, the im ...
... to the depths of the experience, recall it, aspire, concentrate. This is the starting-point, the end of the guiding thread, the clue. For all those who are destined to find their inner being, the truth of their being, there is always at least one moment in life when they were no longer the same, perhaps just like a lightning-flash—but that is enough. It indicates the road one should take, it is the... but this very attitude will be applied to each case in a different way, according to the truth of that case and its necessity. What could be called the motive or rather the origin of the action is the same, but the action may even be totally and diametrically opposite in accordance with the case and the deeper truth of each case. But for that, precisely, one must have the highest attitude, the most profound... profound, the most essentially true, that which is free from all outer contingencies. Then one can see at every minute not only the essential truth but also the truth of the action; and in each case it is different. And yet, what we may call "feeling"—though this is an inadequate word—or the state of consciousness in which one acts, is essentially the same. But this cannot be understood unless one ...
... decision, once you have decided to find the truth of your being, once you start sincerely on the road, then everything seems to conspire to help you to advance.... 43 — The Mother * [After death, before a new life begins, having decided to acquire a certain series of experiences in the subsequent life,] it [the psychic being] decides that at a certain moment it will take... intervening in the details there would have to be a conscious union between the outer being, that is, the vital and physical being, and the psychic being, but usually this does not exist. So externally, in the details... for example, there was someone who in deep perplexity said to me, "Well, if it is the psychic being or rather the Divine in the psychic who directs our life, is it He who decides the... principle, has already begun to take secret form; it puts forward and develops a soul-personality, a distinct psychic being to represent it. This psychic being remains still behind the veil in our subliminal part, like the true mental, the true vital or the true or subtle physical being within us: but, like them, it acts on the surface life by the influences and intimations it throws up upon that surface; ...
... master. This could not be called a truly divine body; for in a divine body an inherent freedom from all these things would be natural and perpetual; this freedom would be a normal and native truth of its being and therefore inevitable and unalterable. A radical transformation of the functioning and, it may well be, of the structure...of the bodily system would be imperative." 3 Indeed... liberation by an intimate, a constant, absolute, inevitable union with the vibration of the supramental forces. Then the preoccupation of each moment, the will of every element of the being, the aspiration of the whole being, including each and every cell of the body, will be this union with the supramental, the divine forces. There is no need at all any more to be preoccupied with the consequences that... but rather to establish a union of the entire being, including the body cells, with the vibration of the supramental force that is actually manifesting in the earth atmosphere. When this union is established, one becomes "free not only from all attachment, from all desire and preoccupation for food but even from all need in respect of food, by being in a state in which these things are so foreign ...
... the soul in a man consists of the faith which is in him, taken in this deeper sense, then it follows that the truth which he sees and wills to live is for him the truth of his being, the truth of himself that he has created or is creating and there can be for him no other real truth. This truth is a thing of his inner and outer action, a thing of his becoming, of the soul's dynamics, not of that in him... born of a withdrawal but from the touches that draw us out. It is more of the equality of a man who has seen all, lived all and loved all. Not the wisdom of a Jnani alone who sees but one half of the truth, but also and even more the wisdom of the courageous Bhakta who seeks after and finds his beloved everywhere, in the beatific splendours and raptures of high heavens as well as in the nerve-twisting... that genuinely strives to find Him behind every mask, especially in that enigmatic mask of our humanity. It is this unique and beautiful blend of the loving Bhakta and the inspired, intuitive seer of truth rolled into one, this rare and forceful combination of the Apollonian and the Dionysian that makes his personality so very integral and attractive. For, is not the purpose of the Integral Yoga in one ...
... Delight are alien to him, he is a finite being. The remedy is the emergence of the infinite consciousness in the finite. That would be the goal of the world-movement in the individual. It would be the recovery of the Truth of himself by self-knowledge. Man would then attain the truth of infinite being, consciousness, delight repossessed as his own Self. The finite is only a mask of the Reality and an instrument... the power of the infinite consciousness to comprehend, contain and measure out Name and Form out of the vast illimitable Truth of infinite existence. That is to say, out of the Supreme being, in which all is all without barrier of separative consciousness, emerges a phenomenal being in which All is in Each and Each is in All for the play of existence with existence, of consciousness with consciousness... below, the Real-Idea of the Supermind appears as an ideal—a Truth to be realised, perfection to be attained. This attraction towards perfection instinctively turns to an aspiration, a steady movement of the whole inner being towards the ideal. But even the ideal envisaged by the mind is not a perfect Reality, it is imperfect and the human being moves from imperfect idealism to a Transcendent Page ...
... it is enough to point out that in this direction lies the eventual road. No doubt, if this is only an idea like the rest, it will go the way of all ideas. But if it is at all a truth of our being, then it must be the truth to which all is moving and in it must be found the means of a fundamental, an inner, a complete, a real human unity which would be the one secure base of a unification of human life... rapidly in mankind, we might then solve the problem of unification in a deeper and truer way from the inner truth to the outer forms. Until then, the attempt to bring it about by mechanical means must proceed. But the higher hope of humanity lies in the growing number of men who will realise this truth and seek to develop it in themselves, so that when the mind of man is ready to escape from its mechanical... mechanical bent,—perhaps when it finds that its mechanical solutions are all temporary and disappointing,—the truth of the Spirit may step in and lead humanity to the path of its highest possible happiness and perfection. Page 578 ...
... the formation was undoubtedly some revelation from what one could call a Divine Being, a Being who came from elsewhere bringing down with him from a higher plane a certain Knowledge and Truth for the earth. He came and suffered for his Truth; but very few understood what he said, few cared to find and hold to the Truth for which he suffered. Buddha retired from the world, sat down in meditation and... or who has found out some truth, is disposed to think that he alone has found the Truth, whole and entire. This is human nature. A mixture of falsehood seems necessary for human beings to stand on their legs and move on their way. If the vision of the Truth were suddenly given to them they would be crushed under the weight. Each time that something of the Divine Truth and the Divine Force comes... had received something, had experienced a truth, had seen the Divine Presence in himself and in others. But the experience was too strong for him, the truth too great. He became half crazy and the next day went out into the streets, proclaiming that in him Christ and Buddha had become one. One Divine Consciousness is here working through all these beings, preparing its way through all these mani ...
... of Existence or Being. Augustine, St. —(354-430), a great saint, bishop of Hippo and one of the four Latin fathers of the Christian Church. Being —the Self; the sole and fundamental Reality or Truth of existence; all that exists is part of the one indivisible Being. The One Being manifests itself on different planes or levels of consciousness, and in the individual being is constituted by... from the true soul in us—the psychic being. Dharma —law; the deepest law of one's nature; the right law of individual and social life; literally, that which one lays hold of and which holds things together. Divine, the —the Supreme Truth, the Supreme Being from whom all have come and in whom all are. environmental consciousness (being) —part of the being that each person carries around him... ne Force that is in revolt against the Divine, against the Truth and Light, and opposed to the yoga; see also Asura . Ananda —bliss, delight, beatitude, spiritual ecstasy; the essential principle of delight: a self-delight which is the very nature of the transcendent and infinite existence. annamaya puruṣa —the physical being. antarātman —inner self; soul. aparārdha —the lower ...
... and is the reality of your being, so for you it is perfect. But do not imagine that you must go from door to door, from city to city, country to country, telling people, "I proclaim the Truth", because what is true for you may not be at all good for another. What you have seen has its truth in itself—everything has its truth in itself—but the true raison d'être of this truth is that it has helped you... you to find yourself, to find the truth of your being, and it may quite possibly not help your neighbour, unless you have a considerable power of persuasion and oblige him to see things as you have seen them yourself, but this is not tremendously valuable. When you have understood this, you will no longer say, "Why is there such a diversity in the world, why all this multiplicity, why all this confusion... the path of the Truth. And the most perfect yoga in the world is useless to those whom it does not lead to the Realisation. And if you have this sense of relativity, you have finished with all dogmatism, all sectarianism, all that kind of absolutism which leads one always to think that all that has done us good is "the truth"—it is the truth for us, it is not necessarily the truth for our neighbour ...
... this verse as follows: "Svarājya and sāmrājya, perfect empire within and without, rule of our inner being and mastery of our environment and circumstances, was the ideal of the Vedic sages, attainable only by ascending beyond our mortal mentality to the luminous Truth of our being, the supramental infinities on the spiritual plane of our existence." (Sri Aurobindo, Secret of the Veda, SABCL... with which the subject is identified. Revelation is, therefore, also described as truth-sight, drsti, and inspiration is described as truth-hearing or śruti. The other power of intuition consists of spontaneous and immediate discrimination between an idea and an idea, between a truth and another truth, between truth and error. This discrimination Page 102 is not ratiocinative, — not... Upanishad describes the supramental cognition of the truth, in the verses fifteen and sixteen, where a distinction is made between the face of the Truth and the brilliant golden lid which covers the face of truth. That brilliant golden lid can be considered to be a light of the overmind, which needs to be transcended for beholding the face of Truth in its integrality, and this integrality is indicated ...
... other concrete spiritual experiences, but its demand is to know on what sure and well-ordered truths of being they are founded. Indeed, without such a truth known and verifiable, our reason might find these experiences insecure and unintelligible, might draw back from them as possibly not founded on truth or else distrust them in their form, if not in their foundation, as affected by an error, even... Law of Excluded Middle follows from, among other things, the fact that it requires for its truth, namely that the predicate in any affirmative categorical proposition must be capable of being meaningfully attributed to the subject, since between the true and the false there is the third possibility of being meaningless. Page 384 For Sri Aurobindo however there cannot be one logical... Life Divine , 1993, p. 375. 19. Ibid ., p. 379. Page 388 Such being the truth of Sri Aurobindo's Absolute, it is evident that we cannot bind it by the Law of Contradiction. I now give his position on this law. "That law is necessary to us in order that we may posit partial and practical truths, think out things clearly, decisively and usefully, classify, act, deal with them e ...
... another tone to its other glaring colours. Realism professes to render the same facts in the proportions of truth and science, but being art and not science, it inevitably seeks for pronounced effects by an evocative stress which falsifies the Page 114 dispositions and shades of natural truth in order to arrive at a conspicuous vividness. In the same movement it falsifies the true measure of the... the Renascence was a lover of life and an amateur of knowledge; but the modern spirit has been drawn rather by the cult of a clear, broad and minute intellectual and practical Truth: the dominating necessity of its being is a straining after knowledge and a power of life founded on the power of knowledge. Poetry in the modern age has followed intellectually and imaginatively the curve of this great... through the outward and now not so much presents as recreates physical Nature for us through the imaginative vision. 1 By that new creation it penetrates through the form nearer to the inner truth of her being. But the direct subjective approach to Nature is the most distinctly striking characteristic turn of the modern mentality. The approach proceeds from two sides which constantly meet each ...
... and more convincingly possible. In that case, it may be said that Delight or Ananda is the secret principle of all being and support of all activity of being; but Ananda does not exclude a delight in the working out of a Truth inherent in being, immanent in the Force or Will of being, upheld in the hidden self-awareness of its consciousness-Force. There can then be no objection to the admission of... term of an evolution, if a spiritual unfolding on the earth is the hidden truth of the emergence of consciousness that has been taking place in Nature. He is, .it is stressed, too imperfect an expression of the Spirit, Mind itself a too limited form and instrumentation. Man, the mental being, can only be a transitional being. If man is incapable of exceeding his mentality, it has been suggested, he... . It is true that Man's first and primary business is to affirm himself in the universe. But his chief business is to evolve and finally to exceed himself. He has to enlarge his partial being into a complete being, his partial consciousness into an integral consciousness. He has to achieve mastery of his environment, but also world Page 14 union and world harmony. He has to realize his ...
... mean that I have no existence except as a more or less protracted moment in the cosmic becoming of the All-Soul: that too is only a superficial appearance and much subtler and greater is the truth of my being. For the original and eternal Reality, the Alpha and Omega, the Godhead is neither separate in the individual nor is he only and solely a Pantheos, a cosmic spirit. He is at once the eternal ... essential would depend on its doing all these things through the same individual mask of its being. For the individual would only be a prolonged moment of the All-Soul, and what it originated in this moment of its being which I call myself, might very well produce its result on some other moment of the same being which from the point of view of my ego would be somebody quite different from and unconnected... subtilise my power of natural being, enlarge experience, go on with my soul evolution. This process is woven in with the universal evolution and all its lines are included in the web of being, but it is not merely a jutting point or moment of it or a brief tag shot into the tissue. That is what rebirth means in the history of my manifested self and of universal being. The old idea of rebirth errs ...
... Jiva, other than ego, who is a portion of his being. The self-assertion of ego-sense is the broken and distorted shadow in our minds of the truth that there is a real Self within us which is the master of all and for whom and at whose behest Nature goes about her works. So too the ego's idea of free will is a distorted and misplaced sense of the truth that there is a free Self within us and that the... natural and egoistic ignorance what is foreseen in full supramental light by the inner Will and Knowledge. But a time must come in our progress when we are ready to open our eyes to the real truth of our being, and then the error of our egoistic free will must fall away from us. The rejection of the idea of egoistic free will does not imply a cessation of action, because Nature is the doer and carries... the ego and with our will as her instrument, and the idea in us brings no real change, but only a modification of our intellectual attitude. We shall have accepted the phenomenal truth of the determination of our egoistic being and action by Nature, we shall have seen our subjection: but we shall not have seen the unborn Self within which is above the action of the gunas; we shall not have seen wherein ...
... everything else, though this truth, being Eternal, has always a mould of Beauty because out of an infinite self-existent Bliss it is projected into basic cosmic creation and activity. The Vedic poets call themselves "seers and hearers of Truth". Your two definitions bring in seeing and hearing, by means of the words "lightning" and "music" but in separate lines. How about trying to combine them... , I would like to add Truth. You have spoken of sight and insight, light and delight, passion and peace, intensity and harmony, magic and mystery and secrecies beyond.... You will tell me truth is implied, and I know it. Nevertheless, let us say that poetry is Words charged with the music of Eternal Truth. I almost said: Words lit by the lightning of Eternal Truth. "Lightning is a most... labled "Truth" is an intrinsic "long" as well as the bearer of a full stress, well-fitted both ways to be the grand finale of a momentous penetration into the essence of poetry. I am glad you have included "Eternal Truth" openly in this essence, thereby pointing to the loftiest range of inspiration, the Overmind which is the ultimate fount of all poetry and whose basic motif is Truth above everything ...
... convincingly possible. In that case, it may be said that Delight or Ananda is the secret principle of all being and support of all activity of being; but Ananda does not exclude a delight in the working out of a Truth inherent in being, immanent in the Force or Will of Page 44 being, upheld in the hidden self-awareness of its consciousness-Force.36 Inadequacies of the Scientific... term of an evolution, if a spiritual unfolding on the earth is the hidden truth of the emergence of consciousness that has been taking place in Nature. He is, it is stressed, too imperfect an expression of the Spirit; Mind itself is a too limited form and instrumentation. Man, the mental being, can only be a transitional being. If man is incapable of exceeding his mentality, it has been suggested, he... the hidden truth of our birth into Matter, if it is fundamentally an evolution of consciousness that has been taking place in Nature, then man as he is cannot be the last term of that evolution: he is too imperfect an expression of the Spirit, Mind itself a too limited form and instrumentation; Mind is only a middle term of consciousness, the mental being can only be a transitional being. If, then, ...
... surrender. Aspiration is a call of the mind, the heart, and the physical being for Peace, Light, Force, and spiritual realization. Rejection is a refusal of the ignorant movements of one's mental, vital, and physical nature that stand in the way of spiritual realization, being contrary to or incompatible with the truth of one's being. It lies in ... rejection of the mind's ideas, opinions, preferences... the vital nature's desires, demands, cravings, sensations, passions, selfishness, pride, arrogance, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, hostility to the Truth, so that the true power and joy may pour from above into a calm, large, strong and consecrated vital being—rejection of the physical nature's stupidity, doubt, disbelief, obscurity, obstinacy, pettiness, laziness, unwillingness to change, Tamas, so that... entirely possible. All interference from below that would falsify the truth of the superior action must first be inhibited or rendered impotent, and it must be done by our own free choice. A continual and always repeated refusal of the impulsions and falsehoods of the lower nature is asked from us and an insistent support to the Truth as it grows in our parts; for the progressive settling into our nature ...
... line of our quotation from Savitri. Sri Aurobindo has written in The Future Poetry: 1 "The intellectual, vital, sensible truths are subordinate things; the breath of poetry should give us along with them or it may even be apart from them, some more essential truth of the being of things, their very power which springs in the last resort from something eternal in their heart and secrecy, hrdaye guhayam... flashing to a darkling pool,... And metred the rhythm-beats of infinity. In the first three lines we have the indication of a new awareness which is not on the surface but in the depth of our being, the depth that is our soul. On a hasty reading, we may be inclined to think that the word "soul" is here used in a general way for our self and that several countries are ascribed to it, some shallow... Shakespeare in several places in his Sonnets declares that his powerful verse shall outlive marble and the gilded monuments of princes. In one sonnet he asks: who or what can save you, my lover, from being destroyed or forgotten? And he gives an answer paradoxically pointed: O None unless this miracle have might, That in black ink my love may still shine bright. Of course, the black ink here ...
... are not two independent realities, one immobile, the other mobile. "The Reality is neither an eternal passivity of immobile Being nor an eternal activity of Being in movement, nor is It an alternation in Time between these two things. Neither in fact is the sole absolute truth of Brahman's reality.... There is not a passive Brahman and an active Brahman, but one Brahman, an Existence which reserves... Canto IV, p. 61. 2 The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 114. Page 146 will, Chit and Tapas, Chit and its Shakti, — that is Prakriti. Delight of being, Ananda, is the eternal truth of the union of this conscious being and its conscious force whether absorbed in itself or else deployed in the inseparable duality of its two aspects, unrolling the worlds and viewing them, acting in... its consciousness, its life, its power and form of manifestation on a complete and completely effective self-knowledge.... So must be created the supramental and spiritual being as the first unveiled manifestation of the truth of the Self and Spirit in the material universe. (Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, pp. 917-18) We have almost come to the end of our long dissertation on ...
... this may be said that the one tends towards some supreme Right, the ṛtam of the Vedic Rishis, the highest law of a highest Truth of our being and that Truth is the door of the spirit's Ananda, its beatific nature, the other is a missing or perversion of the Right and the Truth and exposes us to its opposite, to false delight or suffering. And even in the perplexed steps of life some reflection of this... cosmic Being must be then, if this view is to hold, a sort of enlarged divine Human or, we might say, a superior anthropoid Divine, or else the cosmic Law a perfection and magnitude of human methods and standards, which deals with man as he is accustomed to deal with his neighbour,—only not with a rough partial human efficacy, but either a sure omniscience or an unfailing automatism. Whatever truth there... the higher seeing mind and being of man to protest and to ask whether the ways of the Spirit in the world may not be capable of a greater, nobler and wiser significance. But still, since the mind of man is part of the universal mind and reflects something of it in a however broken or as yet imperfect and crookedly seeing fashion, there may well be something of a real truth behind this view, though ...
... individualised in a human being and directed towards a particular object. Now, the ultimate truth of Existence being the Supreme Being, the all-containing and all-constituting One, the direct and authentic movement of His Force is the real action, and the fulfilment of His Will the real rationale and objective of action; and man being essentially one with the Supreme Being; it is only the movement of... achieved, an immense more has still to be achieved. The ideal of the Yogi being, in his outer nature, like an inert stone or a mad man or a demon or a child, is an out- worn creed reflecting the failure of the Spirit to conquer and convert the medium of its self-expression. Much of the doubt in the mind of the modern man about the truth and power of spirituality derives from this failure on the part of the... best or as worst they can in their outermost being. He who would be perfect in Thy manifestation cannot be satisfied with that; he must manifest Thee on all the planes, in all the states of the being and thus draw from the knowledge he has acquired the greatest possible profit for the whole world. "Before the immensity of the programme, the whole being exults and sings to Thee a hymn of gladness ...
... constantly being broken in the movement of the wider universal purpose. The dharma of the sattwic man is the highest in the circle of the gunas; but that too is a limited view and a dwarfed standard. Its imperfect indications lead to a petty and relative perfection; temporarily satisfying to the enlightened personal ego, it is not founded either on the whole truth of the self or on the whole truth of Nature... and silence of our being, an impersonal activity is by no means so easy to realise. The pursuit of an impersonal truth or an impersonal will in our conduct is vitiated so long as we live at all in our normal mind by that which is natural and inevitable to that mind, the law of our personality, the subtle urge of our vital nature, the colour of ego. The pursuit of impersonal truth is turned by these... of the self and spirit, to know God and adore him in his integral truth and in all his aspects, to surrender all oneself to the transcendent Soul of nature and existence, to possess and be possessed by the divine consciousness, to be one with the One in universality of love and delight and will and knowledge, one in him with all beings, to do works as an adoration and a sacrifice on the divine foundation ...
... identities of the Eternal. Only when we cross the border into a larger luminous consciousness and self-aware substance where divine Truth is a native and not a stranger, will there be revealed to us the Master of our existence in the imperishable integral truth of his being and his powers and his workings. Only there, too, will his works in us assume the flawless movement of his unfailing supramental... substance and there is an immortal within us that is a spark of the Light and Bliss that are for ever. No matter whether by knowledge, works, love or any other means, to become aware of this truth of our being, to realise it, to make it effective here or elsewhere is the object of all Yoga. But the passage is long and the labour arduous before we can look on him with eyes that see true, and... with something of himself into it and is shaping it into that which as yet it is not, is the Source of our being, the Source of our works and their Master. But the seat of the Transcendent Consciousness is above in an absoluteness of divine Existence—and there too is the absolute Power, Truth, Bliss of the Eternal—of which our mentality can form no conception and of which even our greatest spiritual ...
... arising not from a higher consciousness coming down into the being and expressing itself in action, but from impulses or influences from outside. We reserved the word will to express what in the individual consciousness is the expression of an order or impulse coming from the truth of the being, from the truth of the individual—his true being, his true self, you understand. That we call will. And all... people, and even in the very best at very rare moments in life, does the will of the being express that deep inner, higher truth. (After a silence Mother continues:) The individual consciousness extends far beyond the body; we have seen that even the subtle physical which is yet material pared with the vital being and in certain conditions almost visible, extends at times considerably beyond the visible... physical world, and being much more subtle than the physical, it is very often quite imperceptible except to a few rare individuals. There are entities, beings, wills, various kinds of individualities in that world, who have all kinds of intentions and make use of every opportunity either to amuse themselves if they are small beings or to do harm and create disorder if they are beings with a greater capacity ...
... girl asked: "What is Truth?" I answered: "The Will of the Supreme Lord." It is a subject for contemplative meditation. 18 March 1972 This truth that man has vainly sought to know will be the birthright of the new race, the race of tomorrow, the superman. To live according to Truth will be his birthright. Let us do our best to prepare the coming of the New Being. The mind must fall... first condition is not to be subject to one's desires and mistake them for the truth of one's being. 4 February 1972 The first necessity for each one is his own transformation, and the best way to help the world is to realise the Divine oneself. 5 February 1972 Page 433 In the depths of our being, in the silence of contemplation, a luminous force floods our consciousness... ego was the unifying element. It was around the ego that the different states of being were grouped; but now that the birth of superhumanity is being prepared, the ego has to disappear and give way to the psychic being, which has slowly been formed by divine intervention in order to manifest the Divine in the human being. It is under the psychic influence that the Divine manifests in man and thus ...
... existence, sat, corresponds to the world of highest truth of the being (Satyaloka); the principle of pure consciousness, Chit, corresponds to the world of infinite will or conscious force (Tapoloka); the principle of pure bliss ananda, corresponds to the world of creative slight of existence (Jnanaloka); the principle of knowledge or Truth, vijnana, corresponds to the world of vastness (... (antariksha); they discovered, at a still higher level, three luminous heavens of Swar, described variously in terms of the Truth, Right and Vast (satyam, ritam, brihat), and the supreme triple divine worlds. They discovered that the path to immortality is the path of truth and that this path is built by man's expansion into cosmic consciousness and by his interchange with cosmic powers who enable... Puranas, it can be observed that Puranas as also Tantras which belong to this age contain in themselves the highest spiritual and physical Page 94 truths derived from the lofty realisations of the Veda and the Upanishads. These truths are not broken up and expressed in opposition to each other as in the debates of the thinkers, but synthesised by a fusion, relation, or grouping in a way ...
... as to make the answer comprehensible to his mental capacity. The teacher should ensure that the child gradually begins to be aware of the psychological centre of his being, the psychic being, the inner seat of the highest truth of our existence. With that growing awareness, the child should be taught to concentrate on his presence and make it more and more a living fact. The child should... realize. This discovery and this realization should be Page 45 the primary occupation of the being, the pearl of great price which one should acquire at any cost. Whatever one does, whatever one's occupation and activity, the will to find the truth of one's being and to unite with it must always be living, always present behind all one does, all that one thinks, all that one ... child should be encouraged to think of wrong impulses not as sins or offences but as symptoms of a curable disease alterable by a steady and a sustained effort of the will - falsehood being rejected and replaced by truth, fear by courage, selfishness by sacrifice, malice by love. Page 44 Great care should be taken to see that unformed virtues are not rejected as faults. The ...
... sent an open message to the Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. The message ran like this: "It is for the sake and the triumph of truth that India is fighting and must fight until India and Pakistan have once more become One because that is the truth of their being". The question was asked that if the Security Council orders them to cease-fire, then? Mother said, "India must... A Vision of United India Chapter 2 More problems with Pakistan The problem in East Pakistan Some time in the year 1950, Hindus were being butchered in East Pakistan. Faced with this difficult situation, the Government of India was contemplating taking some strong steps to protect the Hindus. Sardar Patel was then Home Minister and he faced the biggest ...
... the life of a mental being, so too a body must be developed with new powers, activities or degrees of a divine action expressive of a truth-conscious being and proper to a supramental consciousness and manifesting a conscious spirit”, writes Sri Aurobindo. And he goes on: “While the capacity for taking up and sublimating all the activities of the earth-life capable of being spiritualised must be... will establish itself in the cells as It is established in the depths of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Joy.” 24 Apart from the light this quotation throws on the ever increasing role of the cells in the Yoga, it also is an indication that the Mother, from that time onwards, began being confronted with the health problems which inevitably accompany the physical... did not know I was so close to the truth. And I can promise those who are ready to attempt the adventure that they will make very interesting discoveries.” 49 “This species may be considered a transitional species, for it is to be foreseen that it will discover the means of producing new beings without going through the old animal method, and it is these beings – who will have a truly spiritual ...
... was inevitable, the human mind being what it is; it had even its necessity and value. Our mind does not arrive at the totality of truth easily and by one embracing effort; an arduous search is the condition of its finding. The mind opposes different sides of the truth to each other, follows each to its extreme possibility, treats it even for a time as the sole truth, makes imperfect compromises, arrives... his life and body, a wheel, spring or cog in a huge mechanism or a cell of an economic organism and translates into human terms the ideal of the anthill and the bee-hive, is really the whole truth of our being and a sound or complete ideal of civilisation. The ideal of this culture, though it has its obstacles and difficulties, is at any rate not an unduly exalted aim and ought to be more easy of ... to be an impermanence or ignorance that must be transcended and cast away, yet did not lose sight of the truth that man must develop himself under the conditions of this present ignorance or impermanence before he can attain to knowledge and to that Permanent which is the denial of temporal being. Buddhism was not solely a cloudy sublimation of Nirvana, nothingness, extinction and the tyrannous futility ...
... spirit grows upon the being and takes permanent possession of the nature. Is this also found too difficult because of the power and persistence of the outward-going movement of the mind? Then the way is simple, to do all actions for the sake of the Lord of the action, so that every outward-going movement of the mind shall be associated with the inner spiritual truth of the being and called back even... effort and experience is a great and powerful thing; but better than this is knowledge, the successful and luminous turning of the thought to the Truth behind things. This thought-knowledge too is excelled by a silent complete concentration on the Truth so that the consciousness shall eventually live in it and be always one with it. But more powerful still is the giving up of the fruit of one's works... draṣṭuṁ tattvena praveṣṭuṁ ca . The liberation of the Gita is not a self-oblivious abolition of the soul's personal being in the absorption of the One, sāyujya mukti ; it is all kinds of union at once. There is an entire unification with the supreme Godhead in essence of being and intimacy of consciousness and identity of bliss, sāyujya ,—for one object of this Yoga is to become Brahman, brahmabhūta ...
... Reality, the very essence of existence and being, and since awareness is an element inherent in consciousness, to attain the fullness of existence and being is to be fully aware of one's being. This axiomatic truth is stated by Sri Aurobindo as follows: "To be and to be fully is Nature's aim in us; but to be fully is to be wholly conscious of one's being: unconsciousness, half consciousness or deficient... deficient consciousness is a state of being not in possession of itself; it is existence, but not fullness of being. To be aware wholly and integrally of oneself and of all the truth of one's being is the necessary condition of true possession of existence. This self-awareness is what is meant by spiritual knowledge....." 12 As pointed out previously, the enhancement of awareness of oneself... connotation, it being regarded as spiritual knowledge or knowledge of the essential truth of existence. For, from the viewpoint of yoga, Self and Existence are identical. In Sri Aurobindo's words: "Our supreme Self and the supreme Existence which has become the universe are one spirit, one self and one existence. The individual is in nature one expression of the universal Being, in spirit an emanation ...
... this inwardness we shall best be able both to see the truth of the high things which we now only speak with our lips and form into outward intellectual constructions, and to apply their truth sincerely to all our outward living. If we are to found the kingdom of God in humanity, we must first know God and see and live the diviner truth of our being in ourselves; otherwise how shall a new manipulation... in the whole before we can know this Godhead. There are three powers and forms in which the Being who is at work in things presents himself to our vision. There is first the form of him that we behold in the universe, but that, or at least what we see of it in the appearances of things, is not the whole truth of him; it is indeed only a first material shape and vital foundation which he has offered... Ideal, it is the severe Lord of Truth who meets us with his questioning. Then in so far as we work in the sincerity of the inner truth, we shall live in an increasing harmony of the result of a divine working. But if the measures of our ideal are false or if we cast into the balance the unjust weights of our egoism and hypocrisy and self-deceiving or if we misuse the truth for our narrower ends, if we ...
... the Divine, even as we seek to possess spiritually and transform our ordinary poise of mind, life and body. The ancient knowledge in all countries was full of the search after the hidden truths of our being and it created that large field of practice and inquiry which goes in Europe by the name of occultism,—we do not use any corresponding word in the East, because these things do not seem to us... correspond to some reality or real possibility, though they may in themselves be a quite inaccurate representation or couched in too physical images and therefore inapt to express the truth of supraphysical realities. Nature being a complex unity and not a collection of unrelated phenomena, there can be no unbridgeable gulf between the material existence and this vital or desire world. On the contrary, they... belief, false explanations and obscure and clumsy dealing with the laws of the beyond,—had yet behind them truths which a future Science, delivered from its sole preoccupation with the material world, may rediscover. For the supra-material is as much a reality as the existence of mental beings in the material universe. But why then are we not normally aware of so much that is behind us and always ...
... the harmonisation of the being. That cannot be done from outside, it cannot be done by the mind and vital being—they are sure to bungle their affair. It can be done only from within by the soul, the Spirit which is the centraliser, itself the centre of these radii. In all of them there is a truth that can harmonise with the true truth of the others. For there is a truth in Nirvana—Nirvana is nothing... enter into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine Supramental Consciousness in which action and creation are the expression not of ignorance and imperfection, but of the Truth, the Light, the Divine Ananda. Page 447 But for that, surrender of the mortal mind, life and body to that Higher Consciousness is indispensable, since it is too difficult for the mortal human being to pass by its own... the heart's call for the Divine have a truth—it is the truth of the divine Love and Ananda. The will for Tapasya has in it a truth—it is the truth of the Spirit's mastery over its members. The musician and poet stand for a truth, it is the truth of the expression of the Spirit through beauty. There is a truth behind the mental Affirmer; even there is a truth behind the mental doubter, the Russellian ...
... matching the great opening: When we reach this degree of perfection which is our goal, we shall perceive that the truth we seek is made up of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the vehicle of infallible knowledge, the vital... the "psychic centre", as the spokes are to the hub of the wheel, the human personality will crack and disintegrate. On the other hand, the discovery of the psychic centre - the soul, the real truth of our being - can defy easy accomplishment. One must first purify the instruments, and one must learn to harmonise and unify them. While the Mother devotes separate chapters to the different disciplines... should always be at their best behaviour, leading their children gently on, never shirking the truth and illustrating precepts by simple tales, fables or parables (as in Panchatantra, Hitopadesha or the Mother's own Tales of All Times), - and equally parents should refrain from scolding children, or being despotic, impatient or ill-tempered with them. Physical education 4 should be methodical ...
... the act and the result. This knowledge of which the Gita speaks, is not an intellectual activity of the mind; it is a luminous growth into the highest state of being by the outshining of the light of the divine sun of Truth, "that Truth, the Sun lying concealed in the dark ness" of our ignorance of which the Rigveda speaks, tat satyaṁ sūryaṁ tamasi kṣiyantam . The immutable Brahman is there in the... and mind, living as they do in a lower and phenomenal truth and therefore questioning the higher realities, ajñāna-sambhūtaṁ hṛtsthaṁ saṁśayam . They have to be cut away by the sword of knowledge, says the Gita, by the knowledge that realises, by resorting constantly to Yoga, that is, by living out the union with the Supreme whose truth being known all is known, yasmin vijñāte sarvaṁ vijñātam ... controlled our mind and senses, saṁyatendriyaḥ , so that we are no longer subject to their delusions, but rather the mind and senses become its pure mirror; we must have fixed our whole conscious being on the truth of that supreme reality in which all exists, tat-paraḥ , so that it may display in us its luminous self-existence. Finally, we must have a faith which no intellectual doubt can be allowed ...
... as it can be done on the intellectual, moral and emotional level,—on that level he cannot do it entirely in the right and perfect way, the way of the integral truth of his being,—the oneness of his existence with the existence of other beings. But Page 136 the thought of the Gita reaches beyond to a tertiary condition of our developing self-consciousness towards which the secondary is only... individual human being, even though a nearly divine man, cannot destroy the whole race, it may produce a widespread confusion which may be in its nature destructive of the principle of human life and disturbing to the settled line of its advance. Therefore the quietistic tendency in man must be got to recognise its own incompleteness and admit on an equality with itself the truth which lies behind... having hold of a higher and more powerful truth which is yet not the whole or the highest truth, its promulgation as the universal, complete, highest ideal of human life is likely to be more confusing and disastrous to the advance of the human race towards its goal than the error of an exclusive kinetism. A strong one-sided truth, when set forth as the whole truth, creates a strong light but also a strong ...
... the harmonisation of the being. That cannot be done from outside, it cannot be done by the mind and vital being—they are sure to bungle their affair. It can be done only from within by the soul, the Spirit which is the centraliser, itself the centre of these radii. In all of them there is a truth that can harmonise with the true truth of the others. For there is a truth in Nirvana—Nirvana is nothing... succeed in being master of himself until the Person imposes itself on his multi-personality and governs it: but this can only be imperfectly done by the surface mental will and reason; it can be perfectly done only if he goes within and finds whatever central being is by its predominant influence at the head of all his expression and action. In inmost truth it is his soul that is this central being, but... from the spiritual centre. For the truth of the being is there and the secret of Harmony also is there. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - II: The Adwaita of Shankaracharya When humanity was first created, the ego was the unifying element. It was around the ego that the different states of being were grouped; but now that the birth of super-humanity is being prepared, the ego has to disappear ...
... first need is the clarity and the purity of the intelligence. It must be freed from the claims of the vital being which seeks to impose the desire of the mind in place of the truth, from the claims of the troubled emotional being which strives to colour, distort, limit and falsify the truth with the hue and shape of the emotions. It must be free too from its own defect, inertia of the thought-power... it first denied and not only accept in its habits the new yoke but itself call for this higher action. Finally we shall realise the truth that this being we are is or can become whatever it has the faith and will to be,—for faith is only a will aiming at greater truth,—and cease to set limits to our possibility or deny the potential omnipotence of the Self in us, the divine Power working through the... in a harmonised totality of our natural being. This perfection must rise constantly in its capacity for action, the energy and force of its working and a certain greatness of the scope of the total nature. They will then be ready for the transformation into their own supramental action in which they will find a more absolute, unified and luminous spiritual truth of the whole perfected nature. The means ...
... depth within me and simultaneously drew me on and on into mysterious distances. An all-giving love tended to envelop and permeate my whole being, while something in me was called out incalculably afar to meet, as it were, the still unmanifested truth of my being - a divinity which was as yet a wondrous dream. But strangely somewhere within the dreamer the dreamer was himself the dream. And the Divine... untouched by the circumspect mind. Not that the mind has no role to play in matters of the depths. Sometimes what hails from them is interfered with by the dramatising vital being so that the psychic form does not emerge in all its truth. Then the mind, if it has been well trained, gets the authentic sense of that form and cuts away the excrescences. Occasionally, even the emergent from the depths arrives... with the creative process giving birth to the cosmos: the cosmos is a play of diversity on a basis of uniformity, a sort of metrical base of being upon which various modulations take shape, introducing a significant individuality which saves the dance of being from monotony without destroying the foundational pattern. Where the modulation and the base are both intensely active, there results a phenomenon ...
... denying experience but seeks instead the higher truth in which the apparent contradiction is reconciled. Logic, by its very nature, is intolerant even of apparent contradiction; its method is verbal, ideative; it accepts words & thoughts as rigid & iron facts instead of what they really are, imperfect symbols & separate sidelights on truth. Being & Non-Being are ideas opposed to each other; therefore,... and physical beings live. We see a truth self-existent above this plane, self-existent in the satyam ritam brihat of the Veda, the True, the Right, the Vast which is the reality behind phenomena, but we have to actualise it on the levels on which we live, levels of imperfection & uncertainty, striving & seeking; otherwise it does not become serviceable to us; it remains merely a truth seen and does... ultimate truth, gives them their true character, puts them in their right place & leads up by this purificatory process to his own deeper knowledge. Harmony, synthesis is the law of the Veda, not discord & a disjection of the members of truth in order to replace the manysided reality of existence by a narrower logical symmetry. But the metaphysical philosophies are compelled by the law of their being to ...
... as by knowing one lump of clay, all things made of clay are known, the difference being only in name and arising from speech, and the truth being that all are clay; as by knowing a nugget of gold, all things made of gold are known, the difference being only in name and arising from speech, and the truth being that all are gold - exactly so is that knowledge, knowing which we know all.” “But surely... his breath in his vital heat, his vital heat in the Supreme Being, he knows them. But when his speech is merged in his mind, his mind in his breath, his breath in his vital heat, his vital heat in the Supreme Being, then he does not know them. "That which is the subtle essence - in that have all beings their existence. That is the truth. That is the Self. And that, o Svetaketu, THAT ART THOU." ... me be many, let me grow forth. Thus out of himself he projected the universe; and having projected out of himself the universe, he entered into every being. All that is has its self in him alone. Of all things he is the subtle essence. He is the truth. He is the Self. And that, Svetaketu, THAT ART THOU.” “Please, sir, tell me more about this Self.” “Be it so, my child: ...
... a mind of light more and more open to all ideas and knowledge and incomings of Truth; a hunger and passion for knowledge, for its growth in ourselves, for its communication to others, for its reign in the world, the reign of reason and right and truth and justice and, on a higher level of the harmony of our greater being, the reign of the spirit and its universal unity and light and love; a power of... which they find their culmination and unity beyond all modes. For the crude external idea that a man is born as a Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya or Shudra and that alone, is not a psychological truth of our being. The psychological fact is that there are these four active powers Page 742 and tendencies of the Spirit and its executive Shakti within us and the predominance of one or the other... supreme or the universal Force unveiled in the liberated individual being, parā prakṛtir jīvabhūtā , who will be the doer of all the action and the power of this divine life, kartā . The One behind this force will be the Ishwara, the Master of all being, with whom all our existence will be in our perfection a Yoga at once of oneness in being and of union in various relations of the soul and its nature with ...
... me, and the work is accomplished. It is in a total comprehension that the work is done. You see, it is indirectly direct. But I would say it is more effective and total, because it is with the truth of his being that I communicate. There is no resistance there, I don’t have to pass through these mental, vital and physical layers ( gesture ), or the psychological formations, habits, the social customs... sustain and to help in the progress…. You know, I do a lot of things with my eyes; simultaneously there are several actions that are being carried out. By this look I can transfix someone so that he does not deviate from the path, so that he speaks only the truth, so that he submits himself and does not revolt, so that he collaborates with me. If I want, I can hypnotise him… so that he comes out... One and the Unique, the Essence of all that exists, that marches forward towards the truth of Existence. Do not forget, for it is the plan of the Supreme. It is He who has formulated it. So He knows what He is doing. Here is something to change you completely. Look straight into my eyes and follow the road that is being traced before you. It is a visible trajectory, an infallible guide. Be conscious. ...
... call to men to create Agni who sacrifices in the truth, to create him in his form of golden light ( hiraṇyarūpam , the gold being always the symbol of the solar light of the Truth, ṛtaṁ jyotiḥ ) before the Ignorance can form itself, purā tanayitnor acittāt . The god is asked to awaken to the work of man and the truth in him as being himself "the Truth-conscious who places aright the thought", ṛtasya... . The sevenfold Truth-consciousness in the satisfied sevenfold Truth-being increasing the divine births in us by the satisfaction of the soul's hunger for the Beatitude, this is the growth of immortality. It is the manifestation of that trinity of divine being, light and bliss which the Vedantins afterwards called Sachchidananda. The sense of this universal diffusion of Truth and the birth and... is the vision proper to the Truth-consciousness; that the luminous cows of the Sun and Dawn wrested from the Panis are the illuminations of this truth-consciousness which help to form the thought of the Truth, ṛtasya dhītiḥ , complete in the seven-headed thought of Ayasya; that the Night of the Veda is the obscured consciousness of the mortal being in which the Truth is subconscient, hidden in the ...
... world (or, all that comes into being, all existences, viśvaṁ bhuvanam )." This immortal light into which the sun rises is elsewhere called the true light, ṛtaṁ jyotiḥ , Truth and immortality being constantly associated in the Veda. It is the light of the knowledge given by the seven-headed thought which Ayasya discovered when he became viśvajanya , universal in his being; therefore this light too is... quite clear therefore that the Angirases are travellers to the light and truth of the solar deity from which are born the luminous cows they wrest from the Panis and to the bliss which, as we always see, is founded on that light and truth. It is clear also that this journey is a growing into the godhead, into the infinite being ( aditayaḥ syāma ), said in this hymn (verse 2) to come by the growth of... possessed the truth; the fathers found the hidden Light; they, having the true thought ( satyamantrāḥ , the true thought expressed in the inspired Word), brought into being the Dawn." And to what did the Dawn, the path, the divine journeying lead the Fathers? To the level wideness, samāne ūrve , termed elsewhere the unobstructed vast, urau anibādhe , which is evidently the same as that wide being or world ...
... Page 237 and dividing, which is brought into being on the surface of existence by the lower Maya of the three gunas, and entry into Nirvana is a passage 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... untranquil happiness which is the portion of the mind and the senses, but an inner and serene felicity in which it is safe from the mind's perturbations and can no longer fall away from the spiritual truth of its being. Not even the fieriest assault of mental grief can disturb it; for mental grief comes to us from outside, is a reaction to external touches, and this is the inner, the self-existent happiness... which we are within, the supreme Self of our individual being but also the Self which we are without, the supreme Self of the universe, the self of all existences. By living in that self we live in all, and no longer in our egoistic being alone; by oneness with that self a steadfast oneness with all in the universe becomes the very nature of our being and the root status of our active consciousness and ...
... accepted and is still labouring to bring into some kind of realisation. It is the formula of an intelligently mechanised civilisation supporting a rational and utilitarian culture. Or is not the truth of our being rather that of a Soul embodied in Nature which is seeking to know itself, to find itself, to enlarge its consciousness, to arrive at a greater way of existence, to progress in the spirit and... speculation and imagination but on ascertained and tangible scientific truth, its laboriously increased riches of sure and firmly tested scientific organisation. An Indian mind faithful to its ideals would contend on the contrary that while reason and science and all other auxiliaries have their place in the human effort, the real truth goes beyond them. The secret of our ultimate perfection is to be discovered... of life? An ordered knowledge of the powers, forces, possibilities of physical Nature and of the psychology of man as a mental and physical being is then the only true science. An ordered use of that knowledge for a progressive social efficiency and well-being, which will make his brief existence more efficient, more tolerable, more comfortable, happier, better appointed, more luxuriously enriched ...
... partly a physical being with the mentalised physical life for his field and reason for his highest attribute and his highest possibility. But if we follow to the end the new vistas opened by the most advanced tendencies of a subjective age, we shall be led back to a still more ancient truth and ideal that overtops both the Hellenic and the modern levels. For we shall then seize the truth that man is a... ties may act in a state of crude disorder, the anarchy of our being which covers our confused attempt at a new order. In the intermediate ages the principle of order may take refuge in a limited perfection, suppressing some elements to perfect others. But the law of the Satya age is the large development of the whole truth of our being in the realisation of a spontaneous and self-supported spiritual... physical truths of science, all the apparatus of the intelligent mind in its ordinary workings. But this is the weakest part of spiritual philosophy. It convinces the rational mind only where the intellect is already predisposed to belief, and even if it convinces, it cannot give the true knowledge. Reason is safest when it is content to take the profound truths and experiences of the spiritual being and ...
... Mahashakti, a Power of divine omniscient Will and omnipotent Knowledge always apparent in its unfailing works and spontaneously perfect in every process. There all movements are the steps of the Truth; there all beings are souls and powers and bodies of the divine Light; there all experiences are seas and floods and waves of an intense and absolute Ananda. But here where we dwell are the worlds of the Ignorance... impelled and guided to its secret aim by the Mahashakti. The Mother as the Mahashakti of this triple world of the Ignorance stands in an intermediate plane between the supramental Light, the Truth life, the Truth creation which has to be brought down here and this mounting and descending hierarchy of planes of consciousness that like a double ladder lapse into the nescience of Matter and climb back again... postponement, even her punishments are a grace. But her compassion does not blind her wisdom or turn her action from the course decreed; for the Truth of things is her one concern, knowledge her centre of power and to build our soul and our nature into the divine Truth her mission and her labour. MAHAKALI is of another nature. Not wideness but height, not wisdom but force and strength are her peculiar ...
... literacy, or a means to a career, social success or the acquisition of money; its true function was really to establish contact with the Spirit and bring about the "growth and manifestation of the Truth of the being". 6 Aside from the Mother's illuminations and communications, on behalf of the teachers of the Centre of Education, Pavitra presented a weighty and seasoned collective memorandum to the... "only, one withdraws, shrivels up and hardens, and the other strikes. This is what makes all the Page 736 difference." The wise course would be to attain the truth of things and cling to it: "this essential truth, the truth of essential Love". 16 VII Reminiscing about the Darshan of 24 November 1965, the Mother confided that Sri Aurobindo had remained in the Ashram atmosphere... . "A child ought to stop being naughty," said the Mother, "because he learns to be ashamed of being naughty, not because he is afraid of punishment"; and, after, all, what was fear but "a degradation of consciousness". Page 728 After learning to be ashamed of being naughty, the child could be expected to "make further progress and learn the joy of being good". 2 There was an inner ...
... upon earth the Eternal Truth. 15 On being asked about its significance, the Mother said briefly: "That means perhaps a very simple thing, namely, it is better to let things be done than to talk about them." But there is something more in it too: the contrast juxtaposed by the Mother is between human perfection and the other perfection that will manifest the Eternal Truth. In The Synthesis of... to the Mother's mind, one's vital in harmony with hers, one's very physical consciousness full of her. 12 A sense of nearness to the Mother - of being within the protecting and purifying orbit of her influence, of belonging to the Mother, and being committed to her far aims and immediate concerns - was to be attained. Sri Aurobindo's main point is that what really matters is an inner relation, not... Mother being no mere physical presence and personality but a power and an active force, potent and unresting, she is there with us always guiding and helping us. Not a passive or static relation, this, but a dynamic and creative one. The Mother is indeed the Mother, the Guru who gently leads us on, the guardian in whose protective embrace we are safe as a child in its mother's arms. Such being the ...
... consciousness by his manifold ignorance. Surrender is the means to the rediscovery of That—a dispelling of ignorance, a transcendence of the ego, and an attainment and fulfilment of the highest truth of our being. One word more before we conclude. The self-surrender that the Mother has illustrated by her aspiration and realisations has two aspects—one, which is the general and universal aspect of... said, 'Yes,' the whole world cannot keep you from it. When the central being has made its surrender., the chief difficulty has disappeared. The outer being is like a crust. In ordinary people the crust is so hard and thick that they are not conscious of the Divine within them. If once, even for a moment only, the inner being has said, 'I am here and I am yours,’ then it is as though a bridge has... integral being enters immediately into harmony with Thy law of love and life, and all physical indisposition ceases to give place to a well-being calm, deep and peaceful.” Surrender removes all obstacles and difficulties, changes the environments and circumstances and makes for a thorough purification and perfection of the seeker of the Divine. "He who, in all sincerity of his being, has ...
... psychic is moved by the Truth. The Truth is something eternally self-existent and dependent on nothing in time or space, whereas the psychic being is a being that grows, takes form, progresses, individualises itself more and more. In this way it becomes more and more capable of manifesting this Truth, the eternal Truth that is one and permanent. The psychic being is a progressive being, which means that... every one of these possibilities becomes the reality of a being, of an individuality if you like, of something existing objectively. And it is that law which is the origin of the centre of the psychic being: it is the truth of the being or the law of the being. The Buddha called it the "law", he spoke of the Dharma . It is the truth of the being. It is that which binds it again indestructibly to its... would find and live according to the hidden Truth and deepest law of its own being. Sri Aurobindo The Human Cycle: The Coming of the Subjective Age The psychic being is formed by the inner Truth and organised around it. The Mother Words of the Mother - III: 18 January 1951 Does the psychic being identify itself with the inner Truth? It organises itself around it and enters ...
... consciousness in this Reality of which only the Transcendent itself can seize the truth, which is self-evident to It, while the apprehension of it by the Gods (the mind, senses etc.) must necessarily be imperfect and relative since they can try to follow but none can really overtake (apprehend or seize) that Truth, each being limited by its own view-point, 3 lesser instrumentality or capacity of con... wholly reliable clue. The mind's methods are too rigid and conveniently simple to unravel the true or whole truth whether of the Reality or of its separate phenomena. I would accept your statement about the possibility of knowing much about a man from an observation of a small part of his being, physical or psychological, but I think it is to go too far to say that one can reconstruct a whole man from... ignorance of the embodied human being. This Self is only one aspect of the Divine Reality. It is when one gets to that greater Consciousness that cosmic existence and form and life and mind no longer appear to be an accident but find their significance. Even there there are two stages, the overmental and the supramental, and it is not till one gets to the last that the full truth of existence can become entirely ...
... and he has not yet regained it, although he amply deserves regaining it. “Occultism is in its essence man’s effort to arrive at knowledge of secret truths and potentialities of Nature which will lift him out of slavery to his physical limits of being,” wrote Sri Aurobindo, the Indian philosopher and yogi. “This human aspiration takes its stand on the belief, intuition and intimation that we are not... operations and to organize and place at the service of man her occult power and processes, a vast system of physical magic – for there is and can be no other magic than the utilization of secret truths of being, secret powers and processes of Nature. It may even be found that a supraphysical knowledge is necessary for the completion of physical knowledge, because the processes of physical Nature have... explosion of the twentieth century wars and globalization, has led humanity to more reality, to a nearer approach of truth. The present, postmodernist time, when even the possibility of any knowledge of reality or truth is negated, may be the moment when humanity discovers that the Truth is other than supposed until now. “To refuse to enquire upon any general ground preconceived and a priori is an ...
... of the secularist centuries”, wrote Sri Aurobindo, “truth of the physical world and its importance, the scientific method of knowledge, – which is to induce Nature and Being to reveal their own way of being and proceeding, not hastening to put upon them our own impositions of idea and imagination, – and last, though very far from least, the truth and importance of the earth life and the human endeavour... conscious power of being of the Eternal, always existing by unity, always capable of mutuality. It is that being which by self-knowledge enjoys liberation and immortality.” 40 Alas – and here we touch again upon the fundamental flaw in the Western world view and the vain groping of its thought for truth, reality, reliable fundamentals – the essential structure of the human being and the manifestation... operations and to organise and place at the service of man her occult powers and processes, a vast system of physical magic, – for there is and can be no other magic than the utilisation of secret truths of being, secret powers and processes of Nature. It may even be found that a supraphysical knowledge is necessary for the completion of physical knowledge, because the processes of physical Nature have ...
... lift it above this life of the senses, so that even while living in this world, it shall always refer itself & its actions to the high universal Self & Deity which we all are in the ultimate truth of our being—so that we may be free, may be pure & joyous, may be immortal, that is the object of the seer in the Kena Upanishad. Briefly to explain the steps by which he develops and arrives at his point... matter & manifesting with difficulty that is the truth of this material world, not the introduction of a ready made life entirely foreign to it in its own potentiality. If it be said that the life & mind attaching themselves to matter only enter it by degrees as the system becomes more fit, putting more & more of itself into the body which is being made ready for it, that also is possible & conceivable... separate from consciousness. All this world is only one conscious Being. Matter to the Vedantist is only one of several states—in reality, movements—of this conscious being,—a state in which this universal consciousness, having created forms within & out of itself as substance, absorbs & loses itself by concentration in the idea of being as substance of form. It is still conscious, but, as form, ceases ...
... in their turn will render the appearance of the divine species of supramental beings and a new world order possible. “All life for the achieved spiritual or gnostic consciousness must be the manifestation of the realised truth of Spirit; only what can transform itself and find its own spiritual self in that greater Truth and fuse itself into its harmony can be accorded a life-acceptance”, wrote Sri... All human beings may be equal before the law, but they are far from equal in their development and potential. “Inferior mankind gravitates downward from mind towards life and body; average mankind dwells constant in mind limited by and looking towards life and body; superior mankind levitates upward either to idealised mentality or to pure idea, direct truth of knowledge and spontaneous truth of existence;... the supramental change; there could also be a minor or secondary transformation of the mental being within a freed and perfected scope of the mental nature. In place of the human mind as it now is, a mind limited, imperfect, open at every moment to all kinds of deviation from the truth or missing of the truth, all kinds of error and openness even to the persuasions of a complete falsehood and perversion ...
... behind it a great truth, that every society represents a collective being and in it and by it the individual lives and he owes to it all that he can give it. More, it is only by a certain relation to the society, a certain harmony with this greater collective self that he can find the complete use for his many developed or developing powers and activities. Since it is a collective being, it must, one would... will it found itself in the natural heart of man where there are plenty of other passions to combat it. It is in the soul that it must find its roots; the love which is founded upon a deeper truth of our being, the brotherhood or, let us say,—for this is another feeling than any vital or mental sense of brotherhood, a calmer more durable motive-force,—the spiritual comradeship which is the expression... reality and effects a progressive upward transformation of its life-values into those of the spirit; for there they will all find their spiritual truth and in that truth their standing-ground of mutual recognition and reconciliation. The spiritual is the one truth of which all others are the veiled aspects, the brilliant disguises or the dark disfigurements, and in which they can find their own right form ...
... way is to give up the problem as insoluble, life and action as an illusion or an inferior movement of existence to be abandoned as soon as we can rise out of the snare of the world into the truth of spiritual being. That is the ascetic solution, if it can be called a solution; at any rate it is a decisive and effective way out of the enigma, a way to which ancient Indian thought of the highest and most... its unity with all in the universe is a play of his eternal oneness. It is in this double realisation, it is in this union of two sides of an ineffable Truth of existence by either and both of which man can approach and enter into his own infinite being, that the liberated man has to live and act and feel and determine or rather have determined for him by a greatest power of his supreme self his relations... formula and opens into a wide and illimitable spiritual truth with an infinite potentiality of significance. And that is a sign of the profundity, the wide reach, the greatness of spirit of the Gita's teaching. An ordinary religious teaching or philosophical doctrine is well enough satisfied to seize on certain great and vital aspects of truth and turn them into utilisable dogma and instruction, method ...
... 456 action of his power; it is nature of imperfectly conscious manifestation and therefore of a certain ignorance. The truth of the self, even as the truth of the Divine, is held back from her surface force absorbed here in its outer action—much as man's deeper being is held back from the knowledge of his surface consciousness—until the soul in her turns to find out this hidden thing, gets inside... Incidentally, a synthetic Yoga or psychological method of arriving at spiritual liberation and perfection has been developed and certain metaphysical affirmations have been put forward, certain truths of our being and nature on which the validity of this Yoga reposes. But the original preoccupation remains throughout, the original difficulty and problem, how Arjuna, dislodged by a strong revulsion of thought... supreme Mystery, a highest Reality that upholds and reconciles the truth of these two different manifestations. There is an utmost supreme Self, Lord and Brahman, one who is both the impersonal and the personal, but other and greater than either of them and other and greater than both of them together. He is Purusha, Self and soul of our being, but he is also Prakriti; for Prakriti is the power of the All-Soul ...
... are replaced or laid aside and there is left only a spontaneous and integral obedience to the Divine with whom we are in union and an action spontaneously fulfilling the integral spiritual truth of our being and nature." (The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 261) Herein lies the ultimate solution to the nagging problem of right action and the methodology of recognising the Divine's Will at every... initiating the action? (ii) What is the impulsion be-j hind? (iii) For what purpose is it being done? (iv) Who is executing the action? (v) With whose instrumentality is it being executed? (vi) How, in which spirit and manner, is it being done? and, finally, (vii) For whom, for whose benefit, is it being undertaken? A moment's reflection and introspection will reveal to us the : surprising... fulfilled, simply when he has achieved union with the Divine in the profundities of his inner consciousness or on the heights of his being, leaving his outer nature imperfect and untransformed. An integrated and well-harmonised simultaneous realisation of divine Being and divine Becoming: such is the goal set before himself by the sadhaka of the Integral Yoga. It follows, therefore, that a perfect ...
... or Divine Mother, and ordered her to make a universe. The Universal Mother emanated four beings, representing the four essential powers of God (and therefore of herself): Truth, Consciousness (that is Light), Life, and Ananda (which means Bliss).[^100] Those four beings ‘were indeed altogether very high beings, of the highest Reality.’ But God had also expressed the wish that his manifestation... operations and to organize and place at the service of man her occult powers and processes, a vast system of physical magic – for there is and can be no other magic than the utilization of secret truths of being, secret powers and processes of Nature. It may even be found that a supraphysical knowledge is necessary for the completion of physical knowledge, because the processes of physical Nature have... through compulsion.’ Because of their freedom, those high and essentially godlike beings each deemed themselves to be the very Godhead himself, which of course is an absurdity, for the Divine is One. This meant that, in a manner of speaking, they distanced themselves from their origin, thereby turning into its opposites. Truth became Falsehood; Consciousness-Light became the black Inconscient; Life became ...
... 413 of an increasing light and power and right and truth and joy and beauty and wideness, and not only to discover the Truth and the Law and set up a system and an order, but to enlarge continually its lines and boundaries. And therefore in these fields, as in life, man, the mental being, cannot stop short too long in the partial truth of an established system and a temporary mistaken for an... man seeks not only after good, but after truth, after knowledge. He has an intellectual as well as an ethical being and the impulse that moves it, the will to know, the thirst for truth is not less divine in its upward orientation than the will to good, not less too in its earlier workings, but even more, a necessity of the growth of our consciousness and being and the right ordering of our action, not... of the intellect for truth and knowledge, the demand of the ethical mind for right and good, the demand of the aesthetic mind for beauty and delight of beauty, the demand of the emotional mind for love and the joy of relation with our fellow-beings, the demand of the will for self-mastery and mastery of things and the world and our existence. And the values which the mental being holds for supreme and ...
... individual forms She manifests some ray of Herself: being Supernature, the truth of all that Nature here strives to express, She makes one aspect or another of Her light descend in all the ages of history and, when the hour is ripe, even a full individual embodiment can come forth. It is such an embodiment, amidst a world of human beings, that Sri Aurobindo set before us when, on November... An open reminder of the truth of her being came most emphatically in 1926 when Sri Aurobindo put the Ashram in her charge. To be precise, there was on November 24 of that year a descent of what Sri Aurobindo terms the Overmind, the highest dynamic divine consciousness that had been realised so far in the world: he brought it down into the very material being, thus carrying one step forward... Mother, with eyes far away yet full of tenderness for the agitated disciple, said in a quiet half-whisper: "You know, we live in eternity," Suddenly the disciple woke up to the truth of the Mother's being. "Of course, of course," he broke out, realising how often, Page 80 seeing her walk our little ways, we forgot the ineffable Plenitude that was She behind ...
... Through individual forms She manifests some ray of Herself: being Supernature, the truth of all that Nature here strives to express, She makes one aspect or another of Her light descend in all the ages of history and, when the hour is ripe, even a full individual embodiment can come forth. It is such an embodiment, amidst a world of human beings, that Sri Aurobindo set before us when, on November 24... Aurobindo she recognised in him the being of her early visions, the one whom she used to call Krishna. This was enough to convince her fully that her place and her work were near him in India. Here we may remark that the whole truth about her choice to reside in India is not told when we have noted this Page 6 meeting with Sri Aurobindo. The whole truth is compassed only when we realise... An open reminder of the truth of her being came most emphatically in 1926 when Sri Aurobindo put the Ashram in her charge. To be precise, there was on November 24 of that year a descent of what Sri Aurobindo terms the Overmind, the highest dynamic divine consciousness that had been realised so far in the world: he brought it down into the very material being, thus carrying one step forward ...
... that are all a wrapping around the single need to be. For to be is to know the need of each being and the good of each being and the truth of each being, within something that encompasses all, loves all, understands all—and which carries us beyond our own limits of good and evil, justice and injustice, truth and falsehood, to the point where the fishbowl ceases to exist and where the thousand rays are... the Fishbowl But what is that little drop of being?—Poetry? Maybe so, because it, after all is the "doer," the "poet" par excellence. But why is it so veiled? Why should the mind be a falsehood? Nature does not invent falsehood, nor does she invent truth; she needs neither one nor the other—she invents means. It is the mind that invents truth and its twin brother, falsehood. The mind is the... to every evolutionary transition, from the mineral to man to what will replace mental man. There are not several ways of getting through, there is only one. But because we are mental beings, we speak of the need for truth, the need for justice, the need for good, the need for freedom, that is, the countless dualities of the mind, each with its reverse of shadow and almost its necessity of shadow, for ...
... law. 2) Spiritual being is Sachchidananda, which can be realised on the mental plane. One need not go to the Supermind at all. 3) First the whole physical being must be opened up; the Supermind must come and change the whole being from top to bottom: supramentalise it; then you get into the Supermind when you have the absolute truth. 4) Capacity of the physical being to extend depends upon... 1925-04-21 I mean by trained intelligence, the capacity to think rightly and see the truth, the truth of things in themselves and in right relation to each other. I mean the ideative mind. I do not mean to say that people have no ideas, but having ideas does not mean they think or look for the truth. Being idealistic does not mean that they have trained intelligence. It is just the opposite of... Interviews etc. 14 April 1923 MORNING One cannot accept everything that comes to the mind as inspiration or intuition and act accordingly. It is true that the emotional being contains a Truth behind it and that is that of Love. But one cannot and should not go on identifying himself with everybody. It is not a good thing for this Yoga at least. For other Yogas like Bhakti Yoga it ...
... inconscient compulsion, not according to a mental fantasy or caprice, but in its own infinite spiritual freedom according to the self-truth of its being, its infinite potentialities and its will of self-creation out of those potentialities, and the law of this self-truth is the necessity that compels created things to act and evolve each according to its own nature. The Intelligence—to give it an inadequate... individualised forms has only to bring the latent truth out of itself,—the perception which the old thinkers tried to express when they said that all knowing was in its real origin and nature only a memory of inwardly existing knowledge. The supermind is eternally and on all levels truth-conscious and exists secretly even in mental and material being, surveys and knows the things, even obscurest, of... acts and creates as well as knows, not only a direct truth-consciousness, but an illumined, direct and spontaneous truth-will. There is not and cannot be in the will of the self-knowing spirit any contradiction, division or difference between its will and its knowledge. The spiritual will is the Tapas or enlightened force of the conscious being of the spirit effecting infallibly what is there within ...
... 362 nature; for man is a mental being in a living body. But mind if it is able to reflect some light of the divine Truth or even admit some emanations from her power, is incapable of embodying her. There is an eternal dynamic Truth-consciousness beyond mind; this is what we call supermind or gnosis. For mind is or can be a truth seeker, but not truth-conscious in its inherent nature; its... and world-existence into a power of the Truth of the Divine Existence. Asceticism is not the final condition or characteristic means of this Yoga, although it does not exclude, whenever that is needful ascetic self-mastery or ascetic endeavour. To become one in our absolute being with the ineffable Divine and in the manifestation a free movement of his being, power, consciousness and self-realising... there, real and effective. And the first condition is Page 372 that the Truth shall be accepted within you entirely and without reserve before it can be manifested in the material being and Nature. A total surrender, an exclusive self-opening to the divine influence, a constant and integral choice of the Truth and rejection of the falsehood, these are the only conditions made. But these must ...
... on it. There are instances in which it is possible to change, but this is very rare. There are instances in which one can put upon this being—or this shadow—put upon it such an intense light that it transforms it, and it changes into what is the truth of your being. But this is a rare thing...It can be done, but it is rare. Usually, the best thing is to say, "No, this is not I! I don't want it! I... silence )... become conscious of yourself, conscious in all details, but you must organise what you call "yourself" around the psychic centre, the divine centre of your being, so that it would make a single, coherent, fully conscious being. And as this divine centre is itself already consecrated ( Mother makes a gesture of offering ) entirely to the Divine, if everything is organised harmoniously around... all the wealth they can attract towards themselves, put this force aside without using its power of movement; and either it escapes or it lies benumbed and loses its strength. The true method of being in the stream of this money-power is precisely what is written here: a sense of absolute impersonality, the feeling that it is not something you possess or which belongs to you, but that it is a force ...
... surviving all cessation of precise understanding, something in them still remembers their origin and holds fast to the vital truth of their being. According to the Europeans, there is a historical truth at the basis of the old persistent tradition, but a historical truth only, a truth of origin, not of present actuality. The Vedas are the early roots of Indian religion, of Indian civilisation; but they... sumatínám. That great luminous impulse of inspiration in which the truths of being start to light of themselves and are captured and possessed by the mind, that spiritual enlightenment and awakening in which right thoughts & right seeing become spontaneously the substance of our purified mental state, proceed from Saraswati & are already being poured by her into the system, like the Aryan stream into the... instrument of truth, the sceptical distrust of their instruments,—but we cannot argue from them in the minds that received them a childish irrationality or a savage superstition. They trusted, like us, their experience, believed their mind & senses and argued logically from their premisses. It is true that apart from these experiences the existence of various worlds & different orders of beings was a logical ...
... many streams together; the four higher rivers of the divine being, divine conscious force, divine delight, divine truth nourishing the two worlds of the mind and body into which they descend with their floods of sweetness. These two, the Rodasi, are normally worlds of crookedness, that is to say of the falsehood,—the ṛtam or Truth being the straight, the anṛtam or Falsehood the crooked,—because... streams poured out together are the seven rivers poured down the hill by Indra after slaying Vritra, the rivers or streams of the Truth, ṛtasya dhārāḥ ; and they represent, according to our theory, the seven principles of conscious being in their divine fulfilment in the Truth and Page 178 Bliss. This is why the seven-headed thought,—that is to say, the knowledge of the divine existence with... their full union constitutes the seven-headed Thought of Ayasya by which the lost sun of Truth is recovered. That thought again is established in the seven rivers, the seven principles of being divine and human, the totality of which founds the perfect spiritual existence. The winning of these seven rivers of our being withheld by Vritra and these seven rays withheld by Vala, the possession of our complete ...
... coming to the fore. But a piece of art with a deep significance,—says some inner chord of our being. For the Sun is a symbol of the Supramental Truth, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have told us; and the sun-ray will be the symbol of the ray of that Truth. In the Vedas the Sun has been called the Lord of Truth, "...the rays of Surya are the herds of the Sun, the kine of Helios slain by the companions... The clue is in the line: But greater spirits this balance can reverse And make the soul the artist of its fate. 61 This is one of the mystic truths revealed by Savitri. If the fundamental truth of our being is spiritual, it is our self, our soul that must determine our evolution. Our spirit must be greater than Fate or Destiny or Law. In fact the question of Fate and... with the Will of the Spirit,—and for the spiritually realised being it is the Will of the Spirit that prevails. The same truth stated in philosophical terms finds expression in The Life Divine: Fate, whether purely mechanical or created by ourselves, a chain of our own manufacture, is only one factor of existence; Being and its consciousness and its will are a still more important ...
... "The Divine is with you according to your aspirations. Naturally, this does not mean that Page 4 he gives way to the fancies of your outer nature — I am speaking here of the truth of your being. Moreover, he sometimes models himself on your outer aspirations, and if you live like the devotees who alternate between periods of estrangement and embrace, of ecstasy and despair, the Divine... It is your psychic being, the individualisation of your soul that wants to realise the divine life during its human life. 28.1.1967 In the human being, is the psychic being the entire soul or do both the psychic being and the soul {in its essence, as a divine spark in all creatures) exist together? The soul is the eternal essence at the centre of the psychic being. The soul is in fact... spark which puts on many states of being of increasing density, down to the most material, and is inside the body, in the interior, so to Page 2 say, of the solar plexus. These states of being take form and develop, progress, become individualised and perfected in the course of a great number of earthly lives and form the psychic being. When the psychic being is fully formed it is aware of ...
... make the answer comprehensible to his mental capacity. The teacher should ensure that the child gradually begins to be aware of the psychological centre of his being, the psychic being, the seat within of the highest truth of our existence. Page 358 With this growing awareness, the child should be taught to concentrate on this presence and make it more and more a living... ble; the will to discover and realise. This discovery and this realisation should be the primary occupation of the being, the pearl of great price which one should acquire at any cost. Whatever one does, whatever one's occupation and activity, the will to find the truth of one's being and to unite with it must always be living, always present behind all one does, all that one thinks, all that one... child should be encouraged to think of wrong impulses not as sins or offences but as symptoms of a curable disease alterable by a steady and a sustained effort of the will - falsehood being rejected and replaced by truth, fear by courage, selfishness by sacrifice and renunciation, malice by love. A great care should be taken to see that unformed virtues are not rejected as faults. The wildness ...
... psychic being, standing upright in your being, ready to take responsibility for your life and lead you to the Light and the Truth. Its dignity is great, its determination unfailing; it will win the victory. 3 August 1970 * * * Your psychic being, immobile as a statue but alert and vigilant, is watching over your life to lead you to the Divine. 3 August 1970 Your psychic being is radiant... asked: “What is Truth?” I answered: “The Will of the Supreme Lord”. It is a subject for contemplative meditation. 18 March 1972 * * * This truth that man has vainly sought to know will be the birthright of the new race, the race of tomorrow, the superman. To live according to Truth will be his birthright. Let us do our best to prepare the coming of the New Being. The mind must... But the first condition is not to be subject to one’s desires and mistake them for the truth of one’s being. 4 February 1972 The first necessity for each one is his own transformation, and the best way to help the world is to realise the Divine oneself. 5 February 1972 * * * In the depths of our being, in the silence of contemplation, a luminous force floods our consciousness with a vast ...
... seen in all without the vision being dependent on the idea or vision of the Sarvasundara in all. So also He is being seen in the human Pishacha & for that purpose the realisation of the Immortal Being, the Ananda & the Love were separated & the buddha Bhava of the Pisacha in his coldest atrocities alone manifested. All these objects are being fulfilled today. The Truth in falsehood & error is becoming... sense of the Anandamaya Lila & the integral dasya of the being. The satyam & brihat grow continually & take larger possession of the perceptive attitude towards the world; the ritam still fluctuates, because the truth & largeness are of the mental realm, not of the ideal consciousness; the mind receives the truths Page 472 of being in action, but because it separates itself from the vijnana... have prevented the asiddhi (the method). 3) Liberty of the trikaldrishti 4) Try phantasy . ie. the truth in all things, even errors, being seen, the play of the imagination should now be tried on the same basis. 5) It is the dangerous active intellectuality –which causes the truth of fantasy to be interpreted in the terms of immediate actuality. 6) Eulogy. 7) Telepathy–fantasy ...
... The inner being rejects it, but as the physical consciousness lets it in, the inner being is pushed back for the time being. You must absolutely learn not to allow this thing to come in, not to indulge and support it when it comes. It is a falsehood and cannot be anything else, and by falsehood I mean not only contrary to the sadhana and contrary to the Divine truth, but contrary to the truth of your... nearness again and let the psychic being grow in you. If you do that persistently, rejecting restlessness and desire, the vital part of you will change and become fit for the sadhana. I have explained to you that there is a division between your internal and external being—as it is in the case of most people. Your inner being wants and has always wanted the Truth and the Divine—when the peace and... feeling. The external nature is being changed by the influence of the inner being, but what is pushed out returns constantly from old habit—and then you feel this old nature as if it were yourself. This external nature has been like that of almost all human beings, like that of most of the sadhaks here, selfish and full of desires and wanting its own desires, not the Truth and the Divine. When it returns ...
... something vain and trifling. World-consciousness may be only one aspect of our being, but it is a big and momentous aspect and it too should be given its full chance of justifying itself before it is ruled out of court. The eternal reality of a pure immobile existence and its self-awareness is also a truth of our being. But it is not impossible that these are two aspects of one Reality and not so ... thing by which we know at all that world exists or can inquire into its Page 282 truth and its meaning. If consciousness has no reality and no value, then there is nothing by which we can know the truth,—one explanation of things has then as little value as the other, neither can be claimed as the truth. The consciousness by which we affirm the featureless sole Reality can be as fallacious as... cannot see what is within, it cannot see what is below. But what is on the surface is never the truth of things; the surface presents us only with facts not with truths, with phenomena not with realities, with imperfect indications, not with the realisation of things in themselves. The secret, the truth, the reality of things is above, within, below, it is not on their surface. 91 There ...
... healing either the truth of our being be sufficiently explained in terms of the mind, the vital and the physical ? Sri Aurobindo has shown that the consciousness and force necessary for the integration of the being resides not in the mental, vital or physical components but in a higher consciousness which both transcends and is immanent in the three aspects of our being, - in the spiritual... does not accept, in his work. He has come to find that particle of truth that exists in everything because without it that opinion itself could nor exist. One never feels a prisoner of ideas when one reads him. One never save, 'This is falsehood', or else 'That person is wrong'; one says, 'Here is an incomplete idea.' Being a physicist, I was deeply struck because I had always been greatly... Aurobindo has explained several times how spiritual truths require verification of a kind other than what is feasible in physical sciences. In A Defence of Indian Culture, he refers to experience, experimental analysis and synthesis, reason and intuition as the tests which are valid for spiritual truths as they are for scientific truths. This is also explained in several of his letters. ...
... and stronger than the vital. It is true of every soul on earth that it is a portion of the Divine Mother passing through the experiences of the Ignorance in order to arrive at the truth of its being and be the instrument of a Divine Manifestation and work here. I am told that the psychic even when it unites itself with the Mother keeps its separation. It is the individual self... true psychic progress. That is one part of the psychic experience - the other is a complete self-giving, absence of demand, a prominence of the psychic being by which all that is false, wrong, egoistic, contrary to the Divine Truth, Divine Will, Divine Purity and Light is shown, falls away, cannot prevail in the nature. With all that the increase of the psychic qualities, gratitude, obedience... What you had in the inner being was a static stillness which did not even entirely occupy the inner physical except at times - that was why the dynamic descent was necessary, but in the inner being or if possible the whole being, the inner outflowing into the outer, not in the outer being to the exclusion of the inner. Page 35 My inner being lives mostly in the deeper ...
... and miss entirely the true truth of the matter. The importance of avoiding this error is evident when we are seeking for the essential significance of Indian religious culture. But the same method must be held to when we proceed to observe its dynamic formulation and the effect of its spiritual ideal on life. Indian culture recognises the spirit as the truth of our being and our life as a growth and... that it achieved an unusual measure of success. It has been said with some truth that for the Indian the whole of life is a religion. True of the ideal of Indian life, it is true to a certain degree and in a certain sense in its fact and practice. No step could be taken in the Indian's inner or outer life without his being reminded of a spiritual existence. Everywhere he felt the closeness or at least... opening, a stronger ethical power of the nature. A third, the ripest and most developed of all, is ready for the spiritual heights, fit to receive or to climb towards the loftiest ultimate truth of God and of its own being and to tread the summits of divine experience. 1 It was to meet the need of the first type or level that Indian religion created that mass of suggestive ceremony and effective ritual ...
... the higher Truth-Light from being evolutionary, a continuous efflorescence of the Divine Truth and Harmony in a manifold variety, not a final and decisive creation in a single fixed type. What would be decisive would be the crossing of the border Page 283 between twilight and Light, the transference of the base of development from the consciousness in the Ignorance to the Truth-consciousness... and more undergoing the pressure of the Supramental and letting through a greater Light and Power. For so long as the Overmind intervenes (the principle of the Overmind being a play of forces, each trying to realise itself as the Truth) the law of struggle remains and with it the opportunity for the adverse Forces. It is not immortality of the body, but the consciousness of immortality in ... authority of Truth which spontaneously produces harmony according to the inner truth of the One and the inner truth of the Many in the One. Out of things that to the mind are opposites and incompatible contrasts it takes in each its essence and joins them harmoniously into a single piece. This it does by raising them beyond their separated appearances and putting them in the light of the one Truth where they ...
... so much dependent upon the bodily and nervous life, that the physiological functionings of the body govern and determine the reactions of the subjective being, is thus seen to be only a minor and secondary truth. The major and primary truth is that Consciousness is the real and original determinant of our bodily life; it can, if it so wills and under proper conditions, transmit its commands to... elaboration of life. No other spiritual consciousness or power short of this Supermind, this divine Gnosis and the Truth-Consciousness ( ṛ ta-cii) of Sachchidananda possesses this power of integral transformation. And that is why a subjective spiritual liberation of our inner being and an inner change of consciousness alone, although the essential precondition for any attempt at physical transformation... a modification, an incomplete authenticity of its truth and power." 9 Thus, unless this 'blind Ananke of the Inconscience' can somehow be illumined and transfigured, there can be no prospect for any physical transformation. For this 'dragon base' remaining as it is now, the dead weight of the inconscient substratum of our physical being, the inexorable downward pull towards the original ...
... rejects the birth of Being out of Non-Being as an impossibility; Being, it is said in the Chhandogya Upanishad, can only be born from Being. But the word Non-Being can be taken in the sense, not of an inexistent Nihil, but of an x which exceeds our idea or experience of existence; then the impossibility disappears. For Sri Aurobindo admits the truth of the experience of the Being as also of the experience... it is perceived that consciousness and being are not different from each other, but all being is a supreme consciousness, all consciousness is self-existent, eternal in itself. One can go one step farther. The Conscious Energy is seen to be one with the Being that creates the universe, but at the same time it is seen that the conscious Being which is the truth of the infinite supermind, is more than... not a stranger. The Master of the Work is revealed there in the imperishable integral truth of his being and his powers and his workings. Only there, too, his works in us assume the flawless movement of his unfailing supramental purpose. But even then, a farther step remains to be taken. It is realized that the truest reason why one must seek liberation is not to be delivered, individually, from the ...
... is like an advocate who accepts every brief and being open to all thoughts she is unable to know. In the process of argumentation on which she depends for finding the truth, she cannot arrive at the truth, because it is a fight which can go on for ever without leading to a result—"Absolute her judgments seem but none is sure". Whatever temporary truth she formulates "Time cancels all her verdicts in... racked falsehood into happy truth". From this world-Soul proceeds each new birth of the Eternal and it is "A flame that cancels death in mortal things". Aswapathy found that everything in the cosmos had grown familiar and kindred because "The intimacy of God was everywhere" i e., there was no veil, no barrier dividing consciousness from consciousness, being from being. He felt "A sense of universal... himself but also of the workings of this intelligence. As the fundamental and the original truth of Existence is infinite, this intelligence had to divide itself into small parts so that each part could be contained in a thought. But this could not last for ever and could not satisfy the deepest hunger of the being. After some time, powers of the higher realms of consciousness swept down like a wave and ...
... Varuna and others — are not imaginary entities, they are beings as real and existent as we are. We human beings have to depend on those Deities; and they are connected not only with us but with animals. All things are complementary to each other; all that takes place in our world is interlinked with what takes place in those worlds! As the truth of this harmony is revealed to us more and more, all our... just remained unmindful, as if he had not heard what I was saying, being immersed in some other thought. Even that unmindfulness was not due to any indifference or neglect; he repeatedly found out if I persisted in some sort of mischief, but he always remained outwardly the same as ever. Now as I reflect upon it, I seem to see the truth of it. A high and noble mind develops a large outlook and vision... separate object is given its due place and value, and in that unique realisation its value goes on increasing more and more. The country, the body, everything appears uniquely in its distinct truth. What human beings can only conceive mentally, becomes living facts, as living and true as life and death itself. When we try to assess a person, we form an idea of him by observing his facial expression and ...
... d freedom beyond conception and a fullness self-manifested in a multiple unity as Sat-Chit-Ananda (Being-Consciousness-Bliss) and Vijnana, a creative Supermind or Gnosis which brings forward the hidden truths of Being-Consciousness-Bliss and organizes them into an ideal harmony of the infinite and the finite, an archetypal or ... the Truth-consciousness or Supermind into our fumbling humanity. The supramental Light is to be invoked to come down into our nature in order to change it. That "gnostic" Power would perfect the organization of this nature around our inmost soul-element or psychic being and call forth the Divinity which is ... other way: God created man in His image... This, I believe, is the profounder truth. In non-mythical language: the image in which God appears to man does not show what man is but what he might be. It is the image of man's potentiality of being, that which determines his life... I do not say that this image ...
... Out of himself he creates, in himself he becomes; all are in his being and all is of his being. This truth admits and exceeds the pantheistic seeing of things. Vasudeva is all, vāsudevaḥ sarvam ; but Vasudeva is all that appears in the cosmos because he is too all that does not appear in it, all that is never manifested. His being is in no way limited by his becoming; he is in no degree bound by... integrality of the realisation. Man, the mental being, approaches the Infinite through his finite mind and has to open some near gate of this finite upon that Infinite. He seeks for some conception on which his mind is able to seize, selects some power of his nature which by force of an absolute self-heightening can reach out and lay its touch on the infinite Truth that in itself is beyond his mental comprehension... intellect but his yearning heart, his active will, his positive mind in search of some Truth to which his existence and the existence of the world is a manifold key, have their straining towards the Eternal and Infinite and seek to find in it their divine Source and the justification Page 338 of their being and their nature. From this need arise the religions of love and works, whose strength ...
... experience uneasiness, a grief deep in its being, because what it has done is contrary to its inner truth. For in spite of all teachings, in spite of all that thought can think, there is something in the depths which has a feeling of a perfection, a greatness, a truth, and is painfully contradicted by all the movements opposing this truth. If a child has not been spoilt by its milieu... milieu, by deplorable examples around it, that is, if it is in the normal state, spontaneously, without its being told anything, it will feel an uneasiness when it has done something against the truth of its being. And it is exactly upon this that later its effort for progress must be founded. * For, if you want to find one teaching, one doctrine upon which to base your... themselves, within the earth, within the universe - and that they, the earth and the universe exist only as a function of this truth, and that if it did not exist the child would not last, even the short time that it does, and that everything would dissolve even as it comes into being. And because this is the real basis of the universe, naturally it is this which will triumph; and all that opposes this ...
... make the answer comprehensible to his mental capacity. (k) The teacher should ensure that the child gradually begins to be aware of the psychological centre of his being, the psychic being, the inner seat of the highest truth of our existence. (1) With that growing awareness, the child should be taught to concentrate on his presence and make it more and more a living fact. (m) The child... ble, the will to discover and realize. This discovery and this realization should be the primary occupation of the being, the pearl of great price which one should acquire at any cost. Whatever one does, whatever one's occupation and activity, the will to find the truth of one's being and to unite with it must always be living, always present behind all one does, all that one thinks, all that one ... child should be encouraged to think of wrong impulses not as sins or offences but as symptoms of a curable disease alterable by a steady and a sustained effort of the will — falsehood being rejected and replaced by truth, fear by courage, selfishness by sacrifice, malice by love. (h) Great care should be taken to see that unformed virtues re not rejected as faults. The wildness and recklessness ...
... eternal Truth that is one and permanent. The psychic being is a progressive being, which means that the relation between Page 7 the psychic being and the Truth is a progressive one. It is not possible to become aware of one's psychic being without becoming aware at the same time of the inner Truth. All those who have had this experience — not a mental experience but an integral experience... the inner truth? It organises itself around it and enters into contact with it. The psychic is moved by the Truth. The Truth is something eternally self-existent and dependent on nothing in time or space, whereas the psychic being is a being that grows, takes form, progresses, individualises itself more and more. In this way it becomes more and more capable of manifesting this Truth, the eternal... is more or less individualized and independent in its action. What is psychic in the being is always pure, by its very definition, for it is that part of the being which is in contact with the Divine and expresses the truth of the being. But this may be like a spark in the darkness of the being, or it may be a being of light, conscious, fully formed and independent. There are all the gradations between ...
... here with the other parts of the being and I do not speak of anything in the higher mind, the psychic self or the higher and larger vital nature; for when the lower vital rises, these are pushed into the background, if not covered over for the time, by this lower vital being and this external personality. Whatever there may be in these higher parts, aspiration to the Truth, devotion or will to conquer... the human mind or wilful indulgence of the demands and instincts and pretensions of the lowest part of the being, commonly justified under the name of human nature. It cannot be done if you insist on identifying these lowest things of the Ignorance with the divine Truth or even the lesser truth permissible on the way. It cannot be done if you cling to your past self and its old mental, vital and physical... satisfaction of these vital clamours nor, either, an ascetic retirement is the true solution, but the surrender of the vital being to the Divine and a single-minded consecration to the supreme Truth into which desire and demand cannot enter. For the nature of the supreme Truth is Light and Ananda, and where desire and demand are there can be no Ananda. It is not the vital demand but the psychic urge ...
... revealed the Divine Mother Aditi and Aditi Herself revealed the Lord to us human beings. Sri Aurobindo announced in writing that She was Mother Aditi and the Mother announced in writing that He was the Lord and Avatar. What an incredible coincidence occurred on the earth! The two unveiled each other’s truth to ignorant beings like us. What an unimaginable, inconceivable divine Grace! These totally unexpected... e. Then the puja started. Everyone recited a mantra and bowed to the image of the goddess. Little Rammohun, however, did not. He said: “But this is only a doll of clay and straw. I have seen it being made. How can this be divine?” Everyone was shocked. His father scolded him fiercely. An atheist had been born in a Brahmin family! Rammohun’s mother, Tarinidevi, came running to save the boy from... that is how we came to know about the significance of the red and white lotus. I can picture before my eyes Sri Aurobindo writing Aditi The Divine Mother and the Mother watching this being written. Then the Mother writing The Avatar Sri Aurobindo and Sri Aurobindo watching the Mother writing this. What an unbelievable event that must have been in the earth’s history at ...
... for them. All cannot come to me immediately and each case must be decided according to the truth of the being of each and the will of the Divine with regard to him. Aurobindo [2] [29 December 1927] Answer 1 The "Sadhak-Bhav" is Anilbaran's translation of one of several pieces that are being put together and published by Rameshwar under the title "The Mother". There seems to be no... Page 425 the Truth for you or an indispensable part of it, I would be the last person to dissuade you from it. I have not done so and have left it to the Truth in you to work out your course as it did formerly in other matters. For the rest I shall explain what I mean in the longer letter. I write this only to make it clear that there is no opposition on my part, if your being demands this as a... my eyes a step in consonance with the Truth of things—it seems to me to be in itself an offence against Truth. If a punishment is to be inflicted on oneself for anything, it should be in the nature of an atonement—but the only atonement for a fall from Truth (supposing that there is one) is to persevere, to correct, to attempt again resolutely to embody the Truth in one's life till it is done. Then ...
... 123 conscious essence but in the conscious law of our being with the transcendent Divine whom all things and creatures, whether ignorantly or with partial knowledge and experience, seek to express through the lower law of their members. To know the highest Truth and to be in harmony with it is the condition of right being, to express it in all that we are, experience and do is the condition... soul-being. By that very fact the individual ceases to be the self-limiting ego; in other words, our false consciousness of existing only by self-limitation, by rigid distinction of ourselves from the rest of being and becoming is transcended; our identification of ourselves with our personal and temporal individualisation in a particular mind and body is abolished. But is all truth of ind... behind the constant mutations of the thing we call our personality. It is not a limited ego but a thing in itself infinite; it is in truth the Infinite itself consenting from one plane of its being to reflect itself in a perpetual soul-experience. This is the truth which underlies the Sankhya theory of many Purushas, many essential, infinite, free and impersonal souls reflecting the movements of ...
... identity of these two goddesses in the dynamism of the Truth-Being, in Brahma himself. In him Satyam and Ritam are one and inseparable. In fact their oneness belongs to the manifestive Truth in its twofold operation. If Savitri as the Truth-Word gives form and definiteness to the Truth-Idea in this world, Gayatri as the Truth-Rhythm sets that Truth-Idea into its spacious expanding movement,—one always... auspicious form of Savitṛ, the Light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth. 1 This is Sri Aurobindo's Gayatri Mantra. The meditation is on the auspicious form of the Sun, the Sun of Divine Light. The Mantra affirms that the Light shall illumine us with the Truth. It shall illumine all the parts of our being, even the very physical. In it shall be our true progress. The threefold reality... Satyavan's soul, he being an ocean of noble qualities. Savitri follows Yama and discusses matters of Satya Dharma with him. Her understanding of the principles of righteous living pleases Yama. She maintains that the commerce of the world is actually borne by the spiritual practices of the saints and seers. In a tremendous moment of revelation she discloses that it is by the Truth that the saints ...
... the success of their efforts. Each time we try not to be an ordinary man, not to live the ordinary life, to express in our movements, our actions and reactions the divine Truth, when we are governed by that Truth instead of being governed by the general ignorance, we are apprentice-overmen, and according to the success of our efforts we are, well, more or less good apprentices, more or less advanced... “There are Some …” Discussing the constitution of the supramental being, the Mother said on 30 September 1966: “This would be a transformation that is infinitely greater than that from the animal into man: this would be a change from man into a being no longer built in the same way, no longer functioning in the same way, being as it were a condensation or concretisation of something … Up to the... without difficulty of a being that could, by spiritual power, the power of its inner being, absorb the necessary forces, renew itself and remain always young. One conceives this without any difficulty, even that some suppleness can be given to change the form if need be. But the total disappearance of this system of construction [of the body] all at once – all at once, from one [being] to the other? … It ...
... 376 ( Concerning unconsciousness during sleep ) During sleep the inner beings become consciously active. When one wakes up, it is the waking being that is not conscious of the activities of the night. 16 April 1968 In the quotation chosen for tomorrow 6 Sri Aurobindo speaks of "the Truth that seeks to descend upon us" and "is already there within us". Please explain this... 1967 You have said: "The Divine is with you according to your aspirations. Naturally, this does not mean that he gives way to the fancies of your outer nature—I am speaking here of the truth of your being. Moreover, he sometimes moulds himself according to your outer aspirations, and if you live like the devotees who alternate between periods of estrangement and embrace, of ecstasy and despair... perceive a result. 18 January 1967 In the human being, is the psychic being the entire soul or do both the soul (in its essence as a divine spark in all creatures) and the psychic being exist together? The soul is the eternal essence at the centre of the psychic being. The soul is in fact like a divine spark which puts on many states of being of increasing density, down to the most material; ...
... in 1968. Three years before, during the second war between India and Pakistan, she had declared: ‘It is for the sake and the triumph of Truth that India fights and must fight, till India and Pakistan have become one again, because that is the truth of their being.’ 21 The conflict between India and Pakistan is still far from resolved. In what measure the situation on the Indian subcontinent is symbolic... discovery of the subjective truths and realities which will result in the advent of a new world in which authenticity, reality and Truth will again be the bases of experience. Sri Aurobindo had formulated the principle of world-unity; he now formulated the norm of individual freedom in the ideal future world: ‘The principle of individualism is the liberty of the human being regarded as a separate existence... seeks, by the law of its being … A one-sided world would have been the poorer for its uniformity and the monotone of a single culture; there is a need of divergent lines of advance until we can raise our head into that infinity of the spirit in which there is a light broad enough to draw together and reconcile all highest ways of thinking, feeling and living. That is a truth which the violent Indian ...
... the fundamental truth of his existence, the individual self-manifesting divinity within him. He should know that the evocation of this psychical entity, the real man within, is the most rewarding object of education and indeed of all human life if it would find and live according to the deepest truth and law of its own being. And what will be the contribution of this psychic being Page 24... should be noted that the supracosmic Reality is the supreme truth of every individual's being; to realise it is the highest reach of our consciousness and we have to realise it if we would be really perfect. But this highest supracosmic Reality is not cut off from the world of manifestation. It is at the same time the cosmic Being, the cosmic Consciousness, the cosmic Will and life; it has put... the fundamental truth of the universe and the meaning of existence should naturally be the determinant not only of our thought and inner movements but of our whole conception of life, our attitude to it and the trend of all our life-activities. Now, the integral theory of existence as advanced by Sri Aurobindo looks upon our earthly existence as a becoming with the Divine Being for its origin ...
... means of this evolution and an image of it, at a complete and perfect individual and social life. If the psychological truth of our being is the real and central truth, more central and important than the physical, this Page 267 must be its true nature, a conscious being growing towards its own completeness of consciousness and growing too towards its expression and formation in a complete... own complete fulfilment, revelation of their truth, native perfection, beauty and greatness. This is the aim of terrestrial existence—to reveal in Matter, in Time-Space, in figure and body what was once self-held only in an eternal unembodied self and spirit. In order that this evolution might be, an implacable plunge of supreme Consciousness and Being into an apparent void of insentience, inconscience... that Non-Existence all the powers of being are held involved and latent; in the impenetrable darkness of that Inconscience all the possibilities of consciousness lie ready to be evolved; in that insentience is a drowned Delight of Existence which emerging in the contradictory figures of pleasure and pain can struggle upwards towards cosmic expression of its own truth of the Bliss that supports all things ...
... possessions of others is the sign of the dissolution of ego in the heart; for it proceeds from the heart's recognition of the truth that one Lord inhabits all bodies. It shows that the truth is no longer only an idea in the intellect but is being lived in the whole Page 468 being. The possessions of the one and only Self in one body are also his possessions in all other bodies; what the self in... unity of His being. He will indulge a few in that evasion, but not the mass of mankind; therefore the many have to return with hearts still hungry from the doors of the temple; therefore the successive moulds of religion fail, lose their virtue and are cast away and broken. For Truth is imperative and demands inexorably its satisfaction. And the truth is always this that man is universal being seeking an... abandonment is what we usually contemplate when we use the term renunciation; for although we are mental beings, yet ours is a mentality emmeshed in matter and impelled by that physical Maya to give a materialised or sensible value and a material expression to all our mental conceptions. We hardly admit a truth until we see it cloaked in an outward form or in an outward event & action. What then is this new ...
... a double truth of existence; for there is a truth of the inner reality and a truth of the outer appearance. According as he lives in one or the other, he will be a mind dwelling in human ignorance or a soul founded in divine knowledge. In its outer appearance the truth of existence is solely what we call Nature or Prakriti, a Force that operates as the whole law and mechanism of being, creates the... received it is a great and sure and saving way, because it is identical with the true truth of man's being and it is the authentic movement of his inmost and supreme nature. "But the change is a very great one, an enormous transformation, and it cannot be done without an entire turning and conversion of your whole being and nature. There will be needed a complete consecration of your self and your nature... is not the inmost truth of the spirit's action; he becomes aware of a highest spiritual nature of the Divine in which is contained the source and the yet to be realised greater truth of all that is imperfectly figured now in mind, life and body. Arisen from the lower mental to this supreme spiritual nature, he is delivered there from all ego. He knows himself as a spiritual being, in his essence one ...
... not its conviction as a lie, but the source and principle of its truth. Cosmos and individual go back to something in the Absolute which is the true truth of individuality, the true truth of cosmic Page 394 being and not their denial and conviction of their falsity. The Absolute is not a sceptical logician denying the truth of all his own statements and self-expressions, but an existence... supracosmic transcendence, but there is in the spiritual truth of the Divine Existence no compelling reason why we should not participate in this large possession and bliss of His universal being which is the fulfilment of our individuality. But we see farther that it is not solely and ultimately the cosmic being into which our individual being enters but something in which both are unified. As our... practical truth. But the difficulty is that the mind gets dominated by its words and forgets that the partial and practical truth becomes true truth only by its relation to others which seem to the reason to contradict it, and that taken by itself it contains a constant element of falsity. Thus when we speak of an individual we mean ordinarily an individualisation of mental, vital, physical being separate ...
... rises up towards you. We ask for the Divine's Truth, fulfilled in the Truth of our being; we ask that our actions may manifest His Truth, that our minds and hearts may be exclusively moved by His Truth. We implore the full Light of His Truth on all that is still unconscious. With His Truth we want to know, through His Truth we want to act, and in His Truth we want to be. This is the prayer of Auroville... physical point of Page 330 view, man is not the last race. As man came after the animal, so another being must come after man. And as there is only one Consciousness, it is the same Consciousness which having had the experience of man will have the experience of a superhuman being. And so if we go away, if we leave life, if we reject life, then we will never be ready to do that. But if... me! A: But, Sweet Mother, you know, several solutions are open to us. For instance, on one hand... Page 310 Each man has his solution, and that is the great difficulty. To be in the Truth, each one has his solution. And yet we must find a way for all these solutions to work together. ( Silence ) So the framework must be vast, very flexible, and there must be a great goodwill from ...
... the power to act upon the thing that is being explained; otherwise, what good is it? 7 She said with her refreshing simplicity. Thought is such an approximate thing, really, so far from the truth ... so basically, it's time to be practical and say, “Well, I’ll accept this thought if it helps me to progress.’’ But if you believe that it is the absolute truth, then you're bound to be fooling yourself... "Entering"—such is indeed Mother’s way, on every level. For her, to understand something was to live it, and She went into it as wholeheartedly as into painting, music, occultism, or the truth of one’s being. That is, a developmental stage where it’s already understood that all ideas are true and that there's a synthesis to be made, and that BEYOND THE SYNTHESIS lies something luminous and true... reconquering a truth that we could not possibly swallow in one gulp without exploding, for the simple reason that the ultimate truth is physical, and the body, that old animal, is so very slow to understand. The ultimate heaviness or the ultimate knot holds the ultimate understanding and the difficulty that will unknot all the others. The Mind is our instrument of temporary truth or obstinate ...
... not put into them any "hidden meaning" or any other meaning which might be favourable to your present ideas. The Divine Consciousness we are trying to bring down is a Truth Consciousness. It shows us all the truth of our being and nature on all the planes, mind, life and body. It does not throw them away or make an impatient effort to get rid of them immediately and substitute something fantastic... weakness of the nervous being. At Pondicherry I am afraid you encouraged this nervous weakness and shrinking with the idea that it was a sign of superior psychic sensitiveness. Get rid of this idea. You may be conscious of things around you and yet calm and strong Page 325 to meet them without being affected and overcome. One other point. It is something else than the truth that gives the forms... intuitions and come down into a plain, natural quiet physical consciousness. That is your only chance of coming back to reality and the Truth. (3) You must get rid of your nervous shrinkings from life and others; you must be able to look at people naturally as human beings and deal with them calmly, quietly with a sane calm practical mind. Until you have done this, you will not be in the right condition ...
... Rejection, which is the negative element in yoga, is necessitated as a transitional movement due to the resistance of the egoic self to the process of transformation and its opposition to the truth of one's being. In the transitional stage between the first period and the second, our personal and necessarily ignorant effort more and more dwindles and a higher Nature acts; the eternal Shakti descends... of questioning the truth or the possibility, I simply sat down and did it. In a moment my mind became silent as a windless air on a high mountain summit and then I saw one thought and then another coming in a concrete way from outside; I flung them away before they could enter and take hold of the brain and in three days I was free. From that moment, in principle, the mental being in me became a free... accepting it either. Feeling an inner being within (what Eckhart calls the "witnessing Presence") that is separate and detached from the egoic surface self is the first principle. Observing the movements of the surface being as an impartial wiriness is the best way to bring about the separation between the surface being and one's true being within. Page 126 ...
... politics, fame, gambling, gluttony, drunkenness and luxurious living, they are insensitive to good causes and allergic to the intimations of the Spirit: In those who are slaves of vital beings, the desire for truth and light and spiritual achievement, even if it at all touches them, cannot balance the desire for money. 31 In our fight against the hostile forces of the vital world, - the creatures... Religion. Certainly, all religions had their beginnings in a seminal mystical or "The spiritual experience, some revelation from "what one could call a Divine Being ... bringing down with him from a higher plane a certain Knowledge and Truth for the earth". 47 Mahavira, the Buddha, the Christ, the Prophet Mahomet, Guru Nanak were all historical personalities, and were also divine-human persons who... or not it answers one's soul's needs. Hence the Mother's exhortation: If your aim is to be free, in the freedom of the Spirit, you must get rid of all the ties that are not the inner truth of your being, but come from subconscious habits.... All your relations must be newly built upon an inner freedom of choice .... When you come to the Yoga, you must be ready to have all your mental ...
... , spiritual, supramental, truth-conscious, infinite. That is the real Being, Lord and Creator, who, as the Cosmic Self veiled in Mind and Life and Matter, has descended into that which we call the Inconscient and constitutes and directs its subconscient existence by His supramental will and knowledge, has ascended out of the Inconscient and dwells in the inner being constituting and directing... totality of truth known and experienced but still a totality capable of infinite enlargement because there is no end to the aspects of knowledge, n ā styanto vistarasya me. This is the Higher Mind in its aspect of cognition; but there is also the aspect of will, of dynamic effectuation of the Truth: here we find that this greater more brilliant Mind works always on the rest of the being, the... substance of Truth and not only her figure; but it outlines the figure also and at the same time catches the significance of the figure, and it can embody her with a finer and bolder revealing outline and a larger comprehension and power of totality than thought-conception can manage. As the Higher Mind brings a greater consciousness into the being through the spiritual idea and its power of truth, so ...
... the answer comprehensible to his mental capacity. (k) The teacher should ensure that the child gradually begins to be aware of the psychological centre of his being, the psychic being, the inner seat of the highest truth of our existence. (1) With that growing awareness, the child should be taught to concentrate on his presence and make it more and more a living fact. (m)... the will to discover and realise. This discovery and this realisation should be the primary occupation of the being, the pearl of great price which one should acquire at any cost. Whatever one does, whatever one's occupation and activity, the will to find the truth of one's being and to untie with it must always be living, always present behind all one does, all that one thinks, all that... child should be encouraged to think of wrong impulses not as sins or offences but as symptoms of a curable disease alterable by a steady and a sustained effort of the will falsehood being rejected and replaced by truth, fear by courage, selfishness by sacrifice, malice by love. (h) Great care should be taken to see that unformed virtues are not rejected as faults. The wildness and recklessness of ...
... fibre of the being. Moreover, this relation is that which as between human being and human being demands the most and, even while reaching the greatest intensities, is still the least-satisfied, because only in the Divine can it find its real and its utter satisfaction. Therefore it is here most that the turning of human emotion Godwards finds its full meaning and discovers all the truth of which love... the manifest planes of its own being. This is the characteristic of the integral knowledge that it unifies all in Sachchidananda because not only is Being one in itself, but it is one everywhere, in all its poises and in every aspect, in its utmost appearance of multiplicity as in its utmost appearance of oneness. The traditional knowledge while it admits this truth in theory, yet reasons practically... mind only gets by reflection, but which lives in the spirit. The object distinctive of the Yogic knowledge is the union with what can be perceived, felt or conceived to be the highest truth of the being, and as the Upanishad states, when that object is attained, all becomes known, even what science as we practise it aims to know: yasmin vijnate sarvam vijnātam bhavati Knowing ...
... exaggeration. The West is reawaking to the truth of the Spirit and the spiritual possibilities of life, the East is reawaking to the truth of Life and tends towards a new application to it of its spiritual knowledge.' In Sri Aurobindo's view, the antinomy created between the East and the West is an unreal one. He writes: 'Spirit being the fundamental truth of existence, life can be only its manifestation;... 'the Arya presents a new philosophy and a new method of Yoga and everything that is new takes time to get a hearing.' There were, however, a few deserving readers who recognised the great truths which were being formulated in the Arya and which, with the passage of time, have gained increasing acceptance. Moreover, the fact that the Arya appeared at a time when the First World War broke out cannot... will listen to the truth or spirituality of slaves? Sri Aurobindo: India has already decided to win freedom and so there will certainly be found leaders and men to work for that goal. But all are not called to yoga. So, when you have the call, is it not better to concentrate upon it?... Purani: But even supposing that I admit and agree to sadhana, that is, yoga, as being of greater importance ...
... l Truth into the physical plane. A.G. acts directly on the mental and on the vital being through the illumined mind; he represents the Purusha element whose strength is predominantly in illumined knowledge and the power that acts in this knowledge, while the psychic being supports this action and helps to transform the physical and the vital plane. Mina acts directly on the psychic being and... conversation, the Mother spoke with greater feeling about the beauty of the instinctive behaviour of the animals, especially the cats: In animals there is sometimes a very intense psychic truth ... in human beings I have rarely come across some of the virtues which I have seen in animals, very simple, unpretentious virtues. As in cats, for example: I have studied cats a lot; if one knows them well... subconscient. 29 Again, a fortnight later, on 3 October, Mirra told Pavitra: Do not seek the truth with your mind!. .. All that you have done so far, all that you have learnt ought to be put aside. What holds you back is your education and your mental habits. ... Your inner being opened, put itself in a receptive attitude which allowed the descent. Instead of trying to reason, plunge ...
... outline, measure out, mould forms in the formless, psychologise and make know-able the Unknowable, geometrise and seem to make measurable the limitless. By this power static truth of essential being becomes ordered truth of active being. In a less exalted sense maya meant knowledge, skill, intelligence. Only later it acquired the pejorative sense of cunning, fraud or illusion in ordinary parlance and p... behind it of the Divine Driver of Arjuna's Page 179 war-chariot and life-chariot as the Personal Godhead to whom all one's being has to flow. It is an ironical situation that the contemporary figure who is subtly most subversive of the Truth-revelatory Ananda, the variously illuminating Bliss with its expressive corollaries of Beauty and Love which Sri Krishna channelled to the... not contain the details I remember to have come across somewhere, details which marvellously combine a deep spiritual truth with a touch of humour most dramatically blended with the terrible seriousness of the event. Let me tell you what has stuck in my memory. While the sari is being pulled, Draupadi appeals to Krishna: "O Lord of the highest heaven, come to my help!" There is no response. The poor ...
... Illusion the only reality is an indeterminable featureless pure Existence, Brahman, and there is no possibility of its being translated or mistranslated into a system of symbol-figures, for that could only be if this Existence had some determinate contents or some unmanifested truths of its being which could be transcribed into the forms or names given to them by our consciousness: a pure Indeterminable cannot... All human thought, all mental man's experience moves between a constant affirmation and negation; there is for his mind no truth of idea, no result of experience that cannot be affirmed, none that cannot be negated. It has negated the existence of the individual being, negated the existence of the cosmos, negated the existence of any immanent or underlying Reality, negated any Reality beyond the... Absolute. If this is the one Truth, then all ground is cut away from under our feet; the divine Manifestation, the victory of the soul in Matter, its mastery over existence, the divine life in Nature would itself be a falsehood or at least something not altogether real imposed for a time on the sole true Reality. But here all turns on the mind's conception or the mental being's experience of Reality and ...
... total manifestation of the Divine. The Divine is with you according to your aspiration. Naturally that does not mean that He bends to the caprices of your outer nature,―I speak here of the truth of your being. And yet, sometimes he does fashion himself according to your outer aspirations, and if, like the devotees, you live alternately in separation and union, ecstasy and despair, the Divine also... 16 November 1950 Page 90 Evidently, according to human laws I was wrong in telling you that I would see you every month, since I was not sure of being able to do so, even while not forgetting what I had said. In truth, I live from moment to moment, according to the supreme Guidance and, consequently, am incapable of making plans. I know that this is not comfortable for the human... s, it is not a very noble or high motive, and you cannot count upon me to help you there. I can help you only if your motive is to discover the Truth (not to postulate a priori that what you think is the truth) and to surrender entirely to the Truth. So the decision is in your hands. 1 December 1961 Now I am obliged to tell you that I neither approve nor disapprove―no like and no dislike ...
... hardest part will be over. With all my love and blessings. 25 September 1947 Be sincere, always sincere, more and more sincere. Sincerity demands of each one that he express only the truth of his being. 26 January 1950 Page 142 Sweet Mother, I feel that something is wrong and you are very displeased with me. It is the very first proposition that is wrong, I am... been persons who have known how to discipline themselves. Always with you in all love. 23 June 1934 Yes, my dear child, I am your true mother who will give birth in you to the true being, the being who is free, peaceful, strong and happy always, independently of all circumstances. Love from your mother. 25 July 1934 My dear Mother, Give energy and force to your child. Oh... My Mother, It is a lack of energy that is preventing me from painting. Give me a strong energy. I want the inner and outer silence—peace in all my being, from the innermost Page 145 part to the outermost. Peace, peace in all my being. I cannot express this in proper words and it is becoming melodramatic. Pardon my mistake. I don't find your expression melodramatic and there is nothing ...
... of the psychic being is very subtle, very plastic, as if unexpected and unnoticed; it is as if all the parts of the being merge and dissolve in the beatitude of its presence, in the immutable truth that it represents. And then, in this state, there is no division in the parts of the being: everything obeys a central law, it is that of the psychic being. It is then that the psychic being comes in front... desiring to satisfy one’s own ego, or for personal gain. One remains detached, disinterested without being affected. That which is to be assimilated in the being for the progress, that is done naturally. Action is essential, but one should not expect a result, a personal gain. But the substance of truth which each thing, each element contains, the essence that it represents, reveals something to us.... divine help. This, if you pursue it sincerely, will lead you towards the truth of your being. Then begins a new life: when one begins to turn inwards, to see things not as they are on the outside, to feel in a way one has never felt, to hear voices or melodies which ring like divine canticles spreading an inexpressible joy in the being, acting in a rhythm which surpasses time which is confined by its nature ...
... certain type, that, for example, the pine will never become the oak and the palm never become wheat. This is obvious. But that is something else: it means that the truth of your being is not the truth of your neighbour. But in the truth of your being, according to your own formation, your progress is almost unlimited. It is limited only by your own conviction that it is limited and by your ignorance of the... will experience uneasiness, a grief deep in its being, because what it has done is contrary to its inner truth. For in spite of all teachings, in spite of all that thought can think, there is something in the depths which has a feeling of a perfection, a greatness, a truth, and is painfully contradicted by all the movements opposing this truth. If a child has not been spoilt by its milieu... physical heart but the psychic centre of all beings. And when this Splendour is manifested with enough purity, it will awaken in all beings the echo of this Presence. 8 January 1951 The Mother reads her statement "What a Child Should Always Remember". A member of the class asks: You say that one should have "the certitude of Truth's final victory". But doesn't this certitude ...
... the confused thoughts, vanis, lipis, that came without being deterred by the chaos of errors & half truths that was raised. An immense but ill-coordinated activity of thought, lipi, telepathy etc accompanied the attack; the attack & the defense disputed possession of this outburst of activity & tried to make it the instrument of error & truth, confusion & a better coordination respectively. Nevertheless... clouded at every step by the veil of the manasic action which seeks, since it cannot enjoy, to replace it while imitating sunlessly its radiant action. It Page 383 cannot however prevent truth from being the dominant tendency, but it suspends certainty and timely arrangement. Place, time, order are still very defective. Lipi. The beginning of delight —ie Physical Kamananda, which was reduced... etad vai tat, & is rendered in the terms of Truth.["] p. 102 (2)परमात्मा दुःखी स्याद् दुःखाभित्रत्वाल्लोकवदित्याह—एकस्य सर्वात्मकत्व इति । अविद्यां प्रतिबिम्बितश्र्चद्धातुरज्ञो भ्रांतो भवति । Incidentally touches, if not of grief, yet of dissatisfaction still assail the Adhara even though Paramatman has been realised, owing to the Brahman being identified with the ego-world in the environmental ...
... by its nature the ideal of truth. Take away from the non-scientific domain the quest for knowledge of what is and you make the disinterested passion of the pure researcher in science a mighty foolishness. Religion without science is not blind: it is blind merely to scientific truth while being open-eyed to truth of a different class. And this different class of truth comprises not only value but... Einstein realises, the pursuit of scientific truth itself has no justification without our being convinced that reality is such as to make it worth while for the researcher in pure science to tear himself away from immediate practical life and devote himself to the terrific exertions without which pioneer creation in scientific thought can never come into being. It is not only a "cosmic religious feeling"... because of the 'lumber' equations?" The truth is that the only person who has a right to challenge with a hopeful gleam in his eyes our acceptance of the "lumber" equations is the anti-relativist. And to his jibe that they introduce by the back-door such entities as Einstein threw out by the front one, our answer is: "Einstein threw out what insisted on being regarded as the basis of the observable ...
... teachings contain paradoxes because any mental formulation of a truth can convey only one perspective of the truth, the opposite perspective being also valid, thus leading to an apparent contradiction. As the Mother says: There are innumerable facets. There are innumerable points of view. One can say the most contradictory things without being inconsistent or contradicting oneself. Everything depends... events and circumstances of my life—many of them seemingly chance incidents—have made me realize intimately the truth of the Mother's words about the role of one's inmost self—the soul or psychic being—in guiding one on the spiritual path. She has said: If you have within you a psychic being sufficiently awake to watch over you, to prepare your path, it can draw towards you things which help you,... benevolent will and give you an indication, a help, a support to take decisions and turn you in the right direction. But once you have taken this decision, once you have decided to find the truth of your being, once you start sincerely on the road, then everything seems to conspire to help you to advance. ... 2 It was only after a lapse of time that retrospectively I had some understanding ...
... gets by Page 77 reflection, but which lives in the spirit. The object distinctive af the Yogic knowledge is the union with what can be perceived, felt or conceived to be the highest truth of the being, and as the Upanishad states, when that object is attained, all becomes known, even what science as we practise it aims to know: yasmin vijnāte sarvam vijnātam bhavati ... into one's true being, not the knowledge by which one increases information and intellectual riches. It is true that scientific or psychological or philosophical or ethical or aesthetic or practical knowledge help us to grow, but only in the becoming, not in the being, — even though they can enter into the definition of Yogic knowledge when they are used as aids to know the highest Being. Thus scientific... reality of our being, to a spirit, Self, Soul, which is other than our mind, life and body; (b) an inner aspiration to know, to feel, to be that, (c) a quest for entering into the greater Reality beyond and pervading the universe which inhabits also our being, to be in communion with It and union with It, (d) a turning, a conversion, Page 107 a transformation of our whole being into a new becoming ...
... of relations of love joined with love in a supreme unity, a delight of the many powers, truths, beings of the eternal oneness, of the forms of the Formless; all the play of the becoming in the being founds its self-expression upon these powers of the consciousness of the Spirit. But in their spiritual origin all these powers are essential, not instrumental, not organised, devised or created; they are... instead of a luminous inherent self-awareness there is a consciousness plunged into an abyss of self-oblivion, inherent in being but not awake in being. Yet is this involved consciousness still a concealed knowledge by identity; it carries in it the awareness of all the truths of existence hidden in its dark infinite and, when it acts and creates,—but it acts first as Energy and not as Consciousness... ready-made opening between itself and its own inner being: since it is unable to see what is within its deeper self or observe the process of the knowledge coming from within, it has no choice but to accept what it does see, the external object, as the cause of its knowledge. Thus all our mental knowing of things represents itself to us as objective, a truth imposed on us from outside; our knowledge is a ...
... no ‘royal road’, not even for a special group as a whole. The way of each one is personal, ‘each one carries his truth in himself, and this is a unique truth, belonging to each one personally and to be expressed by him in his life.’ 23 (the Mother) Each disciple of the Ashram, being a representative of a type of humanity in the process of general transformation, had to be guided in a personal way... whole being, mental, psychic, vital and physical enters into a complete rest made of perfect peace, absolute silence and total immobility, while the consciousness remains completely awake; or else I enter into an internal activity of one or more states of the being, an activity which constitutes the occult work and which, needless to say, is also perfectly conscious. So I can say, in all truth, that... than mere words. As Sri Aurobindo wrote: ‘It is true of every soul on earth that it is a portion of the Divine Mother passing through the experiences of the Ignorance in order to arrive at the truth of its being and be the instrument of a Divine Manifestation and work here.’ 5 He also wrote: ‘The soul goes to the Mother-Soul in all its desires and troubles,’ 6 and: ‘It is a far greater relation ...
... Sweet Mother, Being far from the Truth-Consciousness, must one always remain silent, even though as an individual one is obliged to make decisions and give opinions? What constitutes an individuality? An individuality is a conscious being organised around a divine centre. All the divine centres are essentially One in their origin, but they act as separate beings in the manifestation... by the wind that blows about him, by a book he reads or a picture he sees. He is most vulnerable. That happens when he has not taken care to organise his conscious being around the psychic centre, which is the Truth of his being. 28 June 1963 Sweet Mother, Most people here quote the Mother to suit their own convenience. Before criticising others, it is better to be sure that... by us is a spiritual truth as the basis of life, the first words of which are surrender and union with the Divine and the transcendence of ego. So long as that basis is not established, a sadhak is only an ignorant and imperfect human being struggling with the evils of the lower nature.... What is created by spiritual progress is an inner closeness and intimacy in the inner being, the sense of the Mother's ...
... sm is an imperfect & blundering effort to grope for a great truth which it has neither been able to grasp itself nor set forth with scientific accuracy. That truth is found only in the clear & luminous teaching of the Vedanta; it is this, that the compound result we call man is a compound result and not the single simple homogeneous being our senses would believe; he is composed of several elements... than intellectual, spiritual than ethical. This is the whole truth and the whole philosophy of ethics; all else is practical arrangement and balancing of forces, economising of energies for the purposes of social stability or some other important but impermanent end. Utilitarianism gets a partial & confused view of the truth and being unable properly to correlate it, groping about for some Page... Sruti, then there is no truth in Vedanta, and the doctrine of the Charvakas has as much force as any. Moreover it would contradict reason, since it would make mukti which is a spiritual change, dependent on a mere mechanical & material change like death, which is absurd. Shankara himself therefore admits that in these cases निष्काम कर्म was not inconsistent with मुक्ति or with being the Brahman; and he ...
... which, although never quite unmixed, have to be seen to get a whole view. But the discovery of the truth about human beings need not lead to cynicism; it may lead to a calm aloofness and irony which has nothing disappointed or bitter in it; or it may lead to a large psychic charity which recognises the truth but makes all allowances and is ready to love and to help in spite of all. In the spiritual co... or even austere logic is not a key to Truth; an enthusiastic vision often reaches it more quickly. The business of logic is to give order to a thinker's ideas, to establish firm relations between them and firm distinctions from other people's ideas, but when that is done, we are no nearer to indisputable truth than we were before. It is vision that sees Truth, not logic—the outer vision that sees facts... This clearly indicates that by "soul" he means the vital and the mental being. Otherwise how can the soul be not "in good or healthy state"? Can we even say that the mental Purusha is or is not "in good or healthy state"? Of course not. It is obvious that they are thinking of the mental and vital Prakriti or that part of the being which is involved in Prakriti, not of the Purusha. The idea that ...
... that all is Law and Process and there is no conscious Being or Will in or behind the cosmos; if so, here is a Law and Process that satisfies our human reason and our mental standards of right and justice and it has the beauty and truth of a perfect symmetry and a mathematical accuracy of working. But all is not Law and Process, there is also Being and Consciousness; there is not only a machinery but... not only a process of mind and life and body but a soul in the natural creature. If it were not so, there could be no rebirth of a soul and no field for a law of Karma. But if the fundamental truth of our being is spiritual and not mechanical, it must be ourself, our soul that fundamentally determines its own evolution, and the law of Karma can only be one of the processes it uses for that purpose:... conceivable that the spirit within is an automaton in the hands of Karma, a slave in this life of its past actions; the truth must be less rigid and more plastic. If a certain amount of results of past Karma is formulated in the present life, it must be with the consent of the psychic being which presides over the new formation of its earth-experience and assents not merely to an outward compulsory process ...
... and the ego but in the divine consciousness and grow into the true inmost truth of your being above mind and life and body. The aim in most ways of Yoga is to draw back altogether from life into this greater existence. In Sri Aurobindo's Yoga, the aim is to transform mind, life and body into an expression of this divine Truth and to make the outward as well as the inward life embody it—a much more difficult... spiritual and psychic and not vital. The vital would be there but as an instrument only. (2) It would be a relation flowing from the higher Truth, not continued from the lower Ignorance. Page 705 (3) It would not be impersonal in the sense of being colourless, but whatever colours were there would not be the egoistic and muddy colours of the present relations. 24 June 1936 What you... on food, external cleanliness, asceticism, etc. and so little on brahmacharya or conservation of energies or inner development? And why all the prejudice of caste in the matter of food? Is there any truth in the popular belief that a man is not considered spiritual unless he is a vegetarian, cooks his own food, etc.? The value of brahmacharya was fully understood in past times for Yogis; carefulness ...
... plant, the great truths of evolution could not be discovered or, if discovered, not firmly fixed,—just as only by going back from the formed creature to its skeleton and from the skeleton to the embryo could the great truth be established that in matter also the great Vedantic formula holds good —of a world formed by development of many forms from one seed in the will of the Universal Being, ya ekaṁ... ent, to a certain extent by their variable & subordinate element. I shall attempt to show by an examination of the Sanscrit language that all these laws are actually true of Aryan speech, their truth being borne out or often established beyond any shadow of doubt by the facts of the language. Page 576 ... physically inevitable, of the first seed-selection of sound process, that original apparently trifling selection of the law of the individual being which is at the basis of all Nature’s infinitely varied regularities. Fidelity to the principle already selected being once observed, the rest results from the very nature & necessities of the sound-instrument that is employed. Therefore, in the outward form ...
... Auroville is to realise human unity.' -Sep 16 Declares, during the Indo-Pakistan war, 'It is for the sake and the triumph of Truth that India is fighting and must fight until India and Pakistan have once more become One because that is the truth of their being.' Page 863 - Nov 24 Sri Aurobindo shows her 'the condition of humanity and of the different strata of humanity in... occult work on things, persons and circumstances, gradually extending the field ,as far as America. 'My consciousness was completely free of the body.' - May 24 Her being has become 'the conscious mediator between the absolute Truth and the manifested universe and (can) intervene in the slow, uncertain march of the yoga of Nature in order to give it the swiftness, intensity and sureness of the divine... Bangladesh imbroglio: 'As long as they are not determined to follow the Truth I can do nothing for them outwardly.' Predicts things will 'go wrong and badly for us... because of the prevailing falsehood'. Hopes those 'who can become conscious of this must decide very firmly to stand only on the Truth and to act only in the Truth. There should be no compromise. This is very essential. It is the only ...
... ian synthesis] has been modelled after the Tantric, though it is true that the Tantric truths have gone into the making of it even as the vedantic conceptions have. But they do not, by any means, form the prototypes; they are important elements... for the realisation of the fundamental truths in one's being, for the development of social psychology in consonance with the principles enunciated... Mother's descent into the aspirant at this moment transforming him entirely into a being of Ananda can be understood in the light of what Sri Aurobindo says about the seven Suns of the Supermind making a steady and inexorable descent into man's material body in terms of Tantrik diction: 1.The Sun of Supramental Truth (Descent into the Sahasradala) 2.The Sun of Supramental Light and Will-Power... this canto, the Adoration of the Divine Mother, to be a handbook of Integral Yoga. As Sri Aurobindo says: Veda and Vedanta are one side of the One Truth; Tantra with its emphasis on Shakti is another; in this yoga all sides of the truth are taken up, not in the systematic forms given them formerly but in their essence, and carried to the fullest and highest significance. But Vedanta deals ...
... movements of the being to the level of the highest consciousness and realization already attained.’ 18 It means putting all the parts of the being under the influence of the central being, the psychic being. The psychic being is divine; all parts without a connection with the inner divine remain under the influence of the non-divine or anti-divine. The divine element in us is Truth; the non-divine... the success of their efforts. Each time we try not to be an ordinary man, not to live the ordinary life, to express in our movements, our actions and reactions the divine Truth, when we are governed by that Truth instead of being governed by the general ignorance, we are apprentice-overmen – according to the success of our efforts more or less able apprentices, more or less advanced on the way.’ ... vibrating body as a finely tuned receptor of those vibrations. This was quantum physics as experiential reality, as a way of living, based on its underlying truth of the universal unity and experienced in the complexity of all the gradations of being. Unity is the source, unity is the outcome, unity is the way. But the Mother had to transform the consciousness of her cells into a Unity-Consciousness – ...
... symbol; for the name "Savitri" the Rig Veda Page 4 had given to the supreme creative consciousness emblemed forth as the Sun. It means the Truth-force of the divine Light, and by analogy "Satyavan" would mean that Light's Truth-being. So the carrying away of Satyavan by Yama the God of Death and the combat of Savitri's heart and mind with that inscrutable darkness were felt by Sri Aurobindo... the brilliant originality which enlarges that incident and strikes into it an inward spiritual truth, yet save for the effect produced by the sound and the meaning of the words "awful" and "yawn" we miss the cosmic unfathomable reverberations Sri Aurobindo induces in some concealed spaciousness of divine being. Technically we might say that the second line in Thompson fails to be overhead because of the... into a Presence that has no limit. Nor is there any bar to our conjuring up "a priestess of immaculate ecstasies". But what is "Truth's revealing vault" inspiring and ruling her? Is the sky used here as a symbol of the light of Eternity? Evidently some infinitude of being that stretches above like a sky and is higher than our obscure and erring consciousness is meant. Yet immediately afterwards we ...
... a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. “Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the Supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders... rational mind is the highest attainment. But the gradations of being run all the way from the Pure Absolute down to the Inconscient. “For the whole of being is a connected totality and there is in it no abrupt passage from the principle of Truth and Light into their opposite … The depths are linked to the heights and the Law of the one Truth creates and works everywhere.” 27 This is the same as saying... The soul , representative of the central being, is a spark of the Divine supporting all individual existence in Nature; the psychic being is a conscious form of that soul growing in the evolution – in the persistent process that develops first life in Matter, mind in life, until finally mind can develop into overmind and overmind into the supramental Truth. The soul supports the nature in its evolution ...
... received it is a great and sure and saving way, because it is identical with the true truth of man's being and it is the authentic movement of his inmost and supreme nature. "But the change is a very great one, an enormous transformation, and it cannot be done without an entire turning and conversion of your whole being and nature. There will be needed a complete consecration of your self and your nature... is not the inmost truth of the spirit's action; he becomes aware of a highest spiritual nature of the Divine in which is contained the source and the yet to be realised greater truth of all that is imperfectly figured now in mind, life and body. Arisen from the lower mental to this supreme spiritual nature, he is delivered there from all ego. He knows himself as a spiritual being, in his essence one... his life. We see too that the fourfold order of society is Page 53 merely the concrete form of a spiritual truth which is itself independent of the form; it rests on the conception of right works as a rightly ordered expression of the nature of the individual being through whom the work is done, that nature assigning him his line and scope in life according to his inborn quality and his ...
... whole being into its own native power, instead of the nature of man continuing to remain in half-light, half-darkness. I believe the descent of this Truth opening the way to a development of divine consciousness here to be the final sense of the earth evolution. If greater men than myself have not had this vision and this ideal before them, that is no reason why I should not follow my Truth-sense and... exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. ² ... and under others might not fit in at all. A general principle can be laid down if it is in consonance with the Truth, but its application must be determined by the inner consciousness seeing at each step what is to be done or not done. If the psychic is uppermost, if the being is entirely turned towards the Mother and follows the psychic, this can be increasingly done. All depends therefore ...
... greater issue, shifts from its narrow meaning and disappears into a much larger problem. Does the future of humanity lie in a culture founded solely upon reason and science?... Or is not the truth of our being rather that of a Soul embodied in Nature which is seeking to know itself, to find itself, to enlarge its consciousness, to arrive at a greater way of existence, to progress in the spirit and... human sympathy and oneness; it laid the inspired basis of wonderful spiritual philosophies; it examined the secrets of external nature and discovered and lived the boundless and miraculous truths of the inner being; it fathomed self and understood and possessed the world. 14 Two thousand or more years later - after the periods of further enrichment and complexity, artificiality and stratification... Becoming resolves itself into eternal being." 64 There is the truth of the cosmos ("all things are one"), and there is the cosmic process ("One out of all and all out of One"); but did Heraclitus have a vision of pralaya too when he said "Fire will come on all things and judge and convict them"? If he had, that would be another Heraclitean parallelism to Hindu thought, here the "periodic pralaya ...
... state you can see sparks of Truth coming out. Some of the things he said were quite true though he expressed them in a queer way. For instance, he said, "I keep all the experiences hanging till I reach the Supermind". That is quite truth. Something from behind was trying to express the truth. His external being always misapplies the truth he gets in this way. Here the truth is that the mind has to hold... to be real. There is the extremist like X who used to switch off the electric light when he saw the Light descending in his inner being! Not that kind of thing, but some element of it is necessary so that the physical mind may question everything and accept only the Truth. Some of these Sadhakas see all kinds of visions. At times they see a buffalo and think that they have attained Siddhi – perfection... "incorruptible". Sri Aurobindo : The ideal is all right. But the physical being is not at all satisfactory – and one can't, get over it by ignoring facts. Disciple : Mahatma Gandhi .in his autobiography refers to many experiments with the body : He holds that the world has to become fit to receive the truth. Sri Aurobindo : That is true. His autobiography will be a classical book ...
... to the line of thought underlying Cariyle's Sartor Resartus, notably the chapters 'Phoenix' and 'Organic Filaments'. Destruction and creation are for ever going on, and the future is in very truth being formed in the present. The debacle at Surat was but the preordained prelude to an imminent rebirth. And concluded the series with this prophetic declaration: The old organisations have to... took a heavy responsibility on himself by giving the order to bring about the split and by preventing a reunion on the Moderates' own terms. And when chairs were being raised and shoes were being hurled - when all that pandemonium was being enacted - Sri Aurobindo had remained imperturbably calm, only surrounded by a few younger revolutionaries from Midnapore. He knew - as warned by Lajpat Rai - that... hold of the brain and in three days I was free. From that moment, in principle, the mental being in me became a free Intelligence, a universal Mind, not limited' to the narrow circle of personal thought as a labourer in a thought factory, but a receiver of knowledge from all the hundred realms of being and free to choose what it willed in this vast sight-empire and thought-empire. 56 The ...
... understand only the lesson of catastrophe. Will it have to come before they open their eyes to truth? I ask an effort from all so that it has not to be. It is only the Truth that can save us; truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed. —The Mother * * * 27.11.72 Weekly selection from Sri... Because human appreciation is worth nothing. He alone knows the Truth, and it is He who has to decide. Like that. I don't know if you understand and follow; what I say may not be clear. But I—you see, to tell the truth, I have no respect for human appreciation and outlook, and I am absolutely convinced that only the Divine can see the truth. What I do is to tell, to show clearly His way so that we will... best way to get rid of the rule of the ego is to find the psychic being, instrument of the Divine in human beings. Go deep in yourself (in the heart region) and aspire steadily. The true meeting of the psychic is unmistakable. Blessings." * * * For the bi-lingual periodical "The Aurovilian" being brought out by Amar Singh from Orissa in English and Oriya, there was ...
... field and detecting its own misapplications to perceive the nature of the error, the actual truth misapplied and replace the former by the latter. At the same time, the separation of Power & Knowledge is being removed; they are acting simultaneously & the old form of error which took the will for the event, is being allowed play in order that it may be expelled by the viveka serving Page 181 ... in the corresponding movement, pause or ingita is so clearly shown that even the intellect cannot doubt the truth and accuracy of the siddhi. There is still confusion as to the time, place & order of circumstance of the event foreseen. The vani, script, lipi and thought are now being used normally & habitually for the life-purposes. The trikaldrishti and prakamyavyapti, alone among the instruments... blind faith, is demanded in all suggestions which are not corrected by the viveka. The mind is to question nothing & correct nothing. If this is done, then the faith will be justified by absolute truth being established. A similar faith is demanded for the fulfilment of aishwarya, ishita, vyapti, although the full justification will be a little slower in coming. In fact, this movement of faith has to ...
... intuited a wealth of symbol; for the name "Savitri" the Rig Veda had given to the supreme creative consciousness emblemed forth as the Sun. It means the Truth-force of the divine Light, and by analogy "Satyavan" would mean that Light's Truth-being. So the carrying away of Satyavan by Yama the God of Death and the combat of Savi-tri's heart and mind with that inscrutable darkness were felt by Sri Aurobindo... like a final truth the omnipotence of the dust encompasses us through his lyrical inevitabilities of despair and denial. Every mood that finds faultless poetic Form lords it over us like a deity. What invests it with that gospel-glow is not merely our willingness to make-believe. The true aesthetic response is no playful assent to a pleasing verbal legerdemain; it is a seizure of the being by a magic... Millions of golden birds, O vigour to come! Shakespeare's accidental unmasking of the Divine by a Word one with some cosmic Truth-Consciousness exceeds as spiritual poetry even the large magnificence deepening into mystery that we meet in that Wordsworthian Being Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns. Wordsworth seems here on the verge of the unmasking by identity; only a certain ...
... sufficiently integrated around the central Truth of our being, as it thinks the Truth and wants the Truth, is immortal. One can fairly easily remember one's past formations: some truths appear exceedingly familiar, some yearnings for truth inexplicably poignant. The vital also is capable of immortality as it becomes sufficiently integrated with the central psychic Truth: we emerge into another dimension, as... given this answer: It is always the same thing: by realizing one's own being, in whatever form, by whatever means – it doesn't matter – but that is the only way. Each person carries a truth within himself; he must become one with that truth, live that truth. When he does that, the path he follows to unite with and realize that truth is also the path that brings him closest to the Transformation. In other... other aspiration of man; but there is everything to widen, to widen endlessly. What we take for a final truth is most often only a partial experience of the Truth, and certainly the total Experience exists nowhere in time and space, in no place and no being however luminous he may be; for Truth is infinite, forever marching onward. But man always takes upon himself an endless burden , said the Mother ...
... not illegitimate, though the Oxford dictionary gives only the transitive. Quite possible to use a transitive verb in this way with an unexpressed object, things in general being understood. 31 March 1948 For Truth is wider, greater than her forms. A thousand icons they have made of her And find her in the idols they adore; But she remains herself and infinite. [ p. 276 ] "They" means... poetry. This is the real stumbling-block of mystic poetry and specially mystic poetry of this kind. 21 The mystic feels real and present, even ever-present to his experience, intimate to his being, truths which to the ordinary reader are intellectual abstractions or metaphysical speculations. He is writing of experiences that are foreign to the ordinary mentality. Either they are unintelligible to... exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the guest-house, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be ...
... Mother will see about the time to be fixed for the music. February 18, 1933 At least the inner being, the psychic, is nowadays sufficiently awake not to acquiesce in the "reasonings" of the vital—your dream was the voice of the inner being, its reply showing you the truth within you and the real demand of the spirit. It was the dissatisfaction of the soul with the superficial vital... express the highest truth —for that too was an unrealised trend of his consciousness in that life. Perhaps before he had been a warrior or ruler doing deeds like Aeneas or Augustus before he sang them. And so on—on this side or that the central being develops a new character, a new personality, grows, develops, passes through all kinds of terrestrial experience. As the evolved being develops still... certainly not be fit to do the work I am doing, and my coming upon earth would have no meaning. Do give up once for all this idea of defeat and this gloom which is so contrary to the inner truth of your being. I want you to pick yourself up and be perfectly cheerful and confident for your coming birthday. I hope to see you entirely yourself again this evening from the roof and tomorrow at pranam ...
... Blessings. 7 September 1965 ( The Mother's message to the Prime Minister of India ) It is for the sake and the triumph of Truth that India is fighting and must fight until India and Pakistan have once more become One because that is the truth of their being. THE MOTHER 16 September 1965 Here is my message on the occasion (corrected 11 because of the world's condition of mind and... with full trust the man refused to eat till the Lord came in the human form and shared the food, and that actually the Lord appeared, behaved just like a human being, and ate. Is there any truth behind these stories? A psychological truth because anybody can become for you the Lord if so you decide. The subjective point of view is much more widely prevailing than it is generally admitted. 23... the higher truth must be told. 25 February 1962 Page 213 Mother, I was under the illusion that I have to arrange work for people. X is in a very bad condition and Y is also unwell. So I thought that when Z comes, he could be put in Honesty Society to help X. He has been a merchant. As it always happens, the case has not been referred to me and I hear he is being given to Bureau ...
... Sabr (patience) and Salat prayer. (2:45) 3.Truth and Love of Truth: Being truthful is highly desirable in Islam. One must speak the truth in all circumstances. A saying of the Prophet (Pbuh) has it that speaking truth before a cruel king is the best of Jihad. Page 359 Being truthful is more than just speaking the truth; it means the truthfulness of heart and intention which... is the spell that India has cast upon me. Sometimes I see that some Indians have difficulty to understand this, but I can only say that this is the truth of my being. I will not try to list out any reasons, they would fall short of any essential truth. I may only venture to say that India is pre-eminently the country of the soul, of the spirit, way beyond any external appearance. And some of us who... st century. Education for peace and for a culture of peace is being globally accepted and adopted by the nations and more so by the education systems worldwide. In India, the social cohesion, adherence to moral and ethical values and commitment to the society have been the hallmarks of socio-cultural ethos. Gandhiji had identified truth and non-violence as the two central pillars to ensure peace, ...
... deviates from Shastra it may turn to larger and greater ideal. This movement is usually 1. 17.1-2 Page 122 an attempt to lay hold on some forgotten truth or to move on to a yet undiscovered or unlived truth of our being. "But the Gita goes even farther and speaks not only of shraddha of three Gunas of Nature, but declares that our own true self, our inmost soul, is itself constituted... said, "All that I have said can be stated in the form of a few propositions. (1) All actions must be determined from within; (2) whatever action man does, if done according to the law of his being, the truth of his nature, can be turned Godwards and made an effective means of spiritual liberation and perfection; (3) although each of us has four tendencies in varying degrees each one of us has a ... illumined by supreme inspirations of the Truth, agnir hota kavi kratuh satyash chitrashravastamah. "The significance of the antaratman becomes acutely meaningful to us when we consider the question of free-will. In fact, the question of free-will is supremely important for the student of law, since the entire institution of law assumes that every human being should voluntarily adhere Page 180 ...
... is delimitation -Name and Shape out of the vast illimitable Truth of infinite existence. It is by Māyā that static truth of essential being becomes ordered truth of active being, -or, to put it in more metaphysical language, out of the supreme being in which all is all without barrier of separative consciousness emerges the phenomenal being in which all is in each and each is in all for the play of... each that he is in all but not all in him and that he is in all as a separated being not as a being always inseparably one with the rest of existence. Afterwards we have to emerge from this error into the supramental play or the truth of Māyā where "each" and the "all" coexist in the inseparable unity of the one truth and the multiple symbol. 456.M. Monier-Williams, op. cit., p. 804, col.... between the seekers of spiritual Light and the powers of Darkness, even if the cows are the illuminations received from the Sun of Truth and from the Dawn of inner revelation and are not mundane milk-givers, even if the Dāsa-Dasyus are no human plunderers but demoniac beings, and their forts metaphors for occult centres of massive resistance to the Aryans' quest of soul and God, must we be prevented from ...
... explain the truth. Give me Your love, Mother. I give it to you constantly, but you must not always lose it by continually repeating the same mistakes. 30 August 1934 Please tell me what to do, Mother, so that nothing and no one can disturb me. The whole being must be governed by the psychic being and by that alone. 31 August 1934 I don't know what to do, for my being has been... manifestation. 23 January 1935 I thought that the soul was perfect in its nature. I don't understand "the ascension of the soul towards the truth from which it springs". Page 77 The essence of the soul is divine, but the soul (the psychic being) grows through all the forms of evolution; it becomes more and more individualised and increasingly conscious of itself and its origin. 24... this is the best and most ennobling sort of sadhana. "To withhold our love means to be shut up in our own little ego; to extend it to all means to enlarge our being and come nearer to Him." What do You think of this? There is some truth in what she says, but it is mixed with the usual falsehood of human sentimentality. I told Y he had better ask You before doing what Z suggests, because I don't ...
... of the martial spirit and an easy proneness to any superior might. Describing the then state of the country, Rabindranath says: ".. .our country having lost its link with the inmost truths of its being struggled under a crushing load of unreason, in abject slavery to circumstance. In social usage, in politics, in the realms of religion and art, we had entered the zone of uncreative habit, of... independence through the way of peace, but it is only a partial truth. If it had been wholly true, then the whole nation would have experienced 'the power of peace'. There would have been faith in peace and our country would not have been reduced to the present miserable condition. We would not have presented the sorry spectacle of being divided into many groups, parties and communities, who do not trust... depends upon my will, but upon the command of God...." This state of being completely possessed by the Divine and moved by Him even in one's physical action is, as Sri Aurobindo afterwards so often explained in his letters to his disciples and in his writings on Yoga, the inevitable result of an unreserved surrender of the whole being of man, including his body and all its movements, to God. But it ...
... It isn't the deep, full breathing of human beings. They live like automatons for 23 hours and 50 minutes, and perhaps for only 10 minutes a day something happens – and sometimes, not even that. Well, the minute I felt that lack of truth, as it were – that is, when I returned to land and met with conflicts, people – the minute I felt that lack of truth, something in me became ABSOLUTELY steadfast... forced to SPIT OUT his truth, to GIVE OFF his truth, to RING with his true "sound." Towarnicki: To test himself? Yes, to find out what's in there. That was my question. My only question. And perhaps it is because I had that intense a question that I was soon given a response. At twenty – twenty years and fifteen days – I started to be given the response. By being stripped of everything... intensity among beings, or the difference of "quality." There you have an inkling of what reincarnation might be. Page 202 It isn't the reincarnation of a great warrior or a great consul, you see. It is the reincarnation of a little flame of truth seeking more and more to fill this life so full of empty hours, so empty they seem never to have existed. And they are beings who strive more ...
... of being, its quality of being, its innermost music, its relation with the great Rhythm that flows everywhere. Then, slowly, the seeker of the new world will see a sort of little spark of pure truth in the heart of the object, circumstance, face or accident, a little cry of true being, a true vibration beneath all the black and yellow and blue and red coatings – something that is the truth of... we have said, man has a self of fire in the center of his being, a little flame, a pure cry of being Page 65 under the ruins of the machine. This fire is the one that clarifies. This fire is the one that sees. For it is a fire of truth in the center of the being, and there is one and the same Fire everywhere, in all beings and all things and all movements of the world and the stars... believes in the power of truth in the heart of all things and all beings – he only helps that truth to grow with as little interference as possible. He trusts in the powers of that truth. He knows that man always moves toward his goal, inexorably, despite everything he is told or taught – he only tries to suppress that “despite.” He simply waters that little sapling of truth – and then again, with ...
... the harmonisation of the being. That cannot be done from outside, it cannot be done by the mind and vital being—they are sure to bungle their affair. It can be done only from within by the soul, the Spirit which is the centraliser, itself the centre of these radii- In all of them there is a truth that can harmonise with the true truth of the others. For there is a truth in Nirvana— Nirvan is nothing... and masters of the play of nature—how far this goes depending on the development of the inner being and its opening upward to the higher spiritual levels. At the same time the opening of the heart centre releases the psychic being which proceeds to make us aware of the Divine within us and of the higher Truth above us. For the highest spiritual Self is not even behind our personality and bodily... personalities there is a truth, the Even of the possession of the inner and outer worlds not by the ego but by the Divine. That is the harmonisation for which our Yoga stands—but it cannot be achieved by any outward arrangement, it can only be achieved by going inside and looking, willing and acting from the psychic and from the spiritual centre. For the truth of the being is there and the secret of ...
... can approach God. It is the one religion which insists every moment on the truth which all religions acknowledge that He is in all men and all things and that in Him we move and have our being. It is the one religion which enables us not only to understand and believe this truth but to realise it with every part of our being. It is the one religion which shows the world what the world is, that it... and ignore the deeper springs from which they emerge. The protagonist of a revolution is a living focus of its possibilities and a prism of its diverse colours. Not to know him in the inner truth of his being is to miss the real import of his mission and the purpose and significance of the revolution. What historian can hope to study fruitfully the Renaissance in the West without arriving at a proper... causal. As the gross body of the individual is only the outer crust or coating of the inner being, so the physical body of the nation is only its mutable material covering. To see only its material covering or shell, its social and political configuration, and regard that alone as one's nation is to miss the truth of its inner and inmost existence. The acorn gives no hint of the oak, or the caterpillar ...
... 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 Being beyond the darkness. But in India the rejection... never quite unmixed, have to be seen to get a whole view. But the discovery of the truth about human beings need not lead to cynicism; it may lead to a calm aloofness and irony which has nothing disappointed or bitter in it; or it may lead to a large psychic charity Page 120 which recognises the truth but makes all allowances and is ready to love and to help in spite of all. In the... personal and the impersonal side of the Divine and the Truth and it is a mistake to think the impersonal alone true or important—for that leads to a void incompleteness in part of the being while only one side is given satisfaction. Impersonality belongs to the intellectual mind and the static self, personality to the soul and heart and dynamic being. Those who disregard the personal Divine ignore something ...
... us something about dreams? Do they tell the truth?" suddenly interrupted one of the older boys. "Not all of them." "But Sachet just said he saw you and the Mother in his dreams...." "Oh! those, of course, are true. How else could he feel waves of joy washing over him all of next day? You see, though science may believe that man is merely a being of flesh and blood, it really is not so. For... tranquil joy filled their being. We all have another body besides the physical one, we may call it the subtle body. When you sleep at night, the Mother visits you in her subtle body to bring you peace and light, health and wisdom - according to your need. If you are conscious, you may realise this, sometimes even you may yourselves go to her. You will understand all these complex truths better when you grow... asuric powers. The poor human being is a mere puppet in their hands. But though he may be a puppet, there are certain factors that cannot be overlooked, such as the weight of his past Karma, his free-will and so on. Hence, it is the combination of all these complex forces that will tilt the balance for the individual here. If, for example, you walk on the path of truth, if your mind is preoccupied with ...
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