... and environment of other individuals, that alone can have any survival. Behind both the mental and the physical phenomena there is perhaps a universal Life of which we are individualised, evolutionary and phenomenal becomings. This universal Life creates a real world and real beings, but the conscious personality in these beings is not, or at least it need not be, the sign or the shape of co... phenomenal creation of the universal Life by the interaction of life consciousness and physical form and force, but with a wider, more variable and subtler action of both upon each other and another history than it had at first seen to be possible. It might even arrive at a sort of vitalistic Buddhism, admitting Karma, but admitting it only as the action of a universal Life-force; it would admit as one... and with it a psychic body is developed in the course of Nature and persists after death in other worlds or by reincarnation here. These would be the two possible alternatives. An evolving universal Life may have developed on earth the growing personality that has now become ourselves, before it Page 778 entered a human body at all; the soul in us may have evolved in lower life-shapes ...
... is aware of the universal force, of a universal life and then he knows that he is only a part of it. And he does not know that he, himself, is universal. This is the knot of the difficulty. There is a mind at work and this mind comes in contact with energy or consciousness all around and it knows that there is cosmic or universal energy at work, universal life at work. But the mind is not conscious... creation of a limited individuality or separate ego becomes possible. It goes on hiding or veiling its light more and more till it comes to matter. This very process comes into operation in creating universal life. It ends in creating universal matter and out of it starts Page 205 evolution. Then there is the ascent. In the ascent this drive of universal mind becomes possible because of... life—the force of Satchidananda putting itself forth under cosmic conditions. It becomes Life when it evolves from cosmic matter. The first projection is universal matter and the second projection is universal life. This life that has come into existence is subjected to the operation of universal mind. Therefore, the dividing faculties are already at work when life comes into existence. Mind is the dividing ...
... ्ने गुहा गुहं गाः ॥३॥ 3) As the unborn he has held the wide earth, he has up-pillared heaven with his Mantras of truth. Guard the cherished footprints of the Cow of vision; O Fire, thou art universal life, enter into the secrecy of secrecies. 8 य ई चिकेत गुहा भवन्तमा यः ससाद धारामृतस्य । वि ये चृतन्त्यृता सपन्त आदिद् वसूनि प्र ववाचास्मै ॥४॥ 4) He who has perceived him when he is in... ऋतस्य प्रेषा ऋतस्य धीतिर्विश्वायुर्विश्वे अपांसि चकुः । यस्तुभ्यं दाशाद् यो वा ते शिक्षात् तस्मै चिकित्वान्नायिं वयस्व ॥३॥ 3) He is the urgings of the Truth, the thinking of the Truth, the universal life by whom all do the works. He who gives to thee, he who gains from thee, 10 to him, for thou knowest, give the Riches. होता निषत्तो मनोरपत्ये स चिन्न्वासां पती रयीणाम् । इच्छन्त रेतो... णो रयीणाम् ॥४॥ 4) Such art thou, O Fire, to whom men cleave, kindled eternal in the house in the abiding worlds of thy habitation. They have founded within upon thee a great light; become a universal life holder of the riches. Page 106 वि पृक्षो अग्ने मधवानो अश्युर्वि सूरयो ददतो विश्वमायुः । सनेम वाजं समिथेष्वर्यो भागं देवेषु श्रवसे दधानाः ॥५॥ 5) O Fire, may the masters of wealth ...
... first, as Matter, called Prithivi, the Earth-Principle. Brahman in Matter or physical being represents Itself as the universal Life-Power, Matarishwan, which moves there as a dynamic energy, Prana, and presides effectively over all arrangement and formation. Universal Life establishes, involved in Matter, the septuple consciousness; and the action of Prana, the dynamic energy, on the Matrix of... separated Personalities in the movement. THE PRINCIPLE OF LIFE MATARISHWAN AND THE WATERS What then is Its intention in the movement? The movement is a rhythm, a harmony which That, as the Universal Life, works out by figures of Itself in the terms of conscious Being. It is a formula symbolically expressive of the Unknowable,—so arranged that every level of consciousness really represents something ...
... existing conditions of life, it is not the physical energy that is the real sustainer of the living body: for, this energy is neither primal in nature nor independent in action. It is rather the universal life-energy, the Prana of the Upanishads, that is the prime governor and support of all embodied existence, although on the frontal plane it may sometimes be constrained to act through the modified... upon its ceaseless dynamic movement, we make the following significant discoveries: (i) Behind every action of physical energy and supporting it, there lies always a Pranic Shakti, the universal Life-Energy that is "not physical in itself; ... not material energy, but rather a different principle supporting Matter and involved in it." 4 1 See the discussion in Chapter X. ... result." 4 Even in the functioning of our body it is this Pranic Shakti that is the essential "condition of all action, even of the most apparently inanimate physical action." 5 (v)This universal Life-Energy is not only active within ourselves, in our body; it is at the same time "freely available in the world and in any quantity." 6 As a matter of fact, because of the prevailing imperfect ...
... habitation; for they have placed in thee a great light. Be our universal life; be the hold of our treasure. वि पृक्षो अग्ने मघवानो अश्युर्वि सूरयो ददतो विश्वमायुः । सनेम वाजं समिथेष्वर्यो भागं देवेषु श्रवसे दधानाः ॥५॥ O Fire, let the masters of the wealth enjoy thy satisfying things and the illumined seers, the givers the universal life. Warriors in the clashes of the battle, let us conquer plenitude... पश्वो नि पाहि विश्वायुरग्ने गुहा गुहं गाः ॥३॥ He holds like one unborn the wide earth our dwelling-place and pillars heaven with the truth of the sacred words of his thinking. O Flame, thou art universal life; guard the pleasant footholds of the Cow of vision; watch over the herd of the rays in the secrecy of the secret cavern. य ईं चिकेत गुहा भवन्तमा यः ससाद धारामृतस्य । वि ये चृतन्त्यृता सपन्त... besieges us with his greatness in all the growths of the earth and who is all the children of the worlds and who is within in all the mothers. He is knowledge in the house of the Waters and he is universal life. The thinkers have measured and constructed him like a mansion. Parashara's Hymns to the Lord of the Flame - III श्रीणन्नुप स्थाद्दिवं भुरण्युः स्थातुश्चरथमक्तून्व्यूर्णोत् । परि यदेषामोको ...
... the universal life force and its operations in things, happenings and persons. The mind becomes aware of the life consciousness in all things, responds to it through our life consciousness with an immediate directness not limited by the ordinary communication through the body and its organs, records its intuitions, becomes capable of experiencing existence as a translation of the universal Life or Prana... material universe. The first result is that the limitations of our individual life being break down and we live no longer with a personal life force, or not with that ordinarily, but in and by the universal life energy. It is all the universal Prana that comes consciently streaming into and through us, keeps up there a dynamic constant eddy, an unseparated centre of its power, a vibrant station of storage... always the effect of the supramental growth is to universalise the individual consciousness. As it makes us live, even in our individual vital movement and its relations with all around us, with the universal life, so it makes us think and feel and sense, although through an individual centre or instrument, with the universal mind and psychical being. This has two results of great importance. First, the ...
... that is to say Vayu, the motional or first energetic principle of Nature founded in Akasha, the static principle of extension which is the eternal matrix of things, working in it as Prana, the universal life-activity; dadhati, (τίθƞσɩ) establishes, sets in its place & manages. For the root dha has always the idea of arrangement, management, working out of things. The reason for introducing this... —Matariswan, deploying existence in settled forms by the fivefold (panchabhautic) complex movement of the material Brahman, of conscious being as the essential substance of things, reveals himself as universal life activity, upholder of our vitality, prompter & cause of our actions. He as Life, is latently active in the utter inanimate, present, but unorganised in the metal, organised for life and growth ...
... on of the raison d’être of the entire universe. In fact, according to very old traditions, the Earth, from the deeper spiritual point of view, has been created as a symbolic concentration of universal life so that the work of transformation may be done more easily, in a limited, concentrated “space”, so to say, where all the elements of the problem are gathered together so that, in this concentration... recognising him as their origin and of uniting consciously with him to manifest him in the becoming. There is no other reason for the universe. The Earth is a kind of symbolic crystallisation of universal life, a reduction, a concentration, so that the work of evolution may be easier to do and follow. And if we consider the history of the Earth, we can understand why the universe has been created. It ...
... वेद्यश्चनो धात् । विश्वायुर्यो अमृतो मर्त्येषूषर्भुद् भूदतिथिर्जातवेदाः ॥२॥ 2) He is wide in his light like a seer of the Day; he is the one we must know and founds an adorable joy. In him is universal life, he is the Immortal in mortals; he is the Waker in the Dawn, our Guest, the Godhead who knows all births that are. Page 60 द्यावो न यस्य पनयन्त्यभ्वं भासांसि वस्ते सूर्यो न शुकः... ते ते अग्ने त्वोता इषयन्तो विश्वमायुः । तरन्तो अर्यो अरातीर्वन्वन्तो अर्यो अरातीः ॥२७॥ 27) These are thy men whom thou guardest, O Fire, and they find the speed of thy impulse and move to universal Life, fighters piercing through the armies of the enemy, fighters conquering the armies of the enemy. 19 अग्निस्तिग्मेन शोचिषा यासद् विश्वं न्यत्रिणम् । अग्निर्नो वनते रयिम् ॥२८॥ 28) ...
... result the poor, limited, individual existence helplessly thrown into the arena of constant cosmic interchange of force fails to embrace freely and grow eternally by the shock and pressure of the universal Life, and instead gets disrupted and devoured at the end. In the words of Sri Aurobindo, "that which refuses to give itself, is still the food of the cosmic Powers. 'The eater eating is eaten' is... so long as the individual formation displays its habit of predatory hunger, the law of interchange, of action and reaction, will see to it that the devourer itself is constantly fed upon by universal Life, and that the separative existence 1 The Life Divine, p. 201. 2 Cf. "I being food eat him that eats", ahamannamannamadantamā'dmi (Taittiriya Upanishad, III.10.7). 3 ...
... of the universe that the individual is impelled to realise himself. Not only is it his foundation, his means, his field, the stuff of the divine Work; but also, since the concentration of the universal Life which he is takes place within limits and is not like the intensive unity of Brahman free from all conception of bound and term, he must necessarily universalise and impersonalise himself in... inmost Self, the universal Godhead in every being is that whose very nature of diverse oneness it is to realise the perfection of its individual life and nature in the existence of all, in the universal life and nature." 30 But does this not seem to be a solution that appears too remote, too chimerical and thus puts, off the consummation of a better human society to a far-off date in the ...
... imperfection, the signs of a lower flight loom large there. We do not find there – in the words of Matthew Arnold – 'a humanity variously and fully developed' or a multifarious free scope of the universal life such as we have already mentioned. This very achievement of breaking down the limited movements within a narrow compass and spreading it out into the vast has been won by Madhusudan, Bankim... the emotional stuff is clumsy and disorderly. There we find too much of the personality, the idiosyncrasy and fancy of the particular individual. Naturally it cannot bear the message of the vast universal life-force. The poet who is a slave of his emotional impulse must perforce live in the imaginative circle of his own temporary experience – his ego, the knot of his heart – and consider the narrow compass ...
... integrity and progression of all life in the universe. The Vedic seers declared that it is by applying the knowledge of this Dharma that one can become a harmonious part of the unity of universal life. 4 Sanatana Dharma in its application to human life traces the path by which one could travel successfully to the fourth world and to the original Reality. The question is as... though that may prove to be painful. But this idea of painful sacrifice is only valid at lower levels where we have not understood the secret of right action and the secret of the intention of the universal life. But when this secret is rightly understood, it is realised that the entire movement of life, entire rhythm of life, entire dharma of life, reduces itself to mutual self-giving of oneself to ...
... up now to let in the gradual flow of the universal life-energy. This, in more erudite language, is called cakrabheda, breaking through the six or, according to another count, twelve or more centres of consciousness or energy that are there in the body; these are liberated and brought into play. Through ś avāsana one becomes unified with the universal life-energy; from head to foot there streams in ...
... with all material existence; the vital life does not possess its own full living in its own kind if the consciousness does not exceed the restricted play of an individual vitality and feel the universal life as its own and its oneness with all life. The mentality is not a full conscious existence or activity in its own kind if one does not exceed the individual mental limits and feel a oneness with... is the first step towards a true universality; it brings to us the truth of our external as well as the truth of our internal existence. For this inner living can extend itself and embrace the universal life, it can contact, penetrate, englobe the life of all with a much greater reality and dynamic force than is in our surface consciousness at all possible. Our utmost universalisation on the surface... the cosmic Force, masked as a material Energy, hides from our view by its insistent materiality of process the occult fact that the working of the Inconscient is really the expression of a vast universal Life, a veiled universal Mind, a hooded Gnosis, and without these origins of itself it could have no power of action, no organising coherence. Life-Force also in the material world seems to be more ...
... vital conscious being, prāṇamaya puruṣa , which is capable of looking beyond the duration and limits of the physical body, of feeling an eternity of life behind and in front, an identity with a universal Life-being, but does not look Page 634 beyond a constant vital becoming in Time. These three Purushas are soul-forms of the Spirit by which it identifies its conscious existence with and... error. However sharply he individualises himself in mental idea and mental or other action, he is inseparable from the universal being, his body from universal force and matter, his life from the universal life, his mind from universal mind, his soul and spirit from universal soul and spirit. The universal acts on him, invades him, overcomes him, shapes itself in him at every moment; he in his reaction... universalise himself, to make himself one with the universe. This unification can be done only through the soul by making our soul of mind one with the universal Mind, our soul of life one with the universal Life-soul, our soul of body one with the universal soul of physical Nature. When this can be done, in proportion to the power, intensity, depth, completeness, permanence with which it can be done, great ...
... if one wants to go out, not only from the earth atmosphere but from the universal life! To be able simply to enter into contact with the life of the earth in its totality from the formation of the earth until now, what can this mean? And then to go beyond this and enter into Page 230 contact with universal life from its beginnings up to now... and then again to be able to bring something ...
... limited by the existing walls of our too narrow mental, vital, physical existence. This widening can extend itself to a complete entry into the consciousness of cosmic Mind, into unity with the universal Life, even into a oneness with universal Matter. That, however, is still an identification either with a diminished cosmic truth or with the cosmic Ignorance. But once this entry into the inner being... into it; it concludes that Matter is the eternal factor, the primary and ultimate reality, Brahman. Or it sees all as born of Life-Force or Mind, existing by Life or by Mind, going back into the universal Life or Mind, and it concludes that this world is a creation of the cosmic Life-Force or of a cosmic Mind or Logos. Or again it sees the world and all things as born of, existing by and going back to ...
... relation to other similar beings and powers in the universal mind. When it dwells in the principle of life, it knows itself as a being of the universal life working out action and consciousness by its desires under similar modifying conditions proper to a universal life-soul whose action is through many individual life-beings. When it dwells in the principle of matter, it knows itself as a consciousness ...
... tyu ḥ , the individual existence has to annul its ego-isolation and rediscover and re-live its secret unity with all. But uniformity or an amorphous oneness is not the law of cosmic becoming; universal life exists by diversity and "insists that... every being shall be, even while one with all the rest in its universality, yet by some principle or ordered detail of variation unique." 4 Thus the... kiñcana, nothing can devour or disrupt him too, na tadaśnāti kaścana. 2 By finding at last the clue to the establishment of a free play of commerce, uninterrupted and harmonious, with the Universal Life all around, the individual succeeds in absorbing and assimilating all the currents and crosscurrents of life and never again becomes a helpless food for others, with the attendant doom of death ...
... Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy And Yoga - Some Aspects Churning Of Universal Life - Its Significance Never before in history has there been such a worldwide crisis in the life of humanity. There is no region of earth which is free from the turmoil and upheaval social, economic and political. From one corner o£ the earth to the other the scene is the same everywhere... will be actually realised in human life. It is for this that the evolutionary nature is in travail and which she is seeking to deliver to a distressed humanity by churning of the ocean of universal life with all its nectars and poisons. So that the evil and poison-i Our souls can visit in great lonely hours Still regions of imperishable Light, All-seeing eagle-peaks of silent Power ...
... forests, and evokes a picture of the forest that is good and beautiful. Rama who wants to dissuade her paints a different picture which is evil and ugly. Both are true, both are expressions of the universal life-force, but whereas one is the vision of the "greater life" the other is that of the "little life". 47 We find in Savitri too the opposition between the two visions. Sri Aurobindo does not imitate... immensely enlarged the scope. The main story has not undergone much change. But within the ancient framework he has given form to a vast and eternal vision encompassing many planes of individual and universal life, physical, occult and spiritual. In the study of influence we could analyse how the original tale has grown, what the additions and modifications are. 74 Although it would be an interesting ...
... personal mind and body disappear and one becomes aware of a cosmic vastness which is or filled by a cosmic spirit and aware also of the direct play of cosmic forces, universal mind forces, universal life forces, universal energies of Matter, universal overmind forces. But one does not become aware of all Page 220 these together; the opening of the cosmic consciousness is usually... universalisation may be more on one plane or level than on another, predominantly mental or predominantly emotional (through universal sympathy or love) or vital of another kind (experience of the universal life forces) or physical. But in any case, even with the full realisation and experience it should be evident that this cosmic play would be something that one would finally feel as limited, ignorant ...
... consciousness and the universal forces that play through us and around us." 16 For the inner mind is directly in touch with the universal mind, just as the inner vital is in direct touch with the universal life-forces, and the inner physical with the universal physical forces around us. To illustrate the difference between indirect knowledge through the outer being and direct knowledge through the inner... However sharply he individualises himself in mental idea and mental or other action, he is inseparable from the universal being, his body from universal force and matter, his life from the universal life, his mind from universal mind, his soul and spirit from universal soul and spirit. 31 Thus each part of the individual being corresponds to a plane of the universal being. Ego ...
... wills. The Yogi, the true Yogi, aims at a higher quality, a deeper potentiality of the life energy: it may be called the Inner Life Energy. This inner life energy is in a line with, is one with the universal life energy; therefore it is said when one possesses and controls this power one has command over the universal power. All other energies—visible, tangible, concretised and canalised—are particular... and stresses that settle down and remain in the background and are not immediately required or utilised for life purposes: also it contacts directly energies and movements that well out of the universal life. The phenomena of clairvoyance and clairaudience, the knowledge of the past and the future and of other worlds and persons and Page 40 beings, certain more dynamic movements ...
... wills. The Yogi, the true Yogi, aims at a higher quality, a deeper potentiality of the life energy: it may be called the Inner Life Energy. This inner life energy is in a line with, is one with the universal life energy; therefore it is said when one possesses and controls this power one has command over the universal power. All other energies—visible, tangible, concretised and canalised—are particular... and stresses that settle down and remain in the background and are not immediately required or utilised for life purposes: also it contacts directly energies and movements that well out of the universal life. The phenomena of clairvoyance and clairaudience, the knowledge of the past and the future and of other worlds and persons and beings, certain more dynamic movements such as distant influence and ...
... wills. The Yogi, the true Yogi, aims at a higher quality, a deeper potentiality of the life energy: it may be called the Inner Life Energy. This inner life energy is in a line with, is one with the universal life energy; therefore it is said when one possesses and controls this power one has command over the universal power. All other energies – visible, tangible, concretised and canalised – are particular... and stresses that settle down and remain in the background and are not immediately required or utilised for life purposes: also it contacts directly energies and movements that well out of the universal life. The phenomena of clairvoyance and clairaudience, the knowledge of the past and the future and of other worlds and persons and beings, certain more dynamic movements such as distant influence ...
... point, we really wonder how we were ever able to live without that current before. This is a first transmutation of our energies. Instead of drawing from the common source, below and around us, in universal life, we draw from above. And that energy is far clearer, far more sustained, uninterrupted, and especially far more dynamic. In daily life, in the midst of our work and our myriad other occupations... centre. The will might control the organs that deal with food, safeguard automatically the health, eliminate greed and desire, substitute subtler processes or draw in strength and substance from the universal life-force so that the body could maintain for a long time its Page 264 own strength and substance without loss or waste, remaining thus with no need of sustenance by material aliments, ...
... vision of the superconscient into that also and not only into their own individual workings. The mind of the individual escapes from its limits and becomes the one universal mind, his life the one universal life, his bodily sense the sense of the whole universe and even more as his own indivisible Brahman-body. He perceives the universe in himself and he perceives also his self in all existences and knows ...
... fulfilled in the right object of our ascension. And for this reason, that mind is in its nature bound up with limitation & form and dependent on the centre from which it works. Universal Manas, like universal Life & universal Matter, exists indeed & contains all things in itself, but it contains without comprehending. Its nature is not comprehension, but division, & what it calls comprehension is merely ...
... different definite stages of earthly evolution. As far as I can see, the evolution is considered significant after the vertebrate stage is reached. The sea is a symbol of, among other things, the universal life force. Scientifically, life is considered to have first appeared in the prehistoric waters of the earth. India seems to have had an intuition of this fact and, putting a stress on vertebrates, ...
... until later. He permitted glimpses of it only to a few. When the time came, however, Hitler would bring the world a new religion … The blessed consciousness of eternal life in union with the great universal life, and in membership of an immortal people — that was the message he would impart to the world when the time came. Hitler would be the first to achieve what Christianity was meant to have been, a ...
... … The will might control the organs that deal with food, safeguard automatically the health, eliminate greed and desire, substitute subtler processes or draw in strength and substance from the universal life-force … “It might well be that the evolutionary urge would proceed to a change of the organs themselves in their material working and use and diminish greatly the need of their instrumentation ...
... means of the universe that the individual is impelled to realise himself. Not only is it his foundation, his means, his field, the stuff of the divine Work; but also, since the concentration of the universal Life which he is takes place within limits and is not like the intensive unity of Brahman free from all conception of bound and term, he must necessarily universalise and impersonalise himself in order ...
... fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action and movement the vital forces poured into it from the universal Life-Ocean, gives to it an extraordinary health, force and suppleness and seeks to liberate it from the habits by which it is subjected to ordinary physical Nature and kept within the narrow bounds ...
... be more on one plane or level of consciousness than on another, predominantly mental or predominantly emotional (through universal sympathy or love) or vital of another kind (experience of the universal life forces) or physical. But in any case, even with the full realisation and experience it should be evident that this Page 141 cosmic play would be something that one would finally feel ...
... Nature takes place in the self, in the Divine. The self contains the universe. The Cosmic Spirit or Self The Cosmic Spirit or Self contains everything in the cosmos—it upholds cosmic Mind, universal Life, universal Matter as well as the Overmind. The Self is more than all these things which are its formulations in Nature. Page 30 It [ the Cosmic Spirit ] uses Truth and Falsehood ...
... Shaw a Mystic? It is, of course, difficult to manufacture a mystic out of Shaw in the Yogic sense of the word, but in the philosophic sense I think it can be said that his conception of the universal life-force and his vision of man's future are prompted by a keen sense of the infinite, divine potencies of the human consciousness and of the secret urge towards godhead which is the motive power behind ...
... have recast his individual mind in the boundlessness of a cosmic mentality, enlarged and vivified his individual life into the immediate sense and direct experience of the dynamic motion of the universal life, opened up the communications of his body with the forces of universal Nature, before he can be capable of a change which transcends the present cosmic formulation and lifts him beyond the lower ...
... created, all that has been gathered, turned into stuff of experience and made part of the consciousness, personality and nature by the mental being, into a highest harmony with the high infinite and universal life of the spirit. The mind can have the touch of the infinite and the universal and can reflect and even lose itself in them, but the supermind alone can enable the individual to be completely one ...
... so long as the human life lasts, by a separative existence in mind, life and body; the full perfection is a possession, through this spiritual unity, of unity too with the universal Mind, the universal Life, the universal Form which are the other constant terms of cosmic being. Moreover, since human life is still accepted as a self-expression of the realised Divine in man, there must be an action ...
... form of the earth as much as in the plant that grows upon the earth and the animals that support their existence by devouring the life-force of the plant or of each other. All existence here is a universal Life that takes form of Matter. It might for that purpose hide life-process in physical process before it emerges as submental sensitivity and mentalised vitality, but still it would be throughout the ...
... The Life Divine Chapter XXII The Problem of Life This it is that is called the universal Life. Taittiriya Upanishad. (II. 3.) The Lord is seated in the heart of all beings turning all beings mounted upon a machine by his Maya. Gita. (XVIII. 61.) He who knows the Truth, the Knowledge, the Infinity that is Brahman ...
... the body, suffers with the body, enjoys with the body, is born with the body, is dissolved with the body; or so at least it views its self-existence. Again, Nature has created within her unity of universal life separate-seeming currents of life which form themselves into a whorl of vitality around and in each body, and the Soul manifested in vital Nature seizes on and is seized by that current, is imprisoned ...
... habitat, as annexes of the vital or of the lower mental planes of existence. But there are also the true vital worlds,—original constructions, organised developments, native habitats of the universal life-principle, the cosmic vital Anima, acting in its own field and in its own nature. On his internatal journey he may be held there for a period by force of the predominantly vital character of the ...
... most of this one brief existence which begins with birth, ends with death and has no second recurrence. Our own being is a sort of accident or at least a very small and minor circumstance in the universal life of Matter or the eternal continuity of the workings of material Force. Somehow or other a soul or mind has come to exist in a body and it stumbles about among things and forces which it does not ...
... inmost self, the universal Godhead in every being is that whose very nature of diverse oneness it is to realise the perfection of its individual life and nature in the existence of all, in the universal life and nature. This is a solution to which it may be objected that it puts off the consummation of a better human society to a far-off date in the future evolution of the race. For it means that ...
... of the ideal super-mind they attain to the same infinite amplitude of right becoming, right action and right knowledge. The Truth in its largeness moulds all into the terms of the infinite and universal Life, replaces with it the limited individual existence, maps out in the terms of their real being the realms of the physical consciousness which, as Savitri, it has created. This also is in us a creation ...
... marvellous king of the peoples who presides over the laws of their action, may he hear. अग्निं विश्वायुवेपसं मर्यं न वाजिनं हितम् । सप्तिं न वाजयामसि ॥२५॥ 25) Fire who illumines the universal life like a male horse urged to its gallop, we speed like a racer to the goal. घ्नन् मृध्राण्यप द्विषो दहन् रक्षांसि विश्वहा । अग्ने तिग्मेन दीदिहि ॥२६॥ 26) Smiting away the foes and things ...
... supreme helpers. SUKTA 7 स्वस्ति नो दिवो अग्ने पृथिव्या विश्वायुर्धेहि यजथाय देव । सचेमहि तव दस्म प्रकेतैरुरुष्या ण उरुभिर्देव शंसैः ॥१॥ 1) Found for us felicity of earth and heaven and universal life Page 397 that we may worship thee with sacrifice, O god; O doer of works, may we keep close to thy perceptions of knowledge; guard us, O god, with thy wide utterances. इमा अग्ने ...
... workings. For he very evidently is not the master; it is not for the satisfaction of his personal ego that Nature was set upon her ways, not for the fulfilment of his desires and preferences that the universal Life is living, not for the justification of his intellectual opinions, judgments and standards that the universal Mind is working, nor is it to that petty tribunal that it has to refer its cosmic aims ...
... potent in God's armoury. 537) The obstinate pertinacity with which we cling to our meagre, fragmentary, night-besieged & grief-besieged individual existence even while the unbroken bliss of our universal life calls to us, is one of the most amazing of God's mysteries. It is only equalled by the infinite blindness with which we cast a shadow of our ego over the whole world & call that the universal being ...
... individual. The child was in the ancient patriarchal idea the live property of the father; he was his creation, his production, his own reproduction of himself; the father, rather than God or the universal Life in place of God, stood as the author of the child's being; and the creator has every right over his creation, the producer over his manufacture. He had the right to make of him what he willed, ...
... body disappear and one becomes aware of a cosmic vastness which is or is filled by a cosmic Spirit and aware also of the direct play of cosmic forces, universal Page 271 mind forces, universal life forces, universal energies of Matter, universal Overmind forces. But one does not become aware of all these together; the opening of the cosmic consciousness is usually progressive. It is not that ...
... is too narrow and in the dimension of their human individuality. In truth, the movements of Nature are like those of the tides: they advance, they recede, advance and recede; in the universal Page 22 life and even in terrestrial life, this means a progressive advance, though apparently it is cut up by withdrawals. But these withdrawals are only an appearance, as when one draws back to ...
... in two different senses. Sometimes it denotes the consciousness behind the veil of the outer being, the mental or vital or physical within, which is in direct touch with the universal mind, the universal life forces, the universal physical forces. Sometimes, on the other hand, we mean an inmost mental, vital, physical, more specifically called the true mind, the true vital, the true physical consciousness ...
... The child was in the ancient patriarchal idea the live property of the father; he was his creation, his production, his own reproduction of himself; the father, rather than God or the universal Life in place of God, stood as the author of the child’s being; and the creator has every right over his creation, the producer over his manufacture. He had the right to make of him what he willed, ...
... personality, a Master of Knowledge, a Master of Forces, a Lord of love and bliss and beauty, a single Origin of the worlds, a self-manifester and self-creator, a Cosmic Spirit, a universal Mind, a universal Life, the conscious and living Reality supporting the appearance which we sense as unconscious inanimate Matter. " Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 115 Sweet Mother ...
... representation of the purpose of the entire universe. In fact, according to very old traditions, the Earth, from the deeper spiritual point of view, has been created as a symbolic concentration of universal life so that the work of transformation may be done more easily, in a limited, concentrated "space"—so to say—where all the elements of the problem are gathered together so that, in the concentration ...
... a dark ray in the splendours of the universal Mind. His life is a striving, exulting, suffering, an eager passion-tossed and sorrow-stricken or a blindly and dumbly longing petty moment of the universal Life. His body is a labouring perishable speck in the material universe. This cannot be the end of the mysterious upward surge of Nature. There is something beyond, something that mankind shall be. ...
... of recognising him as their origin and uniting consciously with him to manifest him in the becoming. There is no other reason for the universe. The earth is a kind of symbolic crystallisation of universal life, a reduction, a concentration, so that the work of evolution may be easier to do and follow. And if we see the history of the earth, we can understand why the universe has been created. It is the ...
... beyond it—we know the means. But this ( Mother touches her body ), however much one keeps bringing in, bringing in, bringing in the Light and the Force.... Yes, for a few moments one can live a universal life, even in the sensations—but in the body.... ( silence ) For obviously it has to be done in this life. The body's progress can't be preserved, can it? Of course not—that's just it! ...
... individualised life and force in the body cannot master the All-Force working in the world. On the contrary, the resistance which it offers through blind ignorance to the movement of the infinite universal Life "with whose total will and trend its own will and trend may not immediately agree", 1 subjects it to the law of incapacity and fatigue, one of the basic characteristics of individualised and ...
... A step, and all is sky and God. Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: One Day ============= The Cosmic Spirit or Self contains everything in the cosmos — it upholds cosmic Mind, universal Life, universal Matter as well as the overmind. The Self is more than all these things which are its formulations in Nature. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Self or Atman ...
... long poems I remember, where a boy was thrown into the sea. It is very finely descriptive, but he has not created anything. PURANI: In "Balaka" and elsewhere he gives only a fine description of universal life and an interpretation of nature. NIRODBARAN: Is X creative? SRI AUROBINDO: I don't think he is; he is also lyrical. NIRODBARAN: In that poem of his, "Transformation of Nature", doesn't ...
... inmost Self, the universal Godhead in every being is that whose very nature of diverse oneness it is to realise the perfection of its individual life and nature in the existence of all, in the universal life and nature. 5 According to Sri Aurobindo, the present stage of human development can become a gate for the arrival of a spiritual age in which the ideal of brotherhood can come to be ...
... movement, starting from the dominion of apparently material forces reaching out to a higher spiritual freedom. This horse is not an ordinary horse, it is the Horse of the Worlds, representing universal Life-Force, which is to be offered in surrender as a sacrifice to the highest in order that the immortality may be attained. A special point of importance in this Upanishad is not only elaborate description ...
... guided and conducted by Varuna. Under successive instructions, Bhrigu concentrates himself successively in thought and by the askesis (tapas) of his brooding, on universal matter (anna), on universal life-force (prāna), on universal Mind (manas), on universal principle of Knowledge (yijnāna), and on universal Bliss (ānanda). The entire process ends in the realization of the Brahman, the ...
... are exactly the same, although they may be very similar. It is not easy with your mind to get out of the earthly atmosphere. But if you have succeeded in doing that, you have to get out of the universal life. To enter into contact with all that has been here upon earth since the beginning of its appearance till the present day and then to enter into contact with the universal of which the earth forms ...
... beyond the Page 149 limits of our ordinary state. Already, as we reached the level of the life-force, the Rishi had something new to say: one who gained entry into the inner or universal life became "extraordinary", in that he had passsed the limits of his ordinary consciousness, crossed over to the other side. And one who got firmly established in the integral Truth of the final stage ...
... centre. The will might control the organs that deal with food, safeguard automatically the health, eliminate greed and desire, substitute subtler processes or draw in strength and substance from the universal life-force so that the body could maintain for a long time its own strength and substance without loss or waste, remaining thus with no need of sustenance by material aliments, and yet continue a strenuous ...
... only his own perfection, but the perfection of all. He will not feel his individuality perfect except in the largest universality, nor his own life to be full life except as it is one with the universal life. He will not live either for himself or for the State and society, for the individual ego or the collective ego, but for something much greater, for God in himself and for the Divine in the universe ...
... Now Life wants to become that here on earth. And in that we see a triple manifestation of life. We will only take life now because that is the fulcrum of the cosmic manifestation. We will take universal life, its first manifestation, the second stage and the third stage. We will indicate the direction toward which it is moving. The first stage is infinite division, life subjected to infinite ...
... it. What you know generally as your self is only the surface being and its superficial workings. What man thinks to be "himself" is only a movement in nature, – a movement in the universal mind, universal life and universal Matter. What you have to do is to separate, or rather detach, yourself from the movements of Nature. You will then find that you are not only watching the universal action of Nature ...
... his Hound of Heaven he has achieved the summit of poetic art and it sums up his whole life-experience. In that sense it is great. Sri Aurobindo : And it is not individual life but universal life – anybody who goes through spiritual life gets that experience. The idea of greatness of poetry is difficult to standardise. The French poet Villon, if you take his poems one by one, is ...
... the boundless and universal Mother, with those who have the illumined word bring the master of the word in whom are all desirable things... 28 Found for us felicity of earth and heaven and universal life that we may worship thee with sacrifice, O god; O doer of works, may we keep close to Page 456 thy perceptions of knowledge; guard us, O god, with thy wide utterances... . 29 ...
... consciousness of man through the intermediate planes into the embrace o: the Brahman. Âsana teaches the body to conserve ii placid immobility the currents of vitality that flow into it from the universal life; and Prânâyâma controls the fivefold movement of life, purifies the entire nervous system by directing the circulation of the life-energy ¹ The Synthesis of Yoga or On Yoga-1 by Sri ...
... principle of rebound in Nature; our action has in some degree the motion of recoil of the boomerang and cycles back towards the will that has cast it on the world. The stone we hurl rashly against the universal Life is cast back at us and may crush, maim or injure our own mental and physical being. But this mechanical rebound is not the whole principle of Karma. Nor is Karma wholly a mixed ethical-hedonistic ...
... enjoy godhead attaining to the truth and the immortality by their movements, bhajanta viśve devatvaṁ nāma, ṛtaṁ sapanto amṛtam evaiḥ . The impulse of the Truth, the thinking of the Truth becomes a universal life (or pervades all the life), and in it all fulfil their workings," ṛtasya preṣā ṛtasya dhītir, viśvādyur viśve apāṁsi cakruḥ . And in order that we may not, haunted by the unfortunate misco ...
... yesterday as the stepping-stone to tomorrow. Life is in perpetual movement, in perpetual transformation. However great or learned or wise one may be, he who does not follow the great current of universal life in an ever ascending march, inevitably moves towards downfall, towards the dissolution of his conscious being. This has been expressed very forcefully by Pythagoras, in the eloquent words recently ...
... universe and will last as long as the universe. (What is the duration of the earth in comparison to that of the universe? One breath!) (The electric light) Those who have become conscious of the universal life, in all its forms, must be taught to identify their consciousness with That which is Eternal, with That which has never begun and will never end, with the Permanent, the Immutable, beyond Which ...
... side of it helping and completing the other: (1) An inner development, a progressive union with the Divine Light, sole condition in which man can be always in harmony with the great stream of universal life. (2) An external action which everyone has to choose according to his capacities and personal preferences. He must find his own place, the place which he alone can occupy in the general concert ...
... confused and vague in the last degree. "Thy own being" is an expression which would usually mean the Jiva who is soul and spirit and has no more special connection with the universal Mental than with universal life or Matter. If the "essence" is the spiritual substance in which the Divine manifests and which is the true substance of all things, the one substance of which mind, life and body are lesser ...
... upon all the three levels—physical, vital, mental. Thus there is an inner mind, an inner vital and an inner physical. The inner mind is in touch with the universal mind, the inner vital with the universal life-forces, and the inner physical with the universal physical forces around us. Thus whereas the outer being knows things only indirectly from their outer touches as perceived though the senses and ...
... vision is too narrow and in the dimension of their human individuality. In truth, the movements of Nature are like those of the tides: they advance, they recede, advance and recede, in the universal life and even in terrestrial life, this means a progressive advance, though apparently it is cut up by withdrawals. But these withdrawals are only an appearance, as when one draws back to spring forward ...
... Aphorism - 538 538—The obstinate pertinacity with which we cling to our meagre, fragmentary, night-besieged and grief-besieged individual existence even while the unbroken bliss of our universal life calls to us, is one of the most amazing of God's mysteries. It is only equalled by the infinite blindness with which we cast a shadow of our ego over the whole world and call that the universal ...
... get quiet and call it down or back to the front—for it is always there behind or above you. Drawing upon the Force for Energy During the course of the sadhana one can learn to draw upon the universal Life-Force and replenish the energies from it. But usually the best way is to learn to open oneself to the Mother's Force and become conscious of it supporting and moving or pouring into the system ...
... word as the Greek xλέoҫ Page 104 (originally xλέFoҫ); it means a thing heard, rumour, report, & thence fame. If we take it in that sense, we shall have to translate “Arrange for us, O universal life, a luminous and solid, wide & great fame unimpaired.” I dismiss at once the idea that go & vaja can here signify cattle and food or wealth. “A herded & fooded or wealthy fame” to express “a fame ...
... are said to be five workings of the life-force called the five Pranas. One specially termed Prana moves in the upper part of the body and is preeminently the breath of life, because it brings the universal Life-force into the physical system and gives it there to be distributed. A second in the lower part of the trunk, termed Apana, is the breath of death; for it gives away the vital force out of the ...
... ocean of the saṁsāra and Indian Yoga sees in its occult visions life in the image of a sea or different planes of being as so many oceans. Das's poem expresses his communing with this ocean of universal life and psychic intimacies with the Cosmic Spirit behind it and these have a character of grave emotion and intense feeling, not of mere sentimentalism, but they come from a very Indian and even a ...
... universal consciousness around and the higher spiritual above. As the individual has a consciousness of his own, so too there is a universal consciousness, a cosmic Being, a universal Mind, a universal Life, a universal physical conscious Nature. We are unaware of it because we are shut up in our outer physical selves. By the inner awakening and the opening above we become aware of this cosmic co ...
... surface personalities. It is only then that one can know the aspect or bhava one is intended to manifest. The Cosmic Spirit or Self contains everything in the cosmos—it upholds cosmic Mind, universal Life, universal Matter as well as the Overmind. The Self is more than all these things which are its formulations in Nature. A Vision of the Universal Self What you saw in the vision was the wide ...
... true that it is unconquerable; on the contrary, the fact that you were able to interrupt it for some time shows that you can conquer it. It returned because these things are a movement of certain universal life-forces that, once allowed a habitual wrong response in the individual system, tend to continue in that form and, even if evicted, try always to recur. Your mind has rejected them, but something ...
... down from Heaven; they are waters that know, knowers of the Truth— ṛtajña a—and when they are released they discover for us the road to the great Heavens. So too Parashara speaks of Knowledge and universal Life, "in the house of the waters". Indra releases the rain by slaying Vritra, but this rain too is the rain of Heaven and sets the rivers flowing. Thus the legend of the release of the waters which ...
... their field, extend and illumine their significance, become master of our own minds and active to shape the movements of Mind in the world around us. We begin to perceive the flow and surge of the universal life-forces, Page 183 detect the origin and law of our feelings, emotions, sensations, passions, are free to accept, reject, new-create, open to wider, rise to higher planes of Life-Power ...
... personality, a Master of Knowledge, a Master of Forces, a Lord of love and bliss and beauty, a single Origin of the worlds, a self-manifester and self-creator, a Cosmic Spirit, a universal Mind, a universal Life, the conscious and living Reality supporting the appearance which we sense as unconscious inanimate Matter. On the other side he becomes aware of the same Godhead in effectuating consciousness ...
... secrecy. Again, the subliminal extends itself into an enveloping consciousness through which it receives the shock of the currents and wave-circuits pouring upon us from the universal Mind, universal Life, universal subtler Matter-forces. These, unperceived by us on the surface, are perceived and admitted by our subliminal self and turned into formations which can powerfully affect our existence ...
... and limited being instead of seeing itself as a conscious form of the One and embracing all consciousness, all knowledge, all will, all force, all enjoyment and all being as one with its own. The universal life in us, obeying this direction of the soul imprisoned in mind, itself becomes imprisoned in an individual action. It exists and acts as a separate life with a limited insufficient capacity undergoing ...
... All-Existent converts all His self-aspectings into various energy of His creative Force of consciousness, cosmic Mind turns these, its multiple viewpoints of universal existence, into standpoints of universal Life; it turns them in Matter into forms of atomic being instinct with the life that forms them and governed by the mind and will that actuate the formation. At the same time, the atomic existences ...
... that the Page 50 individual is impelled to realise himself. Not only is it his foundation, his means, his field, the stuff of the divine Work; but also, since the concentration of the universal Life which he is takes place within limits and is not like the intensive unity of Brahman free from all conception of bound and term, he must necessarily universalise and impersonalise himself in order ...
... and disaccord with other beings who are its other selves, but whom it treats as not-self; and so long as this disaccord and disagreement last, it cannot possess its world and it cannot enjoy the universal life, but is full of unease, fear, afflictions of all kinds, in a painful struggle to preserve and increase itself and possess its surroundings,—for to possess its world is the nature of infinite spirit ...
... and life consciousness in man, prāṇamaya puruṣa , can in the same way directly reflect and enter into the self of Sachchidananda by a large and splendid and blissful reflection of the Soul in universal Life or by losing its separate sense of life and existence in the vast Self within or without it. The result is either a profound state of sheer self-oblivion or else an action driven irresponsibly ...
... relation and right reaction to objects and energies, a right rhythm of mind, nerve and organism. It would bring into the body a higher spiritual power and a greater life-force unified with the universal life-force and able to draw on it, a luminous harmony with material Nature and the vast and calm touch of the eternal repose which can give Page 1023 to it its diviner strength and ease ...
... in a petty motion, but Page 372 as a large movement of the universal mind, the life not as an egoistic activity of vitality and sensation and desire, but as a free movement of the universal life, the body not as a physical prison of the soul but as a subordinate instrument and detachable robe, realising that also as a movement of universal Matter, a cell of the cosmic Body. We shall come ...
... be saved. The same humanitarian type of conscience anxious to spare an almighty Maker the responsibility of an imperfect world has compelled another reactionary against Materialism to conceive a universal Life-Force originally blind and undeveloped, stumbling experimentally towards perfection. No doubt, there is a certain truth in this theory of trial and Page 5 error, but the main ...
... darkened ray in the splendours of the universal Mind. His life is a striving exulting and suffering wave, an eager passion-tossed and sorrow-stricken or a blindly and dully toiling petty moment of the universal Life. His body is a labouring perishable speck in the material universe. An immortal soul is somewhere hidden within him and gives out from time to time some sparks of its presence, and an eternal spirit ...
... little more than a personally modified reception and transcription of its thought-waves, its force-currents, its foam of emotion and sensation, its billows of impulse. Around us is a permanent universal life of which our petty flow of life-formation that begins and ceases is only a small dynamic wave. 109 Psychology is the science of Consciousness; it is the knowledge of its nature, its ...
... not of defeats followed by victories.... [But] in truth, the movements of Nature are like those of the tides: things go forward, then backward, then forward, then backward... which implies, in universal life, even in earthly life, a progressive advance though apparently broken with retreats. But those retreats are only an appearance, as when you take a run in order to jump. You seem to move back, but ...
... difference. For Westerners, they are only a figment of the human imagination and don't correspond to anything real in the universe. But that is a gross mistake. To understand the workings of universal life, and even those of terrestrial life, one must know that in their own realms these are all living beings, each with his own independent reality. They would exist even if men did not exist! Most ...
... unlike any other planet it is evolutionary with a psychic entity at its centre,’ 7 wrote the Mother. To the children of the Ashram she said: ‘The Earth is a sort of symbolical crystallization of universal life, a reduction, a concentration, to facilitate the work of evolution and to participate in it.’ 8 Sri Aurobindo wrote: ‘Our attention must be fixed on the earth because our work is here. Besides ...
... other worlds and one can touch them by touching something corresponding in the earth-atmosphere”, 7 wrote Sri Aurobindo. And the Mother said: “The earth is a kind of symbolic crystallisation of universal life, a reduction, a concentration, so that the work of evolution may be easier to do and follow. And if we see the history of the earth, we can understand why the universe has been created. It is the ...
... since by the very definition of the term, the ego possesses but a limited capacity. And the difficulty of the individual life arises from this original sin of the separative mind-ego. For the "universal life in us, obeying this direction of the soul imprisoned in mind, itself becomes imprisoned in an individual action. It exists and acts as a separate life with a limited insufficient capacity undergoing ...
... and other "pagan" gods, as they call them—are simply a product of human imagination and correspond to nothing real in the universe. But this is a gross error. To understand the mechanism of universal life, even that of terrestrial life, one has indeed to know that all these are real and living beings, each in its own realm, and have an independent reality. They would exist even if men did not exist ...
... of the sa-fsf ra and Indian Yoga sees in its occult visions life in the image of a sea or different planes of being as so many oceans. Das's poem expresses his communing with this ocean of universal life and psychic intimacies with the Cosmic Spirit behind it and these have a character of grave emotion and intense feeling, not of mere sentimentalism, but they come from a very Indian and even ...
... liberation, 167-69, 394 of the lower nature, 173-74 meaning, 168, 169-70, 172 Truth-Consciousness, 224, 358, 159-60 See also Gnosis; Supermind Turiya, 206, 213 Universal Life, see Cosmic Life Universal Matter, see Cosmic Matter Universal Mind, see Cosmic Mind Upanishad(s), 90fm\n, 296, 297 record of experiences, 184 Vedanta (Vedantic) ...
... ourselves are capable of a direct communication with the universal forces and movements. This widening can extend itself so as to bring us in union with the consciousness of the cosmic mind and universal life. After this, the next step is the discovery of the static and silent Self which we feel to be our real existence. This may even lead to an extinction, a Nirvana both of our active being ...
... of the ocean of life. He may then retain his constantly developing forms of expression; he may enlarge them, contract them and even dissolve them and renew them in harmony with the flow of the universal life force. He does not need to be besieged constantly by the sting of Death, and he can constantly change his formations or enlarge his formations according to the need of the universal flow of life ...
... sort of mysterious bridge between the physical and the spiritual being. The human body, according to Hatha Yoga, is a receptacle which, when purified, can hold an illimitable amount of universal life-energy. It is an instrument which, when taught concentration, can control and direct energy for a definite end. It is a pathway which, once cleared, can lead to the vastness of the Spirit. ...
... the consciousness. It is in this now secret circumconscient that are determined our unseen connections with the world outside us. Currents are constantly pouring upon us from the universal Mind, universal Life, even the universal subtler Matter-field through this enveloping circumconscient consciousness. An uninterrupted widening of our consciousness may finally Page 47 lead us to ...
... limited by the existing walls of our too narrow mental, vital, physical existence. This widening can extend itself to a complete entry into the consciousness of cosmic Mind, into unity with the universal Life, even into a oneness with universal Matter." 1 But this first result is not all that can be desired. For, however cosmic in scope and perfected in dynamism, our being remains still ...
... transfigure its 'function and action', liberate the body from all possibility of disorders, derangements and maladies, "substitute subtler processes or draw in strength and substance from the universal life-force so that the body could maintain for a long time its own strength and substance without loss or waste, remaining thus with no need of sustenance by material aliments, and yet continue a ...
... inmost Self, the universal Godhead in every being is that whose very nature of diverse oneness it is to realise the perfection of its individual life and nature in the existence of all, in the universal life and nature." Does this solution put off the consummation of a better human society to a far-off date in the future evolution of the race? "This is a solution to which it may be objected ...
... only his own perfection, but the perfection of all. He will not feel his individuality perfect except in the largest universality, nor his own life to be a full life except as it is one with the universal life." (The Human Cycle, p. 24) Thus, for the sadhaks of Sri Aurobindo's Path, although individual spiritual realisation remains always the first necessity, it cannot be deemed complete unless ...
... About this I have told you elsewhere already. The Mother's creation is not an isolated construction, that is, it is not a community self-satisfied, self-sufficient, separated from the common universal life. The Mother's work encompasses the whole world, it aims at a transcendence taking up the young and old, the men and women of the Ashram as well as the whole human race. We work for the emergence ...
... human race, before self-conscious mind— that "dwarf three-bodied trinity"—started governing the affairs of man, poets like the Vedic rishis glimpsed the great truths relating to the matrix of universal life in sudden lightning flashes of illumination and expressed them through myth and symbol, in mantric incantation and song. If poetry is to be written again with such inner certainty and total ...
... beyond the Page 35 limits of our ordinary state. Already, as we reached the level of the life-force, the Rishi had something new to say: one who gained entry into the inner or universal life became "extraordinary", in that he had passsed the limits of his ordinary consciousness, crossed over to the other side. And one who got firmly established in the integral Truth of the final stage ...
... in gift to them. Life loses all its burden, its obligation and becomes almost light as emptiness when we are able to merge and fuse it in the universe. But behind this conception of the universal life, declaring that "there is no other thing here on earth", there enters a duality with its inner conflict. For individual freedom is the second note of Pasternak's life-principle. No doubt, the whole ...
... vast forest's hymn" rising from it; in another instant, it becomes a "reminder of a temple gong". It carries to the ear of the world-soul "a bee-croon honey- drunk" conveying the ardent ecstasy of universal life. It is the far "anthem of a pilgrim sea". One feels the whole cosmos like the sea moving on a pilgrimage to the Divine with its unceasing anthem. Here, as in the simile of the caravan, we not only ...
... energy which builds and creates forms of energies, it stimulates, disintegrates and renews them. All the three are processes of life, not life. All is life—as we have already seen—all existence is universal life that takes form—it is first submental in Matter, it is not apparent in metal, stone and gas. It appears like an inanimate force. In man, animals and plants it is animate. All renews, nothing perishes ...
... one level or another. "False matter" did not wait for our Mind to start forming—perhaps it has made it thicker than the other species had; it is true that we are the only ones to be cut off from universal life, the only ones to know personal pain and death, the only ones to experience disorder and to be deprived of the knowledge of the exact law and spontaneous movement, but we are also the only ones ...
... different time, a “moving eternity” in the depths or behind that atomic film, a different state of Matter behind that hardened crust. On one side, the hole of death and pain; on the other side universal life, without any possibility of pain. A “funny” physical life on two levels, a paradoxical duality: This body’s life is a miracle, She said in April, 70, after a series of heart attacks. Which ...
... ocean of the samsāra and Indian Yoga sees in its occult visions life in the age of a sea or different planes of being as so many oceans. Das's poem expresses his communing with this ocean of universal life and psychic intimacies Page 77 with the Cosmic Spirit behind it and these have a character of grave emotion and intense feeling, not of mere sentimentalism, but they come from ...
... interpreting the contacts with the world. By yoga there can open in him a consciousness which becomes one with that of the world; he becomes directly aware of a universal being, universal states, universal force and forces; universal mind, life, matter and lives in conscious relations with these things. He is then said to have the cosmic consciousness. Sri Aurobindo ...
... the One and the Many. The Supermind manifests below itself a hierarchy of "planes" disclosing the reality in various partial ways. At the lower end of the ladder there are the realms of Universal Mind, Life-Force and Subtle-Physical Substance, each organised into a set of interacting individual features. A realm of Soul-principle — a plane of World-Soul — exists at the back of them and is related... put up by the reality's initial negation of its own being. With the Soul-principle stirring from behind, Matter is evolved from the chaos of the Inconscient, then Life from Matter and Mind from Life. Veiled by Mind, as Mind is by Life and Life by Matter, Supermind and its accompaniments wait to be evolved. What is initially veiled will be of necessity laid bare in the terminal outcome. Here is a... Materialism of our day, basing itself on blind physical phenomena, random genetic mutation, mindless natural selection of mutated forms by the environment, extensively wasteful processes of evolutionary life, mechanical reactions and reflexes of organisms, dependence of psychological movements on bodily processes. This very world-view can obtain its rationale in the Aurobindonian Weltanschauung when the ...
... sees only things. But the inner consciousness can see behind the thing, it is aware of the play of forces, personal or universal—for it is in conscious touch with the universal action. Page 90 The outer consciousness is that which usually expresses itself in ordinary life. It is the external mental, vital, physical. It is not connected very much with the inner being except in a few—until... word soul in English—so used, it covers all the inner being, inner mind, inner vital, inner physical even, as well as the inmost being, the psychic. Our inner being is in touch with the universal mind, life, matter, a part of all that, but by that very fact it cannot be in possession of liberation and peace. You are thinking probably of the Atman and confusing it with the inner being. The Inner... external mind and vital. The inner mind and vital are on the contrary in direct contact with the universal mental and vital and their forces; the inner subtle physical can also be in direct touch with the cosmic forces of the physical universe. But the exterior being is not in direct touch with the universal or cosmic—only through the outer mind and senses. It is the outer nature that is obscure ...
... supramental temple of the divine in supramentalized Matter. The present stage of universal matter, life and mind is conceived as the page - 90 lower Nature, and what is attempted by means of the synthesis of yoga is to build the higher Nature of the Supermind, which is of the nature of Knowledge and which culminates in the life divine. The passage from the lower to the higher is the aim of the new synthesis... synthesis is thus neither a combination in mass nor by successive practice. The spiritual evolution which is the key of the new synthesis of yoga considers the individual soul and the universal principles of Matter, Life and Mind to be intertwined in an evolutionary process which has so far reached a critical stage where it is possible for the individual to develop knowledge and will that can be consciously... Individual is not, it is discovered, fundamentally egoistic in nature; ego is only a temporary formation, but behind it there is the un-egoistic centre of universality, such that the individual finds its fullness in universality and universality finds its concentrated centre in the unegoistic individual. page - 84 It is claimed that beyond ethics and religion is a realm of the Spirit, and ...
... playmate of God in His universal līlā . Life after life, unwearied and unworn, he plays his part, not for any personal profit or for the realisation of any merely mental ideal, but only "to bring God's forces to waiting Nature", to help "her tormented labour" with his "wide-winged peace", and to "heal with joy her ancient sorrow", by flooding the dark inconscient bases of life with the Super conscient's... perfection in Karmayoga demands as an indispensable pre-requisite our union with the Divine simultaneously in His three poises of transcendence, universality and individuality. The Will of the Transcendent will marshal the integrated forces of our being, the Universal will supply the necessary field and condition, and the Individual Divine in our heart will give the immediate drive and direction, the proper... transformed in all the parts of his being including his body and when his separative ego has disappeared for ever leaving his consciousness in full and constant possession of the unity of universal existence. Perfect Karmayoga is a radiant blossom of a dynamic union with the Divine. Sri Aurobindo gives an outline of it in his poem, Jīvan-mukta . It is to be remarked that the ideal of the ...
... Truth, an Entity, a Power, a Presence that could be sought by all according to their degree of capacity and seized in a thousand ways through life and beyond life. The recognition and pursuit of something or someone Supreme behind all forms is a one universal statement of all Indian religions and developed and interacted among themselves through long centuries and millennia, and if it has taken a hundred... supramental temple of the divine in supramentalized Matter. The present stage of universal matter, life and mind is conceived as the lower Nature, and what is attempted by means of the synthesis of yoga is to build the higher Nature of the Supermind, which is of the nature of Knowledge and which culminates in the life divine. The passage from the lower to the higher is the aim of the new synthesis... mind a belief in a highest consciousness or state of existence universal and transcendent of the universe, from which all comes, in which all lives and moves without knowing it and of which all must one day grow aware, returning towards that which is perfect, eternal and infinite. Secondly, they tended to lay upon the individual life the need of self-preparation by development and experience till ...
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