... fruitless as applied to these occult subjects or even to life. Dr. J. C. Bose has shown that there is a nervous response in the plants. But nervous response is not vital force. It does not prove the existence of vital force. Vital force is like a pianist who is invisible. You can only see the mechanism of the piano and the playing but not the player. Page 73 Also you should not... there then medicines lend their properties to the healing power. Disciple : The ancients perhaps recognised it as the vital force. Sri Aurobindo ": Yes. Even now in some French Universities like Montpèlier, I hear, they admit the working of this vital force. They seem to have preserved the old tradition coming down from their contact with Spain; Spain got it from Asia when it came under... had expected or insisted. The same result came but it arrived in another way. The reason, probably,was that I used to put too much vital force with the Power. Of course, the vital is quite essential, but now it is pure and subtle vital force. Disciple : You did it for what purpose – as something necessary, or as an exercise? Sri Aurobindo : It was shown as something ...
... subject to Prana – the vital force." Even mental activities are due to Prana, Page 176 life-force. It is the life-force that keeps the world going. Disciple : How to overcome vital depression? Sri Aurobindo : By supplying the vital-force, (laughter) (After a pause) You have to draw the vital energy from the infinite ocean of universal vital force that is all around... other way can psychic depression be overcome ? Sri Aurobindo : There are many ways. If the man is vitally strong then his vital force can help remove the psychic depression. These forces in the inner being can always mutually react. Disciple : What is the vital Force? Sri Aurobindo : It is the life-force in man; there is a certain energy you feel within you which meets the shocks of... hold on the vital energy. Disciple : How to draw the vital force? I mean I don't know how to draw it consciously. Sri Aurobindo : What you can do unconsciously you can always teach yourself to do consciously. There are two main ways : 1. Passive and 2, active. In the first you remain passive, waiting for the vital force to enter into you; then you find it rushes into you. In the ...
... consciousness and the outer together. It is the separation, the veil of non-communication between the two that is the chief difficulty of the early stages of the Yoga. Green indicates vital force, a warm vital force, not exactly Page 256 love—at any rate there is nothing of the sexual movement in it—but affection and a generous self-giving or self-spending power of the life-force...... cold and austere; it is not something opposed to or inconsistent with a full vital and physical manifestation; on the contrary, it carries in it the only possibility of the full fullness of the vital force and the physical life on earth. It is because it is so, because it was so revealed to me and for no other reason that I have followed after it and persevered till I came into contact with it and... 194 For sorrow is not, as Spinoza pointed out, a passage to a greater perfection, a way to siddhi; it cannot be, for it confuses and weakens and distracts the mind, depresses the vital force, darkens the spirit. A relapse from joy and vital elasticity and Ananda to sorrow, self-distrust, despondency and weakness is a recoil from a greater to a lesser consciousness,—the habit of these ...
... energies like that, they give themselves entirely, and in the joy of playing and moving and running they put themselves in contact with this universal vital force; they don't know it, but they spend their vital force in a contact with the universal vital force and that is why they can run without really feeling very tired, except after a very long time... I knew young people who had always lived in cities—in... The Sunlit Path Receptivity and Aspiration The Universal Vital Force Sweet Mother, how can one draw on "the universal vital Force"? First of all, you must know that it exists and that one can enter into contact with it. Secondly, you must try to make this contact, to feel it circulating everywhere, through everything, in all persons and all circumstances;... to spend, but to increase the capacity of reception so as to have more and more of the things which are to be used up, to be spent. Source Three Sources of Vital Force In the immense majority of people all their vital force comes to them from below, from the earth, from food, from all the sensations. From food... they draw vital energy out of food, and they... it is by seeing, hearing, ...
... 19-10-1925 The talk turned on cats : Sri Aurobindo : They have .great vitality. They disturb the whole atmosphere while they are excited and they Page 183 throw the vital force around when they are in that state. They have wonderful vitality. Some one brought in the subject of small-pox and of vaccination and anti-vaccination theory. There was a discussion during which... they do like that ? Sri Aurobindo : They get supported. But these are not strong beings. Really strong beings are those that are behind world-movements, like Theosophy ; they have not only vital force but mental power. Disciple : What is their part in evolution ? Sri Aurobindo : They only exhibit power ; they do not generally take up a physical body. Disciple : Have they... that you can't have it here in this world unless you go to Nirvana. The Indian ascetic self-torture was done in the violent Asuric way and by self-will trying to master the body by throwing great vital force upon it. There was also certain contempt for the body and for the limitations which the physcial being imposed upon the spirit. It was a violent revolt against that bondage. Disciple : The ...
... body and through their activity in the body to have access to their native vastnesses beyond. Informing this body and animating it there is the ocean of nervous or vital force just above the physical ocean of matter; informing the vital force & illuminating it there is the ocean of pure mentality which is beyond & exceeds nervous vitality; supporting, creating & rectifying the pure mentality, there is... represented for us by the earth only the lowest term of cosmic existence. Nervous life on earth is but the representative of great worlds or organised states of being beyond, of which not matter, but vital force is the primary condition, mind here the representative of a great mental world of which pure mentality is the primary condition. There is too a vast world or organised state of luminous being governed... connects the second rik with the first, the offering of nectar with the luminous formative activity of the god of Mind. “Verily light-giving is the intoxication of thee impetuous.” For when the vital force and joy in us, especially that divine vitality and joy developed by Yoga is placed at the service of Indra’s luminous mental activity, then the mind increases in a sort of ecstatic intoxication of ...
... energies like that, they give themselves entirely, and in the joy of playing and moving and running they put themselves in contact with this universal vital force; they don’t know it, but they spend their vital force in a contact with the universal vital force and that is why they can run without really feeling very tired, except after a very long time. That is, they spend so much that if they were not in... Cosmic and Universal Forces The Hidden Forces of Life Universal Vital Force Sweet Mother, how can one draw on “the universal vital Force”? One can do it in many ways. First of all, you must know that it exists and that one can enter into contact with it. Secondly, you must try to make this contact, to feel it circulating everywhere, through everything... ” And they could remain for hours in the full sun, bare-headed and without feeling any discomfort. It is the same principle. It is the same principle. They linked themselves to the universal vital force which is in the sun and received this force which took away all that was unpleasant to them. When one is in the countryside, when one walks under the trees and feels so close to Nature, to the ...
... inner concentration and aspiration, not by a mere outward pranam every day. What most people do is simply to pull vital force from the Mother and live on it - but that is not the object of the Pranam. Pulling is a psychological act - people are always pulling vital force from each other though they do not do it consciously, i.e. with a purpose in the mind - it is instinctive in the vital... That would show a great and intense love for the Mother. Page 255 Not necessarily, though it may be so with some. With others it may be only that they miss some vital force they were drawing out of the Mother. If the sadhana goes on whether you see the Mother or not, that would rather show that the psychic connection is permanently there and active always... without the necessity of the physical contact that the true value of the latter can be really active. Otherwise there is a danger of its becoming like a mere artificial stimulant or a pulling of vital force from her for one's own benefit. Some feel that in order to prepare for the Mother's inner touch, they need her physical touch, at least in the beginning. If they are ...
... inner concentration and aspiration, not by a mere outward pranam every day. What most people do is simply to pull vital force from the Mother and live on it—but that is not the object of the Pranam. 4 March 1937 Pulling is a psychological act—people are always pulling vital force from each other though they do not do it consciously, i.e. with a purpose in the mind—it is instinctive in the vital... without the necessity of the physical contact that the true value of the latter can be really active. Otherwise there is a danger of its becoming like a mere artificial stimulant or a pulling of vital force from her for one's own benefit. 2 March 1937 Page 564 Some people seem to think that to prepare themselves for the inner touch of the Mother, they have to go through the preliminary... fact a receiving and giving of vital forces in a small or great degree. You have yourself said that after meeting such and such person you felt empty and exhausted—that means the person drew your vital force out of you. That is what people do at pranam, instead of being quiet and receptive, they pull vitally. It can be stopped by cutting off connection, but if the Mother did that at pranam, then the ...
... without vital Page 96 force. If so and talking will mend that, you must talk. To talk and take pleasure in talking is a natural vital impulse. I can now talk freely without fatigue. But is such talking necessary for a sadhak? Is it our highest aim? No. But it is offered you as a means not an end - a means of getting back vital force and liveliness... voidness or the emptiness that is a preparation for new experiences. But an exhaustion of life energy is a very different thing. It may arise from fatigue, from somebody or something drawing away the vital force or from an invasion of tamas. But I don't know why it should be connected with the English study and happen only then. I just read that if our vital lays its hold on the physical the... are not prescribed as good for the sadhana, but as good for the health and spirits. The Doctor advises me to talk more. Will talking remove the inertia and depression or bring in the vital force necessary to remove them? I don't know whether it will. The Doctor goes upon ordinary psychological grounds, viz. that talking and mixing with others helps to keep the vital active and cheerful ...
... but not a man to lead a revolution. He did not have sufficient vital force to support his action. That doesn't mean he was not a man of action, but he acted with his brain rather than with the vital force. Stalin has more vital force. He has no intellect, but has a clever and cunning brain. Lenin combined both intellect and vital force. Trotsky's actions were more of an intellectual nature. His very ...
... energies like that, they give themselves entirely, and in the joy of playing and moving and running they put themselves in contact with this universal vital force; they don't know it, but they spend their vital force in a contact with the universal vital force and that is why they can run without really feeling very tired, except after a very long time. That is, they spend so much that if they were not in... 4 May 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 5, "Physical Consciousness, etc.". Sweet Mother, how can one draw on "the universal vital Force"? One can do it in many ways. First of all, you must know that it exists and that one can enter into contact with it. Secondly, you must try to make this contact, to feel it circulating everywhere... " And they could remain for hours in the full sun, bare-headed and without feeling any discomfort. It is the same principle. It is the same principle. They linked themselves to the universal vital force which is in the sun and received this force which took away all that was unpleasant to them. When one is in the countryside, when one walks under the trees and feels so close to Nature, to the ...
... that no outer divine living can become possible. Unless, indeed, it is a mental or vital godhead that we perceive and would be,—but even then the individual mental being or the being of power and vital force and desire in us must grow into a form of that godhead before our life can be divine in that inferior sense, the life of the infraspiritual superman, mental demi-god or vital Titan, Deva or Asura... for itself by our normal physical humanity, a joy of being which is larger and richer than any delight in existence that the outer vital man or the surface mental man can gain by their dynamic vital force and activity or subtlety and expansion of the mental existence. A silence, an entry into a wide or even immense or infinite emptiness is part of the inner spiritual experience; of this silence and... execution in life. Thus the law of love and sympathy is natural to our consciousness; as we grow in spirit, its demand on us increases: but there is also the demand of the intellect, the push of the vital force and its impulses in us, the claim and pressure of many other elements that do not coincide with the law of love and sympathy, nor do we know how to fit them all into the whole law of existence or ...
... But I've noticed that when I do material things—small things—there seems to be a tremendous vital force flowing into the work, and in the end I find myself exhausted through having done nothing at all! How come all that vital energy goes away? Page 117 It's because all the vital force is used to keep the body's balance in the phase of transformation. That's what I have called "the... well, all the vital force is there just to keep your balance so you don't topple over. Because it's difficult. One must remain very calm and do what is indispensable, nothing more. In ordinary life, when one doesn't know, with people who don't know, there is a tremendous wastage of vital forces, for no reason. Well, we no longer have the right to do that because all that vital force is there, as... there! I told him ( laughing ), "See, it has borne fruit!" ( Then Satprem reads to Mother a fairly long text, and ends up completely exhausted. ) Are you tired? It's as if all the vital force were going away. ( long, refreshing concentration ) You must go rest. Now I am fine! But I don't know why, the force goes away very quickly. But do you get rest at night? Oh, yes ...
... in Yoga; the same causes work Page 190 here. The one thing is that there may be an invasion of an alien Force bringing about the upsetting, but it is not the divine Force, it is a vital Force that invades. The Divine Force cannot by its descent be the cause of madness any more than it can be of apoplexy or any other physical illness. If there is no predisposition, one may have all kinds... enjoyment of him as of Kipling. Yet Milton's greatness will endure—that cannot be said certainly of Kipling's ballads. The problem therefore remains where it was. Spiritual poetry also needs the vital force for expression; mere spiritual philosophy without the uplifting poetic force in its expression (which needs the vital energy for its action) cannot appeal to anybody. But all the same in spiritual... that country. The whole thing is that it is a mistake to erect a mental theory and try to force into its narrow mould the infinite variety of the processes of Nature. Shakespeare may have so much vital force as to recommend himself to large audience not so much for his poetry at first as for his dramatic vividness and power; it must be remembered that it was the German romantics two centuries later ...
... the vital force in a poet as something necessary, I am not speaking of something that need be low or fitted only to catch the general mind, not fit to appeal to a higher judgment, but of something that can be very valuable—from the highest point of view. When Milton writes Fallen Cherub, to be weak is miserable, or describes the grandeur of the fallen archangel, there is a vital force there... enjoyment of him as of Kipling. Yet Milton's greatness will endure—that cannot be said certainly of Kipling's ballads. The problem therefore remains where it was. Spiritual poetry also needs the vital force for expression; mere spiritual philosophy without the uplifting poetic force in its expression (which needs the vital energy for its action) cannot appeal to anybody. But all the same in spiritual... that country. The whole thing is that it is a mistake to erect a mental theory and try to force into its narrow mould the infinite variety of the processes of Nature. Shakespeare may have so much vital force as to recommend himself to a large audience not so much for his poetry at first as for his dramatic vividness and power; it must be remembered that it was the German romantics two centuries later ...
... of the experiences. He felt the exhilaration and the sense of power. When for .two or three days hewent without food with that weak body of his, people used ti wonder. But it was all due to the vital force, and hi entirely precipitated himself into the vital. The second thing was that he did not want th Truth for its own sake but he wanted it so that he mighi become something great and unique... then it returns and again it is thrown out. That Page 116 is the reason why they get colossal wealth. These rich people often have no attachment to money, it is the action of the vital force that they enjoy, not their money. Disciple : It is a life-movement. Sri Aurobindo : Yes. That was the ideal of the Vaishya as opposed to the Bania – the miser. The Vaishya was the... if properly used helps to recreate and regenerate the being. But, if it is indulged in in the ordinary way, it is a great obstacle for two reasons. First, the sexual act involves a great loss of vital force, it is a movement towards death, though this is compensated by creation of new life. That it is a movement towards death is proved by the exhaustion felt after it; many people feel even a disgust ...
... as well as certain types of extreme formal perfection which used only to occur in the beginning, years ago, when the vital force of the sadhana was strong, but the ideal weak. The lipi predicts the return of that vital force into the new ideal principle. At present vital force is often at a minimum due to the excessive force of shama which was necessary to purification. But as shama is now absolutely ...
... agency of the vital force. This will come to be so much the normal attitude of the whole being to the physical frame that the latter will feel to us as if something external and detachable like the dress we wear or an instrument we happen to be carrying in our hand. We may even come to feel that the body is in a certain sense non-existent except as a sort of partial expression of our vital force and of our... away; the habit of disease can be similarly minimised and gradually eliminated and in the meantime the power of the mind to set right the disorders of the body whether by conscious manipulation of vital force or by simple mental fiat will immensely increase. By a similar process the habit by which the bodily nature associates certain forms and degrees of activity with strain, fatigue, incapacity can be ...
... be pulled across, then it becomes a horse. In other words, the inertia and obstruction in the physical will be changed into Power and Force of Progress Lion The Lion is the vital force. The lion means vital force, strength, courage—here full of the light, illumined by the spiritual consciousness. 1 The lion indicates force and courage, strength and power. The lower vital is not... symbol of a plane of consciousness. The white light is a manifestation of pure divine force descending from one of the truth-planes leading to the supramental. The indication is that of a hostile vital force being expelled and the purifying light from above descending to illumine and deliver the part of the plane formerly occupied by it. Crocodile The crocodile signifies greed, lobha , of some ...
... ill. It is the same thing here in the supraphysical parts. There is always an interchange of vital forces going on between people. If you sit near one who is weak and depressed and needs vital force, you may have your forces pulled from you by his or her need and yourself feel depressed or weak or empty. Small energies of that kind [ vital influences ] are always coming out from people... give out too much of one's vital forces so as to weaken oneself or exhaust of energy, a thing which should not be done,—it is only those who know how to draw or can draw freely from the universal vital Force and replenish their life energies that can give out freely. All of course draw to some extent, otherwise they would not remain alive, for expenditure of vital energy is always going on and one has... There is always a drawing of vital forces from one to another in all human social mixture; it takes place automatically. Lovemaking is one of the most powerful ways of each drawing up the other's vital force,—or of one drawing the other's, which also often happens in a one-sided way to the great detriment of the "other". In the passage come many things good and bad, elation, feelings of strength, fullness ...
... chickens; they had been killed off by hundreds and each one had a little vital force which escaped when its throat was cut, and so that Kali was feeding upon all that: she was very happy. And there was evidently—I don't know if it could be called cruelty, it was rather greed,—greed of vital forces, of a very unconscious vital force, for these poor chickens don't have anything very conscious. And the whole... success. This proved that she had become a person of considerable importance! And so in her ingenuousness she came to ask my help, telling me that if I wanted to help her and give her something of my vital force and vital presence, there would be still more people and more chickens! Then that would be a very great success. I replied that as things stood it was quite enough, that she should remain quiet. ...
... Cats are vital forces, incarnations of vital forces. The King of the Cats—that is, the spirit of the species—is a being of the vital world. For instance, cats can very easily incarnate the vital force of a dead person. I have had two absolutely astounding experiences of this. The first was with a boy who was a Sanskritist and had wanted to come to India with us. He was the son of a French ... this boy's eyes. (I no longer recall his name.) Right away (at the time we were all involved in occultism), we knew something had happened; he had been unable to come and the cat had incarnated his vital force. The next day, all the newspapers were full of a vile murder: a pimp had murdered this boy—it was disgusting! Something utterly vile. And it had happened at the very moment he should have come—the... coming near. These cat stories went on for years and years.... And it isn't true that they don't obey! It's just that we don't know how to handle them. Cats are extremely sensitive to the vital force, to vital power, and they can be made perfectly obedient—and with such devotion! Cats are said to be neither devoted nor attached nor faithful, but that's not true at all. You can have quite a friendly ...
... In These Fateful Days To destroy is easy; to create, it is difficult. The vital force destroys in its violence, it is the spirit that creates in its energy of consciousness. The vital force is easily available to man. The spirit is a far cry. And yet there is no other way out: if man is to be saved, that is the... seed? There must be some one or even a few who are the prophets, pioneers or forerunners, who are the appointed missionaries. You or I may be elected as one if we choose to be so. A vital force can create, but if it is not supported or inspired by something else, something inner, deeper and higher, the creation can be only an asuric (titanic) or rakshasik (demoniac) or even a pishachic ...
... Gupta - Vol. 4 In these Fateful Days To destroy is easy; to create, it is difficult. The vital force destroys in its violence, it is the spirit that creates in its energy of consciousness. The vital force is easily available to man. The spirit is a far cry. And yet there is no other way out: if man is to be saved, that is the only way left... find the seed? There must be some one or even a few who are the prophets, pioneers or forerunners, who are the appointed missionaries. You or I may be elected as one if we choose to be so. A vital force can create, but if it is not supported or inspired by something else, something inner, deeper and higher, the creation can be only an asuric (titanic) or rakshasik (demoniac) or even a pishachic ...
... body with his vital force; one can always do that. Disciple : But it is said that he acquired longevity by using certain drugs which are known among the Tibetans. Sri Aurobindo : That is also possible. In the Himalayas there are herbs, I believe, which can give longevity and which are known by tradition to Sadhus and others living there, But even supplying vital force to the body does... supplying it to another man. But it is much more easy to draw it from the universal. The one fact is that in man the vital energy is limited, while the universal is inexhaustible. If you supply your vital force to another man you would be exhausted if you don't draw it from the universal. Disciple : There are many stories about Tibbati Baba's age and powers. Sri Aurobindo : How old is he ...
... together' —at that time, during our reunions a kind of vibration of light would come out of my fingers. It was visible to the naked eye. But it was like electricity. And that was a concentrated vital force. It was visible like a vibration of light coming out of the fingers." Some years earlier, Mother had explained to Satprem where this electricity-like light originated from. On one of his birthdays... she explained. "They are incarnations of vital forces. The King of the Cats-that is, the spirit of the species- is a being of the vital world. "For example, cats can very easily embody the vital force of a dead person. I've had two absolutely astounding experiences of this." Let us skip the first story, which will come in its time and place, and go straight to the second. "The other... of so-and-so.' Right away — Page 252 at the time we were all involved in occultism —we said, 'Something has happened to him, he was unable to come and the cat has embodied his vital force.' "The next day, all the newspapers were full of a vile murder —a pimp had murdered the boy. Revolting! Something utterly revolting. And it had happened at the very moment he should have come ...
... interchange ] is a wrong and a dangerous one. It is not so much repeating the old game under the garb of Yoga, but, what is worse, turning the Yoga-power itself into the instrument of satisfaction of a vital force. There must be absolute abstention from all vital interchange with others. The warning has often been given that no special or personal relation, even under the colour of a psychic connection or... is the best way to wear out their hold upon the nature. Pranayama and other physical practices like asana do not necessarily root out sexual desire—sometimes by increasing enormously the vital force in the body they can even exaggerate in a rather startling way the force too of the sexual tendency, which, being at the base of the physical life, is always difficult to conquer. The one thing to... altogether. As for the discharges, that is less dangerous; most who live unmarried have them from time to time. Only, if they occur too Page 527 often, they are depressing to the vital force. Certainly, they must be stopped; but do not have exaggerated ideas on the matter. To stop them, the first necessity is to discourage sexual imaginations in the waking state. Even if that is totally ...
... And then it comes back up to be distilled. And then I saw ... all this is living when it's thrown in, you see, it's full of its vital force, for it has just been cut. As a result, the vital force is suddenly hurled out of the substance with an extreme violence—the vital force comes out ... the English word angry is quite expressive of what I mean—like a snarling dog. An angry force . 10 So ...
... being brought about by the former, it can be misused or attacked by the latter. If there had been a protection about him exercised by one who had knowledge and confidence in his own psychic and vital force, the untoward influence evidenced by the cries, grimaces etc., would not have come in to spoil this stage. Let me add that these are not forces of our lower universal but an intervention from a foreign... already been seen that the immediate cause of the collapse was partly sexual; for that we included in what I meant by the uprush from the vital being. Nor does it make much difference that the physico-vital force possessing him took from the form or assumed the pranic body of some dead friend. The situation remains as before. If the disorder is only psychic it will disappear in time. If there is some brain... . In that case the fits and other violent symptoms will disappear, the child may seem to be physically cured and healthy, but he will be an abnormal and most dangerous being incarnating an evil vital force with all its terrible propensities and gifted with abnormal powers to satisfy them. In Rathin's case there is not as yet possession in the full sense of the word, but a strong pressure and influence ...
... There is always a drawing of vital forces from one to another in all human social mixture that takes place automatically. Love-making is one of the most powerful ways of each drawing up the other's vital force, or of one drawing the other's which also often happens in a one-sided way to the great detriment of the "other". In the passage come. many things good and bad, elation, feeling of strength, and... There is always a drawing of vital forces from one to another in all human social mixture; it takes place automatically. Lovemaking is one of the most powerful ways of each drawing up the other's vital force,—or of one drawing the other's, which also often happens in a one-sided way to the great detriment of the "other". In the passage come many things good and bad, elation, feelings of strength, fullness... people who are "powerful" love-makers have a need in some part of their being or part of their make-up? D surely has no need, he has enough vital strength and all that to spend. People with vital force are not only always throwing it on others but also always drawing it from others. D does it in the form of praise, affection, submission to his influence, sexual surrender, etc. Otherwise why did ...
... use. SATYENDRA: The ancient system in India recognised it as vital force. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. Even now in some universities in the south of France-for example, Montpelier which is a famous university there-they admit this vital force. This is because the south of France as well as Spain came much under Arab influence. The vital force theory may come back everywhere. At one time physical science ...
... mention of leprosy. NIRODBARAN: No. SRI AUROBINDO: It is the vital force. There were many such cases of cures by placing the hand on the head. They used to call it the passage of fluid magnetism into the body. CHAMPAKLAL: He says it is the Mother's Force. SRI AUROBINDO: Why shouldn't it be? NIRODBARAN: You said vital force. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, force acting through the vital. It is the... inventive. I thought that inventiveness was reserved for Dutt. SATYENDRA: He must have achieved something in order to be able to hold so many people together. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, it was the vital force that he got from me and he had some experiences too. He claimed to have gone above the head but there was no manifestation in his expression, there was no mental result. He wanted to go for the Supermind ...
... the weapons of the Gods, all the means of the journey and the battle. But as giver of the Light of truth and as Vritra-slayer Indra is aided by the Maruts, who are powers of will and nervous or vital Force that have attained to the light of thought and the voice of self-expression. They are behind all thought and speech as its impellers and they battle towards the Light, Truth and Bliss of the supreme... purely mental and psychic and the physical consciousness. Their large and free scope is the condition of our achievement. Vayu, Master of life, links them together by the mid-air, the region of vital force. And there are other deities,—Parjanya, giver of the rain of heaven; Dadhikravan, the divine war-horse, a power of Agni; the mystic Dragon of the Foundations; Trita Aptya who on the third plane of ...
... accuracy of term, almost ascetic in its simplicity and directness and a frequent fine and happy bareness; it is the speech of a strong and rapid poetical intelligence and a great and straightforward vital force, brief and telling in phrase but by virtue of a single-minded sincerity and, expect in some knotted passages or episodes, without any rhetorical labour of compactness, a style like the light and... embodiments of Rama and Ravana, and led to a decisive issue of victory of the ideal man over Rakshasa. The Mahabharata proceeds from a "strong and quick intelligence and a great and straight vital force and single-minded sincerity." Both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana are "products of inspired intelligence with a high poetic tone." Both are "ensouled images of a great culture." These epics ...
... table, once again dead. Brunton saw it and he was convinced. When asked how he could do it, the magician replied that he had brought from the universal a vital force and put it in the turkey that was lying dead earlier on the table. But the vital force could not stay in it for too long and disappeared. The bird was again dead. We are something of that sort. The supramental race is ready, but there ...
... being brought about by the former, it can be misused or attacked by the latter. If there had been a protection about him exercised by one who had knowledge and confidence in his own psychic and vital force, the untoward influence evidenced by the cries, grimaces etc., would not have come in to spoil this stage. Let me add that these are not forces of our lower universal but an intervention from a foreign... been seen that the immediate cause of the collapse was partly sexual; for that was included in what I meant by the uprush from the vital being. Nor does it make much difference that the physico-vital force possessing him took from the form or assumed the pranic body of some dead friend. The situation remains as before. If there is some brain defect that has come up, the issue is more doubtful. The ...
... then can we follow Sri Aurobindo's motto: "All life is Yoga"? This motto has a general philosophical insight - the vision of a spiritual goal implicit in the evolution from matter to vital force and from vital force to mind, mind with its vague straining for perfection. In our immediate practical context, all life proves to be Yoga when whatever we do is made an occasion to invoke the Divine and ...
... but each of them is also divided against itself. The capacity of the body is less than the capacity of the instinctive soul or conscious being, the physical Purusha within it, the capacity of the vital force less than the capacity of the impulsive soul, the vital conscious being or Purusha within it, the capacity of the mental energy less than the capacity of the intellectual and emotional soul, the... temporary solution provided as a resting-place for the soul in its continual self-enlargement and ascension. Such a perfect harmony would demand as essential terms a perfect mentality, a perfect play of vital force, a perfect physical existence. But where in the radically imperfect shall we find the principle and power of perfection? Mind rooted in division and limitation cannot provide it to us, nor can life ...
... mentality emerging in a body and in a sharply individualised life; it is therefore limited in its workings and capacities and dependent on bodily organs of no great competence and on a very restricted vital force; it is separated from the rest of cosmic mind and shut out from the thoughts of other mental beings whose inner workings are a sealed book to man's physical mind except in so far as he can read them... with its environment based upon physical sensations and the sense-mind, in other words on a limited mind trying to lay hold on a world external and foreign to it by means of a limited body, limited vital force, limited organs. Therefore its power for possession is limited, its force for delight is limited, and every touch of the world which exceeds its force, which that force cannot bear, cannot seize ...
... To enter into the Divine either by the way of the thinking mind or by the way of the heart or by the way of the will in works or by a change of the psychological nature-stuff or a freeing of the vital force in the body is not enough; all this is not enough. Through all these together it must be done and by a change of our very sense and body consciousness even to the material inconscience which must... plane, on the mental, on the vital, on the physical, or on those which are higher than the mental[.] 155 All Yoga done through the mind alone or through the heart or the will or the vital force or the body ends in some one aspect of the infinite and eternal Existence and rests satisfied there, as the mind imagines for ever. Not through these alone shall thy Yoga move, but through all these ...
... manifests—e.g., psychic love is pink or rose, the psychic purity is white etc. Green Light Green is the higher light in the vital, especially the emotional vital. The green light is a vital force, a dynamic force of the emotional vital which has the power to purify, harmonise or cure. Green is a vital energy of work and action. Green light can signify various things according... behind it—in the vital physical it signifies a force of health. Purple and Crimson Light It [ purple light ] is a light of vital power. Page 132 Purple is the colour of the vital force—crimson is usually physical. Both [ purple and crimson ] are vital lights, but when seen above they represent the original forces of which the vital are the derivations. The crimson ...
... Even sadhana needs that vital force. But if the vital is unregenerate and enslaved to desire, passion and ego, then it is as harmful as it can otherwise be helpful. Even in ordinary life the vital has to be controlled by the mind and mental will, otherwise it brings disorder or disaster. When people speak of a vital man, they mean one under the domination of vital force not controlled by the mind ...
... the weak point or crucial point of our Yoga, since this province has never been conquered by the spiritual Power, the old Yogas having either left it alone or used on it only a detailed mental and vital force, not the general spiritual force. It was the reason why after a serious illness caused by a terribly bad state of the Asram atmosphere, I had to insist on her partial retirement so as to minimise... behind it one of the principles of life according to the Ignorance—a deeply rooted tendency of vital Nature. But it is the very aim of sadhana to overcome that and substitute a truer and diviner vital Force. 1 April 1934 Page 587 You have written to me that standing is not good for Mother, and yet I see the Mother standing in concentration on the staircase for at least fifteen minutes ...
... This time the physical seems to have opened also. 1932 In the ordinary condition of the body if you oblige the body to do too much work, it can do with the support of vital force. But as soon as the work is done, the vital force withdraws and then the body feels fatigue. If this is done too much and for too long a time, there may be a breakdown of health and strength under the overstrain. Rest is ...
... remember what exactly I wrote—so can't say very well. But of course there can be a wrong Force. There are Asuric Forces, rajasic Forces, all sorts of Forces. Apart from that one can use a mental or vital Force which may not be the right thing. Or one may use the Force in such a way that it does not succeed or does not hit the General on the head or is not commensurate with the opposing Forces—(opposing... forces. As far as I can see, if it is possible to cure dangerous diseases of the body by Yogic power, why should it not be possible to act on the mind of another person and pour into him immense vital force which can bring about such results as the Russian revolution? Page 495 The statement made to X was not quite correct; it is putting things in too physical a form. A spiritual and occult ...
... is not dissolved at the time of death, these entities continue to exist and they come and settle in the atmosphere of sensitive persons to goad them, to egg them on. These entities feed upon the vital force emanated at the time of the act and naturally their only desire is to get as much nourishment as they can. I have seen people enringed by dozens of these beings. It is a very concrete thing.... I... here. He has said in one of his books that people who have a very strong sexual instinct are surrounded by a swarm of these small beings, who plague them to satisfy themselves, to feed upon the vital force. He knew the thing quite well, he had observed it. To those who are ever so little sensitive, it is very perceptible. Even the people who are tormented very often feel that the impulse comes from ...
... so could justify the height of his grandchildren or great-grandchildren. Page 25 Sweet Mother, can a plant grow otherwise than physically? In plants there is a great vital force. And this vital force has a considerable action. And there is also the genius of the species, which is a consciousness. There is already an active consciousness at work in plants. And in the genius of the ...
... instead of thinking in your head, you can think in your chest. And he said that one could think here ( gesture ) in the stomach. He took the stomach as the seat of prāṇa , you see, that is, the vital force. He used certain Sanskrit words, you know, half-digested, and all that... But still, this does not matter, he was full of goodwill and he said that most human miseries come Page 310 from... mark that there was something very true, in the sense that if ever you have a headache I advise you to do this: to take the thought-force, the mental force—and even if you can draw a little of your vital force, that too—and make it come down, like this ( gesture of very slowly sliding both hands from the top of the head downwards ). Well, if you have a headache or a congestion, if you have caught a touch ...
... other end of the courtyard. They know how to do all that, it is written in their books. These are words and ceremonies having a certain power. Naturally, those who do that must have a vital force. A vital force is necessary—a little mental force also, not much, even very little—but quite a strong vital power to control these little entities, govern them. And these people rule them precisely through ...
... praying to God? It is an enormous vital spider that's feeding upon all your forces!", that would really not have been very charitable. And that's how it is most of the time, almost everywhere; it is a vital force which is there, for these vital entities feed upon the vibration of human emotions, and very few people, very few, an insignificant number, go to church or temple with a true religious feeling, that... For example, there are so many of these entities called Kali—who are given, besides, quite terrible appearances—so many are even placed in houses as the family-goddess; they are full of a terrible vital force! I knew people who were so frightened of the Kali they had at home that indeed they trembled to make the least mistake, for when catastrophes came they thought it was Kali who sent them! It is a ...
... Suddenly, in place of the statue, I saw an enormous spider... like a tarantula, you know, but ( gesture ) huge! It covered the entire wall of the chapel and was just waiting there to swallow all the vital force of the people who came. It was... heart-rending. I said to myself, 'Oh, these people...' There was this miserable woman who had come seeking solace, who was praying there, weeping, hoping to find... ground—and she wanted me to get her out of it. They 'feel' the atmosphere. They are aware—they may not be conscious on higher planes, but they are conscious on vital planes, aware of vital power and the vital force it represents.... It's like this asura from M.: when I came in he suddenly seemed to tremble on his pedestal; then he left his idol and came to seek my alliance. But it's strange.... ( silence ...
... The Vital It came to my realisation that Life-Force and the Force to create movements in the body is seated deep within behind the upper abdomen. Yes, there is a seat of creative vital force there. 15 December 1933 The vital is the seat of our power, energy, enthusiasm, effective dynamism. It needs a systematic education. Vital centre: passionate and strong, it asks... Vital patience: indispensable for all progress. Vital progress: organisation around the Divine Will and a progressive surrender to this Will. The vital governed by the Presence: the vital force rendered peaceful and disciplined by the Divine Presence. Page 354 Formative faculty in the vital: spontaneous but not always happy, it needs to be disciplined. Candid simplicity ...
... remarkable attempt which could have revolutionised the collective life of India. But this was interrupted on account of several factors. Among these factors was the fact of the exhaustion of the vital force as a result of a long inarch and effort from Page 28 the earliest times of Indian history. This exhaustion was also due to the fact that since the sixth century B.C., there entered a... conditions of the country. High ideals began to be exiled from active life, and rigidities of various kinds came to imprison the forms of life of individuals and collectivities. The exhaustion of vital force also coincided with the political instability and the coming of settlers from the West. Finally, the establishment of the British supremacy in India resulted in extreme impoverishment of the Spirit ...
... rather an inner and intimate origin. But it has very rarely a sufficient vital body. I have heard a good deal of Indian music, quite a good deal indeed. I came across very rarely any that has a great vital force, not more than four or five times. But I have heard oftener that with a psychic inspiration behind. It is a music directly translated from the inner into the physical. To listen you must concentrate... consciousness, such a thin stream expresses itself there that the vital gives no response and finds it extremely flat and monotonous. If, however, along with the psychic vibration there were also a vital force expressing it, the result would be interesting indeed. I like this kind of music, with a theme, a single theme moving and developing gradually with variations: countless variations playing ...
... qualities not only of courage, heroism, but also of power and strength, and ambition and desire for rule. The Kshatriyas represented, predominantly, the principle of vital force, and it was known in Indian psychology that the vital force, if left unbridled or untransformed, could easily become a source of mis-adventure and even of destruction. Happily, the Brahmin as a minister provided to the Kshatriya ...
... remarkable attempt which could have revolutionised the collective life of India. But this was interrupted on account of several factors. Among these factors was the fact of the exhaustion of the vital force as a result of a long march and effort from the earliest times of Indian history. This exhaustion was also due to the fact that since the 6th century B.C. there entered a current of culture which... political conditions of the country. High ideals began to be exiled from active life, and rigidities of various kinds came to imprison the forms of individuals and collectivities. The exhaustion of vital force in the country coincided also with the political instability and the coming of the settlers from Page 99 the West. Finally, the establishment of the British supremacy in India resulted ...
... accuracy of term, almost ascetic in its simplicity and directness and a frequent fine and happy bareness; it is the speech of a strong and rapid poetical intelligence and a great and straightforward vital force, brief and telling in phrase but by virtue of a single-minded sincerity and without any rhetorical labour of compactness, a style like the light and strong body of a runner nude and pure and healthily... Ravana, and led to a decisive issue of victory of the ideal man over Rakshasa. Page 37 The Mahābhārata proceeds from a "strong and quick intelligence and a great and straight vital force and single-minded sincerity". Both the Mahābhārata and the R ā m ā yana are "products of inspired intelligence with a high poetic tone". Both are "ensouled images of a great culture". These epics ...
... character who is father of Savitri, shows that man's present constitution is only a constitution which is in movement. Is man only a sum total of mind, life and body? Is man only mind plus life plus vital force plus body, physical being? That is the question, and Aswapathy says, no, these are man's instruments, the ones that the soul uses; so if man realizes, on this side of the equation, his inner entity... you cannot convert him. It is impossible because he is not man. He is not man in the true sense of the word - in the sense of an ignorant human being. He has allowed himself to be governed by a vital force, he has allowed a mastery over his own vital nature by a force from below. And that force wants to replace and take the throne of the Divine. The ego is there inflated. It inflates and wants to govern ...
... body into the brain and return so much of it as is needed for the body purified and electricised. Pranayam is the mastery of the vital force, the mobile energy which keeps the universe going. In the human body the most noticeable function of the prana or vital force is the breathing, which is in ordinary men necessary to life and motion. The Hathayogin conquers it and renders himself independent ...
... That is why the European mystics gave the name of astral plane to the plane of sensational or nervous existence and astral fluid to the magnetic power or current of nervous, vital force in a man. It is this same vital force which pours upon us from all parts of the solar system and of this physical universe. But man is mightier than his sensations or vitality, or the sensational & vital forces of ...
... spite of his mental capacity which is considerable there is a weakness of the vital force in him which would stand very much in his way. Page 552 Moreover to overcome the difficulties of Yoga, there must be a definite call and he himself says that he has not got that. It is better for him to increase his vital force and will by some life-action steadily undertaken and followed out—that is the ...
... being brought about by the former, it can be misused or attacked by the latter. If there had been a protection about him exercised by one who had knowledge and confidence in his own psychic and vital force, the untoward influence evidenced by the cries, grimaces, etc. would not have come in to spoil this stage. Let me add that these are not forces of our lower universal but an intervention from a foreign... been seen that the immediate cause of the collapse was partly sexual; for that was included in what I meant by the uprush from the vital being. Nor does it make much difference that the physico-vital force possessing him took the form or assumed the Pranic body of some dead friend. The situation remains as before. If the disorder is only psychic it will disappear in time. If there is some brain defect ...
... whatever force or presence comes, a right interpretation and response, a right knowledge in the mind, a right preparation of the vital and physical being. But what you are feeling is an abnormal vital force and exaltation due to the impatience of your desire, and with this there come suggestions born of your desire, which you mistake for truth and call inspirations and intuitions. I will point out... needs of the body; and you forget my instructions, and mistakenly call these needs a disturbance or the play of hostile material and physical forces. This idea is false: what you feel is only a vital force, not the highest truth, and the body remains what it was; it will suffer and break down if [it] is not given food, rest and sleep. 5) It is the same mistaken vital exaltation that made you feel ...
... physical forces at play and with the knowledge the power to handle them for the purposes of life and of Yoga. In your case what is strong in your nature is especially the dynamic mind, the vital force and the practical physical mind. The thinking mind in you in spite of the interest it has taken in religion and philosophy is not easily open to a true illumination. The other parts mentioned above... the life-force to greater uses. The vital power behind the sexual impulse is an indispensable force for the perfection of the nature and for the Yoga. Often it is those who because of the strong vital force in them are most capable of the supramental transformation of Page 330 the physical nature that have the strongest sexual impulses. All lust, the sexual act and the outward dragging impulse ...
... There is always a drawing of vital forces from one to another in all human social mixture; it takes place automatically. Lovemaking is one of the most powerful ways of each drawing up the other’s vital force,—or of one drawing the other’s, which also often happens in a one-sided way to the great detriment of the “other”. In the passage come many things good and bad, elation, feelings of strength, fullness... give out too much of one’s vital forces so as to weaken oneself or exhaust of energy, a thing which should not be done,—it is only those who know how to draw or can draw freely from the universal vital Force and replenish their life energies that can give out freely. All of course draw to some extent, otherwise they would not remain alive, for expenditure of vital energy is always going on and one has ...
... praying to God? It is an enormous vital spider that’s feeding upon all your forces!”, that would really not have been very charitable. And that’s how it is most of the time, almost everywhere; it is a vital force which is there, for these vital entities feed upon the vibration of human emotions, and very few people, very few, an insignificant number, go to church or temple with a true religious feeling, that... For example, there are so many of these entities called Kali—who are given, besides, quite terrible appearances—so many are even placed in houses as the family-goddess; they are full of a terrible vital force! I knew people who were so frightened of the Kali they had at home that indeed they trembled to make the least mistake, for when catastrophes came they thought it was Kali who sent them! It is a ...
... of our people. 61 It is found that civilisation has created many more problems than it can solve, has multiplied excessive needs and desires the satisfaction of which it has not sufficient vital force to sustain, has developed a jungle of claims and artificial instincts in the midst of which life loses its way and has no longer any sight of its aim. The more advanced minds begin to declare ci... . Practised not by the comparatively few who are called to it, but preached in its extreme form to all and adopted by unfit thousands, its values may be debased, counterfeits may abound and the vital force of the community lose its elasticity and its forward spring. It would be idle to pretend that such defects and untoward results have been absent in India. I do-not accept the ascetic ideal as the ...
... by another, a mainly psychic and spiritual motive, which will enable the sadhak to work with the same force as before, no longer for himself, but for the Divine. If the ordinary vital motives or vital force can no longer act freely and yet are not replaced by something else, then the push or force put into the work may decline or the power to command success may no longer be there. For the sincere sadhak... the difficulty can only be temporary; but he has to see the defect in his consecration or his attitude and to remove it. Then the divine Power itself will act through him and use his capacity and vital force for its ends. In your case it is the psychic being and a part of the mind that have drawn you to the Yoga and were predisposed to it, but the vital nature or at least a large part of it has not yet ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads II The Question. What Godhead? Mind is the agent of the lower or phenomenal consciousness; vital force or the life-breath, speech and the five senses of knowledge are the instruments of the mind. Prana, the life-force in the nervous system, is indeed the one main instrument of our mental consciousness; for 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 body. A third, the Samana, regulates the interchange of these two forces at their meeting-place, equalises them and is the most important agent in maintaining the equilibrium of the vital ...
... because they do not give the responses to things that create depression. Naturally the deep depression and low vitality [ in another person ] try to get into you, or if the person pulls your vital force to restore hers or you yourself part with it for that purpose, you feel exhausted and empty afterwards. That is the natural result. One person may produce more of this result than another. Or if... revolt, viraha ). For sorrow is not, as Spinoza pointed out, a passage to a greater perfection, a way to siddhi; it cannot be, for it confuses and weakens and distracts the mind, depresses the vital force, darkens the spirit. A relapse from joy and vital elasticity and Ananda to sorrow, self-distrust, despondency and weakness is a recoil from a greater to a lesser consciousness;— Page 190 ...
... of the body—not giving it enough sleep or repose. The body is the support of the Yoga, but its energy is not inexhaustible and needs to be husbanded; it can be kept up by drawing on the universal vital Force but that reinforcement too has its limits. A certain moderation is needed even in the eagerness for progress—moderation, not indifference or indolence. Exactly. "The body felt fatigue"—that... human nature. You had vital reactions but you did not allow them to overcome you or make you think yourself unfit for the Yoga, because you relied upon the Mother and did not yield to the contrary vital Force. Here also you will have to have constant reliance on the Mother and reject the suggestions of the physical consciousness in the atmosphere when they come. Stupidity and Ignorance Your suggestion ...
... Epilepsy however is not possession—it is an attack or at most a temporary seizure. Insanity always indicates possession. The hereditary conditions create a predisposition. It is not possible for a vital Force or Being to invade or take possession unless there are doors open for it to enter. The door may be a vital consent or affinity or a physical defect in the being. Page 805 Madness Insanity... ordinary life and not only in Yoga; the same causes work here. The one thing is that there may be an invasion of an alien Force bringing about the upsetting, but it is not the Divine Force, it is a vital Force that invades. The Divine Force cannot by its descent be the cause of madness any more than it can be of apoplexy or any other physical illness. If there is no predisposition one may have all kinds ...
... two lords of brilliant force, śavasaspatī , as in another hymn, in a former Mandala, they are invoked as lords of thought, dhiyaspatī . Indra is the master of mental force, Vayu of nervous or vital force and their union is necessary for thought and for action. They are invited to come in one common chariot and drink together of the wine of the Ananda which brings with it the divinising energies.... utter mass of its entire potential energy. 6 It is the completely varied all-ensphering, all-energising mental illumination with its full perfection of being, power, bliss, knowledge, mentality, vital force, physical activity that he desires. For, this attained, the subconscient is compelled to yield up all its hidden possibilities at the will of the perfected mind for the rich and abundant movement ...
... Gods, all the means of the journey and the battle. But as giver Page 27 of the Light of Truth and as Vritra-slayer Indra is aided by the Maruts, who are powers of will and nervous or vital Force that have attained to the light of thought and the voice of self-expression. They are behind all thought and speech as its impellers and they battle towards the Light, Truth and Bliss of the supreme... the purely mental and psychic and the physical consciousness. Their large and free scope is the condition of our achievement. Vayu,master of life, links them together by the mid-air, the region of vital force. And there are other deities,—Parjanya, giver of the rain of heaven; Dadhikravan, the divine war-horse, a power of Agni; the mystic Dragon of the Foundations; Trita Aptya who on the third plane of ...
... road. Here, this vital force has become even more concentrated and is unable to free itself. It is undoubtedly a question of time, of aging. Thus all my energy, especially during the past year, has been spent 'negatively,' as it were—in an effort not to leave. This struggle seems to have eliminated all positive effort, even the very meaning of my presence here. This vital force is no longer seeking ...
... powerfully and truly that I was very pleased. I saw descending upon you from above an intense white light with a great power. Under its pressure there was proceeding from you a very generous outflow of vital force — in the best sense of the term — on to all round you. And the resolution of the conflicts into the chords of Victory was remarkable. Then, above some of the notes you sang, I contacted a vast peace... reproduce below but more as a gist than as a verbatim report: "It is very remarkable and interesting", she went on, "to trace the changes and evolution in your music and creative power. The fund of vital force in you one day suddenly turned Page 223 and from that day forth your music was fundamentally altered in its character and outlook; you have continued ever since to succeed, progressively ...
... things, and have the total experience. I could go out of my body with no need of trance, except when Theon wanted me to do a particular work. That was a different business—the vital force (not the consciousness, the vital force) had to go out for that work, so the body had to go into trance. But even then.... For instance, very often when I am 'called' and go to do something in response, my body does ...
... ( Mother gives Satprem a ruffled mauve petunia: ) Look, it's Enthusiasm, see how beautiful it is! It must be put in water right away, otherwise.... It needs vital force and water is vital force. It's lovely! What fantasy! And this one is the Consciousness one with the Divine Consciousness, 1 but supramentalized—beginning to be supramentalized. And here is a very pretty Promise ...
... accuracy of turn, almost ascetic in its simplicity and directness and a frequent fine and happy bareness; it is the speech of a strong and rapid poetical intelligence and a great and straightforward vital force, brief and telling in phrase but by virtue of a single-minded sincerity and, except in some knotted passages or episodes, without any rhetorical labour of compactness, a style like the light and... oration, proceed straight from the heart, the thoughts, words, reasonings come welling up from the dominant emotion or conflicting feeling of the speaker; they palpitate and are alive with the vital force from which they have sprung. Though belonging to a more thoughtful, gentle and cultured civilisation than Homer's, they have, like his, the large utterance which is not of primitive times, but of ...
... capacity to create confidence in others. That is his real strength along with the magnetism and power of suggestion. The man is a tower of vital strength and a dynamo of vital force—but with all the turbidity of a vital force. I can't altogether dismiss his treatment as rubbish and make-believe, because you yourself have said that if the diagnosis is correct and appropriate medicines are administered ...
... rather an inner and intimate origin. But it has very rarely a sufficient vital body. I have heard a good deal of Indian music, quite a good deal indeed. I came across very rarely any that has a great vital force, not more than four or five times. But I have heard quite often that with a psychic inspiration behind. It is music directly translated from the inner into the physical. To listen you must concentrate... expresses. itself there that the vital gives no response and finds it extremely flat and monotonous. If, however, along with the Page 426 psychic vibration there were also a vital force expressing it, the result would be interesting indeed. I like this kind of music, with a theme, a single theme moving and developing gradually with variations: countless variations playing out ...
... like the dress we wear or an instrument we happen to be carrying in our hand. We may even come to feel that the body is in a certain sense non-existent except as a sort of partial expression of our vital force and of our Page 104 mentality. These experiences are signs that the mind is coming to a right poise regarding the body, that it is exchanging the false viewpoint of the mentality obsessed... response is to tense up. This tension is one of the causes of death, as well as a major obstacle to establishing the true vibration. When we become tense because of a blow, we concentrate all our vital force in one point, as a defense; an enormous current abruptly passes through a tiny opening, which turns red and hurts. If we could learn to expand our physical consciousness and to absorb the blow instead ...
... oneself be drawn out when one is in contact with the Divine? Sri Aurobindo : The force that supports the work, the vital force, is different from the Divine Consciousness. Disciple : Do you remember one Kulkarni who came and was complaining that his vital force was being drawn out? Sri Aurobindo : Yes. He was surrounding by forces of disintegration, chaos, disaster and death ...
... drops of pure light, at times fulgurating with power. It was this “something” that was under study. That which remains when everything has been removed: the pure body. And not an atom anymore of vital force⎯an almost impotent body⎯while there was those torrents of crushing power around her…. A surprising contradiction. But those last five years are full of fulgurating contradictions⎯fulgurating, because... it was almost unbelievable. As if the earth gave way under one’s feet, but not into an empty hole: into a Wonder, yes, an incredible Wonder, there is no other word for it. No more Mind, no more vital force⎯which She was never to recover. Gone forever. But She would come to move all the same, walk and write again, receive one to two hundred people a day. She would even take an oculist’s chart to learn ...
... oration, proceed straight from the heart; the thoughts, words, reasonings come welling up from the dominant emotion or conflicting feelings of the speaker; they palpitate and are alive with the vital force from which they have sprung. Though belonging to a more thoughtful, gentle and cultured civilisation than Homer's they have, like his, the large utterance which is not of primitive times, but of ...
... He is the very type and incarnation of the Maratha character, the Maratha qualities, the Maratha spirit, but with the unified solidity in the character, the touch of genius in the qualities, the vital force in the spirit which make a great personality readily the representative man of his people. The Maratha race, as their soil and their history have made them, are a rugged, strong and sturdy people ...
... thy force of the impulsion. Page 416 × The Horse is the symbol of Force in the Veda, especially of vital force. It is variously the Arvat or war-steed in the battle and the Vajin, the steed of the journey which brings us in the plenty of our spiritual wealth. ...
... only successful in isolated & inconclusive movements. B's [Bijoy's] spasmodic utthapana occurred for the second time. Page 451 21 April 1914 Fever continues slightly, but there is vital force in the body maintaining itself & contradicted only when the tamas gets the upper hand or by a more rapid exhaustion than usual, but even that exhaustion is speedily repaired with a novel persistence ...
... leaving only discomfort of ill-regulated apana Page 376 and unrealised tendencies of alternate constipation & looseness. It is found, however, that the body has learned to retain its vital force & working energy, recovering elastically even from the brief after result of fever in the pranakosha. Kamananda continues obstinately though as yet unable to establish uninterrupted continuity in ...
... the same, but the colour given will be different. The Titans or Asuras of the Veda are souls of mere undisciplined might. They are those who found themselves not on light & calm but on asu, the vital force & might which is the basis of all energetic & impetuous feeling & action. The self-willed ones, who from temperamental passion wreck themselves by the furious pursuit in desire of a false object ...
... normally necessary and vital to the maintenance and distribution of the energy in the physical frame, but which can yet be suspended without the life being necessarily destroyed. The existence of a vital force or life-energy has been doubted by western Science, because that Science concerns itself only with the most external operations of Nature and has as yet no true knowledge of anything except the physical ...
... of Asia, the result was the collapse of the politically victorious civilisation under the assault of an Oriental religion which in its tenets & methods not only exceeded but trampled alike on the vital force of the body & on the free play of the intellect, alike on Greece & on Rome. And it was from a part of Asia which underwent directly the Roman yoke, but persisted with the most deep-rooted perseverance ...
... manhood. Practised not by the comparatively few who are called to it, but preached in its extreme form to all and adopted by unfit thousands, its values may be debased, counterfeits may abound and the vital force of the community lose its elasticity and its forward spring. It would be idle to pretend that such defects and untoward results have been absent in India. I do not accept the ascetic ideal as the ...
... race has lived most richly and thought most profoundly that spirituality finds its heights and its depths and its constant and many-sided fruition. In modern Europe it is after a long explosion of vital force and a stupendous activity of the intellect that spirituality has begun really to emerge and with some promise of being not, as it once was, the sorrowful physician of the malady of life, but the ...
... beyond for good does not justify the Soul's incarnating travail. And our terrestrial nature can have no divine rationale unless it be capable of being completely divinised. Have not our mind, our vital force and our physical form derived from God's self and substance? Surely then they are here for a Godlike existence and not simply to be used awhile and thrown aside: past yogis used them thus and threw ...
... time. I knew in my heart that the pain would diminish, and it did. When I got down at Bombay I was almost normal. “What do you think of it? Should you inform Mother?” One small physico-vital force of mischief and some vital entity, both responsible for the pain. The dish is the symbol of my help which would bring cure if it were received properly. 22 January 1960 ...
... significance of the Auroville Foundation ceremony. The Mother in Her Light of Divine Truth, the Supramental Light, is there above every participant from each country, who is riding a lion—the higher vital force of strength and courage and this force too is illumined by a higher spiritual consciousness. It is to be noted that while each country's flag and soil are individual to it and different from those ...
... . In that case the fits and other violent symptoms will disappear, the child may seem to be physically cured and healthy, but he will be an abnormal and most dangerous being incarnating an evil vital force with all its terrible propensities and gifted with abnormal powers to satisfy them. In Rathin's case there is not as yet possession in the full sense of the word, but a strong pressure and influence ...
... her hand, went on looking at it for a very long time. I moved away to my place at a little distance. At that time Amrita was with Mother with some papers. She turned to him and said: There is vital force, a living life in this; that is why Champaklal likes it. In the other photo there is supramental light but no life. That is why he does not prefer it. 1923: Inmates of the Ashram Top: ...
... hand, went on looking at it for a very long time. I moved away to my place at a little distance. At that time Amrita was with the Mother with some papers. She turned to him and said: “There is vital force, a living atmosphere in this photo; that is why Champaklal likes it. In the other photo there is supramental light but no vital life. That is why he does not like it.” ...
... become hysterical or mad or filled with the desire to die or go away." 41 "Insanity always indicates possession. The hereditary conditions create a predisposition. It is not possible for a vital Force or Being to invade or take possession unless there are doors open for it to enter. The door may be a vital consent or affinity or a physical defect in the being." 42 "Insanity is always due ...
... All illnesses, according to the Mother, are characterized by such vibrations of disorder. She describes the external source of an illness as "a kind of vibration made up of a mental suggestion, a vital force of disorder and certain physical elements which are the materialisation of the mental suggestion and the vital vibration. And these physical elements can be what we have agreed to call germs, microbes ...
... human nature. You had vital reactions but you did not allow them to overcome you or make you think yourself unfit for the Yoga, because you relied upon the Mother and did not yield to the contrary vital Force. Here also you will have to have constant reliance on the Mother and reject the suggestions of the physical consciousness in the atmosphere when they come. 30.5.1935 Sri Aurobindo ...
... cold and austere; it is not something opposed to or inconsistent with a full vital and physical manifestation; on the contrary, it carries in it the only possibility of the full fullness of the vital force and the physical life on earth. It is because it is so, because it was so revealed to me and for no other reason that I have followed after it and persevered till I came into contact with it and ...
... positions. In fact, Stalin was even more evil than Hitler. Hitler was human after all, and he therefore had a soul, albeit one possessed by an Asura; Stalin was a direct incarnation of a malevolent vital force — literally a titanic, power-hungry being without conscience or soul, whose deeds of monumental cruelty are written in history with letters of blood. ‘There are some rare individuals who are born ...
... they must have had their celebration, for I suddenly felt: “Ah, now it has calmed down, it’s all right.”’ The breakdown of the machines, the Mother explained, was due to the huge flows of turbulent vital force violently crushed out of the sugar cane and turning against the machines, the cause of their torment. ‘They kept coming and coming, and I was busy with them the whole time. They were not ugly, [though] ...
... discovered, sincerity consists in so ordering your life - its actions and reactions - that everything may conduce to the opening of the inner heart-centre. The psychic element in the mind and in the vital force should be Page 65 your teacher. Here my master-formula is to be applied: equanimity plus "Remember and offer." Whoever takes to the spiritual ideal has been led to it either by a ...
... sense of affinity with that name became all the more vivid when I found that the white horse represented the purified life-energy. Much of my Yogic effort had been concerned with the rebellious vital force in me. Both the calm-moving mind and the pure-passioned soul had to be put at play in order to make the unruly varicoloured courser of that force learn to reflect the hue and harmony of the spiritual ...
... "Thinkest thou that I have made the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in a jest?" Here is a truth not properly gauged by Allah's own followers. Though they have rightly felt a great vital force released by their Prophet, their goal is still the life beyond just as in Christianity and Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Buddhism, except that Buddhism for all its emphasis on a supra-cosmic Nirvana ...
... not only given the glimpse of a rich meaning behind the surface, a meaning opening up happy surprises. We also get the sense of a more-than-earthly truth silently at work within the many-motioned vital force to reveal through the play of this force a secret splendour whose power of transfiguring earth overpasses our largest dreams. * Your reference to horse-racing has stirred me a great deal ...
... and other external instruments for trans- Page 121 mission only. There are three elements in the production of poetry; there is the original source of inspiration, there is the vital force of creative beauty which contributes its own substance and impetus and often determines the form, except when that also comes ready made from the original sources; there is finally the transmitting ...
... members of his species incarnate vital forces. Cats are generally held to be independent animals, but the Mother said that one can communicate with them on condition that one knows how to apply one’s vital force. Her concern with the cats in the household was indeed a special one: she wanted to find out whether it was possible to make them skip one or several evolutionary steps. Her experiments with these ...
... life impetus, he becomes the breaker of bonds, the seeker of new horizons, the disturber of the past and present in the interest of the future. He has a mental life which is often enslaved to the vital force and its desires and passions, and it is these he seeks to satisfy through the mind: but when he interests himself strongly in mental things, he can become the mental adventurer, the opener of the ...
... affection, intelligence, perfection of art, music, poetry, literature,—perfection of the intellect in any kind of mental activity, the perfect statesman, warrior, artist, craftsman,—perfection in vital force and capacity, perfection in ethical qualities, character, temperament,—all have their high value, their place as rungs in the ladder of evolution, the seried steps of the spirit's emergence. If one ...
... eminent among his fellows. That kind of greatness [ scientific, literary, political ] has nothing to do with the psychic. It consists in a special mental capacity (Raman, Tagore) or in a great vital force which enables them to lead men and dominate them. These faculties are often but not always accompanied by something in the personality Daivic or Asuric which supports their action and gives to men ...
... t present in the arrangement of things here it is latent behind and acts through other media. No, one can't say that [ there is a direct supramental action at work in plants ]. It is the vital force that works, but there is a sort of underlying Intuition in this Life-Force which is behind Page 279 the whole action and that is what one might call a reflection or delegated Power at ...
... functionings etc. become by the power of the consciousness within it harmonious, luminous, right and true—without ignorance or disorder. Page 305 The Hathayogic method is to bring an immense vital force into the body and by this and by certain processes keep it strong and in good health and a capable instrument. The Transformation of the Body in Other Traditions It [ a body of light seen by ...
... can respond very readily to the psychic in man. The ghost is of course not the soul. It is either the man appearing in his vital body or it is a fragment of his vital that is seized on by some vital force or being. The vital part of us normally exists after the dissolution of the body for some time and passes away into the vital plane where it remains till the vital sheath dissolves. Afterwards it ...
... more difficult, but in the last result justifies the labour. Each plane of consciousness contains the others in itself in principle. In the physical consciousness there is a physical mind, a vital force and action which we call the vital physical, and the physical proper or material. Mind has its own realms and life has its own realms just as matter has. In the mental realms life and substance ...
... creation for the creative Power, a means of expression for That which is expressed and expresses. Matter and our physical brain and nerves and body are the field and foundation for one action of a vital force that serves to connect the Self with the form of its works and maintains them by its direct dynamis. The material movements are an exterior notation by which the soul represents its perceptions of ...
... from its environment; that is to say, there is a constantly maintained force in it which is capable of responding to the application of force from its surroundings. It is said that the idea of a vital force in the plant or other living organism has been destroyed by these experiments. But when we say that a stimulus has been applied to the plant, we mean that an energised force, a force in dynamic movement ...
... the very forces that the ego of the strong vital man seized and bent to its purpose rebel and turn against him, those he had trampled on rise up and receive power for his downfall: the insolent vital force of Man strikes against the throne of Necessity and is dashed to pieces or the lame foot of Punishment reaches at last the successful offender. This reaction to his energies may come upon him in another ...
... action and productiveness. It is found that civilisation has created many more problems than it can solve, has multiplied excessive needs and desires the satisfaction of which it has not sufficient vital force to sustain, has developed a jungle of claims and artificial instincts in the midst of which life loses its way and has no longer any sight of its aim. The more advanced minds begin to declare ci ...
... of the clarity, like animals under the mastery of their driver. As if on a path in front of the Ocean ( sindhu , the upper ocean) the mighty ones move compact of forceful speed but limited by the vital force ( vāta, vāyu ), the streams of clarity; they are like a straining horse which breaks its limits, as it is nourished by the waves." On the very face of it this is the poetry of a mystic concealing ...
... girls of Trita send coursing the brilliant lord of sweetness for the Power in the mind to drink. (3) As the Swan that seeks the flock it yearns after the mentality in every man, as speed of the vital force it brightens itself with the rays of Thought. (4) O Joy, looking down from above on the heaven of mind, on the body’s earth like a beast that is spurred thou hastenest on to take thy seat in the ...
... प्रसन्नता समता भोगसामर्थ्यमिति प्राणशक्तिः । Purnata, prasannata, samata, bhogasamarthyam, iti pranashaktih. Page 11 When in the physical sensations we are conscious of a full and steady vital force which is clear and glad and bright and undisturbed by any mental or physical shock, then there is the siddhi of the prana, the vital or nervous system. Then we become fit for whatever bhoga God imposes ...
... strain or reaction any working however intense and constant, of energy however great and [puissant]. 7 This is Dharana Samarthyam. The perfect state of Prana consists in a sense of fullness of vital force (Purnata), of general clearness and cheerfulness (Prasannata), of equality in all experiences, shocks and contacts (Samata), and in the Page 1470 capacity to take all enjoyment of the ...
... dynamics, not of that in him which never changes. He is what he is today by some past will of his nature sustained and continued by a present will to know, to believe and to be in his intelligence and vital force, and whatever new turn is taken by this will and faith active in his very substance, that he will tend to become in the future. We create our own truth of existence in our own action of mind and ...
... nourishes the plants and trees that clothe her surface. The Divine and no other is the flame of life that sustains the physical body of living creatures and turns its food into sustenance of their vital force. He is lodged in the heart of every breathing thing; from him are memory and knowledge and the debates of the reason. He is that which is known by all the Vedas and by all forms of knowing; he is ...
... itself as a mental Page 416 abstraction, it has no reality and no effective power; it is only an index, a figure. It can become effective only by taking up life and catching hold of some vital force to effectuate it, but 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 ...
... vital and uses the outer mind and other external instruments for transmission only. There are three elements in the production of poetry; there is the original source of inspiration, there is the vital force of creative beauty which contributes its own substance and impetus and often determines the form, except when that also comes ready made from the original sources; there is, finally, the transmitting ...
... minds of thinkers, sometimes in a modified form, sometimes in its own pure idealism, till allying itself with the growing forces of socialism and anarchism it took a clear body and a recognisable vital force. In its absolute form, it became the internationalism of Page 548 the intellectuals, intolerant of nationalism as a narrow spirit of the past, contemptuous of patriotism as an irrational ...
... embodied Mother who, they find, is not so complaisant, checks them, corrects their fancies and their errors. At this stage there is the danger of a more serious invasion of Falsehood, of a hostile vital Force coming in, taking advantage of the mind's errors, which either tries to take the place of the Mother using her name or else creates revolt against her. A persuasion not to come to Pranam, not to ...
... connection, the psychic openness to the Mother which has been so long the foundation of your sadhana and the cause of the great progress you were making. Do not listen to the clamour of the adverse vital Force which has been attacking you, its reasonings or its wrong emotional suggestions—it only wants you to fall from happiness, to suffer and to descend into a lower consciousness and lose your progress ...
... 1) A certain vanity and arrogance and self-assertive rajasic vehemence which in this smaller vital being are, for those who have a pronounced strength in these parts, the deformation of the vital force and habit of leading and domination that certain qualities in the higher vital gave them. This is accompanied by an excessive amour-propre which creates the necessity of making a figure, maintaining ...
... presence we come out of depression and experience the ecstasy of joy. Does this take place by a psychic meeting or a meeting on the inner vital level? It depends on whether it comes by drawing vital force from her or simply by the joy of seeing her or by receiving something from her. In the two latter cases it is usually psychic or psychic-vital, in the former it is vital. ...
... Mother. If you reject and refuse to listen or believe always, it will disappear. 30 March 1933 All these [ suggestions of ill treatment, severity, lack of support ] are the mere ravings of the vital Force that attacks the mind with its lying suggestions until it succeeds in getting the sadhak to turn away from the Mother and against her. There is a part of the vital that accepts it, luxuriates in ...
... the world people easily turn to such a strong and expansive vital and draw upon it for strength and assistance. In your case this is enhanced by your psychic being having the habit of using your vital force for communication to the outside world as it has been habitually doing in your creative activities, poetry and other forms of writing or speech, song and music: apart from artistic qualities and ...
... swarm about you the microbes and germs of every disease. How is it that all of a sudden you succumb to an illness which you did not have for years? You will say it is due to a 'depression of the vital force'. But from where does the depression come? It comes from some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain ...
... the push, the dynamis towards transformation. Consequently, you must beware at the same time of indulging freely in desires, thinking them to be needs which must be satisfied, and of rejecting the vital force as positively evil. What you should do is to throw the doors of your being wide open to the Divine. The moment you conceal something, you step straight into Falsehood. The least suppression on your ...
... swarm about you the microbes and germs of every disease. How is it that all of a sudden you succumb to an illness which you did not have for years? You will say it is due to a "depression of the vital force". But from where does the depression come? It comes from some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain ...
... one is allowed to exercise his will over another, but that there is a universal will and those who are more or less capable of manifesting this force seem to have a stronger will-power. It is like vital force or light or electricity or any other power of nature; some are good channels or instruments for manifesting the power, others are poor channels. There is no question of morality here. It is a fact ...
... for everything that you do. The true value of one's creation depends on the origin of one's inspiration, on the level, the height where you find it. But the value of the execution depends on the vital force which expresses it; to complete the genius both must be there, which is rare. Generally it is the one or the other, more often the vital. And there are other kinds of music that are given—the music ...
... learns to know oneself and then to become master of oneself. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 13 January 1951 You live vitally in the vital world with all the currents of vital force entering, going out, joining and opposing each other, quarrelling and intermingling in your consciousness, and even if you have made a personal effort to purify your vital consciousness, to master ...
... terrible. ( Laughter ) Page 143 When Sri Aurobindo says that illness comes from outside, what exactly is it that comes? It is a kind of vibration made up of a mental suggestion, a vital force of disorder and certain physical elements which are the materialisation of the mental suggestion and the vital vibration. And these physical elements can be what we have agreed to call germs, microbes ...
... envelope, a vital shell which gives it a still greater reality. These people are usually surrounded by a number of tiny entities which are their own formations, their own mental formations clothed with vital force, which come all the time to strike them to try to make them realise materially the formations they have made. You have perhaps read the books of Maurice Magre; there are some in the library. He ...
... the absorption of an inconscience which increases daily, constantly, without one's being aware of it. Vitally, it is the same thing. You live vitally in the vital world with all the currents of vital force entering, going out, joining and opposing each other, quarrelling and intermingling in your consciousness, and even if you have made a personal effort to purify your vital consciousness, to master ...
... I am speaking of the ordinary vital in ordinary life. It is not open to this source of higher forces, and for it this is even altogether non-existent. In the immense majority of people all their vital force comes to them from below, from the earth, from food, from all the sensations. From food... they draw vital energy out of food, and they... it is by seeing, hearing, touching, feeling that they contact ...
... entire science to learn. On what do our physical reserves depend, Mother? Physical reserves? You mean the reserve of energy? Yes. It depends on the capacity to receive the universal vital force; because in fact, through food also it is these vital forces one receives but one receives them from below. But in order to have reserves you must know how to receive the universal vital forces ...
... plastic in action and movement; it does not create a Page 6 rigidity of direction like the one-pointed intellect or a bigotry of the regnant idea or impulse like the one-pointed vital force; it is at every moment and with a supple sureness that it points the way to the Truth, automatically distinguishes the right step from the false, extricates the divine or Godward movement from the ...
... the temporary materialisation of subtle substance into forms capable of cognition not only by the sight but by material touch or other sense, (3) the handling of material objects by mind-energy or vital force, e.g. making a pencil move and write on paper. All these things are possible and have been done. It must be remembered that Energy is fundamentally one in all the planes, only taking more and more ...
... For example, there are so many of these entities called Kali—who are given, besides, quite terrible appearances—so many are even placed in houses as the family-goddess; they are full of a terrible vital force! I knew people who were so frightened of the Kali they had at home that indeed they trembled to make the least mistake, for when catastrophes came they thought it was Kali who sent them! It is a ...
... Highest, one-pointed and yet plastic in action and movement; it does not create a rigidity of direction like the one-pointed intellect or bigotry of the regnant idea or impulse like the one-pointed vital force; it is at every moment and with a supple sureness that it points the way to the Truth, automatically distinguishes the right step from the false, extricates the divine or Godward movement from the ...
... weakening of the force due to the non-collaboration of the vital which causes the slackening. Children do not live in their minds enough to obey spontaneously a mental will that is not sustained by a vital force which influences them by its mere presence, without requiring any outer expression. When the vital collaborates, my force works through it and automatically maintains order simply by its presence ...
... Mustapha Kemal not knowing their own minds or acting in this way—even their strategic retreats were steps towards an end clearly conceived and executed. But whatever it be it is all mind action and vital force in Gandhi. So why should he be taken as an example of the defeat of the Divine or of a spiritual Power?** I quite allow that there has been something behind Gandhi greater than himself and you can ...
... much, but he says that even this is too much for his health. If tell him something, he thinks I simply want to extract work from him and do not care for his body. He wants to do only desk work. Vital force is very poor and mental suggestions rather strong. Do what he asks for a time. He may find out that it is all imagination, for it is his imagination that makes him sick or rather gives him the ...
... Money is a force and should not be an individual possession , no more than air, water or fire. To begin with, the abolishment of inheritance. Financial power is the materialization of a vital force turned into one of the greatest powers of action: the power to attract acquire, and utilize. Like all the other powers, it must be put at the service of the Divine. ...
... so that our work may progress at this crucial time. Stop imagining wrong things and your miseries will stop at the same time. Blessings. 10 December 1964 Page 145 His vital force is very poor and mental suggestions rather strong. Do what he asks for a time. He may find out that it is all his imagination, for it is his imagination that makes him sick or rather gives ...
... 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; still, the inspiration that has the amplest and ...
... the animal the lines tell us of a successful hunt. Nor do we feel the competition to be all unequal. The Kangaroo by its exceptional speed set a challenge to the hunter and only by a rare burst of vital force did he get hold of it. We have the beginnings of an imaginative gusto here as well as of the intuitive manner of speech. The intuitive manner by its keen compactness and kindling contact of words ...
... Between his body and above, there's nothing—nothing between the two. Yes, it's the intermediary levels that are missing. He has no discernment. So it may simply be someone with a considerable vital force which he felt.... That's just why I'd like to know who it is. I told T. to see and write what this famous guru is like. But you know, I had a very strange dream with A.R. some two or three weeks ...
... vision. But what people call "death," that is, the decomposition of the cells and dissolution of the form, is when the most material "vital subdegree," which brings into contact with Life—with the vital force, life—goes out. That is how death occurs in animals, for example. And that vital subdegree generally goes away when the external organism is unable to continue—when, for instance, it's cut in two ...
... vital), and she says, "The Divine is everywhere," it's "Love immense" and "Everything flows through me without resistance...." As a matter of fact, when you're near her, you feel a considerable vital force, which largely exceeds her, and to her, what expresses itself there, at this level [solar plexus], is the Divine. ( In a sad tone ) Ah!... All is "Love immense" and it's "the same thing ...
... believed such things. Y said that if it is possible to cure dangerous diseases of the body by Yogic power, why should it not be possible to act on the mind of another person and pour in him immense vital force which can bring about such results as the Russian revolution? Page 309 (Answer:) The statement made to X was not quiet correct; it is putting things in too physical a form. A spiritual ...
... everywhere in the world towards his earth-oriented, life-embracing, time-fulfilling Yoga of integral transformation of bodily existence no less than of mind and vital force by the power of the Supermind which holds the secret truth, the perfect original, Page 266 ...
... is also divided against itself. Thus, "the capacity of the body is less than the capacity of the instinctive soul or conscious being, the physical Purusha within it, the capacity of the vital force less than the capacity of the impulsive soul, the vital conscious being or Purusha within it, the capacity of the mental energy less than the capacity of the intellectual and emotional soul, the ...
... demonstrates how deeply he had endeared himself to the men and women of India. Here are some excerpts from one of the many talks he delivered along the way:) My India, arise! Where is your vital force? In your Immortal Soul. Each nation, like each individual, has one theme in this life, which is its centre, the principal note round which every other note comes to form the harmony. If any nation ...
... for a period—is a tremendous progress and how can one say where it will end? As for the monkey, it is because it is nearest to man and at the same time an extremely vital creature, I mean full of vital force. As for the gland, it is because the seat of the physical energy is there which supports and reinforces all the rest. Voronoff's selection is perfectly logical and intuitive at the same time. ...
... times, even when there is incompatibility, people come together. You see men and women quarrelling violently and yet unable to do without each other. That is because each has a need of the other's vital force. Woman has almost always such a need and that is what is called "being in love". Surely the need has been imposed on her by man. But Indian society established the relation between the husband and ...
... nothing beyond a moral atmosphere. Even a federation of religions, contemplated by some idealists, seems hardly a practicable proposition; for it is only a mental conception and has no compelling vital force in it. At best it is only a sign-post, a pointer to the goal Nature and humanity have been endeavouring to evolve and realise. A new type of imperialism – for imperialism it is in ...
... in general. His vital being too is a medley of desires, impulses, energies that are not personal in any sense, but pass through him or take a long or short-term asylum in him from the universal vital force. The body, being a definitely delimited object, is perhaps the only thing that appears to be personal – the chief, if not the only source and sign of personal identity; and with the loss of the body ...
... which the whole of evolution has been a preparation and which is brought closer at each crisis of human destiny when the mental and vital evolution of the being touches a point where intellect and vital force reach some acme of tension and there is a need either for them to collapse, to sink back into a torpor of defeat or a repose of unprogressive quiescence or to rend their way through the veil against ...
... James does not offer in his book. Strictly speaking, experience of automatic writing, or mediumistic trance are experiences related the subliminal consciousness consisting of the inner mind, inner vital force and certain physical consciousness. Spiritual experiences relate to the realm of super-consciousness or of psychic consciousness which is the consciousness of the inmost being which governs body ...
... life and the body, and it sought to rectify the limits of physical and vital functioning and establish a new equilibrium by which the physical would be able to sustain the inrush of an increasing vital force of prana. This new equilibrium would, according to Hatha Yoga, open a power to the universalisation of the individual vitality. Hatha Yoga also aimed at awakening by the processes of asana and ...
... on and concentration. As the Gita explains: "Some offer their senses into the fires of control, others offer the objects of sense and all the actions of the sense and all the actions of the vital force into the fire of the Yoga of self- control kindled by knowledge".69 The offering of the striver after perfection may be material and physical, dravya yajna; or it may be the austerity of his s ...
... overtopping of the normal human level, not in kind but in degree of the same kind, by an enlarged personality, a magnified and exaggerated ego, an increased power of mind, an increased power of vital force, a refined or dense and massive exaggeration of the forces of the human Ignorance; it carries also, commonly implied in it, the idea of a forceful domination over humanity by the superman. That would ...
... defence mechanisms and that these can be activated to eliminate illness. Hahnemann wrote "All diseases are, in fact, diseases of the whole organism" and he considered them to be a sign that the vital force in the human organism was out of balance. Homeopathy is a "whole person medicine". Homeopaths usually make a detailed case history for each patient, including many physical symptoms but also ...
... afraid and began to call you. Is it that my vital went there or that the vital spirit of my mother came here and attacked me in this way? It is probable that it was not your mother at all but a vital Force taking her shape so as to have a hold on you. November 10, 1934 P.S. was telling me that cultivation of literature here hasn't much sense, since none will be able to get first class ...
... Pondicherry, etc., etc. It is to be seen how far that goes. Well then, there is an element of truth in affection... I don't believe it was the affection that did it. It is the dominating vital force in X. People who were not affectionate by nature, have attached people to them and dominated their minds and lives—e.g. Napoleon. He also says that he has been betrayed often by friends and suffered ...
... scientists who say or used to say there is no such thing as mind or thought independent of the physical brain. Mind and thought are only names for brain quiverings. Or that there is no such thing as vital Force because all the movements of life depend upon chemicals, glands and what not. These things and the germs also are only a minor physical instrumentation for something supraphysical. Or do the ...
... because the Mother saw a great force in him that she accepted him in the Asram. I hear he is a very good medium and is a tower of vital strength. Which means of course full of a massive vital force which can be used by the Yoga-force for its purposes and being massive can produce striking results. Is the strength then the real cause of his success and medicine negligible? But I don't understand ...
... remember what exactly I wrote—so can't say very well. But of course there can be a wrong Force. There are Asuric Forces, rajasic Forces, all sorts of Forces. Apart from that one can use a mental or vital Force which may not be the right thing. Or one may use the Force in such a way that it does not succeed or does not hit the General on the head or is not commensurate with the opposing Forces. (Opposing ...
... "your vital forces went to her leaving you for the moment empty". There is always an interchange of vital forces going on between people. If you sit near one who is weak and depressed and needs vital force, you may have your forces pulled from you by his or her need and yourself feel depressed or weak or empty. April 7, 1933 Is this vital interchange one of the reasons why many sadhaks ...
... and trembled all over. Any significance In itself the dream was absurd and has no significance—but it may be the transcription made by the mind was false and the man standing at the head was a vital force approaching. That alone would explain the fear. But this kind of fear ought to be got over. The sadhak has to be able to face the vital world, in waking or in sleep, with courage, calm and confidence ...
... course, a truth that has been clearly brought out by the anti-intellectualist. But the vitalist's view is also likewise vitiated by a similar bias, as he contacts reality only through this prism of vital force. It is the old story of the Upanishad in which the seeker takes the Body, the Life and the Mind one after another and declares each in its turn to be the only and ultimate reality, the Brahman. ...
... ----------------------------- * The Life Divine, by Sri Aurobindo Page 392 temper of the dynamism. In other words, as we have already said, a thought force, a vital force, a nervous or physical force, all these are only lower, even minima values, more or less distant and deformed echoes of a true and absolute Power behind and above them all. These forces become powerful ...
... remarkable attempt which could have revolutionized the collective life of India. But this was interrupted on account of several factors. Among these factors was the fact of the exhaustion of the vital force as a result of a long march of effort from the earliest times of Indian history. This also coincided with the political instability and the coming of the settlers from the west, the French, the Dutch ...
... physical body, which Sri Aurobindo has described in the following words: "We may even come to feel that the body is in a certain sense non-existent except as a sort of partial expression of our vital force and of our mentality." (The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 330) The Mother once spoke eloquently, in one of her Class Talks (October 14,1953), of how the conscious realisation of one's soul or psychic ...
... The Gita too says: Sarvanindriyakarmani pranakarmani capare Atmasamyamayogagnau juhvati jnanadipite. ² "And others offer all the actions of the sense and all the actions of the vital force into the fire of Yoga of self-control kindled by knowledge." The innermost and the uppermost "commune" of the divine energies is known as the gods. The aspirant will offer heart and soul and carry ...
... the Gods the sacrifice and the oblation perfectly prepared. Upon earth men, mortals, live by their own inner nature and outer need (self-nature and food). May that wide earth establish in us the vital force and a long span of life. May Earth grace me with a ripe old age. (20) The aroma, O Earth, that rises out of thee, that which the healing plants and that which the waters carry, that which ...
... stronger movements, by controlling them and purifying them into their true elements. The ordinary man, every man in fact, has to live with his body and vital being, with the physical life and the vital force as his main supports. Since these things exist, they must have a purpose. They alone can delve into the mystery of the Page 116 ordinary life who have been living the ordinary life ...
... lifeforce-consciousness and the herd with the front of light. (8) O Dawn, may I enjoy that wealth full of glory and perfect hero-strength and the great host of servitors and the wakeful vital force. Thou bringest forth the plenitude, O Goddess of perfect enjoyment; thou shinest with the hearing perfect in action. Vast is that wealth of thine. (9) The Goddess looks forward to all the ...
... is the very type and incarnation of the Maratha character, the Maratha qualities, the Maratha spirit, but with the unified solidity in the character, the touch of genius in the qualities, the vital force in the spirit which make a great personality readily the representative man of his people.... He has that closeness of spirit to the Page 202 mass of men, that unpretentious openness ...
... nothing beyond a moral atmosphere. Even a federation of religions, contemplated by some idealists, seems hardly a practicable proposition ; for it is only a mental conception and has no compelling vital force in it. At best it is only a sign-post, a pointer to the goal Nature and humanity have been endeavouring to evolve and realise. A new type of imperialism—for imperialism it is in essence—has ...
... these do not depend so much on physical factors and formation. The source is elsewhere, it is really a reflection or shadow that is derived Page 98 from the ease and clarity of the vital Force in us and if, somehow, we can add to that the soul's ease and clarity, then only do we have genuine beauty, beauty from within. It is as if the Russians have discovered a new dimension of the ...
... veiled to mind, veiled to life and veiled to matter. It is working now behind the veil. We have seen that mind is a subsidiary working of the supermind. We have also seen that in the life-force or vital-force there is also the working of the presence of the supermind behind the veil, and this matter that we see is also a working of a submental operation of life, of mind and also of supermind. That there ...
... respond very readily to the psychic in man."11 " The ghost is of course not the soul. It is either the man appearing in his vital body or it is a fragment of his vital that is seized on by some vital force or being. The vital part of us normally exists after the dissolution of the body for some time and passes away into the vital plane where it remains till the vital sheath dissolves. Afterwards ...
... of this game of ray and shade" who "...by the swift vibration of a nerve Links its mechanic throbs to light and love." This divine Presence behind the working of the lower vital force drives the course of evolution towards, first, the finite loves and lusts and, then, "The will to conquer and have, to seize and keep, To enlarge life's room and scope and pleasure's ...
... crudely amiable person with some mental hobbies and eccentricities. This possession becomes possible because the psychic being in him is undeveloped. There is nothing in his being that can resist the vital force. Mussolini has, comparatively, a developed psychic being and a very strong vital being, But in his last photograph he seems to have weakened. Either he is physically unwell or is aging or perhaps ...
... grand-father said : 'Yes it is true. But God has so arranged that you can't get near Him so long as you have any such desire in you' ( laughter) . When we say : Hitler is possessed by a vital force it is a statement of fact, not a moral judgment. It is clear from what he does and the way he does it. I remember a young Sanyasi with long nails came to Baroda. He used to stay under trees. ...
... life and action. Have seers blest and mighty prophets like Ramakrishna and Vivekananda occurred in vain? Don't we remember Vivekananda's ringing exhortation: My India, arise! Where is your vital force?... If any nation attempts to throw off its national vitality, the direction which has become its own through the transmission of centuries, that nation dies... Again, on another occasion: ...
... grows very intimate. They are capable of a great affection and their generosity in giving protection may be far greater than man’s. If they like you, you can clearly feel the vibrations of their vital force. 25 We learn about a new kind of life flow, which spreads everywhere, in everything, connects everything without partitions of time or space—it is there immediately. We can take a river as a ...
... 12.6.33 This indifference or equality will be a great progress towards getting the true spiritual attitude. 10.7.33 Yes, it is a very small and shallow part of the vital force that finds satisfaction. 10.7.33 It is a great and indispensable progress to have reached this condition. Page 20 16.7.33 The emotion was evident in your singing ...
... original or vigorously creative outside the sphere of religion. In obedience to this [ incomplete ] Deftness & strength in dialogue, masterly workmanship in plot-making & dramatic situation and vital force of dramatic poetry are enough in themselves to make a fine and effective poetical play for the stage, but for a really great drama a farther & rarer gift is needed, the gift of dramatic characterisation ...
... Patanjali's system without perfect bodily stillness. It can be done and has been done even while walking about, but this is not so easy or usual. Now Pranayam in its proper sense, the mastery of the vital force in oneself and Nature, is essential to every Rajayogin, but it can be brought about by much simpler methods. The only physical process that the Rajayogin finds helpful enough to be worth doing, is ...
... passing on to far other things. In that evolution Germany and Russia among European nations have taken a leading place. Germany has failed to go the whole way, because to a strong but coarse and heavy vital force and a strict systematising scientific intellect she could not successfully bring in the saving power of intuition. Her music indeed was very great and revolutionised the artistic mind of Europe, ...
... tread. MANU Is earth His seat? this body His poor hold Infirmly made? RISHI I flung off matter like a robe grown old; Matter was dead. Page 227 MANU Sages have told of vital force behind: It is God then? RISHI The vital spirits move but as a wind Within men. MANU Mind then is lord that like a sovereign sways Delight and pain? RISHI Mind is His wax ...
... free movements of a mental world that are far vaster and freer in their potentialities than anything that we call here life and mind, but he does not live in that free mental light or in that vast vital force. His business is to bring down and embody here as much of that greater life and greater mind as can be precipitated into matter and equipped with a form and organised in the physical formula. In ...
... a spiritual as well as a psychological conception. It is the true being, the true consciousness, the true delight of Page 241 existence beyond this earth of body, this mid-region of vital force, this ordinary sky or heaven of mind. We have to cross beyond all these planes in order to arrive at the higher plane of that superconscient Truth which is the own home of the gods and the foundation ...
... undoubtedly used sometimes of the breath as the medium of the sense of smell & práṇiti to express the action of that sense. But in this Upanishad Prana has been used to indicate the nervous or vital force, the primal or principal Life-Energy, práṇah prathamah , and not a subordinate sense function; the expressions employed almost reconstitute the image of the Horse by which the Life-Energy is symbolised ...
... subconscious action of which it is ignorant or over which it has only a partial control. Guide & leader, perhaps, but certainly not the master. Who then is the master? Mind is not all we are. There is a vital force in us independent of mind. For although the two work together & act upon each other, they are still different movements. Our life goes on or ceases, rests or is active caring nothing, after all, ...
... able to destroy its assured roots of spiritual knowledge. A little disturbed for a brief moment, surprised and temporarily shaken by this attack in a period of greatest depression of the nation's vital force, India revived almost at once and responded by a fresh outburst of spiritual activity, seeking, assimilation, formative effort. A great new life is visibly preparing in her, a mighty transformation ...
... or invalid in their very nature. It remains to be considered whether the farther yet more common charge is justified in full or in part,—the damaging accusation that Indian culture depresses the vital force, paralyses the will, gives no great or vigorous power, no high incentive, no fortifying and ennobling motive to human life. Page 150 ...
... of that outward life still remains to be given; once given it would be the end of many fictions. All this Page 246 mass of action was not accomplished by men without mind and will and vital force, by pale shadows of humanity in whom the vigorous manhood had been crushed out under the burden of a gloomy and all-effacing asceticism, nor does it look like the sign of a metaphysically minded ...
... accuracy of turn, almost ascetic in its simplicity and directness and a frequent fine and happy bareness; it is the speech of a strong and rapid poetical intelligence and a great and straightforward vital force, brief and telling in phrase but by virtue of a single-minded sincerity and, except in some knotted passages or episodes, without any rhetorical labour of compactness, a style like the light and ...
... self-knowledge. "Some offer their senses into the fires of control, others offer the objects of sense into the fires of sense, and others offer all the actions of the sense and all the actions of the vital force into the fire of the Yoga of self-control kindled by knowledge." There is, that is to say, the discipline which receives the objects of sense-perception without allowing the mind to be disturbed ...
... completely against this. But this is rare. Still, it does exist. This happens because the world as it is at present is still largely under the influence of the adverse forces, particularly the vital force which is dynamic and generally makes you act. This force is largely under the influence of the adverse vital, that is, forces which like to hurt, destroy, damage. That kind of will to spoil things: ...
... psychic consciousness. But if you remain only in the external consciousness, the music is so tenuous that there is no response from the vital, it leaves you altogether flat. Sometimes, there was a vital force, then it became quite good.... I myself like this music very much, this kind of theme developing into a play. The theme is essentially very musical: and then it is developed with variations, innumerable ...
... the adversaries. The anti-divine forces are in the vital world; from there, naturally, they have spread out into the physical, but their true seat is in the vital world, and it is the converted vital force which has the true power to vanquish them. But of all things this conversion is the most difficult. Page 203 What are "subterfuges"? Subterfuges? They are tricks. You know what a ...
... anything precise from Durgadas' letter. I gather that his personal and his financial condition are not very good and that his inner condition, if not too bad, is not famous, finally that he is empty of vital force and the joy of life. All that, however, is exceedingly imprecise and does not help me to help him. The source of his difficulty is in his mind; it is too full of uncertainties, useless complexities ...
... Mustapha Kemal not knowing their own minds or acting in this way—even their strategic retreats were steps towards an end clearly conceived and executed. But whatever it be, it is all mind-action and vital force in Gandhi. So why should he be taken as an example of the defeat of the Divine or of a spiritual Power? I quite allow that there has been something behind Gandhi greater than himself and you can ...
... revolt, viraha ). For sorrow is not, as Spinoza pointed out, a passage to a greater perfection, a way to Siddhi; it cannot be, for it confuses and weakens and distracts the mind, depresses the vital force, darkens the spirit. A relapse from joy and vital elasticity and Ananda to sorrow, self-distrust, despondency and weakness is a recoil from a greater to a lesser consciousness,—the habit of these ...
... ation of subtle substance into forms capable of cognition not only by the sight but by material Page 385 touch or other sense, (3) the handling of material objects by mind-energy or vital force, e.g. making a pencil move and write on paper. All these things are possible and have been done. It must be remembered that Energy is fundamentally one in all the planes, only taking more and more ...
... Letters on Yoga - IV: Illness and Health When Sri Aurobindo says that illness comes from outside, what exactly is it that comes? It is a kind of vibration made up of a mental suggestion, a vital force of disorder and certain physical elements which are the materialisation of the mental suggestion and the vital vibration. And these physical elements can be what we have agreed to call germs, microbes ...
... weakening of the force due to the non collaboration of the vital which causes the slackening. Children do not live in their minds enough to obey spontaneously a mental will that is not sustained by a vital force which influences them by its mere presence, without requiring any outer expression. When the vital collaborates, my force works through it and automatically maintains order simply by its presence ...
... the push, the dynamis towards transformation. Consequently, you must beware at the same time of indulging freely in desires, thinking them to be needs which must be satisfied, and of rejecting the vital force as positively evil. What you should do is to throw the doors of your being wide open to the Divine. The moment you conceal something, you step straight, into Falsehood. The least supression on your ...
... this idea with a force, a vital power, a power for action, and changes Page 359 it, transforms it into will. This will is then concentrated on the object to be realised, and with the vital force and effort added to the thought, the conception, it becomes the lever of action. But here Sri Aurobindo uses a word which is not "will", he speaks of "willings": " When we have passed beyond ...
... the vital which is turned entirely upon physical things, and is full of desires and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane. Closely connected with it is the vital physical, the part of the vital force which constitutes the nervous being; it is the vehicle of the nervous responses and is related to the reactions, desires and sensations of the body. ...
... with the higher consciousness, it must be surrendered to the true control, it must be placed under the government of the Divine. That is why there is sometimes felt a contempt for the action of the vital force or a condemnation of it, because it has an insufficient light and control and is wedded to an ignorant undivine movement. That also is why there is the necessity of opening to Page 12 ...
... above and the true Action here? Each time I have been conscious of the Power, the experience has been similar. The Will from above is translated into a vibration which certainly takes on some vital force but which acts in a subtle physical domain. One perceives a certain quality of vibration which is difficult to describe, but which gives the impression of something coagulated, not fragmented, something ...
... achieve a complete mental silence; a stronger turn towards outside things born of the plenitude of active life (while the Indian commonly suffers from defects born rather of a depressed or suppressed vital force); a habit of mental and vital self-assertion and sometimes an aggressively vigilant independence which renders difficult any completeness of internal Page 39 surrender even to a greater ...
... that can be made instruments of the sadhana and the divine work, such as art, music, poetry etc.—Yoga can be done without the rejection of life, without killing or impairing the life-joy and the vital force. I have objected in the past to vairagya of the ascetic kind and the Page 388 tamasic kind—and by the tamasic kind I mean that spirit which comes defeated from life, not because ...
... voidness or the emptiness that is a preparation for new experience. But an exhaustion of life energy is a very different thing. It may arise from fatigue, from somebody or something drawing away the vital force or from an invasion of tamas. Blankness In the course of the sadhana a state of blankness, of "neutral quiet" like this often comes—especially when the sadhana is in the physical consciousness ...
... the ego is not the self; there is one self of all and the soul is a portion of that universal Divinity. The fulfilment of the individual is not the utmost development of his egoistic intellect, vital force, physical well-being and the utmost satisfaction of his mental, emotional, physical cravings, but the flowering of the divine in him to its utmost capacity of wisdom, power, love and universality ...
... efficiency of the collective life. It could not have been otherwise even if this vitalism had been less superficial and external, more truly subjective. To live, to act, to grow, to increase the vital force, to understand, utilise and fulfil the intuitive impulse of life are not things evil in themselves: rather they are excellent things, if rightly followed and rightly used, that is to say, if they ...
... uṣasaṁ vāvaśanta. And in the very next verse she is asked to confirm or establish for the sacrificers gomad ratnam aśvāvat purubhojaḥ , a state of bliss full of the light (cows), of the horses (vital force) and of many enjoyments. The herds which Usha gives are therefore the shining troops of the Light recovered by the gods and the Angirasa Rishis from the strong places of Vala and the Panis and the ...
... physical life exist for us only by virtue of our internal Page 15 self and our internal life. According as our mental instruments represent to us the external world, according as our vital force in obedience to the mind deals with its impacts and objects, so will be our outward life and existence. The world is for us what our mind and senses declare it to be; life is what our mentality ...
... the ugliness it creates does not make the caricature a thing of beauty; it serves its purpose, that is all. So too ugliness in painting must remain ugly, even if it gets out of itself a sense of vital force or expressiveness which makes it preferable in the eyes of some to real beauty. All that hits you in the midriff violently and gives you a sense of intense living is not necessarily a work of art ...
... with the higher consciousness, it must be surrendered to the true control, it must be placed under the government of the Divine. That is why there is sometimes felt a contempt for the action of the vital force or a condemnation of it, because it has an insufficient light and control and is wedded to an ignorant undivine movement. That also is why there is the necessity of opening to inspiration and power ...
... . It is an inner joy and cheerfulness that helps, but this [ light joking ] is merely a vital bubbling on the surface. It is all right in ordinary life, but in Yoga it merely expends the vital force for nothing. Humour and Seriousness Sense of humour? It is the salt of existence. Without it the world would have got utterly out of balance—it is unbalanced enough already—and rushed to blazes ...
... possession of you, even obliging you to make incoherent noises, and yet you say you do not know whether it was good or bad or what kind of force it was! It is evident from your description that it was a vital force trying to take violent possession of the body. Nothing can be more dangerous than to allow this kind of loss of control and intrusion of an alien influence. In your present condition of ignorance ...
... say that there is no such thing as mind or thought independent of the physical brain. Mind and thought are only names for brain Page 568 quiverings. Or that there is no such thing as vital Force because all the movements of life depend upon chemicals, glands and what not. These things and the germs also are only a minor physical instrumentation for something supraphysical. They [ the ...
... extent to which they are changed cannot be so easily measured. But of course it is the going inward that most helps to deliver the nature. If the anger did not come, it must be because the vital force of the attack is diminishing and it must be more in the physical mind and the external (physical) vital that it acts. You have a great strength for action; as for the inner growth and action of the ...
... But to do as you suggest, make it a common or everyday phenomenon, would be hardly practicable and spiritually not useful, as it is not a spiritual force which gives the power but an occult mental-vital force. It would turn the Yoga into a display of occultism, rather than a process of spiritual change. 20 October 1935 You have said that the Mother's materialising herself in Paris while she was ...
... evolution, Prana manifests itself in five distinct vital powers, to which the names, Prana, Samana, Vyana, Apana and Udana have been given by the ancient writers. Prana, the Page 237 vital force par excellence has its seat in the upper part of the body and conducts all mental operations, the indrawing and the outdrawing of the breath and the induction of food. Samana, seated centrally ...
... Highest, one-pointed and yet plastic in action and movement; it does not create a rigidity of direction like the one-pointed intellect or a bigotry of the regnant idea or impulse like the one-pointed vital force; it is at every moment and with a supple sureness that it points the way to the Truth, automatically distinguishes the right step from the false, extricates the divine or Godward movement from the ...
... when human intelligence is more and more replaced by a high illumined or intuitive spiritualised mind, the external human heart by the inner psychic heart, the senses by a purified and selfless vital force. The third is the stage when we rise even above spiritualised mind to the supramental levels. In all three stages the fundamental character of the liberated action is the same, a spontaneous working ...
... therefore no reason to suppose that there cannot be any real play of the higher divine consciousness in a world of forms or that forms and their immediate supports, mental consciousness, energy of vital force and formal substance, must necessarily distort that which they represent. It is possible, even probable that mind, body and life are to be found in their pure forms in the divine Truth itself, are ...
... for the free and full operation of mind and supermind and spirit in the instrumentality of our complex human nature. That is the main sense of the use of exercises of Pranayama for control of the vital force and its motions which is so important and indispensable a part of certain systems of Yoga. The same mastery must be got by the seeker of the integral Yoga; but he may arrive at it by other means ...
... instrument gets into the characteristic action of the higher function and gives to it an added imperfection of embarrassment, wrong direction and confusion. Thus the proper function of the life, the vital force, is enjoyment and possession, both of them perfectly legitimate, because the Spirit created the world for Ananda, enjoyment and possession of the many by the One, of the One by the many and of the ...
... in certain touches and affectations, but not at all or very little in their source and their coming. An awakened consciousness in the pranic body immediately feels them, is aware of a pervading vital force other than the physical energy, and can draw upon it to increase the vital strength and support the physical energies, can deal directly with the phenomena and causes of health and disease by means ...
... the weak point or crucial point of our Yoga, since this province has never been conquered by the spiritual Power, the old Yogas having either left it alone or used on it only a detail mental and vital force, not the general spiritual force. It was the reason why after a serious illness caused by a terribly bad state of the Ashram atmosphere... ( Mother laughs ) "...I had to insist on her ...
... found it by following his instructions and searching within, behind the solar plexus. I found it, I had an experience... an absolutely convincing experience. Only people will stumble upon some vital force and mistake it for the soul, so.... You have to be VERY sincere, that is the absolute condition. You have to be VERY sincere, VERY sincere—not only must you not deceive others, but you must not deceive ...
... of the Super-mind in the world. And to let the work of the creative vital come into the physical plane, the outer mind and other instruments enter the field. The best poetry is produced when the vital force of creative beauty allows itself to respond faithfully to the inspiration and the outer consciousness remains entirely passive and transmits Page 361 what the inspiration has formed ...
... ন: স্বপ্ন দেখলাম একটি পুরুষমানুষ আমার কাছে এসেছে ৷ আমি তার বুকের উপর উঠে তাকে মেরে ফেললাম ও তার পুরুষাঙ্গ কেটে দিলাম ৷ ...তখন দেখি আমার চেহারা মহাকালীর মত ভীষণ হয়েছে ৷ উ: এই পুরুষটী কোন vital force হবে, হয়ত sex impulseএর একটা force ৷এই অনুভূতিতে তােমার vital being তাকে কেটে ফেলেছে ৷ সাধকের vital being এইরূপ যােদ্ধা হওয়া চাই – খারাপ vital forceর বশ না হয়ে, ভীত না হয়ে তাকে meet করবে আর বিনাশ ...
... family estate. When the mind-world and life-world are ready, they are poured out freely on fit recipients. This is the reason why it is predisposition that is chiefly inherited. The psychical and vital force in the material principle is first impressed; when that has been done on a sufficient scale, it is ready for a general new departure and an altered heredity appears. Thus the whole view of Evolution ...
... I know are caught by that illusion; so they go off at a tangent far away from the Truth, towards a "fabulous" realization. Pride, vanity—that's the worst trap. And when they feel that sort of vital force in them [as Y. does], they believe all at once that they have caught the Thing.... The farther I go, the more I feel the opposite: I find everything poor—so very poor. Oh, but when you are ...
... vital and uses the outer mind and other external instruments for transmission only. There are three elements in the production of poetry; there is the original source of inspiration, there is the vital force of creative beauty which contributes its own substance and impetus and often determines the form, except when that also comes ready made from the original sources; there is finally the transmitting ...
... us on though reason itself may find little substance in it; some vague conception of the perfect man and a better world. Perfection may be impossible of attainment, but the daemon in us, some vital force, urges us on and we tread that path from generation to generation." (Ibid., p. 625.) Page 12 Clearly here is a very strong pressure of the spiritual inner on the pragmatic ...
... , by the word of illumination, possession of the goal of his journey; may he give power of intelligence to the seeker of the Truth." Keeping in view the Rigveda's symbol of asva, "horse", for vital force, Sri Aurobindo 520 supplies the explanatory note: "The Horse-sacrifice is the offering of the Life-Power with all its impulses, desires, enjoyments to the divine existence. The Life-Soul... is itself ...
... of sadhana, a full and complete aim. The fullness and completeness may be viewed from several standpoints. Not only one part of us — the mental intelligence, the emotional being, the vital force, the physical organism — is taken up according to the specific turn of our nature, as in the old Yogas, but our whole self in all its parts is set towards the Divine. Of course, our starting-point ...
... draws us on though reason itself may find little substance in it; some vague conception of the perfect man and a better world. Perfection may be impossible of attainment, but the daemon in us, some vital force, urges us on and we tread that path from generation to generation." (The Discovery of India) Clearly, here is a strong pressure of the spiritual inner on the pragmatic outer. And that it is ...
... shows that the “seer” is a recipient of some flow from the higher consciousness above, and golden sunlight symbolises the seeing of the direct light of the Truth. As a symbol, the Lion means the vital force, strength, courage and power. Here this force is in service of the Lord and it is full of affection and peace. ...
... man and the perishable soul of the animals remain unknowable to me physically.” 10 “Contrary to Buffon and many others, Lamarck declares that there is no living matter as such, nor is there a vital force. Matter is everywhere of the same nature, in the living beings as well as in the structures of the minerals. What is proper to life, is its organization . Living beings are organized beings.” ...
... magnificent stature, neither man nor woman, leaning on his halberd when at rest. This, among the numerous aspects of her being, was the vital personality she had chosen for this life, it was her vital force. An intrepid warrior. She was building the bridge between our world and the supramental world — and she was universalizing herself. Both processes of transformation went hand in hand. She found ...
... can be made instruments of the sadhana and the divine work, such as art, music, poetry, etc. Yoga can be done without the rejection of life, without killing or impairing the life-joy and the vital force. I will be praying all the time to you and Mother for the tireless grace you have both shed on me and I really want (believe me) to make some return by personal service. I know I am vain ...
... practically impossible is the success of her reign as King Maatkare. (Re being the Sun, Ka the divine force in all, and Maat the same as Maya or Dharma, the name could be translated as ‘Maat is the vital Force of Re,’ or, in terms more familiar to us, ‘Shakti of the Sun’ – the Sun being the symbol of the divine Unity-Consciousness, the Supramental.) Thanks to her, Egypt, which had been partially ruined ...
... world people easily turn to such a strong and expansive vital and draw upon it for strength and assistance. In your case this is enhanced by your psychic being having the habit of using your vital force for communication to the outside world as it has been habitually doing in your creative activities, poetry and other forms of writing or speech, song and music: apart from artistic qualities and ...
... easily receive the Force for these things—even if your outward mind is unaware of it. This indeed is a thing which has happened often enough to others besides you, others with less energy and vital force—they have made themselves successful instruments of the Force by a certain faith within them and a call to the Divine—nothing else is needed. July 1937 In your new poems [written ...
... to these things? You should not attach any importance to them. But it would be even better not to listen. Gossip is always harmful. 23 July 1937 This morning I felt upset; perhaps a vital force came during my sleep. When you feel upset, you should sit down in a quiet place and ask for peace until you feel that the disturbance has disappeared. 1 September 1937 My present life ...
... on your life, that's clear. Because she isn't aware of it, but that may be an adverse formation (she is a completely unconscious instrument). If you were quite sturdy, you understand, with much vital force, I would say, "Never mind, we'll break their necks." But you need to be careful. You yourself say it tires you. Oh, yes, I am exhausted. So you see. Once in a while doesn't matter, ...
... "having repose together"), during our gatherings a kind of vibration of light would flow from my fingers (it was visible to the naked eye), and it was like electricity. But that was a concentrated vital force. It was visible as a vibration of light flowing from my fingers. It must be the same thing. In fact, it is all the same, it's only different aspects of the same thing ( same gesture in levels ...
... Even by itself the talk appears to be no more than "sounding brass or tinkling cymbal" without the necessary background being perceived - in the person you refer to - of a supramentalised mind and vital force led by the inmost soul permeated by the supramental divinity. Is there any sign of such a background in this person whose claim for his body's progress you are inclined not to brush aside in spite ...
... there were seven rishis covering the whole gamut of possible acquisition of wisdom. A noon of power raised to the nth degree is brought by the breath. Passion, dynamism, eclat, the mind and the vital force in extreme action are conjured up, overwhelming whatever the heart may have to say, the heart with its quiet yet profound "rose and white" of love. I am glad that Dr. Roerich is interested ...
... progress, of the thrust forward, and it made a kind of simian form moving forward towards man. And then it was like something repeating itself in the spiral of evolution: the same brute power, the same vital force (there's no comparison, of course, man has lost all that completely), the fantastic force of life that's found in those animals was coming back into the human consciousness and, probably, into the ...
... or with words, it's very difficult. Oh, as soon as the words are there... all that has been said comes back, and it's over. It's not that, it's not that anymore. Even if strong sensations or a vital force come up, it's not a problem anymore. The problem is only HERE, in this ( Mother strikes her body ). Nights, for instance, are a long awareness, a great action, a discovery of all kinds of things ...
... born with the Vital's infusion into Matter. The rock, the stone, that is, the most exclusively material, isn't defeatist. The beginning of destruction came with the beginning of the entry of the vital force: with water—water, air, all that moves. All that begins to move brings along the power of destruction. And in human matter, this destructive power is associated with movement. Page 40 ...
... met Théon. "One after the other, these vital beings came," you say, "and some of them have even been in men...." One of them was in Murat, on the day of his great victory. 6 It was a vital force that took possession of him and remained just for that victory; and it came into me, so I saw it all! I saw its entry into Murat's body and the whole battle scene—I lived through it all. And once ...
... however, keeps her alive before my eyes: she was the most striking woman I have known because really she was no woman at all. * A case of possession by a hostile and not a friendly vital force was enacted under my eyes in the early in the early days of the Ashram. A fellow-sadhak and a personal friend was a young Indian, an Oxford-educated free-minded "moderner" who yet spontaneously ...
... plane has also features that can be of help to spirituality. Such is the "sturdy white horse" that meets you while you are running away from the floods. Here is a representation of the purified vital force. Your mounting it proves that you are not a helpless being but have a will-power which can bring about a change in your life. In the dream the resultant change draws you near that part of your being ...
... life-impetus, he becomes the breaker of bonds, the seeker of new horizons, the disturber of the past and present in the interest of the future. He has a mental life which is often enslaved to the vital force and its desires and passions, and it is these he seeks to satisfy through the mind: but when he interests himself strongly in mental things, he can become the mental adventurer, the opener of the ...
... never changes. He is what he is today by some Page 55 past will of his nature sustained and continued by a present will to know, to believe and to be in his intelligence and vital force, and whatever new turn is taken by this will and faith active in his very substance, that he will tend to become in the future. We create our own truth of existence in our own action of mind and ...
... first, as when the Vedic Dawn with its backdrop of Arctic tones is invoked to establish for the sacrificers a state of bliss full not only of cows (symbolizing light) but also of horses (symbolizing vital force), 8 the latter animal not likely to have been a part of a polar scenario. Arctic memories as discerned by Sri Aurobindo - that is, vague visions of a nature fused with supernature, "the wondrous ...
... creation for the creative Power, a means of expression for That which is expressed and expresses. Matter and our physical brain and nerves and body are the field and foundation for one action of a vital force that serves to connect Page 121 the Self with the form of its works and maintains them by its direct dynamis. The material movements are an exterior notation by which the soul represents ...
... a surpassing of the normal human level, not in kind but in degree of the same kind, by an enlarged personality, a magnified and exaggerated ego, an increased power of mind, an increased power of vital force, a refined or tense and massive exaggeration of the forces of the human ignorance. There is also implied in it the idea of a forceful domination over humanity by the superman. This is the concept ...
... certain sense of ends or values. And fullness of personality in this sense would mean an enlarged development of egoistic individuality by means of an increased power of mind, an increased power of vital force, by a refined or dense and massive exaggerations of the forces of what Yoga _______________________ 1. Sri Aurobindo: The Synthesis of Yoga, Vol . 21 (Centenary Edition), pp. 714- 5 ...
... does not offer in his book. Strictly speaking, experiences of automatic writing or mediumistic trance are experiences related to the subliminal consciousness consisting of the inner mind, inner vital force and subtle physical consciousness. Spiritual experiences relate to the realm of super-consciousness or of psychic consciousness which is the consciousness of the inmost being which governs body, ...
... certain sense of ends or values. And fullness of personality in this sense would mean an enlarged development of egoistic individuality by means of an increased power of mind, an increased power of vital force, by refined or dense and massive exaggerations of the forces of what Yoga calls 'Ignorance'. This would manifest even a violent and turbulent, exaggerated, vital ego, satisfying itself with a supreme ...
... power Obedience Simple sincerity Supramental beauty in the cells Aspiration in the physical for Divine Love Idealism Countryside Peace in the cells of the body Discipline Happy humour Vital force Modesty Mental victory Devotion Vital harmony Faith Dynamic power The flame Morning glory Consciousness united with the Divine Consciousness False movement changed into true movement ...
... cold and austere; it is not something opposed to or inconsistent with a full vital and physical manifestation; on the contrary, it carries in it the only possibilities of the full fullness of the vital force and the physical life on earth.... The Supramental is simply the Truth-Conscious- Page 397 ness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth of consciousness ...
... education, and it needs to be realised that integral development of personality implies harmony, and that this harmony can be achieved only on the basis of harmony of values of physical well-being, of vital force and heroism, of intellectual clarity and universality as also those of creativity, beauty and inalienable oneness. This is a vast subject, but because it has not been discussed sufficiently, the ...
... They take often the form of one who has some power of vital attraction in her so as to support their effort. When I once asked you whether a certain dream was an attack by a vital force, you said "Yes". And you added: "There are other dreams that are formations put in by the vital forces, but this is not one of them." Please elucidate the difference. I said this dream ...
... asking or even without. R cures cancer in 10 days, goitre in 2 weeks and diabetes in 7 days. Hallo! 10 days? Which was the diabetes case? I have forgotten. Immense energy, enthusiasm, vital force, 100 miles an hour determination to succeed and a 2000 horse power confidence, "I will do it"—vital absolutely convinced of the Force, mind constantly finding reasons for belief in it (not as you ...
... hand: I opened my eyes; there was no C! But I felt that he had possessed me just as a spirit would have done. I wanted to cry for Mother but he wouldn't allow me. It was not C at all, but some vital force taking his form. These are things that happen when you enter the vital world. The only thing needed is not to be afraid and to call on the Mother. June 25, 1934 ...
... It is quite possible. How do you then explain hereditary contributions as in epilepsy and other like illnesses? The hereditary conditions create a predisposition. It is not possible for a vital Force or Being to invade or take possession unless there are doors open for it to enter. The door may be a vital consent or affinity or a physical defect in the being. Is T's condition due to one of ...
... beginning of a New Age in the history of mankind. A remarkable thing about these ancients is that almost all of them lived to a ripe old age. They had such an abundance Page 66 of vital force that they retained their capacity to work undiminished till the last days of their life. Sophocles went on writing plays till his ninetieth year. He could count as many or more works to his credit ...
... in general. His vital being too is a medley of desires, impulses, energies that are not personal in any sense, but pass through him or take a long or short-term asylum in him from the universal vital force. The body, being a definitely delimited object, is perhaps the only thing that appears to be personal—the chief, if not the only source and sign of personal identity; and with the loss of the body ...
... in! But all this is external. It was like this from the outside— but there was an internal necessity, an indispensable necessity. The young brought in their youth, that is to say, a new vital force and that turned out to be an asset of the atmosphere here. For them the Mother had to open the school, the gymnasium; the playground had to be prepared. Under the influence of that green new life ...
... are praying to! it is only a formidable vital Spider that is sucking your force.' Surely it would not have been very charitable on my part. But everywhere it is almost the same thing. There is a vital Force presiding. And vital beings feed upon the vibrations of human emotion. Very few are they, a microscopic number, who go to the temples and churches and holy places with the true religious feeling ...
... , name how you will, these do not depend so much on physical factors and formation. The source is elsewhere, it is really a reflection or shadow that is derived from the ease and clarity of the vital Force in us and if, somehow, we can add to that the soul's ease and clarity, then only do we have genuine beauty, beauty from within. It is as if the Russians have discovered a new dimension of the ...
... adopted, the instruments they chose for the operation were indirect and secondary. It was either through the force of a luminous mind influencing the body or through the pressure of concentrated vital force making the body an obedient and docile instrument. The former was the process followed by the Vaishanavas who envisaged a luminous body, the Page 135 second was the aim of the Tantriks ...
... mission also before the world. Life is to be built up with the power Page 233 of the Brahman. He has laid stress on the Brahman even in Europe which is moved and guided by the vital Force. India has to be poised in the Brahman, to attain to the power of the Brahman. Herein lies India's distinction, a distinction that belongs to her soul. The true function of India consists in preserving ...
... you, from below upward, coursing like a fluid, something that makes you feel at once happy and contented and strong. It is the sap mounting in the tree with which you have come in contact, the vital force, the secret consciousness in the tree that is comforting, restful and health-giving. Well, tired travellers sit under a banian tree, birds rest upon its spreading branches, other animals—and even ...
... only a refraction or precipitation of the dynamism of the spirit; and so also static matter is only the substance of the spirit concretised and solidified. It is in an uplift both of matter and vital force to their prototypes— swarupa and swabhava— in the Spirit that lies the real transformation and transfiguration of the humanity of man. This is the truth that is trying to dawn upon the new ...
... life was largely due to the control of the vital being over physical functions. Our aim is not this attainment of the vital Siddhi, – the control of the physical substance and functions through vital force. What we are attempting to achieve is a complete transformation of our entire being in all its planes of manifestation. In the old disciplines the goal was not transformation or victory over the ...
... the personality of Vivekananda that gave the drive. But this Bahaism is just what suits the common mind. There are now two sects run by his two sons. Abdul Baha is the younger one. He has some vital force from his father and he used to see some kind of Light in meditation and so he began to think of himself as the incarnation of the Light on earth, and whoever was received in the fold was supposed ...
... only a refraction or precipitation of the dynamism of the spirit; and so also static matter is only the substance of the spirit concretised and solidified. It is in an uplift both of matter and vital force to their prototypes - swarupa and swabhava - in the Spirit that lies the real transformation and transfiguration of the humanity of man. This is the truth that is trying ...
... within you, from below upward, coursing like a fluid, something that makes you feel at once happy and contented and strong. It is the sap mounting in the tree with which you have come in contact, the vital force, the secret consciousness in the tree that is comforting, restful and health-giving. Well, tired travellers sit under a banyan tree, birds rest upon its spreading branches, other animals – and even ...
... are praying to! it is only a formidable vital Spider that is sucking your force,' surely it would not have been very charitable on my part. But everywhere it is almost the same thing. There is a vital Force presiding. And vital beings feed upon the vibrations of human emotion. Very few are they, a microscopic number, who go to the temples and churches and holy places with the true religious feeling ...
... they chose for the operation were indirect and secondary. It was either through the force of a luminous mind influencing the Page 264 body or through the pressure of concentrated vital force making the body an obedient and docile instrument. The former was the process followed by the Vaishnavas who envisaged a luminous body, the second was the aim of the Tantriks who sought to rejuvenate ...
... Word That forth was cast Into the unformed potency of things... 35 Perhaps, after all, poor insignificant earth is alone His auspicious abode? Not the material earth; nor the vital force called life; not yet the mind of man - none of these entirely holds Him. Winging beyond all these, and beyond all the ranges of human thought, the Power within - the Rishi's inner light - had made ...
... is indispensable in bringing down the Light. ... His theory is that the disease is due to a passive congestion in the affected part. That is to say, the nerves there get congested and the vital force is not able to reach that part. What the Light does is that it brings about a subtle and quick vibration in the affected part, thereby restoring normal circulation ... this is a method of curing ...
... Page 76 In the Bulletin Mother has spoken of a body without mind and vital. That is to say, the body has its own means of living, something different from what is called the vital force or Prana? It is a rather special case. The body (in all well developed beings) has a mind and a vital more or less rudimentary which are its particularities and can be fully developed ...
... all kinds are swarming about everywhere and all the time. But suddenly the body's defences seem to crumble, and the microbes invade and undermine the system. But whence this "depression of the vital force"? The Mother offers a convincing reply: It comes from some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that ...
... its acceptance with a view to utilising it in the service of the Divine. In one of his Evening Talks in 1926, Sri Aurobindo had referred to two movements of the money force (which is basically a vital force): a lower, controlled by Mammon or the Asura, and a higher movement inspired by Mahalakshmi (or the Divine). The people who follow the lower movement are the amassers of wealth by fair means or foul ...
... swarm about you the microbes and germs of every disease. How is it that all of a sudden you succumb to an illness which you did not have for years? You will say it is due to a "depression of the vital force". But from where does the depression come? It comes from Some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that ...
... "destiny" then you must know that there are different layers of destiny. There is, for instance what the astrologers call the destiny in the physical. There can also be destiny in the vital. By bringing vital force into play the destiny in the physical can be changed. So also by bringing mental forces into play – though it is more difficult – what seems to be the vital destiny can be changed. That is why a ...
... Yes, that is another definition of "spirituality", or rather "spiritualism", in Europe. Disciple : The one thing they accept is the physical body and in France they have come to accept vital force or "living matter". Sri Aurobindo : The French find it difficult to go beyond the intellect. Other European nations are no better,, They are satisfied if they get a "proof". Newman saw ...
... her and knowing that it was her Page 248 Soul She wanted to find it. She withdrew within herself and had to pass first through a plane where unrestrained life-force, the lower vital force, was having a free play of sensations. She remained a witness all through taking care not to identify herself with any movement and saved herself by repeating the divine Name. Then She came to ...
... beauty's touch recalls the strength and sweetness which are not to be found in their purity on this plane, yet exist somewhere on a higher plane of being. Even though the outer mind of this vital force has forgotten the. purpose for which it exists, still, "Her depths remember what she came to do". It was to effect a total transformation, "To create her Creator here was her heart's conceit". It ...
... of the thrust forward, and it made a kind of simian form moving forward towards man. And then it was like something repeating itself in the spiral of evolution: the same brute Power, the same vital force (there's no comparison, of course, man has lost all that completely), the fantastic force of life that's found in those animals was coming back into the human consciousness, but with all that has ...
... connection, the psychic openness to the Mother which had been so long the foundation of your sadhana and the cause of the great progress you were making. Do not listen to the clamour of the adverse vital force which has been attacking you, its reasonings or its wrong emotional suggestions — it only wants you to fall from happiness, to suffer and to descend into a lower consciousness and lose your progress ...
... "the very type and incarnation of the Maratha character, the Maratha qualities, the Maratha spirit, but with the unified solidity in the character, the touch of genius in the qualities, the vital force in the spirit which make a great personality readily the representative man of his people". 39 It was inevitable that the Zeitgeist should throw up such a colossus as he: The condition ...
... these are in the golden roll-call as much as Gautama Buddha, Mahavira, Sankara, Ramanuja, Chaitanya, Nanak: All this mass of action was not accomplished by men without mind and will and vital force, by pale shadows of humanity in whom the vigorous manhood had been crushed out under the burden of a gloomy and all-effacing asceticism, nor does it look like the sign of a metaphysically minded ...
... descent and the supramental transformation in mental terms which necessarily introduced elements of falsity and futility. The vital nature might sometimes think of the Supermind as just a superior vital force - Nietzschean, or something similar - but that kind of mental aberration could lead to megalomania and loss of balance. The Supramental was visualised by Sri Aurobindo as Truth-Consciousness, or ...
... straight from the heart, the thoughts, words, reasonings come welling up from the dominant emotion or Page 80 conflicting feeling of the speaker; they palpitate and are alive with the vital force from which they have sprung.... Vyasa's have a powerful but austere force of intellectuality. In expressing character they firmly expose it rather than spring half-unconsciously from it... . 38 ...
... occultism with Théon in Algeria.... Théon was a great occultist; his wife was still more so." He added, "That paper was here even the other day." Sri Aurobindo further explains that "tremendous vital force is necessary to move an object at a distance." His briefest comment reveals so much! "The Slavs as a race are psychically more sensitive but generally they do not control these occult forces. The ...
... 12 July 1929 Durga is the Mother's power of Protection. 15 April 1933 The lion with Durga on it is the symbol of the Divine Consciousness acting through a divinised physical-vital and vital-material force. November 1933 What aspect of the Mother's personality comes out on Prosperity day? Is it something like the goddess Annapurna, who satisfies one's material needs? I suppose... attitude towards any divine manifestation in the Mother's external consciousness is illuminating, "terrifying not only to the Asuras, but to the sadhaks". And yet it was only a limited and particular force—the Durga power! Others did not go so far as that, but they found her high, far-away, aloof, severe—asked what was the cause of her displeasure against them. And that comes to the same—to be severe ...
... —are ordinary forms seen through the vital; the real Mahakali form whose origin is in the Overmind is not black or dark or terrible, but golden of colour and full of beauty, even when formidable to the Asuras. Durga on a Lion The lion with Durga on it is the symbol of the Divine Consciousness acting through a divinised physical-vital and vital-material force. The lion is the attribute of... Page 155 cosmic Personalities of the Divine and both like Brahma have their original plane in the Overmind, although they take different forms to the human consciousness in the mental, vital and subtle physical planes. Lakshmi is usually golden, not white. Saraswati is white. The snake is simply a symbol of Energy or Power. Narayana in your dream is clearly Vishnu as is shown by the... of the principle of the Universe which he maintains as a seed in himself even in the intervals between one creation and another. Out of that seed in his navel (the navel is the central seat of the Vital, the Life-Principle) Brahma the Creator arises in the Lotus (cosmic consciousness) which grows from it when Vishnu awakens from the inter-cyclic sleep. The Snake Ananta is the Energy of the cosmic ...
... of our material life imaged as the growths of earth, the plants that hold the heat of life and by eating which we get that vital heat & force into us; but in all this action of devouring desire the Force acts as the Steed of Life yoked to our chariot and is hastening always towards the supreme boons, the objects of a higher desire. This mortal enjoyment is to be strengthened & purified till the Strength... and is coupled with मयः bliss, happiness. Agni is the प्रिय अतिथि because he is अतिथिः सुप्रयाः, a force of work inhabiting us that gives perfect pleasure as the result of the working. Because he is सुप्रयाः, therefore he is मित्र इव. All these expressions must be taken in sequence. Agni is a force of will resident in man that gives a perfect light (सुद्योत्मानं) and therefore perfect energy of light... chariot-horse and is running towards the supreme boons." The sense is that the growth of the Force is a delight & is as if the growth of one's own being; his light, his vision is that of a power in us hastening like a horse towards a goal,—the kshaya of Mitra, the viҫvani bhuma,—and seeking to discern. This force is constantly satisfying our desires & increasing its own heat by enjoying the objects of ...
... that we have become in the manifestation, not to carry up to it our whole inner consciousness in a combined concentration of the mind's knowledge, the heart's love, the Yogic will, the vital life-force. Especially, bhakti seems inapplicable to the Absolute who is void of every relation, avyavahārya . "But" insists the Gita,—although this condition is supracosmic and although it is eternally... superseded by the featureless unification through knowledge, it remains to the end a part of the supreme force of the Yoga,—and the life-force entirely drawn up and set between the brows in the seat of mystic vision. All the doors of the sense are closed, the mind is shut in into the heart, the life-force taken up out of its diffused movement into the head, the intelligence concentrated in the utterance... Love completes the triple cord of the sacrifice, perfects the triune key of the highest secret, uttamaṁ rahasyam . An integral knowledge in our self-giving is the first condition of its effective force. And therefore we have first of all to know this Purusha in all the powers and principles of his divine existence, tattvataḥ , in the whole harmony of it, in its eternal essence and living process ...
... his tongue of flame licking the mid-air, (surabhá u loke .. madhye iddhah in v. 6), enjoying that is to say the vital energies & vital pleasure (aśwa and ghritam), which support this higher action. Supported by this vital joy & force Agni acts, ankte agnir; but the enjoyment is not the impure & unilluminated enjoyment of the unuplifted creature,—he is śuchih, purely bright, not smoky with the unpurified... flames of illumination, śuchibhir gobhir. In modern diction, when the divine force has so far purified us, our activities & enjoyments are not darkened and troubled with striving & clouded vital desires which strain dimly towards a goal but, not being ritajna, know not what they should seek, how they should seek it, in what force & by what method and stages; our action becomes a pure illumination, our... by the clouds of vital desire & impulse or deflection by the sense-impacts & sense-reactions. The sensational mind confines itself then to its proper work of receiving passively the impacts of the vital, material & mental outer world & the illuminations of Surya and of pouring out on the world in its reaction to the impacts, not its own hasty & distorted responses, but the pure force & action of Agni ...
... that you go into the vital world, as everybody does, and the vital world is full of such places and such experiences. What you have to do is not so much to avoid at all going there, for it cannot be avoided altogether, but to go with full protection until you get mastery in these regions of supraphysical Nature. That is one reason why you should remember us and open to the Force before sleeping; for... the body gets its due rest; for the object of sleep is the body's rest and the renewal of the vital-physical force. It is a mistake to deny to the body food and sleep, as some from an ascetic idea or impulse want to do—that only wears out the physical support and, although either the Yogic or the vital energy can long keep at work an overstrained or declining physical system, a time comes when this... takes possession of the mental, the vital, the conscious physical, but the subconscious vital and physical remain obscure and this obscurity comes up when there is sleep or an inert relaxation. When the subconscient is enlightened and penetrated by the true consciousness, this disparity disappears. The Pishachic woman that tried to enter [ in a dream ] is the false vital impure Shakti—and the voice that ...
... constituted by the vital seekings, and to achieve the transformation of the character. The usual methods of dealing with the vital life-force have been those of coercion, suppression, abstinence, and asceticism. But these methods do not give lasting results and besides, they only help in drying up the drives and dynamism of the life-force; and thus the collaboration of the life-force in self-fulfilment... ______________ "Sri Aurobindo: The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, Centenary Edition, Vol. 16, p. 2-4. Page 77 emphasised is what they call "vital education". Vital education aims at the training of the life-force in three directions: to discover its real function and to replace its egoistic and ignorant tendency to be the master by willingness and a capacity to serve higher... Experiments at the Centre have shown that right training of the vital is much more subtle and much more difficult, needing endurance, endless persistence and an inflexible will. But many of the methods that are designed to deal with the vital tendencies are found centred upon the mastery over the vital, which the teachers attain with their own vital tendencies towards acquisition, possession, enjoyment and ...
... crimson, what he saw was the sea of the physical consciousness and physical life as it is represented to the inner symbolic vision; if it was purple red, then it was the sea of the vital consciousness and the vital life-force. Perhaps, if he had not stopped his sense of the Mother's presence, it would have been better,—he should rather, if he can, take it with him into the inner planes, then he would... stand back from it, to live in the part of you that is open to the force and to regard the rest as you would a cut that has to be cleaned or anything else belonging to you but external. The large inner mind and the true vital having shown themselves are bound to get the mastery; but the old lower nature, especially the vital part of it, is bound to struggle for reaffirming its hold on the c... confused experiences of the lower vital plane and does not get through to the deeper, more coherent and significant experiences. A development of the inner consciousness is needed—when that development takes place, then all will become more clear and coherent. This development will take place if, without getting disturbed, you quietly aspire and go on calling the Mother's Force to do what is needed. Your ...
... whole field of his experience from the region of his clear intellect; he will be above the vital and the emotional mind which reacts more powerfully and immediately to life. The creation that comes out from the reactions of the life-spirit alone can give us the feeling of the power of the vital thoughts, force of passion and emotion, and all the multi- coloured play of the life-spirit in its intensity... be the old, ordinary, outer vital emotional and mental life of man but will contain, even when it deals with these fields, the deeper and the higher strains from the regions of the intuitive, the inspirational, the revelatory and the spiritual consciousness. The modernist is attracted by the subliminal, the subconscient and the abnormal of the vital and the lower vital regions of human consciousness... self-reflection of man's skill". It seems to be the result of "great boredom" and is trying "to force language against its will into powerful artificial vividness". In trying to arrive at "essential form" modernist poets resort to dry intellectual analysis which reduces the form to its bare vulgarity devoid of all force and beauty of life. It reduces man's life to that which is most persistent in him—"the bone" ...
... The movement [ of rejection ] of which you speak is not psychic but emotive. It is a vital emotive force that you put out and waste. It is also harmful because, while on the one side you try to reject a past vital relation or tie with these people, you by this movement re-establish in another way a vital relation with them. If there was anything wrong in your first movement, this is quite a false... doubt from it, but not consciously, and they get changed, mixed, perverted when the vital takes up the action of the force of Love of whose true or divine nature it is unconscious. But that is the nature of human vital affection, it is all selfishness disguised as love. Sometimes when there is a strong vital passion, need or tie, then the person is ready to do anything to retain the affection... not arise. However the vital can learn by experience, can learn so much as to turn away from its regret of the beauty of the will-o'-the-wisp. Its vairagya can become sattwic and decisive. There is nothing unusual in your feelings towards X . It is the way that vital love usually takes when there is no strong psychic force to correct and uphold it. After the first vital glow is over, the inc ...
... kind one often has in the vital plane in which one gets into inextricable difficulties till suddenly one finds the way out. Gujerat in the dream was not Gujerat, but only a symbol of one part of the vital world which is opposed to the spiritual life and full of vital powers that come in the way either by fraud or by force. These dreams are indications of certain parts of vital nature (not one's own, but... into other planes of consciousness, mental, vital, subtle physical, it is part of the inner being, inner mental or vital or physical that is usually active. Page 456 A dream, when it is not from the subconscient, is either symbolic or else an experience of some supraphysical plane or a formation thrown in by some mental or vital or either force or in rare cases an indication of some event... Do not always be thinking of the Hostile Force or believe that everything of this kind is an attack of the Hostile Force. It is simply that in dream you entered into one part of an obscure vital world and saw or heard things there. Even if you are attacked, Page 468 you have to remain quiet and firm and call in the Mother's Protection and Force. It is evident that X 's experience ...
... of physical fire; they are of a striking appropriateness if we take a larger view of the divine nature and functions of the god Agni. He is a god of the earth, a force of material being, अवमः; but he seems too [to] be a vital (Pranic) force of will in desire, devouring, burning through his own smoke; and again he is a mental power. Men see him द्यामिव स्तृभिः, heaven and the midworld and earth are his... be that psychological principle called Tapas in the later terminology. The Vedic Agni has two characteristics, knowledge and a blazing power, light and fiery force. This suggests that he is the force of the universal Godhead, a conscious force or Will instinct with knowledge,—that is the nature of Tapas,—which pervades the world and is behind all its workings. Agni then in the psychical and spiritual... to the knowledge and wisdom of an inner Fire, the flame of the God-Force or God-Will in man and the world, देवस्य the Shining One, the Guest, the Seer, अतिथिः कविः? I take it in this sense. The Rishi cries to this inner Flame, "when wilt thou shine in me continuously, on the altar of my sacrifice, when wilt thou be a constant force of knowledge to give all the uninterrupted sequence, relation, order ...
... strange and living waves of splendour. Each syllable resounds with vitality quite opposed to what we have listened to in our earlier examples. Yet this splendour is not outward or physical-vital; this force or beauty or joy or felicity is subjective; they are manifestations of some mystical and hidden sweetness and rapture and power. Nor is this subjectiveness something vague or ethereal or too... we feel in these lines. In Milton the power is tangible, something very physical with the image of a crashing hill. There is a vital grandeur in all his energy, while in Sri Aurobindo there is a sublimity and it is subtle as opposed to Milton's physicality. Milton's force is the falling of a cliff; Sri Aurobindo's the sweep of light. Now we shall examine how Milton and Sri Aurobindo describe... Acts vibrant with a superhuman light And movements pushed by a superconscient force, And joys that never flowed through mortal limbs, And lovelier scenes than earth's and happier lives. 7 Here the sweep and breadth are magnificent. Sri Aurobindo pours out scenes of beauty, light, force and joy with ease, heaping joy on joy, revelation over revelation, bringing a greater ...
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