... 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 constantly and to have a kind of balance in the being which prevents you from spending more than you have. A proportion has to... receptivity and the expenditure. It is a kind of harmony in the being which must be established. Only, some people have an almost instinctive power of attracting towards them the vital forces or absorbing them—the universal vital forces, I mean—and so they make up their expense as they go along spending. These people can produce much more than others. Some of them, in certain conditions like sleep or a kind... could be already called converted forces, that is, universal vital forces which are in contact with the Divine and not only receive the Divine but aspire to receive Him. So if you absorb these forces it gives you a great strength for progress. It is in this that the quality is much more important. And for the quality of the universal vital forces, it depends naturally a great deal on what one is, but also ...
... already called converted forces, that is, universal vital forces which are in contact with the Divine and not only receive the Divine but aspire to receive Him. So if you absorb these forces it gives you a great strength for progress. It is in this that the quality is much more important. And for the quality of Page 138 the universal vital forces, it depends naturally a great deal on what one... completely awake. It is a physical vision but with just a little shade of difference; compared with the most material there are slight changes. That's all? Sweet Mother, do the universal vital forces have any limits? I don't think that forces have a limit, because in comparison with us they are certainly unlimited. But it's our capacity of reception that is limited. We cannot absorb them... for instance, who are short-tempered by nature and haven't succeeded in controlling their anger. Well, if with an aspiration or by some method or other they have managed to receive some higher vital forces, instead of this calming their irritation or anger... because they have no self-control it increases their anger, that is, their irritability, their movement of violence is full of a greater force ...
... for the vital to desire a woman for various vital reasons without love—in order to satisfy the instinct of domination or possession, in order to draw in the vital forces of a woman so as to feed one's own vital or for the exchange of vital forces, to satisfy vanity, the hunter's instinct of the chase etc. etc. 2 This is often called love, but it is only vital desire, a kind of lust. If however the... economy of the material creation in the Ignorance. But the vital excitement that accompanies it makes the most favourable opportunity and vibration in the atmosphere for the inrush of those very vital forces and beings whose whole business is to prevent the descent of the supramental Light. The pleasure attached to it is a degradation and not a true form of the divine Ananda. The true divine Ananda... is due to the obscurity of the physical which always responds to an old habit of the nature (even when the mind has rejected it) and it is this obscurity and subjection to habit that the adverse vital forces take advantage of to repeat the trouble. It is of course the physical that is at once responsive in the most material way to sex-suggestion. What you are doing [ rejecting the sex-movement ...
... that happened, the person from whom it was taken would die. It is possible of course for one person to drain another’s vital forces so as to leave him limp or weak or dry, but it is only the vampire kind that do that. It is possible also for one to 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... endangered by a mass of misunderstanding, of mutual misinterpretation and error. Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine - I: Knowledge by Identity and Separative Knowledge 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... are kept within moderate limits. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - IV: Interactions with Others and the Practice of Yoga When people mix together there is generally some interchange of vital forces which is quite involuntary… Vampirising is a special phenomenon—a person who lives upon the vital of others and flourishes vitally at their expense. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - IV: In ...
... plants, then one opens oneself, and by opening oneself communes with the universal forces. And for all things it is like that. Source Receptivity to the Universal Vital Forces Sweet Mother, do the universal vital forces have any limits? I don't think that forces have a limit, because in comparison with us they are certainly unlimited. But it's our capacity of reception that is limited... expenditure, and knowing how to balance the two, and alternate them in a rhythm which is your personal one. You must not go beyond your capacity, you must not remain below it, because the universal vital forces are not something which you could put into a strong box. They must circulate. So you must know how to receive and at the same time to spend, but to increase the capacity of reception so as to have... —and they have a sense of immensity and are in contact with the world and the movements of world-forces. And so they can receive... if in a movement of calling... they can receive the universal vital forces, which enter them and renew the dose of energy they need. There are others, very rare ones—or maybe in very rare moments of their individual life—who have an aspiration for the higher consciousness ...
... the mind to illuminate it. The electrical current is the force descending in order to work in the lower centres and prepare them for the light. The right condition will come when instead of the vital forces trying to push upwards, the Prana becomes calm and surrendered and waiting with full assent for the light and when instead of the chasm in between there is a constant aspiration of the heart towards... anything can be given to him.” I seem to find behind the eyes a psychic capacity of a very low kind and in the vitality something and impure which maybe mediumistic element for the lower psycho-vital forces. If he sat in the circle or meditated in the house that might explain the interruption of the undesirable phenomena. This is my impression about the man. But I am not quite sure. If he is to do... and if you consider these facts you will see the real reason why you broke down at Pondicherry. The nervous system in you was weak, it could not obey the will and resist the demand of the external vital forces, and in the struggle there came an overstrain of the mind and the nerves and a collapse taking the form of an acute attack of neurasthenia . These difficulties do not mean that you cannot prevail ...
... already falling silent and becoming quiet. The thinking mind is sure to follow. The Drawing of Vital Forces by Others When people mix together there is generally some interchange of vital forces which is quite involuntary. X himself suffers from physical weakness and he complains of his vital forces being drawn out of him without knowing why it happens. Vampirising is a special phenomenon—a person... the person from whom it was taken would die. It is possible of course for one person to drain another's vital forces so as to leave him limp or weak or dry, but it is only the vampire kind Page 331 that do that. It is possible also for one to 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... may), but, even if he does not, he can pass them on to another man he visits afterwards—who falls 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 ...
... 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 constantly and to have a kind of balance in the being which prevents you from spending more than you have. A proportion has to... receptivity and the expenditure. It is a kind of harmony in the being which must be established. Only, some people have an almost instinctive power of attracting towards them the vital forces or absorbing them—the universal vital forces, I mean—and so they make up their expense as they go along spending. These people can produce Page 71 much more than others. Some of them, in certain conditions... are no longer able to make the same effort or to produce as much, or above all to make any progress. But those who know instinctively or who have learnt to receive and accumulate the universal vital forces, these can last almost indefinitely. The wear and tear is very little, especially if they know how to do it and do it with knowledge and method; then here it can reach a certain degree of perfection ...
... only when we consider this tight hold of the vital forces on the money-power, in the light of the Mother's words, that we appreciate the justice of the severe stricture of the Christ upon the rich that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. The Christ saw the grip of the vital forces on the money-power, and it was not any ascetic... says the Mother, "is at present under the influence or in the hands of the forces and beings of the vital world.”¹ Therefore, the rich man submits automatically to the organised influence of the vital forces operating in his society, or succumbs unawares to their fresh assault upon him. In any case, it is not the decision of his true self that he follows, but the imperative direction of the enemies... inflates his pride and egotism, and retards, if it does not, indeed, impede, his spiritual evolution. "It is not that those rich men who are more or less toys and instruments in the hands of the vital forces are averse to spend; their avarice is awake only when the vital desires and impulses are not touched. For, when it is to gratify some desire that they call their own, they spend readily; but when ...
... : You mean : no spiritual endeavour? It will come in time. In that case these vital forces have to work through the usual psychological opening which the normal man gives : they have to work through desires, impulses etc. But this kind of work in the occult is an effort on the part of the lower vital forces to break the barrier and gain possession of the physical plane. If they could succeed... constructions themselves. But even where there is some truth behind them it gets mixed up with many other things which sometimes falsifies the truth behind it. Disciple : Perhaps all sorts of vital forces come and take advantage of it. Sri Aurobindo : Yes it is for this reason that I am not for rushing to work at once. Such a thing would not be the Page 155 expression... That is only a symbolic way of representing the yoga and its condition and even at that it is not exact but gives only a general idea.Z Do you refer to Chandernagore when you speak about the "vital forces”? Disciple : Yes. Sri Aurobindo : At the time I had some construction in my mind. Of course, there was something behind it which I knew to be true. Even then I was not sure that ...
... on the mind to illumine it. The electrical current is the force descending in order to work in the lower centres and prepare them for the light. The right condition will come when instead of the vital forces trying to push upward the Prana becomes calm and surrendered and waiting with full assent for the light and when instead of the chasm in between there is a constant aspiration of the heart towards... given to him." I seem to find behind the eyes a psychic capacity of a very low kind and in the bodily vitality something dark and impure which may be a mediumistic element for the lower psycho-vital forces. If he sat in the circle or meditated in the house that might explain the irruption of undesirable phenomena. This is Page 341 my impression about the man. But I am not quite sure. If... struggle to the Force and allow it to rebuild and strengthen and widen till a sufficient physical foundation is made. At present, under the pressure of the Force, it either falls into Tamas or, if the vital forces touch it, responds by a rajasic movement and is driven helplessly in these rajasic gusts. All this would easily change (naturally, not in a moment but steadily and surely) if the central difficulty ...
... disturbed. Yes—it is because they [ the hostile forces ] know that Peace is the basis and if that is there in full, all the rest will come. So they want anyhow to prevent it. Possession by Vital Forces It is one thing to see things and quite another to let them enter into you. One has to experience many things, to see and observe, to bring them into the field of the consciousness and know what... is constant or not. That is very interesting—for it agrees with the Mother's constant insistence that to feel sympathy or any emotion of the weak philanthropic kind with those possessed by vital forces is most dangerous as it may bring an attack upon oneself which may take any form. One must do what is to be done but abstain from all such weakness. Neurasthenia It is not, certainly, your... the Mother puts into you. This is the sound way to advance. Hysteria The attacks you speak of can come anywhere. It is an attack of the nervous centres and on the nervous being by contrary vital forces. The fact that it was not allowing you to come here and that it began to go when you steeped yourself in the atmosphere and ideas of The Yoga and Its Objects is significant of its origin. As for ...
... but on the vital forces and functions and on the instrumentality of the physical body. Methods are centered on physical postures (asanas) and on the control of breath (pranayama). The science of Hathayoga lays down a methodical development of the control and mastery of the body and vital forces. This science depends on the perception page - 46 and experience that the vital forces and functions ...
... itself from its ambition. Could not occultism be turned into a help in the sadhana? How can falsehood (his occultism was a false occultism, an interchange with wrong vital forces) help the sadhana? Going away was necessary, because staying here he was moved always to do sadhana and sadhana had come for him to mean this occultism. He could not get... his lower nature and brought about the madness? There was no descent of Force at all - such results do not come from a descent of the higher Force - they are attacks from the Asuric vital forces. It appears that he had a great spiritual ambition which was beyond his powers and he seems to have been indulging in practices such as not sleeping against which he had been warned... consciously, i.e. with a purpose in the mind - it is instinctive in the vital to draw Page 256 force from wherever it can. All contact is in 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 ...
... altogether. Page 769 It is not a fact that the Rajayogin or others are not attacked by environmental forces. Whether moksha or transformation be the aim, all are attacked—because the vital forces want neither liberation nor transformation. Only the Yogins speak of it in general terms as Rakshasi Maya or the attacks of kamā, krodha, lobha ,—they don't trace these things to their sources... represent the falsehood in the garb of the Divine Truth or to mix the lower consciousness cleverly with the higher. Their attempt is to mislead by guile rather than to conquer by force. When the vital forces or beings throw an influence, they give it certain forms of thought-action and put them in the minds and vital of people so that they feel, think, act, speak in a particular way. Whoever opens to... , not to confusion and darkness. But when the suggestions come, surely it is possible to know from their very character what they are and that itself shows that they must come from wrong vital Forces. The only thing is that they must be at once rejected and the entry into your own mind and vital refused to them—i.e. they must not be accepted or allowed to influence. Very few have the direct ...
... encouraged by taking. If there is the right attitude one can take, but one will not perhaps care to! I do not quite understand what is meant by "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... get it just like the germs of a disease. Is it true and what might have been the cause in my case? Yes. She must have dropped it upon you (not intentionally of course) and also perhaps your vital forces went to her leaving you for the moment empty. Since my coming here, I don't think I have ever had a good meditation. It begins in earnestness and ends in sleep with dreams. What kind of... her need and yourself feel depressed or weak or empty. April 7, 1933 Is this vital interchange one of the reasons why many sadhaks segregate themselves? Yes. Not the drawing of vital forces alone, but the invasion by the ideas, feelings, atmosphere of others, hampering the sadhana, is one of the chief reasons of the turn towards segregation and solitude. How to increase the vital ...
... fierce speed on the path." As in the second hymn, so in the third the Rishi begins by invoking deities who act in the nervous or vital forces. But there he called Vayu who supplies the vital forces, brings his steeds of life; here he calls the Ashwins who use the vital forces, ride on the steed. As in the second hymn, he proceeds from the vital or nervous action to the mental; he invokes in his second ...
... particularly satisfied with all the vital forces of all those poor little 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... don't suppose that creature felt any considerable satisfaction in seeing the chickens killed—I know nothing about it. As I said, all the profit she could get out of it was the absorption of some vital forces coming out of the chicken. But it was evident that she felt an enormous satisfaction in seeing a large crowd—the more people came there and the more chickens were killed, the greater was the sign ...
... nothing, it meant that God wanted him to starve that day. His followers used to sing and dance—an excited expression of devotion, an emotional demonstration. Later on, he began to complain that his vital forces were being drawn out, and he turned gradually towards Knowledge. All his group had the faith that nothing bad could happen to them. In the shooting affairs, the police came when they were dancing... thought themselves invulnerable and invincible. Then the Government sent soldiers who broke down their demonstrations and arrested the people. Then their faith got shaken. SATYENDRA: How can the vital forces be drawn out when one is in contact with the Divine Consciousness? SRI AUROBINDO: The forces that support the work around one are quite different from the Divine Consciousness. I had an experience... around me forces of confusion and death. At once I gathered myself. He was surrounded by forces of disintegration and chaos. Such contacts are dangerous for those who are conscious but weak; their vital forces are drawn out by such people. If one is not conscious, such contacts are harmless. PURANI: I remember the telling phrase in which you described him: "a wild intensity of weakness". SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... retirement is not wholesome. If one tries to deal with the outer world without that poise of peace and silence, is he not likely to be entangled by the vital forces? Yes, but in retirement from the outside things also vital forces can get hold of you. At present, I aspire to separate my inner being from the outer and to keep it always in direct contact with the Mother. ... which he does not give expression or is not even aware that he is like that, or he may bring forces from others. Again it may be that you met or contacted in your sleep the vital of others or some vital forces in the atmosphere. Turmoil may come in many ways. How does one " bring forces from others" and then pass them on while talking? There is no how to it; it so happens. Whenever ...
... easily accessible to it is from below, the physical energies coming through the sensations. The second is on its own plane, when it is sufliciently wide and receptive, in contact with the universal vital forces. And the third, to which generally it opens only under a great aspiration for progress, comes from above through the infusion and absorption of spiritual forces and inspirations. To these... men try more or less always to add another Page 140 source; which is, at the same time, for them the source of most of their torments and misfortunes. It is the interchange of vital forces with their fellow creatures, generally grouped by twos, which they mistake for love, but which is only an attraction between two forces that take pleasure in mutual interchange. So, if ...
... together, we have embarked on the same boat, the Divine alone knows its meaning and its outcome. The problem is more far-reaching than it appears at first sight. It is in fact a revolt of the vital forces of the children against all discipline and all constraint. The normal ordinary method would have been to expel all the undisciplined children from the school and to keep only those who are "good"... understood not only what I want to do, but also the mechanism and the process of this action, I am confident that we shall succeed. We must expect relapses and not be discouraged by them. Vital forces, especially in children whose reason is not very well developed, fight desperately before accepting the light and allowing themselves to be converted by it. But success is certain in the end, and ...
... power over him, and that poor woman was in such a state of fearful terror that it was truly painful to see it. And all these people believe this is something holy! But it is a web of the hostile vital forces which use all this to feed upon. Besides, in the invisible world hardly any beings love to be worshipped, except those of the vital. These, as I said, are quite pleased by it. And then, it gives... The period of denial, positivism, is from this viewpoint quite indispensable in order to free men from superstition. It is only when one comes out of that and the abject submission to monstrous vital forces that one can rise to truly spiritual heights and there become the collaborator and true instrument of the forces of Truth, the real Consciousness, the true Power. One must leave all this far ...
... universal vital forces. The third, to which it usually opens only in a great aspiration for progress, comes to it from above by the infusion and absorption of spiritual forces and inspiration. To these sources men always strive more or less to add another, which is for them at the same time the source of most of their torments and misfortunes. It is the interchange of vital forces with their ...
... complete, exact and infallible truth about all ideas, all things and all persons. It is the true consciousness growing within that gives the power [ to be free from the vital forces ]. As it grows, these vital forces Page 99 get more and more externalised and foreign to the nature. It is only by the power of past habit that they rise. This [ vast consciousness above the head ...
... think that a depression fell on me when I got up this afternoon. I can't find any reason for it. During sleep one often comes in contact with undesirable forces and things, which drain your vital forces so that when you wake up you feel weak and depressed. 15 November 1933 What is real happiness and when does it come? When one no longer feels any attraction for the other, false happiness... the secret of the regeneration of forces and the transfiguration of the being." (11 May 1913) I don't understand what "the secret of the regeneration of forces" means. The material and vital forces are perverted—they must be regenerated so that they become capable of expressing the divine will. August 1934 "To turn towards Thee, unite with Thee, live in Thee and for Thee, is supreme ...
... successfully. Anyway, I wanted to give it a trial and gave that idea to Motilal. Then he took up the idea and, as you know, he took it up with all his vital being and in an egoistic way. So the vital forces found their chance. They tried to take possession of the work and the workers.' Like Motilal Roy, Paul Richard found himself unable to bear the pressures of sadhana and take the path of complete... These were quite ordinary pieces of bricks but they materialised only in the field where the magic acted. The magic was practised for this house, specially for its courtyard, and the action of vital forces worked only there. That was why when I sent away the boy and he went to another house, not a single stone hit him any more. The magical formation was made specially for this house and the stones ...
... The idea of sadhana through her own line is a mere excuse—it is a vital satisfaction she is after. What exactly is vital interchange? Difficult to specify. 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... Anyhow I have added a little to the rather stumpy note. You can type and give a copy to Ishwarbhai. [Sri Aurobindo's revised version of the letter of 2.5.38] 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 ...
... believed that a yogi must not eat or sleep. Disciple : Is it possible to have such a control over the universal vital plane as to make it impossible for these Page 186 vital forces to represent themselves as the Truth or yourself and the Mother ? Sri Aorobindo : It is a question of consciousness and not of the physical plane where you can prevent somebody from... with the vital movement it has become pure and when the mind can give a rational explanation of it, he has got a justification to go on with the vital play. In fact, that is the way in which these vital forces have kept their hold upon .man. Take, for instance, what man ordinarily calls "Love”. It is primarily nothing else but the vital impulse which he can call the sex-impulse. It is everywhere in nature ...
... Vedantic attitude is often made an excuse for yielding to the hostile forces. "All this is Maya, illusion, there is no virtue, no sin, no good, no evil," they say and give themselves up to lower vital forces. Disciple : But are the lower movements of nature themselves not hostile ? Sri Aurobindo : No, but they offer an opening to the hostile forces and the hostile forces use these lower... It is this idea of realisation that gave the belief that one who realises the Brahman acts like bāla , (a child), jada , (inert), unmatta , (a mad man), or pisāch , (one possessed by lower vital forces). Disciple : It is very easy to become jadavat – like one inert. Sri Aurobindo : I don't think it is so easy. I think the only man who came very near to it was Jada Bharat ...
... various sources: either from the physical level below channeled by the sensations, or its own level in league with the universal vital forces, or from above in the form of a great aspiration for progress. And there is also, between individuals, the interchange of vital forces. While the vital world with its energies and irrationalities can be a danger and a trap for the unwary, and result in abuse, ...
... the Mother. Page 265 upon the body, and, in its effort to compel it to subserve its own ends, disrupts the natural harmony of the physical-organism and throws it out of gear. The vital forces, in the blind fury of their desires, prey upon the body and suck up its life-blood. This combined tyranny breaks the body, deadens or destroys its springs and renders it vulnerable to all sorts... And what is the first thing you try to do when you are in the grip of a nightmare ? You rush back into your body and shake yourself into your normal physical consciousness. But in the world of the vital forces you are a stranger; it is an uncharted sea in which you have neither compass nor rudder.. .Directly you enter any realm of this world, its beings gather round you and want to encompass and get out ...
... whole group used to sing and dance, there was an excited expression of their Sadhana, some kind of vital demonstration. Later on he complained that the disciples were drawing out his vital forces. They had the faith that nothing could happen to them; when the police came to arrest them they were all singing and dancing. Seeing them in exaltation the police went away. They thought... soldiers to arrest them. Then their faith was shaken. One of the prominent disciples, Mohindra De also lost his faith, though he was the victim of his own enthusiasm. Disciple : How can the vital forces of 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 ...
... the mind to illuminate it. The electrical current is the force descending in order to work in the lower centres and prepare them for the light. The right condition will come when instead of the vital forces trying to push upwards, the Prana becomes calm and surrendered and waiting with full assent for the light and when instead of the chasm in between there is a constant aspiration of the heart towards... whether anything can be given to him." I seem to find behind the eyes a psychic capacity of a very low kind and in the vitality something impure which may be mediumistic element for the lower psycho-vital forces. If he sat in the circle or meditated in the house that might explain the interruption of the undesirable phenomena. This is my impression about the man. But I am not quite sure. If he is to do ...
... desires and life-energies existing above the material universe. Marked physical or psychological weaknesses create an opening by which a person is influenced, attacked or even possessed by such vital Forces, leading to different types of psychiatric disturbances as explained in the following statements: "Loss of balance produces disorder in the consciousness and the adverse forces use that loss... or means for its expression." 44 Since, according to Integral Yoga, it is the defects and weaknesses of body, vital and mind in the individual that provide an opening for the action of the vital forces, the underlying causes of all disturbances are seen to exist within the individual. Freedom from psychological disturbances can therefore be attained only by developing a state of consciousness ...
... × Sri Aurobindo and the Mother often said that the lower, dark vital forces had made a massive inrush upon the Earth during the First World War. “The First World War was the result of tremendous descent of the vital forces – the hostile forces of the vital world – into the material world.” (The Mother: Questions and Answers 1953, p. 184). ...
... prāṇāyāma . By its numerous āsanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action and movement the vital forces poured into it from the universal Life-Ocean, gives to it an extraordinary health, force and suppleness and seeks to liberate it from the habits by which it is subjected to ordinary physical Nature... exercises of respiration which are his most important instruments. These are called prāṇāyāma , the control of the breath or vital power; for breathing is the chief physical functioning of the vital forces. Pranayama, for the Hathayogin, serves a double purpose. First, it completes the perfection of the body. The vitality is liberated from many of the ordinary necessities of physical Nature; robust ...
... colour, the play of forces. A certain kind of yellow, for instance, is supposed by many occultists to indicate the buddhi , the intellect, and it often has that sense, but occurring among a play of vital forces it could not always be so interpreted—that would be too rigid. Here all one can say is that the blue (the particular blue seen, not every blue) indicated the response to the Truth; the green—or... forces of mind, psychic, vital—they are not the colours of the beings. Also other colours can play, e.g. in the vital, green and deep red as well as purple and there are other colours for the hostile vital forces. The lights one sees in concentration are the lights of various powers or beings or forces and often lights that come down from the higher consciousness. The violet light is that of the ...
... taking the lower vital experiences for truth. You now Page 158 find it difficult to get rid of them because of the hold you gave them. The two lines of forces are the line of these lower vital forces and the line of the true movement of forces resting on the psychic consciousness and opening the true mind, the true vital, the true physical consciousness to the action of the Higher Force. If... vital suggestions and impulsions for the divine Truth and the divine Will) help, support and guidance. Avoiding Premature Engagement with the Lower Vital You cannot escape from these lower vital forces by being curious about them. This kind of curiosity only encourages and invites them and keeps them recurring. Their whole force is in their power of mechanical recurrence and, if you allow that ...
... Nature ..." [ p. 2 ]. Is this idea to be found anywhere in the Upanishads or Vedas? What is there in this Force which can deal with Matter, and why cannot other forces do it—for example the occult vital forces that are used to produce kāya siddhi in Hathayoga? The physical Nature does not mean the body alone but the phrase includes the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature—not... not what is said in that passage. What is spoken of is the taking of sex indulgence as a part of the aim and method of the sadhana. It is said that if that were done, the sadhana would bring down vital Forces of a type adverse to the supramental change which would serve to block (stand in the way of) the supramental descent. 1 August 1936 Page 136 You write in Bases of Yoga, in regard ...
... each other though they do not do it consciously, i.e. with a purpose in the mind—it is instinctive in the vital to draw force from wherever it can. All contact is in 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... meant a reduction of psychological pressure by 84 percent. Different people react differently to the change. Pranam had become to many a routine, to many a mere occasion of pulling the Mother's vital forces away from her so as to supply themselves Page 565 with vital provender for the day, to many a mere occasion for gossip as to how the Mother had behaved with this one or that one (all ...
... cannot give money to the cause of Truth would suddenly experience a great and intense desire to give. It is not that those rich men who are more or less toys and instruments in the hands of the vital forces are averse to spend; their avarice is awake only when the vital desires and impulses are not touched. For when it is to gratify some desire that they call their own, they spend readily; but when... And what is the first thing you try to do when you are in the grip of a nightmare? You rush back into your body and shake yourself into your normal physical consciousness. But in the world of the vital forces you are a stranger; it is an uncharted sea in which you have neither compass nor rudder. You do not know how to go, you do not know where to go and at each step you do just the opposite of what ...
... accessible to it comes from below, from the physical energies through the sensations. "The second is on its own plane, when it is sufficiently vast and receptive, by contact with the universal vital forces. "The third, to which it usually opens only in a great aspiration for progress, comes to it from above by the infusion and absorption of spiritual forces and inspiration." Sweet Mother... —and they have a sense of immensity and are in contact with the world and the movements of world-forces. And so they can receive... if in a movement of calling... they can receive the universal vital forces, which enter them and renew the dose of energy they need. There are others, very rare ones—or maybe in very rare moments of their individual life—who have an aspiration for the higher consciousness ...
... together, we have embarked on the same boat; the Divine alone knows its meaning and its outcome. 1 The problem is more far-reaching than it appears at first sight. It is in fact a revolt of the vital forces of the children against all discipline and all constraint. The normal ordinary method would have been to expel all the undisciplined children from Page 335 the school and to keep only... have understood not only what I want to do, but also the mechanism and the process of this action, I am confident that we shall succeed. We must expect relapses and not be discouraged by them. Vital forces, especially in children whose reason is not very well developed, fight desperately before accepting the light and allowing themselves to be converted by it. But success is certain in the end, and ...
... creatures—and it's true. Only I have to see them. We shall try. ( silence ) What do these animals represent in the terrestrial manifestation? They're so strange.... 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 ...
... It has been deferred because I was still down below; I had not yet returned to the upper levels. Anyhow.... But they are furious! There is evidently a whole alignment of forces (they must be vital forces) between here and... my domain. They're furious! They set up explosions, demolitions.... And I could see all the settings—they were quite artificial, nothing real, but dangerous nonetheless. ... will it give in?... I can't say. No victory has been won, far from it. And it has remained like this: status quo. It will probably have to begin again, but in what manner? Evidently all the vital forces who have taken the habit of ruling the earth (last night it had the proportions of the earth, it wasn't universal) are the very ones who refuse to listen; they don't at all like what I am doing ...
... not our teacher and nurse" because, "The powers of all the" worlds have entrance here". Man is thus very powerfully influenced and moulded not only by the earth and its forces but by life, and vital forces that are subtle and by mental forces and even by forces beyond mind. But it does not Page 180 mean that all the higher planes are very near and easily available to man's ordinary... translate these subtle intimacies; All is the commerce of a secret Power." The vital mind of man, though it may seem its own master, is yet in a very great measure the plaything of vital forces that govern it from behind. "For none can see the masked ironic troupe To whom our figure-selves are marionettes". These forces with their actions and reactions on ...
... cosmos; this is the life-belt, the life-universe, which is independent of earth-life since all life is not confined to earth. There is a big belt of life-force and life-universe in which vital forces and vital beings, independent of earth, remain with their own different constitution. They have different kinds of bodies, different kinds of movements, different kinds of laws governing their own... depths also, into which it falls. Those depths of the vital are depths to which human consciousness is subject because they all have relation with the earth; so any human being opening to those vital forces will meet the operation of those forces on earth, and that is why we find perversity, the unnatural Page 38 movement of life forces, or anti-divinity. There are people so constituted ...
... . This explanation is considered necessary because the Prabartak Samgha is a well-known organisation in Bengal. In 1926 a sadhak asked Sri Aurobindo apropos of the Sangha, "When you spoke of vital forces coming in the way of the Supramental work, I suppose you had in mind the work at Chandernagore?' Is that true?" Sri Aurobindo replied to him: "At that time I had some construction in my mind... out successfully. Anyway, I wanted to give it a trial and so I gave it to Motilal. He took up the idea and, as you know, he took it up with all his vital being and in an egoistic way and so the vital forces found their chance. They tried to take possession of the work. As I told you it is only after several such lessons that I had to give up the idea of rushing into work. This yoga is not a cut-out ...
... helped the angora cat kill the aspic. "What do these animals represent in the terrestrial manifestation?" Satprem queried. "They're so strange. ..." "Cats are vital forces," 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 ...
... necessary to life and motion. The Hathayogin conquers it and renders himself independent of it. But he does not confine his attention to this single vital operation. He distinguishes five major vital forces and several minor, to each of which he has given a name, and he learns to control all the numerous pranic currents in which they operate. As there are innumerable asanas, so there are a great number ...
... 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 the universe. Our fate & our temperament have been built by our own wills and our own wills can alter them. Page 760 ...
... Mother by raising quite uselessly unnecessary opposition and prejudice of which there is already more than enough. From a deeper point of view it pulls down the work to a lower region of mental and vital forces and the methods current on that lower plane. The work we have to do does not belong to that plane and cannot be done by current methods. It can only be done by rising to a higher spiritual plane ...
... turns into a very strong attachment, an irresistible need to be near you. There is something else. If the master is really a good one and the animal faithful, there is an exchange of psychic and vital forces, an exchange which becomes for the animal something wonderful, giving it an intense joy. When they like to be quite close to you in that way, when you hold them, it is that they Page 239 ...
... that you were a fluid mass. For example, instead of being conscious of your external form and of everything in your being which makes of you a separate individuality, if you were conscious of the vital forces which move everywhere or of the inconscient that is at the base of all, you would have the feeling of a mass moving with all kinds of contradictory movements but which could not be separated from ...
... are spirits of death. Each spirit of death, whatever it may be, has a claim to a certain number of deaths per day. Indeed it is a fantastic organisation; it is a kind of alliance between the vital forces and the forces of Nature. For example, if the spirit of death has decided: "That is the number of people to which I am entitled", Page 135 let us say four or five or six, or one or two ...
... difference in the world. It won't change things much. Sweet Mother, what will swallow them up? A still greater vital being! ( Laughter ) You see, they have in them an emanation of adverse vital forces, and the being or power which has emanated this force has done so in order to make Page 246 use of the body, to make it do in the material life exactly the things it wanted to do. But ...
... to strengthen your body, you must also strengthen your mind; you must absolutely get rid of these ideas about sin, this brooding upon suggestions of sexual impulse and this habit of seeing dark vital forces everywhere. Your people are quite ordinary human beings, they are not evil spirits or forces, your attitude to them must be one neither of attachment nor of fear, horror and shrinking, but of quiet ...
... , temples, dharamshalas etc. Unless they are convinced, interested or somehow touched, they may not be so ready to give to the Asram. But the attempt can always be made. 13 March 1933 The vital forces who hold the money power do not want to give or yield anything except for vital purposes, it is only under compulsion that they give for divine work. 15 May 1933 I am rather anxious to know ...
... in philanthropy, etc. That is very interesting—for it agrees with the Mother's constant insistence that to feel sympathy or any emotion of the weak philanthropic kind with those possessed by vital forces is most dangerous as it may bring an attack upon oneself which may take any form. One must do what is to be done but abstain from all such weakness. 11 October 1936 Mother does not set much ...
... At 4.30 in the afternoon, while serving vegetables in the Dining Room, I suddenly fell into a very unhappy condition. My consciousness entered into a world of obscurity and uneasiness and wild vital forces. Innumerable hostile suggestions pierced my helpless consciousness. Then the form of X appeared and he threatened me, saying that my fate would be the same as his—I would have to leave the Asram ...
... 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 the universe. Our fate & our temperament have been built by our own wills and our own wills can alter them. Sri Aurobindo Early Cultural Writings: The Signs In Indian astrology which ...
... Sri Aurobindo and was receiving sensational revelations from him—that was comical in the extreme. But anyway, as a rule, it is—oh! most often—is your own forces, your subconscious mental and vital forces which you put into the planchette—and you make sensational revelations to yourself! One can do many things in this way…. Once I wanted to prove to people that what they were evoking was nothing ...
... of their devotees, and that is why they are always inspiring new-cults and religions so that their feasts of worship and adulation may never come to an end. So also your own vital being and the vital forces behind it thrive—that is to say, fatten their ignorance—by absorbing the flatteries given by others. But you must remember that the compliments paid by creatures on the same level of ignorance as ...
... planes that stand high above the vital world and escape its influence; there are no hostile forces or beings there. But there are others—and they are many—that can be touched or penetrated by the vital forces. The mind-plane that belongs to the physical world, the physical mind, as we usually call it, is more material in its structure and movement than the true mind and it is very much under the sway ...
... of their devotees, and that is why they are always inspiring new cults and religions so that their feasts of worship and adulation may never come to an end. So also your own vital being and the vital forces behind it thrive—that is to say, fatten their ignorance—by absorbing the flatteries given by others. But you must remember that the compliments paid by creatures on the same level of ignorance as ...
... planes that stand high above the vital world and escape its influence; there are no hostile forces or beings there. But there are others—and they are many—that can be touched or penetrated by the vital forces." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 26 May ) Which mental plane are you speaking of? Of the physical mind. Certainly not of the higher mind, for there are no adverse forces there. The reference ...
... Page 363 and was receiving sensational revelations from him—that was comical in the extreme. But anyway, as a rule, it is—oh! most often—is your own forces, your subconscious mental and vital forces which you put into the planchette—and you make sensational revelations to yourself! One can do many things in this way.... Once I wanted to prove to people that what they were evoking was nothing ...
... is almost no individualisation, that is, specialisation which makes you a different being. You are moved—a kind of form which is your physical being is moved—by all the common universal forces, vital forces or mental forces, which go through your form and put it in motion. So that is the universal being. And all that you have wrested from this general semi-consciousness, and have crystallised ...
... body and life are now capable of is a brief excitement of the vital mind or the nerves or the cells which is limited, imperfect and soon passes; with the supramental change all the cells, nerves, vital forces, embodied mental forces can become filled with a thousandfold Ananda, capable of an intensity of bliss which passes description and which need not fade away. How aloof, repellent and undesirable ...
... them up in an amateur fashion. Pranayam is safe only if one knows how to do it and is on guard against its possible dangers: (1) danger to health by mistakes in the method, (2) rising of the vital forces, especially lust, egoism and wrongly directed strength and force, (3) the awakening of Page 439 concealed sanskaras of the physical nature or latent karma from past lives. Tell ...
... its essential purity—so also the higher consciousness when it came down was being dispersed in mental movements. This time they were both coming in a purer form, but the danger of the mental and vital forces catching hold of them is still there and then both are likely to stop or break down. So you must be careful to allow no vital deviation this time. Your difficulty is that the vital has not ...
... experiences, do not allow yourself to get exalted and excited by them so as to lose discrimination; for, if you do, then even though the experiences when they begin may be of the right kind, the vital forces take advantage of the excitation and rush in with their own deformations. Remain always calm, collected, quiet within, vigilant—discriminate always. The progress so made may be more slow or seem ...
... Indra-Vayu. With that clue both connections become obvious; Page 74 indeed they depend upon each other. For the earlier part of the hymn has for its subject the preparation first of the vital forces represented by Vayu who is alone invoked in the three opening Riks, then of the mentality represented by the couple Indra-Vayu for the activities of the Truth-Consciousness in the human being; the ...
... 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 forces and their functions. A fourth, the Vyana, pervasive, distributes the vital energies throughout the body. A fifth, the Udana, moves upward from the body to the crown of the head and is a regular ...
... down into the physical, the vital sometimes or for a time Page 138 becomes inert unless or until there is the Force from above. The nervous being is under the influence of the vital forces; when they are denied or pushed out, it becomes depressed and wants to call them back—for it is accustomed to get the pleasure and strength of life from the vital movements and not from the spiritual ...
... speaking to the outer or the mind or higher vital speaking to the lower so as to enlighten it. These things that come [ in dreams ] to frighten you are merely impressions thrown on you by small vital forces which want to prevent you (by making you nervous) pushing on the sadhana. They can really do nothing to you, only you must reject all fear. Keep always this thought when these things come, "The ...
... altogether. Tuberculosis T.B. is the result of a strong psychic-vital depression. Sex cannot Page 586 directly cause T.B. though it may be a factor in bringing about a fall of the vital forces and a withdrawal of the psychic supporting forces leading to T.B. The lack of vitality which easily comes as a result of modern civilisation is therefore a very strong contributing cause. Moderns ...
... fear of being submerged by the greater consciousness—a fear which in some may amount at the first contact to something like a panic alarm or terror. These dreams are quite symbolical of the vital forces that come and attack you. If you face them with courage they are reduced to helplessness. I don't think it is at all your father and brother that you meet—although something of their hostile feelings ...
... equality and peace that the physical nature's normal tendency can be eradicated. The normal tendency of the physical nature is to be inert and in its inertia to respond only to the ordinary vital forces, not to the higher forces. If one has a perfect equality and peace then one can be unaffected by the spreading of the inertia and bring down into it gradually or quickly the same peace with a force ...
... activities and feelings of men are controlled by their Prakriti, and mostly by the vital and physical nature. The body is the instrument of the Prakriti or Nature—it obeys its own nature or it obeys the vital forces of desire, passion, etc. But man has also a mind and, as he develops, he learns to control his vital and physical nature by his reason and by his will. This control is very partial: for the reason ...
... always come in sadhana. The method of the Divine Manifestation is through calm and harmony, not through a catastrophic upheaval. The latter is the sign of a struggle, generally of conflicting vital forces, but at any rate a struggle on the inferior plane. You think too much of adverse forces. That kind of preoccupation causes much unnecessary struggle. Fix your mind on the positive side—open to ...
... come in one common chariot and drink together of the wine of the Ananda which brings with it the divinising energies. Vayu, it is said, has the right of the first draught; for it is the supporting vital forces that must first become capable of the ecstasy of the divine action. In the third hymn, in which the result of the sacrifice is defined, Vayu is alone invoked, but even so his companionship with ...
... × The complete hundred powers of the Life by whom all the abundance of the vital plane is showered upon the growing man. The vital forces being the instrument of desire and enjoyment, this diffusion is like the outpouring of the wine of delight that raises the soul to new and intoxicating joys. ...
... selection and, so long as they are divided from the truth that is secretly their source, a deformation of the divine knowledge. Our sensations and emotions have the same relation to the Bliss, our vital forces and actions to the aspect of Will or Force assumed by the divine consciousness, our physical being to the pure essence of that Bliss and Consciousness. The evolution which we observe and of which ...
... this is awakened, we no longer live in the physical body alone, but also in a vital body which penetrates and envelops the physical and is sensitive to impacts of another kind, to the play of the vital forces around us and coming in on us from the universe or from particular persons or group lives or from things or else from the vital planes and worlds which are behind the material universe. These impacts ...
... essence; but our consciousness is veiled and our forces totally inadequate. Yesterday was unsatisfactory, today is a problem, tomorrow is an intimidating uncertainty. The earthly presence of the lower vital forces, those of the diabolical kind, has become much more widespread because of the wars. War is hell for us but it is an amusement park for those beings, and who will chase them away once they have, ...
... If I am angry, a very strong vibration comes and I lose my equilibrium. There is also a sort of trembling in my body. Why? These are vital vibrations of a lower order that come; the vital forces of this type are brutal, violent and destructive. One should never let them enter, and for that one must never get angry, which in itself is an ignorant lower movement. 28 October 1966 ...
... not vital, they belong to Nature. They are personified natural forces obedient to the laws of Nature. In other words, they originate from below, not from the vital but the physical world. They are vital forces in the physical, but not of vital origin. The other day, didn't I tell you the story of those entities working for me?... (It wasn't you? I'd had a vision.) In fact, I very often see entities ...
... bound up with Her wants to take part, that's quite natural. And it's particularly true for the vital: there has always been a preoccupation with organizing, centralizing, developing and unifying the vital forces, and controlling them. So there's a considerable number of vital beings, each with its own particular ability, who have played their role in history and now return. But this one [the tall white ...
... what it is.... I don't really know what it is, but the day before, in the evening (I forget what I was doing, I was busy), there was suddenly ... Often there are small vital entities, I think, or vital forces (but to me those things are without force or power), and a small vital entity showed me the memory of an earthquake: around 1922 or '23, we had an earthquake; I was with Pavitra and Page 403 ...
... continuously, continuously, with a sense of tension. The letter to F. came yesterday afternoon, then I understood. But it shows that his vital is still not pure enough to be strong enough. The vital forces there [in the Vatican] are EXTREMELY powerful. But he told me that as soon as he goes out of his body, his body is devoured by wild beasts. Ah!... Did that happen even here? Yes. ...
... water, rain, wind; and there are genii of death. Any one genius of death is entitled to a certain number of dead every day. It's truly a fantastic organization. It's a sort of alliance between the vital forces and the forces of Nature. If, for example, he decided, 'Here is the number of people I am entitled to,' say four or five, or six, or one or two (it varies from day to day), if he decided so many ...
... these alluring and specious theories into practice was to have catastrophic results, as we shall see later in the Agenda : the main effect of the said "caresses" is to attract into the child's body vital forces of a dark order, and "genii of sex" rather than anything else, are likely to be incarnated.) × ...
... economy of the material creation in the Ignorance. But the vital excitement that accompanies it makes the most favourable opportunity and vibration in the atmosphere for the inrush of those very vital forces and beings whose whole business is to prevent the descent of the supramental Light. The pleasure attached to it is a degradation and not a true form of the divine Ananda. The true divine Ananda ...
... Tantric) to get revenge. For several weeks in a row, at certain times of the day stones rained in the courtyard of the Guest-House: a disciple even had his arm injured. It was a condensation of vital forces. Amrita picked up some of those stones and preserved them to study them scientifically, but they were real stones, whose only peculiarity was that they were covered with moss all over. That was ...
... 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 I said, concentrated to keep the body's balance. It's a very, very widespread state in all ...
... also "a keen appreciation of high ideal and lofty thought." 43 i) Valmiki and Sri Aurobindo The moral world of Valmiki is the world of passions and emotions, world of the vital forces. Morality implies the governance of the natural impulses in man and a transformation of that which is destructive and dark in them into creative sentiments. There is "an enthusiasm of morality" ...
... understood and by discrimination, hostile forces coming from cosmic nature must be conquered. Then when purification is completed, there will be liberation of mental and vital being and mental and vital forces. This is ordinarily called Moksha but the real Moksha comes when there is perfection of the being and then enjoyment follows. Is it possible to see the world by supramental sight as we see with ...
... know that I cannot do much. I cannot satisfy the human desire for wonders and miracles. There was a time when I could and did do it. But for that one must live in the vital consciousness and use vital forces. Which is not very recommendable. 1 I wish 1) personally to be eternally the perfect expression of the Supreme Divine. 2) that the supramental victory, manifestation and transformation ...
... and harmony, conflict and clash do not enter, there is in the experience of that rain, experiences of love and joy which are imaged as honey ( madhu ). In that state of yogic experience, the body, vital forces and the mind undergo a refreshing bath of purity and wideness and joy of fulfillment. The life-powers range with the voice of truth"-seeking thought in physical consciousness and mental consciousness; ...
... to novel and formerly impossible workings or can be transformed and resolved into a new general synthesis by fixed internal processes. They also depend on the perception and experience that the vital forces and functionings to which our life is normally subjected and whose ordinary operations seem to be set and indispensable, can be mastered and the operations changed or suspended with results that ...
... earth the child of this force of Rudra and Vishwamitra describes Agni in one hymn¹ as the One who becomes the child, Kumara, which is the prototype of the Puranic Skanda. The Maruts are vital forces which make light for themselves by violence, are Rudra's ____________________ ¹Rigveda, III.1.9.10 Page 84 children. But we also learn that this violent and mighty Rudra ...
... the gods, and the next falling upon his knees by the bed and imploring Alexander to take courage and follow his advice. At first the drug completely overpowered him and, as it were, drove all his vital forces out of sight: he became speechless, fell into a swoon, and displayed scarcely any sign of sense or of life. However, Philip quickly restored him to consciousness, and when he had regained his strength ...
... body and life are now capable of is a brief excitement of the vital mind or the nerves or the cells which is limited, imperfect and soon passes; with the supramental change all the cells, nerves, vital forces, embodied mental forces can become filled with a thousandfold ananda, capable of an intensity of bliss which passes description and which need not fade away. How aloof, repellent and undesirable ...
... peace that the physical nature's normal tendency can be eradicated. The normal tendency of the physical nature is to be inert and in its inertia to respond only to the ordinary vital forces, not to the higher forces. If one has a perfect equality and peace then one can be unaffected by the spreading of the inertia and bring down into it gradually or quickly the same peace with a force ...
... in a corner. Then I went in and lay down on my bed. Suddenly I saw a small thin serpent running out from my head. How do you explain it? Page 36 Probably some small vital forces brought in by the uncleanness. Which uncleanness do you mean here? The uncleanness entered in the dream by the keeping of the basket with mud in it. It was symbolic ...
... 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 was an actual happening on the vital plane, not a formation. If somebody attacks you in the street, ...
... attack the very physique and especially that of ladies? Then each lady must stop walking alone or each must have somebody by her. I wonder how long it'll take to free the atmosphere from these seen vital forces. When the sadhaks get rid of the unseen ones in themselves and in the atmosphere of the Asram. I am afraid there will be now an apprehension and a nervousness among all the sadhikas. ...
... only a fluid mass. That is to say, you are no longer conscious simply of your rigid outer form and all that cuts you off from others and makes of you a separate individual, you are conscious of the vital forces that move about everywhere, of the inconscient that is the foundation of all, you have the impression that you are a moving mass with all kinds of contradictory movements in it which cannot be separated ...
... times in far-away small corners—like a small village church, for example—places where there was real peace and quiet and some true aspiration. Barring that, everywhere it is but a web of adverse vital forces that use everything for their food. The bigger the congregation, the more portentous the vital deity. Besides, in the invisible world it is only the vital beings that like to be worshipped. For ...
... them in its turn has its own emanations—the eleven Rudriyas are familiar. These are secondary and there are tertiary and other graded emanations—the last ones touch the earth and embody physico-vital forces. The lowest formations or beings can trace their origin to one or other of the primaries and their nature and function partake of or are an echo of their first ancestor. Man, however, is an ...
... one way she circumvents you in another. All this sanitation and hygiene etc. of yours can deal with is the physical circumstances of health. But they cannot Page 178 get at the vital forces which are behind and of which the physical circumstances arc mere instruments. During the war there was a perfect organisation to prevent epidemics and that succeeded well. But after the war they ...
... it became very much intensified. Disciple : The Hatha yogins also can awake these cakras. Sri Aurobindo : What the Hatha Yogi can achieve is that he gets the perfect control of the vital forces working in the body and he also controls the physical functions. This also produces some indirect influence in the mind. But I do not think that by Hatha Yoga pure and simple you can realise God ...
... times in far-away small corners – like a small village church, for example – places where there was real peace and quiet and some true aspiration. Barring that, everywhere it is but a web of adverse vital forces that use everything for their food. The bigger the congregation, the more portentous the vital deity. Besides, in the invisible world it is only the vital beings that like to be worshipped. For ...
... you are no longer conscious simply of your rigid outer form and all that cuts you off from Page 330 others and makes of you a separate individual, you are conscious of the vital forces that move about everywhere, of the inconscient that is the foundation of all, you have the impression that you are a moving mass with all kinds of contradictory movements in it, which cannot be ...
... is an ethical man. MULSHANKAR: He is guided by voices. SRI AUROBINDO: Then everybody who is guided by voices would be a Yogi. Then all Quakers are Yogis. Those who are possessed by strong vital forces, good or bad, can hear voices. Gandhi himself says that when he is so possessed he can't resist. These are voices which come from various sources. One voice says one thing, another contradicts it ...
... and have no personal responsibility for the actions we do. Such a belief is always attended with the most ruinous consequences—an abnormal magnification of the ego, a precipitation of the crude vital forces, and a straying away from the right path. And yet the consciousness of being a divine instrument has to be attained, the sense of ourselves being the doers of our actions has to go. This paradox ...
... the idea to Motilal Roy - it was evidently intended to be a sort of controlled experiment. But Motilal "took it up with all his vital being and in an egoistic way", with the result that the lower vital forces took possession of the work and gave it a direction that was far from satisfactory. The Chandernagore group made "Commune, Culture and Commerce" the watchwords of the Pravartak Sangha, and after ...
... effected in the perfect bliss of the Divine Will-Force. 7-8) This great going & coming is effected in a silent spiritual rapidity; there is no rumour or clamour at all of the trampling hooves of the Vital Forces in their swiftness; but the chariot of the movement gallops swiftly. 9) Finally, the Divine Will-Force lodges in all our being for the benefit of the soul itself and of the gods who work in him ...
... principle. The First Part The Self & the Senses "By whom controlled, by whom commissioned & sent forth falleth the mind on its object, by whom yoked to its activity goeth abroad this chief of the vital forces? By whom controlled is this word that men speak, and what god set ear & eye to their workings? That which is hearing within hearing, mind of the mind, speech behind the word, he too is the life ...
... preconceived notions with a violent or a high-browed ignorant assurance. But while it is the generous office of culture to enrich, enlarge and encourage human life, it must also give the vital Page 160 forces a guiding law, subject them to some moral and rational government and lead them beyond their first natural formulations, until it can find for life the clue to a spiritual freedom, perfection ...
... And what is the first thing you try to do when you are in the grip of a nightmare? You rush back into your body and shake yourself into your normal physical consciousness.... In the world of the vital forces you are a stranger.... its beings gather round you and want to encompass and get out of you all you have, to draw what they can and make it a food and a prey... the body is your fortress and your ...
... a vaster occult splendor and a deeper inner sense of union with the Ashram. What do you see specifically? It will become necessary for some people to do a deeper tapasya. The raw physical-vital forces present in the very land of Auroville must be dealt with. This has not been dealt with sufficiently. The Matrimandir will have a tremendous effect on this. Auroville land is of the raw earth. In ...
... earth; The world shall be freed from the anger of the Beast, From the cruelty of the Titan and his pain. There shall be peace and joy for ever more. 23 The Asuric and Rakshasic vital forces of man do not recognise the Mother of Might: God imperfect left, I will complete, Out of a tangled mind and half-made soul His sin and error I will eliminate; What he invented ...
... and if you consider these facts you will see the real reason why you broke down at Pondicherry. The nervous system in you was weak, it could not obey the will and resist the demand of the external vital forces, and in the struggle there came an overstrain of the mind and the nerves and a collapse taking the form of an acute attack of neurasthenia. These difficulties do not mean that you cannot prevail ...
... is going to happen may induce one to react and to stand against these limitations and break them. I would say in such cases, "This will not happen. Why should I submit to what is imposed by these vital forces? If the Divine is in me, I am the master of my destiny". Undated ...
... Psychology, Mental Health and Yoga Index Accidents 148,158-59 Adler, Alfred 6,7,29,51 Adverse (vital) Forces 112-14 possession by 113, 113fn Affirmation 119,126-27 Anger 98,98fn Anxiety (worry) 88, 89-90, 98 Archetype(s) 26-27,50 Assagioli, Robert 54,67, 135 Attitude(s) 117-28 and behaviour 117 and ...
... body and life are now capable of is a brief excitement of the vital mind or the nerves or the cells which is limited, imperfect and soon passes; with the supramental change all the cells, nerves, vital forces, embodied mental forces can become filled with a thousand-fold ananda, capable of an intensity of bliss which passes description and which need not fade away. How aloof, repellent and undesirable ...
... degree which has created our post-modern surroundings, but which was hardly predictable a century ago. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have said that the First World War caused a massive descent of the vital forces on our planet, an observation supported by the phenomena of a decade named “the roaring Twenties.” As to “the rise of persons who wield a tremendous vital influence over large numbers of men”: Benito ...
... body and life are now capable of is a brief excitement of the vital mind or the nerves or the cells which is limited, imperfect and soon passes: with the supramental change all the cells, nerves, vital forces, embodied mental forces can become filled with a thousandfold Ananda, capable of an intensity of bliss which passes description and which need not fade away. How aloof, repellent and undesirable ...
... , impulses pushed into your lower vital from outside; your mistake has been to admit them and identify them as your own—from want of knowledge and experience in these matters. There are certain vital forces of this lower vital plane that are constantly wandering about the Ashram and trying to push their movements now on one, now on another, now on several at a time. Theprocessus is always the same ...
... species – which goes to show how much truth there actually is in legends and folktales. The ‘king of cats’ is a being from the vital world, which means that the 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 ecstatic Männerbünde, the unpredictable god of war and tempest, of the runes and the dead, of rage and sorcery, of masks and human sacrifices.” 515 The “ecstasy”, the possession by the vital forces of a god or an animal, was not a matter of escape, as nowadays sought in drugs, but of “a cultic identification” of the individual and communal existence. When a person opens himself to such powers ...
... and formerly impossible workings or can be transformed and resolved into a new general synthesis by fixed internal processes. Hathayoga similarly depends on this perception and experience that the vital forces and functions to which our life is normally subjected and whose ordinary operations seem set and indispensable, can be mastered and the operations changed or suspended with results that would otherwise ...
... hostile forces playing on the weaknesses of the past nature strive to prevent the rapidity of the progress and to postpone the fulfilment. Those who fell, fell not because of the attacks of the vital forces, but because they put themselves on the side of the hostile Force and preferred a vital ambition or desire (ambition, vanity, lust, etc.) to the spiritual siddhi. Each has his own destiny ...
... propensities and the vital mind that predominate. The thinking mind with most men is, in matters of life, only an instrument of the vital. Vital thought expresses vital movements, the play of vital forces. It does not think freely and independently of them as the thinking mind can do. The true thinking mind can stand above the vital movements, watch and observe and judge them freely as it would observe ...
... and by its own presence. It is only when it holds itself back and allows inferior Powers of consciousness to use a diminished and already deflected Truth that the knowledge can be seized by the vital Forces and made to serve their own purpose. The Nature and Scope of the Transformation When the mind, life and body are entirely divine and supramentalised, that is the perfect transformation and ...
... detachment, a peaceful strength and joy ( ātmarati ) must be brought down into the vital and physical as well as into the mind. If this is established, one is no longer a prey to the turmoil of the vital forces. But this calm, peace, silent strength and joy is only the first descent of the Power of the Mother into the Adhar. Beyond that is a Knowledge, an executive Power, a dynamic Ananda which is not ...
... vital and mental planes of being, to lean more for support upon these hidden planes, be less absorbed by the physical and to govern and modify the original nature of the physical being by greater vital forces and powers from the desire-world and greater and subtler mental forces and powers from the psychical and intellectual planes. By this development we are able to rise to higher altitudes of the ...
... It is to the divine Creator in the name and form of Bhaga that this human capacity for the divine and right enjoyment of all things belongs. When he is embraced by the human mind and heart and vital forces and physical being, when this divine form is received into himself by man, then the Ananda of the world manifests itself. Nothing can limit, nothing can diminish, neither god nor demon, friend ...
... × Varuna. × The Maruts, nervous or vital forces of our being which attain to conscious expression in the thought, singers of the hymn to Indra, the God-Mind. × ...
... encased in body and emmeshed in the life activities, manu, manomaya puruṣa . He is more than a thinking, willing and feeling result of the mechanism of the physical or an understanding nexus of the vital forces. There is a mental energy of his being that overtops, pervades and utilises the terrestrial action and his own terrestrial nature. This character of man's being prevents us from resting satisfied ...
... refers—if it is symbolic at all. The buffalo is a symbol of unnecessary or blind anger—perhaps it meant that that was still somewhere in your nature. [ Buffaloes: ] Rash and obscure vital forces. Goat The goat in vision is often symbolic of lust. Goats usually indicate sex tendencies. Monkey The monkey is a symbol of the leaping restless mind; these monkeys are the doubts ...
... sadhana. Once the universality [ of the consciousness ] is established, there is no longer a secure fortress in the nature for the vital egoism—the walls of it having been broken down. They [ vital forces ] may still attack from outside, but it now lies in the power of the sadhak to prevent their making a settled formation in him any longer. Rajasic and Tamasic Ego (Ahankara) What you speak ...
... foods not forbidden that do that. I think onions can be described as rajaso-tamasic in their character. They are heavy and material and at the same time excitant of certain strong material-vital forces. It is obvious that if one wants to conquer the physical passions and is still very much subject to the body nature and the things that affect it, free indulgence in onions is not advisable. It ...
... the plane on which it happens to be working, a great activity of different forces is set in play, e.g. if it is the mind, various mental forces, if it is the vital, Page 309 various vital forces. It is not safe to take all these for true things, to be accepted without question and followed as commands of the Mother. You received a pressure of a force so strong that it made your head shake ...
... of obscurity of the physical consciousness, stubbornly faithful to your soul and to the remembrance of the Divine Call. Be faithful and you will conquer. Rejection of Attacks They [ the vital forces ] come because they were freely permitted in the past—so they want to renew and continue their action. An entire rejection and a complete turning to the Divine are the way to meet them. It ...
... Mental Knowledge and Knowledge from Above The knowledge of the mind and vital plane is no knowledge. Only from above can the true knowledge come. No, these contacts with the violent vital forces do not bring knowledge—they rather stand in the way of true knowledge growing. The true knowledge comes from above, not from below. The knowledge from above is divine, the knowledge from Page ...
... destined to come. The times now are both worse and better than in Wordsworth's—on one side there is a collapse into the worst parts of human Page 102 nature and a riot of the vital forces, on the other there is in compensation a greater seeking for something beyond and a seeking with more light and knowledge in it. The Irrationality of the Vital The vital started in its evolution ...
... the prana energies in the vital centres (navel and below) and as these were not pure, all the impurities arose (anger, sex, fear, doubt etc.) and the mind became clouded by the uprush of impure vital forces. He says that all this is now subsiding, the mind is becoming calm and in the vital the impulses come but do not remain. Not only the mind but the vital must become calm; these impulses must lose ...
... and by its own presence. It is only when it holds itself back and allows inferior Powers of consciousness to use a diminished and already deflected Truth that the knowledge can be seized by the vital Forces and made to serve their own purpose. 12 June 1936 In her prayer of 16 August 1914 , the Mother refers to "chacun des grands êtres Asouriques qui ont résolu d'être Tes serviteurs" [p. 244] ...
... Through the suggestions of the hostile forces, because of pride, egoism, ambition, sexual desire, vanity, greed or any other vital impulse used by the hostile Powers. Is it because the vital forces are so strong that even if a person has a clear aspiration and a Divine call they can lead him away from the Mother and the Asram? Every man is free at every moment to consent to the Divine ...
... , impulses pushed into your lower vital from outside; your mistake has been to admit them and identify them as your own—from want of knowledge and experience in these matters. There are certain vital forces of this lower vital plane that are constantly wandering about the Asram and trying to push their movements now on one, now on another, now on several at a time. The processus is always the same ...
... that you must not put these erroneous imaginations between yourself and the Mother; for they push the help given away from you. These imaginations and their effect on you are suggested by the same vital forces that are disturbing you so that you may not get free from the disturbance. My help and the Mother's help are there—you have only to keep yourself open to it to recover. 27 March 1933 Today ...
... if you consider these facts you will see the real reason why you broke down at Pondicherry. The nervous system in you was weak; it could not obey the will and resist the demand of the external, vital forces, and in the struggle there came an overstrain of the mind and the nerves and a collapse taking the form of an acute attack of neurasthenia. These difficulties do not mean that you cannot prevail ...
... Moreover you have the openness to the Force and the habit of receiving it, and there is no reason why there should be any upsetting by the Force. It is not the Force, but the suggestion of these vital Forces that produces the upsetting. 7 September 1936 The feeling of the vibration of the Mother's force around the head is more than a mental idea or even a mental realisation, it is an experience ...
... of matter? Not at all. The method of the Divine Manifestation is through calm and harmony, not through a catastrophic upheaval. The latter is the sign of a struggle, generally of conflicting vital forces, but at any rate a struggle on the inferior plane. Have I been kept here, outside the Asram, so that I can, by constant surrender to the Mother, rise above the difficulties of this environment ...
... same time be the development of a higher Force which will protect and push back all attacks upon it. 1934 These things that come to frighten you are merely impressions thrown on you by small vital forces which want to prevent you (by making you nervous) pushing on in sadhana. They can really Page 306 do nothing to you, only you must reject all fear. Keep always this thought when these ...
... October 7, 1914 Oh, let Light be poured on all the earth and Peace inhabit every heart.... Almost all know only the material life heavy, inert, conservative, obscure; their vital forces are so tied to this physical form of existence that, even when left to themselves and outside the body, they are still solely occupied with these material contingencies that are yet so harassing ...
... March 1951 In the vital world, forces exist: do mental forms exist in the mental world? Yes, there is a concrete mental world and there are mental forms which do not resemble vital forces but have their own law. There are many, innumerable mental forms. They are almost indestructible; one can only say that they change forms and relations, it is something very fluid, and moving all ...
... definitely to inform me about what had happened and he had found that cat. For cats live in the vital being, they have a very developed vital consciousness and can easily be taken possession of by vital forces. But these two examples are quite extraordinary, for they both came about almost in the same way, and in both instances the eyes of these cats had completely changed—they had become human eyes ...
... detachment, a peaceful strength and joy ( ā tmarati) must be brought down into the vital and physical as well as into the mind. If this is established, one is no longer a prey to the turmoil of the vital forces. But this calm, peace, silent strength and joy is only the first descent of the Power of the Mother into the Adhar. Beyond that is a Knowledge, an executive Power, a dynamic Ananda which is not ...
... happen. Suppose that you have gone for a stroll in the vital world; there you meet beings who attack you (that's what happens usually), if you know that it is a dream, you can very easily gather your vital forces and conquer. That's a true fact; you can with a certain attitude, a certain word, a certain way of being do things you would not do if you were just dreaming. If in the dream someone kills you ...
... is an instinct in the being to recuperate the energies spent, if you don't take them from food, that is, from below, you instinctively make an effort to take them through union with the universal vital forces which are free, and if one knows how to assimilate them one does so directly and then there is no limit. It is not like your stomach which can digest only a certain amount of food, and therefore ...
... apart from some rare exceptions, with people who have spiritual powers, yogic powers, it acts through the intermediary of the mental forces usually—either spiritual or mental forces—sometimes of the vital forces (more rarely), but not directly upon matter, except naturally with those who have done yoga in matter, but these are exceptional cases of which one doesn't speak. These things put into motion certain ...
... the life they could not find in themselves. That is, they were turned into so many countless vampires. And they vampirised upon men. And then over and above that, there was a decomposition of the vital forces of people who fell ill and died. One lived in a kind of sticky and thick cloud made up of all that. And so those who took in this cloud fell ill and usually got cured, but those Page 182 ...
... join this or that side. If I keep on the side of the divine forces I join those who are fighting for the divine forces like an army. If Page 389 I put myself on the side of the ordinary vital forces of life, I go over to that side and forsake the others, I go over to that side. Sweet Mother, what does the "knot of the ego" means? Knot? Oh! It is an image, you see. But it is something ...
... were quite ordinary pieces of bricks, but these pieces materialised only in the field where the magic acted. The magic was practised for this house, especially for its courtyard, and the action of vital forces worked only there. That was why when I sent away the boy and he went to another house, not a single stone hit him any more. The magical formation was made specially for this house, and the stones ...
... does money manifest on other planes? What other planes? He speaks of the vital and physical, doesn't he?... that it is a force which manifests on the vital plane and the physical plane. The vital forces have a very great influence over money. ( After a silence ) You see, when one thinks of money, one thinks of bank-notes or coins or some kind of wealth, some precious things. But this is only ...
... acceptable; but then do not offer sacrifices, or if you want to sacrifice, sacrifice your own self; if you believe there is a terrible God who needs to be given blood or whatever else it may be, vital forces to satisfy him, do it. But by what right are you going to take the life of others to give it? That is an intolerable tyranny. Even were it only all those chickens one kills! But I believe there ...
... apart from some rare exceptions, with people who have spiritual powers, yogic powers, it acts through the intermediary of the mental forces usually—either spiritual or mental forces—sometimes of the vital forces (more rarely), but not directly upon matter, except naturally with those who have done yoga in matter, but these are exceptional cases of which one doesn’t speak. These things put into motion certain ...
... The period of denial, positivism, is from this viewpoint quite indispensable in order to free men from superstition. It is only when one comes out of that and the abject submission to monstrous vital forces that one can rise to truly spiritual heights and there become the collaborator and true instrument of the forces of Truth, the real Consciousness, the true Power. One must leave all this far ...
... body and life are now capable of is a brief excitement of the vital mind or the nerves or the cells which is limited, imperfect and soon passes: with the supramental change all the cells, nerves, vital forces, embodied mental forces can become filled with a thousandfold Ananda, capable of an intensity of bliss which passes description and which need not fade away. ... Sri Aurobindo Page ...
... know that I cannot do much―I cannot satisfy the human desire for wonders and miracles. There was a time when I could and did do it. But for that one must live in the vital consciousness and use vital forces, which is not very recommendable. 23 January 1952 It will be said of me: "She was ambitious, she wanted to transform the world." But the world does not want to be transformed except by ...
... and published under his guidance. Oh, let Light be poured on all the earth and Peace inhabit every heart.... Almost all know only the material life heavy, inert, conservative, obscure; their vital forces are so tied to this physical form of existence that, even when left to themselves and outside the body, they are still solely occupied with these material contingencies that are yet so harassing ...
... glimmer of wisdom in many minds as yet wrapt in darkness, and thus set them on their way towards progressive evolution; it can serve as an intermediary for one who is sick by drawing towards him the vital forces needed to cure him; it can watch over a dear friend and protect him from many dangers, either by warning him through mental communication and through his intuition or by acting directly on the cause ...
... which are not terrestrial but extra-terrestrial. I am speaking of terrestrial Nature. Through their mental power, men had the choice and the freedom to make pacts with these extraterrestrial vital forces. There is a whole vital world that has nothing to do with the earth, it is entirely independent or prior to earth's existence, it is self-existent—well, they have brought that down here! They have ...
... atmosphere?" I replied from my experience that that's not the way levitation works, it's not because one escapes from the law of gravity: it's because physical bodies are supported by materialized vital forces (slightly materialized). So then, it put me back in contact with those forces and beings, and last night they said that to me; they told me, "Why aren't you using us any longer? We were quite happy ...
... what he had learned. He replied, "Oh, it's too early to know, I'll know later." Page 409 That process of holding hands in meditation is the process you use when you want to circulate vital forces.... I did that with a group in 1910. And as soon as I came here, all those things seemed to me to be... not the true Thing. And yet he is open and receives the Force VERY WELL. But as soon as there's ...
... Oh, but people are going mad. I really don't know how long it will last, but there is a wind of madness everywhere. They talk only of killing. It's as if... ( gesture showing the onrush of vital forces on earth ), oh!... The world has become repugnant. Division is very strong. But an ABSOLUTE sincerity is required for those who want to work. Yesterday I had some experiences that showed ...
... "there it's all Mother's ideas, it's all the same thing." Then she asked me, "Do you think there is a difference between the Divine here and there?..." So she is completely open at the level of vital forces. When you're near her, you receive a sort of vital deluge—not ugly or low, but... With a great desire to "help others," to "act," to "be the instrument" and so on. Oh!... She says, "It flows ...
... as Paramahansa bhava disturbing the balance of the lower being. NIRODBARAN: Some people come out of meditation in a mad state. Why? SRI AUROBINDO: They open themselves, while meditating, to vital forces, forces of the occult life plane. In Yoga, madness results from some mistake. In the lower nature there may be an erotic impulse or else ambition which rises up and then one gets possessed by these ...
... action is one of His chief effective forces. Up then and be doing..." ( Thoughts and Aphorisms, 1992 ed., p. 21) "... man is mightier than his sensations or vitality or the sensational or vital forces of the universe. Our fate and our temperament have been built by our own wills and our own wills can alter them." (SABCL, Vol. 17, p. 258) (ii) Let us now come to the procedure of the annulment ...
... To parley and discuss with an irrational outer vital is useless — a flat and downright rejection of its suggestions is the only course. The whole thing is a suggestion of the vital forces and Page 116 has no reality — so long as you listen to these suggestions they will naturally go on and obstruct your sadhana with vital desires and vital dissatisfaction. ...
... the mind, vital and physical? Are not the vital's thoughts and actions derived from desire or ego? Yes, from some vital movement. Vital thought expresses vital movements, the play of vital forces. It does not think freely and independently of them as the thinking mind can do. The true thinking mind can stand Page 26 above the vital movements, watch and observe and judge ...
... who held the house – Indeed Kanhu has slain maya and become Kapali. NOTES The central cord: the cords (nadi) are the lines or channels of psycho-vital forces that govern the human organism, control the general functions of the body. These lines or channels are sometimes identified with the nervous system but they are more subtle than the material substance ...
... itself the body is a sane entity and it is not in need of many things that have been suggested to it and instilled into it by forces that are outside it, almost foreign to it, the mental and the vital forces. The liberation will bring to it automatically the awareness of its own self, it will become, that is to say, conscious of itself and this consciousness will bring with it a "pure and fresh energy ...
... them in its turn has its own emanations – the eleven Rudriyas are familiar. These are secondary and there are tertiary and other graded emanations – the last ones touch the earth and embody physico-vital forces. The lowest formations or beings can trace their origin to one or other of the primaries and their nature and function partake of or are an echo of their first ancestor. Man, however, is an ...
... itself the body is a sane entity and it is not in need of many things that have been suggested to it and instilled into it by forces that are outside it, almost foreign to it, the mental and the vital forces. The liberation will bring to it automatically the awareness of its own self, it will become, that is to say, conscious of itself and this consciousness will bring with it a pure and fresh ...
... questions trouble his mind: such as, Who will look after him there? Who will cater to his needs? Who will arrange his destiny on the other side? Will he have to suffer a lot there? Will the hostile vital forces make his life miserable after death? Is there any guidance there? Any helping hand? This absence of any reliable knowledge regarding the post-death period, leading to a sense of absolute ...
... have turned the other way: the player has become the main interest. The concentration is on the player himself and his training is the main thing. He has first of all to build up the body, next his vital forces, and finally even his mind and will power have to be geared to the end in view; the inner psychological factors are taken particularly into account today. In science too the same 'thing is noticeable ...
... turned the other way: the player has become the main interest. The concentration is on the player himself and his training is the main thing. He has first of all to build up the body, next his vital forces, and finally even his mind and will power have to be geared to the end in view; the inner psychological factors are taken particularly into account today. Page 109 In science ...
... and pranayama. By its numerous Asanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action and movement the vital forces poured into it from the universal Life-Ocean, gives to it an extraordinary health, force and suppleness and seeks to liberate it from the habits by which it is subjected to ordinary physical Nature ...
... meditating or not. 2 . You should have an aspiration to separate your vital being and have its experience as a separate entity, so that the vital would be able to see the effect of other universal (vital) forces upon its own self. These are Page 64 the two things you must try to establish during your stay here. V : Do you find in me some progress ? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, there ...
... Aurobindo, “The Pilgrim of the Night,â€� 5:132. × 49 Indeed he is far more conscious of the old vital forces he is losing than of the new forces he is acquiring, which are subtler, unusual for his body, and whose workings he is not familiar with – they seem to vanish in one second, by a minute shift ...
... already that you must not put these imaginations between yourself and the Mother; for they push the help given away from you. These imaginations and their effect on you are suggested by the same vital forces that are disturbing you so that you may not get free from the disturbance. My help and the Mother's help are there — you have only to keep yourself open to it to recover. 8.4.33 ...
... measures recommended by doctors —sanitation, hygiene, etc.—could raise the standard of health, yet all that they can "deal with is the physical circumstances of health. But they cannot get at the vital forces which are behind and of which the physical circumstances are mere instruments." Nowadays even a layman will understand Sri Aurobindo's remark: "Nature is not so mechanical, she is a conscious being ...
... (pink and rose) etc. The light, colours, flowers are always seen when there is a working of the forces within at a certain stage of the sadhana. The light of course indicates an illumination of the consciousness, the colour the play of forces mental (yellow), physical and vital, but forces making for enlightenment of these parts of the being. The flowers usually indicate a psychic activity.... flashes do not as yet bring knowledge—as the sunlight from above the mind does,—but they prepare the consciousness for realisation and knowledge. Sparks or movements of light indicate the play of forces in the consciousness or around it. Any well-formed illumined thought can be seen as a spark of light. A glow means a subdued but rich light or else a sort of warm exhilaration of a luminous ...
... the front of the nature. The light, colours, flowers are always seen when there is a working of the forces within at a certain stage of the sadhana. The light of course indicates an illumination of the consciousness, the colour, the play of forces mental (yellow), physical and vital, but forces making for enlightenment of these parts of the being. The flowers usually indicate a psychic activity... and arms—this is a vital symbolism, it is not necessary in other planes. This figure may have belonged to the subtle physical plane. The many-headed or many-armed figures belong usually to the vital plane.... The world you see is in some subtle physical plane where men see the gods according to their own idea and images of them. It is the vital plane—probably the vital physical. It is mostly... some field of the being; the square indicates that the creation is to be complete in itself, while the rectangle indicates something partial and preliminary. The waves of colour mean a dynamic rush of forces and the star in such a context indicates the promise of the new being that is to be formed. It depends on the nature of the symbolic vision whether it is merely representative, presenting to the ...
... It was simply the result of a formidable descent of the vital world: forces of disorder, forces of corruption, forces of deterioration, forces of destruction, forces of violence, forces of cruelty. Why this descent? Perhaps it was a reaction, for there was another Force coming down which wanted to do its work, and perhaps those forces did not want it—it disturbed their habits. It is like a ... of a consciousness which is not the puppet of these forces but is greater than they are and can compel them either to change or disappear. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Poetry and Art: The Two Parts of the Poetic Creator … the First World War was the result of a tremendous descent of the forces of the vital world (hostile forces of the vital world) into the material world. Even those who were... strongly the opposite forces that one contacts when one moves in the world and has to do affairs and meet with others and he is afraid of a response in his vital which will upset his sadhana or create difficulties. Evidently he is a man who is psychically sensitive or has become so to that thing which you blindly refuse to recognise even when you are in the midst of it—the play of forces. You can feel your ...
... the physical the instrument of that Force. The forces of the physical mind, vital physical, material consciousness [ are the forces of the physical plane ]. Of course, as I said, the statement must be taken with a qualification, for the true mind and vital are also there, but in this condition [ of passivity and inertia ] it is the forces of the physical consciousness that predominate and determine... 208 the vital proper in producing lust, jealousy, anger, violence etc. In its lowest parts (vital-material) it is the agent of pain, physical illness etc. The vital physical forces can be received from anywhere by the body, from around, below or above. The order of the planes is in reference to each other, not in reference to the body. In reference to each other, the vital physical is below... with all these external objects and movements and forces. This physical consciousness plane receives from the other planes their powers and influences and makes formations of them in its own province. Therefore we have a physical mind as well as a vital mind and the mind proper; we have a vital physical part in us—the nervous being—as well as the vital proper; and both are largely conditioned by the ...
... It was simply the result of a formidable descent of the vital world: forces of disorder, forces of corruption... forces of violence, forces of cruelty. 1 But why that descent? The Mother answers: "Perhaps it was a reaction, for there was another Force coming down which wanted to do its work." Once it came down definitively, the Asuric forces would have either to fold up and go, or to fight back... or Asuric forces to make their last-ditch stand. Aside from its political and economic implications, the First World War (not to mention the Second) was portentous because it meant such a fresh mobilisation of the Asuric forces. As the Mother explains in the course of her talk on 7 October 1953: The First World War was the result of a tremendous descent of the forces of the vital world (hostile... (hostile forces of the vital world) into the material world. Even those who were conscious of this descent and consequently armed to defend themselves against it, suffered from its consequences. The world, the whole earth suffered from its consequences. There was a general deterioration from the vital point of view.... Naturally, men do not know what happened to them; all that they have said is that ...
... simply the result of a formidable descent of the vital world: forces of disorder, forces of corruption, forces of deterioration, forces of destruction, forces of violence, forces of cruelty. Page 305 Why this descent? Perhaps it was a reaction, for there was another Force coming down which wanted to do its work, and perhaps those forces did not want it—it disturbed their habits. It is... beings, this is in the psychic, there's no shadow of a doubt about it. But there is a kind of vital interdependence, quite considerable, more than the physical, I believe. For instance, the First World War was the result of a tremendous descent of the forces of the vital world (hostile forces of the vital world) into the material world. Even those who were conscious of this descent and consequently... and the degree of its stress determine the forces that you bring into play and whether they shall help and fulfil or fail or even harm and hinder." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 23 June 1929 ) What is the difference between mental aspiration, vital aspiration and spiritual aspiration? In what way do you aspire in the mind and in the vital or aspire spiritually? A mental aspiration ...
... " I do not know about subtle vital. One says subtle physical to distinguish from gross material physical, because to our normal experience all physical is gross, sthula. But the vital is in its nature non-material, so that the adjective is superfluous."10 * * * " This question has no practical meaning for the vital physical forces can be received from anywhere by the body... s which are more governed by the outer forces than by the inner influences of the psychic. But that does not mean that they are entirely isolated from the soul. The soul is in the body in the same way as the mind or vital— but the body it occupies is not this gross physical frame only, but the subtle body also. When the gross sheath falls away, the vital and mental sheaths of the body still remain... subconscient, ( 2 ) commanding the small vital movements, the little greeds, lusts, desires, the small sense-movements; ( 3 ) commanding the- larger life-forces and the passions and larger desire-movements (4) commanding the higher emotional being with the- psychic deep within it; ( 5 ) commanding expression and externalisation of the mind movements and mental forces; (6) commanding thought, will and ...
... the lowest rung, and Spirit, or God, or the Supreme Being, on the highest. In The Life Divine Sri Aurobindo writes about the “sevenfold chord of Being”, of which the “notes” are: matter, the vital or life-forces, mind, Supermind, Ananda, Consciousness and Being. On other occasions he mentions eight gradations. But one could also add the Inconscient and the universal subconscious below matter and the... the world-enigma.” 30 3. Supermind The most obvious gradations of being are the ones that play a directly perceptible role in the constitution of our being and our life: matter, the vital (life-forces) and the mental (rational consciousness). These are therefore the gradations rediscovered and revalued by nonconformist thinkers like E.F. Schumacher and Huston Smith. Yet, as we have seen, the... there is also a vital and a mental sheath (and potentially a “causal” or supramental one). These bodies together form what Indians call the adhara. This is the reason why, when we leave our material body (in our dreams or when we die), we still exist and move about in our vital and mental bodies. It is the sojourn after death in the vital body, which then has to pass through kindred vital worlds, that ...
... themselves out from them on other beings and objects. Each natural individual is a receptacle of these cosmic forces and a dynamo for their propagation; there passes from each to each a constant stream of mental and vital energies, and these run too in cosmic waves and currents no less than the forces of physical Nature. All this action is veiled from our surface mind's direct sense and knowledge, but it... invisibly invaded by the world, enveloped by the not-self and moulded by it; its thought, its will, its emotional and its life energy are penetrated by waves and currents of thought, will, passion, vital impacts, forces of all kinds from others and from universal Nature. Its wall of defence becomes a wall of obscuration which prevents it from knowing all this interaction; it knows only what comes through the... change in our dealings with the impersonal forces of the world that surround us. These we know only by their results, by the little that we can seize of their visible action and consequence. Among them it is mostly the physical world-forces of which we have some knowledge, but we live constantly in the midst of a whirl of unseen mind-forces and life-forces of which we know nothing, we are not even aware ...
... having discovered [and] separated the life-principle & its workings from the material processes in which they are fettered so that our vital life & forces may be raised into a sufficient instrument for infinite Mind, having the true pranayama or control of his vital being, to discover & separate also the principle & workings of pure mind from both life & matter and use them for the attainment of an... monism of the universe. For if mind in man can determine, manipulate, modify & create not only the sensational values of forms and forces and impacts, but the forms and forces and impacts themselves, it is because in the universe these values, these forms, these forces have, originally and secretly, been fixed, created and moved by universal mind and are really its evolutions & formations. All forms... Brahma. "For from mind these existences are born, being born by mind they live, into mind they pass away & enter in." For as all forms that dissolve go back into the life-forces that constitute and build their shapes, so all forces that dissolve must go back into the sea of mental being by which and out of which they are formulated, impelled and conducted. We arrive, by reason investigating the essential ...
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