... have trance in a waking state. How do you mean trance in a waking state? Trance is a going inside away from the waking state. What corresponds to trance in the waking state would be a complete concentration indifferent to outward movements or else a silence of the whole being in Brahman realisation, the samahita state of the Gita. By "trance in a waking state" I meant that... say why it comes in the evening. It is, I presume, a rhythm it has taken. Page 185 TRANCE AND THE WAKING STATE A waking state cannot be called trance, as the word trance refers specially to a condition in which the outer waking state disappears and the consciousness goes entirely inside. X told me that if one leaves the physical consciousness... or more important - each thing has its place. You asked me what I mean by a "waking state". I meant not quite an ordinary state but the one called swapna awastha where one is aware of what happens inwardly, but is unconscious of the outer condition. That is not waking state; it is swapna samadhi. Today I was almost spellbound by the higher pressure and ...
... easy to obtain in the waking state. In the waking state one is conscious only of a certain limited field and action of one's nature. In sleep one can become vividly aware of things beyond this field — a larger mental or vital nature, or else a subtle physical or a subconscrient nature which contains much that is there in one but not distinguishably active in the waking state. Some dreams are... The ancient Indian wisdom expressed the same fact by dividing our consciousness into three, or rather, four provinces: j ā grat or 'waking state', svapna or 'dream state', susupti or 'sleep state', and finally tunya transcending these all. "... the waking state is the consciousness of the material universe which we normally possess in this embodied existence dominated by the physical mind.... consciousness that we attain in our waking state through spiritual aspiration and endeavour should extend itself fully and continuously also to the sleep state. It is true that at the beginning and for a long time it becomes difficult to maintain the consciousness at the same pitch at night, for "the true consciousness comes at first in the waking state or in meditation, it takes possession ...
... because out of psychical matter physical life and form are selected and evolved into the final or Waking State in which Spirit manifests itself as physically visible, audible & sensible form and life, and arrives at last at an appearance of firm stability & solidity in gross matter. Spirit in the Waking State is called Vaisvanor, the Universal Male, He who informs and supports all forms of energy in this... consciousness working in the Waking State on gross matter. His mental and intuitional processes were found to operate freely and perfectly in subtle matter, but in gross matter with a hampered and imperfect activity; they considered therefore that man's mental life belonged properly to the Dream State and only worked indirectly and under serious limitations in the Waking State. They determined accordingly... dimly to perceive, the soul within him which has all along been using the body for its own ends on the physical plane, but the soul has been working from behind the veil, unrealized and unseen. The Waking-State has overlaid and obscured the Dream-State. When he has mastered, as in the course of his evolution he must master, the psychical world within him, man will find that there is another & deeper self ...
... consciousness working in the Waking-State on gross matter. His mental and intuitional processes were found to operate freely and perfectly in subtle matter, but in gross matter with a hampered and imperfect activity; they considered therefore that man's mental life belonged properly to the Dream-State and only worked indirectly and under serious limitations in the Waking-State. They determined accordingly... A Greater Psychology 16 States of Consciousness (a) Waking-State, Dream-State, Sleep-State ...only a small part whether of world-being or of our own being comes into our ken or into our action. The rest is hidden behind in subliminal reaches of being which descend into the profoundest depths of the subconscient and rise to highest peaks of... self with a wide circumconscient existence of which our mind and sense catch only a few indications. The old Indian psychology expressed this fact by dividing consciousness into three provinces, waking state, dream-state, sleep-state, jāgrat, svapna, suṣupti; and it supposed in the human being a waking self, a dream-self, a sleep-self, with the supreme or absolute self of being, the fourth or ...
... are able to recall and know them in the waking state in all the plenitude of their faculties.... "How [then] to cultivate this field of action? how to acquire a cognition of our activities of the night?... "The same discipline of concentration which enables a man no longer to remain a stranger to his inner activities in the waking state, also furnishes him with the means of removing... consciousness that we attain in our waking state through spiritual endeavour and aspiration should extend itself fully and continuously also to the sleep state. It is true that at the beginning and for a long time it becomes difficult to maintain the consciousness at the same pitch at night, for "the true consciousness comes at first in the waking state or in meditation, it takes possession of... Vol. XII, No. 4, p. 91) The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo has for its goal the total transformation of our nature as well as the complete liberation of our being. But in our normal waking state we are conscious only of a very restricted field and action of our nature, the rest of it remaining and functioning behind the opaque veil of our surface personality. But, since all that we 'become ...
... the most important findings and some of their representative documentary evidences are as follows: (A) The Waking State and the Highest Realisation It is claimed that the highest heights of spiritual realisation are not compatible with the waking state; they can be acquired only by means of the Yogic trance or Samadhi. In this connection the case of Sri Chaitanya is often... of them uttered 'ha! ha! ha! ha!' and vanished altogether. Who would report to whom then!" 1 (C) The Waking State not Compatible with the Absence of Ego and Desire It is often averred that it is futile to expect that while in the waking state one can be completely free from all trace of ego and desire. It is only in the highest state of Samadhi that this... desire-tainted ignorance as at present but becoming the perfect expression and flowering of the Truth, the Light and the Divine Ananda. The realisation of this goal naturally implies that our waking state involving even its most physical functionings must be totally rid of all ego-trace, for in the epigrammatic utterance of the Mother:- "Ego is that which helps us to individualise ourselves ...
... higher consciousness. For this Yoga these divisions [ the classifications of samadhi in Vedanta ] are not so important. Samadhi and the Waking State Trance is a going inside away from the waking state. What corresponds to trance in the waking state would be a complete concentration indifferent to outward movements or else a silence of the whole being in Brahman realisation, the samāhita ... is in the waking state that this realisation must come and endure in order to be a reality of the life. If experienced in trance it would be a superconscient state true for some part of the inner being, but not real to the whole consciousness. Experiences in trance have their utility for opening the being and preparing it, but it is only when the realisation is constant in the waking state that it is... capacity of this silence and peace is a most important step in the sadhana. It comes at first in meditation and may throw the consciousness inward in trance, but it has to come afterwards in the waking state and establish itself as a permanent basis for all the life and action. It is the condition for the realisation of the Self and the spiritual transformation of the nature. The experience you ...
... physical world. In the waking state you are conscious only of a certain limited field and action of your nature. In sleep you can become vividly aware of things beyond this field—a larger mental or vital nature behind the waking state or else a subtler physical or a subconscient nature which contains much that is there in you but not distinguishably active in the waking state. All these obscure tracts... dream-experience—but aspire to get rid of these things and of the activities they indicate, to be conscious and reject all but the divine Truth; the more you get that Truth and cling to it in the waking state, rejecting all else, the more all this inferior dream-stuff will get clear. It is the subconscient that is active in ordinary dreams. But in the dreams in which one goes out into other planes... Most people have that kind of dream at night. It is because the thoughts and memories that belong to the past are there always in some part of the being, even if they are not active in the waking state, and they become active at night. That is why one is constantly meeting the people once known, either one goes to the old places and meets them or they come. You seem to be attaching too ...
... 422-25 In the waking state you are conscious only of a certain limited field and action of your nature. In sleep you can become vividly aware of things beyond this field — a larger mental or vital nature behind the waking state or else a subtle physical or a subconscient nature which contains much that is there in you but not distinguishably active in the waking state. Letters on Yoga... Yoga, p. 1487 Page 236 ...it is a well-known psychological law that what is suppressed or rejected in the waking state may still recur in sleep and dream because they are still there in the subconscient being. But if the waking state is thoroughly cleared, these dream-movements must gradually disappear because they lose their food and the impressions in the subconscient are gradually... our inner life. Even we can by training become so conscious as to follow our own passage, usually veiled to our awareness and memory, through many realms and the process of the return to the waking state. At a certain pitch of this inner wakefulness this kind of sleep, a sleep of experiences, can replace the ordinary subconscious slumber. Letters on Yoga, pp. 1023-24 What happens ...
... circumconscient existence Page 519 of which our mind and sense catch only a few indications. The old Indian psychology expressed this fact by dividing consciousness into three provinces, waking state, dream-state, sleep-state, jāgrat, svapna, suṣupti ; and it supposed in the human being a waking self, a dream-self, a sleep-self, with the supreme or absolute self of being, the fourth or Turiya... Turiya, beyond, of which all these are derivations for the enjoyment of relative experience in the world. If we examine the phraseology of the old books, we shall find that the waking state is the consciousness of the material universe which we normally possess in this embodied existence dominated by the physical mind. The dream-state is a consciousness corresponding to the subtler life-plane and ... being by which we climb back towards the absolute Divine. Normally therefore we cannot get back from the physical mind to the higher planes or degrees of consciousness without receding from the waking state, without going in and away from it and losing touch with the material world. Hence to those who desire to have the experience of these higher degrees, trance becomes a desirable thing, a means of ...
... especially to learn how to become more and more conscious in sleep itself. If that is done, sleep changes into an inner mode of consciousness in which the sadhana can continue as much as in the waking state, and at the same time one is able to enter into other planes of consciousness than the physical and command an immense range of informative and utilisable experience. By not sleeping enough... nd that it is which really restores the system. The rest of the time is spent first in travelling through various states of consciousness towards that and then coming out of it back towards the waking state. This fact of the ten minutes true rest has been noted by medical men, but of course they know nothing about Sachchidananda! This feeling of having enough sleep [ when one wakes at night... phases until one arrives at a state in which there is absolute rest and silence—it lasts only for ten minutes, the rest of the time is taken up by travelling to that and travelling back again to the waking state. I suppose the ten minutes sleep can be called suṣupti in the Brahman or Brahmaloka, the rest is svapna Page 442 or passage through other worlds (planes or states of conscious existence) ...
... first in travelling through various states of consciousness towards that and then coming out of it back towards the waking state. This fact of the ten minutes true rest as been noted by medical men, but of course they know nothing about Sachchidananda! 72 From the waking state to the Sachchidananda state of complete rest, light and silence is a necessary nightly journey, which is however usually... all too unpredictable and uncontrollable.) nor in the engineered samādhi state (which is the total, if temporary, suspension of normal consciousness), but rather in the waking state itself: ...it is in the waking state that this realisation must come and endure in order to be a reality of the life. If experienced in trance it would be a superconscient state true for some part of the inner... level of the waking consciousness. The aim in the yoga is not to rely on sleep alone to give the sadhak the needed ten minutes' susupti state of Brahman consciousness, but rather to tune the waking state itself to intensities of seeing and being, and thereby to push consciousness to higher and higher planes and the highest possible. But although one might talk of planes and grades, yet all is one ...
... The Destiny of the Body Chapter III THE WAKING STATE AND THE 'WHY' OF THE SAMADHI-PLUNGE Above us dwells a superconscient god Hidden in the mystery of his own light: Around us is a vast of ignorance Lit by the uncertain ray of the human mind, Below us sleeps the Inconscient dark and mute. ... (Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book VII, Canto II, p. 484) Since mind-consciousness is the sole waking state possessed by mental being,...it cannot ordinarily quite enter into another without leaving behind completely both all our waking existence and all our inward mind. This is the necessity of the Yogic trance. (Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 379) To enter... only a few indications." 1 As a matter of fact, following the ancient Wisdom of the Upanishads, 2 we can broadly divide the totality of our existence into four provinces or states: the 'waking state' (jāgrat), the subliminal or the 'dream-state' (svapna), the superconscient or the 'sleep-state' (suṣupti) and finally the state beyond or the 'ultimate state' (turīya). Corresponding to ...
... take time, shorter or longer, but in the end the elimination is bound to come. If the waking state is freed from indulgence whether mental or physical in sex-thoughts, sex-impulses, sex-action, then the subconscient can be better dealt with; till then what is indulged by the mind in the waking state or else is suppressed but not yet entirely rejected can always lurk in the subconscient and rise... 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 ] is right. As you are controlling it in the waking state, it comes out at night. That too has to be got rid of. That is usual—the subconscient acts of itself on its own store of impressions or habitual past movements. When one drives sex from the... the subconscient which comes up in dreams, though sticky enough, is not quite so irremovable as all that. Anyway, the dream kind is not so much to trouble about, unless it is frequent—it is the waking state that must be rigorously cleared out. Sometimes, if that is done, there is automatic extension of the habit of rejection to the subconscient, so that when the dream is coming there is an automatic ...
... ." 1 The ancient Indian wisdom expressed this fact by dividing our consciousness into three, or rather four, provinces: jāgrat or waking state, svapna or dream state, suṣupti or sleep state, and finally turīya transcending these all. "The waking state is consciousness of the material universe which we normally possess in this embodied existence dominated by the physical mind. The dream... of fact what happens in sleep is that our consciousness withdraws from the field of its waking experiences and enters into inner realms of our being, of which we are not normally aware in our waking state, although they exist all the time and continue to exert their occult influences upon our life and thought and action. And this is so because "when we are awake,...all that is put behind a veil... sleep state and the dream state are thus seen to be the figurative names for the superconscient and the subliminal that lie beyond and behind our normal waking awareness. This last state, our waking state, is all the time blissfully ignorant of its occult connection with these higher and deeper reaches of consciousness, although it is receiving from them, without any overt knowledge of their source ...
... It is in the Yogic consciousness that one feels the seat of the subconscient below the feet, but the influence of the subconscious is not confined there—it is spread in the body. In the waking state it is overpowered by the conscious thinking mind and vital and conscious physical mind, but in the sleep state it comes on the surface. Habits and the Subconscient The subconscient is a thing... stored and from there they come up into the waking mind. Driven out of the upper consciousness, it is in this cavern of the Panis that they take refuge. No longer allowed to emerge freely in the waking state, they come up in sleep as dreams. It is only when they are cleared out of the subconscient, their very seeds killed by the enlightening of these hidden layers, that they cease for good. As your... consciousness which we carry around us and through which we are connected with universal Nature and from there they may be trying to return upon you. As it is difficult for them to succeed in the waking state, they take advantage of the absence of conscious control in sleep and appear there. If it is something new and not yours, then it can be neither of these, but an attack of some outside Force. ...
... movements may still manifest in the dream-state, because it is a well-known psychological law that what is suppressed or rejected in the waking state may still recur in sleep and dream because they are still there in the subconscient being. But if the waking state is thoroughly cleaned, these dream movements must gradually disappear because they lose their food and impressions in the subonscient are... easily explained and is a thing of common experience. It is a known psychological law that whatever is suppressed in the conscious mind remains in the subconscient being and recurs either in the waking state when the control by itself cannot eradicate anything entirely out of the being. The subconscient in the ordinary man includes the larger part of the vital being and the physical mind and also the... or discouragement, but always insisting tranquilly on the change needed in the being. A quiet will of this kind can not fail in the end. Its effects are inevitable. It must first reject in the waking state not only the acts habitual to the vital being, but the impulses behind them which it must understand to be external to the person even though manifested in him and also the suggestions which are ...
... facts psychologically curious in the extreme, and fundamental too since after them the easy and unpremeditated verse in the waking state becomes at once credible Page 34 – stand on a par from the literary viewpoint with his expe-rience of poetry in the waking state. For here too we have the identical total effortlessness. And it is this total effortlessness that is the essential literary... presented Milton with poetry at night in a condition where personal initiative was impossible is spoken of as applying to him at dawn. Urania's visit at dawn should be taken to have repeated in the waking state what it had done in the sleeping - namely, to have used Milton as a medium. Grammatically, it would even seem that the verb "visit" is used transitively in relation to "when Morn purples... affinity is there in more than one sense. And it is interesting to mark that Milton distinguishes two kinds of sleep with different kinds of dream or vision in them. One is the reverse of the waking state in which for the most part Reason joins or disjoins for its own affirmations and denials the "imaginations, aery shapes" formed by "Fancy" out of sense-impressions. This Reason, as Adam says ...
... zero instead of an experience. 179 And Sri Aurobindo insisted: It is in the waking state that this realization must come and endure in order to be a reality of life.... Experience and trance have their utility for opening the being and preparing it, but it is only when the realization is constant in the waking state that it is truly possessed. 180 The goal we are seeking is a state of integral... windows that open one after another, each time on a wider perspective, a new dimension of our own kingdom; and each time it means a change of consciousness as radical as going from sleep to the waking state. We are going to outline the main stages of these changes of consciousness, as Sri Aurobindo experienced them and described them to his disciples in his integral yoga , until they take us to the... complete zombie to the fully awake and individualized consciousness. Therefore, there are no general rules regarding sleep and death, because everything is possible, just as it is in our physical waking state. We can at most outline some general features. As mentioned earlier, we are made up of several centers of consciousness, ranging from above the head to the bottom. Each of these centers is somewhat ...
... Dreams At first sight one might think that the subject of dreams is an altogether secondary one; this activity generally seems to have very little importance compared to the activity of our waking state. However, if we examine the question a little more closely, we shall see that this is not at all the case. To begin with, we should remember that more than one third of our existence is spent... training, are even able to become and remain conscious of the deeper activities of their inner being, independently of their own cerebral transcription, and thus to evoke them and know them in the waking state with the full range of their faculties. Many interesting observations could be made on this topic, but perhaps it is better to allow each one to experience for himself the many possibilities... broadly outlined in a passage from a book devoted to the study of our inner life: "The same discipline of concentration which enables man not to remain a stranger to the inner activities of the waking state also provides him with a way to escape from his ignorance of the even richer activities of the various states of sleep. "These activities usually leave behind them only a few rare and confused ...
... I told Dr. R that I get discharge of semen at night, mostly in connection with sexual dreams. He then asked if this happened during the waking state also. I replied, "Never." But there can be no connection between my sex imaginations during the waking state and the discharges, because the women in the dreams at night are not the same as the ones who enter into my imaginations. It does not... them? The waking vital must first be cleared of all consent to sex. During dreams it is noticed that my vital and physical express strong desires for sexual enjoyment. In the waking state there is a natural control by the will which goes away at night. That is because of the imaginations. If one indulges in sex imaginations in the waking, then the subconscient (if not the... force) on the sex-organ not to have emission - this force or will is put every night before going to sleep. Some have succeeded in that way. But if one has a great activity of sex imaginations in the waking state, then it is difficult or may be so to control at night. Another thing is to accustom oneself by a will in the subconscient to wake before the emission comes. Page 122 ...
... no return for the majority of seekers from this supreme height of spiritual consciousness. It is only the exceptionally gifted Iswarakotis or "divine souls" who succeed in coming back to the waking state. Cf. Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works, Vol. VI, p. 499: "When once they [ordinary Sadhakas] somehow attain to the direct realisation of Brahman, they cannot again come back to the lower... has for its objective: (i)to make spiritual experiences real to the whole consciousness including that of the outer being; (ii)to establish the highest possible realisation in the waking state and make it endure there; (iii)not only to experience the Truth subjectively and in one's inner consciousness alone, but to manifest it even in full activity; (iv)an integral ... who enter into domains where they have a consciousness, but between this conscious state and their normal wakeful consciousness there is a gap: their individuality does not exist between the waking state and the deeper state; then in the passage they forget. They cannot carry the consciousness they had there into the consciousness here because there is a gap between the two. There is even an ...
... stress on Samadhi as the means of the highest experience. But obviously if one has not the Brahmi sthiti in the waking state, there is no completeness in the realisation. The Gita distinctly speaks of being samāhita (which is equivalent to being in samadhi) and the Brahmi sthiti as a waking state in which one lives and does all actions. 9 June 1936 Such a concrete process of ascent and descent could... Jnanayoga. Moreover, in Rajayoga there is nowhere any mention of silence in the waking consciousness—always it is a question of going into Samadhi. In Jnanayoga, however, it does seem as though the waking state becomes illumined and full of peace and brahmānanda. I never heard of silence descending in other Yogas—the mind goes into silence. Since however I have been writing of ascent and descent, I ...
... physical, becomes closed to external things and recedes into the inner psychic and vital part of the being. There it passes through many experiences and of these some can and should be felt in the waking state also; for both movements are necessary, the coming out of the inner being to the front as well as the going in of the consciousness to become aware of the inner self and nature. But for many purposes... of themselves. It is the beginning and constant enlarging of this deeper and fuller and richer awareness that is accomplished between the inward plunge and the return from this inner world to the waking state. The sadhak must understand that these experiences are not mere imaginations or dreams but actual happenings, for even when, as often occurs, they are formations only, of a wrong or misleading... one uses for certain purposes. If you went inside and lost consciousness of the outer world, it would be called a kind of samadhi—but this experience can Page 222 be got in the waking state also. It is a liberation from body consciousness and an awakening into the spiritual wideness. At first it is usually felt as a void of all other things but consciousness alone or existence alone ...
... all sign of mind or lower existence ceases. But this is a state of consciousness to which few can attain and from which not all can return. It is obvious, since mind-consciousness is the sole waking state possessed by mental being, that it cannot ordinarily quite enter into another without leaving behind completely both all our waking existence and all our inward mind. This is the necessity of the... divine plane can there be seized, but in the Page 397 mental way and in a mental form. To these planes of divine mentality it is possible for the developed human being to arise in the waking state; or it is possible for him to derive from them a stream of influences and experiences which shall eventually open to them and transform into their nature his whole waking existence. These higher... mind's immergence into or seizure upon any one of these principles or aspects to effect through status in the divine planes of their Page 398 mentality or the possession by them of their waking state this desired transit. But the sadhaka of the integral Yoga has to harmonise all so that they may become a plenary and equal unity of the full realisation of Sachchidananda. Here the last difficulty ...
... consciousness : Our waking consciousness is ordinarily externalised and gazes outward while our inner dream consciousness has its eyes turned inward. Thus the transition from the sleep state to waking state is very often associated with a reversal, a turning over, of the consciousness in which "the dream-state disappears more or less abruptly, effacing the fugitive impression made by the dream events... made by our conscious thought during the day." 3 Faced with this unpleasant situation of nightly falling down of consciousness below the level of what one has gained by Sadhana in the waking state, seekers of self-perfection are sometimes impelled, in a mood of desperation, to effect a drastic cut in the hours of sleep and keep awake at night. But this is a highly inadvisable procedure... can be done only by becoming more and more conscious in sleep itself. "If that is done, sleep changes into an inner mode of consciousness in which the Sadhana can continue as much as in the waking state, and at the same time one is able to enter into other planes of consciousness than the physical and command an immense range of informative and utilisable experience." 3 This last possibility ...
... The change in the activity of the nervous system during sleep manifests itself in the abolition, or at least depression, of what has been termed critical reactivity to external events. "In the waking state the impulses coming from the different sense organs to certain areas of the cerebral cortex are analysed in the light of the individual's previous experience, and appropriate responses (which... neighbouring cells, thus providing uninterrupted pathways along which travel afferent nerve impulses, from neuron to neuron, to reach the cortical cells of the brain. This is what is called the waking state. The neural theory of sleep is based on the assumption that these dendritic 'processes' are contractile in their physical constitution and get occasionally retracted for some reason... either there are produced some specific toxic substances inhibitory to the irritability in the nerve cells or on the contrary certain specific chemicals necessary for the maintenance of the waking state undergo transformations and get exhausted. In either case the unconsciousness of sleep ensues and it is in this period of sleep that the toxic substances are removed from the system or, ...
... that even in our waking state what we call our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. Sri Aurobindo refers to phenomena of a vaster system of psychology, based upon verifiable data of yoga, — the true science of consciousness and Conscious Force, — which demonstrate that (i) behind the surface consciousness in which we are awake in our waking state, there is a subliminal... subliminal consciousness, (ii) there is, below our waking state, the subconscient mind which has at its depth totally unconscious rock from which the strivings of the subconscious mind seem to emerge, (iii) above our surface consciousness, there are greater and higher heights of consciousness which are yet to be measured or climbed by the latest trends of quest and research. Sri Aurobindo further ...
... involution created in its passage and with all corresponding planes or worlds that may have arisen or been constructed to serve the purpose of the re- ascent from Inconscience to Super conscience...Our waking state is unaware of its connection with the subliminal being, although it receives from it—but without any knowledge of the place of origin — the inspirations, intuitions, ideas, will-suggestions, s... as well as the fields of our waking activities. What we have to do, first of all, is to be conscious in sleep. This consciousness is not to be brought down from somewhere or transferred from the waking state—our normal consciousness has only to be extended into the depths. The surface active consciousness, which is all we command in our normal state, is a petty, limited portion of our total consciousness... our spiritual progress. It will even enable us to participate in the activities of the remote levels of our own or of the universal being and retain an unclouded memory of them in the waking state, independently of the cerebral transcription. Elimination or conversion of unhelpful and undesirable dreams and a conscious fostering of those which help our progress will be a natural corollary ...
... impression left in the subconscient — necessarily a strong impression because the feelings were acute — which as it can no longer affect the waking state comes up in dreams. It is a common experience that long after one has got rid of things in the waking state, e.g., sex, family attachment or any past preoccupations that no longer exist, they return from time to time in dreams. Your self-liberation... n is quite recent, so it is not surprising that the impression comes up in this form. You have to reject it very quietly and without concern — if it is not fed in the waking state it will die away. MYSELF: My ego has found so much support from me in everything that it now doesn’t want to leave me so easily. It must stay either in front or behind, openly or in secret. What I see clearly, or am aware ...
... movements may still manifest in the dream-state, because it is a well-known psychological law that what is suppressed or rejected in the waking state may still recur in sleep and dream because they are still there in the subconscient being. But if the waking state is thoroughly cleaned, these dream movements must gradually disappear because they lose their food and impressions in the subconscient are... excitement or discouragement, but always insisting tranquilly on the change needed in the being. A quiet will of this kind cannot fail in the end. Its effects are inevitable. It must first reject in the waking state not only the acts habitual to the vital being, but the impulses behind them which it must understand to be external to the person even though manifested in him and also the suggestions which are ...
... largely influenced by your preoccupation in the waking state, with the world situation linking itself to the memory of the past. The fourth dream seems to be made up of old impressions mostly. The last dream indicates a tendency, in some part of the material being, towards material comfort and a pleasant indolence, which is suppressed in the waking state, but comes up in sleep from the subconscient... because the consciousness is not awake in its fullness. The dreams carefully scrutinized will disclose something of the condition of the subconscient and they can help to correct some movements of the waking state. For instance, the first dream indicates a tendency to give when in action an undue importance to small superficial and artificial details at the cost of a larger and deeper view which would ...
... these things take place either in sleep or Hi an indrawn meditation and not in the waking state. There is a twofold reason. First, that usually in Yoga these things begin in an indrawn state and not in the waking condition— it is only if or when the waking mind is ready that they come as readily in the waking state. Again in you the waking mind has been too active in its insistence on the ideas and... and operations of the outer consciousness to give the inner mind a chance to project itself into the waking state. But it is through the inner consciousness and primarily through the inner mind that these things come; so, if there is not a clear passage from the inner to the outer, it must be in the inner states that they first appear. If the waking mind is subject or surrendered to the inner consciousness ...
... the inner being and has at will the indrawn or the outpoured experience; you will then have the same experience of dense immobility and the inpouring of a greater and purer consciousness in the waking state as in what you erroneously call sleep. As for working, it depends on what you mean by the word. Desire often leads either to excess of effort, meaning often much labour and a limited fruit with... being—or part of it, the inner or true vital moved by the psychic consciousness,— that wept these tears and had this experience of ecstasy and peace. In your former experiences you felt it in the waking state; for both movements are necessary, the coming out of the inner being to the front as well as the going in of the consciousness to become aware of the inner self and nature. But here what was done... small and very blind and limited material personality which men erroneously think to be all of themselves. The "coining to" of which you speak was simply the return from this inner world to the waking state. You write in your letter that the tears were not real because your eyes were dry when you woke. The epithet shows the survival of a Russellian bias in your physical mind,—as if the physical ...
... less than that of the waking state in which our movements of perceptive Page 443 consciousness are a record or transcript of physical things and of our contacts with the physical universe. No doubt, all the three states can be classed as parts of an illusion, our experiences of them can be ranked together as constructions of an illusory consciousness, our waking state no less illusory than... existence that our mind and vital being retire when they withdraw from the surface activities Page 442 whether by sleep or inward-drawn concentration or by the inner plunge of trance. Our waking state is unaware of its connection with the subliminal being, although it receives from it—but without any knowledge of the place of origin—the inspirations, intuitions, ideas, will-suggestions, sens ...
... ted unstable structures of name, form, relation, happenings, and in the waking state externalises himself in the more apparently stable but yet transient structures of the physical consciousness, so the Self develops out of a state of massed consciousness its subjective and its objective cosmic experience. But the waking state is not a true waking from this original and causal sleep; it is only a full... because it accepts them, believes in them, they are to it real experiences, creations out of its conscious being; but it is unreal because it is a sleep state, a dream state, an eventually transient waking state, not the true status of the superconscient Reality. Here there is no actual dichotomy of being itself, but there is a multiplicity of status of the one Being; there is no original dual consciousness ...
... movements may still manifest in the dream-state, because it is a well-known psychological law that what is suppressed or rejected in the waking state may still recur in sleep and dream because they are still there in the subconscient being. But if the waking state is thoroughly cleared, these dream-movements must gradually disappear because they lose their food and the impressions in the subconscient... discouragement, but always insisting [tranquilly] 2 on the change needed in the being. A quiet will of this kind cannot fail in the end. Its effect is inevitable. It must first reject in the waking state, not only the acts habitual to the vital being, but the impulses behind them which it must understand to be external to the person even though manifested in him and also the suggestions which are ...
... these things take place either in sleep or in an indrawn meditation and not in the waking state. There is a twofold reason. First, that usually in Yoga these things begin in an indrawn state and not in the waking condition,—it is only if or when the waking mind is ready that they come as readily in the waking state. Again in you the waking mind has been too active in its insistence on the ideas and... and operations of the outer consciousness to give the inner mind a chance to project itself into the waking state. But it is through the inner consciousness and primarily through the inner mind that these things come; so, if there is not a clear passage from the inner to the outer, it must be in the inner states that they first appear. If the waking mind is subject or surrendered to the inner consciousness ...
... The Destiny of the Body Part Two THE SPIRITUAL DESTINY OF THE WAKING STATE Chapter I The Bane of Oscillation Obviously if one has not the Brahmisthiti in the waking state, there is no completeness in the realisation. (Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, p. 109) How is it, O Great One... occult compelling factor in some such spiritual malaise. 4 We thus encounter an all-round denigration of our physical existence. But what are after all the precise disabilities of the waking state, what is the character and content of its spiritual penury? 1 Swami Nikhilananda (Tr.), op. cit., p. 614. 2 Cf. jñānināmapi cetāṁsi devī bhagavati hi sā balādākṛṣya mohāya ...
... detriment.” Throughout the day, in our waking state, all our sense-perceptions, thoughts, imaginations, day-dreams, feelings, emotions, sensations, all the actions and reactions that take place in us, are recorded by the Subconscient in a sort of cryptic notations which are jumbled up to form fantastic patterns and thrown up in our dreams and even in the waking state. Modern psychotherapy tries to trace... obstinate ailments, physical or mental, to which we are all too prone. It is the repository of all our life-impressions which it throws up pell-mell from time to time, either in dreams or in the waking state, to cloud or confuse our consciousness and disturb our poise and balance. The animal propensities, the passions and cravings of the lower nature, when renounced or repressed by the waking self, ...
... Because our waking consciousness is determined and limited by the balance between mind and matter worked out by life in its evolution, this direct cognisance is usually impossible in our ordinary waking state and has therefore to be brought about by throwing the waking mind into a state of sleep which liberates the true or subliminal mind. Mind is then able to assert its true character as the one and... sense and free to apply to the objects of sense its pure and sovereign instead of its mixed and dependent action. Nor is this extension of faculty really impossible but only more difficult in our waking state,—as is known to all who have been able to go far enough in certain paths of psychological experiment. The sovereign action of the sense-mind can be employed to develop other senses besides the ...
... violence. In dream it is usually the case that even what one has thrown out from the waking state, comes up for a long time—that is because all these things remain still in the subconscient and it is the subconscient that creates a great part of people's dreams. Thus if one no longer has sexual desires in the waking state he can still have sex-dreams—and emissions—with a more or less frequent recurrence; ...
... to our inner life. Even we can by training become so conscious as to follow our own passage, usually veiled to our awareness and memory, through many realms and the process of the return to the waking state. At a certain pitch of this inner wakefulness this kind of sleep, a sleep of experiences, can replace the ordinary subconscient slumber. It is of course an inner being or consciousness or something... escaped you. But it is sufficiently awake for the surface consciousness to remember this state, that is to say, to receive and keep the report of it even in the transition from the sleep to the waking state which usually abolishes by oblivion all but fragments of the record of sleep-happenings. You are right in feeling that the waking consciousness and this which is awake in sleep are not the same—they ...
... them as they are or appear to the physical sense, even as it is of other states of experience, of the pure vital, the mental, the psychical, the supramental presentation of things. It can in the waking state of the physical consciousness present to us the things concealed from the limited receptivity or beyond the range of the physical organs, distant forms, scenes and happenings, things that have passed... things, persons, scenes, happenings, whatever is, was or will be or may be in the physical universe. These images are very variously seen and under all kinds of conditions; in samadhi or in the waking state, and in the latter with the bodily eyes closed or open, projected on or into a physical object or medium or seen as if materialised in the physical atmosphere or only in a psychical ether revealing ...
... Because our waking consciousness is determined and limited by the balance between mind and matter worked out by life in its evolution, this direct cognisance is usually impossible in our ordinary waking state and has therefore to be brought about by throwing the waking mind into a state of sleep which liberates the true or subliminal mind. Mind is then able to assert its true character as the one and... sense and free to apply to the objects of sense its pure and sovereign instead of its mixed and dependent action. Nor is this extension of faculty really impossible but only more difficult in our waking state, — as is known to all who have been able to go far enough in certain paths of psychological experiment. The sovereign action of the sense-mind can be employed to develop other senses besides ...
... life, be a fit instrument of true realities — such were the sweet notes that kept vibrating ceaselessly and noiselessly in my dream-state and that I heard now and again as a soft music in my waking state also. Although all attachment to the Vaishnava way of life had left me radically, my attachment to my parents, specially to my mother — should I call it desire? love? bondage? — still continued... immersed deep within me at that time because I was oblivious of the earth and voyaging in the sky. Someone in the darkness, his face I could not see, called me to go home and so I came back to the waking state. Ten miles away from our village to the south-east was Pondicherry! Sri Aurobindo had not yet come to Pondicherry. The beings of the upper worlds were as if making ready the blessed town of ...
... 87, 353 Intuition (Plane of Intuition), 142, 149-53 fourfold power of, 152 and reason, 150 Ishwara, 98 See also Divine, the; God jāgrat, 206 See also Waking-State James, William, 361, 370 Jivatma(n), 84, 85, 86, 135, 379, 380, 386 in Monism, 374 cf. Central being Jung, C. G., 304 Knowledge (Vidya), 61, 143, 159 ... lower vital, 63, 63-64 and mind distinguished, 339-40 outer (surface), 62-67 physical vital, 66 Vital mind, see under Physical (being), the Vivekananda, 38 Waking-State (jāgrat), 206-09 Washburn, Ken, 371, 392, 398 Yoga, 123 based on experience, 184, 198 experiences of, testing, 188-90 meaning of the word, 309 scientific nature ...
... other in course of the day. But the pertinent question is: What do we do individually when we sit in meditation? And what gain do we derive when we come out of our meditation into the active waking state? Do we add anything on the credit page of our spiritual progress after each seance of meditation? Or is it just a routine exercise expected of an aspirant, which perhaps gives some pleasant soporific... But we must remember that this is only one specialised form of a successful meditation. As we are sadhakas of the Integral Yoga and seek the establishment of spiritual consciousness even in the waking state, and since we aim at the divine transformation even of our external nature, the connotations of the terms 'meditation', contemplation' and 'Samadhi' or trance should be much more wide Page ...
... a distant Reality" 2 that the mind can at most achieve for us: we want to ascend to the supreme Reality in full awareness and bring down its dynamic glories and splendours in the play of our waking state. But we cannot but take note of the fact of spiritual experience certified by most seekers of the Truth that an immense hiatus seems to exist between the supramental Truth-Consciousness... It becomes imperative then for the fulfilment of our divine destiny upon earth that man should be able to raise himself much above the plane of mind and normally and permanently, even in his waking state, live in the supernal heights of the Spirit, also to manifest and organise in his embodied existence new planes and powers of consciousness other than and superior to mind, so that these may ...
... thought, 'It does not seem to be an easy proposition to awaken my King! Only if he still possesses the grain of a desire somewhere hidden in seed-form, that will help him to come back again to the waking state, in no other wise can he be aroused.' " 2 The Trance-Experience of Sri Ramakrishna : Now we come to the very authentic historical case of the Sage of Dakshinesvara whose trance-e... cramps and wrenches in the stomach! After I had suffered from such intense agony for long six months, my consciousness could come down little by little into my body and finally I regained the waking state of ordinary men." 1 So we have seen what Samadhi means and how the state of Nir-vikalpa Samadhi is eulogised as the spiritual status par excellence. Now we proceed to show that tra ...
... sadhana. After each state of samadhi - trance - I feel a change in my waking state for a long time, a change not usually brought about even by the deeper and higher experiences, a change more deeply penetrating than any other and more prolonged and tangible even than experiences in the waking state. But it is said that samadhi does not bring any change in the waking consciousness. ...
... mental; it is the sphere comprising movements of which man is usually and habitually aware. It is what the Upanishad names jagrat or jagaritasthana and characterises as bahihprajna: it is the waking state and has cognition only of external things. In other words, the consciousness here is wholly objec-tivised, externalised—"extravert": it is also a strongly individualised formation, the consciousness... geometrically, we can say, the vertical section of consciousness represents the line from the superconsciousness to the subconscious or vice versa; the horizontal section represents the normal waking state of consciousness; and there is a transverse section leading from the surface first to the Inner Page 47 and finally to the Inmost. This inmost consciousness—the consciousness most ...
... but can happen one day. This when translated in the human mind is termed imagination. The Rishis spoke of three worlds, three states of being and consciousness. The waking state, the dream state and the sleep state. The waking state means the physical consciousness, the material reality, earth. The dream state means the inner consciousness, the world of subtler formations. It is called the mid-world ...
... mental; it is the sphere comprising movements of which man is usually and habitually aware. It is what the Upanishad names jagrat or jagaritasthana and characterises as bahihprajna: it is the waking state and has cognition only of external things. In other words, the consciousness here is wholly objectivised, externalised— "extrovert": it is also a strongly individualised formation, the Page... geometrically, we can say, the vertical section of consciousness represents the line from the super-consciousness to the subconscious or vice versa; the horizontal section represents the normal waking state of consciousness; and there is a transverse section leading from the surface first to the Inner and finally to the Inmost. This inmost consciousness—the consciousness most profound and secreted ...
... do it, being the Purusha. Then one of the following two things will happen: either you will remain fully conscious but with the mind empty, or you will have this consciousness but not in the waking state, that is, you will be in Samadhi. So, this work is the first step for you. Friday, December 25, 1925 Remaining attentive facing my thoughts—I found that they disappeared immediately... happen that, besides the two alternatives put before you last time, you could fall into an unconsciousness of which you would not keep any memory. You must try to avoid that and to attain either the waking state without mind or Samadhi. Is reading harmful ? I do not need it much, and sometimes mental work is painful to me. You must not make any mental rules. Do according to your inner needs ...
... mental; it is the sphere comprising movements of which man is usually and habitually aware. It is what the Upanishad names Jagrat or jagaritasthana and characterises as bahihprajña: it is the waking state and has cognition only of external things. In other words, the consciousness here is wholly objectivised, externalised – “extrovert": it is also a strongly individualised formation, the Page... geometrically, we can say, the vertical section of consciousness represents the line from the superconsciousness to the subconscious or vice versa; the horizontal section represents the normal waking state of consciousness; and there is a transverse section leading from the surface first to the Inner and finally to the Inmost. This inmost consciousness – the consciousness most profound and secreted ...
... the undivine, at least from brazen vitalistic impulses. IV It is a fact of common experience that in sleep we are often as active as in the waking state. In that sleep of apparent inactivity what dreams do come! Also, in the waking state itself, one may at unpredictable moments be surprised by visions. What is the role of such dreams and visions in life, especially in spiritual life? ...
... the basis of his careful objective study or recapitulation of his dream-life: The same discipline of concentration which enables man not to remain a stranger to the inner activities of the waking state also provides him with a way to escape from his ignorance of the even richer activities of the various states of sleep. 26 How, then, is this discipline of dream-consciousness to be pursued... includes obscure and unfamiliar tracts which impinge adversely on our consciousness; and this inferior dreamstuff must disappear gradually as we gain increasing mastery of the Truth in the waking state. The way will then be made clear for the purer dreams that give us intimations of the secrets of our nature and of other-nature. In one of his letters, Sri Aurobindo makes reference to the recent ...
... Correspondence with The Mother Undated (1953?) Ma douce Mère, Yesterday, for the first time I had the experience of the ascent of Kundalini in the waking state, while I was sitting on the chair, meditating at 11.30 or so in the night. Long had been my aspiration for it, but however hard I might try I had never succeeded before. The Force was ascending... of the body, though it was very vague and opaque. In between I saw the open pen and the paper also on the table. It was not a new experience, but what elated me was that it came in the full waking state. A feeling of strength, restfulness and an inner quietude still continues. The head is cool. But the difficulty is with the thoughts. Unless the mind can be stilled, the effects cannot last. Naturally ...
... Visions of Champaklal Visions of Champaklal Symbolic Vision in Waking State 1986-06-25 I was sitting, quietly. There was a soothing breeze all around. (Kamlaben and I were sitting on a step.) My seat slowly began to move, and then it started running like a fast train. It kept running further and further. Similar to what is seen from a running fast train... was not for mere fun. It is a symbol of how I am leading you. The way you have become aware and conscious of my mission (direction), the same way, I had tried to show you a symbolic vision in your waking state.” Sometimes, when the Mother speaks invisibly—only her voice is clearly audible. Rarely, in dreams does she appear and speak, it was not so this time. This was only my understanding, which later ...
... consciousness. Not that my body is becoming conscious; it is becoming consciousness. It is becoming consciousness. There is no mistake about it. At the same time, while in the waking state, I am becoming nervous. Page 23 I asked Sri Aurobindo. He told me that this is a transition. He told me: "Your body is becoming consciousness." Yes, he told me that. I used... remain all the while in the delight of existence. The being of Ananda has already descended and that I should remain in the delight of existence. Not only during meditation, but even otherwise,—in my waking state also. It is the being of Ananda who receives the delight of existence. I went to Sri Aurobindo's Room. Looked at the photo, stood there for about five minutes and then came out. When I came ...
... cosmic energy and the method of divine action upon the world. By this capacity the Yogin, already possessed of the highest supracosmic knowledge and experience in the state of trance, is able in the waking state to acquire directly whatever knowledge and exercise whatever mastery may be useful or necessary to his activities in the objective world. For the ancient system of Rajayoga aimed not only at Swarajya... Especially is the spiritual life, in this system, too much associated with the state of Samadhi. Our object is to make the spiritual life and its experiences fully active and fully utilisable in the waking state and even in the normal use of the functions. But in Rajayoga it tends to withdraw into a subliminal plane at the back of our normal experiences instead of descending and possessing our whole existence ...
... immediate ends proposed are Brahman, Ananda external and internal, Arogya, effective Image in waking state & sleep and effective Trikaldrishti. The whole activity of the Yoga is being reconstituted. The rupas of all kinds appear though fitfully & with insufficient stability & frequency, in the waking state, & insufficient stability & continuity in sleep. The Brahmadrishti is now complete & less frequently ...
... Everything which we cannot attain in the waking state is there in us in the dream-self and the sleep-self. Samadhi is a means of increasing the range of consciousness. We can extend the inner wakefulness in the swapna to planes of existence which are at present sushupta to us and bring them into experience of swapna and even eventually into the waking state. Page 1476 There are several ...
... the agency of another and in the sleeping state, Yoga does for him by his own agency and in the waking state. The hypnotic sleep is necessary in order Page 25 to prevent the activity of the subject's mind full of old ideas and associations from interfering with the operator. In the waking state he would naturally refuse to experience sweetness in vinegar or sourness in sugar or to believe ...
... stress on Samadhi as the means of the highest experience. But obviously if one has not the Brahmi sthiti in the waking state, there is no completeness in the realisation. The Gita distinctly speaks of being samāhita (which is equivalent to being in samadhi) and the Brahmi sthiti as a waking state in which one lives and does all actions. It happens that people may get the descent without noticing ...
... But whatever be the nature of the ideal sought, how does a Jivanmukta behave so far as his waking state is concerned? Does his dynamic life satisfy the criterion of a divinely purposive and active physical existence? Here too the answer is an unambiguous NO. Jīvanmukta and the Dynamic Waking State : The goal we envisage for our sadhana is, as we have stressed so many times before, is "not ...
... the three great areas of our being and consciousness, the three occult sources of our actions and movements: the superconscient, the subliminal and the subconscient. But alas, in our so-called waking state, we are not even aware of any of these, not to speak of having any conscious control over them. But aware or not, we cannot deny the fact of occult experience that all that we 'become... being together in a harmonised and unified experience and...see the Reality everywhere." 1 We have already dealt with this topic while discussing the spiritual possibilities of the waking state of man; but, for the moment, what we would like to stress is the other fact that in a very deep and real sense we in our present natural state are in the grip of a profound sleep as to our inner ...
... The Ascent of Sight in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri 12. Sight in the Waking State: We now come to the waking consciousness, the habitual consciousness of most men, which the subliminal and the subconscient have thrown up on the surface, just a wave of their secret surge. The normal man's waking consciousness is a limping Page 49 ... consciousness, a man becomes externalised and gazes outward and rarely if ever inward. No true spiritual life or any higher or deeper realisation becomes possible if one remains fettered to this waking state. Now what is germane to our main theme of discussion is the interesting fact that every individual human being even in his ordinary waking existence is not composed of one but of many ...
... the moment of waking prolongs itself into the waking state until the full ordinary consciousness comes back. Here it was farther prolonged by finding a physical support in the beams of light. I have often seen in the early stages that a subtle image takes advantage of something physical to make itself more durable and concrete even in the full waking state. The snakes here were probably Energies, not ...
... of life, be a fit instrument of true realities— such were the sweet notes that kept vibrating ceaselessly and noiselessly in my dream-state and that I heard now and again as a soft music in my waking state also. Although all attachment to the Vaishnava way of life had left me radically, my attachment to my parents, specially to my mother— should I call it desire? love? bondage?—still continued its... deep within me at that time because I was oblivious of the earth and voyaging in the sky. Someone in the darkness, his face I could not see, called me to go home and so I came back to the waking state. Ten miles away from our village to the south-east was Pondicherry! Sri Aurobindo had not yet come to Pondicherry. The beings of the upper worlds were as if making ready the blessed town of ...
... is in abeyance and still man is conscious. The nature of the consciousness Page 85 is not necessarily mental or intellectual. Our waking state is only a selection from the whole range of our conscious being. When we say "waking state", it is not all-pervading. This is what we were discussing the other evening when we were talking about psychology—that man's psychological being ...
... states, poises, and modes of being. The supreme Purusha or the omni- present Reality has four poises or statuses, according to the Upanishads— "soyāmātmā catuspāt”. The first poise is that of the waking state (jāgaritasthāna), which is. extroverted or externally cognitive (yahihprajña and enjoyer of the gross (sthūlabhuk). This is the vaiśvānara: or virāt state of Brahman. The second poise... his immense structure of the Life Divine for man upon this earth. For, this synthesis does not exclude anything, it includes all, the world and all its multiform relations and activities as the waking state (waking from our stand- point, for really speaking. Brahman is ever awake— sa jāgarti— ) of Brahman, as well as His turīya or absolute status. This synthesis is an epoch-making contribution to ...
... for I had exactly the impression of a sleepless night, without the least second of sleep or rest, and yet it was not a waking state since I was unable to get out of the situation — a sleep that was not sleep at all, and a wakefulness which did not resemble the waking state. And the situation, which lasted for seven hours non-stop and which I was unable to get out of, was as follows: I was in ...
... ether, the heart, this is its threefold station in the body. Shankara : 1. The object of this verse is to show that these three, Visva, Taijasa & Prajna, are experienced even in the waking Page 320 state. The right eye is the door, the means , through which especially Visva, the seer of gross objects, becomes subject to experience. The Sruti saith "Verily and of a truth Indha is he, even ...
... his highest self is manifest to him, that highest self always concentrated in its own being, samāhita , in Samadhi, not only in the trance of the inward-drawn consciousness, but always, in the waking state of the mind as well, in exposure to Page 240 the causes of desire and of the disturbance of calm, to grief and pleasure, heat and cold, honour and disgrace, all the dualities, ...
... stunned or drugged or in a swoon, in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may now be sure that the old thinkers were right when they declared that even in our waking state what we call then our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there ...
... getting symbols and instructions in the sleep-state, but only within about one year have I been able to see at all (with the Inner Eye) while awake.... But I long to develop a little faster in the waking state. Can you suggest any way? If you can put any literature in my way along these lines Page 554 or give me any hints as to higher development than that which I have, I will be greatly ...
... lower vital, your psychic consciousness, your mental consciousness, each one is completely different! So when you sleep you have one consciousness, and when you are awake you have another. In your waking state you look at things projected outside you, in your sleep state you see them interiorised. So it is as though in one case you were pushed altogether outside yourself, in front, and in the other it ...
... easily explained and is a thing of common experience. It is a known psychological law that whatever is suppressed in the conscious mind remains in the subconscient being and recurs either in the waking state when the control is removed or else in sleep. Mental control by itself cannot eradicate anything entirely out of the being. The subconscient in the ordinary man includes the larger part of the vital ...
... have a some what developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is put under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in excessive and often incoherent activities. This creates a great tension ending in fatigue and diminution of mental faculties. The fact ...
... body has capacities it would not have in the ordinary waking condition. For instance, it is well known that one can walk in dangerous places where one would find it rather difficult to walk in the waking state. The body follows the consciousness of the inner being and its own consciousness is asleep—for the body has a consciousness. All the parts of the being, including the most material, have an independent ...
... division, of separation, disappears quite naturally and spontaneously with that substance. And that substance is at present almost universally diffused in the earth atmosphere. It is perceptible in the waking state, simply with a little concentration and a kind of absorption of consciousness, if this is retracted, withdrawn from the ordinary externalisation which seems more and more artificial and false. This ...
... are also some people who enter domains where they are conscious, but between this conscious state and their normal waking consciousness there is a gap: their personality does not exist between the waking state and this deeper state; so, during the passage they forget. They cannot bring the consciousness they had there back into the consciousness here, for there is a gap between the two. There is even ...
... miseries. Spontaneously, naturally, the atmosphere becomes luminous and the air you breathe is full of happiness. And this is the air that you breathe, in your body and out of your body, in the waking state and in the state of sleep, in life and in the passage beyond life, outside earthly life until your new life. Every wrong action produces on the consciousness the effect of a wind that withers ...
... there complete down to the smallest details, on an occult plane. Is that correct? What is this plane of knowledge? Is there one or several? What should one do to gain access to it consciously in the waking state? And how is it that people who are serious, who have a divine realisation, sometimes make such gross mistakes in their predictions? But it is a whole world in itself! It is not one question ...
... have a somewhat developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is kept under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in activities which are sometimes excessive and often incoherent. This creates a great stress which leads to fatigue and the diminution of the ...
... give you a vivid and concrete knowledge and experience of what these human defects are so that you may find it easier to throw them Page 31 out, to recognise them when they come in the waking state and refuse them entrance. These things are not in yourself only but in all human nature; they are the things one has to get rid of or else to guard against so that one's consecration to the Divine ...
... become conscious of, see, hear, feel, smell, touch, mentally contact—to use the new established Americanism—either in trance or sleep or an inward state miscalled sleep or simply and easily in the waking state. This faculty of sensing supraphysical things internally or externalising them, so to speak, so that they become visible, audible, sensible to the outward eye, ear, even touch, just as are gross ...
... the Tantrics, or, as I hold, by feeding on the internal amrita, is raised to its highest exalted condition, before it is taken up into mahas or karanam, (whether in the state of Samadhi or in the waking state of the man who has realised his mahan atma, his ideal self), a state in which it is full of revealing thoughts & revealing visions which descend to it from the supra-rational level of the mahat ...
... the subconscious. What the subconscious keeps is a mass of impressions, not of clear or exact images and these can come up as in dreams in an incoherent jumble distorted altogether or else in the waking state as a mechanical recurrence or repetition of the same suggestions, impulses (subconscient vital) or sensations. There is a recognisable difference between the two functionings. It [ the memory ...
... then that one has a real, a spiritual as opposed to a partial and merely mental or moral self-mastery. I don't think the Jivatma is concentrated anywhere,—except in this sense that in the waking state it is the mental Purusha that leads and the seat of the mental Purusha is in the head, behind the centre between the eyebrows. In the dream state what Page 63 remains active in the body ...
... true that when one gets beyond the mind, this sense of time changes into timelessness, into the eternal present. No doubt, the physical regulated time consciousness belongs mainly to the waking state but it can be subliminal as well as of the mental waking consciousness. E.g. sometimes one wills at night to get up at a fixed time in the morning and wakes exactly at that hour and minute—it is ...
... powers that come naturally as a part of the new consciousness and are not used for a wrong personal purpose. For instance you see something in vision or dream and that hap pens afterwards in the waking state. Well, that is a Yogic power of prevision, knowing future things which often occurs as the consciousness grows; there is nothing wrong in its happening; it is part of the growth in sadhana. So with ...
... mental. Although this has been greatly reduced, it is still sufficient to leave the room open for attacks, eg yesterday of violent nausea, a thing easily dominated and dismissed if it comes in the waking state, today, of pain near the muladhara which refused to be turned into ananda although Page 980 it could [not] prevent some ananda from being associated with it, though much submerged or ...
... aid drive out these suggestions. The feelings and movements of the past always return at night in sleep. It is only when the consciousness that generated them is changed and cleared in the waking state, that afterwards one can clear them out of the sleep also. You are listening too much to the suggestions of the outer consciousness, "not being able", etc. etc. Since you did begin to open a ...
... Page 434 The other is the consciousness lifting itself out of the body and taking its stand outside it—above and spread round in wideness. That can be a condition of the Yogin in the waking state—he does not feel himself to be in the body but he feels the body to be in his wide free self, he is delivered from limitation in the body consciousness. There are two different experiences ...
... her very much and she was... she was VERY sweet, I mean, she had a lovely consciousness. So finally I decided, "I think it's enough with this acrobatics!" Then I woke up, I returned to my normal waking state. It was a dream, but it wasn't a dream—it really was an activity, and in my sleep all my nerves, all my muscles, all my will were tense, terribly tense. Twice during the night, I've had the ...
... fatigue tamas. The Ananda disability is being pushed aside by the surya action, the fatigue combated by surya tapas. Samadhi in its lighter forms is acclimatising the blaze of the Surya. In the waking state the highest ideality is still combated by the mind's persistence in the intuitive chandra mould and in the lower forms of the intellectualised surya ideality, but it is making the other movements ...
... for a long time, weighted, chequered, shot through, hampered by the defects of the intuitive mentality of the manasa buddhi. The lipi was the first to get clear of the manasa,—in the bahirdarshi waking state, the internal antardarshi jagrat followed long after,—next the script, next the thought-speech, finally, the thought-perception and only yesterday and not with an absolute perfection the trikaldrishtic ...
... mentality: but in the deepest nidra imperfection still continued though attacked and partially excluded by the revelatory gnosis. There was no actual dream, but insufficient inner jagrat[t]a. In the waking state also this gnosis took up the thought, but not so completely; T² is still a gate for the intervention of manasa . Page 1148 Nevertheless the gnosis is working upon this manasa to transform ...
... deep within myself at that time because I was oblivious of the earth and voyaging in the sky. Someone in the darkness, his face I could not see, called me to go home and so I came back to the waking state. Ten miles away from our village to the south-east was Pondicherry! Sri Aurobindo had not yet come to Pondicherry. The beings of the upper worlds were as if making ready the blessed town of ...
... the participation of the consciousness in the activities of the sleeping state. The same discipline of concentration, which enables man not to remain a stranger to the inner activities of the waking state also provides him with a way to escape from his ignorance of the even richer activities of the various states of sleep. We should take great intellectual precautions before interpreting a dream ...
... Visions of Champaklal Visions of Champaklal Symbolic Vision in Waking State 1986-06-25 This is an actual experience of the rapid progress in sadhana by the Grace of the Mother who is Herself leading Champaklal. ...
... Sleep My Pilgrimage to the Spirit March 4, 1932 Q. I would like to know how to establish balance between the trance, the waking state and sleep, which can make possible the establishment of the timeless infinite consciousness. A. There can be no balance (in sleep) in the present condition. The balance can only come as the sleep becomes conscious and ...
... centre and the cerebral cortex, the latter being a more recent instrumental development brought about by the process of organic evolution, play distinctly different roles in the maintenance of the waking state. Thus wakefulness of the primitive type, associated with poly-phasic sleep cycles, as seen in animals at the bottom end of the evolutionary scale and in younger or decorticated (i.e., ...
... which we ordinarily ascribe the name of mentality? As we shall presently see, the situation is not so desperate as it appears at first sight, for we shall meet with the paradox that whereas our waking state is in fact a state of sleep, the sleep of our physical being opens the doors to a greater waking. And therein lies the most important function of sleep with normally untapped and undreamt-of ...
... recording surface dream-mind becomes unconscious and gives no transcript of what is seen and experienced there, or else in coming back these fade away and are quite forgotten before one reaches the waking state. But when the dream- state becomes more conscious, one can often remember the deeper dream-experiences and these have a considerable interest and significance. (2) It is only the subconscious ...
... sounds take us and which transcends all of them, indicates the sheer ultimate Existence. The Sanskrit terms for the three are, respectively, Vaishwanara, Taijasa and Prajna -corresponding to the waking state, the dream-state and the sleep-state. The sleep-state, in which the consciousness is most in-drawn, represents the Divine Being, creator of both the dream-state and the waking one from its own depth ...
... ere is no other way to deal with them. 125 It is a known psychological law that whatever is suppressed in the conscious mind remains in the subconscient being and recurs either in the waking state when the control is removed or else in sleep. Mental control by itself cannot eradicate anything entirely out of the being. ... In order to make a true and complete change, one has to make all ...
... of life, be a fit instrument of true realities — such were the sweet notes that kept vibrating ceaselessly and noiselessly in my dream-state and that I heard now and again as a soft music in my waking state also. Although all attachment to the Vaishnava way of life had left me radically, my attachment to my parents, specially to my mother — should I call it desire? love? bondage? — still continued ...
... interior existence that our mind and vital being retire when they withdraw from the surface activities whether by sleep or inward-drawn concentration or by the inner plunge of trance. Our waking state is unaware of its connection with the subliminal being, although it receives from it, — but without any knowledge of the place of origin, — the inspirations, intuitions, ideas, will-suggestions ...
... into this subconscient when we are asleep, and so it becomes unaware Page 350 of what is going on in us when we are asleep except for a few dreams. 39 During the waking state, the mind lives largely in impressions rising up from the subconscient. In ordinary sleep most dreams are formations made from subconscient impressions. Thus, in most human beings, the outer self ...
... musician, poet or artist, if he is conscious, may be quite aware and sensitive of the transmission, even feel or see something of the plane from which it comes. Usually, however, this is in the waking state and the contact is not so vivid as that felt by Raihana. There are such things as dream inspirations—it is rare, however, that these are of any value. For the dreams of most people are recorded ...
... highest self is manifest to him, for him that highest self is always concentrated in its own being, samāhita, in Samadhi, not only in the trance of the inward-drawn consciousness, but always in the waking state of the mind as well, even when exposed to the causes of desire and of disturbance, to grief and pleasure, heat and cold, honour and disgrace. 93 It is, of course, admitted that yoga is not ...
... unity and in the ultimate Oneness, then one can say that the yogic dream-state can become a prelude to yogic sleep-state and even of still transcendental state (turiya). Thus, while the ordinary waking state, where only multiplicity or part of multiplicity is seen and experienced, is a state of Ignorance, the subliminal consciousness or the yogic dream-state can be regarded as a state of Knowledge-Ignorance ...
... eternal substratum of the conscious- ness of egoism, the witness of the three states and distinct from the five sheaths 2 or coverings. Which knows everything that happens in the waking state, in dream, and in profound sleep; which is aware of the presence or absence of the mind and its functions; and which is the background of the notion of egoism. — This is that. Which ...
... shorter or longer time. But the explanation for this phenomenon lies elsewhere — in the complex Law of Karma (We shall revert to this topic later on while discussing the spiritual penury of our 'Waking State': see Part Two, Chapter VI). We now proceed to consider the third category of theories, the supraterrestrial view of existence. ( C) The Supraterrestrial View In ...
... some other place. "My son," she said, "there was some special reason for my asking you to go out of that room." O Lord, what a love I felt for her then; such a love I have never experienced in the waking state. It was like a separated child meeting his mother after many years. There was a sweetness even in her hand which I was holding Page 39 and pressing to my heart, Then she ...
... you become, the more you will be able to have dreams worth having. From where does what we ordinarily see in our dreams come? It is more often the impressions of the waking state that come up in this (subconscient) type of dreams. How to understand our dreams? Observe them — if they are of importance or of a dynamic character, the meaning is ...
... some other Voice for the Mother's. L told me that she had been in touch with the Mother long before she came here. She saw the Mother not only in meditation and vision, but in a waking state with open eyes. She also said that when she was in difficulty, Mother would appear and tell her what to do. Do not these experiences indicate an advanced sadhana? She has not related ...
... finished." You'll be surprised to hear that from the next day the 43 Samadhi usually means a yogic trance, in which the yogi has internalized his consciousness and has no awareness of the waking state. The term is also used for realized yogis when they leave their bodies on purpose. The body is then said to be in a state of samadhi. It also refers to the location where the holy body is interred ...
... and no longer gives any transcript of what is seen and experienced there; or else in coming back these experiences of the deeper strata fade away and are quite forgotten before one reaches the waking state. But when there is a stronger dream-capacity, or the dream-state becomes more conscious, then one is aware of these deeper experiences and can bring back a transcript which is sometimes a clear ...
... Supreme Reality." Indra was satisfied and he started going back again, his doubts set at rest. But a fresh doubt arose as he was wending his way. "Granted," he thought, "any harm done in the waking state to the physical body does no hurt indeed to the dream-self, it does not reflect any flaws of the other. But one does feel during sleep, in the dream-state as if someone is coming to attack, one ...
... consciousness is the subliminal consciousness or simply sub-consciousness. Subconsciousness is a consciousness that is not dormant or asleep, stilled into silence, it is at work but behind the normal waking state—it is the swapna-state as the Indian sages termedit. Page 22 Lower down is the state of unconsciousness proper. It is a still more diminished degree of consciousness, apparently ...
... meditation which is generally very defective. The best one is in the evening, between 6 and 7. The noon one is between these two. The reason may be because the things you throw away in the waking state are able to come back through the subconscient and they come in mostly at night. That may be. Now, something happened a few days ago. I received a letter from my friend Y., speaking ...
... and alter the perfection of the original. The passivity or neutrality of the intermediary is relative, and there are infinite grades of it. Even when the larger waves that play in it in the normal waking state are quieted down, smaller ripples of unconscious or half-conscious habitual formations are thrown up and they are sufficient to cause the scattering and dispersal of the pure light from above. ...
... to distinguish the different planes of the being: psychic, mental, vital and physical; when this is done, then one can understand on which of these planes one is active in sleep as well as in the waking state. February 3, 1951 * Mother, Can palmistry always foretell the truth?… No. Palmistry is a very interesting art, but it depends almost entirely on the value of the one who is practising ...
... answer; it may be on the subject of certain circumstances where you have to take a decision and are unable to do So; or it may be something in your consciousness which is not clear to you in your waking state, because you are not in the habit of noticing or recognizing it normally, but which you feel in some way doing you harm. All these things may appear to you in a revealing symbolic dream. Things ...
... And when we travel beyond the triple separative consciousness, we enter by trance into a state of absorbed immersion in the unconditioned Infinite, which excludes all awareness of the normal waking state .and its movements. Both of these states are mutually exclusive, the ksara 1 and the aksara, 2 and a simultaneous possession of them has been held to be extremely difficult,, 1 ...
... "visions," you understand: its life for a certain length of time. It's certainly in a region where I didn't use to see previously. Very concrete, precise, and the transition from that state to the waking state is almost imperceptible. It's not a reversal of consciousness as it usually is: it's almost imperceptible, as though intermingled.... But the setting isn't the same. It's a VERY familiar setting: ...
... still busy with mutual criticisms." She expressed disgust and went into concentration. * * * Mother gave her photo for someone who was having difficult nights which affected his waking state also and brought a kind of revolt. Page 134 A Japanese woman who wrote, "I want to know who I am", was allowed to go to Mother with me, instead of joining the group. * ...
... consciousness of the outside world — this is what people call Samadhi. But it is also necessary to be able to have the same experience (of the Self, the workings in the inner consciousness, etc.) in the waking state. The best rule for you will be to allow the entire going inside only when you are alone and not likely to be disturbed, and at other times to accustom yourself to have these experiences with the ...
... — but that is without affliction, tears of bhakti, spiritual emotion or Ananda. Your experience was a very beautiful one — the inner being realised by it that which must be established in the waking state as the foundation of the spiritual consciousness and spiritual life. (3.7.37) ...
... workings, put ourselves into communion with it, create it in ourselves and impose its law on the heart and the senses. In Yoga concentration is used also for another object,—to retire from the waking state, which is a limited and superficial condition of our consciousness, into the depths of our being measured by various states of Samadhi. For this process contemplation of the single object, idea ...
... rather than the actuality of certain subtle touches. In samadhi however sparsha is very vivid & the physical sensation remains after waking. The more developed touches (human) are only felt in the waking state through the subtle nervous system, but they are there often acute. Such touches as reach the sthula body without this veil increase in frequency & intensity. Finally, shabda is now beginning to ...
... ideation; the Yogin Page 469 goes beyond to the vijnanam itself or, if he is one of the greatest Rishis, like Yajnavalkya, to the ananda. None in ordinary times go beyond the ananda in the waking state, for the chit and sat are only attainable in sushupti, because only the first five sheaths or panchakosha are yet sufficiently developed to be visible except to the men of the Satya Yuga and even ...
... is an error; cessation of awareness is a delusion. It is for this reason that the phenomenon on which the sage lays stress as the one thing important & effective in mental action here & in the waking state, is not its receptiveness, but its outgoing force—patati. In sense-activity we can distinguish three kinds of action—first, when the impact is received subconsciously & there is no message by the ...
... divided by a movement of self-awareness which differentiates our forward active movement of waking life from the great life behind that knows and embraces all, then to recover that oneness in our waking state becomes the supreme aim and meaning of every individual existence. Nothing connected only with the movement of division can be of any moment to us, neither our bodily life and health, nor our ...
... of cosmic consciousness. In the present stage of his evolution he can only develop consciously as far as Ananda with Sat & Chit implicit in Ananda; to Chit & Sat proper he cannot arrive in his waking state, but only in the deep trance of Sushupta Samadhi, concentration of consciousness in a state of illuminated Sleep.He began his task as the supreme animal, Pashu, Vanara, Nrisingha, developing all ...
... immersed deep within me at that time because I was oblivious of the earth and voyaging in the sky. Someone in the darkness, his face I could not see, called me to go home and so I came back to the waking state. Ten miles away from our village to the south-east was Pondicherry! Sri Aurobindo had not yet come to Pondicherry. The beings of the upper worlds were as if making ready the blessed town of ...
... of life, be a fit instrument of true realities” — such were the sweet notes that kept vibrating ceaselessly and noiselessly in my dream-state and that I heard now and again as a soft music in my waking state also. Although all attachment to the Vaishnava way of life had left me radically, my attachment to my parents, specially to my mother — should I call it desire? love? bondage? — still continued ...
... transcription of something that has happened—which has an analogy, a similarity, but which wasn't exactly what one receives as a dream. In everything you see, in sleep as well as in visions in the waking state, there are always a considerable number of subjective details. If you do not see the person as he was when you saw him last, the difference always comes from your own thought. If you think that ...
... conscious of, see, hear, feel, smell, touch, mentally contact - to use the new established Americanism - either in trance or sleep or an inward state miscalled sleep or simply and easily in the waking state. This faculty of sensing supraphysical things internally or externalising them, so to speak, so that they become visible, audible, sensible to the outward eye, ear, even touch, just as are gross ...
... wants to be or is trying to be, some indicate some approach of the thing or movement towards it, some indicate that the thing is being done. Vision in trance is vision no less than vision in the waking state. It is only the condition of the recipient consciousness that varies.... But in both it is the inner vision that sees. The mental visions are meant to bring in the mind—the influence of the ...
... than the outward physical which one can become conscious of, see, hear, feel, smell, touch, mentally contact either in trance or sleep or an inward state miscalled sleep or simply and easily in the waking state. This faculty of sensing supraphysical things internally or externalising them, so to speak, so that they become visible, audible, sensible to the outward eye, ear, even touch, just as are gross ...
... what is this Superconscient? Well, as regards the total constitution of our being, viz., the Inconscient, the Subconscient, the subliminal Intraconscient, the subliminal Circumconscient, and the Waking State, they do not suffice to give a full account of what we really are. For there is a range of being and consciousness that greatly transcends all these elements of our constitution, something which ...
... easily explained and is a thing of common experience. It is a known psychological law that whatever is suppressed in the conscious mind remains in the subconscient being and recurs either in the waking state when the control by itself cannot eradicate anything entirely out of the being. The subconscient in the ordinary man includes the larger part of the vital being and the physical mind and also the ...
... Master, the Divine, God. Ishwarakoti — a human being who in losing himself in God yet keeps himself and is able to lean down again to humanity. See also Jivakoti. jāgrat — the waking state, the consciousness of the material world. Jivakoti — a human being who, once immersed in the Reality, cannot return; he is lost in God and lost to humanity. See also Ishwarakoti. ...
... drugged or in a swoon, in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may now be sure that the old thinkers were right when they declared that even in our waking state what we call then our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it ...
... things, persons, scenes, happenings, whatever is, was or will be or may be in the physical universe. These images are very variously seen and under all kinds of conditions; in Samadhi or in the waking state, and in the latter with the bodily eyes closed or open, projected on or into a physical object or medium or seen as if materialised in the physical atmosphere or only in a psychical ether revealing ...
... impressed itself upon the body-consciousness." 20 "It is a known psychological law that whatever is suppressed in the conscious mind remains in the subconscient being and recurs either in the waking state when the control is removed or else in sleep. Mental control by itself cannot eradicate anything entirely out of the being. The subconscient in the ordinary man includes the larger part of the vital ...
... stored and from there they come up into the waking mind. Driven out of the upper consciousness, it is in this cavern of the Panis that they take refuge. No longer allowed to emerge freely in the waking state, they come up in sleep in dreams. It is only when they are cleared out of the subconscient, their very seeds killed by the enlightening of these hidden layers, that they cease for good. As your ...
... subconscient which comes up in dreams, though sticky enough, is not quite so irremovable as all that. Anyway, the dream-kind is not so much to trouble about, unless it is frequent – it is the waking state that must be rigorously cleared out. Sometimes, if that is done, there is automatic extension of the habit of rejection to the subconscient, so that when the dream is coming there is an automatic ...
... experience: it was exactly the realisation which is described in the Upanishads as a supreme experience of the Self. It is not a fact that an experience gained in samadhi cannot be prolonged into the waking state. It is not possible to accept his suggestion about joining with those who are in personal attendance upon me. They were not admitted as a help to their sadhana but for practical reasons ...
... things, the aim that might make life worthwhile and the means to reach that aim, the value of everyday events and encounters, the invisible forces behind their material expressions. She analyzed the waking state with its longings and thoughts, as well as sleep and dreams. And where the audience was sufficiently receptive, she talked about the soul, about spirituality and the Divine. The first decades ...
... become conscious of sep hear, feel, smell, touch, mentally contact—to use the new established Americanism—either in trance or sleep or an inward state miscalled sleep or simply and easily in the waking state. This faculty of sensing supraphysical things internally or externalising them, so to speak, so that they become visible, audible, sensible to the outward eye, ear even touch, just as are gross ...
... experience of the lifting of this weight had a quite different source: an entry into an interior life beyond the senses. It was a state of trance in which one became a sort of bodiless soul. But in the waking state too one can get beyond the hold of the sensational nature and its attendant sex-clutch if one brings forward what Sri Aurobindo terms the psychic being - a condition of consciousness in which there ...
... Wordsworth the trance-goal of all conscious seeking for the divinity pervading the world of the senses. My Yoga at the time of the day's departure is a kind of meditative suspension between the waking state and a state of drowse. Facing a glory-burst before a final fading away I am apt to experience a vivid summons from the Supreme to feel intensely His presence and then pursue it gradually into a ...
... with them. An indrawn and up-drawn concentration is surely an important part of our Page 279 sadhana, but the final test of success is to be an illumined soul come forward into the waking state and feeling the Divine Presence radiate forth in all one's actions and relationships. At least this is the ideal I pray for and strive after in spite of repeatedly falling short of it. If I have ...
... the way to get rid of his temporal ignorance by enlarging himself beyond the immediate moments of Time into the possession of his own eternity. Another step forward is to learn that his surface waking state is only a small part of his being, to begin to fathom the abyss of the Inconscient and depths of the subconscient and subliminal and scale the heights of the superconscient; so he commences the ...
... vaiśvānara, taijasa, pṛ̣āj̣̣ña, kūṭastha ] are given to four conditions of transcendent and universal Brahman or Self,—they are merely conditions of Being and Consciousness—the Self that supports the Waking State or sthūla consciousness, the Self that supports the Dream State or subtle consciousness, the Self that supports the Deep Sleep State or Causal consciousness, kāraṇa , and the Self in the supracosmic ...
... movement towards stability of clearness & completeness in the Brihat began today. Shabda is once more becoming active & sentences out of conversations past, present or future are heard in the waking state. The words are not always clearly separated & the shabda is sthula of sukshma or sukshma of sthula, not full sthula. Conversations occur in swapnasamadhi, but except sometimes the last sentence ...
... a reference) became strong & spontaneous in the evening & so continued with a slight break till sleep. Tivra inflicted on another subtle body was communicated to this physical body in the waking state. This usual[ly] happens only in Samadhi. Subjective Ananda is now ready to possess the physical prana. Dream coherent, but chiefly a combination of old familiar thoughts, once customary ...
... Parameswara-Âdyâ (original) Parâshakti. OM. The Word of Manifestation. A The external manifestation (consciousness realised in the actual and concrete—seen by the human consciousness as the waking state.) U The internal manifestation (intermediate—the inner, not the inmost being—consciousness realised in the inner potentialities and intermediate states between the inmost supramental and the ...
... musician, poet or artist, if he is conscious, may be quite aware and sensitive of the transmission, even feel or see something of the plane from which it comes. Usually, however, this is in the waking state and the contact is not so vivid as that felt by Raihana. There are such things as dream inspirations—it is rare however that these are of any value. For the dreams of most people are recorded ...
... done without a full preparation in the inner being and it is this preparation that is being done for you in dhyāna . You have not to remain in dhyana all the time, but to bring into the waking state the consciousness you get there and you have to live in that all the time. It is very good, and by regular meditation you are sure to make much progress. But I do not think to spend all the ...
... consciousness of the outside world—this is what people call Samadhi. But it is also necessary to be able to have the same experiences (of the Self, the workings in the inner consciousness etc.) in the waking state. The best rule for you will be to allow the entire going inside only when you are alone and not likely to be disturbed, and at other times to accustom yourself to have these experiences with the ...
... is without affliction, tears of bhakti, spiritual emotion or Ananda. Your experience was a very beautiful one—the inner being realises by such experiences that which must be established in the waking state as the foundation of the spiritual consciousness and spiritual life. Psychic Yearning The yearning of the heart may be there but it should not disturb the peace. Page 376 I ...
... immobility and rest. You need not worry about that [ the body's tendency to sleep ]. When there is a strong inward tendency, the body not being yet conscious enough to share the experience in a waking state tries to assimilate the descending forces through sleep. This is a common experience. When it has assimilated enough, it will be more ready. Mixing with the World That [ problem of "mixture" ...
... the subconscious. What the subconscious keeps is a mass of impressions, not of clear or exact images and these can come up as in dreams in an incoherent jumble distorted altogether or else in the waking state as a mechanical recurrence or repetition of the same suggestions, impulses (subconscient vital) or sensations. There is a recognisable difference between the two functionings. 26 October 1935 ...
... happen, but usually only when the psychic is in full activity. 27 September 1934 It [ feeling the Mother's presence during sleep ] follows naturally Page 188 the presence in the waking state, but it takes a little time. 11 January 1935 ...
... experience; it was exactly the realisation which is described in the Upanishads as a supreme experience of the Self. It is not a fact that an experience gained in samadhi cannot be prolonged into the waking state. Ramakrishna had the siddhi himself before he began giving to others—so had Buddha. I don't know about the others [ Vivekananda, Ramatirtha, Ramdas, Mahavir, Shankara ]. By perfection of ...
... impression made. A vision in dream is more difficult to distinguish from a vivid dream-experience, but one gets to feel the difference. Vision in trance is vision no less than vision in the waking state. It is only the condition of the recipient consciousness that varies Page 101 —in one the waking consciousness shares in the vision, in the other it is excluded for the sake of greater ...
... hall, I felt a sort of oneness with the Mother's consciousness. But these days it is not possible to go deep in meditation at all. Perhaps it is not even necessary if there is receptivity in the waking state. What is most important is the change of consciousness of which this feeling of oneness is a part. The going deep in meditation is only a means and it is not always necessary if the great e ...
... Their true nature does not mean their deeper nature but their spontaneous nature which is not under control, for the control of the will ceases during sleep. And all that one does not do in the waking state, one does during sleep because the control of the will is removed. "All the desires that have been repressed without being dissolved... try to seek satisfaction while the will is asleep. ...
... certain moment you are unable to control yourself, you will understand, “I am like that because they were like that.” The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 29 March 1951 Our waking state is unaware of its connection with the subliminal being, although it receives from it—but without any knowledge of the place of origin—the inspirations, intuitions, ideas, will-suggestions, sens ...
... reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up; from it too all sorts of stimuli, of persistent habitual movements can surge up into dream or into the waking state. In the ordinary man the subconscient includes the larger part of the vital being and the physical mind and the secret body-consciousness. It is not to be confused with the subliminal: the subconscient ...
... can be objective enough not to add anything to his vision. So it is better not to speak about it, except as an ideal to aspire for. In everything you see, in sleep as well as in visions in the waking state, there are always a considerable number of subjective details. If you do not see the person as he was when you saw him last, the difference always comes from your own thought. If you think that ...
... everything were already worked out down to the least detail on an occult plane. Is this correct? What is this plane of knowledge? Is there more than one? How can one gain conscious access to it in the waking state? And how is it that serious people, who have a divine realization, are sometimes so grossly mistaken in their predictions? Ooh, but it's a whole world! ( Mother laughs ) It's not one question ...
... " you understand: it's life for a certain length of time. It's certainly in a region where I didn't use to see previously. 1 Very concrete, precise, and the transition from that state to the waking state is almost imperceptible. It's not a reversal of consciousness as it usually is: it's almost imperceptible, as though intermingled ( Mother slides the fingers of her right hand between those of her ...
... and organized the events immediately ahead. Perhaps I do remember... Last night, I knew I was doing it every night, but during the night... There was (but then, in the body, yesterday in the waking state) a sort of aspiration to know what the functioning would be, the action in the superman consciousness. I said, "Having this consciousness around oneself [like a rampart] is very fine, but one must ...
... it, you see. I don't know what to do. You must go deeper. You feel sad because you are in a very superficial consciousness—you must go deeper, into a deeper consciousness. You mean in the waking state? When I am awake like now? Yes, oh yes! It's when you are awake that you must try to reach your psychic consciousness. When you are in contact with your psychic consciousness, there's no ...
... Pondicherry to perfect an integral method of spiritual askesis by which those supra-mental ranges of consciousness of which the seers of the Upa-nishads had spoken would be rendered accessible to the waking state and brought down to transfigure earth-existence. But before he retired from public life, he had already written, besides a large number of shorter poems and some translations from Kalidasa and ...
... and does not pass alternately from one to the other as from a sleep to a waking." 1 The analogy of sleep and waking is a very apt one here. For, what we normally find is that in our waking state we forget about our sleep status and while in the sleep-state we become oblivious of our waking existence. But this is so only because a small part of our being makes the transition and oscillates ...
... consideration of the facts that have been adduced above and other facts of an allied nature leads us to make a far greater and profounder generalisation and formulate the query whether our so-called "waking state" can verily be considered a condition of wakefulness. Are we not after all profoundly asleep, even while we are in this state, as regards the total range and truth of our own self-being as well ...
... something in confidence, which, I am sorry, even if you were my best friends, I couldn't tell you! So that was another occasion when I had a talk with the Mother, without my knowing about it in the waking state. Now we pass on to something my friend over here has given me to be read out to you on the coming occasion of the Darshan. This is from the book of our late friend Purani. It is a description ...
... essay as regards the total constitution of our being, viz., the Inconscient, the Subconscient, the subliminal Intraconscient, the subliminal Circumconscient, Page 56 and the Waking State, does not suffice to give a full account of what we really are. For there is a range of being and consciousness far transcending all these elements of our constitution, which is super-conscient ...
... is spent in this kind of sleep. Another interesting — and paradoxical — observation about REM sleep is that although the brain and body appear to be as highly aroused and active as during the waking state, subjects awakened from this stage report that they were very deeply asleep. And the sleeper is also much less aware of external stimuli during REM sleep. Scientists interpret this finding as follows ...
... outward mentality, cessation of all mental modifications, in the oneness of Samādhi. Samadhi or Yogic trance retires to increasing depths as it draws farther and farther away from the normal or waking state and enters into degrees of consciousness less and less communicable to waking mind, less and less ready to receive the summons from the waking world. Beyond a certain point, the trance becomes complete ...
... cessation of all mental modifications, in the oneness of Samādhi. Samādhi or Yogic trance retires to increasing depths as it draws farther and farther away from the normal or waking Page 19 state and enters into degrees of consciousness less and less communicable to waking mind, less and less ready to receive the summons from the waking world. Beyond a certain point the trance becomes ...
... may have taken form in my dream. How can a thought or desire of another person take form in my dream? Why not? People's thoughts are passing into each other's mind always during the waking state even, without their knowing it, why not in dream also? Page 17 If one gives full and constant assent to the Mother's working, how can the attempt of other beings to enter ...
... is usually some force that is represented, probably here some vital Power that seeks transformation through love. Nowadays I see different kinds of flowers during meditations and waking state with eyes wide open. Sometimes they themselves announce their significance. As for example, one flower surged up before my eyes saying: "Aspiration for the Divine." It is usually when ...
... n—you must be able to concentrate with the eyes closed, lying down and the concentration must deepen into sleep—that is to say, sleep must become a concentrated going inside away from the outer waking state. If you find it necessary to sit for a time you may do so, but afterwards lie down, keeping the concentration till this happens. April 14, 1933 I go to the Asram for meditation, about ...
... subject of certain circumstances where you have to take a decision and are unable to do so; or it may be Page 29 something in your consciousness which is not clear to you in your waking state, because you are not in the habit of noting or recognizing it normally, but which you feel in some way doing harm. All these things may appear to you in a revealing symbolic dream. Things are clear ...
... consciousness is the subliminal consciousness or simply sub-consciousness. Sub-consciousness is a consciousness that is not dormant or asleep, stilled into silence, it is at work but behind the normal waking state – It is the swapna-state as the Indian sages termed it. Lower down is the state of unconsciousness proper. It is a still more diminished degree of consciousness, apparently a total absence of ...
... Supreme Reality." Indra was satisfied and he started going back again, his doubts set at rest. But a fresh doubt arose as he was wending his way. "Granted," he thought, "any harm done in the waking state to the physical body does no hurt indeed to the dream-self, it does not reflect any flaws of the other. But one does feel during sleep, in the dream-state as if someone is coming to attack, one ...
... have a somewhat developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is put under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in excessive and often incoherent activities.. This creates a great tension ending in fatigue and diminution of mental faculties. The fact ...
... future. A little reflection will show that this "super- conscient " is not an" isolated state but is inclusive of all it exceeds. It acts in the everyday life of individuals even in and through their waking state of consciousness. Besides this "super-conscient" finds expression in various cultural activities and attainments of the human being. The attempt here is not to make a detailed classification of ...
... laugh of the earth which "Came gliding in upon white feet of sound." Then the Abso- lute's stillness into which he had risen surrendered itself to the mortal air and he slowly collapsed into his waking state of human mind. Slowly he regained his familiarity with the material world and resumed his labours towards the spiritual perfection of man which he knew was his destiny. "The Lord of Life ...
... any such disabling dichotomy and oscillate between peaceful passivity and agitated activity. An integral union denotes a union in all the four states of our being at one and the same time— Jagrat (waking state), Swapna (dream state), Sushupti (massed sleep-state) and Turiya (transcendent state). It is to become absolutely one with the Absolute, but not by self-annihilation or tranced merger. If we refer ...
... through the descent of the Spirit that is the aim of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. "Our object is," says Sri Aurobindo, "to make the spiritual life and its experiences fully active and fully utilisable in the waking state and even in the normal use of the functions." 11 There are, then, the three classical paths - Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, and Bhakti Yoga. In Karma Yoga, the will, the will to action - ...
... Supreme to descend into us and manifest His supernal- splendour in our life and nature. It is a call for the closest and completest union, but a constantly creative and revelatory union, in our waking state—God's unimpeded self-expression and the perfect fulfilment of His Will in- and through our transformed consciousness and being». steeped in the invariable peace and bliss of the essential. identity ...
... intermediate processes, and you shall analyze the other to me. One of them I term sleep, the other waking. The state of sleep is opposed to the state of waking, and out of sleeping waking is generated, and out of waking, sleeping; and the process of generation is in the one case falling asleep, and in the other waking up. Do you agree? — I entirely agree. — Then, suppose that you analyze life and... know that all things would at last have the same form and pass into the same state, and there would be no more generation of them. — What do you mean? he said. — A simple thing enough, which I will illustrate by the case of sleep, he-replied. You know that if there were no alternation of sleeping and waking, the tale of the sleeping Endymion would in the end have no meaning, because all... out of one another, and there is a passing or process from one to the other of them? — Very true, he replied. — Well, and is there not an opposite of life, as sleep is the opposite of waking? — True, he said. — And what is it? — Death, he answered. — And these, if they are opposites, are generated the one from the other, and have their two intermediate processes ...
... evolutionary ascent, has not yet arrived at its noontide effulgence. The cosmic sleep and the somnambulist dream-state of the waking soul has by no means terminated with man and mind-consciousness. As a matter of fact, man's present status is at best a state of half-sleep and a half-waking, a state of veritable somnambulist torpor with "the inconstant blink of mortal sight." 18 For, from the spiritual point... there commenced the obverse manifestation, the inevitable process of evolution, by which the divine Consciousness-Force involved in the form and activity of inert material substance gradually started waking again to bring out by slow degrees all the hidden powers and splendours inherent in "the original self-existent spiritual Awareness." 13 For, a progressive rarefaction of the sleep of consciousness... The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 803. 85. Savitri, Book II, Canto I. Page 114 Of what we observe and touch and thought can guess And rarely dawns the light of the Unknown Waking in us the prophet and the seer." 86 But whether we consciously know it or not, we are, let us repeat, 'sons of Light' (jyoti ṣāṁ putr āḥ ). Our evolutionary ascent has apparently commenced ...
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