... everyone uses his eyes, his hands, his feet, out of a sort of habit, more or less consciously—I was very proud of my consciousness! ( [Laughing] We are always very proud!) Very proud to have such conscious hands; in the past, for instance, I would sometimes say, "I want twelve sheets of paper," then I would stop bothering about it—my hand would go and take, and there were twelve of them. That had been ...
... speaks of a "conscious hand"; what does that mean? What! I have told you this I don't know how many times, I have explained it hundreds of times and you still ask this question? I have told you that no matter what you want to do, the first thing is to put consciousness in the cells of your hand. If you want to play, if you want to work, if you want to do anything at all with your hand, unless you... you push consciousness into the cells of your hand you will never do anything good—how many times have I told you that? And this is felt. You feel it. You can acquire it. All sorts of exercises may be done to make the hand conscious and there comes a moment when it becomes so conscious that you can leave it to do things; it does them by itself without your little mind having to intervene. Sri Aurobindo... to physical Nature.... Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker." Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , p. 33 In the order of manifestation, she was the last. And in her special nature, in the quality of her vibration ...
... the right rhythm and the right spirit and technique of perfection in work, informing them with "the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker."¹ This free and harmonious working of the four supreme aspects and powers of the Divine Mother in the transformed human nature will imply in its practical... panis ¹ , the obscure subterranean regions of our being, and release from there the penned cows, gāvdh, the radiances of the submerged Spirit, and turn all darkness into light, all inertia into conscious electric energies, all incapacity into divine strength, and all inconscience into plenary consciousness. The transformed human nature will be a temple housing the four supreme aspects of the ...
... fitted for the rhythms of the Eternal. If you desire this transformation, put yourself in the hands of the Mother and her Powers without cavil or resistance and let her do unhindered her work within you. Three things you must have, consciousness, plasticity, unreserved surrender. For you must be conscious in your mind and soul and heart and life and the very cells of your body, aware of the Mother... Mahasaraswati's province. Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker. This Power is the strong, the tireless, the careful and efficient builder, organiser, administrator, technician, artisan and classifier of the worlds.... aspiration that mounts in flame are the motion of Mahakali. Her spirit is tameless, her vision and will are high and far-reaching like the flight of an eagle, her feet are rapid on the upward way and her hands are outstretched to strike and to succour. For she too is the Mother and her love is as intense as her wrath and she has a deep and passionate kindness. When she is allowed to intervene in her strength ...
... Mahasarawati's province. Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker. This Power is the strong, the tireless, the careful and efficient builder, organiser, administrator, technician, artisan and classifier of the worlds.... 14 Second Coming I It will be seen from what has been set forth in the earlier chapters that, on the one hand, Mirra was reaching the end of the Japanese interlude, having arrived at a new poise of purposive purity and serenity and puissance; and, on the other hand, Sri Aurobindo was approaching the end of the great Arya phase of his career, "tying up his bundle ... teeming with the... Aurobindo for some automatic writing after dinner. The writings that came through his hand in those days were frightfully interesting. I remember somebody came and began to give an analysis of the character of each one of us. 9 But, when it came to Mirra's turn, she said firmly: "No, nothing about me, please." And the hand abruptly stopped writing. III The months immediately following Mirra's ...
... Milton, he can stand his ground by his contemplative strength and his love of Nature. He has no power; but he attempts sublimity. As blank-verse form, his poetry lacks the architectural hand of Milton, the conscious hand of the artist. Here he allows the thoughts to lead him and form becomes a secondary matter. But in Milton there is balance of form and substance. Also the physical element that is in... There is nobility in all his power. Further, Milton is conscious of his strength and uses it with skill and subtlety. Instead of becoming a boorish manipulation in an arrogant and self-conceited poet, it becomes an instrument of great variety. In this sphere he does not allow his ego or his dominant mentality to rule him. He is conscious that a note of single unchanging boldness results in monotony... mysteries. Shelley comes nearest to Sri Aurobindo and is farthest from Milton. His approach is that of an intuitive poet, a half-way to a seer. Here too he is not conscious of his form and does not employ it as a conscious medium. But he is not so apparently loose like Wordsworth or facile like Tennyson. One example from Matthew Arnold: But the majestic river floated on Out of the ...
... Mahasaraswati's province. Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker. This Power is the strong, the tireless, the careful and efficient builder, organiser, administrator, technician, artisan and classifier of the worlds.... massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine. As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that "the time has come", and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces. Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in... Divine is like the turning of the Globe wherein, rightly understood, is all there is to know and no part is greater or less than another, and all is one.... Both he and Jesus the Christ became God-conscious through mystical communion; both perceived that God Is, and that He is Infinite Divine Personality. 11 Like Haridas Chaudhuri in America, Arabinda Basu did much to spread the Aurobindonian ...
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