... the divine. We should do our utmost to make them rhyme with our inner concords. But this is done by concentrating first on those concords and letting them overflow as much as possible into our physical cells. To put in the centre of our work something like changing the "genetic code" is to set about in the wrong way. Our "genetic code" need not be neglected, but - as Sri Aurobindo always insisted -... inner union with the Divine is the radiant core of the Aurobindonian life, the central fountain of the Integral Yoga. Unless this change is brought about in intense earnest, the attention given to physical cells will be a side- Page 32 track and prove to be a blind alley. I know that the Mother was concentrating on them during the last years of her earthly sojourn, but with the background ...
... influence the true supramentalised friendship with the Divine. (12.10.1929) Approach the Divine with loving gratitude and you will meet the Divine's Love. (14.10.1929) Peace in the physical cells leads first to health and then to transformation .(22.10.1929) In the sincerity of your effort towards silence lies the assurance of a purified mind (9.11.1929) Turn your... between the inner and the outer that I may devote myself entirely and truly to the Mother. (Amrita) Right attitude. (Champaklal) Deep and complete Faith in all the parts (even in the physical cells). (Chandulal) To be taken right into the Beyond in surrender. (Datta) In the perfect peace the descent of the supramental light in the physical. (Dyuman) Full conversion and ...
... pronouncement on the same lines and of autobiographical interest: "When we were working in the physical cells, Sri Aurobindo realised the difficulty of transforming the mind of the physical cells. I am not speaking of the physical mind or physical consciousness. He thought of leaving the mind of the physical cells alone. Then I saw that their refusal to change was not due to any bad will but to ignorance ...
... invites the blows." Apropos of the subject of inertia, she went on, "When we were working in the physical cells, Sri Aurobindo realised the difficulty of transforming the mind of the physical cells. I am not speaking of the physical mind or physical consciousness. He thought of leaving the mind of the physical cells alone. Then I saw that their refusal to change was not due to any bad will but to ignorance ...
... in the silent Divine. 29 November 1933 Some say that Sri Aurobindo brought down the Supermind Page 291 even into his physical cells and is only preparing others to manifest it in them. Some say it is not yet manifested in his physical cells but he is bringing it down and only after he gets it fully will he give it to others. Some say that since 1927 he has been describing ...
... work at present is to divinise our physical cells. No doubt, the divinisation of the body, so that it becomes immune to disease, decrepitude and even death, is the crown of Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga of the Supramental Descent and Transformation. To keep this climax in view and to create an eagerness and readiness in the body for it, so that the physical cells may open to the transformative Supermind ...
... next step in the work was to fix the Supermind in Matter. It became clearer that the task of fixing the supermind in the physical had to be done by opening up the physical cells. It also became clearer that the physical cells contained the whole evolutionary past, all the layers, not only human but animal and vegetal. And the process of crossing these layers, of clearing them, was found to be ...
... n he moves ahead of mysticism's glorious past to the most golden lustre our time-process can enjoy - a future in which his so-called old age will prove a prelude to a radiant renovation of the physical cells in a manner we can scarcely imagine. Sri Aurobindo, therefore, is not only unlike a non-mystic advanced in years; he is also unlike any other mystic bearing grey hair. To look at August 15 ...
... generosity of the Divine's Love . 20.10.1929 Reach through aspiration the intuitive mind ; then you will know what is meant by transformation . 21.10.1929 Peace in the physical cells leads first to health and then to transformation. 22.10.1929 Advance on the way with peace in the physical being as your ground and simple sincerity as your means and, sooner or ...
... What Sri Aurobindo has made tremendous efforts for was not God-realisation, We must not mix up God-realisation with the descent of the Supermind into the whole of embodied nature, down to the very physical cells. As said in the letter for Huxley, God-realisation of the completest kind presented to Sri Aurobindo no long or obstinate difficulty. "The only real difficulty," the letter continues, "which took ...
... the nerves, sometimes in the shape of bodily trouble into the body. But all these things can and must go. Even the illnesses can go entirely with the growth of peace and power in the nerves and physical cells—stomach pains, weakness of the eyes and everything else. The narrowness etc. of which you complain are normal to the physical nature. It is the same thing acting in a different way which ...
... will for progress enough to prevent the deterioration that comes with time? How can the physical being prevent this deterioration? That is precisely what the transformation of the body is: the physical cells not only become conscious, but receptive to the true Consciousness-Force; that is, they allow the working of this higher Consciousness. That is the work of transformation. How does the will ...
... of the organs .... You have to enter into the disposition of the cells, your inner physical organisation if the body is to answer to the Force that descends .... You must be conscious of your physical cells, you must know their different functions, the degrees of receptivity in each, which of them are in good condition and which are not." 2 But this cannot be attempted with the help of the ...
... Suddenly I found that a particular time was written on the wall before me, and exactly at that time the tea was brought in. DR. MANILAL: Is the consciousness of the Divine possible in even the physical cells? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, the cells can have peace and joy and other things. When they are quite conscious, they can throw opposing forces out. When peace descends into the physical being, it is ...
... Path, ascending, 75 Shakti, 88, 240, 270-1 Path, descending, 75 Shiva, 85-6 Personal, the, 75 Siddhi, 159, 240, 241-3 Physical, 254 Silence, 9-11, 50-1 Physical Cells, 88 Sleep walker, 24 Physical consciousness, 150-1, 160,176, 253-4 Species, new, 74, 176 Physical consciousness and the supreme, 102-5 Spiritual transformation, 78-81 ...
... efforts of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and of the accomplishment of the task is given in thirteen volumes of 'Mother's Agenda'. This great effort resulted in what the Mother has called the Yoga of physical cells which involved the action of the Supermind directly into the physical aiming at the mutation of the human species. Looking at this supreme work and accomplishment, the long history of Indian ...
... manner. You have to enter into the disposition of the cells, your inner physical organisation, if the body is to answer to the force that descends. First of all, you must be conscious of your physical cells, you must know their different functions, the degree of receptivity in each, which of them are in good condition and which are not. Even the simple thing you do not know whether you are tired or ...
... up to the higher mental plane. When the European mind leaves materialism, it takes the vital gods as the true gods. Disciple : Do the laws of Matter change ? Sri Aurobindo : Physical cells change and the same thing that gives pain gives intense ananda. Disciple : That may be possible in Life manifested in Matter but in the pure Matter, in the domain of Chemistry and Physics ...
... the Higher Power. The resistance of the powers of Ignorance against any such attempt is naturally immense. In one evening talk he said that he was engaged in the tremendous task of opening up the physical cells to the Divine Light and the resistance of the Inconscient was formidable. When one knows that all this Herculean labour was undertaken not for himself but for humanity, for making a new departure ...
... above, the same Power as above, the same transparency, the great Exactitude. It is “the well of honey covered by the rock” the Vedas speak of (II.24.4). The tremendous task of opening up the physical cells to the Divine Light, 28 as Sri Aurobindo said even before withdrawing in 1926. This is the supremely dangerous moment: things either break or hold out. Will the body hold out? Will the earth ...
... pounce on it, brrm! from this side, that side, every which way. So I have to keep still, and then I start waging the battle.... But then what tremendous, prodigious power has to be * EMBODIED in the physical cells to withstand all that!... 11 Twenty times a day She went through death. She was embodying the other thing in the body of the world. All those miseries were the place of junction with ...
... to discover, once we stop playing around with our futile machines—which bring nothing nearer but our own walls. In 1914, Mother, too, noted in her journal, The work in the constitution of the physical cells is perceptible; permeated with a considerable amount of force, they seem to expand and grow lighter. But the brain is still heavy and asleep. .. 5 Fifty years later, Mother would tell me the ...
... dictatest the attitude, it is Thy Will that determines it at each moment. Why foresee and contrive when it is enough to observe and to give a full adhesion? The working in the constitution of the physical cells is perceptible: permeated with a considerable amount of Page 197 force they seem to expand and to become lighter. But the brain is still heavy and asleep.... I unite myself to this ...
... problem, yet if you enter into the combination of the cells and the inner organisation in order that all this may be ready to respond to the descending Force.... First, are you conscious of your physical cells and their different characteristics, their activity, the degree of their receptivity, of what is in a healthy condition and what is not? Can you say with certainty when you are tired, why you are ...
... your closed shell, like a rent in that opaque envelope which separates you from the Truth, and the contact is established. Immediately this force, this consciousness, this light acts, even on your physical cells; it acts in the mind, in the vital, in the body, changes the vibrations, organises the substance and begins its work of transformation. You are under the impact of this sudden contact and action; ...
... divine love and unity that can possess in the light what the human forms of these things seek for in the darkness. For the true unity is not merely an association and agglomeration like that of physical cells joined by a life of common interests; it is not even an emotional understanding, sympathy, solidarity or close drawing together. Only then are we really unified with those separated from us by ...
... that's all—nothing to be done, there's nothing else to be done. ( silence ) If we aren't capable, then everything has to be done all over again! ( silence ) It's the possibility for the physical cells to bear out the physical transformation. That's why... that's why there is death! ( laughing ) When one can't bear up, one dies. It's not a joke, you know. But it's interesting. It's interesting ...
... down to qualities of vibrations), all the vibrations that bring about anything from Page 176 the smallest troubles to the biggest catastrophes—it's all of the same quality. And how the physical cells respond. And now and then—now and then—like a reward for the effort: what needs to be done, the true thing. But that passes—it's like a dazzle, but it doesn't last. We are... This Consciousness ...
... aspiration and transformation. Might Sri Aurobindo have expanded on the transformation of the body cells if he had had the time to complete his last series of articles? The lack of reference to the physical cells which, as we shall see, play such an important part in the transformational process, certainly is an argument in favour of the supposition that the series of articles remained unfinished. Sri ...
... brain—not brain, my mental power. Probably during that period he absorbed it (I suppose that's what happened because there was no sense of difference). My impression was that as a result of this the physical cells were going to develop materially and be transformed (I think it will happen—I had a sort of assurance that it will). Because now, as I'm talking to you, I'm looking at it and I see—the effect is ...
... It is the resistance of the mentalised substance in the cells of the body and can be overcome only by an integral and total conversion. Blessings. 16 June 1961 Can the very physical cells of one's body have more aspiration than the rest of the being? It is quite possible as the "sadhana" is done now in the body itself. January 1966 The inner progress has been sufficiently ...
... progress sufficient to prevent the deterioration that stems from time? How can the physical being prevent this deterioration?" That's just what the body's transformation is about! It's when the physical cells become not only conscious, but RECEPTIVE to the true Consciousness-Force, that is, when they allow the working of that higher Consciousness. That's the work of transformation.... Not so easy! ...
... safeguard... but that doesn't reduce the difficulties at all, since the contact doesn't even depend on the physical presence! 1 But then what tremendous, prodigious power has to be EMBODIED in the physical cells to withstand all that!... But there too, a shift is taking place (what I told you once: those abrupt experiences that do not settle in but are first contacts 2 ). After the lesson was drawn ...
... connection with this book. I wasn't in a special state when I saw it. But the second time, in the morning, when I looked at it, I was in a very special state: there was a tension in all the physical cells to know the truth, the truth, the truth... no illusions, and a call to the Lord, and a will for all this world of illusions to disappear—the Truth, we want the Truth. And when I opened the book ...
... physical consciousness. Liberation from all sexual impulses and desires.—Pavitra To be taken right into the Beyond in surrender.—Datta Deep and complete Faith in all the parts (even in the physical cells).—Chandulal I pray constantly to Him to give me the realisation of the harmony between the inner and the outer that I may devote myself entirely and truly to the Mother.—Amrita In the perfect ...
... seen at work. The work was microscopic; it was complex; it was both external and internal. It became clearer that the task of fixing the Supermind in the physical had to be done by opening up the physical cells. Just when the descent of the supermind reached a critical point, the Second World War broke out. This war was perceived by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as a fierce resistance to the task of the ...
... safeguard... but that doesn't reduce the difficulties at all, since the contact doesn't even depend on the physical presence!¹ But then what tremendous, prodigious power has to be EMBODIED in the physical cells to withstand all that!... But there too, a shift is taking place (what I told you once: those abrupt experiences that do not settle in but are first contacts ²). After the lesson was drawn ...
... manner. You have to enter into the disposition of the cells, your inner physical organisation if the body is to answer to the force that descends. First of all, you must be conscious of your physical cells, you must know their different functions, the degree of receptivity in each, which of them are in good condition and which are not. Even the simple thing you do not know whether you are tired or ...
... g a contact with the Supreme Substance. What is true of man's mind and life is true also of the material cell. Even as life impulses and mental knowings can be uplifted and transfigured, these physical cells too may achieve the same transfiguration because in man all these elements share equally in the Divine Substance lodged there. Of the animal, the lower creation, we cannot say the same thing for ...
... ". It is a consciousness even in the cells of the body. The Supermind working in the physical is rather difficult to speak about. One can hint at it. You can say it is somthing in the very physical cells which makes them do precisely the thing that is necessary for the body. Because it is there, the body, for instance, knows what it should eat. If left free it would tell you what it requires and ...
... looked at the watch when exactly, at the very moment, the tea was brought. I had made a rule never to ask anything from anybody. Disciple : Is consciousness of the Divine possible in the physical cells even? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, the cells can have peace, joy, etc. and when they are quite conscious, they can throw out the opposing forces. When peace descends in the physical it is a ...
... "Break, break the last resistances, consume the impurities, strike with Thy thunder this being, if need be, but let it be transfigured.”² "The working in the constitution of the physical cells is perceptible; penetrated by a considerable amount of force, they seem to expand and become lighter. But the brain is still heavy and asleep..... I unite myself with this body, O divine Master ...
... encrust it in order to separate and protect itself from the rest of the universe. The great Fear is gone. Its protection is the very density of this substance of consciousness: each time, Mother’s physical cells had the sensation they would explode or volatilize in this tide of solid power. But not being imprisoned in a fixed, hardened form, this body—this new body—can move about or blend into everything ...
... transformation with the help of the mind (by analysing oneself) is the first stage; afterwards, we have to transform the vital impulses. That is much more difficult, and, above all, to transform the physical: each cell of our body should become conscious. This is the work I am doing here; it will permit the conquest of death. That is another story; that will be the humanity of the future, perhaps in centuries ...
... he went there directly. And through my own experiments in the different zones of the being I became aware that, indeed, there is a nirvana behind everything (there must be a nirvana behind the physical cell too—maybe that's what death is! Who knows, it's possible). A nothingness, nothing stirs any more. And nothing's there any more—nothing's there, there's nothing to stir ( Mother laughs ). It's the... this old carcass! It does its best. I believe the most complete expression is: "Whatever You want, Lord, whatever You want, Lord, whatever You want, Lord—with joy, no matter what it is." In every cell. It should go relatively quickly, but... I don't know. How long will it take?... It's new. New, I mean you can't even tell if you're progressing! You don't know where you're going, you have no idea... right here ( Mother touches her heart ). It's the experience I had in 1912. The first contact, when you go within and then THAT'S IT... that concrete reality, that intensity beyond any possible physical intensity. And then the sense of: that's IT—the Divine. This is the Divine. This is the divine Reality; this is it, the Divine. You ARE the Divine. That's the experience. It's the base, the basic ...
... This transformation with the help of the mind, through self-analysis, is a first stage; afterwards, vital impulses must be transformed—which is far more difficult; then, most of all, the physical: each cell of our body will have to become conscious. It is the work I am doing here. It will allow the conquest of death. It's another story; that will be future mankind, perhaps in centuries, perhaps ...
... allowed for the birth of this beauty? One sheds the old skin. The other is gloriously, visibly there But in fact we have these organs: the cells see, the cells know, and we have thousands and billions of cells; they are simply covered, veiled by the web of the physical Mind that superimposes its painful, sad reality, its old habit of suffering, being sick, dying, its innumerable grey illusion which envelops... remain. But we are concerned with the transition, our transition, and we ask ourselves two things: first, why these physical animal cells, which have laboured so long, which have become conscious, which have ended up emitting their small signals of call or distress, formed a Mind of the cells like a vibration of prayer, of joy or pure love, tirelessly, a small nucleus of gold, a small scintillation of the... the veil of death. So we say the “concrete,” real world is on one side and the impalpable, “invisible” world is on the other, a “subtle” world, though perhaps physical. But if the veil, that opaque periphery, wore down and fell, if our cells perceived reality, what would happen? Firstly, it is probable (without talking about outer upheavals) that a formidable desire for transformation would result ...
... one could bring down the thing that you have got in the mind and the vital being into the physical also, into the very cells of the material body. The conditions are that you should be able to keep the same deep peace, wideness, strength and power and plasticity from the mind downward to the very cells. When that basis is ready, the working from above begins. The transformation does not require... felt after she saw you. But what was your feeling when you saw the Mother?" Sri Aurobindo thought for a moment and told him: "That was the first time I knew that perfect surrender to the last physical cell was humanly possible; it was when the Mother came and bowed down that I saw that perfect complete surrender in action."¹ We might assert that in the first meeting of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo... tion. It had an openness in nerve and cell to the spiritual light, a supple strength which allowed her to play tennis every afternoon even when past eighty, and a resolute endurance which made light of the common ills of the flesh. Above all, it was a body responding to the Divine's demand for surrender, a demand met in its entirety by even the physical consciousness and not only the inner self ...
... transformation by the help of the mind—by self-analysis —is a first step; afterwards, it is necessary to transform the vital impulses: that is much more difficult, and especially to transform the physical. Every cell in our bodies must become conscious. This is the work I am doing here; it will enable the conquest of death. That is another story; that will be the humanity of the future, perhaps after hundreds... acceptance of spirituality? The opposition between spirituality and material life, the division between the two, has no meaning for me, for in truth life and the spirit are one and it is in and by physical work that the highest spirit must manifest. 19.4.1968 * Humanity is not the last rung of the terrestrial creation. Evolution continues and man will be surpassed. It is for each individual... games, there was art, there was even cooking! But all that was very symbolic. And I was explaining to him as if on a table, in front of a vast landscape. I was explaining to him the principle on which physical exercises and games were going to be organised. It was very clear, very precise, I was even giving him a kind of demonstration, and it was as if I were showing him in miniature, a miniature representation ...
... felt after she saw you. But what was your feeling when you saw the Mother?' Sri Aurobindo paused for a moment and told him: 'That was the first time I knew that perfect surrender down to the last physical cell was humanly possible; it was when the Mother came and bowed down that I saw that perfect surrender in action.' The spiritual significance of this meeting between Sri Aurobindo and the Mother... s. She was alive to the greatness of material laws and forces; she had a keen eye for the importance of the physical sciences; she knew how to organise the arts of ordinary life. But she saw that the physical does not get its full sense until it stands in right relation to the supra-physical; she saw that the complexity of the universe could not be explained in the present terms of man or seen by his... sense of the irreparable has passed, I can bow with submission to His divine purpose. The physical tie between us is, as you say, severed; but the tie of affection subsists for me. Where I have once loved, I do not cease from loving. Besides she who was the cause of it, still is near though not visible to our physical vision. 'It is needless to say much about the matters of which you write in your letter ...
... transformation by the help of the mind―by self-analysis―is a first step; afterwards, it is necessary to transform the vital impulses: that is much more difficult, and especially to transform the physical. Every cell in our bodies must become conscious. This is the work I am doing here; it will enable the conquest of death. That is another story; that will be the humanity of the future, perhaps after hundreds... like that up there on the ideal plane―here, a central point. This central point is a park which I saw when I was very young―perhaps the most beautiful thing in the world from the point of view of physical, material Nature―a park with water and trees, like all parks, and flowers, but not many; flowers in the form of creepers, palms and ferns, all varieties of palms; water, if possible running water... someone to stop people from coming in; one can stay very quiet―but if I am there, that is the end of it! There would be collective meditations, etc. That is to say that if I get a sign, first the physical sign, then the inner command to go out, I shall drive there and spend an hour, in the afternoon―I can do that now and then. We still have time because, before everything is ready, it will take years ...
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