... or only in a psychical ether revealing itself through this grosser physical atmosphere; seen through the physical eyes themselves as a secondary instrument and as if under the conditions of the physical vision or by the psychical vision alone and independently of the relations of our ordinary sight to space. The real agent is always the psychical sight and the power indicates that the consciousness is... intermittently or normally and more or less perfectly, in the psychical body. It is possible to see in this way the transcriptions or impressions of things at any distance beyond the range of the physical vision or the images of the past or the future. Besides these transcriptions or impresses the psychical vision receives thought images and other forms created by constant activity of consciousness ...
... But I can't explain it. ( silence ) And then, for sight, for instance, sometimes I see more clearly with my eyes closed than with them open, and the vision is the SAME, physical, purely physical vision; but a physical that seems... more complete, I don't know what words to use. For instance, when I write; sometimes with my eyes closed I see what I write or see the same thing, but I see it...... (what shall I say?... I could be wordy, but I don't like that). You know, it's as if what you see were more complete, yet it's the same thing, but containing more than the purely physical vision. I write birthday cards, and Sri Aurobindo.... I was about to say I have the feeling that Sri Aurobindo makes me write, but it's not like that, it's much better than that!... But when I start to write ...
... physical, the subconscient, all the inner regions) and the memory of a physical fact. There is a very great difference in quality, the same difference that exists between inner vision and physical vision. Physical vision is precise, well defined, and at the same time flat—I don't know how to explain it: it's very flat, totally superficial, but very accurate, with the kind of accuracy and precision that ...
... physical, the Subconscient, all the inner regions) and the memory of a physical fact? There is a very great difference in quality, the same difference that exists between inner vision and physical vision. Physical vision is precise, well-defined, and at the same time flat—I don't know how to explain it: it's very flat, totally superficial, but very accurate, with the kind of accuracy and precision that ...
... nearly a month and a half. ) Physical vision requires a much more continuous concentration. The physical vision serves to stabilize. It gives continuity to things. The same with hearing. So when neither of them are there, you become conscious of the thing directly, which gives you the true knowledge of it. That is probably how the Supermind will work. My physical vision and hearing have been pushed ...
... mention later, which quite simply obliterated the Mind in her: Its strange, I realized how much the Mind influences what we see. She began to lose her physical vision, that is to say, to become blind, when her Mind was removed... as if 90% of physical vision depended on the Mind. But then if it is not the physical eyes that see, not the Mind that sees, if all that is removed, what sees? Mother had never... vision. And I've noticed, when I have someone in front of me, for instance, with some, when I look at them they grow more and more precise and clear; others become more and more blurred TO MY PHYSICAL VISION. It must depend on their state of consciousness. Some grow extremely precise, especially the eyes, and in their eyes I see the consciousness. Others, on the contrary, become blurred like that; ...
... only in a psychical ether revealing itself through this grosser physical atmosphere; seen through the physical eyes themselves as a secondary instrument and as if under the conditions of the physical vision or by the psychical vision alone and independently of the relations of our ordinary sight to space. The real agent is always the psychical sight and the power indicates that the consciousness... more or less perfectly, in the Page 243 psychical body. It is possible to see in this way the transcriptions or impressions of things at any distance beyond the range of the physical vision or the images of the past or the future. Besides these transcriptions or impresses the psychical vision receives thought images and other forms created by constant activity of consciousness ...
... the object that vanishes; it is the consciousness that changes. Owing to lack of sustained capacity or lack of training, one is not able to keep the subtle physical vision which is what was really seeing the object. This subtle physical vision comes easiest in the moment between light sleep and waking—either when one just comes out of the sleep or when one is just going into it. But one can train oneself ...
... expressive ( Mother laughs ). Now, of course, when I say that, people imagine it's a psychic or mental vision—that's not it, I don't mean that! I mean a PHYSICAL vision, with these very eyes ( Mother touches her eyes ). But a TRUE physical vision, instead of the distorted vision we have now. This means, basically, that the true reality is far more marvelous than we can imagine, because all that ...
... physical. Only, the physical, purely physical vision is much disturbed by the other vision. You understand, it's more a CONSCIOUSNESS of things than purely and merely a vision. And I've noticed, when I have someone in front of me, for instance, with some, when I look at them they grow more and more precise and clear; others become more and more blurred TO MY PHYSICAL VISION. It must depend on their state ...
... appearance with the real form.... Now, of course, when I say that, people imagine it’s a “psychic” or mental vision—that’s not it, I don’t mean that ! I mean a PHYSICAL vision, with these very eyes [and Mother touched her eyes] . But a true physical vision, instead of the distorted vision we have now. 92 A physical mutation of sight? We cannot help but think (we = the fish in the fishbowl) that this “other” ...
... not rather an exotic importation from Persia. Almost all oriental art is akin in this respect that the psychic enters into Page 312 and for the most part lays its subtler law on the physical vision and the psychic line and significance give the characteristic turn, are the secret of the decorative skill, direct the higher art in its principal motive. But there is a difference between the ...
... dreams, one sees a room, one's own room. Well, it is one's own room but still there are little differences; it is not absolutely what one sees with his two eyes when he is completely awake. It is a physical vision but with just a little shade of difference; compared with the most material there are slight changes. That's all? Sweet Mother, do the universal vital forces have any limits? I don't ...
... few people carry their psychic being within them because the dwelling-place is not ready. What goes out is sometimes the subtle physical, this is when one sees one's body stretched out—for the physical vision to remain conscious, it must be a very material part of the being which goes out; one must go out very materially in the subtle physical body or in the most material vital. But usually it is the ...
... the beauty of the Beloved, the beauty of the eternal Existence in things. It can see also the beauty of forms and objects, but with a seeing other than the mind's, other than that of a limited physical vision—what was not beautiful to the eye becomes beautiful, what was beautiful to the eye wears now a greater, marvellous and ineffable beauty. The spiritual realisation can bring the vision and the rapture ...
... tendency to compel by tratak imperfect figures to become perfect, is from today abandoned. The imperfect figure is only an indication of the Drishti working upon the physical akasha to open it to the physical vision.. The Drishti will do its own work unaided by trataka. Ananda also must be left to perfect itself. Sadhan is still needed in the rest of Sharira, but sadhan only of the discerning ...
... flying & I discriminate & select the farther course of its flight by an act of determining illumination—I do not see the future flight with the self-vision as I see the present flight with the physical vision & so know about it. I see only the truth (ritam, satyam) about this flight, satyam of it, not sat, its truth of existence, not its existence. But this day I realised more certainly what I had ...
... experience about the inkstand. When the vital being goes out, it moves on the vital plane and in the vital consciousness, and, even if it is aware of physical scenes and things, it is not with a physical vision. It is possible for one who has trained his faculties to enter into touch with physical things although he is moving about in the vital body, to see and sense them accurately, even to act on them ...
... truth; it is itself the body of the truth and its spirit. The reason proceeds by inference, it concludes; but the gnosis proceeds by identity or vision,—it is, sees and knows. As directly as the physical vision sees and grasps the appearance of objects, so and far more directly the gnosis sees and grasps the truth of things. But where the physical sense gets into relation with objects by a veiled contact ...
... be when it attempts the revelation of spiritual reality. It can be simple but with a direct stroke and not with an easy-going fluency, or it can be rich but with a density of semi-occult semi-physical vision and not with a loose decorativeness of intellectual or emotional stuff" coupled with pleasing images. The spiritual style simple is in "outbreak of the Godhead in man". Just one word is enough ...
... the subtle vision is well developed that the precise and full seeing lasts for a long-time. It is not, usually, the object that vanishes; it is the consciousness that changes.... This subtle physical vision comes easiest in the moment between light sleep and waking. When the colours begin to take definite shapes in the visions, it is a sign of some dynamic work of formation in the consciousness; ...
... distance, but I have never seen anything of the sort." Page 50 I have seen things in the subtle physical (very close to the physical, with a very small difference), but that wasn't a physical vision: it was a vision in the subtle physical. Some time ago I said to myself, "That's odd, physically I have no special capacities, I have never observed interesting phenomena!" ( Mother laughs ) But ...
... minutes, when I opened them and looked at the moon, I saw around it a rainbow-coloured circle which again was surrounded by a clouded darkness. Any meaning? It is a certain kind of subtle physical vision which sees these things. It is not quite easy to say when they have significance or are only things seen. If it had any, it would mean spiritual light with a circle of manifold powers around it ...
... beauty of the Beloved, the beauty of the eternal Existence in things. It can see also the beauty of forms and objects, but with a seeing other than the mind's, other than that of a limited physical vision — what was not beautiful to the eye becomes beautiful, what was beautiful to the eye wears now a greater marvellous and ineffable beauty. The spiritual realisation can bring the vision and ...
... But it's MATERIALLY. A funny state.... 14 And then, for sight, for instance, sometimes I see more clearly with my eyes closed than with them open, and the vision is the SAME, physical, purely physical vision; but a physical that seems... more complete, I don't know what words to use. 15 Basically, as if the body were seeing the world for the first time without mental glasses. A more complete world ...
... be when it attempts the revelation of spiritual reality. It can be simple but with a direct stroke and not with an easy-going fluency, or it can be rich but with a density of semi-occult semi-physical vision and not with a loose decorativeness of intellectual or emotional stuff coupled with pleasing images. The spiritual style simple is in: "outbreak of the Godhead in man". Just one word is enough ...
... can know the identity of one he sees even though not known before to the physical mind. It will be begun. That is not necessary. That I should be directly descended. No; I have not the physical vision. It is not always easy to see from a distance, and if I depend on any of you, I may be too much influenced by your impressions. I cannot say, certainly; but I think you are having too fixed ...
... emit light. One day I thought that there may be a background of light behind all material things which can be seen physically. Is it true? Is there any systematic process to open oneself to that physical vision? The white Light around the Mother is the Mother's own light—that of the Divine Consciousness. Many nowadays are able to see it around her when she is on the roof. One can also see all objects ...
... 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. I approve of everything that you propose. Whatever Mrinalini would have desired, should be done, and I have no ...
... y and, so to say, arbitrarily, before using them one should say, "When I say this..." and give a long explanation, a definition. What does "psychic vision" mean? Vision? You know what physical vision is, don't you?— physical , do you know it? Well, the same thing happens in the psychic. That is to say, instead of seeing with physical organs, you see with psychic organs. You have these eyes ...
... 11 January 1971 After a long physical trial of about a month and a half, Mother made the following comments, which were noted down from memory by a disciple. In physical vision a much more continued concentration is needed. Physical sight serves to stabilise. It gives a continuity to things. It is the same thing with regard to hearing. So, when they are not there any ...
... lotus), just at the top of the head, whereas in my experience it opens, it rises and you go above, and then you settle there ... For a Page 432 number of years it even changed my [physical] vision—it was as if I were looking at things from above. It returns from time to time, too, as if suddenly I were seeing from above instead of from here, at eye level. But the faculty of forming ...
... already existing on earth but at a distance, far from physical eyes—they're generally those who have the capacity to expand and extend their consciousness. Their vision is slightly more subtle than physical vision, and depends on an organ subtler than its purely material counterpart (what could be called the "life" of this organ). So, by projecting their consciousness, and having the will to see, they can ...
... year, Mother appeared on the new balcony above all the assembled disciples. × This far less physical vision was more accurate IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD. × Gradually Mother will stop struggling and intrusion ...
... when it attempts the revelation of spiritual reality. It can be simple but with a direct stroke and not with an easy-going fluency, or it can be rich but with a density of semi-occult semi-physical vision and not with a loose decorativeness of intellectual or emotional stuff" coupled with pleasing images. The spiritual style simple is in "outbreak of the Godhead in man". Just one word is enough ...
... Nature. Indian art is pre-eminently and par excellence the art of this inner re-formation and revaluation. It has thrown down completely and clearly the rigid scaffolding of the physical vision. We take here a sudden leap, as it were, into another world, and sometimes the feeling is that everything is reversed; it is not exactly that we feel ourselves standing on our heads, but it is ...
... profound reach of the real, in other words, in a total and adequate vision of the universe." 21 It hardly needs pointing out that this basic central vision is by no means a superficial physical vision; it is rather a vision of the pure reason and, for those who can ascend still higher up, it is the vision of the spirit. But in philosophical discourses there is always involved a great risk of ...
... saying that these imaginative exercises in visualisation do not fall in the category of Sri Aurobindo's "greater sight". Now, let us go to the consideration of the second source of non-physical vision, the ingestion of a potent psychedelic drug possessing the capacity of temporarily altering the state of the consciousness of the viewer. 2. Psychedelic Drugs: The well-known novelist ...
... 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. I approve of everything that you propose. Whatever Mrinalini would have desired, should be done, and I have ...
... 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. I approve of everything that you propose. Whatever Mrinalini would have desired, should be done and I have no ...
... book and the whole experience tell us that Mother is not dead — I am here to tell it to the world. She is not physically dead. Your vision, too, proclaims it: She is only veiled from the physical vision of the old species. This tearing of the veil will be the first step or the first stage of the New World — then we will emerge from false matter and false death (or rather the false matter that ...
... time and space is becoming very different, it's changing totally. With sight, for instance, I can see more clearly with my eyes shut than with my eyes open, and yet it's the SAME vision! It's the PHYSICAL vision, purely physical, but a physical that seems ... more complete. A new earth-vision. 9 The Eyes of the Body We are before a great mystery. For seven years now I have ...
... 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 matters of which you Page 127 write in your letter. I approve of everything that you propose. Whatever Mrinalini would have desired, should ...
... 3. Inner Vision: Its Necessity and Value: The faculty of subtle sight is a great aid to the aspirant who has the necessary intelligence and clarity of mind and a power of intuitive discrimination. Visions are one key to unlock the doors of the other worlds of cosmic manifestation that lie beyond and behind the physical. Visions can offer the Sadhaka a first... first contact with the Divine in his forms and powers. Vision is often a first door of entrance into the Page 35 inner planes of one's own being and consciousness. Visions can be full of meaningful indications that may help one to acquire greater self-knowledge and knowledge of things or people or events. There are veridical visions that may lead to authentic prophecies and premonitions... benefits that supraphysical visions may offer us, Sri Aurobindo recommends us to "look into the depths" and "stare upward measuring the Unknown", to develop our "spiritual gaze" and "plunge our gaze into the siege of mist". Indeed, we should not stop with only one level of visionary sight; we should see to it that our vision "grow within" and we acquire the privilege of "visions of higher realms" and of ...
... object for psychic research, though these things have nothing whatever to do with the psychic. Again much in Yoga itself that is merely occult, phenomena of the unseen vital or mental or subtle physical planes, visions, symbols, all that mixed, often perturbed, often shadowy, often illusory range of experiences which belong to this intervening country between the soul and its superficial instruments, or... but of the mental, vital and physical Purushas—has to be grasped and accepted before the experiences of the yoga can be fully understood. The Being is one throughout, but on each plane of Nature, it is represented by a form of itself which is proper to that plane, the mental Purusha in the mental plane, the vital Purusha in the vital, the physical Purusha in the physical. The Taittiriya Upanishad speaks... could exist without that. But it is quite possible to have a vital and physical being without a clearly evolved psychic being behind it. Still, one cannot make general statements that no aboriginal has a soul or there is no display of soul anywhere. The inner being is composed of the inner mental, inner vital, inner physical,—but that is not the psychic being. The psychic is the inmost being and ...
... every concept is incomplete for us and to a part of our nature almost unreal until it becomes experience." 18.These supra-sensuous fields are the fields or ideas, imaginations, supra-physical visions, mystical voices, and experiences of the categorical imperative, presence of God, presence of invisible God, and other experiences of relationship with the divine reality. 19.God is... the existence of God, who is by definition supra-sensuous, 19 through sense experience is illogical. For if God is supra-physical, would it be logical to demand a physical proof of His existence? If, therefore, we are now free to take into account the supra-physical experiences of many mystics, we shall have a good ground to conclude that God exists experientially, as a matter of ontological... around some conception of 'God', although it is true that religions like Buddhism and Jainism are atheistic in character. But even these atheistic religions affirm the reality of supra-physical entities and supra-physical states of consciousness far above the states of the body, life, and mind. In other words, these atheistic religions, too, have been guided by the discovery of what may be called divine ...
... object for psychic research, though these things have nothing whatever to do with the psyche. Again much in Yoga itself that is merely occult, phenomena of the unseen vital or mental or subtle physical planes, visions, symbols, all that mixed, often perturbed, often shadowy, often illusory range of experiences which belong to this intervening country between the soul and its superficial instruments or rather... Divine Reality is its consequence. There is too implied in it a radical change and transformation of the whole being and of every part of the nature. Our being is a nexus of the human mental-vital-physical nature of Ignorance, it is transmuted into a spiritual and supramental consciousness: it becomes a divine unity in a harmony of the infinite and universal and integrated will, love, bliss and knowledge... and through this trinity arrive at a perfect union, one, satisfying and complete. But the Divine Consciousness can manifest itself through any and every plane, on the mental, on the vital, on the physical, or on those which are higher than the mental[.] 155 All Yoga done through the mind alone or through the heart or the will or the vital force or the body ends in some one aspect of the ...
... THE C OMPLETE WORKS OF SRI A UROBINDO ). 28 January-17 February 1911. During this period Sri Aurobindo wrote dated Record entries under the following six headings: "Physical," "Communications", "Vision of other worlds", "Record of the Drishti", "Siddhis", and "Record of Ideal Cognitions". He wrote them on scattered pages of a notebook he had used years earlier in Baroda as a book catalogue... "work, literary & religious", and making "brief note of the 1488 physical siddhi" (27 December 1912). All parts of the sadhana were given attention. We find one passage in which Sri Aurobindo speaks first of applied yogic knowledge and force, trikāladṛṣṭi and tapas , then the subtle physical power of levitation and then, in the next sentence, the condition of his teeth. This... Full definitions of these terms are given in the glossary. Roughly, "script" is writing on paper, similar to but not the same as "automatic writing" (see below); "lipi" is writing seen by the subtle vision; "sortilege" is printed or handwritten texts sought or found by chance and interpreted; "vani" is the hearing of a voice. Sri Aurobindo transcribed many examples of each of these sorts of communication ...
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