... of the whole into which one enters into a true rest - a sort of Sachchidananda immobility of consciousness - and 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 as been noted by medical men, but of course ...
... minutes of the whole into which one enters into a true rest—a sort of Sachchidananda immobility of the consciousness—and 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 ...
... does not help. It is better to keep your thought fixed on the purity, light and peace that you want to acquire. 7 February 1934 Just now I feel that all is at rest. What is this state—true rest, or a formation? Why disturb the rest with useless questions? The mind also should be at rest. 8 February 1934 This morning during the general meditation I felt some pressure. I hope ...
... paradises of the other world – though not so lofty paradises, to be sure. Generally, the disembodied person remains there as long as he wishes; then, after he grows tired of it, he moves to the place of true rest, in the original Light, with his soul, to await the time of return. To say that a person will go to "eternal hell" is a cruel absurdity. How could the soul, which is pure Light, ever be a prisoner ...
... to commit all the stupidities in the world under the pretext that they need relaxation. It is not by sinking below oneself that one removes fatigue. One must climb the ladder and there one has true rest, because one has the inner peace, the light, the universal energy. And little by little one puts oneself in touch with the truth which is the very reason of one's existence. If you contact that ...
... must not be one which goes down into the inconscience and tamas. The rest must be an ascent into the Light, into perfect Peace, total Silence, a rest which rises up out of the darkness. Then it is true rest, a rest which is an ascent. Sweet Mother, the "Dortoir" children told me to ask you if it is good to read the illustrated "classics". Read what? "Classics illustrated"! Whatever is ...
... are not under the strain of the work you are less receptive. You must learn to be receptive in all circumstances and always—especially when you take rest—it must not be the "rest" of inertia but a true rest of receptivity. Blessings. 9 May 1967 Mother, The Dining Room mats are very much torn. Before asking for new ones, I would like to know whether we shall continue to have mats or ...
... are not under the strain of the work you are less receptive. You must learn to be receptive in all circumstances and always―especially when you take rest―it must not be the "rest" of inertia but a true rest of receptivity. The forces behind the cyclone were not hostile but full of transforming power. You did the right thing, and I can assure you that to go inward and to receive the force is more ...
... , something in the body immediately gives a start—instantly. It has been like that for a long time, two years, but now it's instantaneous, and it very Page 71 rarely happens—there is true rest, which is an expansion and immensity of the being in full Light. It's magnificent. But during the day, there are perpetual lessons, all the time, all the time, for everything, all the time. The ...
... give a process, because none was used. The aspiration of the cells to surrender entirely to the Divine was the only conscious thing. 9.6.1970 Isn't the repose in Sat-chit-ananda the only true rest for the sadhak? In principle yes, but I doubt that many know how to have it. 12.6.1970 I do not yet find in me the reversal of consciousness. Of which "reversal" of ...
... ocean'), and below, it sinks into the 'formless ocean' of the inconscient (which they also called 'the rock'). We are truncated. But the Rishis were men of a solid Page 361 realism, a true realism resting upon the Spirit; and since the summits of mind opened out upon a lacuna of light—ecstatic, to be sure, but with no hold over the world—they set upon the downward way. 6 Thus begins the quest... Vedanta,' and which 'the mantras of the Veda illuminated with a clear and exact light....' 4 And it was through these experiences of his 'own' that Sri Aurobindo came to discover, from within, the true meaning of the Vedas (and especially the most ancient of the four, the Rig-veda, which he studied with special care). What the Vedas brought him was no more than a confirmation of what he had received... Rishis emphasize that they are indeed men] slaying the Coverer have crossed beyond both earth and heaven [matter and mind] and made the wide world their dwelling place' (I.36.8). They have entered 'the True, the Right, the Vast,' Satyam, Ritam, Brihat , the 'unbroken light,' the 'fearless light,' where there is no longer suffering nor falsehood nor death: it is immortality, amritam. Page 362 ...
... first carry us over into this annihilating experience. A negation of our present error, a release from our petty irksome aching bonds may seem to be the only thing worth having, the only thing true. The rest is infinity, freedom, peace. We feel an Infinity that needs nothing but its own infinite to fill it. We rejoice in a freedom of which any form, name or Page 345 description, any creative... representative personality put forward by the true and persistent being in us for the experience of this brief life; we not only have been in the past and can be in the future but we are much more than that in the present secret totality of our being and nature. Especially, there is a secret soul in us that is our true person; there is a secret self that is our true impersonal being and spirit. To unveil... itself, a miserable imprisonment and renewed hard-labour. The life released from the toil of labouring and striving and living, demands only immobility and no more to be, a sleep of force, the surety and rest of an immutable status. The body accepts denial and dissolution, for to be dissolved is to cease to breathe and suffer. A bodiless, lifeless, mindless infinite breadth and supreme silence shows to us ...
... dwelling place for him, making it a natural abode of rest and tranquillity. When you shall live in that house it will be no more necessary to reflect or intently brood upon anything else; for, that itself shall give the desired experience and knowledge. It shall offer the best of self-bliss which shall foster pleasures of the senses in their true import and significance. Like the mythical bird chakor... narrative of the Gita will arrive at a point where poetry will be full of Shanta Rasa, the feeling of wide and happy calm, of deep tranquillity. There, at that point, the wise and virtuous shall find a true resting place for all their seeking and their pursuit. It is this Rasa of Tranquillity that I shall try to get in my words of Marathi, though direct and simple in their nature these may be. Yet the words... the true Bhaktas and they are the true Yogis for whom he ever waits anxiously and with favoured eagerness. Indeed, even as he longs to be with them without cease, without any break in relationship and contact, his concern for them is always there. They are the holy places for his pilgrimage and the sacred fords for him to have a dip in those waters, pure as they are always in the world, and true associates ...
... Illusions of truth, dogmas of syllogism, take its place, and war upon each other, as indeed, so long as they live, they must go on warring for ever, since none can ever be established as undisputedly true, resting, as they do, on pure opinion of Smriti poured into the mould of Opinion, having, as they all have, a part only of Truth which they pretend vainly to be the whole. We see, as a result, a progressive... experience,—only by the side of approach which must be for us from below, not from above, and the weight of the emphasis which must rest for a mentality preponderatingly intellectual and only subordinately intuitional, on experience more than on intuition. For the rest, the common consent of humanity has agreed that only by higher than intellectual faculties can the truths of a supra-human or suprasensuous... external aids by which Veda has been perpetuated in India, religion, Yoga, the guru-parampara, this fundamental principle is amply admitted. Religion starts from Page 556 revelation; it rests upon spiritual and moral experience. Yoga, admitting the truth of verbal revelation, the word of God & the word of the Master, yet starts from experience and rises, as a result of experimental development ...
... That is true; the rest isn't true, it's the product of all the confusion ( zigzag gesture downward ) and of all the disorder of the human consciousness—illness isn't true. I don't think that one illness in a hundred (oh, maybe in a thousand) is true. Some are the expression of a Will for something wrong to be well shaken, Page 165 demolished, so that, in that chaos, something truer may take... have looked at all the cases (because it interests me a lot), I have looked at your case, I have looked at her case, I have looked at every case, but there isn't one case in which one can say it is a true illness. The idea of illness is: a body (a physical being, anyway) that lives according to certain laws, till suddenly a disorder, something works its way into the body, establishes itself and upsets ...
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