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--- Volume 1 Bande Mataram, Early Political Writings - I (1893-1908):
New Lamps for Old
Bhawani Mandir
The Doctrine of Passive Resistance
editorials and comments from the "Bande Mataram"
Speeches:.(Hidden meaning of the song "Bande Mataram", The Present situation)

--- Volume 2 Karmayogin, Early Political Writings - II (1909-1910):
Uttarpara Speech
The Ideal of the Karmayogin
An Open Letter to My Countrymen
A System of National Education
other essays, notes and comments from the Karmayogin
Speeches.

--- Volume 3 The Harmony of Virtue (Early Cultural Writings):
The Harmony of Virtue
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
The Sources of Poetry and Other Essays
Valmiki and Vyasa
Kalidasa
The Brain of India
National Value of Art & Essays from the Karmayogin
Art and Literature
Passing Thoughts
Conversations of the Dead.

--- Volume 4 Writings in Bengali (translated into English):
Hymn to Durga
Poems
Stories
From Dharma (weekly in Bengali)
- The Veda
- The Upanishads
- The Puranas
- The Gita
- Nationalism
Editorials from "Dharma"
Stories of Jail Life - Prison and Freedom
Letters. (especially to his young brother Barin)

--- Volume 5 Collected Poems, The Complete Poetical Works:
Short Poems
Sonnets
Longer Poems
On Quantitative Metre
Ilion ( here a passage from Book 8)
Poems in New Metres
Metrical Experiments

--- Volume 6 Collected Plays and Short Stories, Part One:
Perseus the Deliverer
Vasavadutta
Rodogune
Eric

--- Volume 7 Collected Plays and Short Stories, Part Two:
The Viziers of Bassora
Prince of Edur
The Maid in the Mill
The House of Brut
The Prince of Mathura
The Birth of Sin
Vikramorvasie (The Hero and the Nymph).
Short Stories: Idylls of the Occult: The Phantom Hour; The Door at Abelard; The Devil's Mastiff; The Golden Bird.
Juvenilia.

--- Volume 8 Translations, From Sanskrit and Other Languages:
From Sanskrit: passages from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita, Kalidasa; The Century of Life (The Nitishataka of Bhartrihari): etc.
From Bengali: Songs of Bidyapati; Bande Mataram (Hymn to the Mother); thirteen chapters from Anandamath (Bankim Chandra Chatterji's novel); etc.
From Tamil: opening of the The Kural, etc.
From Greek and Latin: opening of the Odyssey, etc.

--- Volume 9 The Future Poetry and Letters on Poetry, Literature and Art.

--- Volume 10 The Secret of the Veda:
The Secret of the Veda
Selected Hymns; Hymns of the Atris
Other Hymns
Interpretation of the Veda
The Origins of Aryan Speech.

--- Volume 11 Hymns to the Mystic Fire:
Foreward
The Doctrine of the Mystics
Translations (Hymns to Agni from the Rig-veda translated in their esoteric sense)
Supplement.

--- Volume 12 The Upanishads, Texts, Translations and Commentaries:
Philosophy of the Upanishads
On translating the Upanishads
The Upanishads
Mundaka Upanishad
Early translations of some Vedantic Texts
Supplement.

--- Volume 13 Essays on the Gita: (special page)
First Series.
Second Series, Part One: The Synthesis of Works, Love and Knowledge
Second Series, Part Two: The Supreme Secret.
The Bhagavad Gita: Fulltext of Sri Aurobindo's translation

--- Volume 14 The Foundations of Indian Culture and the Renaissance in India:
- Is India Civilised?
- Indian Culture and External Influence
- The Renaissance in India. (Full text of the 4 chapters - internal)
- A Defence of Indian Culture - division in 5 parts

  a - A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture
  b - Indian Spirituality and Life (Full text in 5 chapters - internal)
  c - Indian Art (excerpts)
  d - Indian Literature (Full text in 5 chapters - internal)
  e - Indian Polity

--- Volume 15 Social and Political Thought:
The Human Cycle
The Ideal of Human Unity
War and Self-Determination.

--- Volume 16 The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings:
The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth
The Problem of Rebirth
Evolution
The Superman
Ideals and Progress
Heraclitus
Thoughts and Glimpses
Reviews: About Astrology
"Arya": its significance
Question of the Month from the "Arya"
The Yoga and Its Objects.

--- Volume 17 The Hour of God and Other Writings:
The Hour of God (Sections 1, 2, 3). Section 4 published in Sri Aurobindo's Major Works
Evolution - Psychology - The Supermind
On Yoga
Thoughts and Aphorisms (fulltext in zipped file here)
Essays Divine and Human
Education and Art
Premises of Astrology (and here too)
Reviews
Dayananda - Bankim - Tilak - Andal - Nammalwar
Historical Impressions
Notes from the "Arya".

--- Volume 18 The Life Divine, Book One and Book Two, Part One.
Book One (to download): Omnipresent Reality and the Universe
Book Two: The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution (1)
Part I (to download): The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance.

--- Volume 19 The Life Divine, Book Two:
Book Two (to download): The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution (2)
Part II: The Knowledge and the Spiritual Evolution. (or here)
or see also Special page Live Divine Section: Spiritual Evolution

--- Volume 20 The Synthesis of Yoga, Parts One and Two:
Introduction: The Conditions of the Synthesis
Part I: The Yoga of Divine Works
Part II: The Yoga of Integral Knowledge.

--- Volume 21 The Synthesis of Yoga, Parts Three and Four.
Part III: The Yoga of Divine Love
Part IV: The Yoga of Self-Perfection.

--- Volume 22 Letters on Yoga, Part One:
Part One:
The Supramental Evolution
Integral Yoga and Other Paths
Religion, Morality, Idealism and Yoga
Reason, Science and Yoga
Planes and Parts of the Being
The Divine and the Hostile Powers
The Purpose of Avatarhood (full section - internal - 77 Kb)
Rebirth
Fate and Free-Will, Karma and Heredity, etc.

--- Volume 23 Letters on Yoga, Parts Two and Three.
Part Two:
The Object of Integral Yoga
Synthetic Method and the Integral Yoga
Basic Requisites of the Path
The Foundations of Sadhana
Sadhana Through Work; Sadhana Through Meditation
Sadhana Through Love and Devotion
Human Relationships in Yoga
Sadhana in the Ashram and Outside
Part Three:
Experiences and Realisations
Visions and Symbols
Experiences of the Inner and the Cosmic Consciousness.

--- Volume 24 Letters on Yoga, Part Four:
Part Four:
The Triple Transformation - Psychic, Spiritual Supramental
Transformation of the Mind
Transformation of the Vital
Transformation of the Physical
Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient
Difficulties of the Path
Opposition of the Hostile Powers.

--- Volume 25 The Mother: With Letters on the Mother and Prayers and Meditations (translations from Prires et Mditations de la Mre)
The Mother
Letters on the Mother
Prayers and Meditations (only the translations by Sri Aurobindo).

--- Volume 26 On Himself, Compiled from Notes and Letters:
Part One: Sri Aurobindo on Himself:
Life Before Pondicherry (A General Note on Sri Aurobindo's Political Life)
Beginnings of Yoga
His Path and Other Paths
Sadhana for the Earth-Consciousness
The Master and the Guide
The Poet and the Critic
Reminiscences and Observations
Messages
Some Early Letters (Early Letters, Calls to return to Indian politics, Early Plans in 1922 to take up External Work)
Part Two: Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother:
Leaders of Evolution
Identity of Their Consciousness
Difficulties of the Path-finders
Helpers on the Way.

--- Volume 27 Supplement: Supplementary material arranged by volume.

--- Volume 28 Savitri 1 - A Legend and a Symbol, Part One
Part One:
The Book of Beginnings
The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
The Book of the Divine Mother

--- Volume 29 Savitri 2 - A Legend and a Symbol, Parts Two and Three.
Part Two:
The Book of Birth and Quest
The Book of Love
The Book of Fate
The Book of Yoga
The Book of Death
Part Three:
The Book of Eternal Night
The Book of the Double Twilight
The Book of Everlasting Day
Epilogue:
The Return to Earth

Sri Aurobindo's Letters on Savitri. (External site)

--- Volume 30 Index and Glossary:
Sri Aurobindo, a Life Sketch (and also here) (External sites)
Chronology
Contents of the Centenary Library (this page!)
Bibliography
List of Essays, Speeches and Shorter Works
Title Index of Poems
Index
Glossary of Sanskrit Terms (External site); etc.

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0.08_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Captain
0.09_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Teacher
0.10_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Captain
0.11_-_Letters_to_a_Sadhak
0.13_-_Letters_to_a_Student
1953-09-23
1953-10-14
1953-12-09
1954-02-03_-_The_senses_and_super-sense_-_Children_can_be_moulded_-_Keeping_things_in_order_-_The_shadow
1954-07-07_-_The_inner_warrior_-_Grace_and_the_Falsehood_-_Opening_from_below_-_Surrender_and_inertia_-_Exclusive_receptivity_-_Grace_and_receptivity
1956-01-04_-_Integral_idea_of_the_Divine_-_All_things_attracted_by_the_Divine_-_Bad_things_not_in_place_-_Integral_yoga_-_Moving_idea-force,_ideas_-_Consequences_of_manifestation_-_Work_of_Spirit_via_Nature_-_Change_consciousness,_change_world
1956-01-11_-_Desire_and_self-deception_-_Giving_all_one_is_and_has_-_Sincerity,_more_powerful_than_will_-_Joy_of_progress_Definition_of_youth
1956-01-18_-_Two_sides_of_individual_work_-_Cheerfulness_-_chosen_vessel_of_the_Divine_-_Aspiration,_consciousness,_of_plants,_of_children_-_Being_chosen_by_the_Divine_-_True_hierarchy_-_Perfect_relation_with_the_Divine_-_India_free_in_1915
1956-01-25_-_The_divine_way_of_life_-_Divine,_Overmind,_Supermind_-_Material_body__for_discovery_of_the_Divine_-_Five_psychological_perfections
1956-02-01_-_Path_of_knowledge_-_Finding_the_Divine_in_life_-_Capacity_for_contact_with_the_Divine_-_Partial_and_total_identification_with_the_Divine_-_Manifestation_and_hierarchy
1956-02-08_-_Forces_of_Nature_expressing_a_higher_Will_-_Illusion_of_separate_personality_-_One_dynamic_force_which_moves_all_things_-_Linear_and_spherical_thinking_-_Common_ideal_of_life,_microscopic
1956-02-15_-_Nature_and_the_Master_of_Nature_-_Conscious_intelligence_-_Theory_of_the_Gita,_not_the_whole_truth_-_Surrender_to_the_Lord_-_Change_of_nature
1956-02-22_-_Strong_immobility_of_an_immortal_spirit_-_Equality_of_soul_-_Is_all_an_expression_of_the_divine_Will?_-_Loosening_the_knot_of_action_-_Using_experience_as_a_cloak_to_cover_excesses_-_Sincerity,_a_rare_virtue
1956-02-29_-_Sacrifice,_self-giving_-_Divine_Presence_in_the_heart_of_Matter_-_Divine_Oneness_-_Divine_Consciousness_-_All_is_One_-_Divine_in_the_inconscient_aspires_for_the_Divine
1956-03-07_-_Sacrifice,_Animals,_hostile_forces,_receive_in_proportion_to_consciousness_-_To_be_luminously_open_-_Integral_transformation_-_Pain_of_rejection,_delight_of_progress_-_Spirit_behind_intention_-_Spirit,_matter,_over-simplified
1956-03-14_-_Dynamic_meditation_-_Do_all_as_an_offering_to_the_Divine_-_Significance_of_23.4.56._-_If_twelve_men_of_goodwill_call_the_Divine
1956-03-21_-_Identify_with_the_Divine_-_The_Divine,_the_most_important_thing_in_life
1956-03-28_-_The_starting-point_of_spiritual_experience_-_The_boundless_finite_-_The_Timeless_and_Time_-_Mental_explanation_not_enough_-_Changing_knowledge_into_experience_-_Sat-Chit-Tapas-Ananda
1956-04-04_-_The_witness_soul_-_A_Gita_enthusiast_-_Propagandist_spirit,_Tolstoys_son
1956-04-11_-_Self-creator_-_Manifestation_of_Time_and_Space_-_Brahman-Maya_and_Ishwara-Shakti_-_Personal_and_Impersonal
1956-04-18_-_Ishwara_and_Shakti,_seeing_both_aspects_-_The_Impersonal_and_the_divine_Person_-_Soul,_the_presence_of_the_divine_Person_-_Going_to_other_worlds,_exteriorisation,_dreams_-_Telling_stories_to_oneself
1956-04-25_-_God,_human_conception_and_the_true_Divine_-_Earthly_existence,_to_realise_the_Divine_-_Ananda,_divine_pleasure_-_Relations_with_the_divine_Presence_-_Asking_the_Divine_for_what_one_needs_-_Allowing_the_Divine_to_lead_one
1956-05-02_-_Threefold_union_-_Manifestation_of_the_Supramental_-_Profiting_from_the_Divine_-_Recognition_of_the_Supramental_Force_-_Ascent,_descent,_manifestation
1956-05-16_-_Needs_of_the_body,_not_true_in_themselves_-_Spiritual_and_supramental_law_-_Aestheticised_Paganism_-_Morality,_checks_true_spiritual_effort_-_Effect_of_supramental_descent_-_Half-lights_and_false_lights
1956-05-30_-_Forms_as_symbols_of_the_Force_behind_-_Art_as_expression_of_contact_with_the_Divine_-_Supramental_psychological_perfection_-_Division_of_works_-_The_Ashram,_idle_stupidities
1956-06-06_-_Sign_or_indication_from_books_of_revelation_-_Spiritualised_mind_-_Stages_of_sadhana_-_Reversal_of_consciousness_-_Organisation_around_central_Presence_-_Boredom,_most_common_human_malady
1956-06-13_-_Effects_of_the_Supramental_action_-_Education_and_the_Supermind_-_Right_to_remain_ignorant_-_Concentration_of_mind_-_Reason,_not_supreme_capacity_-_Physical_education_and_studies_-_inner_discipline_-_True_usefulness_of_teachers
1956-06-20_-_Hearts_mystic_light,_intuition_-_Psychic_being,_contact_-_Secular_ethics_-_True_role_of_mind_-_Realise_the_Divine_by_love_-_Depression,_pleasure,_joy_-_Heart_mixture_-_To_follow_the_soul_-_Physical_process_-_remember_the_Mother
1956-06-27_-_Birth,_entry_of_soul_into_body_-_Formation_of_the_supramental_world_-_Aspiration_for_progress_-_Bad_thoughts_-_Cerebral_filter_-_Progress_and_resistance
1956-07-11_-_Beauty_restored_to_its_priesthood_-_Occult_worlds,_occult_beings_-_Difficulties_and_the_supramental_force
1956-07-18_-_Unlived_dreams_-_Radha-consciousness_-_Separation_and_identification_-_Ananda_of_identity_and_Ananda_of_union_-_Sincerity,_meditation_and_prayer_-_Enemies_of_the_Divine_-_The_universe_is_progressive
1956-07-25_-_A_complete_act_of_divine_love_-_How_to_listen_-_Sports_programme_same_for_boys_and_girls_-_How_to_profit_by_stay_at_Ashram_-_To_Women_about_Their_Body
1956-08-01_-_Value_of_worship_-_Spiritual_realisation_and_the_integral_yoga_-_Symbols,_translation_of_experience_into_form_-_Sincerity,_fundamental_virtue_-_Intensity_of_aspiration,_with_anguish_or_joy_-_The_divine_Grace
1956-08-08_-_How_to_light_the_psychic_fire,_will_for_progress_-_Helping_from_a_distance,_mental_formations_-_Prayer_and_the_divine_-_Grace_Grace_at_work_everywhere
1956-08-15_-_Protection,_purification,_fear_-_Atmosphere_at_the_Ashram_on_Darshan_days_-_Darshan_messages_-_Significance_of_15-08_-_State_of_surrender_-_Divine_Grace_always_all-powerful_-_Assumption_of_Virgin_Mary_-_SA_message_of_1947-08-15
1956-09-05_-_Material_life,_seeing_in_the_right_way_-_Effect_of_the_Supermind_on_the_earth_-_Emergence_of_the_Supermind_-_Falling_back_into_the_same_mistaken_ways
1956-09-19_-_Power,_predominant_quality_of_vital_being_-_The_Divine,_the_psychic_being,_the_Supermind_-_How_to_come_out_of_the_physical_consciousness_-_Look_life_in_the_face_-_Ordinary_love_and_Divine_love
1956-09-26_-_Soul_of_desire_-_Openness,_harmony_with_Nature_-_Communion_with_divine_Presence_-_Individuality,_difficulties,_soul_of_desire_-_personal_contact_with_the_Mother_-_Inner_receptivity_-_Bad_thoughts_before_the_Mother
1956-10-10_-_The_supramental_race__in_a_few_centuries_-_Condition_for_new_realisation_-_Everyone_must_follow_his_own_path_-_Progress,_no_two_paths_alike
1956-11-07_-_Thoughts_created_by_forces_of_universal_-_Mind_Our_own_thought_hardly_exists_-_Idea,_origin_higher_than_mind_-_The_Synthesis_of_Yoga,_effect_of_reading
1956-11-14_-_Conquering_the_desire_to_appear_good_-_Self-control_and_control_of_the_life_around_-_Power_of_mastery_-_Be_a_great_yogi_to_be_a_good_teacher_-_Organisation_of_the_Ashram_school_-_Elementary_discipline_of_regularity
1956-11-21_-_Knowings_and_Knowledge_-_Reason,_summit_of_mans_mental_activities_-_Willings_and_the_true_will_-_Personal_effort_-_First_step_to_have_knowledge_-_Relativity_of_medical_knowledge_-_Mental_gymnastics_make_the_mind_supple
1956-11-28_-_Desire,_ego,_animal_nature_-_Consciousness,_a_progressive_state_-_Ananda,_desireless_state_beyond_enjoyings_-_Personal_effort_that_is_mental_-_Reason,_when_to_disregard_it_-_Reason_and_reasons
1956-12-05_-_Even_and_objectless_ecstasy_-_Transform_the_animal_-_Individual_personality_and_world-personality_-_Characteristic_features_of_a_world-personality_-_Expressing_a_universal_state_of_consciousness_-_Food_and_sleep_-_Ordered_intuition
1956-12-12_-_paradoxes_-_Nothing_impossible_-_unfolding_universe,_the_Eternal_-_Attention,_concentration,_effort_-_growth_capacity_almost_unlimited_-_Why_things_are_not_the_same_-_will_and_willings_-_Suggestions,_formations_-_vital_world
1956-12-19_-_Preconceived_mental_ideas_-_Process_of_creation_-_Destructive_power_of_bad_thoughts_-_To_be_perfectly_sincere
1956-12-26_-_Defeated_victories_-_Change_of_consciousness_-_Experiences_that_indicate_the_road_to_take_-_Choice_and_preference_-_Diversity_of_the_manifestation
1957-01-02_-_Can_one_go_out_of_time_and_space?_-_Not_a_crucified_but_a_glorified_body_-_Individual_effort_and_the_new_force
1957-01-09_-_God_is_essentially_Delight_-_God_and_Nature_play_at_hide-and-seek_-__Why,_and_when,_are_you_grave?
1957-01-16_-_Seeking_something_without_knowing_it_-_Why_are_we_here?
1957-01-23_-_How_should_we_understand_pure_delight?_-_The_drop_of_honey_-_Action_of_the_Divine_Will_in_the_world
1957-01-30_-_Artistry_is_just_contrast_-_How_to_perceive_the_Divine_Guidance?
1957-02-06_-_Death,_need_of_progress_-_Changing_Natures_methods
1957-02-13_-_Suffering,_pain_and_pleasure_-_Illness_and_its_cure
1957-02-20_-_Limitations_of_the_body_and_individuality
1957-03-06_-_Freedom,_servitude_and_love
1957-03-20_-_Never_sit_down,_true_repose
1957-03-27_-_If_only_humanity_consented_to_be_spiritualised
1957-04-03_-_Different_religions_and_spirituality
1957-04-10_-_Sports_and_yoga_-_Organising_ones_life
1957-04-17_-_Transformation_of_the_body
1957-04-24_-_Perfection,_lower_and_higher
1957-05-01_-_Sports_competitions,_their_value
1957-05-15_-_Differentiation_of_the_sexes_-_Transformation_from_above_downwards
1957-05-29_-_Progressive_transformation
1957-06-12_-_Fasting_and_spiritual_progress
1957-06-26_-_Birth_through_direct_transmutation_-_Man_and_woman_-_Judging_others_-_divine_Presence_in_all_-_New_birth
1957-07-03_-_Collective_yoga,_vision_of_a_huge_hotel
1957-07-10_-_A_new_world_is_born_-_Overmind_creation_dissolved
1957-07-17_-_Power_of_conscious_will_over_matter
1957-07-24_-_The_involved_supermind_-_The_new_world_and_the_old_-_Will_for_progress_indispensable
1957-08-07_-_The_resistances,_politics_and_money_-_Aspiration_to_realise_the_supramental_life
1957-08-28_-_Freedom_and_Divine_Will
1957-09-11_-_Vital_chemistry,_attraction_and_repulsion
1957-09-25_-_Preparation_of_the_intermediate_being
1957-10-02_-_The_Mind_of_Light_-_Statues_of_the_Buddha_-_Burden_of_the_past
1957-10-09_-_As_many_universes_as_individuals_-_Passage_to_the_higher_hemisphere
1957-10-16_-_Story_of_successive_involutions
1957-10-23_-_The_central_motive_of_terrestrial_existence_-_Evolution
1957-10-30_-_Double_movement_of_evolution_-_Disappearance_of_a_species
1957-11-13_-_Superiority_of_man_over_animal_-_Consciousness_precedes_form
1957-11-27_-_Sri_Aurobindos_method_in_The_Life_Divine_-_Individual_and_cosmic_evolution
1957-12-04_-_The_method_of_The_Life_Divine_-_Problem_of_emergence_of_a_new_species
1957-12-11_-_Appearance_of_the_first_men
1957-12-18_-_Modern_science_and_illusion_-_Value_of_experience,_its_transforming_power_-_Supramental_power,_first_aspect_to_manifest
1958-01-15_-_The_only_unshakable_point_of_support
1958-01-29_-_The_plan_of_the_universe_-_Self-awareness
1958-02-05_-_The_great_voyage_of_the_Supreme_-_Freedom_and_determinism
1958-03-05_-_Vibrations_and_words_-_Power_of_thought,_the_gift_of_tongues
1958-03-12_-_The_key_of_past_transformations
1958-03-19_-_General_tension_in_humanity_-_Peace_and_progress_-_Perversion_and_vision_of_transformation
1958-03-26_-_Mental_anxiety_and_trust_in_spiritual_power
1958-04-16_-_The_superman_-_New_realisation
1958-05-07_-_The_secret_of_Nature
1958-05-14_-_Intellectual_activity_and_subtle_knowing_-_Understanding_with_the_body
1958-05-28_-_The_Avatar
1958-06-04_-_New_birth
1958-06-11_-_Is_there_a_spiritual_being_in_everybody?
1958-06-18_-_Philosophy,_religion,_occultism,_spirituality
1958-06-25_-_Sadhana_in_the_body
1958-07-09_-_Faith_and_personal_effort
1958-07-16_-_Is_religion_a_necessity?
1958-08-15_-_Our_relation_with_the_Gods
1958-09-10_-_Magic,_occultism,_physical_science
1958-09-17_-_Power_of_formulating_experience_-_Usefulness_of_mental_development
1958-09-24_-_Living_the_truth_-_Words_and_experience
1958-10-22_-_Spiritual_life_-_reversal_of_consciousness_-_Helping_others
1958-10-29_-_Mental_self-sufficiency_-_Grace
1958-11-05_-_Knowing_how_to_be_silent
1958-11-12_-_The_aim_of_the_Supreme_-_Trust_in_the_Grace
1958-11-26_-_The_role_of_the_Spirit_-_New_birth
2.05_-_On_Poetry
2.08_-_Concentration
7.02_-_The_Mind
Blazing_P3_-_Explore_the_Stages_of_Postconventional_Consciousness
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_2

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But all that is a result of the opening to the spiritual above and it comes by an infiltration or
   reflection of the spiritual light and truth in mind, life and body.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 1092


Consciousness ::: Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence; it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it; not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself. For instance, when consciousness in its movement or rather a certain stress of movement forgets itself in the action it becomes an apparently unconscious energy; when it forgets itself in the form it becomes the electron, the atom, the material object. In reality itis still consciousness that works in the energy and determines the form and the evolution of form. When it wants to liberate itself, slowly, evolutionarily, out of Matter, but still in the form, it emerges as life, as animal, as man and it can go on evolving itself still farther out of its involution and becomes something more than mere man.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 237


Consecration ::: Consecration is a process by which one trains the consciousness to give itself to the Divine.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 564


(CWSA Vol.28-31, Letters on Yoga, Page: 1080 (SABCL Page: 5))

Environmental consciousness ::: Each man has his own personal consciousness entrenched in his body and gets into touch with his surroundings only through his body and senses and the mind using the senses. Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is aware only of thoughts, feelings, etc., that rise to the surface and these he takes for his own. Really they come from in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and sensation, etc., which take particular form in him and rise to the surface after they have got inside. But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the Theosophists the Aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the thought, passion, suggestion or force of illness and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but
   refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there they try to get in again.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 313-4


Inconscience ::: Once consciousnesses separated from the one consciousness, they fell inevitably into Ignorance and the last result of Ignorance was Inconscience…
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 27


It [the environmental consciousness] can become silent when there is the wideness. One can become conscious of it and deal with what passes through it. A man without it would be without contact with the rest of the world.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 314


Location: E Library—Works Of Sri Aurobindo—English—SABCL—The Life Divine Volume 18—Supermind, Mind And The Overmind Maya …

Muladhar ::: The Muladhar is the centre of the physical consciousness proper, and all below in the body is the sheer physical, which as it goes downward becomes increasingly subconscient, but the real seat of the subconscient is below the body, as the real seat of the higher consciousness (superconscient) is above the body…
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 357


Note: All
   references are from the Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA), Collected works of the Mother (CWM) and Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL), all published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India. For a free download of the collected works, please visit Collected works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (link).


Peace ::: Peace is a necessary basis but peace is not sufficient. Peace if it is strong and permanent can liberate the inner being which can become a calm and unmoved witness of the external movements. That is the liberation of the Sannyasin. In some cases it can liberate the external also, throwing the old nature out into the environmental consciousness, but even this is liberation, not transformation.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 506


Prakriti ::: What is meant by Prakriti or Nature is the outer or executive side of the Shakti or Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. This outer side appears here to be mechanical, a play of the forces, Gunas, etc. Behind it is the living Consciousness and Force of the Divine, the divine Shakti. The Prakriti itself is divided into the lower and higher,—the lower is the Prakriti of the Ignorance, the Prakriti of mind, life and Matter separated in consciousness from the Divine; the higher is the Divine Prakriti of Sachchidananda with its manifesting power of supermind, always aware of the Divine and free from Ignorance and its consequences. Man so long as he is in the ignorance is subject to the lower Prakriti, but by spiritual evolution he becomes aware of the higher Nature and seeks to come into contact with it. He can ascend into it and it can descend into him—such an ascent and descent can transform the lower nature of mind, life and Matter.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 287


Realisation ::: Realisations are the reception in the consciousness and the establishment there of the fundamental truths of the Divine, of the Higher or Divine Nature, of the world-consciousness and the play of its forces, of one's own self and real nature and the inner nature of things, the power of these things growing in one till they are a part of one's inner life and existence, as for instance, the realisation of the Divine Presence, the descent and settling of the higher Peace, Light, Force, Ananda in the consciousness, their workings there, the realisation of the divine or spiritual love, the perception of one's own psychic being, the discovery of one's own true mental being, true vital being, true physical being, the realisation of the overmind or the supramental consciousness, the clear perception of the relation of all these things to our present inferior nature and their action on it to change that lower nature. The list, of course, might be infinitely longer. These things also are often called experiences when they only come in flashes, snatches or rare visitations; they are spoken of as full realisations only when they become very positive or frequent or continuous or normal.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 884-85 Settled experience.
   Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 120


rose ::: “The rose is not the only beautiful flower, there are hundreds of others; most flowers are beautiful. There are degrees and kinds of beauty, that is all. The rose is among the first of flowers because of the richness of its colour, the intensity of sweetness of its scent and the grace and magnificence of its form.” Letters on Yoga , Volume—22 , SABCL

Spirit is a final evolutionary emergence because it is the original involutionary element and factor. Evolution is an inverse action of the involution: what is an ultimate and last derivation in the involution is the first to appear in the evolution; what was original and primal in the involution is in the evolution the last and supreme emergence.
   Ref: The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 852 – 53


Subliminal ::: ...there is a “subliminal” self behind our superficial waking mind not inconscient but conscient, greater than the waking mind, endowed with surprising faculties and capable of a much surer action and experience, conscient of the superficial mind though of it the superficial mind is inconscient.
   Ref: CWSA Vol. 13, Page: 180 ::: The subliminal self stands behind and supports the whole superficial man; it has in it a larger and more efficient mind behind the surface mind, a larger and more powerful vital behind the surface vital, a subtler and freer physical consciousness behind the surface bodily existence. And above them it opens to higher superconscient as well as below them to lower subconscient ranges.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 1606


Supramental Transformation ::: The supramental transformation can only come when the lid between the lower and higher hemispheres or halves of existence is removed and the supermind instead of the overmind becomes the governing power of the existence; but of that nothing can be spoken now.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 1093


“the basic syllable OM, which is the foundation of all the perfect creative sounds of the revealed word; OM is the one universal formulation of the energy of sound and speech, that which contains and sums up, synthesises and releases, all the spiritual power and all the potentiality of Vak (speech, the goddess Speech) and Shabda (sound, vibration, word). The mantra of the divine consciousness brings its light of revelation, the Mantra of the divine Power, its will of effectuation, the Mantra of the divine Ananda is equal fulfilment of the spiritual delight of existence. All word and thought are an outflowing of he great OM,—OM, the Word, the Eternal Manifest in the forms of sensible objects; manifest in that conscious play of creative self-conception of which forms and objects are the figures, manifest behind in the self-gathered superconscient power of the Infinite, OM is the sovereign source, seed, womb of thing and idea, form and name—it is itself, integrally, the supreme Intangible, the original Unity, the timeless Mystery self—existent above all manifestation in supernal being.” SABCL Volume 13—Page 315

"the basic syllable OM, which is the foundation of all the perfect creative sounds of the revealed word; OM is the one universal formulation of the energy of sound and speech, that which contains and sums up, synthesises and releases, all the spiritual power and all the potentiality of Vak (speech, the goddess Speech) and Shabda (sound, vibration, word). The mantra of the divine consciousness brings its light of revelation, the Mantra of the divine Power, its will of effectuation, the Mantra of the divine Ananda is equal fulfilment of the spiritual delight of existence. All word and thought are an outflowing of he great OM, - OM, the Word, the Eternal Manifest in the forms of sensible objects; manifest in that conscious play of creative self-conception of which forms and objects are the figures, manifest behind in the self-gathered superconscient power of the Infinite, OM is the sovereign source, seed, womb of thing and idea, form and name – it is itself, integrally, the supreme Intangible, the original Unity, the timeless Mystery self- existent above all manifestation in supernal being.” SABCL Volume 13 – Page 315*

“The Chhandogya,… is to be a work in the right and perfect way of devoting oneself to the Brahman; its subject is the Brahman, but the Brahman as symbolised in the OM, the sacred syllable of the Veda, not therefore, the pure state of existence only, but that existence in all its parts… OM is the symbol and the thing symbolised.”the basic syllable OM, which is the foundation of all the perfect creative sounds of the revealed word; OM is the one universal formulation of the energy of sound and speech, that which contains and sums up, synthesises and releases, all the spiritual power and all the potentiality of Vak (speech, the goddess Speech) and Shabda (sound, vibration, word). The mantra of the divine consciousness brings its light of revelation, the Mantra of the divine Power, its will of effectuation, the Mantra of the divine Ananda is equal fulfilment of the spiritual delight of existence. All word and thought are an outflowing of he great OM,—OM, the Word, the Eternal Manifest in the forms of sensible objects; manifest in that conscious play of creative self-conception of which forms and objects are the figures, manifest behind in the self-gathered superconscient power of the Infinite, OM is the sovereign source, seed, womb of thing and idea, form and name—it is itself, integrally, the supreme Intangible, the original Unity, the timeless Mystery self—existent above all manifestation in supernal being.” SABCL Volume 13—Page 315

The environmental is not a world—it is an individual thing.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 313-4


The function of a mantra is to create vibrations in the inner consciousness that will prepare it for the realisation of what the mantra symbolises and is supposed indeed to carry within itself. As a rule the only mantra used in this sadhana is that of the Mother or of my name and the Mother.In this Yoga there is no fixed mantra, no stress is laid on mantras, although sadhaks can use one if they find it helpful or so long as they find it helpful. The stress is rather on an aspiration in the consciousness and a concentration of the mind, heart, will, all the being. If a mantra is found helpful for that, one uses it.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 745


The psychic has indeed the quality of peace—but that is not its main character as it is of the Self or Atman. The psychic is the divine element in the individual being and its characteristic power is to turn everything towards the Divine, to bring a fire of purification, aspiration, devotion, true light of discernment, feeling, will, an action which transforms by degrees the whole nature. Quietude, peace and silence in the heart and th
   refore in the vital part of the being are necessary to reach the psychic, to plunge in it, for the perturbations of the vital nature, desire, emotion turned ego-wards or world-wards are the main part of the screen that hides the soul from the nature. It is better, th
   refore, to be free from the mental constructions when you take the plunge and to have only the sense of aspiration, of devotion, of self-giving to the Divine.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page 1197


The spiritual transformation proper begins or becomes possible when one rises above the mind and lives there governing all from above. Even in the psychic transformation one can rise above by a sort of going above of the mental, vital, physical being and a return, but one does not yet live above in the summit consciousness where overmind has its seat with the other planes that are above the human Mind.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 1092-93


The subconscient is a concealed and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below all our conscious physical activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body-consciousness and things come up into the physical, the vital and the mind-nature from there.Just as the higher consciousness is superconscient to us and supports all our spiritual possibilities and nature, so the subconscient is the basis of our material being and supports all that comes up in the physical nature.Men are not ordinarily conscious of either of these planes of their own being, but by sadhana they can become aware.The subconscient retains the impressions of all our past experiences of life and they can come up from there in dream forms: most dreams in ordinary sleep are formations made from subconscient impressions.The habit of strong recurrence of the same things in our physical consciousness, so that it is difficult to get rid of its habits, is largely due to a subconscient support. The subconscient is full of irrational habits.When things are rejected from all other parts of the nature, they go either into the environmental consciousness around us through which we communicate with others and with universal Nature and try to return from there or they sink into the subconscient and can come up from there even after lying long quiescent so that we think they are gone.When the physical consciousness is being changed, the chief resistance comes from the subconscient. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of intelligence which afflict the physical mind and vital or the obscure fears, desires, angers, lusts of the physical vital, or the illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the body-nature is prone.If light, strength, the Mother's Consciousness is brought down into the body, it can penetrate the subconscient also and convert its obscurity and resistance.When something is erased from the subconscient so completely that it leaves no seed and thrown out of the circumconscient so completely that it can return no more, then only can we be sure that we have finished with it for ever.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 356-57


The subconscient is not the whole foundation of the nature; it is only the lower basis of the Ignorance and affects mostly the lower vital and physical exterior consciousness and these again affect the higher parts of the nature. While it is well to see what it is and how it acts, one must not be too preoccupied with this dark side or this apparent aspect of the instrumental being. One should rather regard it as something not oneself, a mask of false nature imposed on the true being by the Ignorance. The true being is the inner with all its vast possibilities of reaching and expressing the Divine and especially the inmost, the soul, the psychic Purusha which is always in its essence pure, divine, turned to all that is good and true and beautiful. The exterior being has to be taken hold of by the inner being and turned into an instrument no longer of the upsurging of the ignorant subconscient Nature, but of the Divine. It is by remembering always that and opening the nature upwards that the Divine Consciousness can be reached and descend from above into the whole inner and outer existence, mental, vital, physical, the subconscient, the subliminal, all that we overtly or secretly are. This should be the main preoccupation. To dwell solely on the subconscient and the aspect of imperfection creates depression and should be avoided. One has to keep a right balance and stress on the positive side most, recognising the other but only to reject and change it. This and a constant faith and reliance on the Mother are what is needed for the transformation to come. P.S. It is certainly the abrupt and decisive breaking that is the easiest and best way for these things—vital habits.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 355


The subconscient is the support of habitual action—it can support good habits as well as bad.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 357-58


The subconscient is universal as well as individual like all the other main parts of the Nature. But there are different parts or planes of the subconscient. All upon earth is based on the Inconscient as it is called, though it is not really inconscient at all, but rather a complete "sub"-conscience, a suppressed or involved consciousness, in which there is everything but nothing is formulated or expressed. The subconscient lies between this Inconscient and the conscious mind, life and body. It contains the potentiality of all the primitive reactions to life which struggle out to the surface from the dull and inert strands of Matter and form by a constant development a slowly evolving and self-formulating consciousness; it contains them not as ideas, perceptions or conscious reactions but as the fluid substance of these things. But also all that is consciously experienced sinks down into the subconscient, not as precise though submerged memories but as obscure yet obstinate impressions of experience, and these can come up at any time as dreams, as mechanical repetitions of past thought, feelings, action, etc., as "complexes" exploding into action and event, etc., etc. The subconscient is the main cause why all things repeat themselves and nothing ever gets changed except in appearance. It is the cause why people say character cannot be changed, the cause also of the constant return of things one hoped to have got rid of for ever. All seeds are there and all Sanskaras of the mind, vital and body,—it is the main support of death and disease and the last fortress (seemingly impregnable) of the Ignorance. All too that is suppressed without being wholly got rid of sinks down there and remains as seed ready to surge up or sprout up at any moment.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 354


They [the subconscient and the environmental consciousness] are two quite different things. What is stored in the subconscient—impressions, memories, rise up from there into the conscious parts. In the environmental things are not stored up and fixed, although they move about there. It is full of mobility, a field of vibration or passage of forces.
   Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 313-4


Works Of Sri Aurobindo > English > SABCL > Supplement Volume 27 > Argument To The Life Divine Ch. Xix



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1:In the Indian spiritual tradition, a heart's devotion to God, called Bhakti, is regarded as the easiest path to the Divine. What is Bhakti? Is it some extravagant religious sentimentalism? Is it inferior to the path of Knowledge? What is the nature of pure and complete spiritual devotion to God and how to realise it?

What Is Devotion?

...bhakti in its fullness is nothing but an entire self-giving. But then all meditation, all tapasya, all means of prayer or mantra must have that as its end... [SABCL, 23:799]

Devotion Is a State of the Heart and Soul

Bhakti is not an experience, it is a state of the heart and soul. It is a state which comes when the psychic being is awake and prominent. [SABCL, 23:776]

...Worship is only the first step on the path of devotion. Where external worship changes into the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the intensity of divine love; that love leads to the joy of closeness in our relations with the Divine; the joy of closeness passes into the bliss of union. [SABCL, 21:525]

Devotion without Gratitude Is Incomplete

...there is another movement which should constantly accompany devotion. ... That kind of sense of gratitude that the Divine exists; that feeling of a marvelling thankfulness which truly fills you with a sublime joy at the fact that the Divine exists, that there is something in the universe which is the Divine, that it is not just the monstrosity we see, that there is the Divine, the Divine exists. And each time that the least thing puts you either directly or indirectly in contactwith this sublime Reality of divine existence, the heart is filled with so intense, so marvellous a joy, such a gratitude as of all things has the most delightful taste.

There is nothing which gives you a joy equal to that of gratitude. One hears a bird sing, sees a lovely flower, looks at a little child, observes an act of generosity, reads a beautiful sentence, looks at the setting sun, no matter what, suddenly this comes upon you, this kind of emotion-indeed so deep, so intense-that the world manifests the Divine, that there is something behind the world which is the Divine.

So I find that devotion without gratitude is quite incomplete, gratitude must come with devotion. ~ The Mother,
2:28 August 1957
Mother, Sri Aurobindo says here: "Whether the whole of humanity would be touched [by the Supramental influence] or only a part of it ready for the change would depend on what was intended or possible in the continued order of the universe."
The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 56

What is meant by "what was intended or possible"? The two things are different. So far you have said that if humanity changes, if it wants to participate in the new birth...

It is the same thing. But when you look at an object on a certain plane, you see it horizontally, and when you look at the same object from another plane, you see it vertically. (Mother shows the cover and the back of her book.) So, if one looks from above, one says "intended"; if one looks from below, one says "possible".... But it is absolutely the same thing, only the point of view is different.

But in that case, it is not our incapacity or lack of will to change that makes any difference.

We have already said this many a time. If you remain in a consciousness which functions mentally, even if it is the highest mind, you have the notion of an absolute determinism of cause and effect and feel that things are what they are because they are what they are and cannot be otherwise.

It is only when you come out of the mental consciousness completely and enter a higher perception of things - which you may call spiritual or divine - that you suddenly find yourself in a state of perfect freedom where everything is possible.

(Silence)

Those who have contacted that state or lived in it, even if only for a moment, try to describe it as a feeling of an absolute Will in action, which immediately gives to the human mentality the feeling of being arbitrary. And because of that distortion there arises the idea - which I might call traditional - of a supreme and arbitrary God, which is something most unacceptable to every enlightened mind. I suppose that this experience badly expressed is at the origin of this notion. And in fact it is incorrect to express it as an absolute Will: it is very, very, very different. It is something else altogether. For, what man understands by "Will" is a decision that is taken and carried out. We are obliged to use the word "will", but in its truth the Will acting in the universe is neither a choice nor a decision that is taken. What seems to me the closest expression is "vision". Things are because they are seen. But of course "seen", not seen as we see with these eyes.

(Mother touches her eyes...) All the same, it is the nearest thing.
It is a vision - a vision unfolding itself.
The universe becomes objective as it is progressively seen.

And that is why Sri Aurobindo has said "intended or possible". It is neither one nor the other. All that can be said is a distortion.

(Silence)

Objectivisation - universal objectivisation - is something like a projection in space and time, like a living image of what is from all eternity. And as the image is gradually projected on the screen of time and space, it becomes objective:

The Supreme contemplating His own Image.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,

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1:You have only to keep yourself open and whatever you need and can receive at the moment will come. ~ Sri Aurobindo, SABCL, 25,
2:When the mind becomes quiet, one can feel the Divine Mother supporting the life and put everything into her hands. ~ Sri Aurobindo, SABCL, 25 p. 134.Courtesy: Paras Artwani,
3:In the Indian spiritual tradition, a heart's devotion to God, called Bhakti, is regarded as the easiest path to the Divine. What is Bhakti? Is it some extravagant religious sentimentalism? Is it inferior to the path of Knowledge? What is the nature of pure and complete spiritual devotion to God and how to realise it?

What Is Devotion?

...bhakti in its fullness is nothing but an entire self-giving. But then all meditation, all tapasya, all means of prayer or mantra must have that as its end... [SABCL, 23:799]

Devotion Is a State of the Heart and Soul

Bhakti is not an experience, it is a state of the heart and soul. It is a state which comes when the psychic being is awake and prominent. [SABCL, 23:776]

...Worship is only the first step on the path of devotion. Where external worship changes into the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the intensity of divine love; that love leads to the joy of closeness in our relations with the Divine; the joy of closeness passes into the bliss of union. [SABCL, 21:525]

Devotion without Gratitude Is Incomplete

...there is another movement which should constantly accompany devotion. ... That kind of sense of gratitude that the Divine exists; that feeling of a marvelling thankfulness which truly fills you with a sublime joy at the fact that the Divine exists, that there is something in the universe which is the Divine, that it is not just the monstrosity we see, that there is the Divine, the Divine exists. And each time that the least thing puts you either directly or indirectly in contactwith this sublime Reality of divine existence, the heart is filled with so intense, so marvellous a joy, such a gratitude as of all things has the most delightful taste.

There is nothing which gives you a joy equal to that of gratitude. One hears a bird sing, sees a lovely flower, looks at a little child, observes an act of generosity, reads a beautiful sentence, looks at the setting sun, no matter what, suddenly this comes upon you, this kind of emotion-indeed so deep, so intense-that the world manifests the Divine, that there is something behind the world which is the Divine.

So I find that devotion without gratitude is quite incomplete, gratitude must come with devotion. ~ The Mother,
4:28 August 1957
Mother, Sri Aurobindo says here: "Whether the whole of humanity would be touched [by the Supramental influence] or only a part of it ready for the change would depend on what was intended or possible in the continued order of the universe."
The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 56

What is meant by "what was intended or possible"? The two things are different. So far you have said that if humanity changes, if it wants to participate in the new birth...

It is the same thing. But when you look at an object on a certain plane, you see it horizontally, and when you look at the same object from another plane, you see it vertically. (Mother shows the cover and the back of her book.) So, if one looks from above, one says "intended"; if one looks from below, one says "possible".... But it is absolutely the same thing, only the point of view is different.

But in that case, it is not our incapacity or lack of will to change that makes any difference.

We have already said this many a time. If you remain in a consciousness which functions mentally, even if it is the highest mind, you have the notion of an absolute determinism of cause and effect and feel that things are what they are because they are what they are and cannot be otherwise.

It is only when you come out of the mental consciousness completely and enter a higher perception of things - which you may call spiritual or divine - that you suddenly find yourself in a state of perfect freedom where everything is possible.

(Silence)

Those who have contacted that state or lived in it, even if only for a moment, try to describe it as a feeling of an absolute Will in action, which immediately gives to the human mentality the feeling of being arbitrary. And because of that distortion there arises the idea - which I might call traditional - of a supreme and arbitrary God, which is something most unacceptable to every enlightened mind. I suppose that this experience badly expressed is at the origin of this notion. And in fact it is incorrect to express it as an absolute Will: it is very, very, very different. It is something else altogether. For, what man understands by "Will" is a decision that is taken and carried out. We are obliged to use the word "will", but in its truth the Will acting in the universe is neither a choice nor a decision that is taken. What seems to me the closest expression is "vision". Things are because they are seen. But of course "seen", not seen as we see with these eyes.

(Mother touches her eyes...) All the same, it is the nearest thing.
It is a vision - a vision unfolding itself.
The universe becomes objective as it is progressively seen.

And that is why Sri Aurobindo has said "intended or possible". It is neither one nor the other. All that can be said is a distortion.

(Silence)

Objectivisation - universal objectivisation - is something like a projection in space and time, like a living image of what is from all eternity. And as the image is gradually projected on the screen of time and space, it becomes objective:

The Supreme contemplating His own Image.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,

IN CHAPTERS [119/119]



  115 Integral Yoga


  114 The Mother


   63 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
   42 Questions And Answers 1956
   4 Some Answers From The Mother
   3 Questions And Answers 1953
   2 Words Of The Mother II
   2 Questions And Answers 1954


0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 906.
  This is why the first thing required when one wants to do

0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 39.
  Ibid., p. 102.
  --
  The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 47.
  On Education, CWM, Vol. 12, p. 185.
  --
  The Hour of God and Other Writings, SABCL, Vol. 17, p. 39.
  knowing that to start out too soon is useless, to say the least,
  --
  The Hour of God and Other Writings, SABCL, Vol. 17, p. 40.
  Series Nine - To a Young Teacher

0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Thoughts and Aphorisms, in SABCL, Vol. 17, p. 89.
  Series Ten - To a Young Captain
  --
  Thoughts and Aphorisms, in SABCL, Vol. 17, p. 94.
  Series Ten - To a Young Captain
  --
  Thoughts and Aphorisms, in SABCL, Vol. 17, p. 100.
  Thoughts and Aphorisms, in SABCL, Vol. 17, p. 99.
  Series Ten - To a Young Captain
  --
  Thoughts and Aphorisms, in SABCL, Vol. 17, p. 130.
  rather than a virtue, for I feel that I take them upon
  --
  Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 23, pp. 593 - 94.
  Series Ten - To a Young Captain
  --
  Thoughts and Aphorisms, in SABCL, Vol. 17, p. 89
  rigidity has little or no effect on spiritual development where the
  --
  Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 22, p. 11.
  Series Ten - To a Young Captain
  --
  Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, SABCL, Vol. 13, p. 372.
  The Indo-Pakistan conflict ended in a cease-fire on September 22. The Mother's
  --
  more irresistibly than the others." - Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 23, p. 609.
  Sincerity, courage, discipline, endurance, absolute faith in the

0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 52.
  Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book I, Canto 3.
  --
  Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, SABCL, Vol. 25, p. 20.
  Cannot the ego consent to its own abolition?
  --
  Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 103.
  Series Eleven - To a Sadhak

1953-09-23, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL Vol. 24, p. 1660.
   The experience referred to is one which the Mother had on 26 November 1915. This has been described in her Prayers and Meditations. Sri Aurobindo's reply to the Mother, dated 31 December 1915, is published in The Mother, SABCL. Vol. 25, p. 384.
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1953-10-14, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Thoughts and Aphorisms: SABCL. Vol. 17, p. 84
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1953-12-09, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book VII, Canto 4, SABCL. Vol. 29, recited at the School Annual function of 1 December 1953.
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1954-02-03 - The senses and super-sense - Children can be moulded - Keeping things in order - The shadow, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 24, p. 1660
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1954-07-07 - The inner warrior - Grace and the Falsehood - Opening from below - Surrender and inertia - Exclusive receptivity - Grace and receptivity, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    See Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 23, p. 609.
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1956-01-04 - Integral idea of the Divine - All things attracted by the Divine - Bad things not in place - Integral yoga - Moving idea-force, ideas - Consequences of manifestation - Work of Spirit via Nature - Change consciousness, change world, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 76
  Sweet Mother, what does Sri Aurobindo mean by an integral idea of the Divine?

1956-01-11 - Desire and self-deception - Giving all one is and has - Sincerity, more powerful than will - Joy of progress Definition of youth, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 77
  But even when we understand that it is a desire and must be rejected, there are difficulties in discerning if it is a desire leading us to the Divine or if it is purely desire.

1956-01-18 - Two sides of individual work - Cheerfulness - chosen vessel of the Divine - Aspiration, consciousness, of plants, of children - Being chosen by the Divine - True hierarchy - Perfect relation with the Divine - India free in 1915, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 79
  What is this work, and how is it accomplished?

1956-01-25 - The divine way of life - Divine, Overmind, Supermind - Material body for discovery of the Divine - Five psychological perfections, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 82
  Sweet Mother, will the divine way of life be established on earth only when the Supermind descends?
  --
    (Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 83)
    "Prosperity" is the place where, on the first of every month, Mother used to distribute to the disciples what they needed for the month.

1956-02-01 - Path of knowledge - Finding the Divine in life - Capacity for contact with the Divine - Partial and total identification with the Divine - Manifestation and hierarchy, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 86
  What is this knowledge?

1956-02-08 - Forces of Nature expressing a higher Will - Illusion of separate personality - One dynamic force which moves all things - Linear and spherical thinking - Common ideal of life, microscopic, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 88
  Not understood? What do you mean, not understood? Its a fact, there is nothing to understand, its like that.

1956-02-15 - Nature and the Master of Nature - Conscious intelligence - Theory of the Gita, not the whole truth - Surrender to the Lord - Change of nature, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 91
  Nature is not consciously intelligent?

1956-02-22 - Strong immobility of an immortal spirit - Equality of soul - Is all an expression of the divine Will? - Loosening the knot of action - Using experience as a cloak to cover excesses - Sincerity, a rare virtue, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 95
  What is it you dont understand? That an immortal spirit has a strong immobility? It says what it means. An immortal spirit is necessarily immobile and strong, by the very fact of its being immortal.

1956-02-29 - Sacrifice, self-giving - Divine Presence in the heart of Matter - Divine Oneness - Divine Consciousness - All is One - Divine in the inconscient aspires for the Divine, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 98
  Sweet Mother, what does the sacrifice to the Divine mean?

1956-03-07 - Sacrifice, Animals, hostile forces, receive in proportion to consciousness - To be luminously open - Integral transformation - Pain of rejection, delight of progress - Spirit behind intention - Spirit, matter, over-simplified, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, pp. 101-102
  Happily for the poor creature which is sacrificed! Perhaps it goes straight to the Divine.
  --
    (Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 102)
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1956-03-14 - Dynamic meditation - Do all as an offering to the Divine - Significance of 23.4.56. - If twelve men of goodwill call the Divine, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 104
  Sweet Mother, what does Sri Aurobindo mean by a self-dynamising meditation?

1956-03-21 - Identify with the Divine - The Divine, the most important thing in life, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 106
  How can one understand the Divine?

1956-03-28 - The starting-point of spiritual experience - The boundless finite - The Timeless and Time - Mental explanation not enough - Changing knowledge into experience - Sat-Chit-Tapas-Ananda, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 110
  I dont understand the meaning. Why is this opposition the starting-point of spiritual experience?

1956-04-04 - The witness soul - A Gita enthusiast - Propagandist spirit, Tolstoys son, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 113
  What is the witness soul?

1956-04-11 - Self-creator - Manifestation of Time and Space - Brahman-Maya and Ishwara-Shakti - Personal and Impersonal, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 115
  Sweet Mother, what does a self-creator mean?

1956-04-18 - Ishwara and Shakti, seeing both aspects - The Impersonal and the divine Person - Soul, the presence of the divine Person - Going to other worlds, exteriorisation, dreams - Telling stories to oneself, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 117
  Yes, if he sees the two aspects that is to say, the Master of Existence and the World-Motherhe may see them with an unequal vision, which would mean that he still separates them and gives more importance to one than to the other. And in that case there is a one-sided tendency; he sees only one side or there is a lack of balance between the two perceptions. And so the power of effectuation is not perfectly supported, that is to say, the action of the Mother does not have the support of what he calls the Master, the action of the Mother does not have a sufficient basis of support from the Master; or else it is the light of a revelation that is, the Consciousness of the Masterwhich is not realised, not perfectly dynamic, that is, it is not translated into a creation.

1956-04-25 - God, human conception and the true Divine - Earthly existence, to realise the Divine - Ananda, divine pleasure - Relations with the divine Presence - Asking the Divine for what one needs - Allowing the Divine to lead one, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 121
  What man calls God is a limited consciousness of God, not the full consciousness of God; so he will go beyond this limited consciousness of God and towards the true Divine.
  --
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 120
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1956-05-02 - Threefold union - Manifestation of the Supramental - Profiting from the Divine - Recognition of the Supramental Force - Ascent, descent, manifestation, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 122
  That is to say, not only is there union in the depths, but there is also union outwardly, in the activities. There is union in knowledge, union in love and union in works. To put it otherwise: the yoga of knowledge, the yoga of love and devotion, and the yoga of works. These are the three modes of approach he speaks about.

1956-05-16 - Needs of the body, not true in themselves - Spiritual and supramental law - Aestheticised Paganism - Morality, checks true spiritual effort - Effect of supramental descent - Half-lights and false lights, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, pp. 128-29
  The necessities of physical things also? I dont Understand.

1956-05-30 - Forms as symbols of the Force behind - Art as expression of contact with the Divine - Supramental psychological perfection - Division of works - The Ashram, idle stupidities, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 133
  I have already told you, explained to you, that outer forms, if looked at not in themselves, for themselves, in their outer appearance alone, but as the expression of a deeper and more lasting reality, all these formsas indeed all circumstances and eventsall become symbolic of the Force which is behind and uses them to express itself. There is not a single circumstance, not a form, not an action, not a movement which is not symbolic of something deeper, something which stands behind and which, normally, ought to animate all action.

1956-06-06 - Sign or indication from books of revelation - Spiritualised mind - Stages of sadhana - Reversal of consciousness - Organisation around central Presence - Boredom, most common human malady, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 22, p. 408
  I dont know if this is a problem which you have been thinking about, but anyway this is what has come in reply. It was obviously for someone who had asked him: The Avatar comes and opens the Way, but if there is nobody to follow him, what happens? Sri Aurobindo says: either his conception is wrong or his life is quite futile. That is to say, if a divine Power comes on earth to open the Way to a higher realisation and it so happens that there is nobody on earth to follow the path, it is quite obvious that it was useless for him to come. But as a matter of fact, I dont think it has ever happened.
  --
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 69
  This is indeed very fine.

1956-06-13 - Effects of the Supramental action - Education and the Supermind - Right to remain ignorant - Concentration of mind - Reason, not supreme capacity - Physical education and studies - inner discipline - True usefulness of teachers, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, pp. 138-39
  There are two stages, you see. One may rise beyond the mind into a certain domain, then beyond that domain pass into yet another which is the origin of all things. This implies two successive stages.

1956-06-20 - Hearts mystic light, intuition - Psychic being, contact - Secular ethics - True role of mind - Realise the Divine by love - Depression, pleasure, joy - Heart mixture - To follow the soul - Physical process - remember the Mother, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 140
  What is this mystic light?

1956-06-27 - Birth, entry of soul into body - Formation of the supramental world - Aspiration for progress - Bad thoughts - Cerebral filter - Progress and resistance, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Secret of the Veda, SABCL, Vol. 10, p. 375
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1956-07-11 - Beauty restored to its priesthood - Occult worlds, occult beings - Difficulties and the supramental force, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 146.
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1956-07-18 - Unlived dreams - Radha-consciousness - Separation and identification - Ananda of identity and Ananda of union - Sincerity, meditation and prayer - Enemies of the Divine - The universe is progressive, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 150
  This brings us back to the symbol of Krishna and Radha.

1956-07-25 - A complete act of divine love - How to listen - Sports programme same for boys and girls - How to profit by stay at Ashram - To Women about Their Body, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, pp. 152-53
  I have not understood the first two parts very well.

1956-08-01 - Value of worship - Spiritual realisation and the integral yoga - Symbols, translation of experience into form - Sincerity, fundamental virtue - Intensity of aspiration, with anguish or joy - The divine Grace, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    (Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p.153)
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1956-08-08 - How to light the psychic fire, will for progress - Helping from a distance, mental formations - Prayer and the divine - Grace Grace at work everywhere, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 155
  Isnt the psychic fire always lit?

1956-08-15 - Protection, purification, fear - Atmosphere at the Ashram on Darshan days - Darshan messages - Significance of 15-08 - State of surrender - Divine Grace always all-powerful - Assumption of Virgin Mary - SA message of 1947-08-15, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, pp. 155-57
  This is the most powerful, the most complete and true answer to all the questions which so many people have in their heads but do not dare to ask.

1956-09-05 - Material life, seeing in the right way - Effect of the Supermind on the earth - Emergence of the Supermind - Falling back into the same mistaken ways, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, pp. 160-61
  (After a long silence) It seems to me that when you begin to see things in this way, when they appear to you as they are described here, you are already close, very close to the solution.

1956-09-19 - Power, predominant quality of vital being - The Divine, the psychic being, the Supermind - How to come out of the physical consciousness - Look life in the face - Ordinary love and Divine love, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, pp. 163-64
  What have you not understood?

1956-09-26 - Soul of desire - Openness, harmony with Nature - Communion with divine Presence - Individuality, difficulties, soul of desire - personal contact with the Mother - Inner receptivity - Bad thoughts before the Mother, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 164
  Sweet Mother what is the soul of desire?

1956-10-10 - The supramental race in a few centuries - Condition for new realisation - Everyone must follow his own path - Progress, no two paths alike, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 932
  I am reading this to you because I have been asked about the action of the Supermind, and I had pared this manifestation of the Supermind to that of the mind which, according to all modern scientific discoveries, took nearly a million years to evolve from the animal brain, the ape-brain, to the first human brain. And I told you that, consequently, one should not expect this to take place in a few months or a few years, that it would obviously take much longer. Some people, it seems, thought that I was announcing that the superman would not come before another million years! I want to correct this impression.
  --
    See The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 1-74.
    "It is then by a transformation of life in its very principle, not by an external manipulation of its phenomena, that the integral Yoga proposes to change it from a troubled and ignorant into a luminous and harmonious movement of Nature. There are three conditions which are indispensable for the achievement of this central inner revolution and a new formation; none of them is altogether sufficient in itself, but by their united threefold power the uplifting can be done, the conversion made and completely made. For, first, life as it is is a movement of desire and it has built in us as its centre a desire-soul which refers to itself all the motions of life and puts in them its own troubled hue and pain of an ignorant, half-lit, baffled endeavour: for a divine living, desire must be abolished and replaced by a purer and firmer motive-power, the tormented soul of desire dissolved and in its stead there must emerge the calm, strength, happiness of a true vital being now concealed within us. Next, life as it is is driven or led partly by the impulse of the life-force, partly by a mind which is mostly a servant and abettor of the ignorant life-impulse, but in part also its uneasy and not too luminous or competent guide and mentor; for a divine life the mind and the life-impulse must cease to be anything but instruments and the inmost psychic being must take their place as the leader on the path and the indicator of a divine guidance. Last, life as it is is turned towards the satisfaction of the separative ego; ego must disappear and be replaced by the true spiritual person, the central being, and life itself must be turned towards the fulfilment of the Divine in terrestrial existence; it must feel a Divine Force awaking within it and become an obedient instrumentation of its purpose."
    (Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 166)
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1956-11-07 - Thoughts created by forces of universal - Mind Our own thought hardly exists - Idea, origin higher than mind - The Synthesis of Yoga, effect of reading, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, pp. 172-73
  Sweet Mother, how are our thoughts created by the forces of the universal Mind?

1956-11-14 - Conquering the desire to appear good - Self-control and control of the life around - Power of mastery - Be a great yogi to be a good teacher - Organisation of the Ashram school - Elementary discipline of regularity, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    (Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 172)
    The Ashram School was originally named Sri Aurobindo International University Centre; later the name was changed to Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.

1956-11-21 - Knowings and Knowledge - Reason, summit of mans mental activities - Willings and the true will - Personal effort - First step to have knowledge - Relativity of medical knowledge - Mental gymnastics make the mind supple, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 377
  This is about the mental being in man, that is, his mental activities; and Sri Aurobindo contrasts knowings with Knowledge.
  --
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 377
  And he contrasts these willings that is, all these superficial wills, often opposite and contradictory and without any lasting basis because they are founded on what he calls a knowing and not on knowledgewith the true will. These willings are necessarily fragmentary, sing, and often in opposition to one another, and this is what gives to the individual life and even to the collective its nature of incoherence, inconsistency and confusion. The word will is normally reserved to indicate what comes from the deeper being or the higher reality and what expresses in action the true knowledge which Sri Aurobindo has contrasted with knowings. So, when this will which expresses the true knowledge manifests in action, it manifests through the intervention of a deep and direct power which no longer requires any effort. And that is why Sri Aurobindo says here that the true power for action cannot come until one has gone beyond the stage of willings, that is, until the motive of action is the result not of a mere mental activity but of true knowledge.

1956-11-28 - Desire, ego, animal nature - Consciousness, a progressive state - Ananda, desireless state beyond enjoyings - Personal effort that is mental - Reason, when to disregard it - Reason and reasons, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 377
  It is the same principle expressed in all the activities or aspects of the being. It is obvious that in order to come out of the state of the original inconscience desire was indispensable, for without desire there would have been no awakening to activity. But once you are born into consciousness, this very desire which helped you to come out of the inconscience prevents you from liberating yourself from the bonds of matter and rising to a higher consciousness.

1956-12-05 - Even and objectless ecstasy - Transform the animal - Individual personality and world-personality - Characteristic features of a world-personality - Expressing a universal state of consciousness - Food and sleep - Ordered intuition, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 377
  This is what ought to be done.

1956-12-12 - paradoxes - Nothing impossible - unfolding universe, the Eternal - Attention, concentration, effort - growth capacity almost unlimited - Why things are not the same - will and willings - Suggestions, formations - vital world, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 378
  Do you know why this seems paradoxical to you? It is simply because Sri Aurobindo has not put in the guide marks of the thought, hasnt led you step by step from one thought to another. It is nothing else. It is almost elementary in its simplicity.

1956-12-19 - Preconceived mental ideas - Process of creation - Destructive power of bad thoughts - To be perfectly sincere, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 378
  What is the meaning of thought awakes and becomes creative?

1956-12-26 - Defeated victories - Change of consciousness - Experiences that indicate the road to take - Choice and preference - Diversity of the manifestation, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 378-79
  We have only accomplished weakness and effort and a defeated victory?

1957-01-02 - Can one go out of time and space? - Not a crucified but a glorified body - Individual effort and the new force, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 380-81
  Sweet Mother, can one go out of Time and Space?

1957-01-09 - God is essentially Delight - God and Nature play at hide-and-seek - Why, and when, are you grave?, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 382
  According to what Sri Aurobindo says here, the reality of the universe is what is called God or godhead, but essentially it is Delight. The universe is created in Delight and for Delight. But this Delight can exist only in the perfect oneness of the creation with its creator, and Sri Aurobindo describes this oneness as the Possessor that is, the Creator the Possessor being possessed by his creation, a sort of reciprocal possession which is the very essence of the Oneness and the source of all delight.
  --
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 382
  ***

1957-01-16 - Seeking something without knowing it - Why are we here?, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 382
  Sweet Mother, how is it that one seeks something and yet does not know that one is seeking?

1957-01-23 - How should we understand pure delight? - The drop of honey - Action of the Divine Will in the world, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 384
  How can one learn of pure delight?

1957-01-30 - Artistry is just contrast - How to perceive the Divine Guidance?, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 385
  Sweet Mother, what does artistry mean?

1957-02-06 - Death, need of progress - Changing Natures methods, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 386
  There seems to be matter enough here for us not to need to go any further. This is a question which every person whose consciousness is awakened a little has asked himself at least once in his life. There is in the depths of the being such a need to perpetuate, to prolong, to develop life, that the moment one has a first contact with death, which, although it may be quite an accidental contact, is yet inevitable, there is a sort of recoil in the being.

1957-02-13 - Suffering, pain and pleasure - Illness and its cure, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 386
  Quite naturally we ask ourselves what this secret is, towards which pain leads us. For a superficial and imperfect understanding, one could believe that it is pain which the soul is seeking. Nothing of the kind. The very nature of the soul is divine Delight, constant, unvarying, unconditioned, ecstatic; but it is true that if one can face suffering with courage, endurance, an unshakable faith in the divine Grace, if one can, instead of shunning suffering when it comes, enter into it with this will, this aspiration to go through it and find the luminous truth, the unvarying delight which is at the core of all things, the door of pain is often more direct, more immediate than that of satisfaction or contentment.

1957-02-20 - Limitations of the body and individuality, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 386
  Sweet Mother, how should we understand: the limitations of the body are a mould?

1957-03-06 - Freedom, servitude and love, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 386
  At a superficial glance these two things appear absolutely contradictory and incompatible. Outwardly one cannot conceive how one can be at once in freedom and in servitude, but there is an attitude which reconciles the two and makes them one of the happiest states of material existence.

1957-03-20 - Never sit down, true repose, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 391-92
  All that Sri Aurobindo says here is aimed at fighting against human nature with its inertia, its heaviness, laziness, easy satisfactions, hostility to all effort. How many times in life does one meet people who become pacifists because they are afraid to fight, who long for rest before they have earned it, who are satisfied with a little progress and in their imagination and desires make it into a marvellous realisation so as to justify their stopping half-way.

1957-03-27 - If only humanity consented to be spiritualised, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 392-93
  After all, the whole problem is to know whether humanity has reached the state of pure gold or whether it still needs to be tested in the crucible.

1957-04-03 - Different religions and spirituality, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 393-94
  Mother, here Sri Aurobindo writes: A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult-egoism stand in the way.

1957-04-10 - Sports and yoga - Organising ones life, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 2-41
  Sweet Mother, during our tournaments there are many who play in a very bad spirit. They try to hurt others in order to win. And we have noticed that even the little ones are learning to do this. How could it be avoided?

1957-04-17 - Transformation of the body, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 5
  Mother, how can the functioning of the body attain to a supreme capacity?

1957-04-24 - Perfection, lower and higher, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 5-8
  Sweet Mother, here Sri Aurobindo speaks of the higher perfection and the lower perfection

1957-05-01 - Sports competitions, their value, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 9-11
  Mother, are sports competitions essential to our progress?

1957-05-15 - Differentiation of the sexes - Transformation from above downwards, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 15-16
  Mother, will the transformation of the body come after the transformation of the mind and vital, or will it follow spontaneously?

1957-05-29 - Progressive transformation, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 20-22
  It is precisely about this progressive transformation that I am going to speak to you this evening. I have often been asked this question, Why, after having posited as an ideal principle that when we deal with our body we ought to do it with the knowledge that it is only a result and an instrument of the supreme Reality of the universe and of the truth of our being,why, after having taught this and shown that this is the truth to be realised, do we have in the organisation of our Ashram, doctors, dispensaries, a physical education of the body based on modern theories accepted everywhere? And why, when some of you go for a picnic do I forbid you to drink water from just anywhere and tell you to take filtered water with you? Why do I have the fruit you eat disinfected, etc.?

1957-06-12 - Fasting and spiritual progress, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp 28-29
  The description Sri Aurobindo gives here of the possibility of a prolonged fast while maintaining all activities, is a description of his own experience.

1957-06-26 - Birth through direct transmutation - Man and woman - Judging others - divine Presence in all - New birth, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 32-33
  Mother, is this method of direct transmutation without passing through birth possible now, since now the Supermind is on earth?

1957-07-03 - Collective yoga, vision of a huge hotel, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 33-36.
  ***

1957-07-10 - A new world is born - Overmind creation dissolved, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 38-39
  It is quite difficult to free oneself from old habits of being and to be able to freely conceive of a new life, a new world. And naturally, the liberation begins on the highest planes of consciousness: it is easier for the mind or the higher intelligence to conceive of new things than for the vital being, for instance, to feel things in a new way. And it is still more difficult for the body to have a purely material perception of what a new world will be. Yet this perception must precede the material transformation; first one must feel very concretely the strangeness of the old things, their lack of relevance, if I may say so. One must have the feeling, even a material impression, that they are outdated, that they belong to a past which no longer has any purpose. For the old impressions one had of past things which have become historicwhich have their interest from that point of view and support the advance of the present and the futurethis is still a movement that belongs to the old world: it is the old world that is unfolding with a past, a present, a future. But for the creation of a new world, there is, so to speak, only a continuity of transition which gives an appearancean impression rather the impression of two things still intermingled but almost disconnected, and that the things of the past no longer have the power or the strength to endure, with whatever modifications, in the new things. That other world is necessarily an absolutely new experience. One would have to go back to the time when there was a transition from the animal to the human creation to find a similar period, and at that time the consciousness was not sufficiently mentalised to be able to observe, understand, feel intelligently the passage must have been made in a completely obscure way. So, what I am speaking about is absolutely new, unique in the terrestrial creation, it is something unprecedented, truly a perception or a sensation or an impression that is quite strange and new. (After a silence) A disconnection: something which has overstayed its time and has only quite a subordinate force of existence, from something totally new, but still so young, so imperceptible, almost weak, so to say; it hasnt yet the power to impose and assert itself and to predominate, to take the place of the other. So there is a concomitance but, as I said, with a disconnection, that is, the connection between the two is missing.

1957-07-17 - Power of conscious will over matter, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 34-35
  ***

1957-07-24 - The involved supermind - The new world and the old - Will for progress indispensable, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 43
  Sweet Mother, what is the involved supermind?

1957-08-07 - The resistances, politics and money - Aspiration to realise the supramental life, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 47
  So, what are you asking? What is excluded?
  --
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 47-49
  ***

1957-08-28 - Freedom and Divine Will, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 56
  What is meant by what was intended or possible? The two things are different. So far you have said that if humanity changes, if it wants to participate in the new birth

1957-09-11 - Vital chemistry, attraction and repulsion, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 60
  Is this intention unknown?

1957-09-25 - Preparation of the intermediate being, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 67
  This was certainly what he expected of us, what he conceived of as the superman who must be the intermediate being between humanity as it is and the supramental being created in the supramental way, that is, no longer belonging to animality at all and delivered from all animal needs.

1957-10-02 - The Mind of Light - Statues of the Buddha - Burden of the past, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 70-71
  Sweet Mother, I did not understand this passage: In the Mind of Light when it becomes full-orbed this character of the Truth reveals itself though in a garb that is transparent even when it seems to cover

1957-10-09 - As many universes as individuals - Passage to the higher hemisphere, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 73-74
  In fact this was not finished. It stopped short there. There were others to come.

1957-10-16 - Story of successive involutions, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 288
  ***

1957-10-23 - The central motive of terrestrial existence - Evolution, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 824
  I didnt understand, Sweet Mother, what this Consciousness-Force was, so I did not understand anything!

1957-10-30 - Double movement of evolution - Disappearance of a species, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 825-26
  It is difficult to understand, Sweet Mother.

1957-11-13 - Superiority of man over animal - Consciousness precedes form, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 824
  So, from the point of view of form, in what way is man superior to other animals?

1957-11-27 - Sri Aurobindos method in The Life Divine - Individual and cosmic evolution, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 826-27
  This is an argument Sri Aurobindo is presenting. As he has said, it is one way of looking at the problem and solving it, but that does not mean that this is his own point of view. And this is exactly what he does throughout the book, all the time; he presents different arguments, different points of view, different conceptions, and once he has placed all these problems before us, then he comes and gives the solution. And that is why our method of reading has a drawback, for I read one paragraph to you and if we stop there, it seems as though he had proved his own point of view; and then, if by chance one doesnt remember very well and the next time I read another paragraph in which he expounds another point of view sometimes totally different, sometimes even opposite and we stop there, the conclusion is: this too is his point of view. So there is a contradiction. And then if we continue, there are two or three contradictions! I am telling you this because I have heard people who read in a rather superficial way and perhaps also dont read continuously enoughpeople who consider themselves extremely intelligent and learnedwho have told me, But Sri Aurobindo repeats himself all the time in this book! He tells us the same thing again in almost every paragraph. (Mother laughs) For he presents all other points of view, then gives his own, the conclusion; then once again he presents every point of view, gives all the problems, and ends up by proving the truth of what he wants to teach usso he repeats himself!

1957-12-04 - The method of The Life Divine - Problem of emergence of a new species, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 827-28
  In fact, you should do a little preparatory work and note down the new idea in each new paragraph, adding it to the preceding ideas so that at the end of the chapter you have the complete picture; for if you ask me a question now about what I have just read, this question may require an answer that is sometimes almost contradictory to what we have seen in the previous paragraph. That comes from his way of going about the proof. It is as though Sri Aurobindo were putting himself at the centre of a kind of sphere, at the centre of a wheel the spokes of which end in a circumference. And he always goes back to his starting-point and goes all the way out to the surface, and so on, which gives the impression that he repeats the same thing several times, but it is simply the exposition of the thought so that one can follow it. One must have a very clear memory for ideas to really understand what he says.

1957-12-11 - Appearance of the first men, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 829
  Sweet Mother, how did the first man appear?
  --
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 828
  ***

1957-12-18 - Modern science and illusion - Value of experience, its transforming power - Supramental power, first aspect to manifest, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Mother reads a paragraph from The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 829.
  The only really important thing modern science has discovered is that from the purely outer and physical point of view things are not what they seem to be. When you look at a body, a human being, an object, a landscape, you perceive these things with the help of your eyes, your touch, hearing and, for the details, smell and taste; well, science tells you: All that is illusory, you dont see things at all as they are, you dont touch them as they really are, you dont smell them as they really are, you dont taste them as they really are. It is the structure of your organs which puts you in contact with these things in a particular way which is entirely superficial, external, illusory and unreal.

1958-01-29 - The plan of the universe - Self-awareness, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 834
  Sweet Mother, I did not understand the last part of the sentence.

1958-02-05 - The great voyage of the Supreme - Freedom and determinism, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 834-35
  If one wants to state the problem in a way thats more easily accessible to ordinary practical thinking, one could conceive that everything exists from all eternity, and therefore simultaneously, but that this total, simultaneous, eternal existence is like the property, the possession of a Consciousness which would take pleasure in travelling through its domains, find its joy in an almost infinite or anyway indefinite journey throughout all its domains, and would go like this from discovery to discovery of things which already exist, which have always existed but which the Supreme had never visited. And the path he follows in his discovery could be an entirely free, unexpected, unforeseen path according to his choice of the moment, so that, although his whole domain is there from all eternity, existing for ever, he could visit it in an altogether unexpected, unpredictable way, and so open the door to all relationships and possibilities.

1958-03-05 - Vibrations and words - Power of thought, the gift of tongues, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 838-39
  ***

1958-03-12 - The key of past transformations, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 839-40
  The difficulty of the problem is that only a mental being could take an interest in this process of transformation and creation, and that the mental consciousness in the animal species was not sufficient for it to take an interest in this process.

1958-03-19 - General tension in humanity - Peace and progress - Perversion and vision of transformation, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 841-42
  One thing seems obvious, humanity has reached a certain state of general tensiontension in effort, in action, even in daily lifewith such an excessive hyperactivity, so widespread a trepidation, that mankind as a whole seems to have come to a point where it must either break through the resistance and emerge into a new consciousness or else fall back into an abyss of darkness and inertia.

1958-03-26 - Mental anxiety and trust in spiritual power, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 842-43
  It is obvious that what especially characterises man is this mental capacity of watching himself live. The animal lives spontaneously, automatically, and if it watches itself live, it must be to a very minute and insignificant degree, and that is why it is peaceful and does not worry. Even if an animal is suffering because of an accident or an illness, this suffering is reduced to a minimum by the fact that it does not observe it, does not project it in its consciousness and into the future, does not imagine things about its illness or its accident.

1958-04-16 - The superman - New realisation, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 843-44; 846-47
  Anyway, we have now reached a certitude since there is already a beginning of realisation. We have the proof that in certain conditions the ordinary state of humanity can be exceeded and a new state of consciousness worked out which enables at least a conscious relation between mental and supramental man.
  --
    Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 22, p. 35
  ***

1958-05-07 - The secret of Nature, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 848-49
  I did not understand this sentence, Sweet Mother: In the earliest stages of evolutionary Nature we are met by the dumb secrecy of her inconscience. What is this secrecy, Sweet Mother?

1958-05-14 - Intellectual activity and subtle knowing - Understanding with the body, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 851-52
  As the beginnings of the supramental life, which must be the next realisation in the unfolding of the universe, develop, perhaps not in a very obvious way but very surely, it becomes more and more obvious that the most difficult way to approach this supramental life is intellectual activity.

1958-05-28 - The Avatar, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 852-53
  Today I have been asked to speak to you about the Avatar.

1958-06-04 - New birth, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 856-57
  In fact, so long as there is any doubt or hesitation, so long as one asks oneself the question of whether one has or hasnt realised this eternal soul in oneself, it proves that the true contact has not taken place. For, when the phenomenon occurs, it brings with it an inexpressible something, so new and so definitive, that doubt and questioning are no longer possible. It is truly, in the absolute sense of the phrase, a new birth.

1958-06-11 - Is there a spiritual being in everybody?, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 855
  Sweet Mother, is there a spiritual being in everybody?

1958-06-18 - Philosophy, religion, occultism, spirituality, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 860-62
  One point is very remarkable I dont remember whether Sri Aurobindo speaks about it in what follows but among the four activities or realisations he mentionsreligion, occultism, spiritual philosophy and spiritual experiencewhich are necessary for the development and transformation of man, all are not equally accessible to humanity.

1958-06-25 - Sadhana in the body, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 862-63
  This seems to be a very exact description of individual development. It is exactly like that. And so you lose patience or lose courage, for you feel that you are not advancing. But when you engage in the development of the bodymaterial, physical developmentwhen you want the physical body to do sadhana, it is exactly like that. You begin by trying out all kinds of things without precision or exactitude, without knowing which end to begin with, and you feel you are groping, searching, going round and round and going nowhere. And then, gradually, one thing comes up and then another, and it is only very much later that something like a programme begins to be worked out. And this description Sri Aurobindo gives at the end, when the goal of evolution emerges and becomes perceptible, how much care must be taken for it not to be engulfed once again in the primal Inconscience!

1958-07-09 - Faith and personal effort, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 863-64
  Sweet Mother, can faith be increased by personal effort?

1958-07-16 - Is religion a necessity?, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 864-65
  Sweet Mother, is religion a necessity in the life of the ordinary man?

1958-08-15 - Our relation with the Gods, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Thoughts and Aphorisms, in SABCL, Vol. 17, p. 85.
  ***

1958-09-10 - Magic, occultism, physical science, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 875-77
  Sweet Mother, what is white magic?

1958-09-17 - Power of formulating experience - Usefulness of mental development, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 877-78
  Sweet Mother, here Sri Aurobindo writes: An intellectual approach to the highest knowledge, the minds possession of it How is this possible?

1958-09-24 - Living the truth - Words and experience, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 878-80
  Theres enough matter here to ask me at least a dozen questions! (To a child) So, the first of the twelve?

1958-10-22 - Spiritual life - reversal of consciousness - Helping others, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 883-85
  Sweet Mother, how can someone who hasnt much spiritual capacity best help in this work?

1958-10-29 - Mental self-sufficiency - Grace, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 885-86
  Sweet Mother, what is the meaning of spirituality helps mind to escape from itself?

1958-11-05 - Knowing how to be silent, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 886-88
  From the point of view of individual development and for those who are still at the beginning of the path, to know how to remain silent before what one does not understand is one of the things which would help most in the progressto know how to remain silent, not only externally, without uttering a word, but also to know how to be silent within, so that the mind does not assert its ignorance with its usual presumptuousness, does not try to understand with an instrument that is incapable of understanding, that it may know its own weakness and open simply, quietly, waiting until the time has come for it to receive the light, because only the Light, the true Light, can give it understanding. It is not all that it has learnt nor all that it has observed nor all its so-called experience of life, it is something else which is completely beyond it. And until this something elsewhich is the expression of the Gracemanifests within it, if, very quietly, very modestly the mind remains silent and does not try to understand and, above all, to judge, things would go much faster.

1958-11-12 - The aim of the Supreme - Trust in the Grace, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 889-90
  Sweet Mother, how can one find the right stage and turn of ones development?

1958-11-26 - The role of the Spirit - New birth, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 890-91
  What is the role of the spirit?

2.05 - On Poetry, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   (Both quoted in "The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age", Chapter 24, The Human Cycle, SABCL, Vol. 15, p. 253. See also The Future Poetry, CWSA Vol. 26, p. 222.")
   ***

2.08 - Concentration, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 18, p. 213.
  50

7.02 - The Mind, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Now published in Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 22, pp. 151 52.
  This statement was tape-recorded.

Blazing P3 - Explore the Stages of Postconventional Consciousness, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL Vol. 22 p. 257, as quoted in Aurobindo & Dalal (Ed.), A greater
  psychology, 2001, p. 355
  --
  Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL Vol. 22, p. 260, as quoted in Aurobindo & Dalal (Ed.), A greater
  psychology, 2001, p. 355
  --
  Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL Vol. 22, p. 261, as quoted in Aurobindo & Dalal (Ed.), A greater
  psychology, 2001, p. 355
  --
  Aurobindo, The life divine, SABCL Vol. 18, p.124, as quoted in Aurobindo & Dalal (Ed.), A greater
  psychology, 2001, p. 356
  --
  Aurobindo, The supramental manifestation and other writings, SABCL Vol. 16, pp. 41-42 as quoted in
  Aurobindo & Dalal (Ed.), A greater psychology, 2001, pp. 356-357.
  --
  Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL Vol. 22, pp. 259-260, as quoted in Aurobindo & Dalal (Ed.), A greater
  psychology, 2001, p. 359
  --
  Aurobindo, Sri (1970-75). The supramental manifestation and other writings, SABCL Vol. 16,
  Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library. Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

Talks With Sri Aurobindo 2, #Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
  [1] SABCL vol. 18, pp. 543-44.
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