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Transformation of the Mind (19.01.2014)
Transformation of the Mind
Its [the intellect's] function is to
reason from the perceptions of the mind
and senses, to form conclusions and to
put things in logical relation with each
other. A well-trained intellect is a
good preparation of the mind for greater
knowledge, but it cannot itself give the
yogic knowledge or know the Divine – it
can only have ideas about the Divine,
but having ideas is not knowledge. In
the course of the sadhana intellect
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Birth into the Spirit (08.01.2014)
Evolution is not finished;
reason is not the last word nor
the reasoning animal the
supreme figure of Nature.
As man emerged out of the
animal,
so out of man the superman
emerges.
Sri Aurobindo
(Thoughts and Aphorisms –
162)
Birth into the Spirit
In the individual existence,
that [the spirit] is what makes all the difference; so
long as one just speaks of the spirit and it is
something one has read about, whose existence one
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The Ordinary Life and the True Soul (05.01.2014)
The Ordinary Life and the True Soul
5th January
2014
The ordinary life is a round of various desires and greeds. As long
as one is preoccupied with them, there can be no lasting progress.
Away out of the round must be discovered. Take, as an instance, that
commonest preoccupation of ordinary life—the constant thinking by
people of what they will eat and when they will eat and whether they
are eating enough. To conquer the greed for food an equanimity in
the being must be developed such that you are perfectly indifferent
towards food. If food is given you, you eat it; if not,
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The Planes or Worlds of Consciousness (02-06-13)
The Planes or Worlds of Consciousness
The System of Planes or Worlds
What we speak of are planes of consciousness—the physical is the lowest, above
it the ordinary vital, above it the emotional (heart), above it the mental,
above the mental are other planes. There is a psychic plane behind the emotional
which influences all the others.
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The physical is not the only world; there are others that we become aware of
through dream records, through the subtle senses, through influences and
contacts, through imagination, intuition and vision. There are worlds of a
larger subtler life than ours, vital worlds; worlds in which Mind builds its
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Psychic Education and Spiritual Education (01-09-13)
Psychic Education and Spiritual Education
The starting-point is to seek in yourself that which is independent of the body
and the circumstances of life, which is not born of the mental formation that
you have been given, the language you speak, the habits and customs of the
environment in which you live, the country where you are born or the age to
which you belong. You must find, in the depths of your being, that which carries
in it a sense of universality, limitless expansion, unbroken continuity. Then
you decentralise, extend and widen yourself; you begin to live in all things and
in all beings; the barriers separating individuals fro
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Insults: Remain Immobile (10.07.13)
It is well not to be too loosely playful in one’s games or too grimly serious
in one’s life and works. We seek in both a playful freedom and a serious order.
Sri Aurobindo
(Thoughts and Aphorisms - 380)
Insults: Remain Immobile
Suppose someone insults you; if in the face of these insults, you can remain
immobile (not only outwardly, I mean integrally), without being shaken or
touched in any way: you are there like a force against which one can do nothing
and you do not reply, you do not make a gesture, you do not say a word, all the
insults thrown at you leave you absolutely untouched, within and without; you
can keep your heart-beats absolutely quiet,
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Make Your Consciousness Vast – I (30-10-13)
The path of works is in a way the most difficult side of God's triune
causeway; yet is it not also, in this material world at least, the easiest,
widest and most delightful? For at every moment we clash against God the worker
and grow into His being by a thousand divine touches.
Sri Aurobindo
(Thoughts and Aphorisms – 372)
Make Your Consciousness Vast – I
Q: Sweet Mother, how can we make our consciousness vast?
A: Vast? Ah, there are many ways of doing this.
The easiest way is to identify yourself with something vast. For instance, when
you feel that you are shut up in a completely narrow and limited thought, will,
conscious
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True Surrender Enlarges You- (9thJanuary 2013)
Knowledge is a child with its achievements;
for when it has found out something,
it runs about the streets whooping and shouting;
Wisdom conceals hers for a long time in a thoughtful and mighty silence.
Sri Aurobindo
(Thoughts and Aphorisms-111)
True Surrender Enlarges You
By surrender we mean…… a spontaneous self- giving, a giving of all your self to
the Divine, to a greater Consciousness of which you are a part. Surrender will
not diminish, but increase; it will not lessen or weaken or destroy your
personality, it will fortify and aggrandise it. Surrender means a free total
giving with all the delight of the giving; there is no sense of s
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Works and Sacrifice (04.08.13)
Works and Sacrifice
THE YOGA of the intelligent will and its culmination in the Brahmic status,
which occupies all the close of the second chapter, contains the seed of much of
the teaching of the Gita, — its doctrine of desireless works, of equality, of
the rejection of outward renunciation, of devotion to the Divine; but as yet all
this is slight and obscure. What is most strongly emphasised as yet is the
withdrawal of the will from the ordinary motive of human activities, desire,
from man’s normal temperament of the sense-seeking thought and will with its
passions and ignorance, and from its customary habit of troubled many branching
ideas and wishes to the
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The Illusion of Action (05-06-13)
If you only imitate visible Nature, you will perpetrate either a corpse, a
dead sketch or a monstrosity; Truth lives in that which goes behind & beyond the
visible & sensible. (Thoughts and Aphorisms - 144)
The Illusion of Action
Agitation, haste, restlessness lead nowhere. It is foam on the sea; it is a
great fuss that stops with itself. Men have a feeling that if they are not all
the time running about and bursting into fits of feverish activity, they are
doing nothing. It is an illusion to think that all these so-called movements
change things. It is merely taking a cup and beating the water in it; the water
is moved about, but it is not changed