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-008_ Elements Involved in the Act of ^Seeing^.htm
Section IV:
Elements Involved in the Act of "Seeing"
There is much that we are going to say in the present Section and in the two or three Sections hereafter which may meet with derisive cynicism in the minds of those who have been brought up in the atmosphere of contemporary rational-scientific education. We make no attempt to convince these sceptics about the validity of the affirmations we are going to make in the course of our discussion. For the present essay is not a polemical one: it does not want to indulge in any sterile debate in its rather limited span. All that we are going to say is meant solely for those amongst our rea
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Section V:
Supraphysical Subtle Visions
The first question we have to answer is: What is, after all, a "vision"? Here are two passages from the Mother's writings which make the point absolutely unambiguous:
(1) "A vision is a perception, by the visual organs, of Phenomena that really exist in a world corresponding to the organ which sees. For example, to the individual vital plane there corresponds a cosmic vital world. When a human
being is sufficiently developed he possesses an individualised vital being with organs of sight, hearing, smell, etc. So a Person who has a well-developed vital being can see in the vial world with his v
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Fourth Element:
Obstruction to the Sight:
As in the case of an ordinary physical sight the interposition of an opaque obstacle in between the viewer of an object and the object itself is liable to prevent the vision of the object from taking place, so in the case of a subtle supraphysical vision the "seer" has to take care that no "opaque" psychological obstacle intervenes between his ' 'eye'' of vision and the reality of the object viewed. Some of these possible obstructions are well-known: (1) the insistent outward-darting action of the physical senses; (2) the turbidity and restlessness of vital desires; (3) the agitated activity of the thinking mi
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4 Sight:
Its Determinative Power:
It is a noteworthy fact that an immediate intuitive consciousness of things often leads to an immediate intuitive control of things. Also, a constantly held vision of what one would like to happen helps the thing to grow into a reality. There is a significant passage on p. 302 of Mother's Questions and Answers 1953 as regards the action of the Supermind in the world. The Mother says
inter alia:
"... it is conscious of the difference between the world as it is and the world as it ought to be. Every moment it sees the gulf between what is and what should be, between the truth and the falsehood that is
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Part Three
Vision in the "Higher Hemisphere"
1. Beyond the Reach of Sight:
The central theme of our essay has been the study of the itinerary of the ascent of sight. Following this course we have travelled from the "sightless sight" of the Inconscient up to the "cosmic gaze" of the Overmind. But all these belong to what was called by the ancient Indian mystics the "Lower Hemisphere" of our existence. But the reach of the Reality far transcends the borders of this Overmind zone of consciousness.
Now, there are three unified principles of the Divine, viz., the Existence principle (Sat), the Consciousness-Force principle (Chit-Shakt
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12. Sight in the Waking State:
We now come to the
waking consciousness, the habitual consciousness of most men, which the
subliminal and the subconscient have thrown up on the surface, just a wave of
their secret surge.
The normal man's waking
consciousness is a limping
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surface consciousness shut up in the
body's limitation and within the confines of the little bit of personal mind.
One is ordinarily aware only of his surface self and quite ignorant of all that
functions behind the veil. "And yet what is on the surface, what we know or
think we know of ourselves and even believe that that is all we are, is only a
small
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Behind the Genesis of the Book
I have been studying Savitri, the inestimable epic of Sri Aurobindo, regularly and assiduously for the last five decades; indeed, since the time in 1950 and 1951 when the entire Poem came out for the first time in book-form in a two-volume edition.
Also, being a teacher in the Higher Course of SAICE (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education), I have had the good fortune of studying Savitri in depth along with a number of senior students of SAICE who happened to opt in each academic Session since 1967 to make a meditative study of this super-creation of Sri Aurobindo which the Mother has characterised as ' 'th
-007_ Analysis of the Process of ^Seeing^.htm
Section III:
Analysis of the Process of "Seeing"
It has by now been made sufficiently clear that Sri Aurobindo's epic poem Savitri embodies his visional experiences (and of the Mother's too) in all their depth and height and comprehensiveness. We may venture to call Savitri "A panoramic Vision of the Ascent of Sight". Indeed, it is with a thrill that we discover, mentioned in the body of this great Poem, hundreds of different "sights" with their nature precisely delineated and their respective places and values clearly indicated. To satisfy the curiosity of the readers we mention below only a few representative ones amongst the various "s
7. The Vision of the Universal Spirit:
This vision does not limit itself to that of the One in the All; it extends itself to cover the integral perception of the All as the One. This universe in its entirety is the very Supreme Self figured in cosmic existence. The vision of the universal Purusha offers the Sadhaka a concrete living sight, in vivid images, of the visible greatness of the invisible Divine. The Sadhaka can then see the whole world related and unified in the very Body of the Divine. The soul admitted to this awe-inspiring vision beholds all things in one view, not with a divided, partial, and therefore bewildered seeing of the mental co
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4. Divine's Self-Vision:
The ascending march of sight continues even beyond the supramental gnosis and arrives at the point where the cosmic manifestation has not yet begun and the static Sachchidananda is still absorbed in himself. What is the nature of sight there?
By adapting what Sri Aurobindo has said in his commentary on the Isha Upanishad we may venture to say that we arrive, in the status of non-manifestation, at the light of the supreme superconscient in which even the intuitive knowledge of the truth of things based upon the total and integral vision — so characteristic of the supramental sight - passes into self-luminous self-vision of the one Exi