9. Sight in the Intraconscient Subliminal: Inner Sight:

The intraconscient represents the subliminal part of our existence, the large luminous realm of interior consciousness, that corresponds to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane and even subtle physical plane of our being. Indeed, behind our outer existence, our outer mind and life and body,

"Our larger being sits behind cryptic walls:

There are greatnesses hidden in our unseen parts

That wait their hour to step into life's front...

Our inner mind dwells in a larger light,

Its brightness looks at us through hidden doors...

A mighty life-self with its inner powers

Supports the dwarfish modicum we call life...

Our body's subtle self is throned within

In its viewless palace of veridical dreams..." (484, 485)

Thus, the subliminal reach of our being comprises our inner existence. It is the realm of subtle supraphysical experiences and visions and heavenly intimations, a veritable world of wonderful illuminations, and it is in this realm that our mind and vital being retire when they manage to withdraw by inward-drawn concentration from their absorption in surface activities.

Here are some verses from Savitri describing the nature of the inner awakening and what happens when the inner sight opens:

(1)"... when our sight is turned within,

Earth's ignorant veil is lifted from our eyes" (47)

(2)"(Saw] in still lucidities of sight's inner world"

(412)

(3)"Plunging her deep regard into herself (538)

(4)"Opened the windows of the inner sight" (28)

(5)"Lived on the tablets of my inner sight" (405)

(6)"Upon an inner vision's motionless verge" (360)

(7)"Plunged into an inner seeing Mind" (407)

(8)"With the arrow-point of being's inmost gaze"

(438)

(9)"Her inner gaze [beheld] the movements of the

soul" (416)

(10)"Through an inner seeing and sense a wakening

came" (404)

(11)"Where all is deep and strange to the eyes that see"

(64)

(12)"And passes over the edge of mortal sight

To a new vision of himself and things." (71)

(13)"And Fate revealed a chain of seeing will" (76)

(14)"He looked into the unseen with seeing eyes"

(423)

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