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Chapter XIII
The Difficulties of the Mental Being
WE
HAVE come to this stage in our development of
the path of Knowledge that we began by affirming the realisation of our pure
self, pure existence above the terms of mind, life and body, as the first object
of this Yoga, but we now affirm that this is not sufficient and that we must
also realise the Self or Brahman in its essential modes and primarily in its
triune reality as Sachchidananda. Not only pure existence, but
pure consciousness and pure bliss of its being and consciousness are the reality
of the Self and the essence of Brahman.
Further,
there are two kinds of realisation of Self
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Chapter XXVI
Samadhi
INTIMATELY connected with the aim of the
Yoga of Knowledge which must always be the growth, the ascent or the withdrawal
into a higher or a divine consciousness not now normal to us, is the importance
attached to the phenomenon of Yogic trance, to Samadhi. It is supposed that
there are states of being which can only be gained in trance; that especially
is to be desired in which all action of awareness is abolished and there is no
consciousness at all except the pure supramental immersion in immobile,
timeless and infinite being. By passing away in this trance the soul departs
into the silence of the highest Nirvana without possibility of return into an
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Chapter
III
The
Purified Understanding
THE description
of the status of knowledge to which we aspire, determines the means of knowledge
which we shall use. That status of knowledge may be summed up as a supramental
realisation which is prepared by mental representations through various mental
principles in us and once attained again reflects itself more perfectly in all
the members of the being. It is a re-seeing and therefore a remoulding of our
whole existence in the light of the Divine and One and Eternal free from
subjection to the appearances of things and the externalities of our superficial
being.
Such a
passage from the human to the divi
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Chapter XXII
Vijnana or Gnosis
IN
OUR perfect self-transcendence we pass out
and up from the ignorance or half-enlightenment of our mental conscious-being
into a greater wisdom-self and truth-power above it, there to dwell in the unwalled light of a divine knowledge. The mental man that
we are is changed into the gnostic soul, the truth-conscious godhead, the vijñānamaya puruşa. Seated on
that level of the hill of our ascension we are in a quite different plane from
this material, this vital, this mental poise of the universal spirit, and with
this change changes too all our view and experience of our soul-life and of the
world around us. We are born into a new so
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Chapter
I
The Object of
Knowledge
ALL spiritual
seeking moves towards an object of Knowledge to which men ordinarily do not turn
the eye of the mind, to someone or something Eternal, Infinite, Absolute that is
not the temporal things or forces of which we are sensible, although he or it
may be in them or behind them or their source or creator. It aims at a state of
knowledge by which we can touch, enter or know by identity this Eternal,
Infinite and Absolute, a consciousness other than our ordinary consciousness of
ideas and forms and things, a Knowledge that is not what we call knowledge but
something self-existent, everlasting, infinite. And although
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Chapter VIII
The Release from the Heart and the
Mind
BUT the
ascending soul has to separate itself not only from the life in the body but
from the action of the life-energy in the mind; it has to make the mind say as
the representative of the Purusha “I am not the Life; the Life is not the self
of the Purusha, it is only a working and only one working of Prakriti.” The
characteristics of Life are action and movement, a reaching out to absorb and
assimilate what is external to the individual and a principle of satisfaction
or dissatisfaction in what it seizes upon or what comes to it, which is
associated with the all-pervading phenomenon of att
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Chapter VI
The Ascent of the Sacrifice – 2
The Works of Love –The Works of Life
IT IS therefore
through the sacrifice of love, works and knowledge with the psychic being as the
leader and priest of the sacrifice that life itself can be transformed into its
own true spiritual figure. If the sacrifice of knowledge rightly done is easily
the largest and purest offering we can bring to the Highest, the sacrifice of
love is not less demanded of us for our spiritual perfection; it is even more
intense and rich in its singleness and can be made not less vast and pure. This
pure wideness is brought into the intensity of the sacrifice of love when into
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Chapter I
Life and Yoga
THERE
are two necessities of Nature's workings which seem always to intervene in the
greater forms of human activity, whether these belong to our ordinary fields of
movement or seek those exceptional spheres and fulfilments which appear to us
high and divine. Every such form tends towards a harmonised complexity and
totality which again breaks apart into various channels of special effort and
tendency, only to unite once more in a larger and more puissant synthesis.
Secondly, development into forms is an imperative rule of effective
manifestation; yet all truth and practice too strictly formulated becomes old
and l
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Chapter XXIV
Gnosis and Ananda
THE ascent to the gnosis, the possession of
something of the gnostic consciousness must elevate the soul of man and sublimate
his life in the world into a glory of light and power and bliss and infinity
that can seem in comparison with the lame action and limited realisations of
our present mental and physical existence the very status and dynamis of a
perfection final and absolute. And it is a true perfection, such as nothing
before it has yet been in the ascension of the spirit. For even the highest
spiritual realisation on the plane of mentality has in it something top-heavy,
one-sided and exclusive; even the widest mental spiritua
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Chapter
III
Self-Surrender
in Works – The Way of the Gita
LIFE, not a remote silent or
high-uplifted ecstatic Beyond-Life alone, is the field of our Yoga. The
transformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking,
seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an
integrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the
divine way of life must be its central purpose. The means towards this supreme
end is a self-giving of all our nature to the Divine. Everything must be given
to the Divine within us, to the universal All and to the transcendent Supreme.
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