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Chapter XXIII
The
Supramental Instruments – Thought-Process
THE supermind, the divine gnosis, is not something entirely alien to our present
consciousness: it is a superior instrumentation of the spirit and all the
operations of our normal consciousness are limited and inferior derivations
from the supramental, because these are tentatives
and constructions, that the true and perfect, the spontaneous and harmonious
nature and action of the spirit. Accordingly when we rise from mind to
supermind, the new power of consciousness does not reject, but uplifts, enlarges
and transfigures the operations of our soul and mind and life. It exalts and
gives to them an ev
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Chapter XIII
The
Action of Equality
THE
distinctions that have already been made, will have shown in sufficiency what
is meant by the status of equality. It is not mere quiescence and indifference,
not a withdrawal from experience, but a superiority to the present reactions of
the mind and life. It is the spiritual way of replying to life or rather of
embracing it and compelling it to become a perfect form of action of the self
and spirit. It is the first secret of the soul's mastery of existence. When we
have it in perfection, we are admitted to the very ground of the divine
spiritual nature. The mental being in the body tries to compel and conquer
life, but is
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Chapter IV
The
Perfection of the Mental Being
THE
fundamental idea of a Yoga of self-perfection must be, under these conditions,
a reversal of the present relations of the soul of man to his mental, vital and
physical nature. Man is at present a partly self-conscious soul subject to and
limited by mind, life and body, who has to become an entirely self-conscious
soul master of his mind, life and body. Not limited by their claims and
demands, a perfect self-conscious soul would be superior to and a free possessor
of its instruments. This effort of man to be master of his own being has been
the sense of a large part of his past spiritual, intellectual an
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Chapter XI
The
Perfection of Equality
THE
very first necessity for spiritual perfection is a perfect equality. Perfection
in the sense in which we use it in Yoga, means a growth out of a lower undivine
into a higher divine nature. In terms of knowledge it is a putting on the being
of the higher self and a casting away of the darker broken lower self or a
transforming of our imperfect state into the rounded luminous fullness of our
real and spiritual personality. In terms of devotion and adoration it is a
growing into a likeness of the nature or the law of the being of the Divine, to
be united with whom we aspire, – for if there is not this likeness, this
onene
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Chapter VII
The
Ananda Brahman
THE
way of devotion in the integral synthetic Yoga will take the form of a seeking
after the Divine through love and delight and a seizing with joy on all the
ways of his being. It will find its acme in a perfect union of love and a
perfect enjoyment of all the ways of the soul's intimacy with God. It may start
from knowledge or it may start from works, but it will then turn knowledge into
a joy of luminous union with the being of the Beloved and turn works into a joy
of the active union of our being with the will and the power of being of the
Beloved. Or it may start directly from love and delight; it will then take both
these other th
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Chapter XXV
Towards the
Supramental Time Vision
ALL
being, consciousness, knowledge moves, secretly for our present surface
awareness, openly when we rise beyond it to the spiritual and supramental
ranges, between two states and powers of existence, that of the timeless
Infinite and that of the Infinite deploying in itself and organising all things
in time. These two states are opposed to and incompatible with each other only
for our mental logic with its constant embarrassed stumbling around a false conception
of contradictions and a confronting of eternal opposites. In reality, as we
find when we see things with a knowledge founded on the suprament
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Chapter I
Love and the Triple Path
WILL, knowledge and love are
the three divine powers in human nature and the life of man, and they point
to the three paths by which the human soul rises to the divine. The
integrality of them, the union of man with God in all the three, must
therefore, as we have seen, be the foundation of an integral Yoga.
Action is
the first power of life. Nature begins with force and its works which, once
conscious in man, become will and its achievements; therefore it is that by
turning his action Godwards the life of man best and most surely begins to
become divine. It is the door of first access, the starti
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Chapter XX
The
Intuitive Mind
THE
original nature of supermind is the self-conscience and all-conscience of the
Infinite, of the universal Spirit and Self in things, organising on the
foundation and according to the character of a direct self-knowledge its own
wisdom and effective omnipotence for the unfolding and the regulated action of
the universe and of all things in the universe. It is, we might say, the gnosis
of the Spirit master of its own cosmos, ātmā jñātā īśvarah.
As it knows itself, so too it knows all things – for all are only becomings of
itself – directly, totally and from within outward, spontaneously in detail and
arrangement, each thing in the truth
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Chapter VII
Purification—Intelligence and Will
TO
PURIFY the buddhi we must first understand its rather complex composition. And
first we have to make clear the distinction, ignored in ordinary speech,
between the Manas, mind, and buddhi,
the discerning intelligence and the enlightened will. Manas is the sense mind.
Man's initial mentality is not at all a thing of reason and will; it is an
animal, physical or sense mentality which constitutes its whole experience from
the impressions made on it by the external world and by its own embodied
consciousness which responds to the outward stimulus of this kind of
experience. The buddhi only comes in as a seco
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Chapter IV
The
Way of Devotion
BHAKTI
in itself is as wide as the heart-yearning of the soul for the Divine and as
simple and straightforward as love and desire going straight towards their
object. It cannot therefore be fixed down to any systematic method, cannot
found itself on a psychological science like the Rajayoga, or a psycho-physical
like the Hathayoga, or start from a definite intellectual process like the
ordinary method of the Jnanayoga. It may employ various means or supports, and
man, having in him atendency towards order, process
and system, may try to methodise his resort to these
auxiliaries: but to give an account of their variations one would have