MEDITATION AND CONCENTRATION IN THE INTEGRAL YOGA (25-08-10) Asceticism is no doubt very healing, a cave very peaceful and the hill-tops wonderfully pleasant; nevertheless do thou act in the world as God intended thee Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 305) MEDITATION AND CONCENTRATION IN THE INTEGRAL YOGA ….. Ordinarily the consciousness is spread out everywhere, dispersed, running in this or that direction, after this subject and that object in multitude. When anything has to be done of a sustained nature the first thing one does is to draw back all this dispersed consciousness and concentrate. It is then, if one looks closely, bound to be concentrated in one place and on one oc

OBJECT OF SEEKING THE SUPERMIND (15-12-10) My Lover took His crown and royal necklace from His head and neck and clothed me with them; but the disciples of the saints and the prophets abused me and said, "He is hunting after siddhis." Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 441) OBJECT OF SEEKING THE SUPERMIND These egoistic terms are not those in which my vital moves. It is a higher Truth I seek, whether it makes men greater or not is not the question, but whether it will give them truth and peace and light to live in and make life something better than a struggle with ignorance and falsehood and pain and strife. Then, even if they are less great than the men of the past, my object will

Basic Requisites of the Path (27-10-10) If I cared even for your praise, O ye saints, if I cherished my reputation, O ye prophets, my Lover would never have taken me into His bosom and given me the freedom of His secret chambers. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 441) Basic Requisites of the Path …….Sincerity especially is indispensable to the spiritual endeavour, and crookedness a constant obstacle. The sattwic nature has always been held to be the most apt and ready for the spiritual life, while the rajasic nature is encumbered by its desires and passions. At the same time, spirituality is something above the dualities, and what is most needed for it is a true upward aspiration.

“The Progress to Knowledge—God, Man and Nature” (15-09-10) God struck me with a human hand; shall I say then, " i pardon Thee thy insolence, O God"? Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms23) “The Progress to Knowledge—God, Man and Nature” To rise out of the sevenfold Ignorance into the integral Knowledge is the progress of man's being; it is to grow in all his complex existence and consciousness into the full possession and enjoyment of his whole and his true being.—He starts with three categories, himself, Nature or cosmos and God, and though he tries to deny any two of these in order to affirm the third only, he cannot really succeed; for he is neither separate nor sufficient to himself,

The Supramental Evolution (14-04-10) Genius is Nature's first attempt to liberate the imprisoned god out of her human mould; the mould has to suffer in the process. It is astonishing that the cracks are so few and unimportant. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms214 ) The Supramental Evolution (continuation) of 7th April 2010) : But Intuition takes its proper form only when one goes beyond the mental into the spiritual domain, for there only it comes fully forward from behind the veil and reveals its true and complete nature. Along with the mental evolution of man there has been going forward the early process of another evolution which prepares the spiritual and supramental being.

THE HOUR OF GOD (17-01-10) THE HOUR OF GOD (The Supramental Yoga) …. The Supramental Yoga is at once an ascent towards God and a descent of Godhead into the embodied nature.   The ascent can only be achieved by a one-centred all-gathering upward aspiration of the soul and mind and life and body; the descent can only come by a call of the whole being towards the infinite and eternal Divine. If this call and this aspiration are there, or if by any means they can be born and grow constantly and seize all the nature, then and then only a supramental uplifting and transformation becomes possible. The call and the aspiration are only first conditions; there must be along with them and

Harmony (05-06-10) Harmony   Harmony: let us strive that the day may come when this will be the means and the end. Harmony is my aim and all that leads to harmony makes me happy. Integral harmony: harmony between things, harmony between people, harmony of circumstances and above all harmony of all aspiration directed towards the Supreme Truth. A harmonious collective aspiration can change the course of circumstances. Collective harmony is the work undertaken by the Divine Consciousness; It alone has the power to realise it. There is a deep and true consciousness in which all can meet in love and harmony. It is only in union with the Divine and in the Divine that harmony and peace can be est

The Stillness of the Mind (Na Kinchidapin Chintayet) (02-05-10) The Stillness of the Mind ( Na Kinchidapin Chintayet) …….. The stillness of the mind is prepared by the process of concentration. In the science of Rajayoga after the heart has been stilled and the mind prepared, the next step is to subjugate the body by means of asan or the fixed and motionless seat. The aim of this fixity is twofold, first the stillness of the body and secondly the forgetfulness of the body. When one can sit still and utterly forget the body for a long period of time, then the asan is said to have been mastered. In ordinary concentration when the body is only comparatively still it is not noticed, but there is

THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF YOGA (01-12-10) Because God has willed and foreseen everything, thou shouldst not therefore sit inactive and wait upon His providence, for thy action is one of His chief effective forces. Up then and be doing, not with egoism, but as the circumstance, instrument and apparent cause of the event that He has predetermined. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-131) THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF YOGA By YOGA we can rise out of falsehood into truth, out of weakness into force, out of pain and grief into bliss, out of bondage into freedom, out of death into immortality, out of darkness into light, out of confusion into purity, out of imperfection into perfection, out of self-

Cellular Mind and Physical Mind (18-04-10) Cellular Mind and Physical Mind …… Then what is the difference between this material mind and the physical mind? The physical mind is the mind of the physical personality formed by the body. It grows with the body, but it is not the mind of Matter: it is the mind of the physical being. For example, it is this physical mind which gives the character – the bodily character, the physical character – and which is in a large measure formed by atavism and by education. All this is called the “physical mind”.   …… But then, for example, this mind which is spontaneously defeatist, having all sorts of fears, apprehensions, always seeing the worst