Supermind - Force of the New World The Supermind is veiled here and does not work according to its characteristic law of being and self-knowledge, but without it nothing could reach its aim. A world governed by an ignorant mind would soon drift into a chaos; it could not in fact come into existence or remain in existence unless supported by the secret Omniscience of which it is the cover; a world governed by a blind inconscient force might repeat constantly the same mechanical workings but it would mean nothing and arrive nowhere. This could not be the cause of an evolution that creates life out of Matter, out of life mind, and a gradation of planes of

V OCCULT FORCES In a mist of secrecy wrapping the world-scene The little deities of Time's nether act Who work remote from Heaven's controlling eye, Plotted, unknown to the creatures whom they move, The small conspiracies of this petty reign Amused with the small contrivings, the brief hopes And little eager steps and little ways And reptile wallowings in the dark and dust, And the crouch and ignominy of creeping life. A trepidant and motley multitude, A strange pell-mell of magic artisans Was seen moulding the plastic clay of life, An elfin brood, an elemental kind. As

II HIDDEN FORCES WITHIN Only a little of us foresees its steps, Only a little has will and purposed pace. A vast subliminal is man's measureless part. The dim subconscient is his cavern base. SRI AUROBINDO Savitri, Book Seven, Canto Two A portion of us lives in present Time, A secret mass in dim inconscience gropes; Out of the inconscient and subliminal Arisen, we live in mind's uncertain light And strive to know and master a dubious world Whose purpose and meaning are hidden from our sight. Above us dwells a superconscient god Hidden in the mystery of his own light:

Human Will, Nature-Force and Divine Will ... at least nine-tenths of our freedom of will is a palpable fiction; that will is created and determined not by its own self-existent action at a given moment, but by our past, our heredity, our training, our environment, the whole tremendous complex thing we call Karma, which is, behind us, the whole past action of Nature on us and the world converging in the individual, determining what he is, determining what his will shall be at a given moment and determining, as far as analysis can see, even its action at that moment. The ego associates itself always with its Karma and it says "I did" and "I

Universal Vital Force Sweet Mother, how can one draw on "the universal vital Force"? One can do it in many ways. First of all, you must know that it exists and that one can enter into contact with it. Secondly, you must try to make this contact, to feel it circulating everywhere, through everything, in all persons and all circumstances; to have this experience, for example, when you are in the countryside among trees, to see it circulating in the whole of Nature, in trees and things, and then commune with it, feel yourself close to it, and each time you want to deal with it, recall that impression you had and try to enter into contact.

Magic, Miracles and the Planchette In occultism there is the "rebound". You send out a bad thought, it returns to you as an attack. That is exactly one of the reasons why you must have a complete control over your feelings, sensations, thoughts, for if you become angry with someone or think badly of him, or if, still worse, you wish him ill, well, in your very dream you see this person coming with an extreme violence to attack you. Then, if you do not know these things, you say. "Why, I was right in having bad thoughts against him!" But in fact, it is not at all that. It is your own thought that comes back to you. And the person may be absolutely unawa

Forces of Our Formations How can human thought create forms? In the mental world human thought is constantly creating forms. Human thought is very creative in the mental world. All the time when you are thinking, you are creating forms and you send them out in the atmosphere and they go and do their work. Constantly you are surrounded by a heap of small formations. Naturally, there are people who can't even think clearly. So they form nothing at all except faint eddies. But people who think clearly are surrounded by a heap of little forms which, sometimes, go out to do some work in others; and when one thinks of them again, they return.

IV COSMIC AND UNIVERSAL FORCES Awakened to the lines that Nature hides, Attuned to her movements that exceed our ken, He grew one with a covert universe. His grasp surprised her mightiest energies' springs; He spoke with the unknown Guardians of the worlds, Forms he descried our mortal eyes see not. His wide eyes bodied viewless entities, He saw the cosmic forces at their work And felt the occult impulse behind man's will. SRI AUROBINDO Savitri, Book One, Canto Three Page-80

INDEX A Adverse forces see under Force(s) Agni Shakti 162 Astral planes 14 Astrological predictions 13 Astrology 14, 15 Asura 88 Lord of Falsehood 115 Atavism 41,180 Aura 74,83 Automatic writing 127 ff. 130, 131 B Bilwamangal 169 Blavatsky, Madame 113 Buddha, the 181,186 Buddhist(s) 20, 68 C Chance 8, 177-179 Circumconscient. the 37 Communication with the dead 128 "Complexes" 83 Consciousness body-consciousness 36 concealed 30 Divine. 8 other planes of 29 physical 33 planes

THE HIDDEN FORCES OF LIFE Selections from the Works of SRI AUROBINDO and THE MOTHER Compiled by A. S. Dalal INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL PSYCHOLOGY OJAI, CALIFORNIA First Edition 1990 Published in the United States by Institute of Integral Psychology, Ojai, California, and simultaneously in India by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Publication Department, Pondicherry, India. Copyright © 1990 by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry, India. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without prior permission of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Publication Department, Pondic