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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Jugal Kishore Mukherjee/English/The Destiny of the Body/Attempts at ^Kayasiddhi^ and Rejuvenation.htm
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Chapter VII
ATTEMPTS AT 'KAYASIDDHI' AND REJUVENATION
Then man was born among the monstrous stars
Dowered with a mind and heart to conquer thee.
(Sri Aurobindo, Savttri, Book IX, Canto
n,
p, 594)
The Ars magna,
that royal
and sacerdotal science of
the alchemists,
is verily a science of
regeneration.. ..
Many a seeker on
the ways
of the Divine has undergone
spiritual regeneration.
But very few are they who have known the mystery
of corporal
renewal.
(D'Eckhartshausen,
La Nuée sur le Sanctuaire)
Senescence and
natural death, 'la mort
naturelle', are
thus seen to be not at all nec
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Jugal Kishore Mukherjee/English/The Destiny of the Body/Supermind and Master-Key.htm
Chapter VI
SUPERMIND THE MASTER-KEY
The principle of the process of evolution is a foundation, from that
foundation an ascent, in that ascent a reversal of consciousness and, from that
greater height and wideness gained, an action of change and new integration of
the whole Nature.
(Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, p. 724)
Ascent is the first necessity, but an integration is an accompanying
intention of the spirit in Nature.
(Ibid., p. 637)
We want an integral transformation, the transformation of the body and all
its activities.
Formerly when one spoke of transformation, one meant solely the
transformation of the inn
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Jugal Kishore Mukherjee/English/The Destiny of the Body/The Conquest.htm
Chapter XI
THE CONQUEST
The Spirit's tops and Nature's base shall draw
Near to the secret of their
separate truth
And know each other as one deity.
The Spirit shall look out
through Matter's gaze
And Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face.
Then man and
superman shall be at one
And all the earth become a single life.
(Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book XI, Canto I, p. 709)
A manifestation of the Supermind and its truth-consciousness is...inevitable; it
must happen in this world sooner or later. But it has two aspects, a descent
from above, an ascent from below, a self-revelation of the Spir
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Jugal Kishore Mukherjee/English/The Destiny of the Body/Why Material Alimentation.htm
Chapter VII
WHY MATERIAL ALIMENTATION?
We do, however unconsciously, draw constantly upon the universal energy, the
force in Matter to replenish our material existence and the mental, vital and
other potencies in the body: we do it directly in the invisible processes of
interchange constantly kept up by Nature and by special means devised by her;
breathing is one of these, sleep also and repose. But as her basic means for
maintaining and renewing the gross physical body and its workings and inner
potencies, Nature has selected the taking in of outside matter in the shape of
food, its digestion, assimilation of what is assimilable and elimination o
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Part Four
THE PROBLEM OF MATERIAL ALIMENTATION
Chapter I
THE PROBLEM
All that is Breath has its life in food.
(Aitareya Upanishad, I-3.10)
Life is established upon food.
(Maitri Upanishad, VI.11)
It is obvious...that so long as we depend, in order to live, upon
material food, upon absorption of matter in such a gross form, we shall be an
animal inferior enough and we shall not be able to divinise our life.
We must then conceive that this animality in the human being will be replaced
by some other source of life-power. It is not only a conceivable, but already a
partially realisable thing; and that is evidently t
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Chapter VI
THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF SLEEP
An inertia sunk towards inconscience,
A sleep that imitates death is his repose.
(Savitri, Book II, Canto V, p. 164)
Even in the tracts of sleep is scant repose;
He mocks life's steps in strange subconscient dreams,
He strays in a sublime realm of symbol scenes,
His night with thin-air visions and dim forms
He packs or peoples with slight drifting shapes
And only a moment spends in silent self.
(Savitri, Book VII, Canto II, p. 479)
We have stated that so long as the universal psycho-spiritual slumber is not
definitively ended in man's being, his body's
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Chapter IX
THE INWARDIZATION AND THE ASCENSION
His knowledge an inview caught unfathomable,
An outview by no brief horizons cut:
He thought and felt in all, his gaze had power.
(Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book II, Canto XV, p. 301)
The thing to be gained is the bringing in of a Power of Consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the
spiritual life, but yet to be organised and made directly active.
(Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, p. 109)
The overhead ascension is not indispensable for the usual spiritual purposes, —
but it is indispensable for the pu