8. Sight in the Subconscient: The subconscient part of our being represents an obscure unconsciousness or half-consciousness submerged below and inferior in its movements to our organised waking awareness. It is in Sri Aurobindo's words "the Inconscient vibrating on the borders of consciousness, sending up its motions to be changed into conscious stuff, swallowing into its depths impressions of past experience as seeds of unconscious habit and, returning them constantly but often chaotically to the surface consciousness, missioning upwards much futile or perilous stuff of which the origin is obscure to us..." (The Life Divine, p. 559) Here are some Sav

13. Sight in the Superconscient: (A) Introduction : We have just now referred to the insufficiency of the normal mind of man to be an instrument for the discovery of the Truth: "Our mind lives far off from the authentic Light Catching at little fragments of the truth..." (161) But if mind fails, what else remains? Again, it has been affirmed that "thought nor word can seize eternal Truth". (276) But, then, if thought proves its impotence, what else can take its place? The answer is: What else? It must be a sight: "Out of our thoughts we must leap up to sight..." (276) Yes, it has to be a sight but surely not the

Third Element: Illuminating Light: We invite our readers to abandon one more of their well-cherished pre-conceived notions. It is as regards the true and essential nature of the light which illuminates an object and makes it accessible to our sight. Most of us take it for granted without much discussion and deliberation that light is essentially a phenomenon of the physical world. But this is not true. Let us listen to Sri Aurobindo and ponder over the implication of what he has to say in the matter: "... it must be noted that, contrary to our ordinary conceptions, light is not primarily a material creation and the sense or vision of light accomp

-002_Publishers^ Note.htm Publishers' Note This is the tenth book coming from the pen of Jugal Kishore Mukherjee who has been residing as an inmate for the last fifty-two years in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, and has been teaching there various subjects to the students of the Higher Course of SAICE (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education). Each one of Mukherjee's previously published books, whether in English or in Bengali, has been the product of carefully conducted research in a separate field of its own. The present book also is no exception to this general characteristic of his literary productions. The titles of the books Jugal Kishore Mukherje

10. Sight: Its Future Apotheosis: We have at last come to the end of our essay. Although the survey has been rather brief given the scope and importance of the subject, we have been, we hope, able to cover the entire ground, albeit in bare outline. But the question is: Does the "sight" too end its itinerary here? Or, who knows, has it any further evolutionary prospect? As Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is a Yoga of Integral Transformation, it is understood that it is not merely the inner consciousness which has to undergo divine transformation, even the outer physical system of man, including all its forms and functions, has to submit itself to th

9. Vision of the Supreme Form: A very difficult question confronts us: Whether the Divine has an original supraphysical Form and power of form from which all other forms proceed, or is eternally formless. The normal conception of the Infinite Being is formlessness but can he not be at once form and the Formless? For the apparent contradiction does not correspond to a real opposition and incompatibility. For, the Formless is not an utter negation of the power of formation but the condition for the Infinite's free play of formation. The Divine is formless but by that very reason capable of manifesting all possible shapes of being. (Adaptation of page 33

8. On Form and Sight: The very first point we have to note carefully is "that not only are the properties of form, even the most obvious such as colour, light, etc. merely operations of Force, but form itself is only an operation of Force. This Force again proves to be self-power of conscious-being in a state of energy and activity. Practically, therefore, all form is only an operation of consciousness impressing itself with presentations of its own workings." (SABCL, Vol. 12, p. 195) Thus the form is the last derivative of an action of the consciousness. A momentous implication follows from this basic fact. Supposing there is an object X with its fundament

9. Sight in the Intraconscient Subliminal: Inner Sight: The intraconscient represents the subliminal part of our existence, the large luminous realm of interior consciousness, that corresponds to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane and even subtle physical plane of our being. Indeed, behind our outer existence, our outer mind and life and body, "Our larger being sits behind cryptic walls: There are greatnesses hidden in our unseen parts That wait their hour to step into life's front... Our inner mind dwells in a larger light, Its brightness looks at us through hidden doors... A mighty life-self with

3. Supramental Sight: Knowledge by identity between the subject and the object, between the seer and the seen, is the basic attribute of the supramental gnosis but this supramental knowledge or experience by identity carries in it as a secondary part of itself a supramental vision. This vision can come even Page-71 before there is any identity, as a sort of emanation of light from this secret underlying unity. This vision may at times be detached from the identity as a separate power. The truth or the thing known is then felt as an object subjectively seen in the self. The supramental eye can see a hundred converging and diverging motions in one

Part One Prolegomenon Section I: Introduction While studying with attention Sri Aurobindo's epic poem Savitri we come across two highly striking verses occurring at two different places almost a hundred pages apart. The first one is: "Out of our thoughts we must leap up to sight" (276)' while the second one is: "A progress leap from sight to greater sight." (177) We said "striking" because in the consideration of the intellectuals thought is a far greater power than mere sight. Our sight is often erroneous in its reporting and misleading in its transcription. Not only that: the visual sense can only give us the superficial image of things and i