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Integral Transformtion
“Our soul is not the overt guide and master of our thought and acts; it has to rely on the mental, vital, physical instruments for self-expression and is constantly overpowered by our mind and life-force: but if once it can succeed in remaining in constant communion with its own larger occult reality, --and this can only happen when we go deep into our subliminal parts, --it is no longer dependent, it can become powerful and sovereign, armed with an intrinsic spiritual perception of the truth of things and a spontaneous discernment which separates that truth from the falsehood of the Ignorance and Inconscience, distinguishes the divine and the undivine in the manifestation and so can be the luminous leader of our other parts of nature. It is indeed when this happens that there can be the turning-point towards an integral transformation and an integral knowledge.”⁴⁵
Sri Aurobindo
“If the control of that highest spiritual being is to be brought into our waking life, there must be a conscious heightening and widening into immense ranges of new being, new consciousness, new potentialities of action, a taking up—as integral as possible—of our present being, consciousness, activities and a transmutation of them into divine values which would effect a transfiguration of our human existence. For wherever a radical transition has to be made, there is always this triple movement—ascent, widening of field and base, integration –in Nature’s method of self-transcendence.”⁴⁶
Sri Aurobindo
“But since the integral transformation must embrace fully the dynamic being and take up into it the life of action and the world-self outside us, this completer change is demanded of the evolving nature.”⁴⁷
Sri Aurobindo
“A complete and radical change can only be brought about by bringing in persistently the spiritual light and intimate experience of the spiritual truth, power, bliss into the recalcitrant elements until they too recognise that their own way of fulfilment lies there, that they are themselves a diminished power of the spirit and can recover by this new way of being their own truth and integral nature. This illumination is constantly opposed by the Forces of the lower nature and still more by the adverse Forces that live and reign by the world’s imperfections and have laid down their formidable foundation on the black rock of the Inconscience.”⁴⁸
Sri Aurobindo
“The animal in us, — the infernal also, — has its lair of retreat in the dense jungle of the subconscience. To penetrate there, to bring in light and establish a control, is indispensable for the completeness of any higher life, for any integral transformation of the nature.”⁴⁹
Sri Aurobindo
The Integral Transformation
Miraculous realisations do occur intermittently due to intervention of Divine Grace but they do not last long. Those who are open towards Modern Science or slow evolutionary change, in them the Divine force works sometimes, produces fantastic miraculous results related with new discovery but it does not recur or repeat at will. ‘The doors of light are sealed to common mind.’³² It is only when one purifies intellect with the aid of subjective enquiry related with unveiling the secret truth behind material existence then through that exercise one is established in subtle physical consciousness which no longer undulates in between surface and inner consciousness; then, one arrives at more established intuitive consciousness with full mastery of how to use the Divine Force at will. Man can do miracles if his mind can receive brief God’s light, if his will can be made one with God’s Will for a brief period, if his thought can echo briefly the thoughts of God and if the force in him can be driven briefly by the God’s Force.
One can repeat this experience of God’s invasion and transformation of Nature at will like a chemistry experiment and this intermitent invasion can be established as constant descent of Divine Force in the long run and it can bring lasting change or we understand the Divine Force will penetrate Matter to remould it as more conscious, suppler and more perfect a vessel. If the intensity of this descent of Divine Force is heightened, by discovering the movement of Consciousness between higher and lower ranges, then that will bring a constitutional change of material substance. To become an indispensable part and portion of this vast plastic change is the evolution of new Supra-physical Science, to which modern Science can provide a sufficient base and foundation.
The earth being’s heavenward growth began with the ‘first descent’² of Divine force or with the pouring in of ‘God’s first delight’³ or ‘the first world-creating Bliss’²³ which repeats itself in some best moments and its intensity grows in proportion till ‘his soul’s first release from Ignorance and his mind and body’s first spiritual change’⁴ and this transforming process further continues until he shall arrive at ‘Time’s golden best’⁵ or the ‘earth’s last salvation.’⁶ Each repetition of ‘new descent’²⁴ in earth’s Spiritual history supports the miracle of change, and this change enlarges gradually the capacity of earth being which ultimately grows to the measure of holding the weight of the Infinite. A slow and long change is recommended for the recalcitrant gross physical substance by the intervention of Divine force; whereas swift and sure change can be expected from other higher worlds or subtle sheaths in the descending hierarchies. When the human vessel, adhara, is ready, the shaping God’s tremendous touch becomes more and more bearable to the mortal nerves and the strength of the subtle body and causal body grows mightier.
There are mysterious conditions of Soul awareness, when satisfied pave the passage of the Divine Descent. When the threads of these mysterious conditions are rightly caught and atmospheres are created to return to these conditions often, then we fulfil the normal condition of our growth. Man receives flashes of extraordinary Spiritual experiences in order to generate faith and persistent effort through which humanity will arrive at established Divine Consciousness whose working in the cells of the body will bring material transformation.
The Divine Grace: -
“This “state of grace” is often prepared by a long tapasya or purification in which nothing decisive seems to happen, only touches or glimpses or passing experiences at the most, and it (decisive change) comes suddenly without warning.”⁴³
Sri Aurobindo
"It is when all appears to be lost that all can be saved when one has lost trust in one’s personal power, one must have faith in the Divine Grace."²¹
The Mother
“And it seems to me it occurs often enough – much more often than people think. For example every time an illness is cured, every time an accident is avoided, every time a catastrophe, even a global one, is avoided, all that is always the intervention of the Vibration of Harmony into the vibration of Disorder, allowing Disorder to cease.
So the people, the faithful, who always say, "Through the Divine Grace this has happened," aren't so wrong.”³⁶
The Mother
“The Grace is always there, eternally present and active, but Sri Aurobindo says that it is extremely difficult for us to be in a condition to receive it, keep it and make use of what it gives us.
Sri Aurobindo even says that it is more difficult than to drink from the cup of the gods who are immortal.
To receive the divine grace, not only must one have a great aspiration, but also a sincere humility and an absolute trust.”⁴²
The Mother
A Grace dependent life and added to it an arduous tapasya are the acceptable conditions of our self-growth. What we achieve with ease with the intervention of Divine Grace or The Mother’s Power, the same status we attain with much difficulty through arduous tapasya. When both conditions are successfully combined²² and one is complementary in the development of the other, and then we are on the right path towards our difficult goal. The intensity of Divine Grace acting upon a human vessel in this birth is dependent on his formation of a subtle and causal body in past births. The subtle body develops by the movement of consciousness between the surface consciousness of the three Gunas and the inner and higher Psychic and Spiritual planes. Similarly, the causal body grows by movement of Consciousness from Supramental/Bliss Self to Inconscient/Subconscient Self. So before participating in the above movements, the higher Selves of True Physical, True Vital, True Mental, Psychic, Spiritual, Supramental and Bliss Self must open gradually through concentration and consecration.
When any of the four conditions is satisfied, the Divine Grace will intervene:
1) Divine Grace begins to intervene with the practice of partial self-giving. This part surrender is extended to the mind, vital and body or extended to sattwic, rajasic and tamasic mind. Through this practice/personal effort, the Psychic Being in the heart and the Spiritual being above the head open and they multiply the intensity of spontaneous self-surrender. A prolonged movement between the Psychic and the Spiritual Being opens the door of the Supramental Being. It is only in the Supramental Consciousness that the total surrender to the Divine and His Shakti is realised. The more complete this self-giving grows, supported by faith and sincerity, the greater will be the Grace and Protection.
2) An exclusive self-opening to the Divine Influence and not any other inferior influence through an unfailing aspiration of the Psychic Being that calls from below can call down Divine Grace. When aspiration is dead or we fail to look into our Souls or we live in ordinary consciousness, during that period also a part of our being grows towards Light. Yet there is a passage to the godhead which none can see. An unknown Presence moulds our oblivious clay. Even in the aimlessness of life a Divine change or a magic will is worked out unconsciously. Always a heavenly truth broods in life’s depths and in her obscurest member burns that fire. Even nescient, null, her sleep creates a world. When most unseen, most mightily the Divine Shakti acts. If this exclusive Spiritual Presence and opening is available in the form of external contact with the Avatara, then it is an exceptional privilege in the life of an aspirant Soul. His ‘word, command, Adesha, presence, touch, guidance’³³ can also be visited through activation of Spiritualised Psychic Consciousness.
3) The intervention of Divine Grace asks for a constant and integral choice of Truth. Supreme Grace will act only in the conditions of the Light and the Love. There are some descended mighty Words whose repetition, concentration, contemplation and meditation can incarnate the highest truth and an unseen Divine link that joins the parted sphere. A prayer, a master act, a king's idea can link man’s strength to a transcendent Force and can change the course of things, and then miracles are made the common rule. ‘Even the body will awake and unite at last its consciousness subliminal no longer to the Supramental superconscious Force, feel all her powers permeating from above and below and around it and thrill to a supreme Love and Ananda.’¹⁹
4) Divine Grace will not act in the conditions laid upon it by Falsehood and Ignorance. A constant and integral rejection of falsehood is indispensable. ‘Heaven’s wiser love rejects mortal’s prayer;’³⁴ because the human prayer is not free from fear, desire and blind hope. All prayers must be free from the three above-mentioned limitations and one must repeat great Names in order to liberate the physical and vital mind rising from the dark inconscient sheath and call down the invisible Presence and lost lucent immensities. The dark invisible forces have locked the doors of God with keys of creed and shut out by the fixed Law His tireless Grace. Sometimes our prayers sink in the resisting Night oppressed by a thousand forces that deny and it seems too weak to climb to the Supreme.
The decisive and radical change in the life of a Sadhak is possible only after long Tapasya⁴³ and through a sudden inrush of vast Divine Grace. The Mother’s Truth and Love Force supported by human endeavour, abhyasa, renunciation, vairagya, askesis, long tapasya, and consecration, yajna, ‘can alone rend the lid and tear the covering and shape the vessel and bring down into this world of obscurity and falsehood and death and suffering Truth and Light and Life divine and the immortal’s Ananda.’²⁰
The Revolt against Transformation or Nature’s Refusal to Change: -
“Hard is it to persuade earth nature’s change”
Savitri-7
“But still no great transforming light came down
And no revealing rapture touched her fall.”
Savitri-134
“Astir, vibrant, hungering, she groped for mind;
Then slowly sense quivered and thought peered out;
She forced the reluctant mould to grow aware.”
Savitri-157
“Our instruments have not that greater light, (of Jnana Yoga)
Our will tunes not with the eternal Will, (of Karma Yoga)
Our heart’s sight is too blind and passionate.” (of Bhakti Yoga)
Savitri-161
“Against all higher truth their stuff rebels;”
Savitri-163
“This was the law of things none dreamed to change:”
Savitri-228
“Abhorring change as an audacious sin,”
Savitri-245
“Immutable laws man has no right to change,”
Savitri-246
“A firm shape of Nature never to be changed,”
Savitri-246
“And human mind must abdicate in Light
Or die like a moth in the naked blaze of Truth,
He stood compelled to a tremendous choice.”
Savitri-306
“In man a dim disturbing somewhat lives;
It knows but turns away from divine Light”
Savitri-366
“A power is in thee that thou knowest not;
Thou art a vessel of the imprisoned spark.”
Savitri-453
“And feels the cold rigid limbs of lifeless Law.”
Savitri-457
(Death said) “Where Nature changes not, man cannot change:”
Savitri-643
(Death said) “Dream not to change the world that God has planned,
Strive not to alter his eternal law.”
Savitri-647
(Savitri said) “Vain the soul’s hope if changeless Law is all:”
Savitri-651
(Death said) “Even God himself obeys the Laws he made:
The Law abides and never can it change,
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.”
Savitri-654
When our development is arrested or when we are under the pigmy law of physical mind, then we fail to trace a passage from surface physical Self to subliminal Self. During that period, we live permanently in the surface mind, surface vital and the gross body. Our gross body is bound in a tamasic state of inertia; vital being is bound in the rajasic plane of desire and sense pleasure and mental being is bound in limited happiness and narrowness. The Law of Ignorance, the Law of Suffering, the Law of Falsehood and Law of the Death are the principal energies of the Inconscient world who rule the outer nature of the surface life. These Laws are strongly established in our outer nature. To remain entangled permanently in their clutch is the cause of our stagnancy, decay and death. The Mother has demonstrated in detail, ‘of how absolutely closed the world is to the higher Influence: all that comes down to the world, the minute it touches it, is twisted. Twisted, distorted beyond recognition.’³⁰
As a remedy, we have to strive patiently and discover a passage to higher worlds or higher states of Consciousness and permit their influence to overrule the very slow, very heavy and very obstinate surface mind, life and body. With more and more working of the Divine force through our instrumental opening, the law of fixed nature is shifted to the law of dynamic Divine Nature. Thus, Matter is moulded by the conscious contact of a higher Spiritual Force superseding the earlier changeless fixed Law.
So the real threat to our life is from everything that does not want to transform. If our existing nature is unwilling to change, then we have to go through a brutal experience of monstrous catastrophe and our escape from change may mean several more successive births of repetitive training. So, in this life, if our Nature is not ready to exhaust the earthly desire, ego and attachment, then we have to exhaust them through the experience of next successive births.
Tardy Transformation or Slow Change through Exclusive Concentration on outer Nature: -
“Assured of the Apocalypse to be,
It reckons not the moments and the hours;
Great, patient, calm it sees the centuries pass,
Awaiting the slow miracle of our change
In the sure deliberate process of world-force
And the long march of all-revealing Time.”
Savitri-48
“A slow reversal’s movement then took place:”
Savitri-101
“In this slow ascension he must follow her pace”
Savitri-135
“Then slowly it gathers mass, looks up at Light.”
Savitri-140
“Planned so to start her slow aeonic game.”
Savitri-141
“And a slow unmasking of the spirit in things,”
Savitri-154
“Then slowly sense quivered and thought peered out;
She forced the reluctant mould to grow aware.”
Savitri-157
“The long slow process of the patient Power.”
Savitri-223
“She forced on life a slow and faltering pace;”
Savitri-223
“Only a slow advance the earth can bear.”
Savitri-244
“For the slow-paced omniscient purpose live.”
Savitri-336
“In him (man) the Earth-Mother sees draw near the change”
Savitri-340
“He sees the long results of an all-wise Force”
Savitri-457
“Slowly the light grows greater in the East,
Slowly the world progresses on God’s road.”
Savitri-510
“Thus slowly I (Mother of Light) lift man’s soul nearer the Light.
But human mind clings to its ignorance
And to its littleness the human heart
And to its right to grief the earthly life.”
Savitri-516
“Imposing on the slow reluctant years
The flaming will that reigns beyond the stars,”
Savitri-588
“Be still and tardy in the slow wise world.”
Savitri-651
“And the slow evolution’s sluggard steps,”
Savitri-693
A slow evolution binds our Soul and Nature to a strange, uneasy compromise and leads us towards an inevitable doom or through slow ascension, we must grow in light and force and rise at last to a higher Spiritual destiny. It limits the mental activities to immediate practical problems and immediate tangible results and learns by failure and progresses by fall. Slow change is generally experienced when our centre of living begins to undulate in between the surface physical Self and the subliminal Self. Or when there is a rift created in the surface physical Sheath, either through violent aspiration or through consecration or through purification of the being, a contact is made with our inner Self and Truth vibration infiltrates into the falsehood, resulting in a slow change of nature.
Like individual evolution in Ignorance, the collective evolution of earth is also a slow process through long ordeal or a slow labour of mind or confident steps through Nature’s slow great hands and it cannot bear the intense original flame of the Supreme and earth sinks down into mire with the weight of the Infinite. As long as ‘A Nature hostile to the Mother-Force’⁷ or ‘A Nature that denied the eternal Truth,’⁸ to wait for a slow miracle of change is a safe passage or it is better to live for the slow paced omniscient purpose and force the reluctant mould to grow conscious of its Source. It is only impatience towards time that would make splendid haste on Fate’s slow road. Then, with the long-slow infiltration of Truth vibration we reach a point where ‘Nature’s plastic and protean change’⁹ is realised or ‘Matter (becomes) plastic (and passive) to spiritual light’¹⁰ and dull earth is changed to sudden rapture. Then the outer limiting nature is lifted by a happier breath and is ready to be exposed towards high change, total change and instantaneous change demanded by the all-shaping Fire.
Exclusive concentration is defined as the complete absorption in the active Prakriti or outer nature by an entire separation from the true Self. This ordinary surface consciousness is full of grating, friction, perpetual disorder which causes ageing and decay of the cells of the body. Exclusive concentration is also the special boon offered to mind by the indwelling Deity to work out slow evolution in the Ignorance and mind walks lamely on this earth with slow footsteps. When this concentration is rightly utilised through its reverse movement in discovering inner being and following its intimations, we ascend in the stairs of Consciousness in order to discover the subliminal Self and essential Concentration.
Transformation of human nature by brief Divine Touch:
“Time’s message of brief light was not for her.”
Savitri-6
“A wider consciousness opens then its doors;
Invading from spiritual silences
A ray of the timeless Glory stoops awhile (Supramental invasion)
To commune with our seized illumined clay
And leaves its huge white stamp upon our lives.” (Transformation of Nature)
Savitri-47-48
“When life had stopped its beats, death broke not in;
He dared to live when breath and thought were still.
Thus could he step into that magic place
Which few can even glimpse with hurried glance
Lifted for a moment from mind’s laboured works
And the poverty of Nature’s earthly sight.”
Savitri-74
“There he could enter, there awhile abide.”
Savitri-91
“Our secret breath of untried mightier force,
The lurking sun of an instant’s inner sight,
Its fine suggestions are a covert fount
For our iridescent rich imaginings
Touching things common with transfiguring hues
Till even earth’s mud grows rich and warm with the skies
And a glory gleams from the soul’s decadence.”
Savitri-106-107
“Even in the littleness of our mortal state,
Even in this prison-house of outer form,
A brilliant passage for the infallible Flame
Is driven through gross walls of nerve and brain,
A Splendour presses or a Power breaks through,
Earth’s great dull barrier (physical mind) is removed awhile,
The inconscient seal is lifted from our eyes
And we grow vessels of creative might.”
Savitri-108
“The spirit in a finite ignorant world
Must rescue so its prisoned consciousness
Forced out in little jets at quivering points
From the Inconscient’s sealed infinitude.
Then slowly it gathers mass, looks up at Light.”
Savitri-140
“A new life dawns, he looks out from vistas wide;
The Spirit’s breath moves him but soon retires:
His strength was not made to hold that puissant guest.”
Savitri-165
“In this investiture of fleshly life
A soul that is a spark of God survives
And sometimes it breaks through the sordid screen
And kindles a fire that makes us half-divine.”
Savitri-169
“It (child Soul) can only near and touch, it cannot hold;”
Savitri-179
“Only they knew what Mind could take and build
Out of the secret Supermind’s huge store.”
Savitri-187
“There all could enter but none stay for long.”
Savitri-206
“A little gift comes from the Immensitudes,
But measureless to life its gain of joy;”
Savitri-237
“A half-intuition purpled in its sense;
It threw the lightning’s fork and hit the unseen.
Savitri-249
“A free and divine incident no more
At each moment willed or adventure of the soul,
It lengthened a fate-bound mysterious chain,
A line foreseen of an immutable plan,
One step more in Necessity’s long march.”
Savitri-267
“Awakened by the touch of the Unseen,
Deserting the boundary of things achieved,
Aspired the strong discoverer, tireless Thought,
Revealing at each step a luminous world.”
Savitri-277
“The light his soul had brought his mind has lost;
All he has learned is soon again in doubt;
A sun to him seems the shadow of his thoughts,
Then all is shadow again and nothing true:”
Savitri-337
“His transience trembles with the Eternal’s touch,”
Savitri-339
“Earth keeps for man some short and perfect hours”
Savitri-421
“A glimpse or flashes came, the Presence was hid.”
Savitri-470
“Even in the tracts of sleep is scant repose;
He mocks life’s steps in strange subconscient dreams,
He strays in a subtle 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-479
“The genius too receives from some high fount
Concealed in a supernal secrecy
The work that gives him an immortal name.”
Savitri-542
“Night felt assailed her heavy sombre reign;
The splendour of some bright eternity
Threatened with this faint beam of wandering Truth (Subconscient transformation)
Her empire of the everlasting Nought.”
Savitri-585
“There man can visit but there he cannot live.”
Savitri-659
“A changed earth-nature felt the breath of peace.”
Savitri-672
“Heaven’s light visits sometimes the mind of earth;
Its thoughts burn in her sky like lonely stars;
In her heart there move celestial seekings soft
And beautiful like fluttering wings of birds,
Visions of joy that she can never win
Traverse the fading mirror of her dreams.
Faint seeds of light and bliss bear sorrowful flowers,”
Savitri-688
Savitri book confirms that all can open themselves towards a brief touch of Divine Force and receive its Grace and this helps in the flowering of existing life immensely. This brief touch can be repeated with our awareness and its intensity can be multiplied by purification and transformation of our untransformed vessel. The Life Divine confirms that Intuition is a flash of lightening⁴¹ and ‘the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the Supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole.’⁴¹
What we regard as genius in human beings is those of us who are open in their being to these higher intimations…so the more one can be open to these higher planes of consciousness and receive these inspirations without sullying them with their physical mind, the greater is the ability to manifest new and greater Truths or ‘thought fulfilled by some great word’… (Savitri-573) It shows that anyone can be a genius if they can open themselves to these higher planes.
Before one is established in higher planes of Psychic and Spiritual Consciousness, his consciousness will undulate between gunas and gunatita state and this will lead to brief Spiritual experience and a brief divine manifestation. After Savitri was established in the Supramental Consciousness of ‘endless lights,’ ‘Her being’s spaces quivered with its touch.’³⁸ During Savitri’s journey with Death in the Inconscient plane, it is described her contact with bright eternity will threaten the darkness of the inconscient sheath with ‘faint beam of wandering truth.’³⁹
A touch of brief Divine Force cannot transform life, it can only give birth to new manifestations, new hope and joy. Or what the Death said to moderate humanity, ‘Accept the brief light that falls upon thy days.’⁴⁰ The above Soul slaying truth is met by The Mother’s Soul saving truth, which gives us this hope that ‘One moment of conscious communion with the Divine can shatter all resistance, however powerful it may be.’⁵⁰
Uninterrupted Psychic Transformation or Constant Change through Essential Concentration: -
“In hands sustained by a transfiguring Might
He caught up lightly like a giant’s bow
Left slumbering in a sealed and secret cave
The powers that sleep unused in man within.”
Savitri-26
“A constant lodging in the Eternal’s realm,”
Savitri-36
“Apotheosised, transfigured by wisdom’s touch,
Her days became a luminous sacrifice;
An immortal moth in happy and endless fire,
She burned in his sweet intolerable blaze.”
Savitri-125
“Or Beauty’s touch transfiguring heart and sense,”
Saviri-195
“A greater Mind may see a greater Truth,
Or we may find when all the rest has failed
Hid in ourselves the key of perfect change.”
Savitri-256
“Makes ever new her body to his eyes,”
Savitri-275
“Into a constant heaven felt always here.”
Savitri-277
“Ever they change and changing ever grow,”
Savitri-294
“Towards the end which ever begins again,”
Savitri-295
“There substance was a resonant harp of self,
A net for constant lightnings of the spirit,”
Savitri-328-29
“And keeps for ever new, yet still the same,”
Savitri-351
“Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven
Or Heaven descend into earth’s mortal state.
But for such vast spiritual change to be,
Out of the mystic cavern in man’s heart
The heavenly Psyche must put off her veil
And step into common nature’s crowded rooms
And stand uncovered in that nature’s front
And rule its thoughts and fill the body and life.”
Savitri-486
“A divine Puissance then takes Nature’s place
And pushes the movements of our body and mind;
Possessor of our passionate hopes and dreams,
The beloved despot of our thoughts and acts,
She streams into us with her unbound force,
Into mortal limbs the Immortal’s rapture and power.
An inner law of beauty shapes our lives;”
Savitri-530
“Although her kingdom of marvellous change within
Remained unspoken in her secret breast,
All that lived round her felt its magic’s charm:
The trees’ rustling voices told it to the winds,
Flowers spoke in ardent hues an unknown joy,
The birds’ carolling became a canticle,
The beasts forgot their strife and lived at ease.”
Savitri-532
“A thaumaturgist sat in her heart’s deep,
Compelled the forward stride, the upward look,
Till wonder leaped into the illumined breast
And life grew marvellous with transfiguring hope.”
Savitri-539
“To first desire and her white soul transfigured,”
Savitri-604
Our subtle body is gradually formed and takes concrete form around the Psychic being in successive lives. When our subtle body is sufficiently solidified around the Psychic being through successive Soul births or we throw our waking mind into a state of passivity which liberates the subliminal Self and we shift our centre of living permanently from the surface mind or surface physical self to the inner mind, inner life, subtle body and inner Psychic being; it is there we experience a constant change of ceaseless miraculous progress in our different subtle sheaths and the gross physical sheath experiences a constant breaking of the thought, life and action of the bound Nature or Divine Shakti endlessly unfolds the endless truth in our subtle body. This ‘persistent thrill of a transfiguring touch’³⁵ to change inert black Subconscient is due to the constant inter-penetration of Superconscient force through descending layers of multiple subtle worlds or due to intermittent lightning stroke of the highest Spirit. Therefore, the surface Nature receiving intimations from inner beings is not sufficient transformation and one must cease to be surface personality and become the true Psychic Personality. It exposes every movement, every nook and corner of Nature, thought, will and emotion to the Truth Light. Thus, Nature prepares for every kind of Spiritual experience.
The Psychic training is the energising of the Psychic sheath in the heart by opening the Psychic being and leading towards the emergence of new faculty of law of consecration, awareness of the true motive of life, knowledge of the past, present and future, limitless expansion of Consciousness to arrive at universality. Psychic opening draws one towards the immortal life, ever progressive change, unbroken continuity in the world of forms, meets the Immanent God dwelling in each form. The true Psychic Soul is the flame of the Godhead, always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness which obscures our outward life. It is the flame born out of the luminous Divine inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn the being towards the Knowledge of Self and the Divine, towards the supreme Truth, the supreme Good, the Divine heights and largeness. Our true Soul is a pure power of light, love, joy, beauty and harmony. It is the individual Soul, the Chaitya Purusha, supporting Mind, Life and Body and standing behind the subtle mental, vital and physical being, watching and profiting by their development in us. This inmost Psychic entity puts forward a Psychic personality which flowers as the saint, the sage and the seer and it changes, grows and develops from life to life; for this is also the traveller from birth to death and from death to birth and our nature is its manifold changing robe.
Essential concentration is defined as the entire self-absorption in the Self of being for unfolding of many miracled Consciousness and these experiences keep ever new the thrill that created this world. It is also exclusive in nature, but this concentration is more dynamic and less fragmentary. Through the essential concentration, the opening towards Truth-Light is easily accessible. The Sun of Supramental light falls indirectly on the subtle body, passing through intermediary sheaths of over mind, intuitive mind, illumined mind and higher mind or Supramental light falls indirectly on the gross body after passing through the seven subtle sheaths of ‘seven immortal earths’³¹ of which the first three are subtle mind, subtle vital and subtle physical. Essential concentration helps in building the subtle body from its fluid state to a concrete state around the Psychic Being and universalises the subtle body.
The Great Spiritual Transformation or High Intense Change due to Multiple Concentration: -
“Spiritual that can make all things divine.”
Savitri-16
“Always the power poured back like sudden rain,
Or slowly in his breast a presence grew;
It clambered back to some remembered height
Or soared above the peak from which it fell.”
Savitri-35
“In moments when the inner lamps are lit (Psychic being)
And the life’s cherished guests are left outside,
Our spirit sits alone and speaks to its gulfs. (Spiritual being)
A wider consciousness opens then its doors;
Invading from spiritual silences
A ray of the timeless Glory stoops awhile
To commune with our seized illumined clay
And leaves its huge white stamp upon our lives.”
Savitri-47-48
“These signs are native to a larger self
That lives within us by ourselves unseen;
Only sometimes a holier influence comes,
A tide of mightier surgings bears our lives
And a diviner Presence moves the soul;
Or through the earthly coverings something breaks,
A grace and beauty of spiritual light,
The murmuring tongue of a celestial fire.”
Savitri-48
“And earth grow unexpectedly divine.”
Savitri-55
“The Maker shall recast us and impose
A plan of godhead on the mortal’s mould
Lifting our finite minds to his infinite,
Touching the moment with eternity.
This transfiguration is earth’s due to heaven:”
Savitri-67
“Mind can suspend or change earth’s concrete law.”
Savitri-84
“There in the slumber of the cosmic Will
He saw the secret key of Nature’s change.”
Savitri-231
“Transfigured were the fixed schemes of reasoning Thought.”
Savitri-232
“His gates to the world were swept with seas of light.”
Savitri-236
“A Being lived, a Presence and a Power,
A single Person who was himself and all
And cherished Nature’s sweet and dangerous throbs
Transfigured into beats divine and pure.”
Savitri-291
“Out of the neutral silence of his soul
He passed to its fields of puissance and of calm
And saw the Powers that stand above the world, (the various Emanations of the Divine Mother)
Traversed the realms of the supreme Idea
And sought the summit of created things
And the almighty source of cosmic change.”
Savitri-298
“And one great act unlock the doors of Fate.”
Savitri-345
“One shall descend and break the iron Law,
Change Nature’s doom by lone Spirit’s power.”
Savitri-346
“Your life a changeful mould for growing gods…
Authors of earth’s high change, to you it is given”
Savitri-370
“Her spirit stretched measureless in strength divine,”
Savitri-473
“The Immobile stands behind each daily act,
A background of the movement and the scene,
Upholding creation on its might and calm
And change on the Immutable’s deathless poise.”
Savitri-662
“Yet felt in her illimitable change.”
Savitri-715
“What high change is in thee, O Savitri? Bright”
Savitri-718
In this Spiritual evolution, each Soul has to find his own Spiritual way and has to come out of this inferior existence of the three gunas. Slow change cannot change ordinary destiny into Spiritual destiny and in the Spiritual path one has to accomplish much that has still to be done, consciousness has to be heightened and widened immeasurably and there must be self-affirmation of Spirit in the material life. Spiritual change invites the descent of higher Light, Knowledge, Love, Power, Force and Purity into the lower recesses of subtle mind, subtle life and subtle body. This Spiritual transformation complements the Psychic transformation of Nature and helps build the subliminal sheaths and opens the passage for causal body formation. Complete Spiritual transformation is gained by a permanent ascent of Soul to the highest Consciousness and a permanent descent of the Divine Shakti into the lower nature.
With the expansion of subtle physical, subtle vital and subtle mental sheath, the consciousness is universalised and one feels the whole universe is within him and enters the greater creation, action and ananda of universal proportion. This global consciousness includes coexistence of both static being of Purusha and dynamic action of Prakriti, the soul and its instruments, the Self and the dynamisms of the Self-Power, atmashakti: it can then embrace its manifestation with a larger Consciousness free from the previous Nature’s limitation and oblivion of the indwelling Spirit.
Multiple Concentration is a greater concentration or self-absorption in the universalised body for greater world action. It functions within the boundaries of Ignorance and its workings of the highest Divine faculties are exclusive in nature in order to create global over mental awareness. In the Cosmic Consciousness, the multiple concentrations become active and all contraries are here true and retain their unity and harmony. In this Consciousness, one feels the universe as his body, life as his drama of vast universal stage, mind as a single innumerable look upon himself and all that he becomes, Soul as the living body of God. The Divine Love, Ananda, Peace, Knowledge, Will, Power and Truth from the Overmental plane work separately on the earth nature in order to transform it. Whereas in Integral concentration the above mentioned Divine faculties coexist and the original Divine formula of Existence, Consciousness and Bliss cannot be separated from its integral functioning. So we conclude that great transformations are merely the results of a change of higher states of Consciousness. Here the cells experience themselves as eternal and everlasting, live in an inner peace and harmony and feel free from all kinds of disorder and friction that causes wear and tear.
Comprehensive Supramental Transformation or Total Change through Integral Concentration: -
“It bore the stroke of That which kills and saves” (Savitri’s heart bore the stroke of Supramental energy that slayed falsehood and saved the truth.)
Savitri-20
“All the world’s values changed heightening life’s aim;”
Savitri-42
“All’s miracle here and can by miracle change.”
Savitri-85
“Where all seems sure and, even when changed, the same,”
Savitri-69
“And when that greater Self comes sea-like down
To fill this image of our transience,
All shall be captured by delight transformed.”
Savitri-171
“An incense floated in the quivering air,
A mystic happiness trembled in the breast
As if the invisible Beloved had come
Assuming the sudden loveliness of a face
And close glad hands could seize his fugitive feet
And the world change with the beauty of a smile.”
Savitri-290
“And the almighty source of cosmic change.”
Savitri-298
“All he had been and all towards which he grew
Must now be left behind or else transform
Into a self of That which has no name.”
Savitri-307
“A Power that lives upon the heights must act,
Bring into life’s closed room the Immortal’s air
And fill the finite with the Infinite.”
Savitri-316
“All that denies must be torn out and slain
And crushed the many longings for whose sake
We lose the One for whom our lives were made.” (All that denies Supramental energy and many longings of desires must be slain if we do not want to lose the One Divine.)
Savitri-316
“Their tread one day shall change the suffering earth”
Savitri-344
“All underwent a high celestial change:”
Savitri-529
“A Force descended trailing endless lights;
Linking Time’s seconds to infinity,
Illimitably it girt the earth and her:
It sank into her soul and she was changed.”
Savitri-573
“Thou shalt bear all things that all things may change,”
Savitri-700
“The supermind shall be his nature’s fount,
The Eternal’s truth shall mould his thoughts and acts,
The Eternal’s truth shall be his light and guide.
All then shall change, a magic order come
Overtopping this mechanical universe.”
Savitri-706
In most individuals, the causal body is not yet formed and like the subtle body, this causal body takes shape with great difficulty from its crude or fluid state to its concrete shape through prolonged infiltration of Divine Force from Supreme Self to the Superconscient Self and the Subliminal Self. The causal body is the source and it holds both the subtle and gross bodies. The formation of a causal body begins with the individual whose subtle body is sufficiently developed and universalised. When the individual’s centre of living begins to undulate between Spiritual Self and Supramental Self, during that period the experience of ‘comprehensive change’ is generally realised. When the centre of living is permanently shifted from the Spiritual Self to the Supramental Self, one is established in Integral Concentration or what we call as Supramental Consciousness. In the Integral Concentration, there is coexistence of the four orders of changes, which are constant change, high change, total change and instantaneous change.
Total change is the Soul and Nature’s climb towards God’s identity and it is the consequence of swift transformation through many-sided infiltrations of Divine force to the mind, life, body, Subconscient and Inconscient. The four active parts of Nature that need transformation are ‘the understanding, the heart, the prana and the body.’⁵³ When one lives in the causal body, the consciousness is elevated to the stage of integral concentration, and the comprehensive transformation resumes action.
The triple formula of the comprehensive Supermind is, “Brahman is in all things, all things are in Brahman, all things are Brahman.”¹¹ The three poises of Supermind is, “the first founds the inalienable unity of things, the second modifies that unity so as to support the manifestation of the Many in One and One in Many; the third further modifies so as to support the evolution of diversified individuality which by the action of Ignorance, becomes in us at a lower level the illusion of the separate ego.”¹² “The Self becoming all existences is the basis of our oneness with all; the self-containing all existences is the basis of our oneness in difference; the Self inhabiting all is the basis of our individuality in the universal.”¹³
Integral concentration is comprehensive because due to its intervention, transformation action simultaneously takes place in Supreme self, Superconscient self, Universal self, Subliminal self, Surface physical self, Subconscient self and Inconscient self and all these worlds were colonies possessed by the Divine Mother for Her Divine action. ‘An ocean of untrembling virgin fire’¹⁴ from the Supreme self invades all the above worlds, and that is why a total change expected is practicable due to its all-inclusive concentration. An integral concentration is the basis of an entire harmonisation of life through the total transformation, unification, integration of the Being and Nature and there would be no further need of a slow evolution counting many millennia for each step, the halting and difficult evolution operated by Nature in the past in the unconscious creatures of the Ignorance.
Instantaneous Total Change and Cellular Transformation: -
“Then came the abrupt transcendent miracle:”
Savitri-25
“Achieve perfection by the magic throb”
Savitri-112
“And could in a moment dangerously change.”
Savitri-206
“It saw unrealised aims as instant fate
And chose the precipice for its leap to heaven.”
Savitri-248
“And the world change with the beauty of a smile.”
Savitri-290
“Even a brief nearness has reshaped my life”
Savitri-406
“Because of change within me by thy look.”
Savitri-408
“Then with a magic transformation’s speed
They rushed into each other and grew one”
Savitri-527
“One whom her (Savitri’s) soul had faced as Death and Night
A sum of all sweetness gathered into his limbs
And blinded her heart to the beauty of the suns.
Transfigured was the formidable shape.”
Savitri-678-79
“And this the magic of our golden change,”
Savitri-724
“If even one very small aggregate of cells could succeed in having the complete experience of transformation right to the end, that would be more effective than great upheavals – much, much more effective. But it's more difficult. Much more difficult. And it doesn't cause big dazzling "events"…”³⁷
The Mother
“With a bit of reflection it's easy to understand: if it were a question of stopping something and starting something ELSE, it might be done rather rapidly. But to keep a body alive (to keep it functioning) and AT THE SAME TIME have enough of a new functioning so that it stays alive, and then a transformation – that makes a very difficult combination to realize. I am fully aware of it, fully aware ... of the immense amount of time that's needed for this to be done without catastrophe.
Above all, of course, when we come to the heart: to replace the heart with the center of Power, a formidable, dynamic power! (Mother laughs) At what precise MOMENT are you going to eliminate the circulation and throw in the Force!
It is ... it's difficult.”⁴⁴
The Mother
Cellular transformation begins when the consciousness begins to undulate in between the causal body and gross body or there is intermingling of Supramental Consciousness and Earth Consciousness, where the body learns the lesson to change the state of living from ordinary imperfect mortal state to immutable imperishable perfect state, instantly giving the impression of coexistence of perfection and imperfection. In integral concentration or when the body’s ‘entire consciousness is exclusively centred on the Divine, it no longer feels its suffering;’²⁶ cells are completely free from the mortal law of death, decay, disease, accident and disharmony. The cells’ age-long habit to cling to mortal law or ‘DOUBT in the cells’²⁷ towards Divine Presence through physical mind is the cause of all physical disorder and is the chief obstacle to the permeation of Supramental force. The constitutional change of cells by transformation of the physical mind or infusing into them the certitude of the Divine, leads them instantly to a deathless harmony and order. This transformation is considered the ‘last and mightiest’¹⁵ where ‘even the life of flesh and nerve was changed.’¹⁵
The ideal attitude towards Time is to develop endless patience, which draws one towards ‘Truth’s last epitome’⁵ where the change expected is an abrupt transcendent miracle. Here one arrives at the brink of vertical time, where the law of horizontal time and the law of gradual slow evolutionary change are superseded. To the ordinary consciousness, time is horizontal and it moves everything towards slow change. This slow change binds the Soul and is the cause of our inevitable doom. With the growth of consciousness, one becomes quiet and still within, time goes faster and at the highest consciousness of Integral concentration one feels the natural need of silence and contemplative immobility. One enters a Timeless state where everything exists in all eternity and one can live indefinitely without the friction of time. It is only in this vertical time, the change expected is no longer gradual, but it is radical, instantaneous and irreversible. The problem could disappear as pointed out by the Mother, “If the supreme Consciousness truly took possession of the cells and made them live, act, move, like that, so they had the sense of the Omnipotence taking hold of them... This seems to be the only solution.”²⁹
Subconscient and Inconscient Transformation:
“The persistent thrill of a transfiguring touch
Persuaded the inert black quietude
And beauty and wonder disturbed the fields of God.”
Savitri-3
“A lightning from the heights on our abyss.”
Savitri-14
“With the Light that dwells near the dark end of things,”
Savitri-60
“For the key is hid and by the Inconscient kept;
The secret God beneath the threshold dwells.”
Savitri-68
“The secret crawl of consciousness to light
Through a fertile slime of lust and battening sense,
Beneath the body’s crust of thickened self
A tardy fervent working in the dark,
The turbid yeast of Nature’s passionate change,
Ferment of the soul’s creation out of mire.”
Savitri-138
“A cave of darkness guards the eternal Light.”
Savitri-305
“Threatened with this faint beam of wandering Truth” (Threatened falsehood with)
Savitri-585
“Its faint infiltration drilled the blind deaf mass;”
Savitri-601
“A mystic slow transfiguration works.”
Savitri-632
“I quiver no more with the assault of grief;
A mighty calmness seated deep within
Has occupied my body and my sense:
It takes the world’s grief and transmutes to strength,
It makes the world’s joy one with the joy of God.
My love eternal sits throned on God’s calm;
For Love must soar beyond the very heavens
And find its secret sense ineffable;
It must change its human ways to ways divine,
Yet keep its sovereignty of earthly bliss.”
Savitri-633
“It (Supramentalised Psychic Being) sees and feels the one Heart beat in all,
It feels the high Transcendent’s sunlike hands,
It sees the cosmic Spirit at its work;
In the dim Night it lies alone with God.”
Savitri-635
If we recognise the Subconscient transformation, we have to accept the discords of existence in the line as indicated in the Gita. "The discords of the worlds are God’s discords and it is only by accepting and proceeding through them that we can arrive at the greater concords of his supreme harmony, the summits and thrilled vastnesses of his transcendent and his cosmic Ananda.”⁵¹ The Mother also confirms, ‘"Surely you could not believe that sadhana could be done without facing some difficulties. As your aspiration is sincere, whatever was in the subconscient standing in the way of the Divine Realisation, has come to the surface in order to be transformed. There is nothing there to make you sad or depressed — on the contrary you ought to rejoice at these occasions to make progress and never forget to lean for support and help on my love, force and blessings.”⁵²
The objective of integral Yoga is to establish the flashes and short-lived revelation of the Divine Presence, Divine Consciousness, Divine Wisdom, Divine Peace, Divine Love, Ananda, and Beauty through Subconscient transformation. The Divine Will is advancing step by step through continuous slow infiltration of Divine Force to realise this established end. If a conscious individual knows how to move the Consciousness which may be either Divine Will or Knowledge or Love, he can experience the Divine descent freely in the jail, forest, crowd, war field, mart, work field, ‘wayside act’ and common day-today life without interruption. Finally, any occasion and not limiting oneself to any specialised self-discipline can be utilised as a means of movement of this Divine Consciousness.
Recapitulation:
“In the final analysis, everything obviously depends upon the Supreme Will because, if one looks deeply enough into the question, every physical laws and resistances are nothing for Him. But this kind of direct intervention takes place only at the extreme limit; if His Will is to be expressed in opposition, as it were, to the whole set of laws governing the Manifestation —well, that only comes… at the very last second. Sri Aurobindo has expressed this so well in Savitri, so well! At least three times in the book He has expressed this Will that abolishes all established laws, all of them, and all the consequences of these laws (of rigidity), the whole formidable colossus of the Manifestation, so that in the face of it all, That can express itself—and this takes place at the very last… ‘second’ (Probably the Mother means this line from Savitri: “To conquer or fail on a last desperate verge,” Savitri-461) so to speak, at the extreme limit of possibility.”¹
The Mother
The intervention of this Supreme Will, generally takes place when the following four conditions co-exist, which is the normal state of Integral concentration. The first condition of absolute surrender gives us the right to live in His absolute Supramental and Bliss Presence. The second condition of exclusive self-opening towards His supreme Influence draws our cells towards supreme Ananda and life towards the all-containing and all-ruling consciousness. The third condition is of continuous and automatic acceptance of the Truth or Truth-Light that can strike earth’s massive roots of Inconscient trance and awaken in them the miracle of Divine Presence. This Truth shall be the leader of life and overrules the thought, speech, act and our individual fixed destiny. The fourth is that of continuous and automatic rejection and destruction of falsehood that is invading from the surrounding world and the Inconscient world in order to cloud the true state. This rejection of falsehood is Psychic and Spiritual action and destruction of falsehood is Supramental action. This is actually a war against everything, every law, every habit; that is already established in earth nature. The cells of the body aspire desperately for the truth and they cry out, “Ah, no! We have had enough of this Falsehood, enough, enough, enough! – the Truth, the Truth, the Truth...”²⁵
In exclusive concentration, essential concentration and multiple concentration we can concentrate in any one of the above four faculties to the exclusion of others, yet their degrees and intensities of concentration vary and intensify with the evolution of higher faculties of concentration. Each concentration brings down Divine grace and prepares the field of descent of Supreme Grace¹⁷ and stabilisation of all-inclusive integral Concentration.
When The Mother said, “At least three times in the (Savitri) book Sri Aurobindo has expressed this Will,”¹ this draws our interest to search where actually Sri Aurobindo discussed the issue. The following lines require our attention as these experiences are concerned with earth’s total reversal of the past which “takes place at the very last… ‘second’ so to speak, at the extreme limit of possibility.”¹
“If once it met the intense original Flame,
An answering touch might shatter all measures made
And earth sink down with the weight of the Infinite.”
Savitri-18
“Overpowered were earth and Nature’s obsolete rule;
The python coils of the restricting Law
Could not restrain the swift arisen God:
Abolished were the scripts of destiny.”
Savitri-82
“A touch can alter the fixed front of Fate.
A sudden turn can come, a road appear.
A greater Mind, may see a greater Truth,
Or we may find when all the rest has failed
Hid in ourselves the key of perfect change.”
Savitri-256
“A fiery stillness wakes the slumbering cells,
A passion of the flesh becoming spirit,
And marvellously is fulfilled at last
The miracle for which our life was made.”
Savitri-278
“At the head she stands of birth and toil and fate,
In their slow round the cycles turn to her call;
Alone her hands can change Time’s dragon base...
The Might of all that never yet came down...”
Savitri-314
“Awake not the immeasurable descent,
Speak not my secret name to hostile Time;
Man is too weak to bear the Infinite’s weight.
Truth born too soon might break the imperfect earth.”
Savitri-335
“Omnipotence, girdle with the power of God
Movements and moments of a mortal will,
Pack with the eternal might one human hour
And with one gesture change all future time.”
Savitri-345
“A Magician’s formulas have made Matter’s laws...
All here can change if the Magician choose.
If human will could be made one with God’s,
If human thought could echo the thoughts of God,
Man might be all-knowing and omnipotent...
Then is he a miracle doing miracles.”
Savitri-457-58
“All now is changed, yet all is still the same.
Lo, we have looked upon the face of God,
Our life has opened with divinity.
We have borne identity with the Supreme
And known his meaning in our mortal lives.”
Savitri-719
Our All life is designed for the attainment of the ultimate aim of physical immortality through cellular transformation. There are rare moments in earth’s history, when the fragments of the Supreme Will have intervened in order to destroy old systems and create a new order. We are concerned with universal changes that will sweep ahead the whole race. For such a change to be practicable we have to begin our slow-paced individualised growth from the Subconscient domain. In our search of the mystery of the inner world we come across the miracle of constant change where our true Self becomes the leader of life and it bridges the gulf between the Superconscient Sheath and Inconscient Sheath. In the same inner journey when we arrive at a point where the intensity of the Divine Force, that is constantly descending, becomes high enough to generate the sense of a miracle. This miraculous change is generally noticed in our outer nature. But when the manifold Divine forces capture the body, life and mind from all sides, then we are at the verge of experiencing a total change. This total change is responsible for the entire illumination of the Inconscient Sheath. These are the stages of preparation through which humanity will arrive at the last point where ‘it reaches the miraculous instantaneous of the supreme divine Transformation.’¹⁶ This is the most radical change, which has been envisaged in the integral Yoga.
An individual’s destiny is decreed for cellular transformation if he experiences ‘the dire delight that could shatter mortal flesh.’¹⁸ Mere men can open themselves to this high Spiritual law either by evolutionary nisus of Nature or by revolutionary individual effort by developing two faculties patiently without any haste; firstly, one should learn the lesson of bearing firmly the contact of pain and pleasure and arrive at indefinite capacity to endure the physical suffering and secondly the exceeding bliss born out of the touch of the Brahman through annulment of the mind must be repeated to the proportion of full possession of the Brahman, the All Delight. The cellular transformation of one body or The Mother’s body can repeat itself in endless bodies through infiltration of Divine Force ‘all the time, everywhere, in a minuscule, infinitesimal way.’²⁸ This infiltration is a part of Nature’s voluntary general action all over the earth to replace falsehood by Light, in her search for perfection and true solution of the problem of Life.
OM TAT SAT
References: -
1: The Mother’s Agenda-2/262,
2: “Repeating the marvel of the first descent,” Savitri-14,
3: “A repetition of God’s first delight” Savitri-38,
4: Savitri-44,
5: Savitri-198,
6: Savitri-135,
7: Savitri-225,
8: Savitri-220,
9: Savitri-255,
10: Savitri-329,
11: CWSA-21/The Life Divine/p-139,
12: CWSA-21/The Life Divine/p-145,
13: CWSA-21/The Life Divine/p-154,
14: Savitri-16,
15: Savitri-318,
16: CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga/p-68,
17: “But Sri Aurobindo said that if the divine Consciousness, the divine Power, the divine Love, the Truth, were to manifest on earth too rapidly, the earth would be dissolved!” The Mother’s Agenda-8/p-370.
18: Savitri-237,
19: The Mother-57,
20: The Mother-62,
21: The Mother’s Agenda-11/p-62,
22: “This character of our actually realised being and therefore our Yoga imposes on us certain limitations and primary difficulties which can only be overcome by (1) divine help or (2) an arduous practice, and in reality (3) only by the combination of both these aids.” CWSA/23/The Synthesis of Yoga/p-392,
23: Savitri-706,
24: “Outlined by the pressure of this new descent” Savitri-354,
25: The Mother’s Agenda-5/p-60,
26: The Mother’s Agenda-5/p-110,
27: The Mother’s Agenda-5/p-116,
28: The Mother’s Agenda-5/p-95,
29: The Mother’s Agenda-5/p-204,
30: The Mother’s Agenda-5/p-207,
31: Savitri-672,
32: Savitri-689,
33: CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga/p-879-80,
34: Savitri-456,
35: Savitri-3,
36: The Mother’s Agenda/25.03.1964,
37: The Mother’s Agenda/25th November 1965,
38: Savitri-573,
39: Savitri-585,
40: Savitri-620,
41: “Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct inner contact, not like the ordinary mental intelligence by seeking and reaching out for indirect contacts through the senses etc. But the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the Supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive-mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically its function.” CWSA-28/Letters on Yoga-I/p-159, “If we accept the Vedic image of the Sun of Truth, — an image which in this experience becomes a reality, — we may compare the action of the Higher Mind to a composed and steady sunshine, the energy of the Illumined Mind beyond it to an outpouring of massive lightnings of flaming sun-stuff. Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth- action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition;…” CWSA-21/The Life Divine/p-292, “Intuition especially with its penetrative lightning flashes of truth lighting up local points and stretches of country in our consciousness, which can bring the concealed truth of things nearer to our comprehension, and, by opening ourselves more widely first in the inner being and then as a result in the outer surface self also to the messages of these higher ranges of consciousness, by growing into them, we can become ourselves also intuitive and overmental beings, not limited by the intellect and sense, but capable of a more universal comprehension and a direct touch of truth in its very self and body.” CWSA-21/The Life Divine/p-303, “It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the conscious- ness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths.” CWSA-22/The Life Divine/p-981, “…but on that higher level to which it (Intuition) is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of “stable lightnings”. When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar under- standing or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power.” CWSA-22/The Life Divine/p-983,
42: TMCW-16/250,
43: CWSA-29/Letters on Yoga-II/p-195, Sri Ramakrishna’s saying, “With the Guru’s grace all difficulties can disappear in a flash, even as agelong darkness does the moment you strike a match.” (same page of Letters on Yoga)
44: The Mother’s Agenda-03.10.1962,
45: CWSA-21/The Life Divine/p-559,
46: CWSA-22/The Life Divine/p-765-66,
47: CWSA-22/The Life Divine/p-995-996,
48: CWSA-22/The Life Divine/p-970,
49: CWSA-22/The Life Divine/p-763,
50: TMCW-16/Some Answers from the Mother/p-427,
51: CWSA-19/Essays of the Gita/p-382,
52: The Mother/TMCW-vol-14/p-227,
53: “The next necessity of perfection is to raise all the active parts of the human nature to that highest condition and working pitch of their power and capacity, sakti, at which they become capable of being divinised into true instruments of the free, perfect, spiritual and divine action. For practical purposes we may take the understanding, the heart, the prana and the body as the four members of our nature which have thus to be prepared, and we have to find the constituent terms of their perfection. Also there is the dynamical force in us (vırya) of the temperament, character and soul nature, svabhava, which makes the power of our members effective in action and gives them their type and direction; this has to be freed from its limitations, enlarged, rounded so that the whole manhood in us may become the basis of a divine manhood, when the Purusha, the real Man in us, the divine Soul, shall act fully in this human instrument and shine fully through this human vessel. To divinise the perfected nature we have to call in the divine Power or Shakti to replace our limited human energy so that this may be shaped into the image of and filled with the force of a greater infinite energy, daivı prakriti, bhagavatı sakti. This perfection will grow in the measure in which we can surrender ourselves, first, to the guidance and then to the direct action of that Power and of the Master of our being and our works to whom it belongs, and for this purpose faith is the essential, faith is the great motor-power of our being in our aspirations to perfection, — here, a faith in God and the Shakti which shall begin in the heart and understanding, but shall take possession of all our nature, all its consciousness, all its dynamic motive-force. These four things are the essentials of this second element of perfection, the full powers of the members of the instrumental nature, the perfected dynamis of the soul nature, the assumption of them into the action of the divine Power, and a perfect faith in all our members to call and support that assumption, sakti, vırya, daivı prakriti, sraddha.” CWSA-24/The Synthesis of Yoga/p-693-694,
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"In all Yoga there are three essential objects to be attained by the seeker: (1) union or abiding contact with the Divine, (2) liberation of the soul or the Self, the Spirit, and (3) a certain change of the consciousness, the spiritual change. It is this change, which is necessary for reaching the other two objects, necessary at least to a certain degree, that is the cause of most of the struggles and difficulties; for it is not easy to accomplish it; a change of the mind, a change of the heart, a change of the habits of the will is called for and is obstinately resisted by our ignorant nature. In this Yoga a complete transformation of the nature is aimed at because that is necessary for the complete union and the complete liberation not only of the soul and the spirit but of the nature itself. It is also a Yoga of works and of the integral divine life; for that the integral transformation of nature is evidently necessary; the union with the Divine has to carry with it a full entrance into the divine consciousness and the divine nature; there must be not only sayujya or salokya but sadrisya or, as it is called in the Gita, sadharmya. The full Yoga, Purna Yoga, means a fourfold path, a Yoga of knowledge for the mind, a Yoga of bhakti for the heart, a Yoga of works for the will and a Yoga of perfection for the whole nature. But, ordinarily, if one can follow wholeheartedly any one of these lines, one arrives at the result of all the four. For instance, by bhakti one becomes close to the Divine, becomes intensely aware of Him and arrives at knowledge, for the Divine is the Truth and the Reality; by knowing Him, says the Upanishads, one comes to know all. By bhakti also the will is led into the road of the works of love and the service of the Divine and the government of the nature and its acts by the Divine, and that is Karmayoga. By bhakti also comes spiritual change of the consciousness and the action of the nature which is the first step towards its transformation. So it is with all the other lines of the fourfold path."
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-31/Letters on Yoga-IV/p-686-687
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