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Chapter 9

 

Planes of Consciousness and Parts of the Being

 

The soul of man soars as the Bird, the Hansa, past the shining firmaments of physical and mental consciousness, climbs as the traveller and fighter beyond earth of body and heaven of mind by the ascending path of the Truth to find this Godhead waiting for us, leaning down to us from the secrecy of the highest supreme. . ..

SRI AUROBINDO

In the spiritual order of things, the higher we project our view and our aspiration, the greater the Truth that seeks to descend upon us, because it is already there within us and calls for its release from

By physical liberation (liberation from Karma) one becomes the master of his destiny.

By vital liberation (liberation from desires) the personal will gets identified with the Divine Will. By emotional liberation (liberation from suffering) one realises the supramental unity.

By mental liberation (liberation from ignorance) one obtains the mind of light and the gnostic consciousness.

 THE MOTHER

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COMPLEXITY OF THE CENTRES

621 Complexity of the centres

Responds to several influences at a time.

Canna XgeneraLis. Many colours

 

622 Physical centre

Occupied mainly with material things, it likes to have an ordered life.

Canna XgeneraLis. Orange red

 

 

 

 

 

 

621 Complexity of the centres

623 Connection between the Supermind and the physical

Physical centre open and full of the Supramental Light. On the way to transformation, generous and powerful.

Canna XgeneraLis. Orange and red

 

624 Connection between the Light and

the physical

Physical centre touched by the Light. Awakens to the necessity of growth and blossoming.

Canna XgeneraLis. Yellow and red

 

 

622 Psychic centre

625 Ananda in the physical body

 Purified of all desire and repulsion, with perfect equality and surrender, the physical body is ready to enjoy the Divine Ananda.

Canna XgeneraLis. Cream white

 

626 Vital centre

Passionate and strong, it needs to be controlled. Canna XgeneraLis. Dark red

 

627 Emotional centre

Vibrant and sensitive, it needs to be controlled. Canna XgeneraLis. Deep rose pink

 

628 Psychic centre

Luminous and calm, it is meant to govern the human being.

Canna XgeneraLis. Salmon pink

 

629 Illumined mind centre

In the peace that comes from the perfect Light. Canna XgeneraLis. Pale yellow

 

630 Intuitive mind centre

The activity of correct perception.

Canna XgeneraLis. Yellow

 

631 Future supramental centre

That which is involved in Nature will evolve and become manifest.

Canna XgeneraLis. Orange

 

632 Ananda in the centres

This will be one of the benefits resulting from the physical conversion.

Canna XgeneraLis. Cream white

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CENTRES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

[The soul] is, according to our psychology, connected with the small outer personality by certain centres of consciousness of which we become aware by yoga …. The inner centres are for the most part closed or asleep – to open them and make them awake

 SRI AUROBINDO

The centres or Chakras are seven in number:

1.        The thousand-petalled lotus on top of the head.

2.        In the middle of the forehead – the Ajna Chakra – (will, vision,

dynamic thought).

3.        Throat centre – externalising mind.

4.        Heart-lotus – emotional centre. The psychic is behind it.

5.        Navel- higher vital (proper).

6.        Below navel- lower vital.

7.        Muladhara – physical.

All these centres are in the middle of the body; they are supposed to be attached to the spinal cord; but in fact all these things are in the subtle body, sukshma deha, though one has the feeling of their activities as if in the physical body when the consciousness is awake. 

SRI AUROBINDO

 

Within us there are two centres of the Purusha, the inner Soul through which he touches us to our awakening; there is the Purusha in the lotus of the heart which opens upward all our powers and the Purusha in the thousand-petalled lotus whence descend through the thought and will, opening the third eye in us, the lightnings of vision and the fire of the divine energy. The bliss existence may come to us through either one of these centres. When the lotus of the heart breaks open, we feel a divine joy, love and peace expanding in us like a flower of light which irradiates the whole being ….

 

When the other upper lotus opens, the whole mind becomes full of a divine light, joy and power, behind which is the Divine, the Lord of our being on his throne with our soul beside him or drawn inward into his rays; all the thought and will become then a luminosity ,Power and ecstasy…

SRI AUROBINDO

 

630 Intuitive mind centre

 

The two most important things … are the opening of the heart

centre and the opening of the mind centres to all that is behind and above them. For the heart opens to the psychic being and the mind centres open to the higher consciousness and the nexus between the psychic being and the higher consciousness is the principal means of the Siddhi. The first opening is effected by a concentration in the heart, a call to the Divine to manifest within us and through the psychic to take up and lead the whole nature. Aspiration, prayer, Bhakti, love, surrender are the main supports of this part of the Sadhana – accompanied by a rejection of all that stands in the way of what we aspire for. The second opening is effected by a concentration of the consciousness in the head (afterwards, above it) and an aspiration and call and a sustained will for the descent of the divine Peace, Power, Light, Knowledge, Ananda into the being – the Peace first or the Peace and  Force together. 

SRI AUROBINDO

 

 

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SUPRAMENTAL INFLUENCE

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THE SUPRAMENTAL

The supramental by its very definition is the Truth­ Consciousness, Truth in possession of itself and fulfilling itself by its own power.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

The Supermind is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right ….

SRI AUROBINDO

 

633 Supramental influence

Innumerable and rapid in its action.

Maefadyena unguis-cati. Golden yellow

 

634 Supramental action

An action that is not exclusive but total.

 Barringtonia asiatica. White

 

635 Supramental artistic genius

It blossoms in the light and knows how to manifest it.

Helianthus. Dark brownish red

 

636 Beginning of the supramental realisation

Of charming beauty it is the herald of victory.

Butea monosperma. Orange

637 Supramental manifestation

 

637 Supramental manifestation

It will be welcome.

Scadoxus multiflorus. Coral pink

 

 

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638 Supramental immortality upon earth

 

638 Supramental immortality upon earth

This still remains to be realised.

Heliehrysum braeteatum. Several colours

 

640 Realisation of supramental riches

Can manifest only after the transformation of human consciousness.

Pterospermum aeerijolium. White

 

641 Supramental sun

We aspire that its rays may illumine and transform us.

 Anthoeephalus eadamba. Golden yellow

 

642 Supramental rain

Happy are those who receive it.

 Pyrostegia venusta. Bright orange

 

643 Supramental bird

It remains where it has descended.

Strelitzia reginae. Orange yellow

639 Success in supramental work

 

639 Success in supramental work

The result of patient labour and perfect consecration.

Coehlospermum religiosum. Golden yellow

 

 

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ASPIRATION FOR SPIRITUALITY

644 Spiritual aspiration

 

644 Spiritual aspiration

Rises up like an arrow, without caring for obstacles or laggards.

Terminalia catappa. White

645 Aspiration for spirituality

 

645 Aspiration for spirituality

Conscious of the advantages of spiritualisation. Salvia. Several colours

 

We can, simply by a sincere aspiration, open a sealed door in us and find ..that Something which will change the whole meaning of life, answer all our question solve all our problems and lead us to the perfection we aspire for without knowing it, to that Reality which alone can satisfy and give us lasting joy, balance, strength All this you have heard many times. You have heard it – oh, there are even ~ here who are so used to it that for that seems to be the same as drinking a glas1 water or opening a window to let in the sunlight ….

We have tried a little, bur now we are g to try seriously!

The starting-point: to want it, truly to 1 it, to need it. The next step: to think, a. all, of that. A day comes very quickly w one is unable to think of anything else . the only thing that counts. And then .. you formulate your aspiration, you let t true prayer spring up from your heart, t prayer that expresses the sincerity of the need. And then … well, you will see wl happens

 THE MOTHER

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SPIRITUALITY

646 The vital consenting to be spiritualised

 

646 The vital consenting to be spiritualised

A great victory over the lower nature.

dvia leucantha. White to pale mauve

647 Matter consenting to be spiritualised

 

647 Matter consenting to be spiritualised

The beginning of wisdom.

Salvia splendens. Bright red

 

Spirituality can only come by opening of the mind, vital and physical to the inmost soul, to the higher Self, to the Divine, and their subordination to the spiritual forces and instrumentation as channels of the inner Light, the higher Knowledge and Power.

 

All perfection of which the outer man is capable, is only a realising of the eternal perfection of the Spirit within him. We know the Divine and become the Divine, because we are That already in our secret nature.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

648 Spiritual ascension

Fearless, regular and uninterrupted.

Citharexylum. White

 

648 Spiritual ascension

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SPIRITUAL ATMOSPHERE

649 Spiritual atmosphere

 

649 Spiritual atmosphere

Light, fluid, clear and transparent and so clean

Azadirachta indica. White

 

650 Aspiration for spiritual intensity

Bold, elegant, obstinate.

Orthosiphon stamineus. Rose purple

 

651 Spiritual intensity

It is an intensity without violence. The ardour it gives you is expressed without grand gestures and big words.

Orthosiphon stamineus. White

 

652 Spiritual success

Spiritual success is conscious union with the Divine.

Hiptage benghalensis. White

A spiritual atmosphere is more important than outer conditions; if one can get that and also create one’s own spiritual air to breathe in and live in it, that is the true condition of progress.

SRI AUROBINDO

In all spiritual living the inner life is the thing of first importance; the spiritual man lives always within, and in a world of the Ignorance that refuses to change he has to be in a certain sense separate from it and to guard his inner life against the intrusion and influence of the darker forces of the Ignorance: he is out of the world even when he is within it; if he acts upon it, it is from the fortress of his inner spiritual being where in the inmost sanctuary he is one with the Supreme Existence or the soul and God are alone together.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

652 Spiritual success

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SPIRITUAL BEAUTY

653 Spiritual beauty

653 Spiritual beauty

Immaculate whiteness, sweetness and purity, you seem to come from another world.

Leontopodium alpinum. White or yellowish white

 

654 Spiritual happiness

Calm and smiling, nothing can disturb it.

Pelargonium. Several colours

 

 

To find highest beauty is to find God; to reveal, to embody, to create, as we say, highest beauty is to bring out of our souls the living image and power of God.

 

SRI AUROBINDO

Spiritual beauty illumining human sight

Lines with its passion and mystery Matter’s mask And squanders eternity on a beat of Time.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

654 Spiritual happiness

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JOY OF SPIRITUALITY

655 Power of spirituality

 

655 Power of spirituality

True spirituality transforms life.

Sansevieria. White to dusty white

 

656 Joy of spirituality

The reward of sincere effort.

ansevieria. White to dusty white

657 Spiritual perfume

 

657 Spiritual perfume

It has an extraordinary power of attraction. Pandanus tectorius. Cream yellow

 

The spiritual man is one who has discovered his soul: he has found his self and lives in that, is conscious of it, has the joy of it; he needs nothing external for his completeness of existence.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

SPIRITUAL PERFUME

The fragrance of flowers is the prayer of physical Nature to the Divine, her most subtle offering.

THE MOTHER

 

657 Spiritual perfume

 

Immortal fragrance packed the quivering breeze In groves that seemed moved bosoms and trembling depth

The million children of the undying spring Bloomed, pure unnumbered stars of hued delight Nestling for shelter in their emerald sky:

Faery flower-masses looked with laughing eyes.

 

SRI AUROBINDO

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THE PSYCHIC

The psychic being is the soul developing in the evolution.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

The true soul of man is … in the true invisible heart hidden in some luminous cave of the nature: there under some infiltration of the divine Light is our soul, a silent inmost being of which few are even aware; for if all have a soul, few are conscious of their true soul or feel its direct impulse. There dwells the little spark of the Divine which supports this obscure mass of our nature and around it grows the psychic being, the formed soul or the real Man within us. It is as this psychic being in him grows and the movements of the heart reflect its divinations and impulsions that man becomes more and more aware of his soul, ceases to be a superior animal, and, awakening to glimpses of the godhead within him, admits more and more its intimations of a deeper life and consciousness and an impulse towards things divine. It is one of the decisive moments of the integral Yoga when this psychic being liberated, brought out from the veil to the front, can pour the full flood of its divinations, seeings and impulsions on the mind, life and body of man and begin to prepare the upbuilding of divinity in the earthly nature.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

It is the very nature of the soul or the psychic being to turn towards the Divine Truth as the sunflower to the sun; it accepts and clings to all that is divine or progressing towards divinity and draws back from all that is a perversion or a denial of it, from all that is false and undivine. Yet the soul is at first but a spark and then a little flame of godhead burning in the midst of a great darkness …. It is only when the life turns towards the Divine that the soul can truly come forward and impose its power on the outer members; for, itself a spark of the Divine, to grow in flame towards the Divine is its true life and its very reason of existence.

SRI AUROBINDO

658 Psychic work

 

 

658 Psychic work

A work governed by harmony.

Cassia javanica.Deep pink fading to white

 

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661 Psychic influence in the emotions

659 Psychic tranquillity

By its very nature the psychic is tranquil.

Vallaris solanacea. White

 

660 Psychic peace

It is spontaneous and does not make a fuss.

Hollarrhena pubescens. White

 

661 Psychic influence in the emotions

Indispensable for beginning sadhana.

Justicia oblongata. Rose pink

 

662 Thirst for perfection

Constant and manifold aspiration.

Justicia brandegeana. White or yellow

 

663 Organisation of the being around the psychic

The first stage of transformation.

Plumbago indica. Pinkish red

 

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THE PSYCHIC

The first [step of self-realisation] is the discovery of the soul, not the outer soul of thought and emotion and desire, but the secret psychic entity, the divine element within us. When that becomes dominant over the nature, when we are consciously the soul and when mind, life and body take their true place as its instruments, we are aware of a guide within that knows the truth, the good, the true delight and beauty of existence, controls heart and intellect by its luminous law and leads our life and being towards spiritual completeness. Even within the obscure workings of the Ignorance we have then a witness who discerns, a living light that illumines, a will that refuses to be misled and separates the mind's truth from its error, the heart's intimate response from its vibrations to a wrong call and wrong demand upon it, the life's true ardour and plenitude of movement from vital passion and the turbid falsehoods of our vital nature and its dark self-seekings. This is the first step of self-realisation, to enthrone the soul, the divine psychic individual in the place of the ego.

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662 Thirst for perfection

663 Organisation of the being around the psychic

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PSYCHOLOGICAL PERFECTION

665 Psychological perfection on the way to fulfilment

 

665 Psychological perfection on the way to fulfilment

The state of those who take up the Yoga seriously.

Plumeria rubra. Deep rose to purplish red

 

664 Psychological perfection

There is not one psychological perfection but five, like the five petals of the flower: sincerity, faith, devotion, aspiration and surrender.

Plumeria rubra. White with yellow

666 Psychological perfection in Matter

 

666 Psychological perfection in Matter

The first step towards transformation

Plumeria rubra forma tricolor. White with rosepink

 

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THE PSYCHIC

667 Integral psychological perfection

 

667 Integral psychological perfection

One of the conditions indispensable for transformation.

Plumeria obtusa. White

 

 

In order to strengthen the contact with the conscious psychic personality and, if possible, to aid its development, one should, while concentrating, turn towards it, aspire to know it and feel it, open oneself to receive its influence, and take great care, each time that one receives an indication from it, to follow it very scrupulously and sincerely. To live in a great aspiration, to take care to become inwardly calm and remain so always as far as possible, to cultivate a perfect sincerity in all the activities of one's being – these are the essential conditions for the growth of the psychic being.

THE MOTHER

 

668 Perfect psychological perfection

 

668 Perfect psychological perfection

Psychological perfection in all the parts of the being.

Plumeria obtusa. White

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 699 Perfect radiating psychology

 

699 Perfect radiating psychology

Can only be obtained by acquiring the divine vision.

Chonemorpha fragrans. Cream white

670 Supramentalised psychological perfection

 

670 Supramentalised psychological perfection

A psychological perfection aspiring to be divinised.

Miehelia ehampaea. Cream yellow to golden orange

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THE MIND

671 Mind

671 Mind

Its true value depends on its surrender to the Divine.

Thevetia peruviana. Yellow

The "Mind" in the ordinary use of the word covers indiscriminately the whole consciousness, for man is a mental being and mentalises everything; but in the language of this yoga the words "mind" and "mental" are used to connote specially the part of the nature which has to do with cognition and intelligence, with ideas, with mental or thought perceptions, the reactions of thought to things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc., that are part of his intelligence.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

The mind proper is divided into three parts – thinking Mind, dynamic Mind, externalising Mind – the former concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right, the second with the putting out of mental forces for realisation of the idea, the third with the expression of them in life (not only by speech, but by any form it can give).

SRI AUROBINDO

672 Purified mind

Mind ready to surrender to the Divine.

Thevetia peruviana ‘Alba’. White

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HOME

 

REASON

674 Clear mind

 

675 Attentive mind

 

 

The  first thing that should be taught to every human being as soon as he is able to think, is that he must obey reason which  is a superinstinct of the species. Reason is the master of the  nature of the  human species. You must obey reason and absolutely refuse to be the slave of instincts. And here I am not talking to you about yoga, I am not talking about spiritual life, not at all; it has nothing to do with that. It is the basic wisdom of human life, purely human life: every human being who obeys anything other than reason is a kind of brute lower than the animal. That’s all. And this should be taught everywhere; it is the basic education which should be given to children.

The reign of reason should come to an end only with the advent of the psychic law which manifesters the Divine Will

THE MOTHER

 

CLEAR MIND

Ordinarily, the mind reflects the status of mortal nature and the activities of the Force which works under the conditions of the material universe. But if it becomes clear, passive, pure, by the renunciation of these activities and of the characteristic ideas and outlook of mental nature, then as in a clear mirror or like the sky in clear water which is without ripple and untuffled by winds, the divine is reflected..

SRI AUROBINDO

 

673 Reason

An excellent instrument when it is at the service of the Divine.

Artabotrys hexapetalus. Yellow

 

674 Clear mind

The first step on the way to conversion.

Artabotrys hexapetalus. Greenish yellow

 

675 Attentive mind

The mind attains its full utility when it knows how to listen to the higher inspiration.

Cassia. Yellow

 

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ASPIRATION FOR SILENCE IN THE MIND

The only way to establish a constant silence in one’s mind … is to open oneself to the higher regions and let this higher consciousness, force and light descend constantly into the lower mind and take possession of it. And then when this happens, the lower mind can remain constantly quiet and silent, because it is this that acts and fills the whole being. One can act, write and speak without the mind being active, with this force coming down from above, penetrating the mind and using it, and the mind itself becomes just a passive instrument.

THE MOTHER

 

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When the mind is still, then Truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

676 Awakening in the mind

Let it turn to the Light and to the Light alone.

Turnera ulmiftlia. Yellow

 

677 Awakening of the physical mind

It wants to know and opens itself wide in order to understand.

Turnera ulmiftlia. Cream white

 

678 Aspiration for silence in the mind

Too noisy to be effective.

Eranthemum Pulchellum. Sky blue

 

679 Aspiration for silence in the Physical mind

Does what it can , but cannot do much.

Eranthemum Pulchellum. Blue violet

676 Awakening in the mind

 

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PHYSICAL MIND

680 Physical mind

 

The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with the physical things only – it depends on the sense-mind, sees only objects, external actions, draws its ideas from the data given by external things, infers from them only and knows no other Truth until it is enlightened from above.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

[The physical mind] is the instrument of understanding and ordered action on physical things. Only instead of being obscure and ignorant and fumbling as now or else guided only by an external knowledge it has to become conscious of the Divine and to act in accordance with an inner light, will and knowledge putting itself into contact and an understanding unity with the physical world.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

680 Physical mind

Becomes a good instrument of action when it is content to be that alone.

Tecoma Xsmithii. Yellow

HIGHER MIND

 

 

 

 

681 Higher mind

681 Higher mind

Its superiority lies in its capacity to open to the Divine Light.

Tecoma stans. Bright yellow

 

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HIGHER MIND

 

684 Work of the enlightened mind

Higher mind is one of the planes of the spiritual mind, the first and lowest of them; it is above the normal mental level.

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I mean by the Higher Mind a first plane of spiritual consciousness where one becomes constantly and closely aware of the Self, the One everywhere and knows and sees things habitually with that awareness; but it is still very much on the mind level although highly spiritual in its essential substance; and its instrumentation is through an elevated thought-power and comprehensive mental sight — not illumined by any of the intenser upper lights but as if in a large strong and clear daylight. It acts as an intermediate state between the Truth-Light above and the human mind, communicating the higher knowledge in a form that the Mind intensified, broadened, made spiritually supple, can receive without being blinded or dazzled by a Truth beyond it.  

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682 Voice of the higher mind

In quest of Truth.

Anemopaegma carrerense. Yellow and cream white

 

683 Conversion of the higher mind

Receives its inspiration from the Divine Consciousness.

Lycoris aurea. Bright golden yellow

 

684 Work of the enlightened mind

It is very powerful in leading the being to the Divine. Can be very useful for progress.

Crataeva adansonii. White turning cream

 

685 Perfect working of the mind

Can take place when the mind is determined exclusively to fulfil its role.

Trachymene coerulea. Blue or light lavender blue

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SUPRAMENTALISED MIND

686 Aspiration of the mind for the supramental guidance

 

686 Aspiration of the mind for the supramental guidance

The mind feels that its complexity is powerless and asks for a greater light to illumine it.

Justicia aurea. Yellow

 

687 Response of the mind to the Supramental Light

Represents an important step towards realisation.

Asclepias curassavica. Yellow, with golden  crown

 

For mind … is in its origin a principle of light, an instrument put forth from the Supermind and, though set to work within limits and even set to create limits, yet the limits are luminous borders for a special working, voluntary and purposive bounds, a service of the finite ever extending itself under the eye of infinity. It is this character of Mind that will reveal itself under the touch of Supermind and make human mentality an adjunct and a minor instrumentation of the supramental knowledge.

 

688 Response of the physical mind to the Supramental Light

 

688 Response of the physical mind to the Supramental Light

The physical mind eager to understand and be transformed.

Asclepias curassavica. Orange red, with orange crown

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MIND OF LIGHT

689 Supramentalised mind

 

689 Supramentalised mind

Mind has become an instrument for transformation.

Thevetia peruviana. Orange

 

690 Mind of Light acting in Matter

A powerful aid to progress.

Castanospermum australe. Golden yellow to reddish orange

A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect

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690 Mind of Light acting in Matter

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MENTAL SINCERITY

691 Kind mind

The mind prepares itself for conversion.

Luffa acutangula. Light yellow

 

692 Mental simplicity

3oes not like complications.

Thymophylla tenuiloba. Yellow

 

693 Mental goodwill

Likes to show off a little, but is very useful.

Mussaenda luteola. Lemon yellow

 

694 Mental honesty

Does not try to deceive others nor to deceive itself.

Tristellateia australasiae. Bright yellow

 

695 Honesty in the physical mind

Preliminary condition indispensable for transformation.

Galphimia glauca. Yellow

 

696 Mental sincerity

Essential condition for integral honesty.

Solidago. Yellow

 

697 Birth of true mental sincerity

With its birth the mind will understand that it is only an  intermediary and not an end in itself.

Melampodium paludosum. Yellow

 

694 Mental honesty

 

697 Birth of true mental sincerity

696 Mental sincerity

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698 Mental purity

A mirror that does not distort.

Tabernaemontana divaricata. White

 

699 Integral mental purity

Silent, attentive, receptive, concentrated on the Divine – this is the path of purity.

Tabernaemontana divaricata 'Flore-pleno'. White

 

700 Perfect mental purity

A spotless mirror turned constantly towards

the Divine.

Tabernaemontana divaricata 'Flare-plena'. White

 

701 Mental chastity

Precious and magnificent in its purity.

Oncoba spinosa. White

 

702 Mentalised power

(No comment)

Abelmoschus esculentus. Bright lemon yellow

 

703 Formative faculty in the mind

It is a natural and very spontaneous gift.

Crotalaria juncea. Bright yellow

 

704 Correct perception

A perception that does not deform the Truth.

Cananga odorata. Greenish gold

 

 

702 Mentalised power

 

704 Correct perception

703 Formative faculty in the mind

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705 Mental suggestions of organisation

 

705 Mental suggestions of organisation

Abundant and clustered, a little dull.

Aglaia odorata. Yellow

 

707 Mental voice

The mind must learn to express only what is dictated by the Divine

Gmelina philippensis. Bright yellow

 

706 Mental spirit of imitation

 

706 Mental spirit of imitation

What you cannot find for yourself, you imitate.

Dendropthoe falcata. Pale orange yellow

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 707 Mental voice

708 Mental curiosity

708 Curiosity

If we want to be exceptional, let it bethrough our qualities.

Holmskioldia sanguined. Several colours

 

709 Mental curiosity

Should be strictly controlled so as notto be dangerous.

Holmskioldia sanguinea. Lemon yellow

 

710 Physical curiosity

Its value depends on its purpose.

 Holmskioldia. sanguinea. Red

 

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 711 Mental fantasy

 

711 Mental fantasy

Disorderly, it too often lacks coordination.

 Delonix elata. Cream white

 

IMAGINATION

 

Imagination is a fundamental energy of consciousness, and this marvellous, indomitable energy works on without caring whether she is put to use or misuse or no use at all; she exists merely for the sake of delight in her own existence.  

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712 Imagination

 

712 Imagination

Abundant and varied, may be charming, but must not be substituted for the Truth.

Cassia fistula. Canary yellow

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713 Inventions

Are useful only when they are controlled by the Divine.

Cytisus scoparius. Yellow

 

714 Inventions

Are useful only when they are controlled by the Divine.

Cytisus scoparius 'Andreanus'. Yellow

 

IDEA

There is a power in the idea — a force of which the idea is a shape. Again, behind the idea and force and word there is what is called the spirit, – a consciousness which generates the force.  

 srI aurobindo

 

The idea is the realisation of a truth in Consciousness as the fact is its realisation in Power.  

srI aurobindo

 

715 Idea

Essential for all organisers, on its quality depends the quality of the organisation.

Senna alata. Bright golden yellow

 

716 Fire in the mind

An ardour that sets ideas ablaze.

Caesalpinia pulcherrima. Golden yellow

 

713 Inventions

 

714 Inventions

715 Idea

 

716 Fire in the mind

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717 Foresight

 

717 Foresight

A perception that is under the divine influence.

Sanchezia speciosa. Golden yello

719 Seeking for clarity

 

719 Seeking for clarity

 Likes to say clearly what it says.

Gazania. Several colours

720 Logic in thought

 

720 Logic in thought

Likes coherent discourse.

Prosopis glandulosa. Greenish yellow

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718 Prevision

The power of projecting one's consciousness into the future.

Clerodendrum minahassae. White

 

723 Integrally pure thoughts

An effect of the Divine  Grace.

Viola Xwittrockiana. Cream yellow

 

 

721 Heroic thought

 

721 Heroic thought

To the conquest of the unknown, without fear of difficulty or incomprehension.

Ipomoea horsfalliae. Intense magenta

722 Thoughts turned towards the Divine

 

722 Thoughts turned towards the Divine

A certitude of beauty.

Viola Xwittrockiana. Many colours

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QUIET MIND

724 Sweetness of thought turned exclusively towards the Divine

 

724 Sweetness of thought turned exclusively towards the Divine

Lovely, joyful, sweet and calm, sheltered from all conflicts.

Nerium oleander. Pink fringed pale pink

725 Contemplation of the Divine

Occupied exclusively with its joyful contemplation.

Nerium oleander. Light pink

 

726 Quiet mind

The best way to learn.

Nerium oleander. White

 

727 Quietness established in the mind

The essential condition for its transformation.

Nerium oleander. White

 

728 Perfect quietness in the mind

Essential condition for true progress.

Nerium oleander. White, double

 

729 Turning of wrong movements into right movements

A supreme goodwill always ready to be transformed.

Nerium oleander. Reddish pink

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QUIET MIND

728 Perfect quietness in the mind

 

The first step is a quiet mind – silence is a further step, but quietude must be there; and by a quiet mind I mean a mental consciousness within which sees thoughts arrive to it and move about but does not itself feel that it is thinking or identifying itself with the thoughts or call them its own. Thoughts, mental movements may pass through it as wayfarers appear and pass from elsewhere through a silent country – the quiet mind observes them or does not care to observe them, but, in either case, does not become active or lose its quietude.  

 srI aurobindo

730 Surrender of all falsehood

 

730 Surrender of all falsehood

Let us offer our falsehoods to the Divine so that He may change them into joyous truths.

Nerium oleander. Bright rose pink, double

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THE VITAL

The vital has to be carefully distinguished from mind, even though it has a mind element transfused into it; the vital is the Life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action, will of desire, reactions of the desire-soul in man and of all that play of possessive and other related instincts, anger, fear, greed, lust, etc., that belong to this field of the nature.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

The vital proper is the life-force acting in its own nature, impulses, emotions, feelings, desires, ambitions, etc., having at their highest centre what we may call the outer heart of emotion, while there is an inner heart where are the higher or psychic feelings and sensibilities, the emotions or intuitive yearnings and impulses of the soul. The vital part of us is, of course, necessary to our completeness, but it is a true instrument only when its feelings and tendencies have been purified by the psychic touch and taken up and governed by the spiritual light and power.

 SRI AUROBINDO

 

It is when there is death of desire and this calm equal wideness in the consciousness everywhere, that the true vital being within us comes out from the veil and reveals its own calm, intense and potent presence. For such is the true nature of the vital being, pranamaya purusha; it is a projection of the Divine Purusha into life, – tranquil, strong, luminous, many-energied, obedient to the Divine Will, egoless, yet or rather therefore capable of all action, achievement, highest or largest enterprise.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

731 The vital's Possibility of Perfection

 

731 The vital's Possibility of Perfection

The day the vital is converted it will have much to give.

Gladious callianthus. White

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732 Vital opening

 

733 Vital consecration

What is needed is the path of vastness, widening, relaxation, ease, of blossoming in the vital- not so much a sensorial vital as … as a gentleness, a sweetness. The vital blossoming into beauty: a sweetness and beauty. I don’t want to speak of "sentiments" because …oh , that leads us right into a quagmire! No, but … a sweetness, a charm, a beauty-but not there (in the head) : here.

 THE MOTHER

 

VITAL CONSECRATION

If you want a true mastery and transformation of the vital movements, it can be done only on condition you allow Your psychic being, the soul in you, to awake fully, to establish its rule and opening all to the permanent touch of the Divine Shakti, impose its own way of pure devotion, whole-hearted aspiration and complete uncompromising urge to all that is divine in the mind and heart and vital nature. There is no other way and it is no use hankering after a more comfortable

path.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

 

732 Vital opening

The vital is ready to receive the divine influence.

Saritaea magnifica. Rose purple

 

733 Vital consecration

Delightfully modest and fragrant, it smiles at life without wanting to draw attention to itself.

Heliotropium arborescens. Pale to deep purple

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734 Attempt at vital goodwill

An attempt is a small thing but it can be a promise for the future.

jacaranda. Lavender blue

 

735 Consent of the vital

Friendly, smiling, always ready for action, with a great goodwill.

Browallia. Light blue

 

 

736 Enthusiastic vital consent

Here all the resources of its enthusiasm are placed at the service of its consent.

 Browallia. Pale lilac

 

737 Correct movement in the vital

At once the cause and the result of conversion.

Saintpaulia ionantha. Purple

 

738 Correct movement

All movements are under the right inspiration.

Saintpaulia ionantha. Several colours

 

739 Vital honesty

Not to allow our sensations and desires to falsify our judgement and determine our actions.

Kaempferia rotunda.White

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ENTHUSIASTIC VITAL CONSENT

Energy ,strength, enthusiasm, artistic taste, boldness forcefulness are there [in the vital] too, if we know how to use them in the true way. A vital converted and consecrated to the Divine.  Will becomes a bold  and forceful instrument that can overcome all obstacles. But it first has to be disciplined  and it consents to this only when the Divine is its master

THE MOTHER

 

The true vital being … is wide, vast, calm, strong, without limitations, firm and immovable, capable of all power, all knowledge, all Ananda. It is moreover without ego, for it knows itself to be a projection and instrument of the Divine: it is the divine Warrior, pure and perfect; in it is an instrumental Force for all divine realisations.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

740 Vital patience

 Indispensable for all progress.

Ageratum houstonianum. Deep lavender

 

741 Vital contentment

(No comment)

Bauhinia variegata. White with reddish purple

 

742 Stability in the vital

One of the important results of conversion.

Bauhinia purpurea. Light pink to reddish violet

 

743 Stability in the higher vital

(No comment)

Bauhinia purpurea. Light mauve

 

744 Peace in the vital

The result of the abolition of desires.

Murraya paniculata. White

740 Vital patience

 

742 Stability in the vital

 

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PEACE IN THE VITAL

744 Peace in the vital

 

744 Peace in the vital

The result of the abolition of desires.

Murraya Paniculata.

 

745 Silence in the vital

A Powerful help for inner peace .

Achimenes grandiflora. Light violet to red violet

The one thing that is most needed for this Sadhana is peace, calm, especially in the vital- a peace which depends not on circumstances or surroundings but on the inner contact with a higher consciousness which is the consciousness of the Divine, of the Mother.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

If you get peace, then to clean the vital becomes easy. If you simply clean and clean and do nothing else, you go very slowly ­ for the vital gets dirty again and has to be· cleaned a hundred times. The peace is something that is clean in itself, so to get it is a positive way of securing your object. To look for dirt only and clean is the negative way.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

745 Silence in the vital

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VITAL PURITY

746 Aspiration for vital purity

 

747 Vital purity

748 Radiating vital purity

 

746 Aspiration for vital purity

Delicate, modest, insistent.

 Duranta erecta. Lavender

 

747 Vital purity

It begins with the abolition of desires.

Duranta erecta ‘Alba’. White

 

748 Radiating vital purity

Is possible only through perfect consecration of the vital.

Strophantus gratus. Pale pink

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749 Candid simplicity in the vital

One of the most difficult qualities for the vital to acquire.

Oxalis. Lavender pink to rose purple

 

750 Strength in the vital

Likes to show its beauty and power.

Solenostemon scutellarioides. Multicoloured

 

 

 

751 Quiet strength in the vital

Does not like to attract attention.

Tradescantia zebrina. Magenta pink

 

752 Illumined strength in the vital

 (No comment)

Amaranthus caudatus. Off-white

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753 Spiritual aspiration in the vital

(N 0 comment)

Celosia argentea. Red

 

754 Spiritual awakening of the vital

It soars towards the heights in the hope of reaching them.

Solenostemon scutellarioides. Pale lavender

 

755 Spiritual ascension of the vital

It is more fanciful and less regular.

Stachytarpheta jamaicensis. Lavender blue

 

 

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THE VITAL

756 First turning of the vital to the Divine Light

 

756 First turning of the vital to the Divine Light

The vital prepares itself to be transformed.

Rudbeckia hirta ‘Gloriosa Daisy: Yellow

757 Seeking the Light in the lower vital

 

757 Seeking the Light in the lower vital

Does more work, makes less fuss.

Iochroma cyaneum. Deep purple

 

There are four parts of the vital being – first, the mental vital which gives a mental expression by thought, speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being; the emotional vital which is the seat of various feelings, such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred, and the rest; the central vital which is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, e.g. ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kind~ and the field of many vital energies; last, the lower vital which is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as make the greater part of daily life, e.g. food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, little wishes of all kinds – and a numberless host of other things. Their respective seats are: (1) the regions from the throat to the heart, (2) the heart (it is a double centre, belonging in front to the emotional and vital and behind to the psychic), (3) from the heart to the navel, (4) below the navel.

 

SRI AUROBINDO

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LOWER VITAL

The lower vital aspires by offering all its small movements in the fire of purification, by calling for the light and power to descend into it and rid it of its little greeds, jealousies, resistances and revolts over small matters, angers, vanities, sexualities etc. to be replaced by the right movements governed by selflessness, purity, obedience to the urge of the Divine Force in all things.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

MATERIAL VITAL

By material vital we mean the vital so involved in Matter as to be bound by its movements and gross physical character; the action is to support and energies the body and keep in it the capacity of life, growth, movement, etc., also of sensitiveness to outside impacts.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

758 Success in the most material vital

759  Attachment of the material vital to the Divine

 

758 Success in the most material vital

Has value only when it is offered to the Divine.

Gossypium arboreum. Dark red

 

 

759 Attachment of the material vital to the Divine

An attachment that insists on feeling the power of contact.

 Eranthemum hypocraterijorme. Reddish violet

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760 Vital aspiration for union with the Divine

 

760 Vital aspiration for union with the Divine

It rises straight up in an intense and concentrated movement.

Polygonum. Light pink

761 Opening of the vital to the Divine Love

Little by little it is no longer the ego that governs, but the Divine.

Euphorbia pulcherrima. Green with red

 

762 Opening of the vital to the Divine Love

Little by little it is no longer the ego that governs, but the Divine.

Euphorbia cyathophora. Yellow

 

761  Opening of the vital to the Divine Love

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OPENING OF THE VITAL TO THE DIVINE LOVE

It is a mistake to believe that if the vital loves, it must be a love that demands and imposes the satisfaction of its desire; it is a mistake to think that it must be either that or else the vital, in order to escape from its "attachment", must draw away altogether from the object of its love. The vital can be as absolute in its unquestioning self-giving as any other part of the nature; nothing can be more generous than its movement when it forget s self for the Beloved.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

763 The vital governed by the Presence

764 Liberation in the vital

 

763 The vital governed by the Presence

The vital force made peaceful and disciplined by the Divine Presence.

Tradescantia pallida ‘Purple Heart’. Mauve pink

 

764 Liberation in the vital

Another result of conversion.

Berrya cordifolia. Greenish brown

 

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PURITY OF THE EMOTIONS

765 Distinction of the vital

 

768 Opening of the emotional centre to the Light

The insistence on purification [of the emotions] does not mean that I condemn true feeling and emotion any more than the insistence on a purified mind or will means that

I condemn thought and will. On the contrary, the deeper the emotion, the more intense the Bhakti, the greater is the force for realisation and transformation. It is oftenest through intensity of emotion that the psychic being awakens and there is an opening of the inner doors to the Divine.

SRl AUROBINDO

 

767 Refinement of emotions

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ELEGANCE IN THE EMOTION

765 Distinction of the vital

Light and graceful, of refined elegance.

MeLia azedarach. White with mauve

 

766 Elegance in the emotions

Delicate and refined, does not permit itself any vulgarity.

BarLeria cristata. Lavender

 

767 Refinement of emotions

With progress even the emotions become refined.

Brunfelsia austraLis. Purple

 

768 Opening of the emotional centre to the Light

An important event in human development.

Pandorea jasminoides. White and lavender pink

 

769 Broadening of the emotional centre

It opens and widens itself in order to receive better.

GLoxinia perennis. Purplish blue

 

770 Purity in the emotional centre

Indispensable for progress.

 Thunbergia fragrans. White

 

 

769 Broadening of the emotional centre

 

770 Purity in the emotional centre

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THE EMOTIONS AWAKE TO THE FIRST CONTACT WITH THE DIVIN

Emotion is an excellent and indispensable thing in human nature, in spite of all its shortcomings and dangers …. [But] our aim is to go beyond emotion to the height and depth and intensity of the Divine Love and there feel through the inner psychic heart an inexhaustible oneness with the Divine which the spasmodic leapings of the vital emotions cannot reach or experience.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

 

 

771 Collective emotions open to the Divine

Crowds responding to the impulsion coming from the Divine. An event that marks the great stages of terrestrial life.

Mansoa alliacea. Light purple

 

772 Emotional abundance

Good feelings that give themselves unstintingly.

Lagenaria siceraria. White

 

773 The emotions awake to the first contact with the Divine

The Light begins to work in the emotional consciousness

Acanthus montanus. Light purple to purple

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THE EMOTIONS AWAKE TO THE FIRST CONTACT WITH THE DIVINE

Emotion is a good element in yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire for their purification; they will then become a help on the way and no longer a cause of suffering.

Not to kill emotion, but to turn it towards the Divine is the right way of the yoga.

But it must become pure, founded upon spiritual peace and joy, capable of being transmuted into Ananda. Equality and calm in the mind and vital parts, an intense psychic emotion in the heart can perfectly go together. Awake by your aspiration the psychic fire in the heart that burns steadily towards the Divine – that is the one way to liberate and fulfill the emotional nature.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

 

REFINEMENT OF SENSATIONS

 

 

774 Refinement of sensations

Manifold, complex, perceiving the variety of details.

Cassia roxburghii. Pink

 

775 Purified senses

Can only be obtained by a total surrender to the Truth.

CLitoria ternatea. White

774 Refinement of sensations

 

775 Purified senses

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778 Vital will manifested in life

 

776 Organisation of action in life

Clustered, compact, its action is irresistible.

 Combretum jructicosa. Red orange

 

777 True action in the material vital

Gracious and simple in its spontaneity.

Combretum coccineum. Bright crimson

778 Vital will manifested in life

It is often the cause of the greatest disorders.

 Episcia reptans. Intense orange red

 

779 Will manifested in life

 Concentrated and precise.

Episcia cupreata. Bright coral pink

 

779 Will manifested in life

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781 Will to conquer vital enemies

 

780 Aspiration for the conquest of enemies in the vital

A concentrated and unobtrusive will acting quietly but effectively.

Verbena tenuisecta. Light pink

 

781 Will to conquer vital enemies

 Indispensable for mastery over desires.

Verbena tenuisecta. Rose purple

 

782 Conquest over vital enemies

The appearance is modest, but the power is lasting.

Verbena tenuisecta. White

783 Power to reject adverse suggestions

The power that comes from conscious union with the Divine.

Codiaeum variegatum. Cream white

 

783 Power to reject adverse suggestions

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784 Perpetual vitality

 A vitality that is not affected by external influences.

Conifers. Green

 

785 Steadfast vitality

The vitality that is based on integral consecration.

reca catechu. White

 

786 Vital plenitude

Can only be obtained through conversion.

pergularia odoratissima. Greenish yellow

 

787 Formative faculty in the vital

pontaneous but not always happy, it needs to be disciplined.

Crotalaria. Light purple

 

788 Vital impulses

Look like nothing at all, but assert hems elves and are stubborn.

‘Jraptophyllum pictum. Dull reddish purple

 

789 Vital fantasy

Ephemeral and unimportant.

Talinum paniculatum. Purple red

 

790 Vital sensitivity

ls excessive if it is not controlled.

Mimosa pudica. Pale lavender pink

787 Formative faculty in the vital

 

788 Vital impulses

789 Vital fantasy

 

790 Vital sensitivity

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GREED FOR MONEY

791 Pride

 

791 Pride

A great obstacle to progress.

Dahlia. Several colours

 

792 Mental pride

(N 0 comment)

Dahlia. Yellow

 

793 Vital pride

(No comment)

Dahlia. Mauve

 

794 Vanity

One of the most frequent forms of falsehood.

Dahlia. All colours

 

795 Passion

It is a force, but it is dangerous and can only be useful if it is perfectly surrendered to the Divine. Spathodea campanulata 

Reddish orange

 

796 Greed for money

The surest way to diminish one’s consciousness and narrow one’s nature.

Ochna kirkii. Red

 

797 A whipping

A little brutal but sometimes useful.

Capsicum annuum. Off-white or purple

 

798 Conquest of the armies

 Brutal and material, brings no joy.

StaDelill Purple brown

 

Money is the visible sign of a universal and this force in its manifestation on ea works on the vital and physical planes a indispensable to the fullness of the outer. In its origin and its true action it belong the Divine.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

Money is not meant to make money, m< is meant to make the earth ready for the advent of the new creation.

 

THE MOTHER

 

Money belongs to the one who spends it; that is an absolute law. You may pile up money, but it doesn’t belong to you until you spend it. Then you have the merit, tl glory, the joy, the pleasure of spending it! . .. Money is not meant to generate money: money should generate an increase in production, an improvement in the conditions of life and a progress in human consciousness. That is its true use. What  I call an improvement in consciousness, a progress in consciousness, is everything th; education in all its forms can provide … from the education of the body, the most material progress, to spiritual education an, progress through yoga – the whole spectrum everything that leads humanity towards its future realisation. Money should be used tc increase that and to increase the material base  for the earth's progress.  

 

THE MOTHER

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THE PHYSICAL

799 Physical consciousness turned entirely towards the Divine

 

799 Physical consciousness turned entirely towards the Divine

It thirsts for the Divine and wants nothing but Him.

Tithonia rotundijolia. Bright reddish orange

 

800 Spiritual aspiration in the physical

Comes in bursts to counteract and overcome resistances which cannot succeed in making it give up.

Russeelia sarmentosa. Crimson

801 Aspiration in the physical for the Divine Love

Manifold, ecstatic, difficult to satisfy.

Russelia equisetijormis. Bright coral

 

 

802 Opening of the physical to the Divine Love

The surest way to find happiness.

Ipomoea hpdnifi,lin .Orange red

When I speak of the physical consciousness, I mean the physical mind and the physical vital as well as the body consciousness proper.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

In my view the body as well as the mind and life has to be spiritualised or, one may say, divinised so as to be a fit instrument and receptacle for the realisation of the Divine. It has its part in the Divine Lila, even, according to the Vaishnava Sadhana, in the joy and beauty of Divine Love. That does not mean that the body has to be valued for its own separate sake or that the creation of a divine body in a future evolution of the whole being has to be contemplated as an end and not a means – that would be a serious error which would not be admissible. In any case, my speculations about an extreme form of divinisation are something in a far distance and are no part of the preoccupations of the spiritual life in the near future.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

803 Love in the physical for the Divine

Modest in its appearance, but tenacious and charming; does not make a fuss, but is very faithful.

Ipomoea quamoc!it. Intense red

 

804 Humility before the Divine in the physical nature

First attitude needed for transformation.

Tarenna asiatica. Cream

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LIGHT IN THE BLOOD

805 Peace in the physical

805 Peace in the physical

To want what God wants is the best condition for it.

CalophylLum inophylLum. White

 

806 Integrally equal basis in the physical

What you have, I have; what you can do, I can do; what you express, I express – we are all alike.

Clerodendrum philippinum. White

 

807 Light in the blood

When the blood becomes receptive to the higher consciousness.

Foeniculum vulgare. Greenish yellow

 

808 Light in the blood

When the blood becomes receptive to the higher consciousness.

Anethum graveolens. Yellow

 

809 Purity in the blood

Can only be obtained by the absence of desires.

 PimpinelLa major. White

 

810 Peace in the nerves

Indispensable for good health.

Guettarda speciosa. White

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PEACE IN THE CELLS

811 Peace in the cells

 

811 Peace in the cells

The indispensable condition for the body’s progress.

 lxora thwaitesii. White

 

812 Radiating peace in the cells

A happy contagion.

Pavetta indica. White

Certainly, peace, purity and silence can be felt in all material things – for the Divine Self is there in all.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

Peace can be brought down into the physical­ its very cells. It is the active transformation of physical that cannot be completely done without the supramental descent.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

In Sri Aurobindo’s yoga, the transformation 0 the body is indispensable so far as it can be de Because the aim of this yoga is not an escape from the physical consciousness but a divinisation of that consciousness.

THE MOTHER

 

812 Radiating peace in the cells

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LIGHT IN THE CELLS

There comes a moment when the body itself finds that there is nothing in the world which is so worth living for as this transformation, that there is nothing which can have as great an interest as this passionate interest of transformation. It is as though all the cells of the body were athirst for this Light which wants to manifest; they cry out for it, they find an intense joy in it and they are sure of the Victory.

THE MOTHER

 

The cells of the body thirst for the Divine Consciousness and when they are brought into contact with It their aspiration becomes very intense.

THE MOTHER

 

At the centre of every cell lies the Divine Consciousness. By aspiration and repeated self-giving, the cells must be made transparent.

THE MOTHER

 

813 Light in the cells

The first step towards purity in the cells.

 Lantana. Yellow

 

814 Purity in the cells

Can only be obtained through the conquest of desires. The true condition for good health.

Lantana. White

 

815 Emotional beauty in the cells

Seeking and radiating all the emotions of beauty.

 Lantana. Mauve

 

816 Supramental influence in the cells

Unexpected variety in colours and qualities.

Lantana. Many colours

813 Light in the cells

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PEACE IN THE SEX SENTER

817 Peace in the sex centre

 

819 Purified sex centre

817 Peace in the sex centre

Indispensable for beginning the Yoga.

Morinda eitrifolia. White

 

818 Sex centre aspiring to be purified

The awakening of the consciousness to a higher life.

Anthurium andreanum. Pink

 

819 Purified sex centre

Is transformed into a force for progress.

Anthurium andreanum. White

 

820 Mastery of sex

820 Mastery of sex

Instead of being dominated by sexual impulses one must put them under the control of the highest will.

Anthurium andreanum. Red

 

821 Transformed sex centre

No longer has desires and offers itself to the Divine.

Caladium. Greenish white

 

 

 

 

821 Transformed sex centre

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822 Supramental influence in the sex centre

822 Supramental influence in the sex centre

 It is the assurance of the coming conquest of desires.

Cosmos. Several colours

 

823 Tranquillity of the sex centre when it is under the influence of the Supramental Light

The supramental influence liberates man from all that binds him to the animal.

Cosmos bipinnatus. White

 

824 Supramental Light in the sex centre

(N 0 comment)

Cosmos sulphureus. Yellow

 

823 Tranquillity of the sex centre when it is under the influence of the Supramental Light

 

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CONQUEST OVER THE GREED FOR FOOD

825 Hygienic organisation

 

826 Conquest over the greed for food

825 Hygienic organisation

Cleanliness, order, utility.

Moringa oleiftra. Cream white

 

826 Conquest over the greed for food

A promise of good health.

Dombeya Xcayeuxii. Pink or white

 

827 Health

Not to be preoccupied with it, but to leave it to the Divine.

Thespesia populnea. Bright yellow

 

828 Material power to heal

Demands a great sincerity in one’s goodwill.

Calandrinia grandiflora. Bright pink

 

829 Spiritual power of healing

Opening and receptivity to the divine influence.

Petrea volubilis. Violet

Greed for food has to be overcome, but it has not to be given too much thought. The proper attitude to food is a certain equality. Food is for the maintenance of the body and one should ta: enough for that – what the body needs; if one gives less the body feels the need and hankers; il you give more, then that is indulging the vital. , for particular foods the palate likes, the attitude of the mind and vital should be, "If I get, I take if! don’t get, I shall not mind." One should no think too much of food either to indulge or unduly to repress – that is the best.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

 

Always be kind, stop engaging in bitter criticism no longer see evil in anything, obstinately force yourself to see nothing but the benevolent presence of the Divine ‘Grace, and you will see not only within you but also around you an atmosphere of quiet joy, peaceful trust spreading  more and more. And not only will you feel qui( and happy, but most of your bodily ailments w disappear. T

HE MOTHER

 

Health is the outer expression of a deep harmony one must be proud of it and not despise it.

 

The MOTHER

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REPOSE

830 Repose

830 Repose

Opens out in calm relaxation. The true repose is that of perfect surrender to the Divine.

Clerodendrum ugandense. Pale blue

 

 

It is in action, in effort, in the march forward that repose must be found, the true repose of complete trust in the divine Grace, of the absence of desire of victory over egoism.

True repose comes from the widening, the universalisation of the consciousness. Become a vast as the world and you will always be at rest. the thick of action, in the very midst of the bat the effort, you will know the repose of infinity eternity.

THE MOTHER

 

You must know how to rest.

There are many ways of doing it. Here is one: f of all, put your body at ease, comfortably stretched out on a bed or in an easy-chair. Then try to re your nerves, all together or one by one, till you have obtained complete relaxation. This done, while your body lies limp like a rag on the bed, make your brain silent and immobile, till it is r longer conscious of itself. Then, slowly, imperceptibly, pass from this state into sleep. When you wake up the next morning, you will be full of energy.

THE MOTHER

 

The rest must be an ascent into the Light, into perfect Peace, total Silence, a rest which rises up out of the darkness. Then it is true rest, a rest which is an ascent.

THE MOTHER

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DREAMS

If one learns how to interpret, one can get from dreams much knowledge of the secrets of our nature and of other-nature.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

Yes, certainly, dream experiences can have a great value in them and convey truths that are not so easy to get in the waking state.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

When you practise yoga, the consciousness opens and you become aware – especially in sleep – of things, scenes, beings, happenings of other (not physical) worlds and yourself in sleep go there and act there. Very often these things have an importance for the sadhana. So you need not regret seeing all this when you sleep or meditate.

SRI AUROBINDO

831 Dreams

 

831 Dreams

One can learn much by observing one’s dreams.

 Aloe vera. Light orange

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THE SUBCONSCIENT

832 Power of Truth in the Subconscient

 

 

 

832 Power of Truth in the Subconscient

It can act only when the sincerity is perfect.

 Tecomaria capensis. Bright orange

As there is a superconscient (something above present consciousness) above the head from which the higher consciousness comes down into the body, so there is also a subconscient (something’ below our consciousness) below the feet. Matt, under the control of this power, because it is that out of which it has been created – that is why matter seems to us to be quite unconscious. The material body is very much under the influence this power for the same reason; it is why we are not conscious of what is going on in the body, the most part. The outer consciousness goes d, into this subconscient when we are asleep, and so it becomes unaware of what is going on in I when we are asleep except for a few dreams. M of these dreams rise up from the subconscient and are made up of old memories, impression  etc. put together in an incoherent way. For the subconscient receives impressions of all we do experience in our lives and keeps these impression in it, sending up often fragments of them in sleep. It is a very important part of the being, but w( do nothing much with it by the conscious will It is the higher Force working in us that in its natural course will open the subconscient to it and bring down into it its control and light.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

The subconscient is to be penetrated by the light and made a sort of bed-rock of truth, a store of right impressions, right physical responses to the Truth. Strictly speaking, it will not be subconscient at all, but a sort of bank of true values held ready for use.

SRI AUROBINDO

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833 Divine Will acting in the Subconscient

 

833 Divine Will acting in the Subconscient

The rare moments when the Divine asserts Himself visibly.

Clerodendrum indicum. White

 

834 Aspiration for the supramental guidance in the Subconscient

Intense need for order, light and knowledge in the subconscient penumbra.

Pachystachys coccinea. Bright to dark red

 

835 First response of the Subconscient to the supramental action.

The open door to realisation

Jatropha podagarica, Bright orange

834 Aspiration for the supramental guidance in the Subconscient

 

 

836 Supramental influence in the Subconscient

Under its modest appearance it is a great force of transformation.

ssandra infundibuliformis. Orange

 

837 Supramental Light in the Subconscient Essential condition for transformation.

Crossandra infundibuliformis. Yellow

 

838 Psychic light in the Subconscient

 Preliminary condition for progress.

Crossandra infundibuliformis. Salmon pink

835 First response of the Subconscient to the supramental action.

 

836 Supramental influence in the Subconscient

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THE INCONSCIENT

839 Divine Will acting in the Inconscient

 

840 First appearance of purity in the Inconscient

 

839 Divine Will acting in the Inconscient

Is all-powerful even when we are not aware of it.

C/erodendrum. White

 

840 First appearance of purity in the Inconscient

The sign that the Inconscient is on the way to becoming conscious.

 Plumbago zeylanica. White

 

841 First response of the Inconscient to the Divine Force

The first steo towards transformation.

Kigelia africana.Dull maroon

The base of the material consciousness here is not only the Ignorance but the Inconscience – that is, the consciousness is involved in form of Matter and energy of Matter.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

The Inconscience is an inverse reproduction of the supreme super consciousness: it has the same absoluteness of being and automatic action, but in a vast involved trance; it is being lost in itself, plunged in its own abyss of infinity.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

All evolution is the progressive self-revelation of the One to himself the terms of the Many out of the Inconscience through the Ignorance' towards self-conscient  perfection.

SRI AUROBINDO

 

841 First response of the Inconscient to the Divine Force

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