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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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645 Aspiration for
spirituality
645 Aspiration for spirituality
Conscious of the advantages of spiritualisation.
Salvia.
Several colours
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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
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657
Spiritual perfume
657 Spiritual perfume
It has an extraordinary power of attraction.
Pandanus tectorius.
Cream yellow
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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 |
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.
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
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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.
srI aurobindo |
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
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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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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
|
HOME
REASON
674 Clear mind
675
Attentive
mind
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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
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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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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
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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.
srI
aurobindo
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.
srI aurobindo
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 |
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
srI
aurobindo
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 |
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.
srI aurobindo
|
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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HOME
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
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 |
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
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 |
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
|
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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HOME
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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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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