Letters of Sri Aurobindo

 

Fourth Series

 

CONTENTS

 

 

Pre-content

 

Foreword

 

SECTION ONE

 

Integral Yoga and Partial Spiritual Paths

 

 

THE AIM OF INTEGRAL YOGA AND THE IDEAL OF SUPERMANHOOD

 

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INTEGRAL YOGA AND OLD YOGAS

 

WRONG ATTITUDE TOWARDS OLD YOGAS

 

DIFFICULTY OF SELF-REALISATION

 

ABSURDITY OF DEPRECIATING OLD YOGAS

 

SPIRITUALISATION AND SUPRAMENTAL CHANGE

 

REALISATION OF THE IMPERSONAL SELF AND THE INTEGRAL KNOWLEDGE

 

THE IMPERSONAL AND THE INTEGRAL DIVINE

 

LIVING IN THE TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS AND HAVING THE COMPLETE TRUTH

 

SUPRAMENTAL ALL-KNOWLEDGE AND LOWER IGNORANCE

 

VEDANTIC LAYA AND THE HIGHEST TRUTH

 

LAYA AND SUPRAMENTALISATION

 

BEGINNING AND END OF CREATION - MERGING IN THE INACTIVE BRAHMAN AND THE DIVINE OBJECT IN THE WORLD

 

TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL LILA

 

PURANIC AND VAISHNAVITE IDEA OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ON EARTH

 

LIMITATION OF RELIGIONS

 

SHANKARA AND MAYAVADA

 

MAYAVADA, NIRVANA AND THE INTEGRAL YOGA

 

THE SNAKE-ROPE IMAGE AND ILLUSIONISM

 

THE REAL DIFFICULTY

 

THIS-WORLDLINESS, OTHER-WORLDLINESS AND THE INTEGRAL YOGA

 

COMMENTS ON HENRI MASSIS'S VIEWS ON TRANSFORMATION

 

OPENING OF CHAKRAS IN THE INTEGRAL YOGA AND THE TANTRIC SADHANA

 

OCCULTISM AND OCCULT FORCES

 

OCCULTISM AND INTEGRAL YOGA

 

SEEKING FOR POWERS AND REALISATION OF TRUTH

 

CAPACITY FOR YOGA OF ORIENTALS AND EUROPEANS

 

CAPACITY FOR THE INTEGRAL YOGA

 

CALL TO THE PATH AND FAMILY DUTIES

 

SPIRITUAL LIFE AND SOCIAL DUTIES

 

VAIRAGYA FOR WORLDLY LIFE AND CALL FOR THE INTEGRAL YOGA

 

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONTROVERSIES AND OUR AIM

 

THE SUPRAMENTAL DESCENT AND CHANGE OF THE EARTH-CONCIOUSNESS

 

THE INTERMEDIATE GLIMMER AND THE FULL LIGHT

 

 

 

SECTION THREE

 

Intellectual Knowledge and Spiritual-Truth

 

 

INTELLECT, MIND AND TRUTH

 

INTELLECT AND THE TRUTH

 

NEED OF CONTROLLING THE INTELLECT

 

SPIRIT, LIFE AND INTELLECT

 

THE SUPREME KNOWLEDGE AND THE LOWER IGNORANCE

 

UTILITY OF MENTAL KNOWLEDGE

 

GREATER PERFECTION IN KNOWLEDGE

 

SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE AND WORLDLY IGNORANCE

 

MENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND PSYCHIC PERCEPTION

 

MENTAL PERCEPTION, MENTAL REALISATION AND SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE

 

UTILITY OF MENTAL REALISATION

 

TOUCH OF REALISATION AND HIGHER KNOWLEDGE

 

HALF-LIGHT OF IDEA AND COMPLETE TRUTH

 

IDEA - FORCE - CONSCIOUSNESS

 

KNOWLEDGE AND DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS

 

MIND, VITAL AND THE ONE CONSCIOUSNESS

 

THE INTELLECTUAL AND THE EMOTIONAL MAN

 

DOUBTS AND ARGUMENTS IN YOGA

 

VALUE OF MENTAL QUESTIONS IN YOGA

 

MENTAL UNDERSTANDING AND INNER HELP

 

RIGHT WAY OF UNDERSTANDING THE WORKINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

 

MENTAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND THE TRUTH

 

ACTION BY HIGHER FORCE IN THE STILL MIND

 

ACTION IN EMPTINESS

 

ACTION IN SILENT MIND

 

OBSERVATIONS ON PROF. SORLEY'S COMMENTS ON SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AND INTELLECTUAL JUDGMENT

 

 

SECTION FIVE

 

Basic Requisites of Yoga

 

I. SINCERITY

 

 

THE ONE INDISPENSABLE CONDITION

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION SIX

 

The Secure. Foundation of Sadhana

 

 

THE FIRST FOUNDATION OF THE YOGIC STATUS

 

THE TRUE BASIS

 

THE ABIDING STUFF

 

THE INNER FOUNDATION

 

THE SETTLED CALM WITHIN

 

THE INNER STABILITY OF PEACE

 

PEACE AND EQUALITY

 

CALM IN THE OUTWARD CONSCIOUSNESS

 

THE FIRST NEED

 

THE MOST NEEDED THING

 

THE TRUE QUIET

 

QUIET - CALM - PEACE - SILENCE

 

TRANQUILLITY AND SILENCE

 

SILENCE IN THE HEAD

 

VOID

 

USE OF EMPTINESS

 

USUAL RESULT OF VOIDNESS

 

PROPER SEQUEL OF EMPTINESS

 

VITAL MIND'S DISTASTE FOR SILENCE AND EMPTINESS

 

VOID AND HAPPINESS

 

PASSIVE PEACE

 

PASSIVE PEACE AND ACTION

 

PASSIVE PEACE AND ACTION

 

QUIET AND AGGRESSIVE ACTION

 

RESTLESSNESS OF MIND AND VITAL

 

UNIVERSALITY AND VITAL DISTURBANCE

 

THE FUNDAMENTAL CALM: INDIVIDUAL AND COSMIC

 

QUIET AND AGGRESSIVE ACTION

 

RESTLESSNESS OF MIND AND VITAL

 

UNIVERSALITY AND VITAL DISTURBANCE

 

THE FUNDAMENTAL CALM: INDIVIDUAL AND COSMIC

 

NEED OF CALLING DOWN HIGHER POWER AND WILL FOR REMOVING VITAL DISTURBANCES

 

THE RIGHT FUNDAMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS - TRANSFORMATION BY DESCENT

 

BASIS OF INNER CALM

 

FIRST STEP IN SELF-MASTERY 

 

FIRMNESS OF CENTRAL CONSCIOUSNESS

 

THE PRICE OF SIDDHI IN YOGA

 

LIVING IN THE INNER CONSCIOUSNESS

 

LIVING IN THE TRUE INNER BEING

 

INNER POISE AND OUTER METHODS

 

 

SECTION SEVEN

 

The Process of Integral Transformation

 

I. THE PSYCHIC CONVERSION

 

 

MEANING OF "PSYCHIC"

 

PURUSHA, PRAKRITI AND EGO-SENSE - THE PSYCHIC BEING IN EVOLUTION

 

PSYCHIC BEING AND JIVATMA

 

JIVATMA

 

ATMAN, JIVATMAN AND THE PSYCHIC

 

THE TRUE INNER BEING - PSYCHIC AND JIVATMAN

 

THE INNER BEING AND THE PSYCHIC

 

JIVA AND JIVATMA - PARA AND APARA PRAKRITI

 

CHIT-SHAKTI, JIVATMA, SOUL AND EGO

 

THE SOUL AND THE DIVINE MOTHER

 

THE FUNCTION OF THE PSYCHIC

 

PSYCHIC ACTION IN SADHANA

 

OPENING OF THE PSYCHIC

 

TWO WAYS OF OPENING THE PSYCHIC

 

CONDITIONS FOR DIRECT PSYCHIC OPENING

 

PSYCHIC AND HIGHER MIND ACTION

 

PRELIMINARY CHANGE

 

A PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE

 

LIVING IN THE PSYCHIC CENTRE

 

PSYCHIC FEELING OF THE MOTHER'S PRESENCE

 

THE CONSTANT PRESENCE

 

NATURE OF PSYCHIC'S UNION WITH THE DIVINE

 

UNION WITH THE MOTHER AND SADHANA

 

PSYCHIC BEING AND PSYCHIC ACTION

 

PSYCHIC CONTROL OF VITAL MOVEMENTS

 

WEEPING AND INNER CONTROL - PSYCHIC WEEPING

 

PSYCHIC FOUNDATION IN THE VITAL

 

THE PSYCHIC KNOWLEDGE

 

 

II. ASCENT TO HIGHER PLANES

 

 

THE DOUBLE PRACTICE OF INTEGRAL YOGA

 

ASCENT, DESCENT AND TRANSFORMATION

 

AWAKENING OF THE VEILED DIVINE FORCE BY DESCENT

 

SPIRITUALISATION OF CENTRES BY ASCENT AND DESCENT

 

THE UPWARD MOVEMENT

 

ASCENT AND JOINING WITH THE SOURCE

 

ASCENT TO HIGHER PLANES

 

NEED OF MAKING THE INNER BEING CONSCIOUS FOR CONCRETE REALISATIONS IN THE HIGHER BEING

 

LOCATION OF THE INNER BEING

 

CONSTANT STAYING IN THE HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS

 

REACHING THE HIGHER PLANES IN TRANCE

 

GOING ABOVE IN TRANCE AND IN THE WAKING STATE

 

ASCENT IN TRANCE AND THE BODY

 

LOCATION OF OVERHEAD PLANES

 

KNOWLEDGE ON OVERHEAD PLANES

 

THE INTUITIVE MIND

 

STRATA AND POWERS OF THE INTUITIVE MIND

 

REVELATION

 

CONFUSION OF OVERMIND WITH HIGHER MENTAL PLANES

 

FOUR PLANES OF OVERMIND

 

SUPRAMENTAL OVERMIND

 

TRANSITIONAL STAGES BETWEEN MENTAL OVERMIND AND SUPRAMENTALISED OVERMIND

 

OVERMIND, SUPERMIND AND INFERIOR MOVEMENTS

 

SUPRAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE-WILL AND OVERMIND TRUTH PLANE

 

PERFECT ACTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND WILL

 

REFLECTION OF TRANSCENDENT PLANES ON HIGHER PLANES

 

EXPERIENCES OF OVERMIND KNOWLEDGE

 

CONCRETENESS OF OVERMIND EXPERIENCES

 

ARRANGEMENT OF TRUTHS IN THE OVERMIND

 

MISINTERPRETATION OF OVERMIND TRUTH IN TERRESTRIAL CONSCIOUSNESS

 

THE HUMAN CREATION AND THE HIGHER PLANES

 

OVERMIND DANGERS AND FALSEHOODS

 

LIMITATION OF OVERMIND EXPERIENCE

 

 

III. DESCENT OF HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS

 

 

NATURE OF DESCENT

 

FIVE THINGS THAT DESCEND

 

DESCENT OF WIDENESS

 

DESCENT OF HIGHER POWERS AND THE MOTHER'S DESCENT

 

RESULT OF DESCENT

 

THE ACTION OF DESCENT

 

DESCENT OF PEACE AND FORCE

 

EFFECTS OF ENFORCING PEACE IN LOWER PARTS

 

DESCENT OF CALM

 

PEACE AND DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT

 

SILENCE AND DESCENT OF KNOWLEDGE

 

CHANGE OF IGNORANT COSMIC FORCES BY DESCENT OF HIGHER TRUTH-FORCE

 

FORCE - ENERGY - POWER - STRENGTH

 

PASSIVE FORCE

 

FORMS OF FORCE

 

RECEIVING THE HIGHER FORCE THROUGH MIND AND VITAL

 

ACTION OF FORCE THROUGH MIND-CENTRE

 

SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES FOR PREPARING THE CENTRES

 

EXPERIENCES OF DYNAMIC DESCENT MARKING GREAT PROGRESS

 

EXPERIENCES OF OVERHEAD DESCENT

 

WORKING OF THE MOTHER'S POWER ON MIND AND VITAL CENTRES

 

DESCENT OF SADHANA INTO THE VITAL

 

NEED OF CARE IN RECEIVING A TRUE FORCE

 

ACTION OF HIGHER LIGHT AND FORCE IN THE BODY

 

DIRECT CONNECTION OF THE BODY WITH THE HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS

 

DIRECT DESCENT OF FORCE IN THE PHYSICAL

 

ASSIMILATION OF FORCE

 

MISTAKE OF PULLING DOWN EXCESSIVE FORCE

 

RESISTANCE TO DESCENT

 

HEADACHES DUE TO RESISTANCE

 

PRESSURE AND RESISTANCE

 

EXPERIENCES OF PRESSURE UPON RESISTANCES

 

PRESSURE ON RESISTANCE FOR EXPULSION

 

RESISTANCE FROM THE PHYSICAL LAYERS—THE FOUNDATION OF STILLNESS

 

PAUSES OF PREPARATION AND ASSIMILATION

 

PERIODS OF ASSIMILATION

 

PERIODS OF LULL

 

INTERVALS OF NON-SADHANA

 

 

IV. SUPRAMENTAL DESCENT

 

 

NECESSITY OF OVERMIND DESCENT FOR SUPRAMENTAL CHANGE

 

ACTION OF THE SUPRAMENTALISED OVERMIND DESCRIBED IN THE LAST CHAPTERS OF Arya

 

MANIFESTATION OF HIGHER TRUTHS IN THE MATERIAL PLANE

 

DESCENT OF OVERHEAD PLANES AND SUPRAMENTAL DESCENT

 

SUPRAMENTAL INFLUENCE AND SUPRAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION

 

MIRACLE AND CHANGE ACCORDING TO DIVINE LAW

 

EFFECT OF THE SUPRAMENTAL DESCENT

 

DESCENT OF TRANSCENDENT ANANDA

 

SUPERMIND AND BEYOND

 

SECTION EIGHT

 

Centres and Parts of Consciousness

 

MANAS IN THE ORDINARY PSYCHOLOGY AND THE INTEGRAL YOGA - RIGHT ORDERING OF DIFFERENT PARTS IN YOGA

 

HARMONISATION OF PARTS BY DESCENT OF TRUTH

 

THE SAHASRADALA PADMA

 

THE AJNA-CHAKRA AND THE THIRD EYE

 

THE THROAT CENTRE OF THE PHYSICAL MIND

 

THE BRAIN CENTRE

 

THE PHYSICAL MIND

 

THE ORGAN OF SPEECH

 

THE THROAT AND THE HEART CENTRES

 

THE EAR PASSAGE

 

THE ESSENTIAL MENTAL BEING AND THE PERSONAL MIND - CONTROL OF THE INQUIRING TENDENCY

 

SPIRITUAL CAPACITY - PSYCHIC MIND AND MENTAL PSYCHIC

 

CHITTA AND HEART

 

THE HEART CENTRE

 

THE TWO VITAL CENTRES

 

SENSATION, EMOTION AND DESIRE

 

THE PHYSICAL-VITAL AND THE VITAL-PHYSICAL

 

THE NERVES

 

THE NERVES IN THE MATERIAL AND SUBTLE BODY

 

THE NERVOUS ENVELOPE

 

THE SHEATHS

 

DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF DIFFERENT SHEATHS

 

SUBTLE AND GROSS PHYSICAL

 

THE OUTER AND THE INNER INSTRUMENT

 

THE OUTER AND THE INNER CONSCIOUSNESS

 

THE PLAY OF FORCES IN THE INNER PARTS

 

THE INNER SPEAKING

 

 

 

 

 

 

III. EXPERIENCES OF COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF

 

WIDENING AND UNION WITH THE UNIVERSAL INFINITE

 

"UNIVERSAL" AND "COSMIC"

 

EXPERIENCE OF THE TRUE COSMIC SELF

 

INFLUENCE OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE COSMIC SELF ON VITAL AND PHYSICAL

 

INITIAL OPENING TO COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS

 

LIBERATION FROM THE BODY SENSE

 

OPENNESS OF THE SENSES TO THE DIVINE

 

THE COSMIC MOVEMENT

 

THE COSMIC HARMONY

 

HARMONY OF DISCORDS

 

MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM

 

THE SELF

 

ORIGINAL SUBSTANCE OF THE SPIRIT

 

SUBSTANCE AND BEING

 

THE SELF AND THE PLANES

 

ATMAN AND THE INDIVIDUALISED SELF

 

THE PERSONAL 'I' AND THE COSMIC SELF

 

TRUE CENTRAL BEING AND EGO

 

AHANKAR AND INDIVIDUAL SELF

 

THE ONE AND THE MANY

 

DIFFERENCE IN UNITY

 

THE DIVINE ONENESS

 

TWO STATES OF COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS

 

THE PURE IMPERSONAL AND THE MANIFESTATION OF DIVINE TRUTH

 

RECONCILIATION OF OPPOSITES

 

THE INTEGRAL KNOWLEDGE

 

SAGUNA AND NIRGUNA ISHWARA AND THE MOTHER

 

THE STATIC AND THE DYNAMIC

 

PURUSHA AND PRAKRITI - PAST AND FUTURE DARKNESS - THE THREE GUNAS

 

THE ONE PURUSHA

 

PRAKRITI AND SHAKTI

 

CHIT-SHAKTI AND ENERGIES

 

THE ONE FORCE - THE ALL-PERVADING ANANDA

 

CREATING AND STOPPING OF FORCE.

 

 

 

 

II. SYMBOLS AND IMAGES OF VISION

 

SOME USUAL SYMBOLS

 

THE SUN

 

THE MOON

 

THE STAR

 

THE DAWN

 

THE SKY AND THE ETHER

 

THE BLUE. SKY AND THE MOON

 

THE SEVEN PLANES—SKIES AND SEAS

 

EXPLANATION OF SOME VISION-SYMBOLS

 

PATALA

 

THE MOUNTAIN

 

THE RIVER

 

THE TREE

 

THE COW AND THE MILK

 

THE HORSE

 

THE HORSE AND THE WHITE CALF

 

THE ELEPHANT

 

THE LION

 

THE LION OF DURGA—THE DEATH'S HEAD

 

THE BULL

 

THE GOAT

 

THE SNAKE

 

THE SERPENT

 

THE HOODED SERPENT

 

THE LOTUS - THE SWAN - THE INTERLACED SERPENTS AND THE SIX-HOODED SERPENT

 

THE OPENING LOTUSES AND THE SWAN

 

THE SWAN AND THE LOTUS

 

THE HANSA

 

THE BIRD

 

RED FLOWERS

 

THE RED PURUSHA

 

THE CHILD

 

THE SUDARSHAN CHAKRA

 

THE PIECE OF FLESH

 

THE IMAGE OF JOURNEYING

 

AEROPLANE, STEAMER AND TRAIN

 

 

 

 

II. THE HOSTILE FORCES

 

TWO KINDS OF ASURAS

 

TRANSFORMATION OF EVIL FORCES

 

DIFFICULTY OF TRANSFORMING ASURAS

 

ORDINARY NATURE-FORCES AND HOSTILE FORCES

 

OBJECT OF HOSTILE FORCES

 

ATTACKS OF EVIL FORCES

 

CAUSE FOR HOSTILE ATTACKS

 

THROWING OFF THE ATTACKS

 

THE INTENTION OF HOSTILE FORCES

 

PROGRESS AND ADVERSE FORCES

 

TESTS IN SADHANA

 

TWO WAYS OF REMOVING IMPERFECTIONS--STOPPING OF EXPERIENCE BY HOSTILE FORCES

 

HOSTILE FORCES IN SADHANA

 

LOWERING OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND HOSTILE ATTACKS

 

REJECTION OF HOSTILE SUGGESTIONS

 

HABITUAL RESPONSE TO ADVERSE FORCES

 

FORMATIONS OF VITAL FORCES

 

THE WAY TO MEET HOSTILE FORCES

 

INADVISABILITY OF CONCERN ABOUT HOSTILE FORCES

 

POSSESSION BY HOSTILE POWER—ACTION OF DIVINE FORCE

 

HOSTILE ATTACK IN SLEEP——NEED OF FEARLESSNESS IN SADHANA

 

 

SECTION FOURTEEN

 

Difficulties of the Path and their Removal

 

I. THE RIGHT WAY OF OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES

 

 

DIFFICULTY OF YOGA

 

DIFFICULTIES AND GURU'S GRACE

 

DIFFICULTIES AND VICTORY

 

STRENGTH FROM VICTORY

 

THE POSITIVE ATTITUDE

 

NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE WAY OF REMOVING DIFFICULTIES

 

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE WAY OF CLEANING THE-VITAL

 

TWO METHODS OF OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES

 

FOUR WAYS OF CHANGING THE NATURE

 

REMOVAL OF VITAL AND PHYSICAL DIFFICULTIES

 

OVERCOMING IMPERFECTIONS

 

IMMUNITY TO SUGGESTIONS

 

RIGHT WAY TO MEET WEAKNESSES

 

RIGHT ATTITUDE TO MISTAKES

 

DANGER OF RAISING UP DIFFICULTIES FOR EXHAUSTION

 

THE BEST WAY TO PROGRESS

 

QUIET FACING OF DEFECTS

 

SETTLED PEACE AND AUTOMATIC REJECTION

 

INNER QUIETUDE AND REJECTION

 

QUIET AND STEADY REJECTION AND CALL

 

REPELLING THE VITAL ATTACK BY CALM INNER FORCE

 

GROWTH OF TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS AND POWER OF REJECTION

 

RIGHT ATTITUDE IN DIFFICULTIES

 

RIGHT ATTITUDE IN PERIODS OF ARREST IN SADHANA

 

STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE OUTER SELF AND THE GROWING SOUL

 

THE OLD VITAL NATURE AND THE DEVELOPING PSYCHIC BEING

 

THE DIVINE POSSIBILITY OF THE INNER BEING AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE EXTERIOR VITAL SELF

 

THE "EVIL PERSONA"

 

UNWILLINGNESS OF THE OUTER PHYSICAL CONSCIOUSNESS TO CHANGE

 

CAUSES OF DEPRESSION IN SLEEP - DRAWING OF HELPFUL FORCES - RELIANCE ON THE ALL-STRENGTH FOR SUCCESS

 

INWARD STRENGTH AND OUTWARD CIRCUMSTANCES

 

THE WEAK SENTIMENTAL ATTITUDE OF FACING DIFFICULTIES

 

REJECTION OF SENTIMENTAL WEAKNESS

 

WRONG IDEA OF HELPLESSNESS IN CHANGING THE VITAL

 

FALSE SUGGESTION OF INABILITY

 

FEELING OF INCAPACITY DUE TO RESISTANCE OF EXTERNAL NATURE

 

LACK OF WILL IN THE PHYSICAL AND VITAL CONSCIOUSNESS FOR SADHANA

 

PHYSICAL BEING'S SHRINKING FROM THE LIGHT

 

REJECTION OF DISABLING NOTIONS OF INCAPACITY

 

REJECTION OF FALSE SUGGESTIONS OF UNFITNESS FOR SADHANA

 

WITHDRAWAL FROM GRACE

 

 

 

II. THE MOTHER'S HELP IN REMOVING DIFFICULTIES

 

CALLING THE MOTHER'S FORCE IN DIFFICULTY

 

THE MOTHER'S FORCE

 

OPENNESS TO THE MOTHER IN ATTACKS

 

THE MENTAL CALL FOR FORCE——IMPORTANCE OF REMAINING IN THE INNER CONSCIOUSNESS

 

WORKING OF THE MOTHER'S FORCE—PSYCHIC AWAKENING

 

RECEPTIVITY TO FORCE

 

CONDITIONS FOR THE COMING AND ACTION OF FORCE

 

PRESSURE AND HELP OF THE MOTHER'S FORCE

 

WAYS OF GIVING HELP

 

HELP AND AUTOMATIC ACTION OF FORCE

 

THE FORCE AND THE SADHAK'S WILL

 

NEED OF ACTIVE ASSENT

 

NECESSITY OF BECOMING MORE CONSCIOUS

 

THE CONSTANT HELP

 

THE MOTHER'S WORK IN THE PREPARATORY CONSCIOUSNESS

 

ACTION OF DIVINE PROTECTION WITHIN LIMITS

 

RIGHT WAY OF RECEIVING HELP THROUGH WRITING LETTERS

 

THE INNER CONTACT

 

THREE RULES FOR REMAINING OPEN TO THE MOTHER

 

SECTION FIFTEEN
 

Transformation of the Vital Nature

 

I. LIBERATION FROM EGO

 

 

NEED OF TRANSFORMING THE EGO

 

EGO AND TRUE BEING

 

REMOVAL OF EGO

 

MOST EFFECTIVE FORCE FOR LIBERATION FROM EGO

 

NECESSITY OF PSYCHIC LIBERATION AND SELF-REALISATION FOR REMOVAL OF EGO

 

NECESSITY OF WIDENING THE CONSCIOUSNESS FOR LIBERATION FROM EGO

 

GOING WITHIN AND CONQUEST OF EGO

 

UNIVERSALITY AND VITAL EGOISM

 

LIBERATION FROM EGO AND TRANSFORMATION

 

DIFFICULTY OF REMOVING EGO

 

EGO-CENTRICITY IN SADHANA

 

THE EGO-CENTRIC AND THE UNEGOISTIC ATTITUDE

 

EGO AND SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE

 

EXALTATION AND EGOISTIC FEELING IN SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE

 

OPENING TO HIGHER FORCE AND THE DANGER OF MAGNIFIED EGO

 

VEHEMENCE OF UNREGENERATE VITAL EGO

 

EGO AND THE PSYCHIC FIRE

 

EGOISTIC SELF-JUSTIFICATION

 

THE OBSTACLE OF SELF-ESTEEM

 

YOU AND OTHERS

 

FALSE AND TRUE JUDGMENT OF OTHERS

 

WRONG HUMAN JUDGMENTS

 

DEFECTS OF OTHERS

 

TWO TYPES OF EGOISTS

 

 

 

III. REMOVAL OP WRONG VITAL MOVEMENTS

 

NEED OF DISCIPLINING THE RESTLESS VITAL

 

OVERCOMING RESTLESSNESS AND ATTACHMENT

 

INEXHAUSTIBLE ENERGY AND DISCIPLINE

 

NEED OF VIGILANCE

 

NEED OF PATIENCE IN CHANGING THE VITAL

 

REPEATED STRUGGLE WITH LOWER FORCES

 

RETURNS OF OLD NATURE

 

SURGING UP OF OLD MOVEMENTS

 

UPRISING OF DISSATISFIED DESIRES

 

RETURN OF SUPPRESSED HABITUAL MOVEMENTS

 

TEMPORARY LAPSE DUE TO RISING UP OF OLD MOVEMENTS

 

MECHANICAL RECURRENCE OF VITAL DIFFICULTIES

 

RECURRENCE OF PAST REMEMBRANCES

 

RESPONSE TO SUGGESTIONS OF REJECTED MOVEMENTS

 

REJECTION OF THE LOWER-VITAL DESIRE

 

REJECTION OF DESIRES BY THE VITAL

 

NECESSITY OF VITAL'S CALL FOR TRANSFORMATION

 

DEPRESSION DUE TO REVOLT OF UNSATISFIED DESIRE

 

EFFECTS OF DEPRESSION

 

REJECTION OF DEPRESSION

 

RIGHT WAY OF DEALING WITH THE EXTERNAL BEING

 

THE BEST WAY TO SET RIGHT THE WRONG MOVEMENTS

 

OSCILLATION DUE TO VITAL'S NON-CO-OPERATION

 

THE FEELING OF THE DESERT

 

MASTERING THE "IRRATIONAL KNOT" OF DESPONDENCY

 

SADNESS

 

BITTERNESS OF DISSATISFIED VITAL

 

REJECTION OF GRIEF AND TURNING TO THE CENTRAL AIM

 

SERIOUSNESS AND GLOOM IN YOGA

 

THE PERVERSE TWIST OF THE VITAL

 

TRICK OF THE VITAL MIND

 

DETECTION OF VITAL SUBTERFUGE

 

REJECTION OF VITAL FALSEHOOD

 

ESTABLISHING PSYCHIC INFLUENCE OVER LOWER VITAL NATURE

 

CLOUDING OF REASON BY THE VITAL MIND

 

REJECTION OF IGNORANT FORCES FROM THE VITAL

 

 

SECTION SIXTEEN
 

Transformation of the Physical Being

 

I. OPENING THE PHYSICAL TO THE HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS

 

PHYSICAL BEING AND MANIFESTATION

 

IMPURITY OF THE HUMAN PHYSICAL

 

NECESSITY OF PHYSICAL PURIFICATION

 

THE PHYSICAL CHANGE

 

OPENING THE PHYSICAL TO THE HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS

 

DIFFICULTY OF OPENING THE PHYSICAL

 

REMEDY FOR DIFFICULTIES OF THE PHYSICAL CHANGE

 

DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE PHYSICAL

 

CONSEQUENCES OF SUPRAMENTAL DESCENT IN THE MATERIAL CONSCIOUSNESS

 

SUPRAMENTAL CHANGE AND HOLD OF LOWER NATURE

 

SUBCONSCIOUSNESS OF THE MATERIAL

 

NECESSITY OF WORKING IN THE SUBCONSCIENT FOR CHANGE OF THE PHYSICAL

 

THE SUBCONSCIENT AND PHYSICAL DISABILITIES

 

CLEARING THE SUBCONSCIENT

 

RISING OF OBSCURITY DURING PHYSICAL CHANGE

 

OBSTACLE OF INERTIA

 

INERTIA

 

INCREASE OF THE HOLD OF INERTIA

 

RISING OF INERTIA FROM THE SUBCONSCIENT

 

CALLING DOWN FORCE TO REMOVE INERTIA

 

REPLACING INERTIA BY HIGHER LIGHT AND FORCE

 

NEED OF EXERCISE FOR PREVENTING INERTIA

 

TRANSFORMATION OF TAMAS INTO SHAMA

 

CHANGE OF INERTIA BY DESCENT

 

INERTIA AND DYNAMISM

 

DYNAMIC DESCENT AND DESCENT OF PEACE

 

CONDITION OF THE BODY IN RECEIVING HIGHER DYNAMISM

 

SEPARATENESS OF THE INNER BEING AND IMMUNITY FROM INERTIA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION EIGHTEEN

 

Sadhana through Work

 

 

MOTIVES OF WORK IN ORDINARY LIFE AND YOGA - SIGNS OF VITAL'S CONSECRATION IN ACTION

 

PRACTICE OF THE GITA'S YOGA OF WORKS

 

OBJECT OF YOGA AND WORK FOR THE DIVINE

 

MEDITATION AND WORK IN YOGA

 

ACTION AND INTROSPECTIVE MEDITATION

 

CONCENTRATION IN WORK AND MEDITATION

 

OPENING AND SURRENDER TO THE MOTHER THROUGH WORK

 

CONDITIONS OF PERFECT SERVICE

 

CONDITIONS FOR BEING A FLAWLESS SERVANT

 

RIGHT SPIRIT IN WORK

 

INTUITION OF THE DIVINE WILL

 

RIGHT WAY OF ACTION

 

INNER GUIDANCE

 

IMPORTANCE OF THE INNER CHANGE

 

TAKING NOTHING FROM OTHERS - THE RIGHT INNER ATTITUDE

 

REPLACEMENT OF THE INSTINCT OF DOMINATION AND PRIDE OF THE INSTRUMENT

 

SHOWING OF CAPACITY IN WORK

 

TWO STAGES OF WORK IN YOGA

 

EXTERNALISATION OF INNER POWER

 

INTEREST AND JOY IN ASHRAM WORK

 

CAUSES OF MISTAKES IN ASHRAM WORK—EXTERNAL ORGANISATION AND INNER HARMONY

 

IMPORTANCE OF ORGANISATION IN PHYSICAL THINGS

 

THE HINDRANCE OF WASTE AND MISUSE OF PHYSICAL THINGS

 

MAINTENANCE OF EFFICIENCY AND DISCIPLINE BY OUTER AND INNER MEANS

 

RIGHT WAY OF DEALING WITH SUBORDINATES

 

POWER OF ADAPTATION AND HARMONISATION

 

QUIETING THE VITAL MIND—INADVISABILITY OF COMPELLING MIND AND VITAL IN WORK

 

INADVISABILITY OF VIOLENT COMPULSION OF BODY

 

OVERWORK

 

NEED OF MASTERY IN WORK

 

MISTAKE OF TOTAL ABSORPTION IN WORK

 

RESISTANCE TO CONTINUOUS COMMUNION IN WORK—ASPIRATION FROM BELOW

 

HINDRANCE OF INERTIA TO REMEMBRANCE

 

IDLENESS AND ABILITY TO DO WITHOUT WORK

 

FREEDOM FROM NECESSITY OF ACTION

 

STATE OF ALOOFNESS AND ACTION IN THE WORLD

 

ACTION OF GUNAS WITHOUT ATTACHMENT

 

DETACHMENT AND ACTION OF PRAKRITI

 

ACTION AND PRAKRITI

 

ACTION OF PRAKRITI AND GUNAS

 

ACTION OF GUNAS IN THE LIBERATED STATE

 

SEPARATION OF PRAKRITI AND PURUSHA FROM SURFACE BEING

 

CONSCIOUSNESS AND ENERGY—POWER OF DETACHMENT

 

SECTION TWENTY

 

SADHANA IN WORLDLY LIFE—KNOWLEDGE OF PAST LIVES—

PAIN AND SUFFERING, ETC.

 

\Sadhana in Worldly Life

 

IN her condition the one thing by which she  can enter into the sadhana is to remember the Divine always, taking her difficulties as ordeals to be passed through, to pray constantly and seek the Divine help and protection and ask for the opening of her heart and consciousness to the supporting Divine Presence.

 

11-2-1933

Right Way of Going through Worldly Life

 

THE life of saṁsāra is in its nature a field of unrest  —to go through it in the right way one has to  offer one's life and actions to the Divine and pray  for the peace of the Divine within. When the mind  becomes quiet, one can feel the Divine Mother  supporting the life and put everything into her  hands.

 

16-4-1933

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Indirect Connection with the Divine

 

INDIRECT connection (with the Divine) is when one lives in the ordinary consciousness without being able to go up above it and receives influences from above without knowing where they come from or feeling their source.

 

20-3-1934

Human Influence and Change of Nature

 

YOUR influence on him for turning towards the Yoga was good, but it was not able to change his vital nature. No human influence—which can only be mental and moral—can do that; you can see that he is just what he was before. It can be done only from his own soul turning towards the Divine.

 

The Best Help

 

To want unwaveringly the welfare of another both in the head and the heart, is the best help one can give.

 

6-9-1934

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Contact through Photograph

 

THE photograph is a vehicle only—but if you have the right consciousness, then you can bring something of the living being into it or become aware of the being for which it stands and can make it a means of contact. It is like the prāṇa pratiṣṭha in the image in the temple.

 

18-3-1933

Knowledge of Past Lives

(1)

IT is better not to think of past lives, just now— the mind and vital would probably become active and weave things that are not true.

29-6-1933

(2)

You have not to trouble yourself about past lives.

 

2-7-1933

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Past and New Elements in New Birth

 

WHEN there is a new birth one brings all that is necessary from past lives, but also one gathers what is necessary from the earth consciousness and so too brings in new elements as one develops.

 

Hereditary Influence and Affinity

 

CONSCIOUSNESS is not a mechanical dead thing to cut in that way. Hereditary influence creates an affinity and affinity is a long thing. It is only when the hereditary part is changed that the affinity  ceases.

 24-3-1937

Pain and Ananda

 

YES, all pain can become Ananda—pain is only the perversion of what in the original consciousness would be Ananda.

 

7-9-1933

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Bearing Extremes of Heat and Cold— Pain and Discomfort

 

To bear extreme heat and cold it is necessary to have peace in the cells first, then consolidated force. Pain and discomfort come from a physical consciousness not forceful enough to determine its own reactions to things.

 

14-7-1934

Defects of Lower Nature

 

EACH defect of the nature of the Ignorance is a deformation of something in the higher nature— a deformation which amounts to a perversion even. It is a symbolic perception of this that you got in your experience.

 

5-10-1933

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Responsibility for Suffering

 

WHY man's? What about the animals? They too suffer. You can say that suffering is a distortion of

the lower consciousness, but you cannot make man or human nature alone responsible for it.

 

1933

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