The Psychic Being

Source: http://www.karmayogi.net/?q=node/3820

Sri Aurobindo says that after years of searching, He made a supreme discovery. He discovered the psychic. Nobody has ever talked about the spirit evolving before. When you go into the higher experiences or trance you see the great Spirit behind, but He was the first to discover that there is a spirit within the evolution that is evolving. Sri Aurobindo says in The Life Divine the we know God in the descent, but we do not know God in the ascent. God in the descent is the Parameshwara who has willed the creation. But what is God in the ascent? It is the godhead concealed in Matter that is evolving from Matter and progressively manifesting itself. That is the psychic. It is not outside of the evolution. It is the seed of spiritual consciousness that is awakening through our conscious experience in Prakriti. When we talk about the soul that goes through the experience of life after life and evolves and gains knowledge, we really mean the psychic.

Sri Aurobindo made the great spiritual discovery that if you concentrate on the Manomaya Purusha, you go to Purushottama, which takes you outside the creation. If you concentrate on the psychic, if you realize the psychic, it takes you to Parameshwara, the Lord of Creation, inside the creation, and you ascend the path by which the lord descended to manifest the worlds in the first place. You go right up the same path from mind to Overmind to Supermind without ever leaving the world. So He discovered the key. He discovered how we can have that contact with the Lord in the creation and bring down Mother’s power into our life. That is the whole secret of this yoga.

Psychic awakening

overcomes division

·        Contact with Supermind reunites consciousness with force

·        Abolishing ego reunites life with the universe 

I am sure many of you know that Mother has given some rules for getting in touch with the psychic. She presents ten rules in her essay on Psychic Education:

1.      Rely on the soul, not on the mind. What does this mean? The mind cannot really know, so do not put faith in the mind’s understanding of things. Know that the mind is a mind of ignorance. Do not take mental initiatives. Only the psychic always knows what is true.

2.      Take interest in everything you do. Do not be the vital ego. The vital ego wants to do only what it is interested in. She says we must take interest in all the work that comes to us.

3.      Do not complain against others. This is another rule for the vital. The vital loves to complain against others. It feels so fulfilled when complaining about others. If you do not allow yourself to complain even silently in your own mind against other people, it helps you to move from the vital to the psychic.

4.      Do not seek comfort. She does not advocate austerities, but She advises us not to be preoccupied with the body’s comfort. If comforts come to us on their own, we can accept them. But we should not go out of our way to seek comfort or become a slave to it.

Rules of Psychic Education

·        Rely on the soul, not mind

·        Take interest in everything you do

·        Don’t complain against others

·        Don’t seek comfort

·        Make progress at every moment

·        Inner is reflection of the outer

·        Consecrate before eating, sleeping, talking and acting.

5.      Make progress at every moment. At every moment there is a progress we can make. We should discover what that progress is. Can I be more thoughtful? Can I be better organized? Can I be more patient? Can I remember Mother?

6.      Accept the rule that the outer is the reflection of the inner. Do not be sorry about the correspondences you see, but be grateful for the knowledge that life presents them to you as a personal instruction. Life is a great teacher for us.

7-10.    Consecrate. Consecrate before eating, sleeping, talking, and acting. That does not leave much left. Consecrate everything to Mother and the psychic will come forward. When you consecrate everything to Her, you will be in direct contact with Her. Once you have that contact there will never be any question for you of why you are here. You will be conscious at every moment of the spirit evolving in you. You will have that knowledge of the miracle of the Divine Lila. When you do everything for Mother, there is a psychic joy in every act. 

Life without Death

Source: https://agendamother.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/life-without-death/

“Life without Death” is written by Satprem originally in French and published in 1985 under the title “La vie sans mort”. It is a follow-up to Mind of the Cells, co-written with Luc Venet, and provides a glimpse of Satprem in his post-Ashram life in this period.

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Contents

• Introduction

PART ONE: SRI AUROBINDO

• The Door Is Open
• The Earth
• Man
• The Mental Principle
• Spirituality
• The Body
• The Future
• Matter
• The Layers of Being
• The Subconscious
• Death
• The Only Solution

PART TWO: MOTHER

• The Plunge into the Body
• The Supramental Force
• The Work
• The Unreality
• Back and Forth
• A Body Still Human
• “The Divine”
• The Transformation of the Body
• The Walk in the Dark
• The Contagion
• No More Wear and Tear
• Everything Is Going There
• The Battle of the World
• The End of Habits
• The Resistance
• The Forced Departure
• The End of the Story?

PART THREE: SATPREM

• Let Us Try . . .
• The Breakthrough
• Let Us Try
• The Double Mooring
• The New
• Uprooting Death
• Life Without Death
• The New Power
• The Spell
• The Cry
• A Revolution in the Body
• The Other Air
• An Automatic Path
• The Delight in the Body
• A World Simply True

The Adventure of Consciousness by Satprem (ebook)

Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness by Satprem

“Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness” is one of the most remarkable books written by Satprem. It has particular appeal to the westerners, who approach yoga subject trough the mind. Many seekers on the path of the Integral Yoga came to know about Sri Aurobindo through reading this book.

There is in Sri Aurobindo a revolutionary, a poet, a philosopher, a visionary of evolution. He is not only the explorer of consciousness, but the builder of a new world. For evolution is not over: “Man is a transitional being,” he wrote at the beginning of the century. This now classic introduction to Sri Aurobindo (in a new edition and translation) not only tells us the story of his life, in itself a remarkable adventure; Satprem also takes us along in a methodical exploration of Sri Aurobindo’s “integral yoga,” showing how it leads to a “divine rehabilitation of Matter” and gives our painful evolution its meaning and hope. “We have denied the Divinity in Matter to confine it in our holy places, and now Matter is taking its revenge — we called it crude, and crude it is. As long as we accept this Imbalance, there is no hope for the earth: we will swing from one pole to the other — both equally false — from material enjoyment to spiritual austerity, without ever finding our plenitude. We need both the vigor of Matter and the fresh waters of the Spirit…. Now the time may have come at last to unveil the Mysteries and to recover the complete truth of the two poles within a third position, which is neither that of the materialists nor that of the spiritualists. – Satprem

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Contents

• Chapter 1. An Accomplished Westerner
• Chapter 2. The Eternal Law
• Chapter 3. The End of the Intellect
• Chapter 4. The Silent Mind
• Chapter 5. Consciousness
• Chapter 6. Quieting the Vital
• Chapter 7. The Psychic Center
• Chapter 8. Independence from the Physical
• Chapter 9. Sleep and Death
• Chapter 10. The Revolutionary Yogi
• Chapter 11. Oneness
• Chapter 12. The Superconscient
• Chapter 13. Under the Auspices of the Gods
• Chapter 14. The Secret
• Chapter 15. The Supramental Consciousness
• Chapter 16. Man, A Transitional Being
• Chapter 17. The Transformation

Source: https://agendamother.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/adventure-of-consciousness/

The Future Evolution of Man

Source: http://www.mountainman.com.au/auro.html

by Sri Aurobindo

C O N T E N T S Introduction: Preface & Summary - P.B. Saint-Hilaire (21k) Chapter (1): The Human Aspiration (10k) Chapter (2): The Place of Man in Evolution (20k) Chapter (3): The Present Evolutionary Crisis (54k) Chapter (4): Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom (24k) Chapter (5): The Development of the Spiritual Man (28k) Chapter (6): The Triple Transformation (34k) Chapter (7): The Ascent Towards Supermind (39k) Chapter (8): The Gnostic Being (53k) Chapter (9): The Divine Life Upon Earth (35k) FurtherRefs: Editorial Comments and Further References (5k)

The Mother

Source: https://agendamother.wordpress.com/the-mother/

The MotherEarly years
Mirra Alfassa (Paris 21.2.1878 – Pondicherry 17.11.73) was born as the second child of an Egyptian mother and a Turkish father, a few months after her parents had settled in France. An extraordinarily gifted child, who became an accomplished painter and musician, she had many inner experiences from early childhood on. In her twenties she studied occultism in Algeria with Max Theon and his English wife Alma, who was a highly developed medium. After her return to Paris, the Mother worked with several different groups of spiritual seekers.

Meeting Sri Aurobindo
She first heard of Sri Aurobindo from her friend Alexandra David-Neel, who had visited him in Pondicherry in 1912; and in 1914, along with her second husband Paul Richard, she was able to travel to Pondicherry and meet him in person. There, she immediately recognised him as a mentor she had encountered in earlier visions, and knew that her future work was at his side. Although she had to leave India after the outbreak of the First World War, first returning to France, and then accompanying Richard to an official post in Japan, in April 1920 she returned to join Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry and never left again. Sri Aurobindo recognised in her an embodiment of the dynamic expressive aspect of evolutionary, creative Force, in India traditionally known and approached as the ‘Supreme Mother’.

Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville
It was the Mother who organised the growing group of followers around him into the Sri Aurobindo Ashram from November 1926 onwards, and who in 1952, after his passing in 1950, created the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education to fulfil his wish to provide a new kind of education for Indian youth. In 1968 she founded the international township project of Auroville as a yet wider field for practical attempts to implement Sri Aurobindo’s vision of new forms of individual and collective life, preparing the way towards a brighter future for the whole earth.

Humanity is not the last rung of the terrestrial creation. Evolution continues and man will be surpassed. It is for each individual to know whether he wants to participate in the advent of this new species.

For those who are satisfied with the world as it is, Auroville obviously has no reason to exist.

Consciousness beyond Mind
Both Sri Aurobindo and The Mother worked all their lives for the manifestation of a mode of consciousness beyond mind, which Sri Aurobindo named “Supermind” or “The Supramental”. The full expression of this consciousness on earth would result not only in a new species, as far beyond Man as humanity is beyond the animals, but also in a modification of the whole terrestrial creation, even more complete than the change brought about by the entrance on the world scene of the human race.

Between humanity and the fully Supramental species there would have to be one or several transitional steps, represented by transitional beings, born in the human way, but able to contact and express the higher consciousness. These transitional beings would prepare the way for the advent of the Supramental Race by establishing suitable conditions.

Transformation
After Sri Aurobindo’s passing, the Mother continued his work of psychological and physical transformation with the help of the new force. An account of her experiences in the course of this work is given in The Mother’s Agenda, an intimate record of the last 18 years of her life.

Their work continues.

Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds (2012)

Samadhi Movie 2017