Savitri's dream shows how "an old self lurks in the new self we are." Old thoughts, longings, dead passions rise again. "The seeds of sins renounced sprout from hid soil." She sees the soul's influence bringing man to his high source. She must find her soul
Tag: Sri Aurobindo
Knowledge covered by supramental thought, experience and vision will be commensurate with all that is open to the human consciousness, on all planes. ... Freedom and transcendence will finally predominate.
Most people live in a hazy awareness of why they are here. Few seek to know why. Few seek to know their own soul. Only when we are identified with our soul can we consciously follow the thread of our destiny. Only then can we begin to see things as they are
Man needs the excitement of contrast in his life. What men call "life" are the dramas, the anxieties, the contrasts. Almost everything one does is far less important than the attitude one has. The right attitude will allow awareness of the value of things.
Savitri sees what mental and vital energies are like when the soul stays behind the veil of the outer nature and the mind and vital are left to act on their own. "All is there, even God's opposites ... Man's house of life holds not the Gods alone."
Man is obliged by a Power inherent within him to work toward self-evolution leading to self-mastery and self-knowledge but purification and passivity of the mind open to the Spirit; these are necessities.
In the Supramental nature it is the very condition of the self in all and all in the self, God in all and all in God, all seen as God, lived by an integral, always present realisation.The Infinite breaks through to us, giving intimations of Itself.
As Savitri sits helpless and hopeless against Satyavan's coming death, a great and deathless Voice tells her to arise and conquer Time and Death. When her heart refuses, her soul promises to follow the command, and Savitri begins the search for her soul.
As Savitri sits helpless and hopeless against Satyavan's coming death, a great and deathless Voice tells her to arise and conquer Time and Death. When her heart refuses, her soul promises to follow the command, and Savitri begins the search for her soul.
The intuitive mind is an immediate translation of truth; it is of the nature of a memory, a luminous remembering of the self-existent truth, of the very voice of truth.