Sri Aurobindo
Posted on Feb 28th, 2008
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Lisaji
Lisaji
Our earth is a fragment and a residue;
Her power is packed with the stuff of greater worlds
And steeped in their colour-lustres dimmed by her drowse;
An atavism of higher births is hers,
Her sleep is stirred by their buried memories
Recalling the lost spheres from which they fell.
Unsatisfied forces in her bosom move;
They are partners of her greater growing fate
And her return to immortality;
SRI AUROBINDO
Savitri, Book Two, Canto One
A difficult evolution from below
Called a masked intervention from above;
Else this great, blind inconscient universe
Could never have disclosed its hidden mind,
Or even in blinkers worked in beast and man
The Intelligence that devised the cosmic scheme.
SRI AUROBINDO
Savitri, Book Two, Canto Four
Supermind - Force of the New World
Her power is packed with the stuff of greater worlds
And steeped in their colour-lustres dimmed by her drowse;
An atavism of higher births is hers,
Her sleep is stirred by their buried memories
Recalling the lost spheres from which they fell.
Unsatisfied forces in her bosom move;
They are partners of her greater growing fate
And her return to immortality;
SRI AUROBINDO
Savitri, Book Two, Canto One
A difficult evolution from below
Called a masked intervention from above;
Else this great, blind inconscient universe
Could never have disclosed its hidden mind,
Or even in blinkers worked in beast and man
The Intelligence that devised the cosmic scheme.
SRI AUROBINDO
Savitri, Book Two, Canto Four
Supermind - Force of the New World
Supermind is veiled here and does not work according to its
characteristic law of being and self-knowledge, but without it
nothing could reach its aim. A world governed by an ignorant mind
would soon drift into a chaos; it could not in fact come into existence
or remain in existence unless supported by the secret Omniscience
of which it is the cover; a world governed by a blind inconscient force
might repeat constantly the same mechanical workings but it would
mean nothing and arrive nowhere.This could not be the cause of an
evolution that creates life out of matter, out of life mind, and a gradation
of planes of Matter, Life and Mind culminating in the emergence of
Supermind. The secret truth that emerges in Supermind has been
there all the time, but now it manifests itself and the truth in things
and the meaning of our existence.
SRI AUROBINDO
characteristic law of being and self-knowledge, but without it
nothing could reach its aim. A world governed by an ignorant mind
would soon drift into a chaos; it could not in fact come into existence
or remain in existence unless supported by the secret Omniscience
of which it is the cover; a world governed by a blind inconscient force
might repeat constantly the same mechanical workings but it would
mean nothing and arrive nowhere.This could not be the cause of an
evolution that creates life out of matter, out of life mind, and a gradation
of planes of Matter, Life and Mind culminating in the emergence of
Supermind. The secret truth that emerges in Supermind has been
there all the time, but now it manifests itself and the truth in things
and the meaning of our existence.
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canto four
June 2008
collective consciousness is the tapestry
we individual beings are the threads
that is the “supermind”
love and light
it reminds me of when reading the first few cantos, everything was quiet and then a spark arrived, the idea is that even though nothing was…that doesn't mean it's not possible…the Earth has gone through births before he says…what I'm wondering is, does that mean that this is the only one which will be great?