Posted in -04-Fourth-Series-1951 Index-000_Pre_content Index of Contents 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 TWO Science, Philosophy and Yoga THE GULF BETWEEN THE METHODS OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND YOGA MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN METAPHYSICS AND PSYCHOLOGY SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY - HUMANITY'S READINESS FOR MODERN SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES MATERIALISTIC SCIENCE AND MYSTICISM CREATIVE POWER IN MATERIAL ENERGY THE SCIENTIFIC AND THE METAPHYSICAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY THE YOGIC VIEW AND THE CURRENT OPINIONS ABOUT SUPERNATURAL PHENOMENA 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 FOUR Sadhana and Mental Development SADHANA AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT SADHANA AND MENTAL WORK MENTAL PURSUITS IN SADHANA MEDITATION AND READING STUDY AND MEDITATION MENTAL INACTIVITY AND SILENCE EXPERIENCE THROUGH READING READING AND GROWTH OF BEING TWO METHODS OF READING VALUE OF STUDY WELL-TRAINED INTELLECT AND STUDY STUDY AND TRUE JUDGMENT BOOK-KNOWLEDGE AND INTELLIGENCE LOGIC, THINKING AND PRACTICE ELEMENTS OF MENTAL TRAINING SADHANA AND LEARNING LANGUAGES TWO WAYS OF LEARNING A LANGUAGE POWER OF EXPRESSION IN SADHANA LOGIC AND EXPRESSION EDUCATION AND EXPRESSION WAY OF RECEIVING POWER OF EXPRESSION THE EXPRESSED AND THE INEXPRESSIBLE SECTION FIVE Basic Requisites of Yoga I. SINCERITY THE ONE INDISPENSABLE CONDITION II. ASPIRATION ASPIRATION, EXPERIENCE AND CHANGE PSYCHIC ASPIRATION AND VITAL INTENSITY CALM AND RESTLESS ASPIRATION QUIET ASPIRATION AND PAINFUL EFFORT NECESSITY OF STEADY ASPIRATION ASPIRATION AND VITAL DEMAND ASPIRATION, CONVERSION, INNER REALISATION AND TRANSFORMATION III. FAITH FAITH - BELIEF - CONVICTION - RELIANCE - TRUST - CONFIDENCE FAITH IN THE DIVINE PROTECTION AND WILL FAITH AND COURAGE NECESSITY OF FAITH AND FIXED WILL FOR SUCCESS IN YOGA QUALITIES OF PERFECTION IV. SURRENDER SURRENDER AND PERSONAL EFFORT TAPASYA SURRENDER AND TAMASIC PASSIVITY ENTIRE SELF-GIVING THE FORCE OF SURRENDER THE CENTRAL SURRENDER DEVOTION AND SURRENDER IN THE HIGHER MIND SURRENDER THROUGH KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE-BHAKTI SURRENDER TO THE MOTHER INSUFFICIENCY OF SURRENDER TO THE IMPERSONAL SURRENDER TO THE IMPERSONAL AND SUBJECTION TO THE GUNAS AND EGO IMPORTANCE OF SURRENDER TO THE GURU SURRENDER TO THE DIVINE AND THE GURU NEED OF SURRENDERING IN THE LOWER NATURE DIFFICULTY OF SURRENDERING THE VITAL VITAL DEMANDS AND SURRENDER BARGAINING VITAL ATTITUDE AND TRUE SELF-GIVING VITAL DEMAND AND SOUL'S SELF-GIVING THE ONLY TRUE BASIS FOR SADHANA V. PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE PERSEVERANCE IN THE PATH NEED OF PATIENCE DETERMINATION AND PATIENCE IMPORTANCE OF STEADY PREPARATION THE RIGHT ATTITUDE OF PERSISTENCE THE NEEDED POWER 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 OP 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 SECTION NINE Concentration and Meditation TWO MAIN CENTRES FOR CONCENTRATION POSTURES FOR CONCENTRATION CONCENTRATION AND QUIET STRAINING AND CONCENTRATION BEST WAY TO STILL THE MIND SILENCING THE PHYSICAL MIND - DYNAMIC REALISATION MEDITATION AND DIVIDED CONSCIOUSNESS MEDITATION AND DULLNESS SECTION TEN Inner Sight and Inner Vision OPENING OF THE INNER SIGHT INNER VISION AND MENTAL VISION INNER VISION AND VIBRATION OF FORCES MENTAL VISIONS COSMIC VISION, INNER VISION AND PSYCHIC VISION POWER OF INNER VISION - PRESENCE AND CONTACT DEVELOPMENT OF VISION-IMAGES SUBTLE-PHYSICAL VISION TRATAK SECTION ELEVEN Experiences of the Inner and the Cosmic Consciousness I. CONDITION FOR GETTING TRUE EXPERIENCES PURIFICATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS FOR RIGHT RECEPTION OF EXPERIENCES PURIFICATION BEFORE DESCENT OF HIGHER TRUTH PURITY AND IMPURITY IMPORTANCE OF CALM AND STRENGTH QUIETUDE AND OPENNESS QUIETNESS DURING EXPERIENCE NEED OF CURBING IMPATIENCE IN RECEIVING EXPERIENCE INTERRUPTION OF EXPERIENCE NEED OF DISCRIMINATION IN JUDGING EXPERIENCES INTENSITY AND PURITY OF EXPERIENCE—VEILING OF THE MOTHER'S PRESENCE—INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SELF-GIVING EXPERIENCE AND REALISATION THE YOGI AND THE SADHAK DEGREES OF REALISATION EXPERIENCES AND JOY EFFECT OF EXPERIENCES IN THE PHYSICAL CONSCIOUSNESS II. EXPERIENCES OF THE INNER PLANES SIGNS OF THE OPENING OF THE INNER CONSCIOUSNESS FIRST RESULT OF THE AWAKENING OF THE INNER BEING BREAKING UP OF THE SURFACE BEING INTO THE INNER CONSCIOUSNESS MOVING ON THE VITAL PLANE PRECAUTIONS FOR AVOIDING DANGERS IN THE VITAL WORLDS EXPERIENCES OF WITHDRAWAL INTO INNER PLANES THE INWARD AND THE OUTWARD MOVEMENT TRUE AND MIXED EXPERIENCES—DIFFICULTY OF RETAINING TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS IN SLEEP INADVISABILITY OF ADMITTING OTHERS IN ONE'S ADHAR MISLEADING COMMUNICATIONS ON THE INTERMEDIATE PLANE DOUBTFUL VALUE OF EXPERIENCES OF THE INTERMEDIATE PLANES FALSE NOTIONS ABOUT PROGRESS IN SADHANA INADVISABILITY OF COMPLETE SECLUSION CONDITIONS FOR RECEIVING TRUE INTUITIONS 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. IV. SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES AND OBJECTIVE REALISATION DIFFICULTY OF OBJECTIVISING SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES SUBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE AND TRANSFORMATION SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE AND ENTRY INTO THE SUPERMIND SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES OF BHAKTI TRUTH OF SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE SECTION TWELVE Lights and Colours—Symbols and Images I. FORMS AND ACTION OF LIGHTS AND COLOURS ACTION OF LIGHT ACTION AND FORMS OF LIGHT THE MOTHER AND THE LIGHTS THE MOTHER'S WHITE LIGHT ACTION OF MOTHER'S LIGHT WHITE AND BLUE COLOURS DEEP, PALE AND WHITISH BLUE PALE BLUE AND WHITISH BLUE SUNLIGHT GOLDEN LIGHT AMD SUN GOLDEN LIGHT GOLDEN AND WHITE LIGHT YELLOW AND GOLDEN LIGHT GOLDEN COLOUR AND MAHAKALI FORCE GOLDEN RED LIGHT DEEP RED LIGHT THE COLOUR OF THE PSYCHIC LIGHT THE ROSY LIGHT—WORLDS OF NEUTRAL PEACE 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 SECTION THIRTEEN The Divine and Hostile Powers I. THE DIVINE BEINGS THE EXISTENCE OF GODS THE GODS AND THE DIVINE FORMS OF GODS THE LUMINOUS BODY OF HIGHER BEINGS THE ENJOYMENTS OF GODS BRAHMA——VISHNU—SHIVA BRAHMA VISHNU SHIVA AND OVERMIND GODS IN THE OVERMIND ADYA SHAKTI MANY FORMS OF THE ONE MOTHER MAHAKALI AND KALI DURGA WORLD OF PARVATI-SHANKARA IMAGE OF SRI KRISHNA GANESHA. AND KARTIKEYA GANESHA THE GANESHA POWER KARTIKEYA AND THE PEACOCK 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 II. REJECTION OF DESIRE DESIRES IN THE STRAIGHT PATH DESIRES AND ATTACHMENTS REJECTION OF WORLDLY DESIRES REJECTION OF EGO AND DESIRE DETACHMENT FROM WANTS SURMOUNTING OF VITAL DESIRES AND ESTABLISHMENT OF CALM AND STRENGTH THE OBSTRUCTION OF SMALL DESIRES SMALL LOWER-VITAL HABITS SMALL HABITS OF THE PHYSICAL-VITAL AUTOMATIC ACTION OF THE PHYSICAL-VITAL'S HABITS MENTAL OBSESSION DUE TO VITAL ATTACHMENT PURIFICATION OF THE VITAL-PHYSICAL TWO PLACES OF RETIREMENT OF VITAL-PHYSICAL MOVEMENTS DELIVERANCE FROM BLIND VITAL ENERGY THE TRUE VITAL ENERGY 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 IRRATIONALITY OF THE LOWER VITAL REJECTION OF PRIDE - THE CENTRAL CHANGE OF ATTITUDE REJECTION OF THE POSSESSIVE INSTINCT - MIXTURE OF TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD IN HUMAN NATURE MIXTURE IN THE ATTITUDE STANDING BACK FROM THE MOVEMENT OF ANGER RISING ABOVE QUARRELS AND CLASHES REJECTION OF VITAL SENSITIVENESS AND SELF-ESTEEM - DIFFERENCES IN DEALING WITH DIFFERENT NATURES VARIABILITY OF SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE - REPRESSION AND REAL CHANGE OF THE VITAL NATURE - OPENNESS TO THE MOTHER PLASTIC DEALING WITH HUMAN NATURE VARIABLE PROCESS OF SADHANA PUNISHMENT FOR FAULTS IN SADHANA THE SCHOOL-MASTER METHOD AND THE SPIRITUAL CHANGE THE CARDINAL DEFECT CONDITIONS FOR DIVINE CHANGE FALSE IDEA OF SINCERITY FALSE INTUITIONS AND VOICES FALSE SPIRITUAL IDEAS 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 II. ILLNESS IN YOGA CAUSE OF ILLNESS REMOVAL OF ILLNESS BY DETACHMENT AND CONSCIOUS REJECTION WILL TO ILLNESS REMOVAL OF ILLNESS BY OPENING TO THE FORCE CONSCIOUS PHYSICAL AND ATTACKS REJECTION OF SUGGESTIONS BY BODY CONSCIOUSNESS HOSTILE SUGGESTION OF ILLNESS HOSTILE ATTACK ON THE BODY PAINS IN THE BODY DUE TO HOSTILE ATTACKS REMOVAL OF BODILY PAINS BY DETACHMENT AND OPENING TO THE FORCE NERVOUS ILLNESS DUE TO HOSTILE PRESSURE QUIETUDE AND RECEPTIVITY IN THE BODY RECURRENCE OF ILLNESS AT FIXED TIMES EFFECT OF VITAL DEPRESSION ON THE BODY PHYSICAL AID IN ILLNESS YOGA AND ILLNESS YOGIC ATTITUDES TO THE BODY ANNULMENT OF DECAY AND DEATH FROM THE BODY DEATH AND DISSOLUTION OF FORM III. REGULATION OF FOOD TWO WAYS OF OVERCOMING GREED FOR FOOD INADVISABILITY OF TAKING TO ASCETIC DIET TRUE HARMONY BETWEEN THE BODY'S NEED AND THE FOOD TAKEN TRUE NEED OF THE BODY CHANGING THE PRINCIPLE OF HUNGER IN THE VITAL-PHYSICAL INADVISABILITY OF SUPPRESSING HUNGER CAREFULNESS IN MATTERS OF FOOD DIET AND AGE IV. SLEEP AND DREAM IN SADHANA NEED OF SUFFICIENT SLEEP IN YOGA RESULT OF INSUFFICIENT SLEEP WANT OF SLEEP AND WEAKNESS OF NERVOUS SYSTEM UNEASINESS DUE TO WANT OF SLEEP TRANSFORMATION OF SLEEP INTENSITY OF SADHANA AND SLEEP EXTENSION OF SADHANA IN SLEEP CONTINUING SADHANA IN CONSCIOUS SLEEP PRESSURE TO GO INSIDE INNER FORCES AND SLEEP RELAXATION FOR GOOD SLEEP DREAMS FROM THE SUBCONSCIENT INTERFERENCE OF PHYSICAL MIND IN DREAM DREAMS OF MENTAL AND HIGHER VITAL PLANES MOVING IN VITAL WORLDS IN DREAM DREAM-EXPERIENCES OF THE VITAL PLANE SYMBOLIC DREAMS V. REJECTION OF SEX SEX AND ANANDA DIFFICULTY OF REJECTING THE SEX-IMPULSE CONNECTION OF SEX WITH THE LOWER VITAL AND THE PHYSICAL CENTRE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE PHYSICAL CENTRE PHYSICAL LUST AND HEART'S HUNGER TO LOVE WOMEN REMOVAL OF SEX-DIFFICULTY AVOIDANCE OF RESPONSE TO SEX-SUGGESTIONS REJECTION OF SEX-DESIRE FROM THE SUBCONSCIENT RISING OF SEX-IMPRESSIONS IN SLEEP FROM THE SUBCONSCIENT SEEDS OF PAST IMPRESSIONS IN THE SUBCONSCIENT ATTACKS OF SEX-SUGGESTIONS IN SLEEP COMING UP OF SEX IN DREAM NIGHT-DREAMS REMOVAL OF SMALL TENDENCIES AND OVERCOMING SEX-DESIRE GIVING UP OF PERVERSE SEX-HABIT VI. CONTROL OF SPEECH IN SADHANA CONTROL OF SPEECH AND THE PHYSICAL CHANGE MINIMISING SPEECH IN SADHANA CONTROL OF SPEECH AS PART OF YOGIC SELF-CONTROL VIGILANCE FOR CONTROLLING THE AUTOMATIC HABIT OF SPEECH THE HABIT OF CRITICISM RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARDS WEAKNESS OF OTHERS DEPRESSION DUE TO DISCUSSION INADVISABILITY OF DISCUSSION HARANGUES AND EXHORTATIONS WEAKNESS IN TALKING INADVISABILITY OF SPEAKING ABOUT EXPERIENCES TO OTHERS SECTION SEVENTEEN Love and Relationships in Yoga BHAKTI AND LOVE IN YOGA SPIRITUAL AND PSYCHIC LOVE UNIVERSAL AND PSYCHIC LOVE WRONG USE OF UNIVERSAL LOVE THE ONLY WAY TO LOVE DIVINELY TRUE RELATION WITH THE DIVINE TRUE PSYCHIC RELATION WITH THE MOTHER PSYCHIC AND VITAL LOVE FOR THE MOTHER PURE VITAL LOVE FOR THE MOTHER LOVE OF THE DIVINE AND OTHER ATTACHMENTS TURNING TO THE DIVINE AND WITHDRAWAL FROM OLD RELATIONS PLACE OF HUMAN LOVE IN YOGA RELATIONS WITH OTHERS IN SADHANA THE RULE ABOUT PERSONAL RELATIONS IN YOGA YOGIC RELATIONS BETWEEN SADHAKS AND SADHIKAS REMOVAL OF VITAL ATTACHMENTS TRUE LOVE AND JEALOUSY REJECTION OF JEALOUSY 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 NINETEEN Great Men and Avatars GREATNESS MISTAKE OF DEPRECIATING GREAT MEN GREATNESS IN YOGA AND IN THE UNIVERSAL ORDER GREAT MEN AND COSMIC PURPOSE THE DIVINE AND THE OUTER GREATNESS IMPORTANCE OF ENERGY AND CAPACITY TO THE DIVINE DEFECTS OF GREAT MEN AND THEIR HELP IN GOD'S WORK THE DIVINE AND THE VICES OF GREAT MEN VICE AND VIRTUE AND DARKNESS AND LIGHT VICES THE VICES OF GREAT MEN VIRTUE AND GREATNESS AMBITION VANITY VANITY AND HUMBUG AVATAR AND VIBHUTI RAMAKRISHNA HUMANITY OF AVATAR AVATAR AND SAINTLINESS THE LIMITED HUMAN REASON AND THE WAY OF THE INFINITE THE MEANING OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATION SECTION TWENTY Sadhana in Worldly Life—Knowledge of Past Lives- Pain and Suffering, etc. SADHANA IN WORLDLY LIFE RIGHT WAY OF GOING THROUGH WORLDLY LIFE INDIRECT CONNECTION WITH THE DIVINE HUMAN INFLUENCE AND CHANGE OF NATURE THE BEST HELP CONTACT THROUGH PHOTOGRAPH KNOWLEDGE OF PAST LIVES PAST AND NEW ELEMENTS IN NEW BIRTH HEREDITARY INFLUENCE AND AFFINITY PAIN AND ANANDA BEARING EXTREMES OF HEAT AND COLD - PAIN AND DISCOMFORT DEFECTS OF LOWER NATURE RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUFFERING