THE HOUR OF GOD

SRI AUROBINDO

Contents

I. The Hour of God	4. The Simultaneous and Successive Teaching
The Hour of God	5. The Training of the Senses
Certitudes	6. Sense-Improvement by Practice
Hymn to The Mother of Radiances	7. The Training of the Mental Faculties
	8. The Training of the Logical Faculty
II. Evolution - Psychology - The Supermind	The National Value of Art
Man a Transitional Being
Evolution	VII. Premises of Astrology
Psychology	Chapter I - Elements
Consciousness - Psychology	Chapter II
The Supermind	Chapter III - The Planets
The Seven Suns of the Supermind
The Divine Plan	VIII. Reviews
The Tangle of Karma	Mr. Tilak's Book on the Gita
	Hymns to The Goddess
III. On Yoga	South Indian Bronzes
The Way	About Astrology
The Web of Yoga	Sanskrit Research
Purna Yoga	Rupam
The Supramental Yoga	The Feast of Youth
The Divine Superman	Shama'a
	God, The Invisible King
IV. Thoughts and Aphorisms
Jnana	IX. Dayananda - Bankim - Tilak - Andal - Nammalwar
Karma	Dayananda
Bhakti	Rishi Bankim Chandra
Words of The Master	Bal Gangadhar Tilak
	A Great Mind, A Great Will
V. Essays Divine And Human	The Men that Pass
Sat	Andal
The Secret of Life - Ananda	Nammalwar
Life
The Silence Behind Life	X. Historical Impressions
The Secret Truth	The French Revolution
The Real Difficulty	Napoleon
Towards Unification	Notes on Bergson
The Psychology of Yoga
China, Japan and India	XI. Notes From the "Arya"
	"Arya" - Its Significance
VI. Education and Art	The "Arya's" Second Year
A Preface on National Education	The "Arya's" Fourth Year
A System of National Education :	The News of the Month
1. The Human Mind
2. The Powers of the Mind	Bibliographical Notes
3. The Moral Nature

The Divine Plan

THE SUPREME SELF-CONTAINED ABSOLUTE

FIRST ABSOLUTE — *TAT*	The Absolute Transcendent, the Supreme, parātpara (containing all, limited by nothing).
SECOND ABSOLUTE— *SAT*	The supreme self-contained absolute Existence, Sachchidananda, (Ananda uniting Sat and Chit), holding in its absolute unity the dual Principle (He and She, sah and sā) and the four-fold Principle, OM with its four statuses as one.
THIRD ABSOLUTE — *ADITI*	Aditi is the indivisible conscious-force and Ananda of the Supreme; the Mother, its living dynamis, the supreme Love, Wisdom, Power. ādyā śakti = parabrahman of the Tantra.
FOURTH ABSOLUTE — PARAMESHWARA (of the Gita) = Parameshwari (of the Tantra)

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THE MANIFESTATION

FIRST ABSOLUTE	The concealed — avyakta — Supreme, selfinvolved Sachchidananda, Parabrahman (Parameshwara-ishwari).
SECOND ABSOLUTE	Aditi. The Mother, containing in herself the Supreme. The Divine Consciousness, Force, Ananda upholding all the universes. Para Shakti, Para Prakriti Mahamaya (yayedam dhāryate jagat)
THIRD ABSOLUTE	The Eternal Manifestation (The Supreme Satyaloka, Chaitanyaloka, Tapoloka, Anandaloka — not those of the mental series).

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GRADATIONS OF MANIFESTATION

THE SUPREME

Sachchidananda — Unmanifest, making possible every kind of manifestation

SACHCHIDANANDA IN MANIFESTATION

The Supreme Planes of Infinite Consciousnes

1. Sat (implying Chit-Tapas and Ananda)

2. Chit (implying Sat and Ananda)

3. Ananda (implying Sat and Chit-Tapas)

SUPERMIND OR DIVINE GNOSIS

(The Self-Determining Infinite Consciousness)

From the point of view of our ascent upwards this is the Truth-Consciousness as distinguished from all below that belongs to the separative Ignorance.

OVERMIND OR MAYA

Overmind takes all Truth that comes down to it from the Supermind, but sets up each Truth as a separate force and idea capable of conificting with the others as well as cooperating with them. Each overmental being has his own world, each force has its own play and throws itself out to realise its own fulfilment in the cosmic play. All is possible; and from this separative seat of conflicting and even mutually negating possibilities comes too, as soon as mind, life and matter are thrown out into play the possibility of ignorance, unconsciousness, falsehood, death and suffering.

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OVERMIND GRADATION TO MIND

OVERMIND GNOSIS

(Supermind subdued to the Overmind play, limited and serving for true but limited creations)

OVERMIND PROPER

Formative Maya . . . . . . . . Overmind Logos . . . . . . . . Intuitive Overmind

(Essential) (Determinative Perceptive of all things

of relations) created by the two other powers)

HIGHEST MIND

(Intuitive Consciousness)

HIGHER MIND

I11umined Mind

Intuitive Mind

Liberated intelligence

MIND PROPER (HUMAN)

Thinking Reason

Dynamic Intelligence Externa1ising Intelligence

(Will, Vision etc.)

Centre between the eyes (Forehead) Throat Centre

Vital Mind

Physical Mind

LOWER CREATION

MIND

VITAL

(Vital Mind, Vital Proper, Physical Vital)

PHYSICAL

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