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\nSECTION TEN<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\nINNER SIGHT AND INNER VISION <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nOpening of the Inner Sight<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWHEN one tries to meditate, the first obstacle in the beginning is sleep. When you get
\nover this obstacle, there comes a condition in which, with the eyes closed, you
\nbegin to see things,
\npeople, scenes of all kinds. This is not a bad thing,
\nit is a good sign and means that you are making
\nprogress in the Yoga. There is, besides the outer
\nphysical sight which sees external objects, an inner
\nsight in us which can see things yet unseen and
\nunknown, things at a distance, things belonging to another place or time or to
\nother worlds; it is
\nthe inner sight which is opening in you. It is the
\nworking of the Mother’s force which is opening it
\nin you, and you should not try to stop it. Remember the Mother always, call on her and aspire to
\nfeel her presence and her power working in you;  but you do not need, for that, to reject this or other
\ndevelopments that may come in you by her working
\nhereafter. It is only desire, egoism, restlessness and
\nother wrong movements that have to be rejected. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n11-4-1932<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage-257 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\n<\/a>Inner Vision and Mental Vision<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\nINNER vision is vivid like actual sight, always precise
\nand contains a truth in it. In mental vision the
\nimages are invented by the mind and are partly
\ntrue, partly a play of possibilities. Or a mental
\nvision like the vital may be only a suggestion,\u2014
\nthat is a formation of some possibility on the mental
\nor vital plane which presents itself to the sadhak in
\nthe hope of being accepted and helped to realise itself. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n20-7-1934 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>Inner Vision and Vibration of Forces<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\nTHE inner vision can see objects, but it can see
\ninstead the vibration of the forces which act through
\nthe object.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\n11-6-1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n<\/a>Mental Visions<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\nTHE mental visions are meant to bring in <\/b> the mind
\nthe influence of the things they represent.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\n19-7-1934 <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage-258 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\n<\/a>Cosmic Vision, Inner Vision and Psychic Vision<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\nCOSMIC vision is the seeing of the universal movements \u2014it has nothing to do with the psychic
\nnecessarily. It can be in the universal mind, the universal vital, the universal physical or anywhere. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhat do you mean here by psychic vision? Inner
\nvision means the vision with the inner seeing as
\nopposed to outer vision, the external sight with
\nthe surface mind in the surface eyes. Psychic, in
\nthe language of this Yoga, is confined to the soul,
\nthe psychic being\u2014it is not as in the ordinary
\nlanguage in which if you see a ghost it is called
\na "psychic vision"; we speak of the inner vision or
\nthe subtle sight\u2014not the psychic vision.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\n22-3-1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>Power of Inner Vision\u2014Presence and Contact<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWHAT was developed in you is a power of true
\ninner vision\u2014this will help you to enter through it into touch with the Divine; you have only to let it develop. Two other things have to develop\u2014
\nthe feeling of the Divine Presence and power and <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage-259 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ninspiration behind your actions, and the inner
\ncontact with myself and the Mother. Aspire with
\nfaith and sincerity and these will come. I do not
\nwish to give any more precise instructions until I see what happens in you
\nduring your stay here;
\nfor although the path is common to all, each man
\nhas his own way of following it.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\n16-7-1934 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>Development of Vision-images<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\nNOTHING has to be done to develop the images
\nseen in the vision. They develop of themselves by
\nthe growing practice of seeing,\u2014what was faint
\nbecomes clear, what was incomplete becomes
\ncomplete. One cannot say in a general way that
\nthey are real or unreal. Some are formations of
\nthe mind, some are images that come to the sight
\nof themselves, some are images of real things that
\nshow themselves directly to the sights\u2014others are
\ntrue pictures, not merely images.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\n11-8-1934 <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage-260 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n<\/a>Subtle Physical Vision<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\t1.   THE vision was seen through the physical  eyes but by the subtle physical consciousness; in 
\n\t\t\tother words, there was an imposition of one consciousness upon another. After a certain stage of
\ndevelopment, this capacity of living in the ordinary
\nphysical consciousness and yet having superadded
\nto it another and more subtle sense, vision,
\nexperience becomes quite normal. A little concentration is enough to bring it; or, even, it happens
\nautomatically without any concentration.  As the flower was a subtle physical object, not
\nentirely material in the ordinary sense of the word (though quite substantial and material in its own
\nplane, not an illusion), a camera would not be
\nable to detect it\u2014except in the case of one of those
\nabnormal interventions by which a subtle form has been thrown upon the material plate.  It could be sensed in a dark room, though not so
\neasily, and it would not then have so vivid an appearance\u2014unless you are able to
\n\t\t\tbring out something of the light of the subtle physical plane to
\nsurround it and give it its natural medium.  If seen with the eyes shut, it would be no longer
\na subtle physical form, but an object or formation
\nof the vital, mental or other plane\u2014unless, indeed, the inner consciousness had progressed so far as
\n\t\t\t<\/i>to be able to project itself into the physical planes;  but
\n\t\t\tthis is a rare and, in most cases, a late development. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPage-261<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\t2.   It is not, usually, the object that vanishes;  it is the consciousness that changes. Owing to lack
\nof sustained capacity or lack of training, one is
\nnot able to keep the subtle physical vision which is
\nwhat was really seeing the object. This subtle
\nphysical vision comes easiest in the moment between
\nlight sleep and waking\u2014either when one just comes
\nout of the sleep or when one is just going into it.
\nBut one can train oneself, to have it when one is
\nquite wide awake.  At first when one begins to see, it is quite usual
\nfor the more ill-defined and imprecise figures to
\nlast longer while those which are successful, complete,
\nprecise in detail and outline are apt to be quite
\nmomentary and disappear in an instant. It is only
\nwhen the subtle vision is well developed that the precise and full seeing, lasts for a long time. This
\nresults from the difficulty of keeping what is
\nstill an abnormal consciousness and also, in this
\ncase, from the difficulty of keeping the two  momentarily superimposed consciousnesses together.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPage-262<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\t3.   There are all kinds in the experiences of  each plane\u2014symbolic forms, figures of suggestion,  thought-figures, desire-formations or will-formations,
\nconstructions of all kinds, things real and lasting
\nin the plane to which they belong and things fictitious and misleading. The haphazardness belongs
\nto the consciousness that sees with its limited and
\nimperfect way of cognizing the other worlds, not to
\nthe phenomena themselves. Each plane is a world
\nor a conglomeration or series of worlds, each organized in its own way, but
\n\t\t\torganized, not haphazard; only, of course, the subtler planes are more
\nplastic and less rigid in their organisation than the
\nmaterial plane. <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n<\/a>Tratak<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n

\nTHIS gazing on a flame or a bright spot is the
\ntraditional means used by Yogis for concentration
\nor for awakening of the inner consciousness and
\nvision. You seem to have gone by the gazing into
\na kind of surface (not deep) trance, which is indeed
\none of its first results, and begun to see things
\nprobably on the vital plane. I do not know what
\nwere the "dreadful objects" you saw but that
\ndreadfulness is the character of many things first
\nseen on that plane, especially when crossing its <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage-263 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nthreshold <\/b> by such means. You should not employ these means, I think, for they are quite unnecessary and besides, they may lead to a passive concentration in which one is open to all sorts of things and
\ncannot choose the right ones.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\n6-8-1934 <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage-264 <\/font>\n\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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