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Life Divine Brief Summaries of Book 1 and Book 2

SUMMARIES, BOOK ONE, CHAPTERS 1 - 28

BOOK I CHAPTER I     THE HUMAN ASPIRATION

BOOK I CHAPTER II    THE TWO NEGATIONS -- THE MATERIALISTIC  DENIAL

BOOK I CHAPTER III:   REFUSAL OF THE ASCETIC

BOOK I`CHAPTER IV   REALITY OMNIPRESENT

BOOK I CHAPTER V   THE DESTINY OF THE INDIVIDUAL

BOOK I CHAPTER VI    MAN IN THE UNIVERSE

BOOK I CHAPTER VII    THE EGO AND THE DUALITIES

BOOK I CHAPTER VIII    THE METHODS OF VEDANTIC KNOWLEDGE

BOOK I CHAPTER IX    THE PURE EXISTENT

BOOK I CHAPTER X    CONSCIOUS FORCE

BOOK I CHAPTER XI    DELIGHT OF EXISTENCE--THE PROBLEM

BOOK I CHAPTER XII    DELIGHT OF EXISTENCE--THE SOLUTION

BOOK I CHAPTER XIII     THE DIVINE MAYA

BOOK I CHAPTER XIV  THE SUPERMIND AS CREATOR

BOOK I CHAPTER XV    THE SUPREME TRUTH CONSCIOUSNESS

BOOK I CHAPTER XVI    THE TRIPLE STATUS OF SUPERMIND

BOOK I CHAPTER XVII   THE DIVINE SOUL

BOOK I CHAPTER XVIII    MIND AND SUPERMIND

BOOK I CHAPTER XIX    LIFE

BOOK I CHAPTER XX         DEATH, DESIRE AND INCAPACITY

BOOK I CHAPTER XXI    ASCENT OF LIFE

BOOK I CHAPTER XXII    THE PROBLEM OF LIFE

BOOK I CHAPTER XXIII    DOUBLE SOUL IN MAN

BOOK I CHAPTER XXIV     MATTER

BOOK I CHAPTER XXV    THE KNOT OF MATTER

BOOK I CHAPTER XXVI    ASCENDING SERIES OF SUBSTANCE

BOOK I CHAPTER XXVII   THE SEVENFOLD CHORD OF BEING

BOOK I CHAPTER XXVIII  SUPERMIND, MIND AND THE OVERMIND MAYA

SUMMARIES, BOOK TWO, CHAPTERS 1 - 28

BOOK II CHAPTER I   INDETERMINATES, COSMIC DETERMINATIONS AND THE INDETERMINABLE

BOOK II CHAPTER II   BRAHMAN, PURUSHA, ISHWARA -

BOOK II CHAPTER III, THE ETERNAL AND THE INDIVIDUAL

BOOK II CHAPTER IV    THE DIVINE AND THE UNDIVINE

BOOK II CHAPTER V   THE COSMIC ILLUSION

BOOK II CHAPTER VI   REALITY AND THE COSMIC ILLUSION

BOOK II CHAPTER VII   THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE IGNORANCE

BOOK II CHAPTER VIII   MEMORY, SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE IGNORANCE

BOOK II CHAPTER IX   MEMORY, EGO AND SELF-EXPERIENCE

BOOK II CHAPTER X   KNOWLEDGE BY IDENTITY AND SEPARATIVE KNOWLEDGE

BOOK II CHAPTER XI   BOUNDARIES OF THE IGNORANCE

BOOK II CHAPTER XII   THE ORIGIN OF IGNORANCE

BOOK II CHAPTER XIII   EXCLUSIVE CONCENTRATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS-FORCE AND THE IGNORANCE

BOOK II CHAPTER XIV   THE ORIGIN AND REMEDY OF FALSEHOOD, ERROR, WRONG AND EVIL

BOOK II CHAPTER XV   REALITY AND INTEGRAL KNOWLEDGE

BOOK II CHAPTER XVI   THE INTEGRAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE AIM OF LIFE: FOUR THEORIES OF EXISTENCE

BOOK II CHAPTER XVII   THE PROGRESS TO KNOWLEDGE -- GOD, MAN & NATURE

BOOK II CHAPTER XVIII   THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS -- ASCENT AND INTEGRATION

BOOK II CHAPTER XIX   OUT OF THE SEVENFOLD IGNORANCE TOWARDS THE SEVENFOLD KNOWLEDGE

BOOK II CHAPTER XX   THE PHILOSOPHY OF REBIRTH

BOOK II CHAPTER XXI   THE ORDER OF THE WORLDS

BOOK II CHAPTER XXII   REBIRTH AND OTHER WORLDS; KARMA, SOUL AND IMMORTALITY

BOOK II CHAPTER XXIII   MAN AND THE EVOLUTION

BOOK II CHAPTER XXIV   THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPIRITUAL MAN

BOOK II CHAPTER XXV   TRIPLE TRANSFORMATION

BOOK II CHAPTER XXVI   The Ascent Towards the Supermind

BOOK II CHAPTER XXVII   THE GNOSTIC BEING

BOOK II CHAPTER XXVIII   THE DIVINE LIFE

SUMMARIES, BOOK ONE, CHAPTERS 1 - 28

 

BOOK I CHAPTER I     THE HUMAN ASPIRATION

  • Man has always sought God but found only the contradiction of   Matter and Spirit.
  • Unconscious Matter rising to conscious Mind is evolution posited by  Vedanta.
  • The paradox of Divine Life in animal body is justified to Reason by  the concept of evolution.

BOOK I CHAPTER II    THE TWO NEGATIONS -- THE MATERIALISTIC  DENIAL

  • Recognise Matter is Brahman and there are grades. Reconciliation is sought.
  • Behind the Idea and behind the Vital breath MIND feels THAT.
  • Consciousness can know where Thought fails.
  • There is a knowledge not expressible by thought which can analyse Life, Mind, and Supermind in their essentials.
  • Mind, Life and Matter are triply formulated energy -- Vedic Seers.

(Work is involution and evolution). Will created the energy for creation.  It is the Superconscient will behind the collective which is behind the  individual.

  • Will seeks endless knowledge, Power through evolution of what is  involved.
  • Limits vanish -- wireless removed the wire, machinery at each end  remains
  • Ego is the psychological machinery to be removed.

BOOK I CHAPTER III:   REFUSAL OF THE ASCETIC

  • Beyond the Cosmic Consciousness is the Transcendent  Consciousness.
  • The Witness is the Cosmic Consciousness which can be found only by the extension of our consciousness.
  • Cosmic Consciousness is self-existent.
  • The Non-being is behind the Pure Self of the Adwaitin.
  • The Ascetic who refuses matter having met the Non-Being, the Transcendent is not announcing the vital failure of the race, but is fulfilling the requirements of Human Perfection.

BOOK I`CHAPTER IV   REALITY OMNIPRESENT

  • Matter and spirit are initially reconciled in Cosmic Consciousness.
  • Non-being, Silence, sustains activity, does not reject.
  • Perfect human being must be able to enter into Non-being without  losing hold of existence.
  • This is the same reconciliation in the Transcendent Consciousness.
  • This is our creed.

BOOK I CHAPTER V   THE DESTINY OF THE INDIVIDUAL

  • Reality is One and unknowable. Vedic seers saw Non-being beyond Satchidananda.
  • Spirit or Matter is valid only when they possess the summits and  matter.
  • Transcendent, Universal and Individual are all necessary. Only our  view changes, not the thing in itself.
  • The supracosmic has created the subconscient, conscient and Super- conscient. Ego, rising out of the limits, realises the other two.
  • Hence, Individual is the Key. The Divine Soul reproduces itself in the  other liberated souls.
  • The Destiny of the Individual is to recover the original Unity.

BOOK I CHAPTER VI    MAN IN THE UNIVERSE

  • Self-aware Existence realising itself in form unfolds in the Individual.  This is VISHNU. Ascent to it is acceptable.
  • Becoming of the Infinite in mind, life and body of the individual is  his utility.
  • Universe creates the Individual by its self-concentration to aspire  through him.
  • It is through the Universe the individual realises himself.
  • Manomaya Purusha is the individual for Life Spirit. For divine life  something superior is needed.
  • Going below the surface one can find a solution in Non-Being which  is superior to Sachidananda.

BOOK I CHAPTER VII    THE EGO AND THE DUALITIES

  • Redemption from ego comes by the recovery of the universal in the  individual and the spiritual term in physical consciousness.
  • A higher perception where Death is only a change is possible in  experience.
  • To make the senses see earth goes around the sun, one must realise   the Universal and Transcendent.
  • Transcendent can arrive in us through reason.
  • By not responding egoistically we can see self-existent delight.
  • Nature awaits the outflowering of the Infinite in the Individual.

BOOK I CHAPTER VIII    THE METHODS OF VEDANTIC KNOWLEDGE

  • Reason rises above senses to help mind reach self-manifest identity  with Brahman uniting the subconscient ALL with the super-conscient  ALL.
  • Vedanta seeks the Universe through the knowledge of the Self.
  • Behind the surface we glimpse through Intuition THAT.  Through this door, Vedanta realised, "I am He", "Thou art That", "Self  is Brahman. All is Brahman."

BOOK I CHAPTER IX    THE PURE EXISTENT

  • Existence is energy. Reason tells us there is a beyond. It is beyond  Time and Space.
  • The beyond is the Absolute. Let us go beyond this result which reason  has given us.
  • Existence is movement; movement is Time and Space. Both are real.   Eternal is real. Duration is the absolute. Becoming is the only being.
  • Time emerges when intuition fixes on becoming.
  • That is in us and we can withdraw into It.
  • Pure Existence and world Existence, facts of Being and Becoming are two  fundamental facts.
  • Wisdom is to know their relations.
  • Stability, Movement, Unity, multiplicity are Psychological. Absolute is  beyond it.
  • We know Existence now. What is Force?
  • Existence is energy; but there is a beyond which is That. We can with- draw into That.

BOOK I CHAPTER X    CONSCIOUS FORCE

  • All phenomenal existence resolves into Force and Form.
  • Creation of five senses.
  • The activities of Mahat (Force) and ego reflecting in souls become consciousness.
  • Why this movement?

The Force that builds the world is a conscious Force. The Existence that manifests in the Force is a conscious Being. A perfect emergenceof FORMS is the object.

BOOK I CHAPTER XI    DELIGHT OF EXISTENCE --THE PROBLEM

  • Brahman seeks one more form of delight through creation.
  • Suffering and evil are ethical concepts.
  • Life is not ethical. Man is ethical.
  • Ethics is a stage in Man's evolution.
  • As neither the subconscient nor the superconscient is ethical, let us discover what is common to both of them and Man.
  • Delight of being trying to discover itself as delight of becoming is common to all.
  • This is exactly what Satchidananda does when it tries to realise the  universal in the individual.
  • Satchidananda tries to discover the objectless delight in objects.
  • Man seeks the objects and ends in pain or pleasure.
  • The objects reflect the free man's ananda while the imprisoned man seeks the objects for ananda which they do not possess.

BOOK I CHAPTER XII    DELIGHT OF EXISTENCE --THE SOLUTION

  • In relation to pure being, world is maya. World is not the essential  truth of that but a phenomenal truth.
  • Maya, prakriti, Lila = Himself the play, the player and the playground.
  • Root of matter is immutable delight turning into variable delight.
  • We are all-consciousness and all bliss and have no obligation to  return pain as a response.
  • Free, unegoistic, harmonious mind is the conqueror over egoistic limitation.
  • Full liberation comes when all parts are liberated.
  • Man the individual becoming the universal makes the direct  transformation of pain into ananda possible.

BOOK I CHAPTER XIII     THE DIVINE MAYA

  • We know Reality, not the process of change into phenomenon.
  • Infinite consciousness can only produce infinite results. We need a  selective faculty.
  • This is maya that changes the static truth of essential being into  ordered truth of active being.
  • All is in each and each in all for the play of consciousness with  consciousness etc. etc.
  • Mind prevents seeing this truth.
  • Sri Aurobindo's view goes beyond the noumenal and idealistic view.
  • Mind cannot explain the universe. To do that infinite consciousness  must  turn into infinite faculty of knowledge which is Supermind.
  • Ceasing to reason, we go in where knowledge is seated in self-  victory.

BOOK I CHAPTER XIV  THE SUPERMIND AS CREATOR

  • Gods are of this plane. Supermind is vast, all-comprehensiveness,  self formulation of Truth, fused knowledge and will. Comprehending  and apprehending parts are there.
  • Mind understands only its analysis.
  • 3 stages:

I original self-concentration as indivisible one;

II Diffusion and apparent disintegration of the above unity;

III Firm self-extension in Truth Consciousness containing diffusion, preventing disintegration, maintaining unity in utmost diversity.

  • Supermind is vast self-extension of Brahman. By Idea it develops out  of unity; differentiates but not divides. By differentiation it brings  out the one which involves the others.
  • All nature is seer will of conscious-Being to evolve in force and form  the inevitable truth of the Idea into which it originally threw   itself.
  • The Idea is a vibration of the Being.
  • Supermind starts from unity and not division.

BOOK I CHAPTER XV    THE SUPREME TRUTH CONSCIOUSNESS

  • Supermind is the impersonal psychological truth of divine  consciousness.
  • Progress needs Time and Space. Progress is the emergence of inner  possibilities which the Supermind works out.
  • First operative principle of Supermind is cosmic vision, all pervading,  all inhabiting where the knower, known and knowledge are one,  issuing out of an equable concentration.
  • Brahman is in all things, all things are in Brahman and all things are  Brahman is the formula of Supermind.
  • Knower, knowledge and known are separated  by an unequal concentration which pursued further can become avidya.

BOOK I CHAPTER XVI    THE TRIPLE STATUS OF SUPERMIND

  • Supermind is God and has three poises of comprehending Supermind, apprehending Supermind--Jivatman--and the individual in creation-ego.

BOOK I CHAPTER XVII   THE DIVINE SOUL

  • The Divine soul not descended into ignorance, would be able to enjoy  by the comprehending and apprehending Truth Consciousness  difference from God and at the same time unity with HIM and to  embrace difference and oneness with other divine souls in the infinite play of the self-multiplied Identical.

1) In its existence it would be Pure Infinity, Immortal life, unlimited  consciousness, Delight and free variation of Bliss.

2) In its Being, knowledge, power, will and delight, it will be aware  of the Transcendence. The Presence of the Absolute will be  permanent.

3) It will be aware of the One and the Many in the descent and ascent.

4) It will be aware of the Unity developing into an extended infinite oneness. Word coming out of silence, form out of formlessness etc.

5) Three poises of the Supramental Existence.

  • All things as Self -- basis of Oneness.
  • All existence as self forms -- basis of oneness in difference.
  • All existences as individuality -- basis of individuality.

6) All relationship with God and other selves for the divine soul will be  determined by the comprehending consciousness.

7) The Divine soul will feel the oneness with the Universal and  Transcendent Divine.

BOOK I CHAPTER XVIII    MIND AND SUPERMIND

  • Action necessary to create a universe in forms is undivine to us.  Light plunged into its own shadow has created material nature.
  • Maya assigned Mind the characteristics of limitation, through   Prajnana, the apprehending consciousness.
  • A mind subject to its own play will create that limitation through  exclusive concentration which culminates with the identification with  the body.
  • To become conscious of the fact that the subliminal makes the  surface mind dynamic--becoming aware of   is our first realisation.
  • Rend the veil and get back to the Truth, overcome division.

BOOK I CHAPTER XIX    LIFE

  • Material Force is only subconscious operation of Will, i.e. Mind is  Matter. Subconscious Mind manifesting as Force created the material   world. Mind is of the Supermind. Supermind is Divine Consciousness.
  • Upanishad says the Self-Existent has arranged in Himself all things  according to their Truth.
  • Mind manifests as Life. Mind Energy, Life Energy, Material Energy are forms of World Force.
  • The real difference between the subconscious and the conscious lies  in part of the energy in the work.
  • The continual currents of life energy carry force of form as sensation  to modify Mind and bring back force of Mind as will to modify matter.

BOOK I CHAPTER XX  DEATH, DESIRE AND INCAPACITY

  • Death makes possible immortality in the finite form.
  • Desire is the law of Hunger that changes into Law of Love.
  • Incapacity that generates strife rises to increase the power of both  the contending forces and ends in Love.
  • Death, Desire and Strife are the ways of self-affirmation of the Law of Universal Life Principle.

BOOK I CHAPTER XXI    ASCENT OF LIFE

  • The three statuses of Life:

Divided individuality represented by the atom.

Intermixture of the dissolved vital ego that reverses the first process.

Mind, with the psychic nodus, reconciles both by the principle of Love  that grows by giving.

BOOK I CHAPTER XXII    THE PROBLEM OF LIFE

  • Life is a conscious-Force of Satchidananda, the central circumstance   of which is the dividing mind of Ignorance that creates clashes out of  dualities. The solution must be sought by mind in Life.
  • An evolving life should seek its  goal in its seed which is Satchidananda for us.
  • These are the four points of Supermind, Matter, Mind and Life of  Consciousness.
  • Three difficulties arise for the resolution:

Man is aware only of the surface;

He is separated in his mind;

Force and Consciousness are divided.

  • Only by universalising, the harmony between Force and Consciousness can be found. It lies in Supermind. That Ascent is the 4th status.

BOOK I CHAPTER XXIII    DOUBLE SOUL IN MAN

  • Mind, Life, body and soul are divided into two halves. The subliminal, the subtle life, the subtle body and the psychic are the other halves.
  • The psychic should overcome the desire soul, release the spirit and reach the Supermind to complete all the three transformations.

BOOK I CHAPTER XXIV     MATTER

  • Matter is Satchidananda.

BOOK I CHAPTER XXV    THE KNOT OF MATTER

  • The world is making for a marvelous unity behind the discords.
  • There are several levels of substance.
  • The gap between Spirit and Matter is prolonged by Ignorance, Inertia and division.
  • Assimilation and aggregation are methods of Life which sanction division.
  • As Supermind and mind are emerging, abolition of division is possible.
  • Our view is the obstacle. As there are grades of substance, a change in our view can make transformation possible in Matter.

BOOK I CHAPTER XXVI    ASCENDING SERIES OF SUBSTANCE

  • There is an ascending series of substance and finer bodies behind the gross body. The world at each level contains the other levels. Matter which involves the higher principles is under pressure of the higher to evolve. Its evolution is helped by the opening of the finer bodies behind the gross body.

BOOK I CHAPTER XXVII   THE SEVENFOLD CHORD OF BEING

  • Instead of the 7 principles of Vedas, let us have 8, the latter  four being the subordinate aspects of the first four.
  • If a universe works with one principle with the other involved,  evolution is indispensable.

BOOK I CHAPTER XXVIII  SUPERMIND, MIND AND THE OVERMIND MAYA

  • Exclusive concentration creates ignorance.
  • Going in and rising above, we go to Supermind through the levels of spiritualised mind -- Occult Link.
  • Overmind gives the ONE infinite possibilities.
  • Consciousness Force (Shakti) is the eternal creatrix.
  • Cosmic Maya, Maya of Knowledge, made Ignorance possible and inevitable.
  • Only in the evolution of concealed Superconscient Powers of Cosmic truth, the harmony we strive for can be achieved in the very fibre of our being.
  • Overmind descent enters cosmic Ignorance through exclusive concentration.
  • This character persists in life and in subtle matter, reappears in gross Matter as the final lapse.
  • Exclusive concentration on Force and Form separates consciousness from Force. It absorbs consciousness. Error and falsehood arise.
  • Existence passes into Non-Existence etc.etc.
  • It can be otherwise only if the Psychic is in touch.
  • Involution of Intuition makes evolution possible and inevitable.

SUMMARIES, BOOK TWO, CHAPTERS 1-28

BOOK II CHAPTER I   INDETERMINATES, COSMIC DETERMINATIONS AND THE INDETERMINABLE

  • The Consciousness-Force that creates the world does not reveal itself to us.
  • The scientist looks for the clue in the material movements.
  • The hypothesis of consciousness evolving out of inconscience is valid.
  • It explains the seed, tree, oxygen, water, chromosomes, etc.
  • Analogous to the subjective experience and objective matter we see mind determines matter.
  • It is ultimately not the human mind but the divine mind.
  • It takes us to the universal mind, overmind, cosmic state of being and Super-mind.
  • The Supermind is the determinant and mind finds the process occult.
  • The Absolute reveals as Satchidananda and splits itself into a triad and further trinities.
  • Overmind can see the separate faculties but in Supermind they are not two or three, but one.
  • The Absolute discloses as fundamental, negative positives and affirming positives such as Nirguna and Saguna.
  • They too are one in Supermind where unity is maintained but are separate in the mind that is absorbed where it can be recovered as intuition.
  • It is important to know the importance of Ignorance.
  • All aspects of the Omnipresent Reality have their fundamental truths in the Supreme Existence.
  • Supermind need not be final. There is Satchidananda of self-awareness.
  • Even there Supermind is there and even that awareness is a determination in the Absolute.
  • Nothing can manifest that cannot be justified by the Omnipresent Reality.

BOOK II CHAPTER II   BRAHMAN, PURUSHA, ISHWARA -

Maya, Prakriti, Shakti

  • Not the mind but the spiritual being through an instinct or intuition, not intellect, can comprehend Reality.
  • A wider view of taking Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara which sees the One as well as the Many, Silence and status, Form and Formlessness, the finite as the frontal aspect of the Infinite will resolve the difficulties of the mind.
  • Three possibilities:
  • Maya can put forth many possibilities;

Power of self-limitation; Power of Self-absorption as in Superconscience or Inconscience.

  • Placing ourselves in silent Self-Existence, we see Maya doing everything. Slipping back not into witness Purusha but into the dynamic experience of the spirit, we see Maya is a power of the being. There is no inherent contradiction between Brahman, Maya, Purusha, Prakriti, Ishwara, Shakti.
  • Spirituality is concrete. Metaphysical inquiry is abstract. Practice will make it concrete.
  • One is fundamental. Ego conceals this. Soul belongs to Transcendence.
  • By the self-giving and surrender of the soul and nature in us to the Divine Being, we attain to the Supreme Reality.
  • In the Supreme Reality difference between manifestation ad non-manifestation vanishes. Time and Timelessness are the same Eternity in double status.
  • Simultaneous multiplicity of self-preservation of one Reality makes possible co- existence of Timeless Eternal and Time Eternity.

BOOK II CHAPTER III, THE ETERNAL AND THE INDIVIDUAL

  • The chief need is to understand Ignorance.

The true Individual is contained in the world-being and dwells in the Transcendent. It is he who is immortal.

  • 3 errors:

Assume a gulf between the relative and the Absolute.

Insistence on law of contradiction.

To consider Time as the Origin.

  • The Absolute is ineffable.
  • The positive and negative live by each other. There is no real opposition.
  • Individuality, commonality, essentiality -- Pearl and diamond

Knowing the commonality we can make them;

Knowing the essentiality, we can transmute one into another.

  • The weakness of Science is to see an opposition between the Absolute and the relative where none exists.

BOOK II CHAPTER IV    THE DIVINE AND THE UNDIVINE

  • The distinction between the Divine and the Undivine is that between a life of knowledge and a life of Ignorance.
  • Imperfection issues out of division and expresses as limitation and perversion.
  • So long as the world is not divinely explained to us, no solution is in sight. To know us as the Divine is the solution.
  • Limitation is in the Consciousness -- ego consciousness -- not in the being.
  • Ignorance is the greatest power of the Divine Consciousness.
  • Pain makes for the fuller enjoyment of delight.
  • Mind is pushed away from all-knowledge so as to enjoy its opposite too.
  • Giving up evil means giving up good too.
  • Lila must have the assent of the Individual soul and the Divine Purusha.
  • As Divine Nature is concealed in the Inconscient, imperfection, which is a stage in evolution, is necessary to deliver it out.
  • The right of the Infinite to self-manifestation makes Lila possible with its profound significance. (*)

(*)  The greater the difficulty, the greater the enjoyment of self-discovery.

BOOK II CHAPTER V   THE COSMIC ILLUSION

  • The physical mind becomes agnostic, vital mind feels illusion and the thinking mind seeks the absolute.
  • We oppose illusionism with Realism.
  • Dream and hallucination as analogies do not hold good, as dream is real to the subliminal and hallucination thinks of things that exist.
  • Two possibilities: original consciousness creates illusion and Mind, a power of Ignorance, is capable of shedding and rejoining the Reality. We support it.

BOOK II CHAPTER VI   REALITY AND THE COSMIC ILLUSION

  • Of the percipient, perception and percept anything can be denied.
  • We are left with pure static immutable Reality and an illusory dynamis.
  • The four-fold Brahman and three-fold condition of Upanishads.
  • Shankara's arguments open a way out but are no solution.
  • A decisive spiritual experience will undo the edifice of reasonings.
  • The harmony on the border between Overmind and Supermind.
  • The mystery is not of an original illusion but of the origin of Ignorance.

BOOK II CHAPTER VII   THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE IGNORANCE

  • A universe free of Ignorance is conceivable. Vedas did so.
  • The ideal world of the infinite Soul and a perfect oneness is unattainable.
  • The Alwars, the Apocalypse rose out of this possibility.
  • Assuming the nature of Existence undiscoverable, Buddha shunned it.
  • Being part of Ignorance we cannot know its origin.
  • Rig Veda's citti and acitti and Avidya and vidya.
  • The object of enquiry, Being, can be approached only by consciousness.
  • Penetrating consciousness, they unite in the Omnipresent Reality.
  • All embracing, opposition and compromising are three ways Ignorance relates to knowledge.
  • Ignorance and knowledge are not two independent powers going to the Absolute but one is a limitation of another.

BOOK II CHAPTER VIII   MEMORY, SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE IGNORANCE

  • Memory is a process; the truth lies beyond in the consciousness and the Being.
  • Memory tries to render eternity in terms of time.
  • Vedantic view is not dual consciousness but one consciousness with double phase.
  • The divine consciousness is neither shut up in Light nor darkness but holds the immutable One and mutable Many in one all uniting self-knowledge.
  • The present and past are tricks of mind.

Stable consciousness behind knows Time and Timelessness.

  • Our surface being is only the deeper eternal self in us adventuring in Time.

BOOK II CHAPTER IX   MEMORY, EGO AND SELF-EXPERIENCE

  • Memory is the mediator between sense mind and co-ordinating intelligence.
  • Four elements of mental function.

object  --  a wave of conscious being like hunger, anger, etc.

act      --   mental observation and conceptual evaluation of this movement.

occasion

subject

  • When the mental person is fully detached from the mental act, first ego and then the witness reveals. The witness can become or be immutable.
  • Mind cannot hold its action except by divisive Time.
  • Consciousness or events are not divided. It is divided in our observation.
  • For a true basis of knowledge, we must see both our self and nature as a whole on the surface and depth.

BOOK II CHAPTER X   KNOWLEDGE BY IDENTITY AND SEPARATIVE KNOWLEDGE

  • Knowledge by identity -- Timeless Self in us.
  • Knowledge by intimate direct contact -- Inner being.
  • Knowledge by separative direct contact -- subliminal being
  • Separative knowledge by indirect contact -- surface being.

BOOK II CHAPTER XI   BOUNDARIES OF THE IGNORANCE

  • Original Ignorance, cosmic Ignorance, Universal Ignorance, Temporal Ignorance, Psychological Ignorance, constitutional Ignorance and Practical Ignorance are the seven Ignorances of our Being.

BOOK II CHAPTER XII   THE ORIGIN OF IGNORANCE

  • Since Ignorance is a phenomenon of the dynamic action of Force of consciousness, this Force aspect deserves inquiry.
  • Force can be still or mobile, but it is the same Brahman in stillness or movement.
  • So, the absolute Brahman or integral Satchidananda cannot be the origin of Ignorance.
  • Multiplicity is not the cause of Ignorance since Brahman is not incapable of containing the hundred.
  • Ignorance rises when Mind separates from Supermind.
  • This too will not hold good as it is Tapas which is common to all.
  • So, the origin of Ignorance is in self-absorption of Conscious-Force in action.

BOOK II CHAPTER XIII   EXCLUSIVE CONCENTRATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS-FORCE AND THE IGNORANCE

  • Ignorance is Nature's purposeful oblivion of the Self and the All.
  • Essential, integral, multiple, separative concentrations represent superconscience and inconscience; Satchidananda and Supramental; overmental and mental planes.
  • Exclusive concentration holds back the rest of the being but what creates Ignorance is the wall thrown between them.
  • Living in the present, excluding the past is a second absorption.
  • Manifestation is not possible without Ignorance and self-discovery.
  • The veil, the golden lid between Supermind and mind is the origin of Ignorance.

BOOK II CHAPTER XIV   THE ORIGIN AND REMEDY OF FALSEHOOD, ERROR, WRONG AND EVIL

  • Knowledge emerging in concealed consciousness creates error.
  • Vital self-affirmation of ego, en evolutionary process, distorts emerging knowledge.
  • Life affirms good as well as evil.
  • A wrong ego consciousness helps evil expand.
  • Discord created by ego is necessary for the growth of divided being.
  • Ethics controlling through mind will not solve the problem.
  • As split nature creates evil, integration alone can solve it.
  • Spiritual growth into divine nature eliminates evil.

BOOK II CHAPTER XV   REALITY AND INTEGRAL KNOWLEDGE

  • Neither the One nor the Many but THAT which contains both is Omnipresent Reality.
  • Mind is not the creator; the real creatrix is Consciousness.
  • Objective knowledge has no ultimate value as one knows it subjectively. Experience must be verified by similar experiences.
  • Carry the inquiry to the end, do not entertain any of the seven Ignorances.
  • Surely this knowledge must be acquired by experience, not by intellectuality.

BOOK II CHAPTER XVI   THE INTEGRAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE AIM OF LIFE: FOUR THEORIES OF EXISTENCE

  • The Absolute as the origin and support and secret Reality of things, is our basis.
  • The soul in the Becoming arrives at Self-knowledge and immortality when it knows the Supreme and the Absolute and possesses the nature of the Infinite and Eternal. This is the aim of our existence.
  • All views of existence that stop short of Transcendence must be incomplete.
  • The dualistic theories affirm God but deny the unity of God and soul.
  • The four existing theories are Supracosmic, cosmic, terrestrial and synthetic. We come under synthetic.
  • Vedanta accepts Becoming as Brahman but individual is not accepted.
  • A spiritual evolution of which man is the centre is the link needed for the reconciliation of life and Spirit.

BOOK II CHAPTER XVII   THE PROGRESS TO KNOWLEDGE -- GOD, MAN & NATURE

  • Ignorance is the first formulation of consciousness in life.

Mastering the environment, becoming complete in his being are his goal.

This is done by growing into Satchidananda.

  • To exceed ego is the concealed sense of our existence. Vedic Immortality is the real goal.
  • The Being presents itself to man as God, Man and Nature. Arriving at the knowledge of God through the individual, Man loses himself in the indefinable.
  • Man initially seeks power, later knowledge.
  • In our progress for self-knowledge, we discover That by which all is known.
  • He discovers his being, which is one with the Being, is a reflection of THAT.
  • Conscious unity of God, Man and Nature in his own consciousness is a sure foundation for that knowledge.

BOOK II CHAPTER XVIII   THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS -- ASCENT AND INTEGRATION

  • Evolution of forms, gradation, transcendence and Integration are the characteristics of evolution.
  • It is not Matter, Life or Mind that is the creative evolutionary Power, but the Supermind.
  • Evolution is not one of predictable steps with well-mastered process but a miracle of metamorphosis.
  • Man gazes down to raise up the lower. Ascent and Integration are the aims.
  • Inner mind which can open to the heights of the range of spiritual mind and the occult spirit within, provides the double opening, the secret of new evolution.
  • The whole concentration will be shifted from below upwards and from without inwards.

BOOK II CHAPTER XIX   OUT OF THE SEVENFOLD IGNORANCE TOWARDS THE SEVENFOLD KNOWLEDGE

  • The constitutional Ignorance is the crux.
  • It cannot be conquered while in psychological Ignorance which is due to the limitation of the waking self.
  • Plunging inward, entering the subliminal and rising to the Superconscient are necessary.
  • The best part of constitutional and psychological Ignorances can be got rid of without reaching the superconscient.
  • Integralisation needs ascent beyond.
  • Immortality, the knowledge of the self in the Non-birth and Non-becoming is essential.
  • These changes are possible only by withdrawing into the inner, higher planes of being when the ego dissolves.
  • The same movement dissolves the cosmic Ignorance.
  • Self-knowledge, thus complete, dissolves practical Ignorance.
  • This is a conscious method of spiritual evolution.

BOOK II CHAPTER XX   THE PHILOSOPHY OF REBIRTH

  • The first mystery of birth and the second mystery of death, because of the inconclusiveness before birth and after death, are obviously beyond the memory of the intellect. Hence rebirth has always been baffling.
  • The Buddhist, Mayavada find rebirth unnecessary. In Vedanta, rebirth is not inevitable as it is a mere Lila of the Lord.
  • His theory of involved Spirit evolving makes rebirth inevitable.
  • The Individual's increasing consciousness becomes that important only if the Self as the individual is no less than the Self of the Cosmic Being or Spirit and both are powers of the Eternal.
  • Certain supreme states of conscious existence are capable of choosing such enjoyments.
  • Unity involving in dividing mind which completes in the identification of the body is the point at which this play must be exhausted.
  • Hence rebirth is inevitable.

BOOK II CHAPTER XXI   THE ORDER OF THE WORLDS

  • Evolutionary pressure issues from the planes of higher beings created by involution.
  • Our view of a graded universe implies the individual and the desire of his should have pre-existed the world.
  • Matter's Ignorance precedes Individual's ignorance.
  • There should be worlds of Mind, Life and Matter and not only worlds of Matter.
  • Demand for proof is irrational. Examine them on their own laws.
  • As they originate in Matter, these worlds cannot be insubstantial.
  • As man goes inward, larger life and consciousness await.

BOOK II CHAPTER XXII   REBIRTH AND OTHER WORLDS; KARMA, SOUL AND IMMORTALITY

  • Now that rebirth is inevitable, the principle of passage to the other worlds and mutations of the soul in the passage must be explained.
  • The host of popular notions are unacceptable to the thinking mind.
  • Self-expression and Self-experience are sought by the soul by birth.
  • Karma will not bind the spiritual being unless the idea of immutability of the soul of the physical mind is accepted as final.

BOOK II CHAPTER XXIII   MAN AND THE EVOLUTION

  • Birth is the machinery of outward evolution of form and inner evolution of consciousness.
  • Man does not have the potentials for evolution as the ape had.
  • Man has the impulse for self-exceeding.
  • Evolution needs the earlier type to develop the form to its utmost capacity.
  • Change of body to house higher consciousness in man reverses itself as change of consciousness to alter the body that houses it, making evolution inevitable.

BOOK II CHAPTER XXIV   THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPIRITUAL MAN

  • Discovery of the separate soul is the discovery of the Purusha.
  • The spirit emerges when the inferior powers perfect themselves.
  • For the transformation of Ignorance into knowledge, spiritual intelligence is of importance.
  • To discover the spiritual being in himself and to help others to achieve it is his real service.

BOOK II CHAPTER XXV   TRIPLE TRANSFORMATION

  • The psychic emerges.
  • Complete emergence of the soul means direct contact with the Spiritual Reality.
  • Further transformation is completed by the release of the Supramental principle in the lower nature.

BOOK II CHAPTER XXVI   The Ascent Towards the Supermind

  • An inner awareness, the emergence of the psychic are the first necessities.
  • His Purusha becomes conscious master of Prakriti in the universal working of it.
  • The blind imperative Necessity of Inconscience is met by the luminous necessity of Supermind.

BOOK II CHAPTER XXVII   THE GNOSTIC BEING

  • Supermind puts out overmind. It enters into the Truth in ignorance.
  • Individualises universe and Transcendence.
  • Reverses outer into inner.
  • Mental seeking by identity.
  • Life is for the Eternal.
  • Matter reveals Spirit.
  • Power of inner to control outer, to change pain into Ananda.
  • Supermind's AIM is to be.
  • Aspiration becomes ecstasy and vision, yearning, energy and eternal Ananda.
  • Outer action can be controlled and transformed (by Personality). Personality is supported by Impersonality.
  • Person emerges as Purusha.
  • Nature's automatism is replaced by supernature's will.
  • Knowledge and will, order and freedom co-exist.
  • Infinite works out finites.
  • Universe works out individualities.
  • Self is possessed of Truth, not seeks.
  • Liberty, not law.
  • All-inclusive self, not selfishness.
  • Instrument is enriched.
  • Inherent self-knowledge and intimate world knowledge.
  • There are grades in creation. Untransformed humanity will be there.
  • Further evolution will be in harmony and knowledge.

BOOK II CHAPTER XXVIII   THE DIVINE LIFE

  • To know and realise our Reality is our goal.
  • Not mind or life but Supermind is our native dynamism.
  • Consciousness evolves through greater organisms.
  • Spiritual perfection is inner perfection.
  • To be fully is to be wholly conscious, to hold whole force, to have full delight, to be universal.
  • Inner life is a life of spiritual unity.
  • Individual perfection, perfection all around, collective perfection are necessary.
  • Unity, mutuality, harmony will be there.
  • Momentous Truth; Force of Spirit can control life and matter.
  • Individual is the key to evolution.
  • Mechanical or economic solutions will release the barbarian.
  • Nor is the perfected individual the answer. It ended in the religious orders.
  • TRANSFORMATION has no alternative.
  • Present values in a truer form will appear in the higher life.
  • Life and body will not tyrannise. They will express Truth.
  • Life can be simple or rich.
  • Gnostic consciousness will be an entry into the Infinite.
  • It will be a constant miracle.

1) We must discover and realise the inner reality.

2) Supermind is that inner reality.

3) This is attained by inner growth and inner perfection.

4) Nature endeavours to be fully, i.e. conscious, forceful, delightful, universal by an occult process.

5) Spiritual process is inner process of becoming divine Reality and its self-creation.

6) Dynamic unity founds and governs divine life.

Inner completeness of the Being achieves it through spiritual self-knowledge and world knowledge.

7) Bringing out unity, mutuality, harmony by evolving and releasing higher powers of mind, this is achieved.

8) Mind rises above life; Spirit rises to master matter.

9) Spontaneous unity of beings around a gnostic being.

10) Only intuition can achieve it, not rationality.

11) Individual is the key; Freedom for the soul and perfection for the nature are conditions.

12) Full emergence of the spirit and Transformation are inevitable.

13) Life and body cease to tyrannise.

14) A self-realised being, a spiritual self with mastery over instruments is the supermanhood.

15) Dualities are based on inconscience. It is over now, as taste of ignorance is over.

16) Now creation is self-creation of infinite in infinite forms in knowledge, raising inexhaustible rasa, making life a constant miracle, resulting in fullness of being and life. Evolution of life returns to the Absolute in consummation of its effort.

 

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Book I-Chapter XII-The Divine Maya

beyond the noumenal and idealistic

Beyond the nomental and idealistic-Not Sure

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Book I-Chapter XVII- The Divine Soul

The Divine soul not descended into ignorance, would be able to enjoy  by the comprehending and apprehending Truth Consciousness  difference from God and at the same time unity with HIM and to  embrace difference and oneness with other divine souls in the infinite play of the self-multiplied Identical

The Divine Soul which has not descended into ignorance would be able to enjoy the comprehending and apprehending Truth Consciousness different from God and at the same time union with him and hence achieve oneness with other divine souls in the infinite play of the self-multiplied identity.

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Book I-Chapter XVIII- Mind and Supermind

Maya assigned Mind the characteristics of limitation, through   Prajnana, the apprehending consciousness

Maya assigned Mind the characteristics of limitation, through   Pragnya, the apprehending consciousness

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Book II-Chapter V-The Cosmic Illusion

Dream and hallucination as analogies do not hold good, as dream is real to the subliminal and hallucination thinks of things that exist

Dream and hallucination as analogies do not hold good, as dream is real to the subliminal and hallucination thinks of things that do not exist.

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Book II-Chapter VI-Reality and The Cosmic Illusion

We are left with pure static immutable Reality and an illusory dynamis

We are left with pure static immutable Reality and an illusory dynamics

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Book II-Chapter VIII-Memory,Self-Consciousness and the ignorance

The divine consciousness is neither shut up in Light nor darkness but holds the immutable One and mutable Many in one all uniting self-knowledge

The divine consciousness is neither shut up in Light nor in darkness but holds the immutable One and mutable Many in one all uniting self-knowledge

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Book II-Chapter XII-The Origin of Ignorance

Force can be still or mobile, but it is the same Brahman in stillness or movement

Force can be still or mobile, but it is the same Brahman in stillness or in movement

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