I mean by Higher Mind a first plane of Spiritual Consciousness where one becomes constantly and closely aware of the Self, the One everywhere and knows and sees things habitually with this awareness; but it is still very much the mind level although highly spiritual in its essential substance; and its instrumentation is through an elevated thought-power and comprehensive mental sight - not illumined by any of the intenser upper lights but as if in a large strong and clear daylight. It acts as an intermediate state between the Truth-Light above and the human mind; communicating the higher knowledge in a form that the Mind intensified, broadened, made spiritually supple, can receive without being blinded or dazzled by a Truth beyond it.
(‘Our Many Selves - Selections from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’, Compiled, with an Introduction ,by A.S. Dalal, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
“Transformation demands a total and integral consecration. But isn’t this the aspiration of all sincere sadhaks?
Total means vertically in all the states of being, from the most material to the most subtle.
Integral means horizontally in all the different and often contradictory parts which constitute the outer being, physical, vital and mental.”
(‘Our Many Selves - Selections from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’, Compiled, with an Introduction ,by A.S. Dalal, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
“Transformation demands a total and integral consecration. But isn’t this the aspiration of all sincere sadhaks?
Total means vertically in all the states of being, from the most material to the most subtle.
Integral means horizontally in all the different and often contradictory parts which constitute the outer being, physical, vital and mental.”
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