Monthly Archives: November 2010

Walking with eyes unfocused

Posted on November 28, 2010 by

“I’ve told you that the internal dialogue is what grounds us. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such or so and so….Walking in that specific manner saturates the tonal. It floods it. You see, the attention of the tonal has to be placed on its creations. In fact, it is that attention that creates the order of the world in the first place; so, the tonal must be attentive to the elements of its world in order to maintain it, and must, above all, uphold the view of the world as internal dialogue.” Continue reading →

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Perception of Time changes with the concentration of consciousness

Posted on November 19, 2010 by

The whole, entire universe moves forward with fantastic speed and in perfect immobility. Words seem idiotic, but you can feel this – you can feel it, see it, live it. A luminous immobility moving forward with fantastic speed. In that immobility there is perfect transparency … and the problem does not exist: the solution comes ahead of the problem. That is to say, things organize themselves (gesture showing the movement of universal forces) in such a way that they can change positions or take a different place in order to express the new thing that must be expressed: something new constantly enters the manifestation (as if emerging from the Nonmanifest), it enters the manifestation and transforms. Continue reading →

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Similarities between Sumerian Anki and Vedic Agni by Jean-Yves Lung

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

A previous blog post on Kundalini examined whether the notion of Kundalini may have existed in ancient Greek and other cultures. In consonance with that theme, this article by Jean-Yves Lung probes the similarities between the Vedic god Agni and the Sumerian god Enki. Jean-Yves Lung is a teacher-researcher living in Auroville since 1993. He teaches French, History and Sanskrit. This article originally appeared in June 2009 issue of Ritam, a bi-annual journal published by Sri Aurobindo International Institute for Educaitional Research (SAIIER) Continue reading →

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Identifying the celestial quality in music

Posted on November 6, 2010 by

One sometimes chances upon those seemingly divine pieces of music which seem to mystically inundate the heart and transport the soul into a reverie. It is as if their vibrations were suffused with some enchanting je ne sais quoi. This can happen even if the song happens to be sung in some alien language. The reason this exaltation occurs, according to the Mother Mirra Alfassa, is that there are certain universal associations of sounds which, when present in any devotional music, can magically open the doorway to the soul. Continue reading →

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Kundalini in ancient Greek and other non-Indian cultures

Posted on November 2, 2010 by

Thomas McEvilley has done a systematic study of the correspondence between ancient Greek and Indian philosophy in his 2001 book The Shape of Ancient Thought. This post summarizes his discovery of the Kundalini concept in Greek and other ancient non-Indian cultures. Continue reading →

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