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June 25, 2006 Born in Calcutta on August 15, 1872, Aurobindo Ghosh became a fighter for Indian Independence, a prolific poet, a philosopher, a writer, and a yogi. At the age of seven, Aurobindo was sent to England. There he received an education in the classics and English poetry and at King's College, Cambridge he was recognized as a talented scholar. The young man returned to India at the age of twenty-one and became involved in the revolutionary movement to free India from British rule. Aurobindo studied meditation under Lele Maharaj and after he was put in prison for his revolutionary activity, he studied yoga and had some very moving experiences. After spending about a year in jail and being freed by the help of a distinguished lawyer, Aurobindo withdrew from politics and focused on spiritual studies and teaching. He started an ashram in the French province of Pondicherry. A prophecy of Sri Aurobindo: "A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell And take the charge of breath and speech and act And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns And every feeling a celestial thrill. Often a lustrous inner dawn shall come Lighting the chambers of the slumbering mind; A sudden bliss shall run through every limb And nature with a mightier Presence fill. Thus shall the earth open to divinity And common natures feel the wide uplift, Illumine common acts with the Spirit's ray And meet the deity in common things. Nature shall live to manifest secret God. The Spirit shall take up the human play, This earthly life become the life divine." (Sri Aurobindo) There is extensive information on Sri Aurobindo and samples of his writings at the website: http://www.writespirit.net/authors/sri_aurobindo After Aurobindo moved to Pondicherry, more and more spiritual seekers came to study with Aurobindo and an informal ashram was established. An important moment for Aurobindo and the new ashram was the arrival of a French women named Mira Richard. Mira became affectionately known as the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo ashram. In due time Sri Aurobindo entrusted the organisation of the ashram to Mira and under her guidance, which continued for nearly fifty years, the Ashram grew into a dynamic spiritual community. Sri Aurobindo's words: "The way of Yoga followed here has a purpose different from others, - for its aim is not only to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter." After 1926 the suffix "Sri" was added to Aurobindo's name. Aurobindo consistently distinguished his special kind of spiritual discipline from any traditional religion. He didn't want his work to be construed in a religious sense comparable to the teachings of Buddha and Jesus. Aurobindo said, Although Sri Aurobindo and the Mother sought to open a new way for human development, they stressed that the aim, in Sri Aurobindo's words was "not to found a religion or a school of philosophy or a school of yoga, but to create a ground of spiritual growth and experience which will bring down a greater Truth beyond mind but not inaccessible to the human soul and consciousness." Sri Aurobindo believed and taught that the Divine life could be created in existing human lives. He taught that through discipline a greater Truth from beyond. According to Aurobindo, the present human consciousness can understand and receive this Divine Truth. He called this the Supramental. This reception of Divine Truth can help manifest the Divine here in people as they live on the earth. Okay. Now perhaps you have visited a few websites on Sri Aurobindo and you wonder what all the fuss is about. Divine Truth? Divine Energy? The Supermind? What the heck is this guy talking about? Maybe you really want to know. Sensing the Divine is something like you take two weeks off and go for a vacation at The Lake. One morning early you get up and go walk out to The Lake. You expect to just enjoy watching the sunrise but instead you see this radiant man walking on the water two hundred feet offshore. The sight takes your breath away. This was not what you expected to see. You got a surprise. Mind you, this little story is only a metaphor. In reality, the person who is chosen gets a big surprise. This surprise may come after the person has gone to see a Teacher without expecting anything out of the ordinary, but then suddenly WHAM! the visitor gets a big surprise. The visitor person is hit by a LIGHT, an ENERGY, a POWER. Not everyone who visits a Teacher gets such a surprise. This is the question, then, to understand this mysterious energy and this baffling sensitivity in certain people. Sri Aurobindo called this mysterious Presence the Supramental. If only more people could understand what IT is. Then IT perhaps would be likened to a fire, and humans would begin to understand IT and master IT. But, you ask, how many millions of years did our ancestors live in fear of ordinary fire before chemists really understood oxidation? Indeed we humans have oxidation's fires burning in our bodies all the time through the digestion and assimilation of the nutritious foods that we eat. And so we will probably find that the potency demonstrated by Sri Aurobindo and other Yogis, Teachers, and Saints is quite easily understood once we find the clue or the trick. Nascent science is what will "bring down the Supramental" and fulfill Aurobindo's prophecy quoted near the beginning of this article. Maybe it is nothing more than enhanced metabolism in the yogi. But we don't want to just guess. We want to really know. It is a light often sensed while a sensitive person is gazing or scrying. It is a light in the eyes that is not yet explained by opthalmologists or other professional scientists. This light may only be manifest in the eyes of sensitive humans, or it may be manifested in certain other physical objects as well. In fact Adi Da's first Teacher, Swami Rudrananda, called this light "yogic force." Other Teachers have called it "kundalini shakti." Lots of modern know-it-alls call IT "baloney." So-called modern psychology is comparable to medieval alchemy. The real chemistry of the human psyche has yet to be conceived and tested by professional scientists. Despite Freud, Adler, Jung, and all the rest of the soul-alchemists, also known as "shrinkology" modern psychiatry remains a sick baby puking and choking in its cradle. With the help of progressive sensitives comparable to Sri Aurobindo, real science will save this wee shrunken humanity from inane pseudo-scientific secular humanist vanity. To mix the metaphors a bit, in confusing all of spiritual seeking with dogmatic religion, the secular humanists throw the baby out with the bathwater. That is a big verbal and intellectual blunder. More careful testing of psychic intuitive sensitives with the help of trained scientific observers is needed to verify or disprove the observations of Teachers who have dedicated themselves as much to their study as professional scientists dedicate themselves to science. Respectful humility is the first step in learning something that is difficult. Logic and reason is one thing. Intuition and direct perception are two other things. ------------ About the author: John L. Waters is an amateur psychologist and independent researcher on self-healing, integration, and problem-solving. 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