Disciple: What is the
characteristic of the Purusha on each plane of being –
the physical, the vital and the mental – looking at the
world?
Sri Aurobindo: The Purusha looks at
the world as Prakriti i.e. Nature, represents it to be. On the mental
plane Prakriti represents thoughts, ideas –
in short, all mental movements. On the vital plane Prakriti
represents itself as desires –
in short, as action of the vital force. On the physical plane it
represents itself as the unchangeable law of physical life.
Disciple: When the Purusha
separates itself from Prakriti,
how is it possible for it to aspire for something higher?
Sri Aurobindo: It is not the
Purusha but the Prakriti which has to be made to aspire and made fit.
The Purusha is silent, passive, looking at Prakriti.
Disciple: What is the
characteristic way of Purusha
looking at the world from the Supermind?
Sri Aurobindo: The Supramental
Purusha looks at the world as the Truth looks at it.
Disciple: how does the Truth look
at the world?
Sri Aurobindo: (with a gesture of
hand pointing up): You get up there and you will see.
Disciple: In the Taittiriya
Upanishad the following pa occurs: "Vijnana extends the sacrifice –
what is its head; delight is its right side; great delight the
left side; bliss, the body; Brahman the lower the foundation".
Sri Aurobindo: Here puccham – "tail"
–-means the basis. It means the basis of ānanda
(bliss) Infinite, the Brahman.
Disciple: Further it says: "By that
this is filled; its head; Truth of movement the right side of being the
left side; union, the body; the great plane the lower part, –
the foundation".
Sri Aurobindo: It means if you want
to rise to the Supermind you have to attain the
mahas – the wide, infinite and universal consciousness which
is its basis: Ritam means "Truth of movement".
Satyam is "Truth of being" śraddhā is the acceptance of
the Truth when it is there.
Disciple: When the Truth is there
present on the Supra-mental level, why is
śraddhā – faith – required?
Sri Aurobindo: śhraddha here means
that when you see the Truth, you are ready to accept it. "Yoga Atma"
means that the lower being has to attain the union with the higher being
in order to go up to the level higher than the Mind.
Disciple: About the prānāmaya
also it speaks and adds that it is fulfilled by it.
Sri Aurobindo: It says that the
mental – manomaya –
is higher than the vital and is fulfilled by it.
Disciple: It also says "yajnas
is the head; the rk
is the right side; saman is the left side; command is the soul; atharva-angirasa
is the end and foundation".
Sri Aurobindo: Rik means the
intuitive movement in the
mind; saman is "the rhythm of the movement and harmony.” Atharva
means "the effective action of the physical plane".
Angirasa, in the Veda at least, means the power of Agni which
releases the cows –
the Light – from the cave of darkness of the panis
with the help of the Word and Indra and the other gods.
Disciple: There is a description of
the vital and its function.
Sri Aurobindo: Yes, vyān is the
right side;
apān is the left side; akāśa is ātmā. It may refer to the
vital ether and Prathwi
puccham pratiśthā clearly means that the vital is based
on and looks from above upon the physical.
Disciple: Does the Christian
Trinity correspond to Brahma.
Vishnu and Shiva?
Sri Aurobindo: No. The Indian
trinity refers to cosmic powers which preside over certain movements in
the universe Brahma-creative etc. "Son" in the Christian Trinity means
perhaps the "Divine in man". "Holy Ghost" symbolises the "Divine
Consciousness".
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