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The Collective Yoga of Man: A World in Process - January 12-14, 2007 - Auroville, India

Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Tue 19 Dec 2006 01:43 PM PST  

Announcing an Auroville Conference:

The Collective Yoga of Man:

A World in Process


January 12-14, 2007 - Auroville, India

New Fields of Experience…
new ways ‘to be’

Our embodied existence in the universe moves into unknown vistas of the future. A future that is shaping the present.. in ways so powerfully visible that it would be difficult not to see them!

Our consciousness changes in qualities of perceiving, of feeling, of willing, of acting that were unknown to us only a decade earlier – or, even less! Our very bodies turn into a ‘substance’ of other hues – less dense and of a porous transparency. The ‘form’ grows beyond its limitations. And another way to be – to live and function in the world, with its structures, is being worked upon.

To seize this ‘other’ way, to make it more and more palpable in our lives seems to be our sole attraction.

All the ‘knowings’ of the past pale in comparison. A ‘being’ emerges.. borne on the crest of a new wave.. that rises from the oceans of the Infinite. Parameters of convention cease – psychologically speaking. There is no known ‘psychology’ to determine what is happening. It is a veritable adventure into the ‘unknown’. An ‘unknown’ of ‘being’ itself…

What then are the ‘tools’ at our disposal? Are there any tools? Or, is there only the action.. of a movement forward.. into a future of hitherto unknown possibilities.

The seeds, possibly, of a new creation? Creation of a new man – who learns to live in another world? Or, who learns to live in the world in ‘another’ way!

To be, to live, to explore this ‘other’ way becomes the one pursuit of all our seekings.


The World-Soul

A great luminous consciousness soars over the earth creating a kind of eddy in its atmosphere

There are in the history of the earth, moments of transition when things that have been for thousands of years must give place to things that are about to manifest. A special concentration of the world consciousness, one might almost say, an intensification of its effort, happens at such times, varying according to the kind of progress to be made, the quality of the transformation to be realized. We are precisely at such a turning of the world’s history...

a new starting-point in the terrestrial evolution

As the beginnings of the supramental life, which is next to be realized in the evolution of the universe, are developing...

a new human mind moves towards the realization of its totality and oneness
a consciousness of the whole harmonized with a consciousness of detail

life towards deeper and truer emotion and action, towards a larger power of itself, towards high aims and motives

if Matter.. were to become more alive with the hidden power within it and to offer more readily the secret sense of things
a body consciousness that has its own instinctive truth and power of right condition and action, even a kind of unexpressed occult knowledge in the constitution of its cells and tissues which may one day become conscious

There is in this new substance that is spreading and acting in the world, a warmth, a power and a joy so intense... when you feel this even in the cells of your body, then the experience is so total, so imperative, so living, concrete, tangible, real..

When the circle will be completed, when the two extremities will touch, when the highest will manifest in the most material that the experience will be truly decisive

One never truly understands until one understands with one’s body
There Matter is the Spirit’s firm density
Where sense can build a world of pure delight


Texts are from:

Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

With the permission of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry


Aster Patel (asterpatel@auroville.org.in)
Centre of Indian Studies
Bharat Nivas
Auroville – 605101
Tamil Nadu, India

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