Meeting Sri Aurobindo I

24 December 1999

Now I will start to relate the meetings with the Master especially because there are certain human natures that greatly rejoice to ear  the Master has appeared to someone. I´m one of those for instance, and literally drink any such experience, as those historically known in the circles of integral yoga.


I will briefly resume here a few previous circumstances: I´m sure it was 24th December, probably 1999, I didn´t note down the date but only the experience.

That unforgettable morning a complete thought crossed my mind clearly coming from outside: it said I should be back home because a "friend" would come to see me.

I was used to occasionally ear inner voice, but this one had reached me from the exterior, someone was sending me a message but I could not trace back the sender. 
I had different planes for the day but decided to answer the call, it quite intrigued me because I had recently moved to a different country and none of my friends knew about it, beside, I was living in a quite secluded place in the country side difficult to reach without a guide.

When I reached back home I made some cleaning and had some food and fruits ready just in case, later on I lighted the fire and disposed myself to wait.

Till late in the night none came.
 I had lost every hope and cross legged by the fire-place I resolved to go to sleep, bitterly considering that the next time I could not just trust any other such message.

But a moment before I stood up I seemed to ear someone approaching the entrance door, enter the house and get inside the sitting room.

I was immobile and open mouthed: as  by a command, all my hair stood on end on my head... no doubt it was a Presence... but a presence I could only "perceive", an invisible one.

I could only feel the tremendous impact its sudden appearance  had on the physical things, and concretely the walls of the house: it was such a "massive" presence that the very walls and roof  seemed on the point to explode unable to contain that cyclopic, super-human presence. 

 I was more then worried because the Presence didn´t identify itself nor said a single word, but what seemed worst, now was clearly advancing towards me!..
I closed my eyes and fervently prayed the Divine Mother to intervene, but there was no answer, when I opened them, the Presence was  standing immobile in front of me.
I had no option left. I was literally  petrified in asana on the soil and only could wait the next move.

Then the invisible Presence seemed to bend over me and touch as with a finger my "subtle physical body" on the sacral area, the lowest part of the spine, and suddenly a red-orange torrent of fire streamed out from the base of the spine remounting it.
Immediately the fire divided into two main streams now whitening as thin beams of white light which took  different balanced directions just below the navel, one upward and the other downward and dividing themselves in subsidiary beams of light which orderly circulated around the body leaving a trace, a net of light around the body, with tiny spots which started to reverberate along the beams.
The red-orange flame never ceased to enter and transform into beams of light, it was a constant inflow.

In  that position and with the tiny bulbs shining I thought I had to look like a Christmas tree with its lights on,  half-bitterly considering that I would look even more so because of the snow on top of it, referring to my hair surely whitened for the circumstance. 
I thought: Now only the star on the top most of the tree is missing... and the star arrived!

The two beams of light and their subsidiaries had now reached my head producing a horizontal, circular magnetic  pattern which radiated in waves in the air. 
I felt as never before in my life, a deep sense of well being and a deep unmovable peace.
Of course, at that moment I had lost all prevention  about the Presence, on the contrary, I innerly bowed pleading forgiveness for my previous reaction.
Strangely enough, my rectification seemed to have as answer the retrieving of the Presence.
I felt it was leaving me, retiring and I rushed a few questions with the hope to retain it a little more with me: Who are you?.. Shall I meet you again?.. Why..This?

But the Presence didn´t utter a word to answer my questions, only, just before disappearing, a single thought crossed again my mind proceeding now from the Presence: It is a bliss for the work ahead.
-...Work?..."Which" work?..
But the Presence wasn´t there anymore to answer...

I stood up immediately  and went to the mirror, with a breath of relieve I found no white hair and no trace of tiny bulbs on my face either, even though I could still feel the pulsating bulbs fading away.

But...Work? What that could mean? It was an absolute mystery and so had to remain till a few months later, when finally the mystery was disclosed by the Master himself.

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This was the first of the cycle of meetings, it was as physical as possible, all the others would happen in different planes, but this one happened while absolutely awake in the physical body, and I certainly recognize that only by direct intervention of the Master I was able to perceive with my subtle body.
(The silence of the Presence seemed intentioned to fire up my subtle perception in those anguishing moments, it was a scaring though necessary situation so to create a direct passage from the physical to the subtle physical, and certainly perfectly controlled by the Master).

 I didn´t recognize it was the Master till a later occasion when, while looking at him, again I felt the same powerful and almost unbearable radiation of his body of glory.
Possibly I should say "overmental body", the fact remains it was a glorious body emitting such powerful radiation which deeply acted upon  my very atomic structure, and even then, I realized the Master was lowering the rate of his radiation for my own safety.

I report this experience for the purpose of study, the acupuncture and whomever has some easiness with a chart of acupuncture may depict quite well how the beams of light were circling around the body, as they perfectly resembled meridians of light. The interesting thing is that the whole structure of light has a starting point, the base of the spine. It seems the charts of acupuncture reflects a rather static vision of this circulating energy, and do not underline the circuit as ending around the head with a magnetic radiance, the magnetism of that light was quite an outstanding feature.
It created an authentic, subtle, magnetic field around the body.

Saving the distances, a similar magnetic field I found later around Sri Aurobindo himself, only, exceedingly more powerful.
From this and other experiences I got convinced that the Master can´t thoroughly manifest himself physically simply because we couldn´t bear the intensity of the vision and literally evaporate in a cloud of atoms.
  

SUBTLE PERCEPTION

 During the period I´m relating, a process  opened up on unexpected horizons.
 I started to notice  that a subtler perception was occasionally superposing itself to my current sensory perception, I found it worth to mention it to leave its constancy for the researcher.

As always in these cases, at first I  kept such experiences under observation for a time, till a number of them could give me the idea of a process of its own.

Those episodes of subtle perception seemed to have their root in conscious sleep. This is what I want to enhance.
While in conscious sleep  -with my mental body totally awake- I clearly  perceived myself -as a mental body- absolutely independent from the physical, and even from the subconscious.

 In that condition a new kind of perception arose, a perception which passed into myself with independence from the physical senses.
In conscious sleep and in the mental world, the mental body perceived everything in a more refined way, as it disposed of a "body of perception" with subtler senses, leading to a direct and irrevocable perception.

Now seemed that this kind of perception, those kind of subtler senses, were bubbling into the normal waking-perception too,  random appearing at any time.
Those subtler perceptions had start bubbling into the waking consciousness much as months before the mental body consciousness had start bubbling into the unconsciousness of sleep. They seemed two similar processes, at least, their mode was similar.

 On one such occasion I got early morning in the street, there were an intense  smell of fresh roses, looking around for someone carrying roses I realized I could actually -see- the perfume, like a vaporous cloud floating in the air, which disappeared around the corner.
I followed the cloud smelling it to the corner, but just there, in the large plaza it had melted away.
But not the experience, now I realized  the body was enveloped within an "olfactory sphere", which roughly took from the chest till the sexual organs, with the navel as its center.
Every physical organ and biological process, even the most remote one, had there a terminal point, an "olfactory extension" of it.
 Each biological smell  was conveyed there by kind of "subtle tubes" orderly aligned within the sphere with hundred of others, and all together summed up to my own corporeal smell.
I crossed toward the park with the hope of meeting a dog to see how he reacted to my olfactory sphere now that I could see it, but didn´t see any
dog around or even men, and little after the experience faded away and I was back to my "normal" (?) perception.

(As always in these cases, the experience came along with a certain  direct knowledge, in fact I could easily understand bigger tubes corresponding to the bone-process, or the blood-process, I even smell both of them, but due to my over-olfactory sensitivity of the moment I  felt almost disgusted by their intensity.
 There were other tubes much thinner which produced  subtler, more refined essences, that knowledge told me that some of them related to the conditions and processes at molecular level).
 ( I consider it an objective experience since is not reasonable that only my body is enveloped by such a sphere, so everybody has such an "olfactory sphere" and if the practitioner could detect it and have a trained subtle perception of it, it could be developed as an healing science).


While in conscious sleep, I started to admit that those subtler senses were not really generated within the mental body but as they were, released by the soul.
It was more than a mental conviction but the fact that sometimes I experienced through them kind of -sacredness of perception- which kept me in touch with a deeper being provided of an holy understanding of the deepest roots of things. At some point the connection mental body-soul increased in closeness.

I had read enough (mainly from Sri Aurobindo and Agni Yoga) to be convinced that the soul had its own organs of perception, I started now  to experienced subtler replica for each physical sense, all administered by a central being whose perception exceeded its own subtler senses, a world of silent and certain intuition,  verily a body of intuition, as elusive as the subconscious appeared to be while in conscious sleep.

The Book of the Divine Mother VI

Before he reached one year age his father died.
At five his mother found difficult to rise her three children, and she imagined an internate would be the solution for at least one of them, the younger.

She could hardly imagine the Divine Mother claimed the child for Herself.

He found himself alone in an alien environment, severed from his dear ones and his mother. Knowing not to whom appeal for solace and comfort he started to call his Divine Mother for help.

That Sunday they took him to the church, it happened his seat was by a statue of the Divine Mother.
She was wearing black robes, had tear drops on her cheeks and seven silver swords nailed in her heart.

He stared at her insistently.
How he understood her pain!
She had lost her son... he had lost his mother... they were communed in their pain...
While staring her, he silently said: "Little Mother... how I wish to take those swords off of your heart"...

He faintly remember it, but it looked like as a golden ray had sprang forth the heart of the Mother and touched his little heart, as suddenly he felt a lightness
replace the heaviness of his heart.
  

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa

 

 

 

 

 

 

In one of his intimate conversations with the Divine Mother, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa was told that he would be embodied again in the middle of the twentieth century somewhere in Europe in order to continue his mission.

We can expect that in his new coming Ramakrishna will work for the integration of all religions and spiritual paths and will continue his devoted worship of the Divine Mother. In the time of the Second Coming and the return of humankind to the Kingdom of God, the Divine Mother is the One who holds the reality of the New Heaven and the New Earth. Ramakrishna, ecstatically devoted to the Divine Mother, in his new embodiment will proclaim her mysteries and the birth of the new spiritual world.

Sri Satya Sai Baba

How Baba brought Walter Cowan back to life


                                               Swami with Walter and Elsie Cowan     

This amazing episode of how Bhagawan miraculously revived Walter Cowan after he had died of a massive heart attack is narrated by Mr. John Hislop in his book, ‘My Baba and I’:

Walter died in his room at the Connemara Hotel in Madras. He and his wife, Elsie, had arrived there on December 23, 1971 to see Baba, who was in Madras to preside at an All-India Conference of Sai Organizations.

Early on the morning of December 25, a rumour quickly spread that an elderly American had died of a heart attack. My wife, Victoria and I immediately thought of Walter. We went to the hotel and found Elsie (Walter’s wife) there. Walter had fallen to the floor in the early morning hours. Elsie had called Mrs. Ratanlal whose room was just down the corridor. The two women managed to lift Walter to the bed, and he passed away in Elsie's arms a few minutes later. An ambulance was called, The body was taken to a hospital, pronounced dead upon arrival, placed in an empty, storage room, and covered with a sheet to await daylight and decisions about the funeral.

Elsie and Mrs. Ratanlal had already been to see Baba when we arrived. He had told them He would visit the hospital at 10 a.m. The two ladies were ready and waiting to join Baba at the appointed hour. They did go to the hospital, but Baba had arrived earlier and had already departed. To the joy of the ladies, but also to their total amazement, they found Walter alive and being attended to. Nobody saw Baba with Walter, nor has Baba chosen to say how or why Walter was resurrected, but on returning to the devotee family who were his hosts, Baba told the people there that He had brought Walter back to life.

Walter's own story throws some light on what happened, and later on, I was a party to a fascinating episode; for Walter's life continued to be in danger and, in fact, Baba told me that Walter died three times and had to be returned to life three times.

Walter described his experience. He said he realized that he had died and that he had remained with the body, in the ambulance, looking at it with interest. Then Baba came and together they went to a place, which seemed to be at a great height. There they entered a conference room where people were seated around a table. There was a presiding chairman who had a kind face and who spoke in a kindly way. He called for Walter's records and these were read aloud. The records were in different languages and Walter did not understand what was said until after some time when Baba started to translate. Walter was surprised to hear that he had occupied a lofty status in various times and cultures and had always been dedicated to the welfare of the people. At length, Baba addressed the person presiding and asked that Walter be given over to Baba's care, for Baba had work for Walter to do. Then, when Baba and he departed the room, Walter felt himself descending towards a place where his body was, but felt great reluctance. In terms of direct experience, he had realized that he was not the body, and he had no wish to be subject again to anxieties and miseries.

After hearing Walter, I asked Baba if Walter was just imagining the incidents. Baba replied that it was not imagination. They had occurred in Walter's mind and Baba himself had guided the thoughts. I then asked if everyone had a similar experience at death. Baba answered that some people had similar experiences and some did not. Several years later, I brought up the question again. Baba answered that the corpse was common to all, but beyond that there was no common experience.

The day after Walter returned to life was one of high interest for me. Sri Appa and I accompanied Baba to the home of a devotee. From there we went to a meeting of lady members of the Nigara Sai Samithi where Baba was to give awards and speak. Sri Appa and I were sitting on the platform, just a few feet from Baba, and were able to observe him closely. He made the awards and gave a spiritual discourse, all without any break or any moment of hesitation. From that meeting, we were to go to the home of a devotee for lunch. As soon as we got in the car, Baba turned to us and said, "While I was talking in the meeting, Mrs. Cowan called me. I at once went to the hospital and did what was necessary. Mr. Cowan's health had taken a turn for the worse."

So, even while busy on the speaker's platform, Baba had gone to the hospital, and had done what was necessary. But, to the eyes of Sri Appa and myself, Baba had continued in action and speech on the platform for the whole time without any break or hesitation whatsoever. How does one explain this mystery?

When we arrived at the devotee's house for lunch, Baba turned to us and said, "You will not be able to join me for lunch. Take this Vibhuti to the hospital, give Mr. Cowan some in his mouth and rub the rest on his forehead and chest. If you will walk to the corner there, you will find Mrs. Hislop in a taxi. She will take you to the hospital."

Now the fact was, that my wife had been following in a car. However, she had taken great pains to stay out of sight, but her effort was to no avail for, as usual, Baba knew everything. When we reached the hospital with the Vibhuti, Mrs. Cowan said, "Walter took a very bad turn just a little while ago. I thought he was dead, and I was terrified. I at once called Baba in a loud voice. Now, Walter seems a little improved. When I called Baba I felt his presence at once." At the hospital, Elsie experienced exactly what Baba had told Sri Appa and myself in the car.

Other instances of Baba's powers of resurrection are also known. The Raja of Ventagiri told me how some twenty or so years ago, he had witnessed Baba's resurrection of a man dead some six days in whom body decomposition was taking its normal course. About these mysteries, one can make no comment; they are outside one’s common experience.

Reference: “My Baba and I” by Dr. John Hislop. Page: 28-31. Publisher: Birthday Publishing Company, San Diego, California, 1985. Copyright now with Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publications Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam.

Source: http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/Pages/Devotees_Experiences/Resurrection_WalterCowan.htm

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See also:

Raising from the dead
Excerpts from the book "Sai Baba. The Holy Man and The Psychiatrist" by Dr. Samuel Sandweiss

 

 

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NkNeR6lCQg

The Book of the Divine Mother V

I was sitting in padmasana in my room. And I insistently called Her.
I had reasons to call Her...
I was facing the wall in front of me with my eyes open when a black hole appeared in the wall with little white clouds around it.
Before I could recover from the surprise I felt pushed inside the hole and all was
black and speed. I was travelling into that black void but I felt I had nothing to fear as I was surrounded by an halo of protection enveloping me.
Then I saw a huge sphere crossing the space in front of me and I´d have said it looked like a...no! Impossible!.. Then a second sphere approached and my suspicion grew even more... But when I saw a sphere with circling rings around it I could not suspect anymore... That was Saturn!.. and I was travelling at immense speed across the Solar System!..
I could not control the experience and no idea how to stop that and came back, I had to accept that my call had compelled an answer, and "that" was the answer, as strange it could be. But I felt a solid certitude I had nothing to fear, so when the next planet appeared at my sight, of an enlightened blue, I simply let my heart rejoice of that splendid vision, because at that moment I was feeling the hand of the Great Spirit.

Then again a black void and again a sphere, this time a smaller one of black grey and brown tones, a large stone forever inaccessible to life.
And then I plunged in total darkness with that sensation of immense speed.
It was sometimes before I approached a tiny point of light which grew in size till revealed me the sacred heart of a sun. Its surface as a furnace, seemed as a sunflower of fire and tremendous forces at play.

I myself had little of human at that moment, all what had been "myself" till that moment had been effaced by that sublime spectacle, I was only eyes, silence, and adoration.
And speed, because the speed increased and I felt I was crossing an immense void.
I understood how futile was the dream of men of physically crossing that distances.
Then a spiral galaxy appeared in all its beauty of stars shining across its arms, and I felt the invisible presence of a great and divine being residing at its center, an immortal guiding and caring presence.

Then again that almost unsustainable void, and after a time what looked like a spectacular explosion in all the directions of white stars immobile in the space ..

And again that dark void in which was appearing the familiar shape of NGC5866 with its characteristic nut shell shape...

It looked like a cosmic egg of light pregnant of a far off creation.
My travel ended there. Facing that mysterious globe of light.
In that stillness, surrounded by that tick darkness, I perceived even more vividly the unfathomable void over which I was suspended, and yet I could not feel any fear.
But I was aware to be some forty millions light-years from my physical body and absolutely under the will of the Divine. My own will in that circumstance was powerless, I couldn´t do anything else then trust the well minded intention of the Divine.

Then, the tick darkness slowly remitted, showing a turquoise phosphorescent light which started to be visible in all that unphatomable space, it was a Light and a Presence pervading the universe, a Great Mother Light on which that huge galactic bodies and stars and planets and all the space were contained.
A turquoise motherly womb of light which sustained all the creation....
Then the green light seemed to open as to show its core of Light.
I was lost in adoration, it flowed from me as an unending cataract of devotion.
Now the green light made a circle around an intense shining White-Golden Light which was the very heart of the Mother...her immortal Being open to my mortal vision, She was showing me her motherly, impersonal Body of Light...

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Mother

Integral Yoga and Subtle World

Whatever step and direction  one takes in integral yoga it is always into a subtler reality;
the subtle world, the subtle physical, the mental body, are all related with subtle reality, it is not an option, it is a fact.
The subtle world is not related with magic (though it may) nor is an exotic entertainment.
The terms astral world, astral travel, seem to me  improper definitions and I decline to use them, in the subtle world may happen a subtle travel, but it is not the only option there.  I substitute the term  "astral world"   for mental world or level, for the keenness I found  it has with my mental substance. 
The term "astral world" only refers to the objective circumstance and do not take in consideration the main issue: any action or fact there, strictly depend upon our control of the mental body. 
I understand this control during sleep has to be achieved by conscious sleeping, but the subtle reality is perceivable also in wake condition, I have observed that after a reasonable familiarity with the mental body  during sleep,  subtler perceptions start to flow into the wake condition as well, with a clear tendency to create an unbroken stream of perception.
In my own experience it is not a regular process since it´s easily upset by an improper diet,  among other factors.

Our conscious step into subtler reality is by decree accompanied by visible or invisible guides, but guides after all. We step into a training we may not always be conscious of, but a training after all.
If we have reached some degree of consciousness into subtle reality we may remember people and places or happenings we have seen, but our conscious memory of it is not always necessary. 
Many times at wake I could only have faint memories of a subtle experience, while other times I could hold the full sequence of different experiences of one single night.

Any researcher is supposed to reach farther levels of subtlety.
Sri Aurobindo cannot manifest himself into physical matter because if he would and we were witness, we would evaporate in a cloud of atoms,
so he holds a subtle-physical body and we can see him while in the subtle body, which is safer, because more malleable and more resistant to energetic stress.

One can see him in dreams, but the final test will always be in the subtle world.
I do not pretend a treatise on the matter, I speak from personal experience
and what may be useful to know if you have not a clear idea.

The physical body itself has to reach some degree of subtlety, so far, only coming under direct influence of the soul one can hope of "subtilizing" his body,
and as the mind is concerned, it must be able to leave the accustomed circle
of the rational mind and elevate itself into subtler circles, of which the intuitive level is already an expression of the soul and represent some degree of fusion of the lower self with the higher Self.

The Akashic Records (important note)

The Akashic records contained in this blog are not there to make you believe I´m good in it when I'm not. But they are real.
 I haven't the slightest idea how to have akashic visions nor I have any method to suggest you.  

During some three months I unexpectedly met several times Sri Aurobindo, they were presented  as a corollary to the main "Vision of Savitri":  an akashic vision which starts from the present time till a distant future in which men, will finally be as gods and the purpose of the appearance of the consciousness on earth fully manifested.

Which will not be the end of the story, but the real beginning: imagine that.

 The akashic visions I present here are events really happened in distant pages of the early history of human beings on earth, and all of them have some significant link with the evolution of the consciousness in early history.

The visions constitute a body of information Sri Aurobindo meant worth to know to researchers in the field of the  consciousness: they represent the remote past of the consciousness  and the progressive answers of that consciousness -in smaller groups or entire racial streams- while in the course of time met with different challenges and significant events determining with their decision (the will-power of the consciousness) their continuity or other different possibilities which lay in front of the streams of consciousness, sometimes no-evolutive answers, as in the case of a group of magicians-priests, citizens of an ancient capital.
They decided to sink in the Ocean with their city and are still there in a stationary  condition of consciousness:  they cannot evolve.

Of course, they are there because they could form and in any case control a subtler body. At the moment of their death they could anchor their consciousness to a subtler body and retain it on earth.
 It is quite an interesting case, they escaped full death by applying to themselves what they did to their propitiatory victims: they could manipulate their consciousness and literally feed themselves on the agony of the consciousness of a victim, or make of them their subtle servants after death by controlling the sphere of their consciousness. Not someone you would gladly greet in the street.

(see http://sriorobindo.blogspot.it/2012/05/akashic-records-from-atems-diaries-v.html)  Some of those practices still survived in the fleeting stream of the race which left the city-state before the upheaval, they spread in South America and Egypt mainly. 

 The group in S. America was rather prone to human sacrifices and the said, while the earlier Egyptian stream rather opted in controlling the psyche of their victims after death, making of them subtle guardians of the tomb and accompanying host of the monarch. (I mean it literally, in an akashic vision I've not reported yet the deceased queen  had some six or seven maids buried with her, but under a strong spell they could not abandon the mausoleum after their death, I believe they were mesmerized before actual death).

This knowledge I´m transmitting is not my own, it springs forth from visioning the akashic records I report as faithfully as possible, so that you too could awake this subtler knowledge which is the purpose of the Master with the visions you can read.

Try to understand that the visions I transmit you are purposefully meant by Sri Aurobindo to activate in you a momentary step, a link, from the rational circuit of the mind to a more intuitive one.

They represent one of the several ways the Master continues with his teaching, they add to what he said while in life, a further dispensation of His Work and His Teaching.

I´ll try to put it in simple words:
coming from a divine source, Sri Aurobindo's teaching is enlightening by his own power,

it elevates the mind and supposedly, but only supposedly because it depends on the reader, the natural course of the consciousness when you read a book of  the Master is to get ready for a more intuitive understanding: once the mind has been enlightened by his teaching acquires the faculty to elevate itself into the intuitive field of the consciousness. 

At greater or lesser degree this has been achieved already by a significant number of students all over the world which somehow represent the vanguard, they are ready for a further  bestowing of the Grace and Power of his teaching, but this time it is under direct and personal guidance of the Master.

 This fact alone would require an entire book to be fully explained, so try to use your own intuitive knowledge to get the sense of what I'm trying to explain in a few words.  

 Through those information that I pass onto you, you can create your own personal link with the Master, you can do your part and learn by vision, which is how you have the opportunity to continue under discipleship in this new time, in which a new step is ready for certain people.

 This learning by vision, by being directly under guidance of the Master, will become more widely extended in the course of time. It is the teaching which follows what he already taught. Visions are the natural learning tool of the soul, are part of his inherent language, visive symbols are the natural channel of communication between the soul and its human counterpart.

You possibly thought of a deceased Master?

During the meetings I learnt he is quite more alive than a great deal of us, he has not finished with his teaching nor he has abandoned the purpose he had while in a physical body: the purpose of transforming the world  making of life on earth a divine life. 

I nurture the intimate conviction that the Master had reach the possibility of physical immortality but, so to say, it was too early for the humankind, such an immortal presence would be disruptive, could provoke by its mere presence a too fast and chaotic crumbling of the previous structures, he choose instead to hold a subtler physical body and a "residence" at the border between gross and subtler matter, a focal point of his consciousness and his work. 

I was once allowed to be witness of the full power of the Presence of his subtler body and I assure you I could hardly bear the vision, it was too powerful to bear, I literally felt my physical body could disintegrate in a cloud of atoms under the massive influence of his magnetic field.

There is only one thing I would suggest you as a tool on your side, the kindness of the heart and the kindness of the mind are always the required condition for a safe approach to subtle world.

Who -is- Atem?

Many years passed since I could realize that the man visiting me at night during my youth was Sri Aurobindo himself.

He looked like a glamorous Holliwood actor and inspired me such total intimacy and trust that I confidently let him be my guide during my discovering of the subtle world.

I used to practice in my youth many of the exercises which later I discovered Mother suggested, mainly related with retaining in the wake consciousness the dreams and experiences happened during sleep. Unmoving just awake I would hold in my mind any image of my dreams, and I gently but firmly "stirr" it till the previous image would appear, and so on till I had a complete revision of my whole dreams. In that secuence, I discovered there had been experiences which could not be catalogued as dreams, but real subtle experiences, which sometimes involved people and places.

One of my first guided experience in this field was the akashic vision I relate (dated 1964 in Atem´s Notebooks).
I have the impression that my contact with the Master was discontinuous, years would pass without me being conscious of his guiding presence, then, there would be periods very busy in training and experiences.

When at my 20 I read his first written words in his poem Savitri I immediately felt a great attraction for that poet, so much so that I elected him as my Master Poet, but I had not made yet the connection that it was the same person.

I even suspect he saved me from drowning at sea in my youth, but I could never be totally sure and he never mentioned the happening.

It was about 12 years ago when I could see him again in several occasions, one of which was related with the Vision of Savitri I mention.

I understand he was training me for a specific purpose, of which the Vision is only a part.

What I learnt from him at that earlier age was to be absolutely objective and scrupulous in the observation of my subtle experiences, and it probably was related not only with my personal "spiritual" life but also with the task he had planned to offer me several years later.

I have the inner convinction that our relation is extended in time into previous lives in which he acted as my Master, and I do not agree with the common belief he was Leonardo da Vinci, rather, I´m persuaded he was my Master and Abbott in an european monastery aroud that period, but I do not feel talking yet about those memories I hold.

Coming to the present, I know he choosed me as his voice in certain matters,
may be not because of my spiritual realization but because he trained me in this scrupulous attention I now give at subtle experiences, so that his work and purpose, the words he said and even the unspoken words  were absolutely clear to me.

If reading this blog you feel more comfortable doubting of my words you can, it´s not my business, but it will not change what happened in my life. 

J´accuse

I laugh at the narrowness and pettiness of  mind of certain self-retained followers or students of the Masters of the integral yoga.

They are not innocent, if they were humble enough we could concede they are struggling to elevate themselves from the common mud and in need of help, but they are proud of themselves and of the self-supposed brilliancy of their minds.

As the unknown Master of Agni Yoga put it once: you want the spiritual realization without renouncing at your favourite cockroaches.
 
They judge people and the world affairs from that narrowness of view which is the result of the ill-digested reading of a few or a many books from Sri Aurobindo and Mother.

They use loose sentences of the Masters as weapons to throw on the head of the opponent of a debate, they have even came to physical aggressions, trials, explicit or covert hate between distinct factions each proclaiming to hold the truth and of being the legal delegates and rapresentants of the original teaching and purpose of integral yoga. 

They do not seem aware or do not mind at all about the pitiful spectacle and example they are giving to the world, when the most integrating mind of the modern era has sufficiently and definitely outlined what means Integral Yoga, and even common people everywhere is awakening to the need of an integrating life.

Today, such common people all over the world, sensible to the need of an imperious change in the existence of the human species, and unconsciously answering to the pressure of the supermental force, without pretense of being high candidates of a superior supermental revolution of the spirit, are leaving behind such poor representative of what is supposed to be and should be the edge and the avanguard of an earthly transformation.

They have made of the Ashram in Pondicherry and of Auroville a "spiritual resort" where to spend the rest of their life without great efforts for surviving, in a peaceful (almost) environment, where to dedicate themselves to soft activities while shutting out of their lives the tremendous struggle of the hour that other people is enduring. They say to have faith the Divine Mother is taking care of the world affairs, but forgetting that -they- are supposed to be her instruments here.

Which kind of spell has convinced them that they are frank from struggle when the great majority of the human race is awakening and accepting their part in the needed change?

Which moral authority will they have once that common people will have achieved what they were supposed to struggle for?

Such common people has understood that differences  are unavoidable and are to be accepted within a major concert where each has his/her own right to express themselves freely in an equality of conditions.

The world at large has become the vanguard of the great change needed, a change where many spiritual organizations and creeds are definitely loosing their right to be bearers of an example to the world. 

If all life is yoga, then their commitment should be to preserve and protect that life, to denounce the abuse, to show the way to an integrating vision of life, instead, they are fighting each other and among themselves.

Many of them should read the post published in this blog under the title "The Hour before the Gods Awake" (08/10/13)  and sincerely ask themselves if by chance they do not fit exactly within the frame of mind that Sri Aurobindo pretended to denounce. Yes, you´ve read it right: pretended to denounce.

I´m not directing my accusations to all indiscriminately, luckily you can still count with hard-working people here and there which are absolved from such harsh critic, but this is the time to explicitely signal at certain mental vices which should definitely desappear from people which retain themselves the vanguard of the world and the hope for a new humanity.

Additional commentaries to the symbols of the Vision

(follows to "The Arcane Symbolism etc.")

After the Vision, what most intrigued me was the blue-water cube surmounted by pyramids and a God-like living figure -Savitri- inside it.
But I was blank.

Evidently Sri Aurobindo attributed it an extraordinary importance (as anything would, coming from him), there was evidently a shift of his emblem from bi-dimensionality to three-dimensionality, but why was that?

I "knew" it was carrying a message, but could not grasp into it though I´d made some personal studies on religious-esoteric and alchemical symbolism.

I could have given the vision as it was, without explaining the symbols, but it wouldn´t have been a fair trick, it resulted evident to me that the Master 
wanted -me- to understand and to explain it, as much as I myself felt an imperious need to solve the mystery.
It took me a few years more to decipher the symbols.

The shift of the emblem (what we call the symbol of Sri Aurobindo) from two to three dimensions is not of secondary importance in the intention of the Master, and I assume, as evident from the tenor of the vision, that he meant it to reach every student for several reasons, that I was exploring.

The most important was that it acted to me as a mental egregor, it has never faded away, I could, and still can concentrate on it and fly over it to more subtle intuitive levels of perception where I still learn from the vision.
It is not meant for a rational mind to analyze it and forget it, it is a living message always able to open new doors to the understanding.

I used to visualize the tri-dimensional emblem in meditation, spreading my consciousness all over its sides within and without at the same time and see
it resulted a peculiar mental pattern, as the reciting of a mantram or visualization of a yantra would generate, after all, it -was- a yantra, a three-dimensional one.
That was the first thing I understood, the first of the presents coming from the Master to all of us.

In the post explaining the symbols of the vision, I have mentioned the (tendencially) descending Water rising and floating in the Air.
It is one of the most important elements of the Vision, because you know the water may only descend and lay down on earth, and if we change the proper place and direction of one of the Elements, then automatically all the other positions and movements drastically change into its contrary, so that we have too a descending Fire (though we know the fire has an ascending nature), and the same is valid for the Air and the Earth, which become Lower Air and Upper Earth.

Of course, you have certainly realized the vision is far from referring to material elements, or even better, not only material, and we have to assume rising Water is representing here the Mind or mental principle*, which raises at the same time that Fire descends, involving in their turn position and movement of the remaining two: Air and Earth. 

Ayurveda makes of Water-Earth but one only principle, kapha, so that whenever Water rises, it does it together with Earth, which I consider here representing the most material principle or even matter itself, and the rising of Earth at a place corresponding to Air, means per force a subtilization of the Earth principle, otherwise it cannot remain in that higher place.

I´m not sure of the meaning of the Air principle here, but I guess we may safely assume it refers to the living principle, because Life, material life, is absolutely impossible without air.

We have seen that Savitri enters the cube when this "revolution" of the elements has taken place, not before. And I "read" in the Vision, Sri Aurobindo is suggesting us to put in motion this "revolution".
The method? 
It is a peculiar one: to transform a settled "bi-dimensional "teaching (the Sri Aurobindo´s emblem) into a living Truth.

I do not pretend having solved any possible meaning, I only offer some lines of thought which can help any farther investigation on your side.
Giving the nature of the Vision to be of common property and its purpose, which was to render available it to the students, it is possible that other people may discern in it meanings I didn´t perceive or  developed at lenght.

* The "Spirit above the waters" of the Genesis should be read "the (perpetual) consciousness above the (yet) unconscious mind of Nature". The association of water (and the blue colour) with mind was a reknown symbol all along the trajectory of western esoteric. The mantle which covered Isis was blue-starred, showing the black naked body of the goddess only to the initiates, and there are traces everywhere that the mind was associated to a femenine principle via  moon/emotions, considered these probably the first nucleus of an instintive intelligence/reaction. Mind as a recipient for the fecundating (male principle of the) Spirit was else considered of a femenine polarity.
Mother sometime mentioned Satprem some blue-shaded being of the mental world she could see. We can extrapolate a -blue mental world-, anyway I could often confirm for my own understanding  such extreme , as in the post "The Hour of the Toiling Gods" (08/10/13).

The Vision of Savitri III Part

(follows from "The Vision II Part)

In the following months the enthusiasm is not decreased. I see private citizens received with concern by the local administrators wishing to know their request for improving some social or environmental aspect of the area; people gather in groups which assume initiatives for any betterment, and a wave of reconstruction makes the world vibrate.

 I start to reach farther images. I can see now as a wave of spirituality has swept the planet all over, people seem entertained with study and spiritual practices, they look  healthier, I understand there has been a general world shift toward a lifestyle based on a  vegetarian diet.
I see new kind of hospitals starts to appear here and there, they are smaller,  of harmonic and warm lines and totally among nature, surrounded by gardens, trees and vegetation.
I learn new healing practices are being held, and the harmonic concept of life starts to influence whole cities which undergo great changes.
I see some cities are altogether abandoned and new cities with newer and healthier concepts being built over the planet, everywhere is evident a wave of progress into a more sustainable and harmless technology and way of life.

Then, the Woman appears again.
I can see a closer image of her divine face, half of it silvery shadowed by the moon and the other golden shadowed by the sun, of such divine beauty impossible to resist, to see her and fall in love with her is but one thing,  to love her and rejoice of her presence upon earth is but one thing everywhere she goes.
  Large masses of people follow her wherever she goes.

She is the ancient Promise to the souls incarnating on earth which said:
-... but will came a time when She will be among all of you, and from then on, the life of men will advance not anymore from tribulation to tribulation but from perfection into ever more perfection.
 They all seem to remember the Promise now, she is received everywhere with great reverence and cherished while she taught the divine teachings.

Earth is submerged by a great wave of spirituality, a general uplifting of human life is evident everywhere, man is at peace with man and nature, the old environmental problems have disappeared centuries before, most of the cities are so integrated into nature that some of them are difficult to identify. Nature has conquered again lands , and is spreading everywhere luxuriously and healthy.

The horizon of the events now has expanded further more.
I can see people on earth has become immune to illness, it has been a progressive process, but now they have acquired an immunity which do not proceed only from knowledge of material causes,
the whole communities seem composed of beings of considerable attainment and inner knowledge.
 
Farther in time, Death itself is conquered.
Now, human beings walk on earth as immortal gods, a new immortal race has ascended from the previous humanity, which makes of Life an harbor for farther, unthinkable discoveries for the divinity of the assembled humanity, the single being of humanity.
The Sky pletoric with the Presence of an immense invisible divinity, Earth itself, but an extension of the Sky.

The  last image is a peaceful green spot in nature among fresh shadows  where Sri Aurobindo, dressing a white dhoti sits at a table pen in hand  writing..I wonder which new epopeia of Savitri is putting down on the paper.....

End of the Vision
(This vision is more than a decade old , when there was no trace at all of citizens' movements).

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The effort to sustain the concentration on the several levels of the vision has been so intense that I abruptly fall back again into the physical.
The body is shaking unrestful and all wet in a cold sweat, yet the subtle connections with the Master and the vision have not altogether disappeared, the supermental images have showered on me so intensely that affect  my nerves with the intensity of that psychic energy still circling within me.
My first thing is to get back to the vision and review all that I have seen.
I discover that many images are fading away and I have no means to hold the whole of that supermental vision so I immediately start to register all that is still adhered to my memory.


The Consciousness
Seen in the long course of the centuries ahead, the history of the earth appeared to be the history of the Consciousness evolving on it.
An evolution of Consciousness within the human beings till the full manifestation of its involved possibilities was the evident purpose in Nature. But the vision said it was a divine purpose from high.
What the vision disclosed most was the growing steps of this awareness into the human beings. At first their answer had been rather unconscious.
Man moved in history without really knowing the true reasons for many of its happenings. There was a planetary soul for the planetary humanity as much there was an individual soul for every individual. By answering individually to his soul, and having this answer extended among humanity, at the same time humanity was answering to the call of its planetary soul.
A super-self of humanity. A self in touch, receiving already the transforming spiritual energy of that planetary soul.
And that planetary soul and its workings went exactly in the direction Sri Aurobindo indicated.
An ascension into more subtle and diviner circles of existence, and a progressive expression of that Consciousness down in the very physical body, which underwent such a glorious possibility of immortality.

The Vision of Savitri II Part

During the whole vision I kept heart-contact with the Master, I was fully aware it was His Presence which was sustaining me during that continuous output of over-mental images, beyond His Presence and above us I was feeling a vast, immanent Spirit  which covered everything with its Presence, distant within its limb of divinity and yet so close over the impending events. Below us the scene has radically changed. Now I see Earth from space, it is night time on this side of the planet. I'm actually seeing the etheric counterpart of the planet, an astral and more complete vision of earth which adds the subtle and unseen events which take place unnoticed by our ordinary vision.

In the darkness I see luminous streams of spiritual light flowing over the surface of the planet, from a point on Earth shines a beautiful white light. I understand it is the dwelling place of the Woman.

When I focus my attention I recognize India, the region of Tamil Nadu, in the land now occupied by Auroville.  I'm seeing the subtle counterpart of Auroville, its subtle radiance, its presence in terms of energy.

The living and pulsating white light radiates circular waves on the surrounding area which  seams to surrender to the powerful influence. More land is progressively conquered by that light.

From all over the world streams of light increasingly flow to and from the residence of the Woman, wherever they move on earth they leave an indelible "subtle" trace which creates a net of light around the planet, bathing it into that light.  All this light seams growing towards a critical mass having a subtle influence on events on the surface of the planet. 

Suddenly the scene has changed. 

I'm seeing  the map of the western hemisphere with Europe in the middle of it,  I appreciate over the map a significant flow of human beings coming from Middle East and North Africa, they are represented as arrows on the map signing the direction of their flow towards Northern Europe and East and West Europe. The flow of human beings seams to get back on his way in a continuous to and from over and over again, as many individual were involved in the course of time.

Now I see the sunny side of Earth, I fly towards the surface like a meteor, penetrating the atmosphere and the clouds then I stop over the buildings of a large north-European  city. 

From there I can appreciate there are many people occupying the central avenues. There is turmoil in the streets as people is continuously gathering together voicing slogans, the situation is critical, I never saw such a compact representation of the whole sectors of the society, it has all the air of a popular uprising, they  are marching together protesting and claiming for solutions, I understand they are oppressed by the  deteriorating living conditions and are asking for effective solutions.  

At  no time I have lost the perception of the Great Spirit above and of the presence of Sri Aurobindo as it were overlapping mine, and in a such plural perception a certitude entered in my heart, they were not symbolic images.  I was witnessing real pages of the very next future on earth. 

I see the same situation repeating in every city in the world, it is a popular uplifting everywhere and there is no sign it will fade away, instead, it increases in time involving more and more countries much like a planetary uprising.

Earth itself is surrounded by a peculiar mental atmosphere which I can perceive, as every human being were mentally in touch, they seem actuating as a single body everywhere in the world, it is a general positioning of the whole human race against the fallacious policies in economy, social welfare and  environment, people seems quite aware of the degradation and looks determined to put a final point to the present state of things.  

In this tremendous hour it shines for its absence the reaction of the governing powers, they  seem not to exist. Facing such unprecedented situation, those once ready to fill the daily news with pompous economic recipes are now lock in an embarrassed silence.

But the pressure of the citizens is  unremitting and increases in the course of time, the situation is getting worse day by day, tempers are heated and it is clear that their requirements have to be faced with an unprecedented disposition by the governing powers.

Now I see the Eastern countries of Europe, probably Russia.

There is a special aura over these countries, as a relevant historical event had taken place in that region in the past, which  had left a shining spiritual halo.

I understand that the special halo is connected with the white light of the Woman and the strife for freedom of the people of that countries.

I'm seeing huge crowds in a big square of a city which I believe Moscow.

I understand they are in the same place of another historical popular uplifting, the square and the people are bathed in that light, they are marching together and the situation is dangerously approaching a real popular uprising.

There is a supernal beauty in seeing the common determination in the face of this people marching and claiming for social justice and freedom, there are evident glances of impotence in the eyes of the policemen called to control the crowd, they are aware they cannot physically retain such huge mass of people from marching even over them if they resist the advance. The two forces look fiercely at each other. The whole world seem retaining the breathe in that hour, as people everywhere in the world had  felt the great tension in Eastern Europe.

Then I understand that right in that moment and that place  a battle has been definitively  win for the earth.

The image has changed again and now I'm seeing the U.S.A.

There are similar scenes all over the country, there too, people is occupying the central avenues of all the important metropolis, there are huge crowds everywhere and in front of the public buildings.

Now my consciousness is projected  within an office: a small group of young lawyers which seem animated by noble ideals is discussing the situation, they are quickly resolving to support the requirements of the people by formally and legally representing them in different instances.

I see again the little group of lawyers, they are now reunited in a room and talking with the President, they plead in favor of the requests of the people, but I see an unmovable indifference in the face of the aged politician,

 I understand he is determined to not offer any ear at the requirements of the crowds, but the young lawyers have not surrendered in spite of the negative to react.

They are now in the building of the United Nations and urge for an interview with the General Secretary.

They are reunited in an office, and the Secretary too is worried and seem to support their cause, he his admitting that the situation is extremely serious and requires a definitive intervention.
They have resolved to convene urgent meetings with representatives of all the countries forming study groups to evaluate solutions, they all agree that the unprecedented situation requires rapid implementation by the world leaders.

In a relative short time meetings have been held and founded accurate solutions to the problems and requests of the people, than during a General Assembly the General Secretary direct his voice to the media in a message to all the citizens of the world.

I see now images of different countries and their citizens, all reunited around the televisions in public places and all listening in silence to the words of the Secretary.
He is admitting a misconduct by international bodies, politicians and governments, guilty of lack of interest and unable to see and intervene to relieve the situation.
He says that definitely, actions must be taken to channel a new course for the future of the human society and its legitimate welfare.
He is saying that the world leaders have unanimously determined to take urgent actions and thoroughly favour all the requests of the people.

 In a moment I'm projected on higher levels of the earth's atmosphere, from where I can hear a cry of joy from all over the world.  Then I'm back again and see people in the streets of all the cities of the world, they are all smiling and cherishing each other, there are dances and celebrations, and a great cheerfulness everywhere.

(follows with "The Vision III Part)