Cosmic Will Quotes

“An inward movement, to become aware of one’s inner being, is an essential condition in the Integral Yoga, as ‘To change the outer consciousness entirely without developing this inner consciousness would be too difficult.’11 Sri Aurobindo maps out some general steps on this marvellous journey—detaching oneself from one’s outer being, living within and from within, first from one’s inner mind, vital and physical, then from the corresponding witness purushas or selves of the levels of the being, and finally in and from one’s psychic being or inmost soul. His letters comment on a number of experiences and movements connected with these stages and their relation to the external being, as well as on inner experiences in the state of samadhi or trance.


The conscious awareness of the different planes and parts of his individual inner being puts the seeker in touch with the universal or cosmic consciousness standing behind the individualised personality—an opening to the universal self and forces:12


When one has the cosmic consciousness, one can feel the cosmic self as one’s own self, one can feel one with other beings in the cosmos, one can feel all the forces of Nature as moving in oneself, all selves as one’s own self.


Sri Aurobindo’s letters on this topic cover a number of aspects. These include the relation of the cosmic consciousness to other planes (like the Overmind, the transcendent, or the cosmic self), the different realms of cosmic ignorance and cosmic truth, universal harmony and discords, the cosmic will, the experiences of opening to the cosmic mind and life as well as the broad range of universal and cosmic forces.”
― Gautam Chikermane, Reading Sri Aurobindo