Intuition
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the Being, pp. xxix-xxx This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/17/intuition-2/
0:02 The popular idea about intuition is tied to some kind of unexplainable process of knowing that people go through. If it is purely based in the type of extrapolation from past experience or some sense that drive the decision without careful and logical analysis, it is still based in the normal activity of the Mind life and body using memory, Instinct and trained responses as a foundation for fast and unthinking response yet. We also see The creative genius has described a different process of intuition one that obtains its knowledge through an entirely separate process that starts outside. The normal operations, we are used to Sri, aurobindo provides insight to the basis for a larger and higher sense for the power of intuition, as a form of the process of knowledge by identity.
1:09 And a connection to the spiritual levels of consciousness. Where knowledge by identity, is the standard not the exception, dr. Dalal notes, quote, ordinarily intuition means, the power of understanding things immediately without the need for conscious reasoning. In this ordinary sense intuition may be based on a Feeling, or it may be a rapid subconscious. learning based on subtle cues, which are not consciously apprehended But as employed by SRI aurobindo to refer to the supercontinent plane above the aluminum mind.
1:52 The term has a much deeper connotation. And quote in the secret of the Veda, SRI aurobindo describes how the powers of intuition were symbolically represented by The Vedic rishi's quote. At this time, there began to arrive in my mind and arrangement of symbolic names attached to certain psychological experiences, which had begun to regularize themselves. And among them there came the figures of three female energies Ela, sorta sweaty seroma, representing severally three, out of the four faculties of the intuitive reason, Revelation inspiration, and intuition, when Once the clue is found the clue of the physical light Imaging, the subjective, it is easy to see that the Hound of Heaven, maybe the intuition entering into the dark caverns of the subconscious mind to prepare the The delivery and out flashing of the bright illuminations of knowledge which have there been imprisoned, these are the two essential characteristics of saaremaa, the knowledge comes to her beforehand before Vision Springs up instinctively at the least indication. And with that knowledge, she guides the rest of the faculties and divine powers that seek And
3:23 she leads to that seat sudden um, the home of the Destroyers, which is at the other pole of existence to the seed of the truth. Sudden amrutasya in the cave where secret place of Darkness, gu Hai mm, just as the home of the Gods is in the cave or secrecy of light. In other words, she is a powered descended from the supercontinent truth which leads us to the light that is hidden in ourselves in the subcontinent. All these characteristics apply exactly to the intuition and quote, three organ do writes, quote intuition is a Power Of Consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity for it is Always something that leaps out, direct from a concealed identity.
4:21 It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the Consciousness in the object penetrates it and sees feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning Flash from the shock of the meeting. Or when the Consciousness, even without any such meeting looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts, the hidden forces behind appearances. Then also, there is the outbreak of an intuitive light or again when the Consciousness meets the Supreme reality or the spiritual reality of things and Things and has a contextual Union with it.
5:14 Then the spark the flash or the blaze of intimate truth, perception is lit and its depths and quote reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother, our many selves practical yogic psychology introduction SRI aurobindo on our mini selves planes and parts of the beam page. Has Roman 29 to 30.
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