"What you think is,what you are !!!", an age old saying is a profound statement, not definitely a passing comment. All of us would realise this in some point in our life. The happy and sorrow moments occurring in our life are all coming from within. In one of his talks Yogananda Paramahamsa mentions the following example, "A women is standing by the window and watching, a kind man passing by thinks she is waiting for her kid, a sensuous man passing by thinks she may be waiting for her lover." Hence its our thinking or consciousness which determines what we are.
Modern day Scientist / Doctors in the never ending experimentation of trying to understand brain, have concluded that, Buddhist monks who mediate more than 10,000 hours have a lot of calm cells in their brain, and hence say that meditation and consciously changing our way of thinking can bring a lot of benefits to our body and mind, such as reduced stress, good appetite etc...
In Aurobindo's word, we all live in mind consciousness, this puts a great veil betweent the profound truths and us. The upanishads and vedas are an attempt to lift the veil. The vedic peace invoking prayer is the first attempt to open up ourselves from mind conscious behaviour to divine conscious behaviour, the prayer goes as
"Om. That is full; this is full. This fullness has been projected from that fullness. When this fullness merges in that fullness, all that remains is fullness. Om. Peace! Peace! Peace!"
Source :"The Upanishads - A new Translation" by Swamy Nikilananda
Pondicherry Mother states that it was the aim of the divine behind Aurobindo's arrival to earth to help the fellow human beings realize the truth / divine consciousness
"from Volume 12 On Education, p.116 (24 July 1951)
Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his time to establish in himself this consciousness he called supramental, and to help those gathered around him to realise it. "
Modern day Scientist / Doctors in the never ending experimentation of trying to understand brain, have concluded that, Buddhist monks who mediate more than 10,000 hours have a lot of calm cells in their brain, and hence say that meditation and consciously changing our way of thinking can bring a lot of benefits to our body and mind, such as reduced stress, good appetite etc...
In Aurobindo's word, we all live in mind consciousness, this puts a great veil betweent the profound truths and us. The upanishads and vedas are an attempt to lift the veil. The vedic peace invoking prayer is the first attempt to open up ourselves from mind conscious behaviour to divine conscious behaviour, the prayer goes as
"Om. That is full; this is full. This fullness has been projected from that fullness. When this fullness merges in that fullness, all that remains is fullness. Om. Peace! Peace! Peace!"
Source :"The Upanishads - A new Translation" by Swamy Nikilananda
Pondicherry Mother states that it was the aim of the divine behind Aurobindo's arrival to earth to help the fellow human beings realize the truth / divine consciousness
"from Volume 12 On Education, p.116 (24 July 1951)
Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his time to establish in himself this consciousness he called supramental, and to help those gathered around him to realise it. "
