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I am originally from India. I am settled in United States since 1969. I love mathematics, philosophy and clarity in thinking.

Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo

November 7, 2025 – 8:48 PM

According to Sri Aurobindo, the ascending levels of awareness are as above. I have decoded these levels with the help of Subject Clearing as follows.

INCONSCIENT
The state of Total Unawareness associated with inert matter. It is the ultimate condensed knowledge.

SUBCONSCIENT
The state of awareness in terms of impressions only. Knowledge appears as automatic replay of impressions.

PHYSICAL
The state of awareness of the body. Knowledge appears as complex activity with automatic programming.

VITAL
The state of awareness which is expressed as a spectrum of emotions.

MIND
The state of awareness expressed as a spectrum of reflection, imagination, conceptualization and reasoning.

HIGHER MIND
This is the state of awareness of oneness and anomalies accompanied by thinking.

ILLUMINED MIND
At this level a person is advancing into looking instead of thinking. The anomalies resolve with flashes of realizations.

INTUITIVE MIND
At this level a person is becoming aware of the postulates, principles and laws underlying reality.

OVERMIND
At this level a person is becoming aware of oneness among the postulates in different areas of activity.

SUPERMIND
At this level all awareness is completely continuous, consistent and harmonious. There is total oneness of knowledge.

SAT-CHIT-ANANDA
Sat is the all knowing state. Chit is total awareness in this state. Anand is the bliss of total oneness of awareness.

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Seven Quartets

(From Perplexity AI)

Aurobindo suggests a grand program called Sapta Chatushtaya (seven quartets) to aid this evolution. It is a structured, comprehensive program for yogic and spiritual development revealed to Sri Aurobindo. This system organizes the aspirant’s sadhana (spiritual practice) into seven key areas, each with four elements or goals. The scheme forms a core basis of his early yogic diaries and much of his synthesis of Yoga.

Overview of the Seven Quartets

1. Shanti Chatushtaya (Peace Quartet):

  • Focused on equanimity, inner peace, spiritual happiness, and joyful acceptance (equality, peace, inner happiness, soul’s laughter).
  • The goal is total freedom from disturbance, sorrow, and dissatisfaction, and the cultivation of unwavering gladness and contentment.

2. Shakti Chatushtaya (Power Quartet):

  • Cultivation of forces and capacities—physical, emotional, mental, spiritual—so the divine Shakti (power) can work in all parts.
  • Involves development of strength, energy, faith, and dynamism in body, feelings, and mind, transforming weaknesses into strengths.

3. Vijnana Chatushtaya (Knowledge Quartet):

  • Realization and application of true knowledge.
  • Cultivates the higher intuitive and supramental faculties to perceive truth directly and act from spiritual wisdom, surpassing the ordinary operations of mind.

4. Sharira Chatushtaya (Body Quartet):

  • Perfection of the physical body, its purification, transformation, and harmonization.
  • Aims for health, endurance, purity, and the ability to hold spiritual forces within matter.

5. Karma Chatushtaya (Divine Work Quartet):

  • Action and will become divinized, with work done in the world as an expression of divine realization.
  • Focuses on aligning will, reception, effectivity, and success to become a true instrument for divine action.

6. Brahma Chatushtaya (Being Quartet):

  • Realization of four aspects of the Divine (Brahman): pure existence (sat), pure consciousness (chit), pure bliss (ananda), and infinite nature (anantam).
  • The sadhak realizes unity with all existence and abides in the divine poise.

7. Siddhi Chatushtaya (Perfection Quartet):

  • Concerns the complete integration and perfection of the whole being.
  • Encompasses all other quartets and perfects purification, liberation, realization, and enjoyment (shuddhi, mukti, siddhi, bhukti).

Purpose and Process

  • Each quartet contains four elements, totaling 28 yogic objectives guiding seekers systematically toward integral transformation.
  • Sri Aurobindo received this as a detailed inner revelation and saw its fulfillment not just as personal progress, but as a model for the Yoga of the future, suitable for integrating all aspects of spiritual life with the world.
  • The sapta chatushtaya’s structure represents a uniquely comprehensive, experimental approach, reflecting Aurobindo’s synthesis of traditional Indian yogas with a forward-looking, evolutionary vision.

Context in Sri Aurobindo’s Writings

  • The sapta chatushtaya forms the backbone of his private “Record of Yoga,” predating and informing his later major works like “The Synthesis of Yoga.”
  • The “Quartets” scheme illuminates his broader yogic psychology, which aspires to balance and perfect all dimensions of being, from inner peace to outer action and the transformation of nature.

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Space, Mathematics and Einstein

November 4, 2025 – 5:23 AM

Einstein, in his general relativity, gives pure space a structure. This structure is influenced by the presence of physical mass. Where does this structure of space come from?

Space can curve. If this is an analogy, then the only description of space curving is through mathematics. Mathematics is based on postulates that are in coherence with each other. These postulates, axioms, or rules are all pure thought

So, a structure for pure space is being postulated in GR. Light is shown to follow this structure. Gravity of planets is also explained when planets are seen to follow this structure of pure space.

Basically, GR is postulating a coherence between physical structure of matter and radiation on one hand and the structure of pure space on the other. Matter, radiation and “space” are shown to be in some kind of coherence, or equilibrium, with each other.

We can sense the physical structures of matter and radiation through our physical senses. But we can sense the structure of pure space only through the thought put in mathematics. We can sense thought through our mental sense. And this makes thought a substance on its own right.

This is because SUBSTANCE can be defined as “anything substantial enough to be sensed.” We sense thought differently from radiation and matter; but thought, radiation and matter can all be sensed.

We may, therefore, say that pure space is made of thought.

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Clearing Subjects

November 2, 2025 – 5:17 AM

Reference: The Book of Subject Clearing

The first action of Subject Clearing is to choose the right subject to clear. This would be the most relevant subject at the top of list of Exercise 2 in Listing Subjects.

If this item pertains to personal life then go to Handling Personal Life and do the exercises there until your attention is no longer on personal life. Then do Exercise 2 again.

When the top item of Exercise 2 no longer pertains to personal life, then continue with the exercise below. This exercise requires the discipline of The 12 Aspects of Mindfulness for maximum positive results.

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Exercise 3: Clearing Subjects

  1. Select the most relevant subject at the top of list. See the exercise in Listing Subjects.
  2. Make a list of all the key words related to that subject.
  3. Start clearing the meanings of these key words. Please see Word Meanings.
  4. Use AI and mindfulness meditation to fully understand the concepts underlying the key words in the context of the subject.
  5. As you become aware of more key words of the subject, add them to the list.
  6. Arrange all key words, starting from the purpose of the subject, from broad to narrow concepts on a gradient. 
  7. Please note that such an arrangement may branch out in various directions.
  8. Notice the missing, contradictory and arbitrary concepts that now become visible. Please see Resolving Anomalies.
  9. The missing concepts may be hidden under not so developed or overlapping concepts.
  10. Add the key words related to such concepts in the right sequence on the list.
  11. The contradictions may be resolved by looking more closely at the related definitions and fine tuning them. 
  12. The arbitrary, redundant or overlapping concepts may be given due consideration before getting rid of them.
  13. Develop comprehensive definitions for the key words as you resolve anomalies.
  14. Develop a glossary in which the key words and their definitions are presented alphabetically.
  15. Focus on working out the fundamentals of that subject, down to the postulates. 
  16. Come forward defining the subsequent concepts until there is continuity, consistency and harmony among them.
  17. Do this until your attention is no longer fixated on the subject, and it is free to consider other subjects.
  18. Go back to the exercise of Listing Subjects, and rearrange the subjects again that are crowding your mind.
  19. Go back to step 1 above.

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Handling Personal Life

November 1, 2025 – 2:47 PM

Reference: The Book of Subject Clearing

Regrets

When applying Subject Clearing to personal life, here is a specific exercise:

  1. Start making a list of actions you committed, or omitted, which resulted in harm of some kind, and you have regrets about it.
  2. For each such action meditate specifically on the following aspects:
    • The precise TIME (in days, weeks, months and years ago) when that action occurred.
    • The precise PLACE (location in house, city, state, country) where that action took place.
    • The precise FORM (category, type) of that action, such as, a betrayal, a lie, etc.
    • The full EVENT (the details of that action—one moment to the next) from beginning to end.
  3. Keep meditating and continue adding such actions to your list until you start to feel relief.

You just have to get totally honest with yourself. This exercise may require a bit of courage.

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General Approach

A general approach of Subject Clearing to personal life shall be as follows:

  1. Make a list of all the things that you have attention on. NOTE: It is important that you complete this list to a point that you have a feeling of satisfaction.
  2. Arrange these items in the order from the most to the least relevant.
  3. Meditate on the top item from this list.
  4. Notice the missing, contradictory and arbitrary considerations that now become visible. NOTE: This is the key step.
  5. Find missing considerations. Resolve contradictions among considerations through meditation. Get rid of arbitrary considerations.
  6. Do this until your attention is no longer fixated on this item, and it free to consider other items of personal life.
  7. Go back to step 1.

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Comprehensive Approach

If the above is not comprehensive enough for you then go to Grassroots Scientology.

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Listing Subjects

November 1, 2025 – 2:24 PM

Reference: The Book of Subject Clearing

In this exercise we start making a complete list of subjects that are crowding your mind.

During this exercise, if any time you have difficulty with focusing your attention then go to Handling Introversion and do the exercises there until your attention is extroverted and stabilized. Then return to this exercise.

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Exercise 2: Listing Subjects

  1. Once you understand the different categories of subjects, start making a list of all the subjects that are crowding your mind. 
  2. Find all the subjects related to the doubts, perplexities, and confusions you have, and write their titles on a list.
  3. When you have accounted for all the things crowding in your mind by your list of subjects, you will feel a sense of relief. If not, then look anything missing on this list.
  4. When your list is complete, start clearing up the meanings of subject titles according to the example given below. At a minimum clear up the ‘root meaning’ and ‘purpose’.
  5. If more subjects come to your mind as you proceed with this exercise, just add them to this list.
  6. Once the meanings of all subject titles are cleared, arrange the subjects on the list from most relevant to the least.
  7. The end product of this exercises is a well-arranged, complete list of subjects that are crowding your mind.

Example: Clear the meaning of subject title.

  1. Suppose the subject title is MATHEMATICS. 
  2. The first action is to look up the “root meaning” of MATHEMATICS to get the basic sense of it.
    1. You may use a Dictionary or Google to look up the word MATHEMATICS.
    2. Or, you may ask Perplexity, “What is the root meaning of the word MATHEMATICS?”
    3. You may get a response somewhat along the lines: “Mathematics” derives from Greek máthēma, meaning “that which is learned” or “knowledge.” Ignore other details.
  3. The second action is to look up the “purpose” of MATHEMATICS.
    1. You may use a Dictionary or Google to look up definitions until you understand the purpose.
    2. Or, you may ask Perplexity, “What is the purpose of MATHEMATICS?”
    3. You may get a response somewhat along the lines: “The purpose of mathematics is to provide a universal framework for understanding, describing, and solving problems in the world through patterns, logic, and quantitative relationships.” Ignore other details.


Go to Clearing Subjects for the next exercise.

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