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Sources of the Higher Forms of Imagination · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  How does imagination work? Why do some people seem to have
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  a large amount of active imagination and others very
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  little? All kinds of formations are
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  active in the vital and the mental domains.
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  For those who have the receptivity and the aware
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  connection to either of these realms, there is an interchange
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  that takes place. They receive intimations from
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  these realms, powers or formations that want to take a
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  physical form, that want to manifest in our complex world of
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  matter, life and mind, exert pressure and thereby become
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  known to the receptive individual.
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  For individuals with the most receptivity, who are least bound
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  by the existing forms active in the world, new insights, ideas
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  and visions become active. There are various levels of
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  interaction and intensity that can express themselves through
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  the receptive individual. We then describe these
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  individuals as visionaries, artists, inventors, people who
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  see over the horizon of our present situation.
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  A disciple asks how is it disciplining the imagination
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  done? The mother observes quote.
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  Imagination is something very complex and manifold, what is
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  vaguely called imagination? It can be the capacity for
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  seeing and recording, noting the forms in some mental or other
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  domain. There are artistic, literary,
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  poetic domains, domains of action, scientific domains, all
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  belonging to the mind, not a very high and abstract mind, a
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  mind above the physical mind, which, without our knowing it,
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  pours out constantly through the individual and collective mind
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  to manifest in action. Some people, through a special
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  faculty, are in contact with these domains, take up one
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  formation or other that is there, draw them to themselves,
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  and give them an expression. This power of expression is
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  different in different people. But those who can open
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  themselves to these domains, to see things there, to draw these
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  forms towards themselves and express them either in
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  literature or in painting or music, or in action or science,
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  are, according to the degree of their power of expression,
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  either very highly talented beings or else geniuses.
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  There are higher geniuses still. They are people who can open to
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  a higher region, a higher force, which, passing through the
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  mental layers, comes and takes a form in a human mind and reveals
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  itself in the world as new truths, new philosophical
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  systems, new spiritual teachings, which are the works
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  and at the same time the actions of the great beings who come to
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  take birth on earth. That is an imagination which can
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  be called truth imagination. These higher forces, when they
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  come down into the earth atmosphere, take living, active,
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  powerful forms spread throughout the world and prepare a new age.
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  These two kinds of imagination are what could be called the
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  higher imaginations. End Quote Reference Srioro Bindu
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  and the Mother Powers within, Chapter 3 Imagination, pages 26
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  to 27.