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   [[File:Imagination_1.png{|center|1000px]]   [[Fileclass="wikitable" style= "background-color:Imagination_2.png|center|1000px]]   [[File#efefff; width:Imagination_3.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:Imagination_4.png|center|1000px]]100%;"  [[File:Imagination_5.png|center|1000px]]   Read more about '''[[File:Imagination_6.pngImagination Compilation|center|1000px]]   [[File:Imagination_7.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:Imagination_8.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:Imagination_9.png|center|1000pxImagination]]   [[File:Imagination_10.png|center|1000px]]    ''No, but it is only an imagination, isn’t it, Mother?'' An imagination? But what is an imagination?… You cannot imagine anything which doesn’t exist in the universe! It is impossible to imagine something that doesn’t exist somewhere. The only possibility is that one may not put one’s image in its place: either one gives it virtues and qualities it doesn’t have, or explains it with some other than the right explanation. But whatever one imagines exists somewhere; the main thing is to know where and to put it in its proper place. Of course, if after having imagined that you are in front of a door which is opening, you thought that it was really a physical door inside your body, that would be a mistake! But if you realise that it is the mental form taken by your effort of concentration, this is quite correct. If you go wandering in the mental world, you will see plenty of forms like that, all kinds of forms, which have no material reality but truly exist in the mental world. You cannot think powerfully of something without your thought taking a form. But if you were to believe that this form was physical, that would obviously be an error, yet it really does exist in the mental world. Imagination is a power of formation. In fact, people who have no imagination are not formative from the mental point works of view, they cannot give a concrete power to their thought. Imagination is a very powerful means of action. For instance, if you have a pain somewhere and if you imagine that you are making the pain disappear or are removing it or destroying it—all kinds of images like that—well, you succeed perfectly. There’s a story of a person who was losing her hair at a fantastic rate, enough to become bald within a few weeks, and then someone told her, “When you brush your hair, imagine that it is growing Mother and will grow very fastSri Aurobindo.” And always, while brushing her hair, she said, “Oh, my hair is growing! Oh, it will grow very fast!…”—And it happened! But what people usually do is to tell themselves, “Ah, all my hair is falling again and I shall become bald, that’s certain, it’s going to happen!”|}And of course it happens! __NOTOC__

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Imagination is the capacity to project oneself outside realized realised things and towards things realizablerealisable, and then to draw them by the projection.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/span><span style="background6-july-color:transparent;color:1955#000000;"> p40</spanref> <div style="color:#000000;">The Imagination It is really the power of mental formation. When this , when one imagines something they make a mental formation, and depending on the quality and the power is put at of the service of divineformation, it is not only formative but also creativesome people succeed in making what they imagine real. </divref> <span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">Our surface imagination is a selection from a vaster more creative and effective subliminal image//incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-building power of consciousness..</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:imagination#000000;"> p1</spanref><span style="background-colorref>http:transparent;color:#000000;">It is a substitute for a truer consciousness faculty of intuition of possibility//incarnateword.<in/cwm/07/span> <span style="background6-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Imagination is one of the ways of capturing the unknown possibilities of the infinite.</span><span style="backgroundjuly-color:transparent;color:1955#000000;"> p25</spanref> = Imagination Represents Possibilities = <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Mind constructs figures which are not true to the outer experience. They are the appearance of it. Our mind is an observer of actualities and recipient of truths not yet known Everyone has in him, in a greater or actualizedlesser measure, a dealer of possibilities that mediate between the truth and actuality. It doesn’t have the capacity power to give form to know everything of an infinite consciousness; </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Mind has limited knowledge his mental activity and it has use this form either in his ordinary activity or to supplement its restricted knowledge by imagination create and discovery.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">. It does notrealise something, like the infinite Consciousnessfor often, manifest the knownvery often, it has in these mental imaginations there is a small element of will which tries to discover realise itself. We are all the unknowntime, always, creating images, creating forms. </spanref> <span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">All imagination represents some form of possibilities//incarnateword.<in/cwm/09/span><span style="background3-september-color:transparent;color:1958#000000;"> p9</spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Perhaps a very different form of actuality. &nbsp;Most of them are unrealized because they do not enter When this power is put at the scheme service of present reality or do divine, it is not come within the permitted potential of the individual or do not accord with collective principle or are alien to the nature of the current worldonly formative but also creative.</spanref> = Nature of Imagination = <span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">I</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">magination which persist in the human mind, end often by self-fulfillment; individual thought formation can actualize themselves/incarnateword. If there is sufficient strength in the formation or in the mind that forms, it. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">&nbsp;<cwm/span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Imagination can create its own potentiality. In fact all imagination represents possibilities.<03/span> <span style="backgroundpower-color:transparent;color:#000000;">All human imaginations indeed correspond to some reality or real possibilities, though they may be quite inaccurate representation and therefore inapt to express the truth of supraphysical realities.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:imagination#000000;"> p1</spanref> = Types of Imagination = == Mental Imagination == <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The is one which comes from of the ways of capturing the unknown possibilities of the mind. It includes ideasinfinite, images, scenarios etc. This imagination it is more of delusional in its nature. &nbsp;This imagination has a common tendency to want to materialize. This is something that every human beings possess. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Ordinarily, our mental imagination is an instrument of Ignorance.</span> == Truth Imagination == <div style="color:#000000;">The one which comes from substitute for a higher state or truth truer consciousness. Inspiration and Intuitions are powers 's faculty of intuition of this truth consciousness.</div> <span style="background-colorpossibility:transparent;color:#000000;">As as the mind opens to ascends towards the higher regionstruth-consciousness, a higher force passes through all this mental layer. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It reveals itself as new truths, power becomes a new philosophical system, a new spiritual teachings. This truth imagination prepare a new age. All which brings the saints colour and great beings possess this capacity light of the higher truth imagination.</span> = Sources into the limited adequacy or inadequacy of Imagination = <div style="color:#000000;">The Mental the knowledge, it gives place wholly to higher truth-powers or itself turns into intuition and Truth imaginations have different sources.</div> <span style="background-color:transparentinspiration;color:#000000;">Mental Imagination</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">is sometimes coming from the Mind in that uplifting ceases to be a variation creator of a memory delusions and/or combination an architect of actualitieserror. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It Mind then is not a substitute for true conciseness faculty sovereign creator of intuition of possibilities.</span> <div style="colorthings non-existent or erected in a void:#000000it is an ignorance trying to know;">The sources its very illusions start from which mental imagination comes has nothing to do with the reason a basis of some kind and does not care for any rational objections. They come from are the vital mind, which picks up random suggestions anywhere and present it to the mind just to see whether it will be accepted. If one watches he can see that results of a limited knowledge or a lot of irrational thoughts pass through mindhalf-ignorance.</divref> <span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">It is //incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">vital cosmic-illusion-mind, i.e. the mental faculty under the influence of ‘desires, impulses, force-pushes, emotions, sensations, seekings after lifedream-fulfilment, possession and enjoyment’ which builds the plans and imagines.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:hallucination#000000;"> p24</spanref><span style="background-colorref>http:transparent;color:#000000;">Ordinarily, the vital mind’s imagination is governed by an unbalanced vital, a weak nervous system and unruled impulses without any true mental will or strong vital to steady it//incarnateword.<in/span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Mind is not an original and primary creative power of consciousness; it isa derivative, an instrument, an intermediary creator. &nbsp;<cwsa/span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Our mind stands between superconscience and <21/span><span style="backgroundthe-color:#ffffff;color:#009966;">Inconscience</span><span style="backgroundcosmic-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="backgroundillusion-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(</span><span style="backgroundmind-color:#ffffff;color:#009966;">subconscience</span><span style="backgrounddream-color:transparent;color:#000000;">) &nbsp;and receives from both the these opposite powers.</span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:hallucination#000000;">A higher Imagination or p25</spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Truth Imagination</span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">As The mind ascends towards truth consciousness, has not the mental power becomes a truth imagination. </span><span style="background-color:transparentomniscience of an infinite Consciousness;color:#000000;">The mind then it is able limited in knowledge and has to receive inspirations supplement its restricted knowledge by imagination and seeing power of the mind develops. It is no longer constructing, imagining, fantasising, creating scenarios, but is a channel, a receptor of the higher knowledge, the truth consciousnessdiscovery. </spanref> = How to Control Imagination = <div style="colorhttp:#000000;">One can turn the imagination upwards or downwards//incarnateword. Up above lies all inspiration of artistic and literary things. This comes from another domain, not in/cwsa/21/the mental-vital repository. The finer beauty cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and creativity can manifest through receiving light from above. -hallucination#p22</divref> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">One can But it is to be aware of all the thoughts happening in noted that through imagination the mind and choose to put them in their placedoes receive a figure of truth, keep some thoughtsdoes summon possibilities which are afterwards realised, destroy some and focus all formative power does often by its imagination exercise an effective pressure on creating the images that confirms with one’s highest aspirationworld's actualities. </spanref><span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">. Imagination is a faculty which can be disciplined, can be used at will, directed and oriented//incarnateword. It is one of the faculty one can develop in oneself and be used for definite purpose.</span> = Use of Imagination = <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Imagination can be used to create one’s inner and outer life<cwsa/21/span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">. It is an elementary way to creating and of forming things in the world. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Our imagination goes ahead of our life. </span><span style="backgroundcosmic-color:transparent;color:#000000;">&nbsp;</span><span style="backgroundillusion-color:transparent;color:#000000;">One can imagine what one wants to be and open paths for realizations. </span><span style="backgroundmind-color:transparent;color:#000000;">By using the power of imagination one can project oneself into the future </span><span style="backgrounddream-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and this helps the person in moving forward to actualizing that potential.</span> <div style="color:-hallucination#000000;">Imagination is useful in science. Without imagination humans will not discover anything.p24</divref> <div style="color:#000000;">The more optimistic one’s imagination is the greater the chances of realizing one's aim.</div> = Imagination and Yoga =

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The power of imagination is very useful in yoga. This power of making form is a stays as a creative potential form in oneself. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When the mind is put Imagination in communion with the divine will, the Truth begins to descend through the layers between the mind and the highest Light.</span><span styleChildren ="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">This often takes the form of vision, and its communion with the creative energy helps translate the seed ideas and imagination into manifested realities. </span>

= MisChildren are not as "concretised", materialised in their physical consciousness as older people—as one grows up, it is as though one is coagulated and becomes more and more gross in one's consciousness unless through a willed action one develops otherwise. For instance, the majority of children find it very difficult to distinguish their imagination, their dreams, what they see within themselves from outer things. The world is not as limited as when one is older and more precise. And they are extremely sensitive within; they are much closer to their psychic being than when they are grown up, and much more sensitive to the forces which, later, will become invisible to them—but at this moment are not. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/30-use of Imagination =december-1953#p3</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If Why is Imagination is used in unconscious and excessive way without discipline, it &nbsp;brings negative consequences on the person</span><span styleImportant? ="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span>

People who can open to a higher region, a higher force which, passing through the mental layers, comes and takes a form in a human mind and reveals itself in the world as new truths, new philosophical systems, new spiritual teachings, which are the works and at the same time the actions of the great beings who come to take birth on earth. That is an imagination which can be called "Truth-imagination". These higher forces, when they come down into the earth-atmosphere, take living, active, powerful forms, spread throughout the world and prepare a new age. <div style="colorref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/3-september-1958#000000;"p7</ref>Most Men of science must be having imagination! A lot. Otherwise they would never discover anything. One can obviously have progressive and regressive imaginations. There are people who always imagine all the people give form to onecatastrophes possible, and unfortunately they also have the power of making them come. It's like the antennae going into a world that's fears not yet realised, catching something there and anticipates accidents drawing it here. Then naturally it is an addition to the earth atmosphere and miss fortunesthese things tend towards manifestation. This undermines one’s own futureIt is an instrument which can be disciplined, can be used at will; one can discipline it, direct it, orientate it. &nbsp;Stop imagining It is one of the wrong things faculties one can develop in himself and the misery will stop at the same timerender serviceable, that is, use it for definite purposes. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/6-july-1955#p40</divref>

<div style="color:#000000The power of mental formation is most useful in Yoga also;">Imagining when the mind is put in detail about how one wants one’s spiritual communication with the Divine Will, the supramental Truth begins to descend through the layers intervening between the mind and the highest Light and if, on reaching the mind, it finds there the power of making forms it easily becomes embodied and material life is stays as a good practice to gain clarity and inspiration towards life aheadcreative force in you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-of-imagination#p1</divref>

<div style="color:#000000;">Being mindful of one’s Imagination is helpful How to understand oneself better.</div>Cultivate Imangination? =

A good deal of our life embodies the products of our imagination. Every time we indulge our imagination in an unhealthy way, giving a form to our fears and anticipating accidents and misfortunes, we are undermining our own future. On the other hand, the more optimistic one’s imagination, the greater the chance of one realising their aim. Therefore, never be dejected and disappointed but let your imagination be always hopeful and joyously plastic to the stress of the higher Truth, so that the latter may find you full of the necessary formations to hold its creative light. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-of-imagination#p1<div style="color/ref> Stop imagining wrong things and your miseries will stop at the same time. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/wrong-thinking-and-illness#000000;"p1</ref>Dream journaling is also The source from which these imaginations come has nothing to do with the reason and does not care for any rational objections. They come either from the vital mind, the same source from which come all the fine imaginations and long stories which men tell themselves in which they are the heroes and do great things or they come from little entities attached to the physical mind which pick up any random suggestion anywhere and present it to the mind just to see whether it will be accepted, or an unbalanced vital and a good exercise weak nervous system apt to follow its own imaginations and unruled impulses without any true mental will or strong vital will to steady or restrain it. If one watches oneself closely one can find the most queer and extraordinary or nonsensical things crossing the mind or peeping in on it in this way. Usually one laughs or hardly notices and the thing falls back to understand the content world of incoherent thought from which it came. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p20</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p32</ref> But if one stands back or ascends a step, one can look at all these things, put them in their place, keep some, destroy or get rid of those one does not want and put all one's imaginative power—what is called imaginative—only in those one wants and which conform with one's deep unconscious mindhighest aspiration. That is what it means to control one's imagination. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/3-september-1958#p1</divref>