In themselves the organs do their work perfectly. The eye gives the right form, the ear the correct sound, the palate the right taste, the skin the right touch, the nose the right smell.Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings, CWSA 1, p. 397
जानना · निखारनाfirsta few minutes, any day
Knowing. One flower with every sense, a thing recalled, three senses at once, a leaf drawn by hand.
four exercises, a few minutes each →NikhārnāRefining. Two things nearly the same, told apart. Then three.
a few minutes →पाँच यात्राएँthe five journeysfrom sky to earth, each through its own element
Sound, into space
Sound, followed into silence and back →2vāyuSparshamayaTouch, into the air
A touch, followed into the air and back →3agniJyotirmayaSight, into the light
Light, followed into the dark and the sky and back →4jalaRasamayaTaste, into the waters
A taste, followed to the sea and back →5pṛthvīGandhamayaSmell, into the earth
A scent, followed to the edge of the earth and back →four ways each: fading, distance, within, the whole journey
पाँचों · शिक्षाafter themall five together, and the teaching
All five at once: near, widening together, one silence, and back together. Offered after the five.
any place, any length →ShikṣāThe teaching. The five educations in the Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's words, and who each was written for.
to read →Five lines to carry, without the phone →
The shallowest depth is complete on its own. These are the directions the Mother and Sri Aurobindo describe; a sitting points a man down that road, and we do not claim he has reached what they name.