Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II

The Declaration of a True Slave of God

I belong to no nation, no civilization, no society, no race but to the Divine.

I give obedience to no master, no ruler, no law, no social convention, but to the Divine.

To Him I have surrendered all, will, life and self; for Him I am ready to give all my blood, drop by drop, if such is His will, with complete joy; and nothing in His service can be sacrifice for all is perfect delight.

February 1920

"Ah! Since India is the cradle of religion, since all the Gods preside over her destiny, what is he who will accomplish the miracle of resuscitating this city...!"—A. Chaumel

Blinded by false appearances, deceived by calumnies, held back by fears and prejudices, he has passed without knowing it by the side of the god whose intervention he implores; he has come close to the forces which will accomplish the miracle he demands but without waiting to recognise them; and thus he has missed the most beautiful chance of his life — a unique chance — of entering into contact with the mysteries and marvels the existence of which his mind guesses and to which his heart dimly aspires...

In all ages, before receiving initiation the aspirant had to pass through many tests. In the ancient schools these tests were artificial and hence lost the greater part of their value. Now it is no longer the same; the tests are hidden behind the most ordinary daily circumstances and they have a little innocent look of coincidence or chance which makes them so much the more difficult and dangerous.

So it is that India does not reveal the mystery of its treasures except to those who can conquer within themselves the mental preferences and Prejudices of race and education. Others go away disappointed... not having found what they were in search of— because they looked wrongly r it, because they did not agree to pay the price of the Divine.

Pondicherry, 21 September 1928

Psychic beings

The quality is definite but the number is undetermined. 24 March 1932

It is always the same old story of "selling the birthright for a mess of pottage" (I understand the "birthright" as the possibility or capacity to be the first to reach the Divine Realisation).

4 May 1932

I feel inclined to reply:

I live so far from all these conventions that I had not even thought of that.

16 May 1932

Today at Pranam, for the first time I could enter D's heart and an emanation of mine settled there.

14 June 1932

We live only because Thou wiliest it.

We do not die unless Thou wiliest it.

2 March 1934

The anniversary of my return to Pondicherry which was the tangible sign of the sure Victory over the adverse forces.

24 April 1937

What I want to bring about in the material world, upon the earth.

1) Perfect Consciousness.

2) Integral Knowledge, omniscience.

3) Power Invincible, irresistible, ineluctable (Power), omnipotence.

4) Health, Perfect, constant, unshakable (Health), perpetually renewed energy.

5) Eternal Youth, constant growth, uninterrupted progress.

6) Perfect Beauty, complex and total harmony.

7) Inexhaustible unparalleled Riches, control over all the wealth of this world.

8) The Gift of healing and giving happiness.

9) Immunity from all accidents, invulnerability against all adverse attacks.

10) Perfect Power of expression in all fields and all activities.

11) The Gift of tongues, the power of making oneself understood perfectly by all.

12) And all else necessary for the accomplishment of Thy work.

23 October 1937

Silence all outside noise, aspire for the Divine's help; open integrally to it when it comes and surrender to its action, and it will effectively bring about your transformation.

D.'s belief:

The Divine (as manifested in me) is all irony and deceit. It thinks only of playing tricks. When it laughs it mocks; when it says to do something it makes this very thing impossible to do etc.

I was told that our boys (young or old) like to play with me (the exact words were "to give me a game") for some reason or another, but to play truly and to learn to play they must play among themselves.

You have this extraordinary opportunity of being able to play a game and to take exercise in an atmosphere filled with Divine Consciousness, Light and Power in such a way that each of your movements is so to say permeated by the consciousness and the light and the power which is in itself an intensive yoga; and your ignorant unconsciousness, your blindness and lack of sensitiveness is such that you believe you are giving a game or even helping to play a good old lady for whom you feel a little gratefulness and some kind of affection!

(In the night of the 4th to the 5th of June 1949)

French is indeed the most precise and clearest language. But from the spiritual point of view it is not true that French is the best language to use; for English has a suppleness, a fluidity which French does not have, and this suppleness is indispensable for not deforming what is vaster and more comprehensive in the experience than what mental expression can formulate.

January 1950

Au revoir, my child, I wish that life may prove happy for you, and that one day you may be born into the Light and Truth.

Au revoir, my child, never forget what your experience was, and do not let any external darkness penetrate and veil your consciousness.

I am with you.

To my child of today and always

in remembrance of our new meeting.

A prayer for August 15, 1950

Lord,

Give me the strength of a total and perfect sincerity that I may be worthy of Thy Realisation.

Lord, give us the strength to live integrally the ideal we proclaim.

The Lord has said: The hour is come and all the obstacles will be surmounted.

I am only realising what he has conceived. I am only the protagonist and the continuator of his work.

1951

Palmistry is a very interesting art but it depends for its exactitude and truthfulness almost entirely upon the real ability of the one who practises it. Moreover, it relates only to the material destiny and this destiny can be altered by the intervention of the higher forces.

3 January 1951

Do not take the sorrows of life for what they seem to be; they are in truth a way to greater achievements.

(Music of the 2nd December, '51)

"Who are you?" says the adverse force.

"I am the impartial and truthful Mirror in which everyone finds his own real image."

25 February 1952

It is a fact that the Godhead has always taken a physical body with the intention of transforming that body and making of it a fit instrument for His manifestation upon earth. But it is a fact also that, until now, He has failed to do so and for one reason or another. He had always to leave that physical body with the work of transformation unfinished.

In order that the Divine may keep till a total transformation takes place, the body through which He is manifesting upon earth, it is necessary that at least one individual, if not more, fulfilling the required conditions of harmony, strength, sincerity, endurance, unselfishness and poise in the physical, should consider the body in which the Divine incarnates, not only as the most important thing, but as the thing exclusively important, more important than the Divine's work itself, or rather that this body should become for him the symbol and the concretisation of the Divine's work upon earth.

3 October 1952

A vision repeated for the third time.

A small mountain train (funiculaire) open, without sides or roof, just seats in rows close to one another, arrives and stops at its terminus. There is only one passenger and no visible driver.

When the train stops, the passenger stands up and steps out of it, on the platform outside. Nothing can be seen of the landscape outside; yet there is a strong feeling that it is the top of a very high mountain covered with ice and snow; beyond it there is only a very clear pale blue sky.

When the passenger stands outside the train he becomes clearly visible. It is Sri Aurobindo, but clean-shaved, no hair, no moustache, no beard, his complexion is pale and ivory, almost translucid. He stands for a second on the platform, and then comes back, sits once more at the same place in the train and says quietly but very decidedly: "No, I will go further".

And the vision stops abruptly.

4 July 1953

... very few, in fact, specially in an age like ours in which success alone counts and the material satisfactions it brings. However, an ever-increasing number of dissatisfied people are seeking to know the reason of life. And, on the other hand, there are sages who know and strive to help suffering humanity and to spread the light of knowledge. When the two meet, he who knows and he who wants to know, there springs up a new hope in the world, and a little light penetrates the prevailing darkness.

I dream at times of this wonderful thing we could have done together ... but for that I ought to have been beautiful and you a sage!...

Today was truly a day of victory, victory over all that yet remained human in the physical consciousness.

O nature, I bring to thee force and light, truth and power; it is for thee to receive and utilise them. It is thou who wilt be receptive in the fruit of thy creation, man, and open the doors of his understanding; it is thou who wilt give him the energy of progress and the will of transformation; and, above all, it is thou who wilt make him accept the Presence and aspire for Realisation.

18 October 1953

This experience followed conclusively the one I had last night whilst seeing Pranab's film. I felt strongly that my children were emancipated and that they no longer need my physical intervention to do their work well. It is enough that my presence among them is an inspiration and guide for them to keep a clear vision of the goal and not to go astray on the way. This leads quite naturally to a physical withdrawal into oneself so as to concentrate materially upon the work of transformation of the body. I can now leave them externally to do things according to their own ideas of execution, reducing my presence to a more or less invisible role of creative inspiration and consciousness.

10 May 1954

Spirit of service has gone away from this place.

16 May 1954

When I say that I have initiated someone, I mean that I have revealed myself to this person, without words, and that he was capable of seeing, feeling and knowing what I am.

It is their mental and vital formation of me that they love, it is not myself. More and more am I faced with this fact. Everyone has made for himself an image of me in conformity with his needs and desires and it is with this image that he is in contact, it is through this that he receives what few universal forces and still less supramental forces succeed in filtering through all these formations. Unfortunately these people cling to my physical presence, otherwise I could withdraw into my inner solitude and, from there, do my work quietly and freely; but this physical presence is for them a symbol and that is why they cling to it, for, in fact, they have very little real contact with what my body truly is, and with the formidable accumulation of conscious energy it represents.

And now, O supreme Force, now that you descend into me and penetrate more and more totally all the atoms of my body, the distance between me and everything around me seems to increase more and more, and more and more do I feel as though I were floating in an atmosphere of radiant consciousness which completely escapes their understanding.

11 June 1954

The body repeats constantly and with a poignant sincerity: "What am I to demand anything whatsoever from anyone at all? Left to myself I am nothing, I know nothing, I can do nothing. Unless the truth penetrates into me and directs me, I am incapable of taking even the minutest decision and of knowing what is the best thing to do and to live even in the most insignificant circumstance. Shall I ever be' capable of being transformed to the point of becoming What I ought to be and of manifesting What wants to manifest upon earth?" But why does this answer always come from the depths, from You, Lord, with an indisputable certitude: "If you cannot do it, no other body upon earth can do it." There is but one conclusion: I shall persist in my effort, without giving in, I shall persist until death or until victory.

8 September 1954

Since I love only you, O Lord, it is You alone whom I love in all and in each one; and by dint of loving You in them, I shall end up by making them a little conscious of You.

For them, the real thing is to know how to let themselves be loved without any preference and obstruction. But, not only do they not want to be loved except in their own way, they do not want also to open themselves to love unless it comes to them through the intermediary of their choice... and what could be done in a few hours, a few months or a few years takes centuries to be accomplished.

When a child lives in normal conditions, it has a spontaneous confidence that all it needs will be given it.

This confidence should persist, unshaken, throughout life; but the limited idea, ignorant and superficial, of its needs which a child has must be replaced progressively by a wider, deeper and truer conception which culminates in the perfect conception of needs in accordance with the supreme wisdom, until we realise that the Divine alone knows what our true needs are and rely upon Him for everything.

19 November 1954