... possibility: of keeping the consciousness interested in something else. But then the possibility of illness or disorder isn't cured. So it's a constant choice between the work of transformation and (or) an equilibrium sufficient to go on with the general work. I could write volumes, it's very, very interesting. It's being organized. Page 45 We don't really understand the value of the microscopic... fall "sick" for a while. Then comes the choice made within by the cells, which weigh up the possibilities from the standpoint of the progress of transformation: "What can act? What can be the most useful in order to produce the greatest result? Is it to yield and have an apparent fall (it's only apparent), and in that fall, to allow the Force to do its work without interference; or is it to follow... the nature governing the body, knows what needs to be done better than the divine Power: it's "used to it," it "knows better." That's how it is. And then, when this new consciousness which is being worked out in the physical being ( the mind of the cells ) has caught hold of that, oh, it was as if it had caught hold of an extraordinary revelation; it said, "Ah, I've got you, you culprit! You are the ...
... our roots of mind and life. Our springs are kept close hid beneath, within; Our souls are moved by powers behind the wall. A thinking puppet is the mind of life: Its choice is the work of elemental strengths That know not their own birth and end and cause And glimpse not the immense intent they serve. These unwise prompters of man's human heart And ...
... only do our preferences and attachments enter into our choice of the work, but the atmosphere and vibrations of those we want to help and serve introduce into the work elements which often militate against or throw out of gear the developing trends of our being. Our consciousness is obscured as a result of this unhappy decision and choice, and we have perforce to submit to the "determinism of... preferred by the mind usually leads to a confusion of values and a chaos of consequences. What than should a Yogin do when many ideals appeal to his mind and many actions demand his decision and choice ? What is the most important criterion of Yogic action ? The Mother's words depict two successive states of the Yogin: —first, that in which he is seeking union and identification with the Divine... Guru, or in the absence of the Guru, to the indwelling Divine, for approval and sanction, so that none of the desires of the being, physical, vital or mental, may go to determine our decision and choice. Not what we think best and essential, ; but what the Divine, the Author and Master of our being, demands of us, should be undertaken and accomplished in the spirit of a joyous sacrifice. So long ...
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