... entity, but one is unevolving above Nature, the other evolves a psychic being in Nature. What is the difference between the cosmic Divine and the Mother? It is a matter of realisation. In the Yoga of the Gita the Cosmic Divine is realised as Vasudeva (Krishna). The Vaishnavas realise it as Vishnu, the Shaivas as Shiva, the Tantrics (Shaktas) realise the Devi (Goddess)... t of the universe, above it and originates it. I suppose in the eyes of the cosmic Divine everything here is perfect. Everything here is not perfect but all works out the cosmic Will in the course of the ages. Page 268 How far does the cosmic Divine maintain his unity or relation with the Supramental Divine? We see here hundreds of things and... support. Usually however one does not so much feel the self active as an action in and through the self. What acts on the self depends on the realisation; it is sometimes Nature, sometimes the cosmic Divine, sometimes the Mother. You said, "sometimes Nature". What is meant by Nature with a capital N? Nature = Prakriti. Yesterday you wrote to me, "Usually ...
... different aspects of the Divine. There is the Transcendent Divine and there is the Cosmic Divine. TheWillof realisationis that of the Transcendent Divine. The Cosmic Divine is what is concerned with the actual working out of things under the present circumstances. It is the Will of that Cosmic Divine which is manifested in each circumstance, each movement of this world. ... and can overcome the present circumstances and determine what will happen and help to bring down the Realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine. The faith that goes to the Cosmic Divine is limited in the power of its action by the necessities of the play.To get entirely free from these limitations one must reach the Transcendent Divine. June 24, 1931 Page 49 ...
... different aspects of the Divine. There is the Transcendent Divine and there is the Cosmic Divine. The Will of realisation is that of the Transcendent Divine. The Cosmic Divine is what is concerned with the actual working out of things under the present circumstances. It is the Will of that Cosmic Divine which is manifested in each circumstance, each movement of this world. The Cosmic Will... consciousness and can overcome the present circumstances and determine what will happen and help to bring down the realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine. The faith that goes to the Cosmic Divine is limited in the power of its action by the necessities of the play. To get entirely free from these limitations one must reach the Transcendent Divine. Faith and Knowledge Faith is a ...
... the Supreme Divine dynamic as well as static, comes with the transcendence. It [ realisation of the Cosmic Divine ] is sufficient if only a static Consciousness is aimed at—but if transformation and the dynamic Divine is the aim, then the whole must be known. To realise the Cosmic Divine is after all impossible without entering into or opening to the cosmic consciousness—but one has to know the... one sees when one opens to the Cosmic Consciousness. Observed, felt and taken rightly they help to liberate, universalise and impersonalise. But keep the ego out of it— everybody opening to the Cosmic Divine will have these or similar experiences. Observe and go forward. There is no doubt that you will succeed in your endeavour—all that is needed is firm persistence till the success is complete ...
... the Divine and the Lower Nature The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Cosmic Divine and the Mother What is the difference between the cosmic Divine and the Mother? It is a matter of realisation. In the yoga of the Gita the cosmic Divine is realised as Vasudeva (Krishna). The Vaishnavas realise it as Vishnu, the Shaivas as Shiva. The Tantrics (Shaktas) ...
... of the forces by the government of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - III: The Universal or Cosmic Forces The Cosmic Divine is what is concerned with the actual working out of things under the present circumstances. It is the Will of that Cosmic Divine which is manifested in each circumstance, each movement of this world. The Cosmic Will is not, to our ordinary consciousness, ...
... create a race in which the Supermind will be a permanent state of consciousness. Why cannot one love or experience [ the Cosmic Divine or the Transcendent Divine ] concretely? many have done it. And why assume that He is immobile, silent and aloof? The Cosmic Divine can be as close to one as one's own self and the Transcendent as intimate as the closest friend or lover. It is only in the physical ...
... it is not yet manifested in the cosmic formula—if not from the unmanifest Transcendence, which I must reach and realise? I have to bring it into the cosmic formula and, if so, I must realise the cosmic Divine and become conscious of the cosmic self and the cosmic forces. But I have to embody it here,—otherwise it is left as an influence only and not a thing fixed in the physical world—and it is through... in the manifestation, but are not part of the essence or of the undivided whole-consciousness either of the Divine or of our own spiritual being. I know what is your difficulty about the Cosmic Divine. It was not present to my mind because I look at these things from the point of view of facts as they are both to our spiritual and our Page 9 outward experience—whereas the point of ...
... Nor is it correct to put him in regard to the Vedic revelation on the same level as Teilhard de Chardin in regard to the Christian. Teilhard was gifted with a fine intuitive sensitivity to the Cosmic Divine Presence in its growing evolutionary form: he was not a seer in the true spiritual connotation of the word, not a yogi in any connotation which might bring him into the Aurobindonian universe of... sanātana dharma go back mostly to the commencement of his spiritual career. He referred to it after he had compassed the experience of Nirvana or Silent Brahman on the one hand and that of the cosmic Divine Person, Vāsudevah sarvam, on the other and had been on the way to the initial "overhead" planes. Even later he declared that he was basing himself in his expositions on the old Yogic vision of ...
... One 139 everywhere, and "God's discords" to help the Godhead grow within us. Even so, quite a gap remains between this perhaps divine imperfection and the ultimate Perfection. Is not this cosmic Divine a lesser Divine? Should we not try to find elsewhere an untarnished, transcendent, and perfect Divine? If there is an opposition between the spiritual life and that of the world, it is that gulf... casting any shadows, but they were still beams ending in particular points. Hence, the series of apparently irreconcilable divine experiences or visions invariably confronting us: some see the cosmic Divine everywhere, others the Transcendent beyond the cosmos everywhere, and others the immanent Divine everywhere; or there is affirmed the truth of the personal God, the truth of the impersonal God, ...
... most clearly overhead strains from the Upanishads retain something of their characteristic rhythm in Sri Aurobindo's translations in prose. Listen to this suggestion of the transcendental supra-cosmic Divine: "There the sun shines not and the moon has no splendour and the stars are blind. There these lightnings flash not nor any earthly fire. For all that is bright is but the shadow of His brightness... achieved by a special skill in phrase-formation and sentence-construction. Yeats is devoid of the true Upanishadic resonance as well as intonation in his rendering also of the stanza about the cosmic Divine; "Spirit is everywhere, upon the right, upon the left, above, below, behind, in front. What is the world but Spirit?" How poor in comparison to the Aurobindonian vividness and vibrancy: "The Eternal ...
... most c 1 early overhead strains from the Upanishads retain something of their characteristic rhythm in Sri Aurobindo's translations in prose. Listen to this suggestion of the transcendental supra-cosmic Divine: "There the sun shines not and the moon has no splendour and the stars are blind. There these lightnings flash not nor any earthly fire. For all that is bright is but the shadow of His brightness... achieved by a special skill in phrase-formation and sentence-construction. Yeats is devoid of the true Upanishadic resonance as well as intonation in his rendering also of the stanza about the cosmic Divine: "Spirit is everywhere, upon the right, upon the left, above, below, behind, in front. What is the world but Spirit?" How poor in comparison to the Aurobindonian vividness and vibrancy: "The Eternal ...
... from this high pre-eminence so that they appear only in their lesser human and cosmic workings. Much of their other Vedic aspects they keep. Here the three gods Indra, Vayu, Agni represent the cosmic Divine on each of its three planes, Indra on the mental, Vayu on the vital, Agni on the material. In that order, therefore, beginning from the material they approach the Brahman. Agni is the heat and ...
... means the contact with the Divine in oneself (or without, which comes to the same thing in that domain)" [ p. 17 ]. What is meant by the Divine "without"? Page 614 Does it mean the cosmic Divine or the transcendental Divine or both? It means the Divine seen outside in things, beings, events etc. etc. Was Jeanne d'Arc's nature transformed even a little because of her relation with ...
... not only within the heart supporting them—above and free and unattached as the static Self but also extended in wideness through the world as the silent Self in all and dynamic too as the active cosmic Divine Being and Power, Ishwara-Shakti, containing the world and pervading it as well as transcending it, manifesting all cosmic aspects. But, what is most important for us, is that it manifests as a ...
... This is the true spiritual individual which appears in its complete truth when we get rid of the ego and our false separative sense of individuality, realise our oneness with the transcendent and cosmic Divine and with all beings. It is this which makes possible the Divine Life. Nirvana is a step towards it; the disappearance of the false separative individuality is a necessary condition for our realising ...
... once divided and individualised, yet ever secretly conscious of its Page 206 all-embracing, all-possessing infinity. The impulse to realise that secret consciousness is the spur of the cosmic Divine, the lust of the embodied Self within every individual creature; and it is inevitable, just, salutary that it should seek to realise it first in the terms of life by an increasing growth and expansion ...
... When we possess thus the Divine as at once the silent and surpassing Witness and the active Lord and all-constituting Being without making any division between these aspects, we possess the whole cosmic Divine, embrace all of the universal Self and Reality, are awake to the cosmic consciousness. What will be the relation of our individual existence to this cosmic consciousness to which we have attained ...
... or in universal being who is the true truth of all that we see, hear, experience. We become aware of a cosmic Consciousness which is the secret of the cosmic Energy, a cosmic Self or Spirit, the cosmic Divine, the universal Godhead. But by Yoga we become aware also that our own Self or true being is one with the cosmic Self and Spirit, our nature a play of the cosmic Nature; the wall between ourselves ...
... presents a transcendental vision of Page 278 omega-workings. Evolution is pushing man towards a higher goal, an omega point, which can be described as collective divinity. A cosmic divine manifestation is in the making, Whitehead, who recalls the Platonic view of the cosmic process, maintains that nothing can emerge in the evolutionary process of the universe if its constituents ...
... Eliminate egoism in all its forms and from every movement of the consciousness. 3) Develop the cosmic consciousness—let the egocentric outlook disappear in wideness, impersonality, the sense of the Cosmic Divine, the perception of the universal forces, the realization and understanding of the cosmic manifestation, the play. 4) Find in place of ego the true being—a portion of the Divine issued from the ...
... of Buddha's teaching. So in all the Greek stories, legends and tragedies we find this inexorable cruelty of the decrees of a Fate that nothing can deflect. The faith that goes to the Cosmic Divine is limited in the power of its action by the necessities of the play. To get entirely free from these limitations one must reach the Transcendent Divine. Page 230 The only hope ...
... to suggest what seems to the mere mind a state of formless being that is outside the range of imagery: language with its various devices grows a natural mode of expressing the one yet manifold cosmic Divine as well as the archetypal Transcendent. The mental energy and the life-force can both poetically catch fire when the Spirit presses upon them, a fine outburst of revealing figures is possible ...
... from God's doorway Words that lived not, save upon Nature's summits, Ecstasy's chariots, 6 he is stating his own profound experience. Vishwarupa, the vision of the Cosmic Divine, expressed so beautifully in the eleventh chapter of the Gita bears a resemblance to the cosmic vision contained in Savitri . One may mark in this respect the utterance of Arjuna in his exultation ...
... above in an impersonal and formless aspect. Does not his incarnation on earth necessarily limit him? Living in such a world he has to govern all the three universes? It is the omnipresent cosmic Divine who supports the action of the universe; if there is an Incarnation, it does not in the least diminish the cosmic presence and the cosmic action in the three or thirty million universes. ...
... incarnate Supermind? The Supermind, unlike even the highest Overmind consciousness like Sri Krishna's, is the Transcendent not acting indirectly as in Sri Krishna through the supreme grade of the Cosmic Divine, but acting directly, with all the 1 Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 22, p. 411. 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid., pp. 421-22. Page 138 power of the more-than-cosmic level ...
... is the true spiritual individual which appears in its complete truth when we get rid of the ego and our false separative sense of individuality, realise our oneness with the transcendent and cosmic Divine and with all beings. It is this which makes possible the Divine Life. Nirvana is a step towards it; the disappearance of the false separative individuality is a necessary condition for our realising ...
... cosmic formula. From where shall he bring it down? It can only be brought down from the Transcendental world. So after the Yoga of the Individual Divine of Book I and the Yoga of the Universal or Cosmic Divine of Book II, he now gets ready for the Yoga of the Transcendental Divine in Book III. MANGESH NADKARNI Page 301 Select Bibliography J. E. Co ...
... Now, if Christianity has no future save as a Christianised faith in the world and if Christ himself has to be accepted "under the species" - that is to say, under the aspect - of evolution, as a cosmic divine "extension" of the ultra-human, two capital issues arise: (1) What is first and fundamental to Teilhard - faith in the world or faith in Christ? (2) Is the name "Christ" utterly indispensable to ...
... man a superhuman future and presents a transcendental vision of omega-workings. Evolution is pushing man towards a higher goal, an omega point, which can be described as collective divinity. A cosmic divine manifestation is in the making. Whitehead, who recalls the Platonic view of the cosmic process, maintains that nothing can emerge in the evolutionary process of the universe if its constituents ...
... the law of the Rta which causes the ripening of the sacrifice into its corresponding fruits which consist of the gradual enrichment of the Faculties of Knowledge and the lavish bounty of the cosmic Divine, which can culminate in the total replacement of the Ignorance, and in the total possession of the Knowledge and of the attainment of Immortality. This process of sacrifice is conceived in the Vedic ...
... man a superhuman future and presents a transcendental vision of omega-workings. Evolution is pushing man towards a higher goal, an omega-point, which can be described as collective divinity. A cosmic divine manifestation is in the making.¹³ Whitehead Whitehead (1861-1947), who recalls the Platonic view of the cosmic process, maintains that nothing can emerge in the evolutionary process ...
... in an impersonal and formless aspect. Does not his incarnation on earth necessarily limit him? Living in such a world he has to govern all the three universes! It is the omnipresent cosmic Divine who supports the action of the universe; if there is an Incarnation, Page 278 it does not in the least diminish the cosmic Presence and the cosmic action in the three or thirty ...
... to Overmind, for in any of these the Self can be realised. It brings about a subjective transformation; the instrumental Nature is only so far transformed that it becomes an instrument for the Cosmic Divine to get some work done while the Self within remains calm and free and united to the Divine. But this is an incomplete individual transformation - Page 208 the full transformation ...
... line, stands for the supreme or transcendent Divine, one who is above manifestation; the middle—the transverse or horizontal branch stands for the expanse of the universal consciousness, the Cosmic Divine; and the bottom portion, the vertical line below the transverse stands for the individual Divine immanent or imbedded in the manifestation. You will note that the flower we call transformation ...
... of human nature, the bridging up of the chasm between the human mind and the higher realms of the Spirit, the direct and dynamic contact with the cosmic forces, the union and communion with the cosmic Divine—cannot transform the whole human nature into the Supernature. To the mind that considers spiritual values and realisations in the gross, and possesses no insight into their depths and degrees, the ...
... The second stage is characterised by an ascent of the liberated, psychicised consciousness into the teeming vastness of the universal Self. An unprecedented wideness, a realisation of the Cosmic Divine, a direct perception of and participation in the cosmic movement, and an influx from the spiritual planes of Light and Power and Peace and Bliss into the human vessel, are some of the outstanding ...
... derivative from the Universal Mind, universal vital and the universal physical then the same result ensues. The individual must realize his divinity i.e. his identity with the Transcendent or the Cosmic Divine. Generally, when one realizes the Spirit, it is the mental sense of the ego that goes, not the entire ego-sense. The dynamic nature retains the ego – especially the vital ego. So, the best thing ...
... higher world known to the ancient Rishis that his poems bear a kinship to the creation of the ancient sages. In the Gita perhaps the eleventh chapter giving the vision of the Vishwarupa, the Cosmic Divine, bears a resemblance to some portion of Savitri. The student may compare the utterance of Arjuna in his exaltation of the vision, and of Vishwarupa, as the Destroyer of the World, with the ...
... is the true spiritual individual which appears in its complete truth when we get rid of the ego and our false separative sense of individuality, realise our oneness with the transcendent and cosmic Divine and with all beings. 48 ...the ego is the individual only in the ignorance; there is a true individual who is not the ego and still has an eternal relation with all other individuals ...
... the true spiritual individual which appears in its complete truth when we get rid of the ego and our false separative sense of individuality, realise our oneness with the transcendent and cosmic Divine and with all beings. 19 Therefore, according to Sri Aurobindo, liberation from the ego and its consequent extinction does not necessarily lead to a loss of individuality. The sense of ...
... aspect of its transcendence. That self-existent transcendent Love spreading itself over all, turning everywhere to contain, embrace, unite, help, upraise towards love and bliss and oneness, becomes cosmic divine Love; intensely fixing itself on one or others to find itself, to achieve a dynamic unification or to reach here towards the union of the soul with the Divine, it becomes the individual divine Love ...
... is the meaning of the manifestation. An Incarnation is the Divine Consciousness and Being manifesting through a physical body. It is possible from any plane. It is the omnipresent cosmic Divine who supports the action of the universe; if there is an Incarnation, it does not in the least diminish the cosmic Presence and the cosmic action in the three or thirty million universes. ...
... is felt—that is called Atman or Self. When action takes place, it is according to the realisation either felt as forces of Nature working in that wideness, as the Divine Shakti working or as the cosmic Divine or various powers of him working. It is not felt that the Self is acting. One may be aware of the silent static self without relation to the play of the cosmos. Again, one may be aware of ...
... egoism in all its forms; eliminate it from every movement of your consciousness. Develop the cosmic consciousness—let the egocentric outlook disappear in wideness, impersonality, the sense of the cosmic Divine, the perception of universal forces, the realisation and understanding of the cosmic manifestation, the play. Find in place of ego the true being—a portion of the Divine, issued from the World-Mother ...
... own levels." Are the planes of Higher Mind or Intuition in direct contact with the truth? Yes—because it is there that one opens to the cosmic Truth (as opposed to the cosmic Ignorance)—the cosmic Divine etc. It is not the full power of the Truth—that one reaches only in the Supermind where one is in direct communion with the Transcendent Reality; but it is still manifested Truth and not manifested ...
... to Overmind, for in any of these the Self can be realised. It brings about a subjective transformation; the instrumental Nature is only so far transformed that it becomes an instrument for the Cosmic Divine to get some work done while the self within remains calm and free and united to the Divine. But this is an incomplete individual transformation—the full transformation of the instrumental Nature ...
... they admit any such thing? The author seems to have got his information from authoritative sources and texts, but he does not make it clear whether this "One" is to be understood in the sense of a Cosmic Divine or a Supracosmic. Of course the animal difficulty is insuperable, because animals must enter the human stage first before liberation—unless of course either animals become humanised and begin ...
... "Spiritual experience means the contact with the Divine in oneself (or without, which comes to the same thing in that domain)." 14 What is meant by the Divine "without"? Does it mean the cosmic Divine or the transcendental or both? It means the Divine seen outside in things, beings, events etc., etc. Was Jeanne d'Arc's nature transformed even a little because of her relation with the ...
... the feeling of a total mastery over the universe. Page 101 × Realisation of the Immanent Divine, the Cosmic Divine and the Transcendent Divine or Nirvana. ...
... is not yet manifested in the cosmic formula -- if not from the unmanifest Transcendence, which I must reach and realise? I have to bring it into the cosmic formula and, if so, I must realise the cosmic Divine and become conscious of the cosmic self and the cosmic forces. But I have to embody it here, -- otherwise it is left as an influence only and not a thing fixed in the physical world, and it is through ...
... is not nor Sleep, The light began of the Trinity supreme." 16 Is the "Trinity supreme" Sachchidananda? Yes. 15 November 1968 Through Krishna's Grace, Arjuna realised the cosmic Divine and Virat in the twinkling of an eye. What a good Guru and what a good disciple! Speed is not necessarily a sign of superiority. These "instantaneous" conversions are most often the result ...
... fundamental, ineradicable impulse of Existence, once divided and individualised, yet ever secretly conscious of its all-embracing, all-possessing unity." 1 But although the spur of the cosmic Divine urges the individual on his path of ever-widening possessions, his demands for infinite and unfettered enjoyment cannot be satisfied, by the very nature of the situation, on the basis of a separative ...
... when the mental, vital and physical nature is known to be a derivation from the universal mental, vital and physical. The individual must realise also his identity with the transcendental or the cosmic Divine, whatever you may call it. From the mental plane, when one rises and realises the Spirit, it is generally the mental sense of ego that goes, not the entire ego sense. The dynamic nature retains ...
... impulse of Existence, once divided and individualised, yet ever secretly conscious of its all-embracing, all-possessing infinity. The impulse to realise that secret consciousness is the spur of the cosmic Divine, the lust of the embodied Self within every individual creature; and it is inevitable, just, salutary that it should seek to realise it first in the terms of life by an increasing growth and ...
... which, seeming to be contradictory, are actually complementary to each other, and act to fulfil the far strategic aim of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo has termed one of the aspects "Will of the Cosmic Divine" and die other "Will of the Transcendent Divine". The first one expresses the Divine's "immediate Will of the moment", considering the totality of the prevailing circumstances. But at the same ...
... Sachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss), we first develop the exceptional capacity of possessing and exercising a supra- mental sight, then the sight of the dynamically active Cosmic Divine, and, who knows, finally even the sight of the Supreme. At this point let us end our short survey of the eight elements involved in any act of "seeing". Now, if we permute and combine ...
... to Overmind, for in any of these the Self can be realised. It brings about a subjective transformation; the instrumental Nature is only so far transformed that it becomes an instrument for the Cosmic Divine to get some work done while the self within remains calm and free and united to the Divine. But this is an incomplete individual transformation — the full transformation of the instrumental Nature ...
... line, stands for the supreme or transcendent Divine, one who is above manifestation; the middle – the transverse or horizontal branch stands for the expanse of the universal consciousness, the Cosmic Divine; and the bottom portion, the vertical line below the transverse stands for the individual Divine immanent or imbedded in the manifestation. You will note that the flower we call transformation has ...
... this higher world known to the ancient Rishis that his poems bear a kinship to the creation of the ancient sages. In Gītā perhaps the eleventh chapter giving the vision of the Viśwarūpa, the Cosmic Divine, bears a resemblance to some portion of Sāvitrī. The student may compare the utterance of Arjuna in his exaltation of the vision, and of Viśwarūpa, as the Destroyer of the world, with the colloquy ...
... her a personal achievement, but a work for the race, for mankind. It is only when the Divine "puts on mortal ignorance" that he "can help man to grow into the God". Alan is the disguise of the cosmic Divine. Savitri is asked to accept human limitations so as to transform human nature. In her journey towards her soul Savitri separated herself from the body and looked at the inner depths of her being ...
... but also as the many, as each being, each filing and each happening, and the liberated soul, liberated also in its nature, must rise into an identification, at once static and dynamic, with the cosmic Divine, and feel itself in all and all in itself. God in all and all in God, even while enjoying the indescribable bliss of the supracosmic union. And it is important to note that this universality of ...
... sunmmit gleam where Night is not nor Sleep, The light began of the Trinity supreme. " 1 Is the "Trinity supreme" Sachchidananda? 15.11.1968 By Krishna's Grace, Arjuna realised the cosmic Divine and Virat in the twinkling of an eye. What a good Guru and what a good disciple? Speed is not necessarily a sign of superiority. These "instantaneous" conversions are most often the ...
... and evolved in our being, it widens its individuality and rises into union with the Jivâtmâ. This union gives the psychic the experience of its own universality and its oneness with all in the cosmic Divine; and through this experience of the universal it can pass on into the embrace of the Transcendent. THE PSYCHIC BEING The psychic entity, which is at first an undifferentiated power of ...
... 2. or, he may open equally to Cosmic forces and acts as Bala, Jada, Pishacha or Unmatta.* 3. or, he may be one with the Divine and act and would be free not to act. In case he acts, he is the individual centre of the Cosmic for Divine action. He is one with the Divine yet remains a different self – yet free. Cosmic forces would be available to him for Divine action. _____________ * ... Page 293 Even when you find that the Divine has decreed the result, it is the result that is decreed but not the Nimitta, that is, anything else could have been the Nimitta. The Individual , Universal, the Transcendental are the One in different positions. "I am the Lord in each" says the Gita. Disciple : If Divine does everything then we have to conclude that ignorance... 15th September, 1940 Disciple : Has the individual no reality except as a puppet? Sri Aurobindo : That is Shanker's stand. Disciple : Another question is "If the Divine is already there and does everything then why yoga?" Because Sri Krishna says to Arjuna in the Gita that you have only to become Nimitta – instrument. So the Christian's criticism is that the Individual ...
... they have the perfect happiness temporal as well as spiritual. 2: M. K. Naik’s Prayer for Grace circulated in a seminar held in Pune sometime in 1996 runs as follows: Now, may the Cosmic Soul Divine Be pleased with this word-offering of mine And grant me, in its goodwill benign This Grace: Page 128 May the evil-minded their crookedness shed May they increasingly turn ...
... Nature itself is Prakriti, working (literally, forward working) of world-Force, called by us Shakti, the cosmic or divine Power of cosmic or divine Will. And because that Shakti is, Page 507 in the phrase of the Swetáswatara Upanishad, Devátmashaktih swagunair nigúdhá, the self-power of Divine Being hidden by the modes of its own workings, because it is, to use another Sanscrit formula, Chit-Shakti... being. Nature to Vedanta is only the mask of a divine cosmic Will, devátmashaktih swagunair nigúdhá; Prakriti of Vedanta is no separate Page 512 power, no self-existent mechanical entity, but the executive force of the divine Purusha at once self-revealed and self-concealed in the mechanism of its own workings. Purusha, conscious Soul, is the divine Poet and Maker; Nature, conscious Force, is... nature, fulfilling itself in a divine freedom equally from desire for the fruit of the action and from attachment to the action itself; the fruit is to be what the Lord has willed, the action is God's action in us for His great cosmic purpose. God Himself, the Gita tells us, has essentially this immortal freedom from desire, & yet He acts entirely; He has this divine non-attachment to the work itself ...
... irreplaceable role. Seen from a distance, all this is a sort of dismal fairy tale, The Lord of the Rings but on a cosmic scale. To our experience, however, it is a raw, painful reality of which all our limitations and miseries are the outcome. Through it all, we carry the Divine in us, whom we are in essence; but our consciousness is veiled and our forces totally inadequate. Yesterday was unsatisfactory... mental consciousness under all its aspects will become the surpassed cosmic element. The ‘child’ in Sri Aurobindo’s aphorism, who must be a very powerful child, is the soul in its supramental body which will effortlessly bring the artificial techno-scientific world to an end. Sri Aurobindo wrote already in the first pages of The Life Divine that technical hardware is in fact a demonstration of the impotence... the supramental world, and thus become the first incorporated supramental beings on planet Earth and in the cosmos; for then the Earth has no bounds for them any more, they being by definition cosmic and divine. These few ones ‘can still be counted,’ the Mother said. He who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite. 30 — Sri Aurobindo If there is some truth in all this, humanity ...
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