... us take the army, the army of the divine forces, on the other side the army of the forces of ordinary nature; so whether to keep on the side of this army or of that, that's what it means. You do not understand? That is to say, to go to this side, join this or that side. If I keep on the side of the divine forces I join those who are fighting for the divine forces like an army. If Page 389 ... the physical opening is still more different. What is the physical opening? That's when the physical body opens to the divine influence and receives the divine forces. For example, you see, there's a moment when the divine forces come and penetrate all the cells. To begin with, it is the physical consciousness, the body consciousness which opens first to the influence of the Divine and u ...
... thought that I would try to pour on you some of the Divine forces. I was looking at you for such a long time and it was Divine love that I was pouring on you with a strong will that you should become conscious of the Divine Presence in you and see all your sorrows turn into Ananda. I saw to my great joy that you were very receptive to all these Divine forces and absorbing them without resistance as they... he takes upon himself the burden of humanity in order to exceed it— he becomes human in order to show humanity how to become Divine. But that cannot be if he is himself a weakling without the Divine Forces behind—he has to be strong in order to put his strength into all who are willing to receive it. There is therefore in him a double element—human in front. Divine behind—and it is that which gives ...
... the already partly quoted letter of October 1938 to her son André, the Mother continued: ‘Hitler is a choice instrument for these anti-divine forces which want violence, upheavals and war, for they know that these things delay and hinder the action of the divine forces. That is why disaster was very close although no human government consciously wanted it. But there was to be no war at any cost and that... those which are opposed to this fulfilment. The former have few conscious instruments at their disposal. It is true that in this matter quality by far compensates for quantity. As for the anti-divine forces, they have only too much to choose from and always find minds which they enslave and individuals they turn into docile but nearly always unconscious puppets.’ 11 After the accident, Sri ...
... quantity. As for the anti-divine forces they have only too many to choose from, and always they find wills which they enslave and individuals whom they turn into docile but nearly always unconscious puppets. Hitler is a choice instrument for these anti-divine forces which want violence, upheaval and war, for they know that these things retard and hamper the action of the divine forces. That is why disaster ...
... spite of all divine patience, there is a given moment when human will exhausts its strength and the divine Will prevails. We always measure time by our small human duration; but naturally the divine forces do not have the same measure as ours, and what may seem to us long or uncertain is for them the most direct way, in spite of everything, to reach there. In the given set of circumstances it is the... months, after that they will Page 459 not be able to do anything very much, it will be a crumbling resistance. That's it: it is essentially the conflict of the adverse forces, the anti-divine forces which are trying to push back the divine Realisation as much as they can... they hope, for thousands of years, you see. And it is this conflict which has come to its crisis. It is their last chance; ...
... is converted, if it is truly surrendered to the divine Will, then these fighting capacities are turned against the anti-divine forces and against all the darkness which prevents their transformation. And they are all-powerful and can conquer the adversaries. The anti-divine forces are in the vital world; from there, naturally, they have spread out into the physical, but their true seat is in the vital ...
... study of sports—we must think that it is for the Divine? But surely... How? It is not even very difficult. You can first do it as a preparation so as to become capable of receiving the divine forces, and then, as a service, so that you may help in constructing the whole organisation of the Ashram. You can do it not with any personal Page 268 gain in view, but with the intention... work? Eh? Excuse me, it is not for the pleasure of doing the long jump, it is to make your body more perfect in its functioning, and, therefore, a more suitable instrument for receiving the divine forces and manifesting them. Why, everything, everything one does in this place must be done in this spirit, otherwise you do not even profit by the opportunity given to you, the circumstances given ...
... It is as though you were in the midst of a big cyclone. It happens at times that the wind is so violent that you are not able to stand—you have to lie down and wait till it blows over. Now, the divine forces are a thousand times stronger than a cyclonic wind. If you do not have in you a very wide receptivity, an extremely solid basis of calmness, of equality of soul and inner peace, they come and carry... ready?... All that you will be able to get from it is that it will become inert, that is, it will hide in a corner, not stir any longer, and let the storm pass! Because for it the contact with the divine forces is like a storm. And when it sees that the crisis is over, it will react: "Here we are! Now, it is my turn!" If you are upset, it means that you have still much work to do upon your vital before ...
... make it, this means that there is something perverse in you which has deliberately chosen to be on the side of confusion or bad will or even the anti-divine forces. And it is quite obvious that if one chooses to be on the side of the anti-divine forces or is so weak and inconsistent that one can't resist the temptation to be on their side, it is infinitely more serious from the psychological point ...
... the light but also scrutinises the sadhak to see whether he is ready for the farther advance. When he lets him pass, then is the rush of new and higher experiences, the march and progress of the divine forces, the Gods and their powers, the transformation of the nature into a higher consciousness. It was these powers that you saw passing in your vision. Parvati-Shankara It is probably the realm... spiritual Knowledge—so as you are getting this knowledge, you saw yourself in this form, identified with Ganesh. Kartikeya The peacock is the bird of victory and Kartikeya the leader of the divine forces. Sanatkumar Sanatkumar is, I believe, one of the four mind-born sons of Brahma; he cannot therefore be identical with Skanda who is a son of Shiva. Buddha Buddha stands for the conquest ...
... thought that I would try to pour on you some of the Divine forces. I was looking at you for such a long time and it was Divine love that I was pouring in you with a strong will that you should become conscious of the Divine Presence in you and see all your sorrows turn into Ananda. I saw to my great joy that you were very receptive to all these Divine forces and absorbing them without resistance as they ...
... Volume One (1954-1955) The Story of a Soul 01 June 1955 On June 1st I wrote to the Mother: The Divine Forces are slow to appear, while the anti-divine forces are prompt to rush into my consciousness and upset everything. Why is that? She answered: Because your call is not sincere enough and your confidence in the Divine's Grace is not sufficient ...
... That's the true working. I see these people [of the jute factory]: no choice needs to be made, the man didn't say spontaneously (or anyway, with feeling), "This money is at the disposal of divine forces for the action"—not at all, that's a thousand miles away from his thought. It's "I quite simply want to take POSSESSION again..." of something he claims to own. So that's why ( Mother shakes her... this way or that way—it hardly makes any difference. The true attitude is this: money is a universal force meant to do the work on earth, the work needed to prepare the earth to receive the divine forces and manifest them, and it must come into the hands (the utilizing power, that is) of those who have the clearest vision, the most general and truest vision. The first thing, to begin with (this ...
... without considering the destruction and the imbalance created which multiplies itself endlessly without control in the terrestrial atmosphere. This has created a vicious circle in which the anti-divine forces have utilised man, have helped him to produce these destructive devices in order to have control over this kingdom where falsehood predominates. The earth and the terrestrial atmosphere tremble... hostility the small entities which work for peace, sweetness and harmony in the world flee, because in these terrible hours the divinity that governs the world withdraws due to the pressure of the anti-divine forces. All seems lost, senseless and without value. Why this existence at all if it is to be annihilated in an irreversible nothingness? In these terrible hours one hears a faint voice, one perceives ...
... ess and His Joy, according to each one's receptivity.' - Oct 22 Writes to Andre, 'Hitler is a choice instrument for these anti-divine forces which want violence, upheaval and war, for they know that these things retard and hamper the action of the divine forces.' - Nov 24 Accident to Sri Aurobindo's leg. Sri Aurobindo: 'I was more occupied with guarding the Mother and... I didn't think ...
... thought that I would try to pour on you some of the Divine forces. I was looking at you for such a long time and it was Divine love that I was pouring on you with a strong will that you should become conscious of the Divine Presence in you and see all your sorrows turn into Ananda. I saw to my great joy that you were very receptive to all these Divine forces, and absorbing them without resistance as they ...
... the fulfilment of the Divine Work upon earth and those that are opposed to this fulfilment … Hitler is a choice instrument of these anti-divine forces which want violence, upheavals and war, for they know that all this delays and hinders the action of the divine forces. That is why disaster was very close although no human government consciously wanted it.” 977 In one of the Mother’s recorded talks ...
... the fulfilment of the Divine Work upon earth and those who are opposed to this fulfilment … Hitler is a choice instrument for the anti-divine forces who want violence, upheavals and war, for they know that these things delay and hinder the action of the divine forces. That is why disaster was very close although no human government consciously wanted it. But there was to be no war at any cost, and that ...
... lower nature and upset the sadhak. When the higher forces come down into a nature not sufficiently purified through work, it is difficult to bear the descent of the divine forces." It is not the descent of the higher or divine forces that upsets a sadhak, it is his acceptance of forces of falsehood through ambition, vanity, desire to be a great Yogi or an attachment to his experiences without regard ...
... particular to the Allies.) If the nations or the governments who are blindly the instruments of the divine forces were perfectly pure and divine in their processes and forms of action as well as in the inspiration they receive so ignorantly they would be invincible, because the divine forces themselves are invincible. It is the mixture in the outward expression that gives to the Asura the right ...
... turned towards a more total, more true inner realisation, towards this constant , imperative preoccupation with the union of the whole being, including the bodily cells, with the vibration of the divine forces, with the supramental force which is manifesting, so that this may be the true life: not only the purpose of life, but the essence of life, not only an imperative need of life, but all its joy and... preoccupation of every second, the will of all the elements of the being, the aspiration of the entire being, including all the cells of the body, is this union with the supramental forces, the divine forces. And there is no longer any need at all to be preoccupied with what the consequences will be. What has to be in the play of the universal forces and their manifestation will be, quite naturally ...
... aim and purpose. If the nations or the governments who are blindly the instruments of the divine forces were perfectly pure and divine in their processes and forms of action as well as in the inspiration they receive so ignorantly they would be invincible, because the divine forces themselves are invincible. It is the mixture in the outward expression that gives to the Asura the right ...
... e in their aim and purpose. If the nations or the governments who are blindly the instruments of the divine forces were perfectly pure and divine in their processes and forms of action as well as in the inspiration they receive so ignorantly, they would be invincible because the divine forces themselves are invincible. It is the mixture in the outward expression that gives to the Asura the right ...
... functioning. I see these people (from the jute mill), there isn't any choice to make; the gentleman didn't spontaneously say (at least with feeling), "That money is at the disposal of the divine forces for action." - Not at all, that's a thousand miles from his mind; it's "I only want to regain POSSESSION..." of something he claims to be his. And that's why (Mother shakes h er head): whether... doesn't make very much difference. The true attitude is this: money is a universal force intended to do a work on earth, the work necessary to prepare the earth to receive and manifest the divine forces, and it (that is, the power of utilization) must come into the hands of those who have the clearest, most comprehensive, truest vision. To start with, the first thing (but this is elementary) ...
... humanity, predominantly mental, which developed the mind but misused it and immediately set out on the wrong path—first thing. There is nothing to say since the first thing done by the divine Page 178 forces which emanated for the Creation was to take the wrong path! 6 That is the origin, the seed of this marvelous spirit of independence—the negation of surrender , in other words. Man... of Nature's collaboration (November 8, 1957). × In effect, according to tradition, the first divine forces that emanated for the creation were the Asuras, who turned into demons. The gods were created later to repair the disorder engendered by the demons. ...
... Keen sight. 1933 The snake is not the symbol of power but of energy , and just as there are obscure and perverted energies, so too the snake can be the symbol of unregenerate and anti-divine forces. 29 May 1934 Page 38 Does the cow really have a special sanctity or is it merely a tradition based on economic needs? Mere tradition based on old symbols. Mother... by the waterfall in the picture you have given me? Is it not the current of your serene peace and of your divine force which constantly floods me? Yes, it is the symbol of the descent of the divine forces upon the physical plane. 25 January 1934 Water signifies many things such as fluidity, plasticity, suppleness, the purifying principle. It is the driving force and marks the beginning ...
... do not feel the Divine's Presence and Peace; it is because your consciousness is entangled in the mind, and full of illusions. But you must understand that the hostile forces are false and the Divine Forces are true. You must always develop your consciousness towards the Divine Light. At the same time you should eat well—not for your own sake, but for the sake of the Lord and His work. You should... because they are true. As you gradually feel the Divine's Presence, you will get new strength, new consciousness, everything. Once and for all the adverse forces are bound to submit to the Divine Forces, and the Divine's Victory is certain. Then she kissed my forehead and gave me some flowers. In the evening, when she distributed groundnuts to everyone in the Playground, she spread the lap-cloth ...
... 69) The Mother has further said as regards the sources of these tests: "The three types of examination are (1) that set by the forces of Nature, (2) that set by the spiritual and divine forces, and (3) that set by the hostile forces. The last are the most deceptive in their appearance and if one is not to be taken by surprise or unprepared, one has to be constantly in a state of vigilance... Grace can save those who refuse the indispensable purification. And I would add this: that fear is an impurity, one of the greatest impurities, one of those which come most directly from the anti-divine forces which want to destroy the divine action on earth; and the first duty of those who really want to do yoga is to eliminate from their consciousness, with all the might, all the sincerity, all the ...
... not hit the General on the head or is not commensurate with the opposing Forces. (Opposing Forces need not be Asuric, they may be quite gentlemanly Forces thinking they are in the right. Or two Divine Forces might knock at each other for the fun of the thing. Infinite possibilities, sir, in the play of Forces.) Even if it can't be wrong, its efficacy will vary with the power of the communicant.... force. U and A were apparently doing very sincere sadhana, no question about that. What is meant by sincere sadhana? In the Mother's definition of sincere, it means "opening only to the Divine Forces" i.e. rejecting the others even if they come. If A and U were like that, how did they go? It would indeed be a miracle. A seems to have gone for health... A went, not only for health, but ...
... understands and is converted, if it is truly surrendered to the Divine Will, then its fighting capacity turns against anti-divine forces, the forces of obscurity that prevent the transformation: the powers of the vital are strong enough to conquer the enemies. The anti-divine forces are in the vital world: from there they spread upon the physical. But their own seat is in the vital and it is the converted ...
... instruments of these forces: If the nations or the governments who are blindly the instruments of the divine forces were perfectly pure and divine in their processes and forms of action as well as in the inspiration they receive so ignorantly, they would be invincible because the divine forces themselves are invincible. It is the mixture in the outward expression that gives to the Asura the right ...
... in India was always unerring. When the world war came in 1939... it was he of Page 706 the unerring eye who said that the triumph of England and France was the triumph of the divine forces over the demoniac forces.... He spoke again when Sir Stafford Cripps came with his first proposal. He said, 'India should accept it.' We rejected the advice... but today we realise that if the... humanity poised perilously on the edge of the precipice: the deep Abyss on one side, the steep ascent to truth on the other. In this phoenix hour, the hour of the unexpected, when the Asuric and Divine forces are fighting the battle of man's future - the battle of Satyavan the Soul of the World - Sri Aurobindo gives us the all-sufficing Word that his coming will not have been in vain, that his ministry ...
... as supporters and agents of all internal & external activity, charshanidhritah, without distinction of names or special faculty. A rich and many-sided activity is contemplated; the mass of the divine forces that support the world action in man are summoned to their functions. The precise meaning of the words has first to be settled. Charshani is taken in the Veda to be, like krishti, a word equivalent ...
... that seeing snakes is not very auspicious. Is this true? Serpents are energies—those of the vital are usually evil forces and it is these that are usually seen by people. But favourable or divine forces are also imaged in that form—e.g., the Kundalini Shakti is imaged in the form of a serpent. Serpents turning over or round the Mother's head would rather recall the Shivamurti and would mean numberless ...
... faithfully with us, and his unchanging affection will enfold us, and his spiritual influence will always be the same, absolutely the same. Whether materially he is near or far matters little, for the divine forces elude completely the laws of the material world: they are omnipresent, always at work to satisfy every receptivity, every sincere aspiration. So although it may be pleasant for our outer being ...
... expressing itself and reject it from your nature; and on the other side you must build positively surrender, understanding, consecration, self-giving and the sense of a complete collaboration with the divine forces. This is the positive side. Do you understand? The same thing again: people who get angry... the habit of flying into a rage, of getting angry... one fights against that, refuses to get angry ...
... Thee will be welcome." Does the Divine give suffering or sorrow? Well, my child, that text, you know what it is: it is Radha's prayer to Krishna. And so, it is such a personification of divine forces that one is obliged to extend human feelings to the Divine in order to be able to express oneself. To understand it in its true form a whole long explanation would be required, and then it is no ...
... cutting off all connection with material life: one becomes worse than a vegetative kind of being. What is needed is that the vital, instead of serving its own ends or being an instrument of anti-divine forces, should become an instrument of the Divine and put all its force at the service of the Divine. This is quite possible. When we are afraid, is that due to the mischief of these beings? Yes ...
... 15 April 1953 You have written: "Do not try to pull at the forces of the Divine." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 14 April 1929 ) Can one pull the divine forces by violence? Yes, if you call very strongly, if you aspire very strongly, you may pull down a large number of forces into you, but you will not be able to digest them, assimilate them. It is ...
... ingenuous justifications and coverings, is one of the usual devices of the hostile forces. Be on your guard against any idea which will make you admit these hostile forces on the same terms as the divine forces. I understand you have said that you must admit all because all is a manifestation of God. All is a manifestation of God in a certain sense but if misunderstood as it often is, this Vedantic truth ...
... Aphorism - 2 Each one of you should be able to get into touch with your own psychic being, it is not an inaccessible thing. Your psychic being is there precisely to put you in contact with the divine forces. And if you are in contact with your psychic being, you begin to feel, to have a kind of perception of what divine Love can be. As I have just said, it is not enough that one morning you wake up ...
... that are mad beyond all control—is more and more obvious, marked, visible, and it is a kind of race or struggle as to which will reach the goal first. It would seem that all the adverse, anti-divine forces, the forces of the vital world, have descended on the earth, are making use of it as their field of action, and that at the same time a new, higher, more powerful spiritual force has also descended ...
... I think?" I believe all who have taken up yoga, if they are sincere, if they reflect for a moment, tell themselves, "I was not aware of it, but if I have succeeded, it was probably because the divine forces were there to help me, otherwise I would not have been able to succeed." This is well understood. But there comes a moment when one knows that one would not have been able to lift a finger if these ...
... feel it. You feel suddenly filled with peace, force, light—sometimes even with yet more precious things: knowledge, consciousness, love. And then, it disappears. Then you say, "Oh! Truly, these divine forces are not generous. They make you taste the thing to see how good it is, then take it away from you so that you may desire it all the more!" This is the usual conclusion. Yet we know the causes ...
... can save those who refuse the indispensable purification. And I would add this: that fear is an impurity, one of the greatest impurities, one of those which come most directly from the anti-divine forces which want to destroy the divine action on earth; and the first duty of those who really want to do yoga is to eliminate from their consciousness, with all the might, all the sincerity, all the ...
... through countless lives, passing through innumerable organisms, using countless experiences it, so to speak, becomes refined; it is prepared, and becomes more and more receptive and open to the divine Forces. So, a man as a momentary individual being may not appear to progress. But the progress is continued through him, as through all organisms. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 28 December ...
... work? Eh? Excuse me, it is not for the pleasure of doing the long jump, it is to make your body more perfect in its functioning, and, therefore, a more suitable instrument for receiving the divine forces and manifesting them. Why, everything, everything one does in this place must be done in this spirit, otherwise you do not even profit by the opportunity given to you, the circumstances ...
... Courage, Endurance, Effort Fear Is an Impurity fear is an impurity, one of the greatest impurities, one of those which come most directly from the anti-divine forces which want to destroy the divine action on earth; and the first duty of those who really want to do yoga is to eliminate from their consciousness, with all the might, all the sincerity, all the ...
... understood by the mere reasoning intelligence. Use and Misuse of the Divine Force All power comes from the Divine but it is more usually misused than used spiritually or rightly. The Divine Forces are meant to be used—the mistake of man individualised in the Ignorance is to use it for the ego and not for the Divine. It is that that has to be set right by the union with the Divine Consciousness ...
... therefore the Vedic Rishis had no thought of their subjective being, no perception of intellectual and moral forces within themselves, it is a psychological impossibility that they should have detected divine forces behind the objective world but none behind the subjective. These are negative and a priori considerations, but they are supported by more positive indications. The other Aryan religions which ...
... psychic being, which is not attacked or troubled by these movements, finds them foreign to itself and automatically refuses assent to them and feels itself always turned to or in contact with the Divine Forces and the higher planes of consciousness. Find that part of your being and live in it; to be able to do so is the true foundation of the Yoga. By so standing back it will be easier also for you ...
... Divine who is the Sadhaka and the Sadhana; it is his Shakti with her light, power, knowledge, consciousness, Ananda, acting upon the adhara and, when it is opened to her, pouring into it with these divine forces that makes the Sadhana possible. But so long as the lower nature is active the personal effort of the Sadhaka remains necessary. The personal effort required is a triple labour of aspiration ...
... We are told the Mother can act best if a sadhak is sincere. But what is meant by this? What is meant by sincere sadhana? In the Mother's definition of sincere, it means "opening only to the Divine Forces", i.e. rejecting all the others even if they come. 21 April 1936 ...
... neither disdains to help that ascent from above nor fears to descend down the stairs of God into the material birth and there contribute the power of its own bliss nature to the upward pull of the divine forces. The time for that marvellous hour of the evolving Time-Spirit is not yet come. Man, generally, cannot yet ascend to the bliss nature; he has first to secure himself on the higher mental altitudes ...
... Supermind is inevitable. When the Kali Age is ending or has ended - as I believe - there is a terrible period in which all the hidden evil comes out or is drawn out in order to be dealt with by the divine forces. We have been passing through this period and now the first signs of God's dawn are faintly visible. We may have a fairly long wait but the result is sure: Streak on gold streak wounding the ...
... way of understandablefrailties relieved by admirable strengths. Its success would herald the beginning of an age in which the diabolic would reign over the human and make the advent of divine forces impossible for untold centuries and render the fight for the Spirit, whenever the fight did manage to come, a far more difficult and doubtful Armageddon than anything we could know during those ...
... world-play, a colossal wager of the Divine with himself. Evolution starts from the very opposite of the Divine — a total involution of all of the Divine's powers and a full chance is given to anti-divine forces to challenge each move forward. Always the Grace intervenes of the free Divine beyond, yet a heavy price is paid again and again, and for all the certainty of the ultimate triumph time is often ...
... n illustrations of the Homeric rush of oceanic sound is the reference again and again to the sea. And the next passage which renders clear the reason of the long indecisive siege of Troy— the divine forces working out their own play through the human clashes—we have again the sea-simile for the to-and-fro of the war's fortunes: Vain was the toil of the heroes, the blood of the mighty was squandered ...
... people, you have learned from them to be discontented, rebellious, depressed, and now you have let your smile slip away, and with it your faith and confidence in me; in this condition, if all the divine forces were to concentrate on you, it would be in vain—you would refuse to receive them. There is only one remedy, and you must lose no time in accepting it: recover your smile, regain your faith, become ...
... divine creation and the transformation of the earth. Theon was the first one to give me the idea that the earth is symbolic, representative—symbolic of concentrated universal action allowing divine forces to incarnate and work concretely. I learned all this from him. In this respect, you say somewhere that the gods too must incarnate to become fully conscious. Yes, because.... How is ...
... by... ( same gesture ). I continually have the feeling (fifty times a day, perhaps) of being a little baby ( gesture, kicking hands and legs ), completely wrapped in and tossed about by the divine forces! ( laughter ) Exactly like that. There are still.... It isn't completely transparent, naturally, there still remain some old things, the ego's old rule over the body, which causes grating and ...
... ( After a silence ) You will go to the end. Oh, Mother.... But I can go to the end only if you go there! ( Mother laughs silence ) But you know, at the same time, I am aware of the divine forces going through like this ( gesture through the body ). I try to obstruct as little as I can. And it gives some extraordinary results: constantly, there are... what people call "miracles." But ...
... the Aurobindonian "Event" and the Tennysonian. Sri Aurobindo points to a daily occurrence, while Tennyson presumably talks of the end of universal history. And yet, behind the daily working of divine forces to which Sri Aurobindo alludes, we may discern a final "divine Event", when the Gods, the Lords of Truth and Light, will awake forever and the Avidya, the Ignorance, in which the world's consciousness ...
... Aurobindo, however, told him that he must do it. He wanted his children to work for the war effort. Sri Aurobindo told him this was not a war between the nations and people but a war between the Divine Forces and the forces of the asura. Udar took his family out of Pondicherry and worked for the government successfully for one year and was happy in New Delhi and so was Mona. Little Gauri, however, at ...
... could receive it’ – and with the power to protect this transitional species. Why does the overman need protection? Because the world is in the grip of powerful and cunning hostile forces, anti-divine forces, that will mercilessly do everything within their power to prevent a change in the dispensation and the incarnation of any kind of higher species on Earth. How vicious they can be is there for all ...
... forces. The concern of every second, the will of all the elements of the being, the aspiration of the entire being, also of all the cells of the body, is this union with the supramental forces, the divine forces. And there is no longer any need at all to worry about what the consequences will be. What has to be, in the play of the universal forces and their manifestation, will be, quite naturally, spontaneously ...
... during these [fourteen] months, afterwards they will not be able to do much, their resistance will crumble. That’s what it is about: it is essentially the conflict of the adverse forces, of the anti-divine forces, who are trying to push back the divine Realization as much as they can – they hope for thousands of years. ‘It is this conflict which has reached its climax. It is their last chance. And as ...
... preoccupation of each moment, the will of every element of the being, the aspiration of the whole being, including each and every cell of the body, will be this union with the supramental, the divine forces. There is no need at all any more to be preoccupied with the consequences that might follow. In the play of the universal forces and their manifestation, what must be will come naturally, s ...
... the pure simplicity of a child but at the same time it has the patient endurance given by experience and eternity. Perhaps that is why the outer "me" was so frequently assaulted by the anti-divine forces—lest it should be swiftly taken over by the soul. The outer "me" unfortunately did not know how to check itself and thus fell easy prey to the forces that oppose Truth and Love. Subtle fears ...
... 1957 White Roses 05 November 1957 DURGA: (The Picture sent by the Mother) She will fight until there are no more anti-divine forces upon earth. ...
... hostile forces are everywhere out in the lists. They are actively present—bent upon mischief and how they always wait to pounce on unwary beings! Yet what possible harm can they do to me when the divine forces also are present? You see, the instinct I had of not picking up the locket proved to me that the Divine too was everywhere vigilant and victorious. Nevertheless, there have been too many shocks ...
... is meant to be used. That is the true mechanism. The true attitude is this: money is a force intended for the work on earth, the work required to prepare the earth to receive and manifest the divine forces, and it―that is, the power of Page 269 utilising it―must come into the hands of those who have the clearest, most comprehensive and truest vision. To start with, the first thing (but ...
... is ordinarily the sign of too great a concern with oneself (whether material or spiritual) and a consequent narrowing of the consciousness, which is no longer sufficiently in communion with the divine forces. The remedy: a completer self-giving to the Divine. With my blessings and all my love. 8 December 1940 My dear little X, Do not worry; I only meant that you are not yet completely ...
... enough and offers resistance; this is why the number of incomprehensible disorders and even diseases is increasing and becoming a problem for medical science. The remedy lies in union with the divine forces that are at work and a receptivity full of trust and peace which makes the task easier. 18 November 1971 Those who want to progress now have an exceptional chance, because the transformation ...
... another, work towards the same end, and are all indispensable to the completeness of the result. The three types of examination are: those set by the forces of Nature, those set by spiritual and divine forces, and those set by hostile forces. These last are the most deceptive in their appearance and to avoid being caught unawares and unprepared requires a state of constant watchfulness, sincerity and ...
... destructive, forces of an uncontrollable madness—is becoming more obvious, unmistakably visible, and it is a kind of race or battle as to which will be first to reach its goal. All the hostile, anti-divine forces, these forces of the vital world, seem to have descended upon earth and are using it as their field of action; and at the same time, a new, higher, more powerful spiritual force has also descended ...
... that the way towards transformation is found. 18 April 1971 It is good to do exercises and to lead a simple and hygienic life, but for the body to be truly perfect, it must open to the divine forces, it must be subject only to the divine influence, it must aspire constantly to realise the Divine. Good health is the exterior expression of an inner harmony. We must be proud if we are in ...
... the Aurobindonian "Event" and the Tennysonian. Sri Aurobindo points to a daily occurrence, while Tennyson presumably talks of the end of universal history. And yet, behind the daily working of divine forces to which Sri Aurobindo alludes, we may discern a final "divine Event", when the Gods, the Lords of Truth and Light, will awake forever and the Avivdya, the Ignorance, in which the world's con ...
... what we could call a direct, conscious intervention of the Supreme in the darkest Matter, without going through all the intermediaries, in order to awaken this Matter to the receptivity of the Divine Forces. "The intervals separating these various incarnations seem to become shorter and shorter, as if, to the extent that matter became more and more ready, the action could accelerate and become ...
... Ambu's Correspondence Ambu's Correspondence with The Mother 7 February 1934 The design is the symbol of the descent of the Divine forces and the answer from the material world. The harmonious combination of both produces the four things I have written on the drawing: Divine Love, Light, and Life manifested in a Divine Perfection. 7 February 1934 ...
... collaborate for the same purpose and are indispensable to the integrality of the result. These three categories of examinations are those set by the forces of Nature, those set by the spiritual and divine forces, and those set by the hostile forces. These latter are the most deceptive in their appearance and in order not to be taken by surprise, unprepared, demands a constant state of vigilance, sincerity ...
... Stand firm in your resolution. For the mind — knowledge For the heart — love and joy For the life — power For the matter — beauty. She will fight until there are no more anti-divine forces upon earth. Teach us to be really sincere in our effort towards the Truth. Let your life be a sincere search for the Truth and it will be worth living. Be ever one-pointed in ...
... and his wife Madame Theon. Theon was well versed in the Rigveda and he was the first to talk to the Mother of the idea that the earth is symbolic where universal action is concentrated allowing divine forces to incarnate and work concretely. Madame Theon was an extraordinary occultist, having incredible faculties. She could leave one body and enter the consciousness of the next plane, fully experiencing ...
... Divine who is the Sadhaka and the Sadhana; it is his Shakti with her light, power, knowledge, consciousness, Ananda, acting upon the Adhara and, when it is opened to her, pouring into it with these divine forces that makes the Sadhana possible. But so long as the lower nature is active the personal effort of the Sadhaka remains necessary." (The Mother, Cent. Ed., P-6) And in the very next sentence ...
... uses both these words in his message to Cripps. He considered that a Central Government in which Hindus and Muslims worked together with a common objective, aligning India firmly against the anti-divine forces, would reduce the tension between the two communities and lead to cooperation instead of confrontation. Sri Aurobindo also saw the necessity of organising the collective strength of the country ...
... They open by the concentration and by the opening of the centres. There are the higher forces of the Divine Nature on every plane; when the vital attacks come, why do we not feel the divine Forces intervening to help? If you are sufficiently awake to them and call them in, they will act. Where do you locate the sex centre? The lowest centre at the bottom ...
... doing long jump, for example, it should not be merely for the pleasure of doing it, it is with the idea of making your body more perfect in its functioning, an instrument more fit to receive the divine forces and to manifest them. Indeed, everything that you do must be done in this spirit. Otherwise you do not profit by the opportunity, the favourable circumstances that are given to you. ...
... seed-state, this particular line of activity. The object was to bring in some money: we were hard-up in those days. All money really belongs to the Divine, although at present the hostile anti-divine forces have their hold on it. You can see for yourselves what misuse money is being put to. But someday wealth has to be won back from these hostile forces and used in the service of the Divine. This is ...
... intenser purity and force of aspiration, a faith that nothing can crush, a more powerful descent of the Divine Grace". 76 This is evidently the inner meaning of the stories of demons and other anti-divine forces trying always to prevent the completion of holy yajñas or yāgas (sacrifices). In the Ramayana, for example, Rishi Vishvamitra complains to King Dashratha that Mareecha, Subahu and their Rakshasa ...
... enough and offers resistance; this is why the number of incomprehensible disorders and even diseases is increasing and becoming a problem for medical science. The remedy lies in union with the divine forces that are at work and a receptivity full of trust and peace which makes tithe task easier. 5 Thus, on 3 December, on the obstreperousness of the ego: Each one has his ego and all the egos ...
... undermine the system. But whence this "depression of the vital force"? The Mother offers a convincing reply: It comes from some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is created what medical Page 313 science calls a "favourable ground" and ...
... for years? You will say it is due to a "depression of the vital force". But from where does the depression come? It comes from Some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is created what medical science calls a "favourable ground" and something takes advantage ...
... at Pondicherry, she was to return again and again to the theme of the causal nexus between fear and illness. She considered that "some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces" was the primary reason for the onset of an illness. 3 The disharmony thus precipitated fear, and such fear opened the gates inviting the invasion: If there is one mental disorder which can ...
... brilliant - and, occasionally, startling - results. Several had visions - some slipped into trance-like states - and a few had occasional nightmares. It was as though the divine and the anti-divine forces were invisibly caught in an intestine conflict which was also reflected in the life of the sensitive Ashram community. The nucleus of a New World was being fashioned in the Ashram, and the forces ...
... Aurobindo] saw into the heart of things ... when the whole country wanted to maintain neutrality, it was he of the unerring eye who said that the triumph of England and France was the triumph of the divine forces over the demonic forces. We were very angry, but it was a fact .... He spoke again when Sir Stafford Cripps came with his first proposal .. We rejected the advice ... but today we realise ...
... transcendence of one's mutable individuality and assumption of ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, May 3, 1914. ² ibid.. May 4, 1914. Page 111 the infinitude of the divine forces manifesting through a point, that is to say, through the body, then the simultaneity of unrestricted action and freedom from action; and, last, dealing with and acting for individuals, but seeing ...
... intention of becoming many and yet remaining the indivisible One has been fulfilled" ? The "I" will then remain,—without it there can be no reception and transmission of the divine Will and the divine forces—but it will become the transcendent and universal "I", the one "I" conscious of itself in all forms and powerful to achieve everything. The blind, sense-embedded, separate "I" will disappear for ...
... profound occult waters and came up with so many treasures! "Theon was the first to give me the idea that the earth is symbolic, representative —symbolic of universal action concentrated to allow the divine forces to incarnate and work concretely. I learned all this from him." Theon was a great teacher, and he taught Mirra a multitude of things. But that Love Incarnate had to wait for her coming to India ...
... purpose, the outer story engulfs our attention. We get lost in the human and emerge after long intervals for a short while so see the spiritual significance of things or feel the play of hidden divine forces behind the surface. At times, character dominates. The Mahabharata enchants us by the play of the changing colours of life, the play of hazard, its high mental ideals, the deep pathos of human ...
... throughout the third and fourth phases of their avataric Work: the period after their apparent departure and the period of the tangible accomplishment of their mission. The effects of these four divine Forces is incomprehensible, unfathomable for the human mind – as are the events these Forces are producing towards a realisation surpassing everything humans are able to imagine. All these are not the ...
... Change of Master ‘The transformation starts with the opening of the consciousness to the action of the new forces’ 9 — the opening of the consciousness of the cells by the surrender to the divine Forces, now directly active on Earth, without the consciousness of the cells knowing what changes will occur because of the surrender. It is an act of absolute confidence in the Higher Presence (ce que ...
... stand firm during these months, they won’t be able to do much afterwards, their resistance will crumble. This is what it is about: it is the essential conflict of the adverse forces, of the anti-divine forces, who are trying to push back the divine Realization as much as possible — thousands of years, they hope. And it is this conflict that has reached its paroxysm. It is their last chance. And as the ...
... all those ten long years. Long for the human participants, not for "heaven's strengths" dividing themselves between Greece and Troy. No issue seemed forthcoming for the human fighters, since the divine forces were working out their own play: All went backwards and forwards tossed in the swing of the death-game. Vain was the toil of the heroes, the blood of the mighty was squandered ...
... one who seeing sees not, hearing hears not. (10.71.4)" The foes of the Rigvedics are neither non-Aryans nor, as Parpola would have it, an earlier band of immigrated Aryans. They are anti-divine forces opposing the spiritual inspiration sought after by the "Aryan", that is, "the striver", the aspirant. The forts are symbols of occult centres of resistance to this quest after the "cows", ...
... oneness. The (apparent) diversification, or fragmentation, or endless division of the oneness into the world as we know it, is the result of the Fall, i.e. the turning away of the four essential divine Forces from their origin, thereby creating the lower hemisphere of (supposed) separate existence from the God to the atom. The higher hemisphere is the domain of the divine Unity-Consciousness or vidya ...
... Divine who is the Sadhaka and the Sadhana; it is his Shakti with her light, power, knowledge, consciousness, Ananda, acting upon, the adhara and, when it is opened to her, pouring into with these Divine forces that makes the Sadhana possible. Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on The Mother: The Mother - II ...
... to make oneself its instrument. To believe that one is being constantly guided by the Divine in the heart is not necessarily surrender. It is necessary to be detached, to see what are the divine forces and undivine and to reject the undivine forces. It is only by this discrimination that one can make a true surrender to the Divine in the heart. It [ true surrender ] begins when there is ...
... flame of conscient Will, this great thing within us, अयमिह, has been set here in man by the Gods, the creators of the order of the world, to be the power by which he aspires and calls the other divine Forces into his being and consecrates his knowledge, will, joy and all the wealth of his inner life as a sacrificial action to the Lords of the Truth. These first words then amount for the initiate to ...
... Page 334 their play. But this mental control is not enough for the sadhak. He must attain to a quiet mind and in the silence of the mind receive only the Divine thought-forces or other divine Forces and be their field and instrument. To silence the mind it is not enough to throw back each thought as it comes, that can only be a subordinate movement. One must get back from all thought and ...
... entirely the right thing and nothing more is needed. The peace you feel is the basis, the foundation for Page 123 the transformation, all the rest will be built on it. To open to the Divine Forces with a quiet and strong aspiration, to become conscious of their working, to allow quietly that working and calmly to contain it, seconding it with one's aspiration, getting more and more knowledge ...
... mind. But as far as possible resist the downward movement so long as the true consciousness is not settled in you. It is certainly possible to draw forces from below. It may be the hidden divine forces from below that rise at your pull, and then this motion upward completes the motion and effort of the divine force from above, helping especially to bring it into the Page 164 body. ...
... on the head or is not commensurate with the opposing Forces—(opposing Forces need not be Page 492 Asuric, they may be quite gentlemanly Forces thinking they are in the right. Or two Divine Forces might knock at each other for the fun of the thing. Infinite possibilities, sir, in the play of the Forces.) What I want to know is whether the Force applied or directed is always the right ...
... have for years? You will say it is due to a 'depression of the vital force'. But from where does the depression come? It comes from some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is created what medical science calls a 'favourable ground' and something takes advantage ...
... indispensable at one time for the formation of the individual consciousness, but with the ego were born all the obstacles, sufferings, difficulties, all that now appears to us as adverse and anti-divine forces. But these forces themselves were a necessity for attaining an inner purification and the liberation from ego. The ego is at once the result of their action and the cause of their prolongation. ...
... have for years? You will say it is due to a "depression of the vital force". But from where does the depression come? It comes from some disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is created what medical science calls a "favourable ground" and Page 55 something ...
... Love? Each one of you should be able to get into touch with your own psychic being, it is not an inaccessible thing. Your psychic being is there precisely to put you in contact with the divine forces. And if you are in contact with your psychic being, you begin to feel, to have a kind of perception of what Divine Love can be. As I have just said, it is not enough that one morning you wake up ...
... identified with the forces from above, you are happy. And I am not speaking about feeling pleasure; you must not think that when one jumps about, dances, shouts and plays, one is identified with the divine forces—one may or may not be. That is not what I am speaking of. I am speaking of the divine Joy, the inner Joy which is unalloyed. Each time a shadow passes, with what may be just an uneasiness or ...
... through countless lives, passing through innumerable organisms, using countless experiences it, so to speak, becomes refined; it is prepared, and becomes more and more receptive and open to the divine Forces. So, a man as a momentary individual being may not appear to progress. But the progress is continued through him, as through all organisms. ( Silence ) Page 421 ( To a child ) ...
... Divine Love? Each one of you should be able to get into touch with your own psychic being, it is not an inaccessible thing. Your psychic being is there precisely to put you in contact with the divine forces. And if you are in contact with your psychic being, you begin to feel, to have a kind of perception of what Divine Love can be. As I have just said, it is not enough that one morning you wake up ...
... you do the yoga, precisely, makes you progress—consciously. It is a conscious energy. In fact, the Yoga-Shakti is the power to do yoga. Sweet Mother, isn't it more difficult to draw the divine forces from below? I think it is absolutely useless. Page 101 Some people think that there are more reserves of energy—I have heard this very often: a great reserve of energy—in the earth ...
... different kinds of bad will there is the small type that comes from ignorance and stupidity, there is the big type that comes from wickedness and there is the formidable one that is the result of anti-divine forces. So, all that is in the atmosphere (I am not telling you this to frighten you, for it is well understood that one should fear nothing—but it is there all the same) and these things attack you, sometimes ...
... oneself into absolutely ridiculous conditions, one is in a state in which one is bound to break one's head or arm or back; because you are not in a state of true equilibrium, you can't accuse the divine forces. It is the normal mechanical consequence of the stupidity committed, of the inner state. What is the nature of Mahakali's blow? It makes you feel very happy. It gives you a sweet warmth ...
... and woman who have created another person, then how can he be divine in essence? It is exactly the same thing! The whole creation is made externally by external things, but behind that there are divine forces. What men have invented—paper or coins or other objects—all these are but means of expression—nothing else but that... I just said this a moment ago, it is not the force itself, it is its material ...
... You had once told us in class. Page 172 Yes, surely; that's just why I am asking you about it, to find out if you remember the things I tell you! You said there were four divine forces: Love, Light, Truth and the opposite of Death. And what? (Another child, laughing) Life! Ah! Then these four forces separated from the Divine and changed into falsehood.... Yes ...
... is meant to be used. That is the true mechanism. The true attitude is this: money is a force intended for the work on earth, the work required to prepare the earth to receive and manifest the divine forces, and it―that is, the power of utilising it―must come into the hands of those who have the clearest, most comprehensive and truest vision. Source Production It is said, "One cannot ...
... meant to be used. That is the true mechanism. The true attitude is this: money is a force intended for the work on earth, the work required to prepare the earth to receive and manifest the divine forces, and it—that is, the power of utilising it,—must come into the hands of those who have the clearest, most comprehensive and truest vision. To start with, the first thing (but this is elementary) ...
... who is the Sadhaka and the Sadhana; ft is his Shakti with her light, power, knowledge, consciousness, Ananda, acting upon the Adhara and, when it is opened to her, pouring into it with these divine forces that makes the Sadhana possible. But so long as the lower nature is active the personal effort of the Sadhaka remains necessary. The personal effort required is a triple labour of aspiration ...
... of abandoning action, one can act in a higher peace that is strong and dynamic. This is what could be called a new aspect of the divine intervention in life, a new form of intervention of the divine forces in existence, a new aspect of spiritual realisation. Page 305 ...
... body—this will lead you to Freedom. Physical culture is the best way of developing the consciousness of the body, and the more the body is conscious, the more it is capable of receiving the divine forces that are at work to transform it and give birth to the new race. ( Concerning a room to be used for gymnastics ) Does this room have air and light? Without air and light exercises do more ...
... but Page 281 it must not be forgotten that it is relative like all activities and that we should not allow it to disturb our deep peace and that immutable calm which alone lets the divine forces manifest through us without any deformation. O Lord, my prayer is not formulated, but Thou hearest it. Page 282 ...
... legitimate and necessary to separate the consciousness from it and to regard the body as a servant to be directed, guided and made obedient. As the terrestrial being grows more receptive to the divine forces and manifests them in its illumined activities, one can identify oneself with it once more and cease to distinguish between the instrument and the Doer. But since, by the very necessity of preservation ...
... work? Eh? Excuse me, it is not for the pleasure of doing the long jump, it is to make your body more perfect in its functioning, and, therefore, a more suitable instrument for receiving the divine forces and manifesting them. Why, everything, everything one does in this place must be done in this spirit, otherwise you do not even profit by the opportunity given to you, the circumstances given ...
... what we could call a direct, conscious intervention of the Supreme in the darkest matter, without going through all the intermediaries, in order to awaken this Matter to the receptivity of the Divine Forces. The intervals separating these various incarnations seem to become shorter and shorter, as if, to the extent that Matter Page 333 became more and more ready, the action could accelerate ...
... it and serve as a link between the two but all that belongs incorrigibly to falsehood and ignorance will disappear. This was also prophesied in the Gita : among what we call the hostile or anti-divine forces, those capable of being transformed will be uplifted and go off towards the new consciousness, whereas all that is irrevocably in darkness or belongs to an evil will shall be destroyed and vanish ...
... together for a common aim and each is indispensable for the integral result. These three categories of tests are: those conducted by the forces of Nature, those conducted by the spiritual and divine forces, and those conducted by the hostile forces. This latter category is the most deceptive in its appearance, and a constant state of vigilance, sincerity and humility is required so as not to be caught ...
... everything becomes painful. But when we take refuge in the arms of the Divine all the difficulties are resolved. When we are with Him all the difficulties, obscurities, monstrosities and anti-Divine forces are vanquished. When we are conscious and can distinguish and sift things, we can see those forces that pull us downward and those that push us forward. And when we are capable of distinguishing ...
... es of their various manifestations or expressions. All this is passed before me as if to show me all the points in the body's cells that were contrary to or unprepared for the reception of the divine Forces. All that comes up in the form of lived memories—things I had more than forgotten (I could have sworn they no longer existed), but which come back. Un-be-liev-able. And it's not an ego's or a person's ...
... y plastic and offers resistance. This is why the number of incomprehensible disorders and diseases is increasing and becoming a problem for medical science. "The remedy lies in union with the divine forces which are at work and in a confident and quiet receptivity that facilitates the process." November 18, 1971 "Those who want to progress have an exceptional chance; because the transformation ...
... . Each of you should be able to get into touch with your own psychic being, it is not an inaccessible thing. Your psychic being is there precisely to put you in contact with the divine forces. And if you are in contact with your psychic being, you begin to Page 12 feel, to have a kind of perception of what divine love can be... It is not enough that one morning you wake ...
... perception of the political situation in India was always unerring. When the world war came in 1939 it was he of the unerring eye who said that the triumph of England and France was he triumph of the divine forces over the demoniac forces. He spoke again when Sir Stafford Cripps came with his first proposal. He said, 'India should accept it.' We rejected the advice... but today we realise that if the first ...
... stories, fantastic stories to explain this view. Theon was the first to give to the Mother the idea 'that the earth is symbolic, representative—symbolic of concentrated universal action allowing divine forces to incarnate and work concretely.'² Theon had received his initiation in India. After working with Blavatsky and having founded an occult society in Egypt, he had gone to Algeria, where he first ...
... and Yoga: Perfection of the Body Physical culture is the best way of developing the consciousness of the body, and the more the body is conscious, the more it is capable of receiving the divine forces that are at work to transform it and give birth to the new race. The Mother, On Education: General Messages and Letters The physical consciousness and physical being, the body itself ...
... make much headway and the financial position continued to be difficult throughout these years. On a deeper plane, these difficulties were only an outer sign of the larger struggle against anti-divine forces which had ranged themselves to thwart Sri Aurobindo's sadhana. In Sri Aurobindo's view, money is a universal force which in its origin and true action belongs to the Divine but it has been usurped ...
... important truth: that it is she who first docs the sadhana for us, for each one of us, that without her there would be no sadhana done — at least not the supramental one. The anti-Divine forces arc always trying to throw thorns on our path; and yet how is it that we find it clean and luminous? It is just because the Mother has done the sadhana first for us that all the obstructions and ...
... of Beauty expresses itself in these eyes. This gaze full of divine compassion absorbs all the sufferings, pain and miseries of men and the creatures of this ruthless Nature dominated by the anti-divine forces, and renders them pleasant, loving, habitable, without which this world would be a veritable hell. ( Mother goes into trance and then She starts speaking as if Sri Aurobindo were present .) These ...
... even its own Gods got distorted in us? Everything in the exterior being is distorted by the Ignorance — if it were not distorted it would not be the Ignorance. If there are Divine Forces in all the planes, why do we not feel them acting in us during the hostile attacks? If you are sufficiently awakened to them and call them in, they will act. Page 4 ...
... and independence, the will to follow its own will. But when the vital understands and is converted, if it is truly surrendered to the Divine Will, then its fighting capacity turns against anti-divine forces, the forces of obscurity that prevent the transformation: the powers of the vital are strong enough to conquer the enemies. The antidivine forces are in the vital world: from there they spread ...
... new have found their way and made for themselves a place within and have started putting gradual pressure on them. Be these centres individuals or groups, their connection and collaboration with divine forces and divine springs of action will be easier and more effective in proportion as they become more and more sincerely devoted, more and more self-surrendered, more and more one-pointed in thought ...
... doing long jump, for example, it should not be merely for the pleasure of doing it, it is with the idea of making your body more perfect in its functioning, an instrument more fit to receive the divine forces and to manifest them. Indeed, everything that you do must be done in this spirit. Otherwise you do not profit by the opportunity, the favourable circumstances that are given to you. The C ...
... paramavapsyatha.¹ "Foster by this the gods and let the gods foster you; fostering each other, you shall attain to the supreme good." This mutual exchange of sacrifice between man and the divine forces leading to progression, to evolution of life, is guarded by Fire, the light and heat that signify the power born of spiritual discipline. It is this energy that enables the practicant to go forward ...
... our midst. The Mother's beloved child has gone back into Her arms and he is at eternal place. We all know that there is a constant battle between the divine and the undivine forces. The divine forces are trying to establish the divine kingdom on the earth and the undivine forces are doing everything to try and block that from happening. Personally I very deeply feel that all our elders ...
... purpose, the outer story engulfs our attention. We get lost in the human and emerge after long intervals for a short while to see the spiritual significance of things or feel the play of hidden divine forces behind the surface. At times, character dominates. The Mahābhārata enchants us by the play of the changing colours of life, the play of hazard, its high mental ideals, the deep pathos of human ...
... involution evolution ¹ words of the Mother, Revised edition, pp. 111-113 Page 53 starts. Love comes down from the Divine above,—love, the most victoriously powerful of all divine forces, and releases into self-expressive play, first. Life with its prolific energies, multiform desires and dim, dawning consciousness, and then Mind with its developing consciousness and variegated ...
... Poseidon-Pallas Athene confrontation as played in terrestrial Syria by Polydaon and the sea monster on the one hand and Andromeda and Perseus on the other. Translated in general terms, the Asuric and Divine forces wage a fierce war through willing instruments; but the Divine must ultimately triumph over the Asuric, and thus evolutionary advance and progress is an assured thing. This cosmic struggle between ...
... CHAPTER 41 New Horizons I For Sri Aurobindo and the Mother alike, the earth was a theatre of conflict, a veritable Kurukshetra, between the Asuric and the Divine forces; it was also a field of unfolding possibilities. On the one hand, the supramental change was decreed and inevitable, and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had direct evidence that the revolutionary power ...
... an intestine struggle between the constructive and the destructive forces: ...it is a kind of race or struggle as to which will reach the goal first. It would seem that all the adverse, anti-divine forces, the forces of the vital world, have descended on the earth... and that at the same time a new, higher, more powerful spiritual force has also descended on earth to bring it a new life. Page ...
... blessings. 16 June 1971 * * * Physical culture is the best way of developing the consciousness of the body, and the more the body is conscious, the more it is capable of receiving the divine forces that are at work to transform it and give birth to the new race. 15 December 1971 * * * Give us faith in a glorious future and the capacity to realise it. 30 December 1971 * * * ...
... enough and offers resistance; this is why the number of incomprehensible disorders and even diseases is increasing and becoming a problem for medical science. The remedy lies in union with the divine forces that are at work and a confident, peaceful receptivity which makes the work easier. Blessings. 18 November 1971 * * * Those who want to progress have an exceptional chance now, because ...
... dear Mother, A new force of transformation is descending; we have to keep quiet and allow it to do its work effectively. My dear Mother, I pray for quietness and to remain fixed on the Divine. Adverse forces might try to harass us, but may we remain consecrated to the Truth. Yes, in the quietness you will feel that our force, help and protection are always with you my dear child. 21 January ...
... recognisable Avatars before Sri Aurobindo were Rama Dasarathi and Krishna Vasudeva. Both of them carried out sanguinary tasks involving the direct destruction of those who embodied anti-divine titanic forces. A lot of lives were lost not only on the side of these embodiments but also on the side of the Avatars. War in the full sense of the term, Page 226 involving secrecy ...
... 3) The Divine is transcendent Being and Spirit, all bliss and light and divine knowledge and power, and towards that highest divine existence and its Light we have to rise and bring down the reality of it more and more into our consciousness and life. In the ordinary nature we live in the Ignorance and do not know the Divine. The forces of the ordinary nature are undivine forces because they... unconsciousness which conceals the Divine from us. To get into the higher and deeper consciousness which knows and lives consciously in the Divine, we have to get rid of the forces of the Page 7 lower nature and open to the action of the Divine Shakti which will transform our consciousness into that of the Divine Nature. This is the conception of the Divine from which we have to start—the... 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 the Divine in the individual alone that this can be done. These are elements in the dynamics of spiritual experience and I am obliged to admit them if a divine work has to be done ...
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