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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  2 June 1929

... and Answers (1929-1931) 2 June 1929 What is the relation of human love to Divine love? Is the human an obstacle to the Divine love? Or is not rather the capacity for human love an index to the capacity for Divine love? Have not great spiritual figures, such as Christ, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, been remarkably loving and affectionate by nature... this self-regarding weakness they call love! Is our vital being to take part in the Divine love? If it does, what is the right and correct form of participation it should take? Where is the manifestation of Divine love intended to stop? Is it to be confined to some unreal or immaterial region? Divine love plunges its manifestation upon earth down into the most material matter. It does not indeed... Great beings have taken birth in this world who came to bring down here something of the sovereign purity and power of Divine love. The Divine love has thrown itself into a personal form in them that its realisation upon earth may be at once more easy and more perfect. Divine love, when manifested in a personal being, is easier to realise; it is more difficult when it is unmanifested or impersonal ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  24 March 1951

... mood and say, "Ah! How I wish to be conscious of Divine Love, how I wish to manifest Divine Love...." Note, I don't know how many millions of times one feels within a little quivering of human instinct and imagines that if one had at one's disposal Divine Love, great things could be accomplished, and one says, "I am going to try and find Divine Love and we shall see the result." This is the worst possible... would like to be in contact with Divine Love", it is not like that. If, through a sustained effort, a deep concentration, a great forgetfulness of self, you succeed in coming into touch with your psychic being, you will never dream of thinking, "Oh! I would like to be in contact with Divine Love"—you are in a state in which everything appears to you to be this Divine Love and nothing else. And yet it is... is only a covering, but a covering of a beautiful texture. So, Divine Love need not be sought and known apart from the psychic being? No, find your psychic being and you will understand what divine Love is. Do not try to come into direct contact with divine Love because this will yet again be a vital desire pushing you; you will perhaps not be aware of it, but it will be a vital desire. ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  The Brazier of Love

... the Mother's early life was to be transformed into divine Love. This aspiration finds a vibrant expression in the Prayer of the 27th August, 1914: "To be the divine love, love powerful, infinite, unfathomable, in every activity, in all the worlds of being—it is for this I cry to Thee, O Lord. Let me be consumed with this love divine, love powerful, infinite, unfathomable, in every activity... its game. "O, to be Thy Love infinitely.” It is apparent from the above Prayer that it was not for the passive bliss of the divine Love or even for its transporting thrills that she wanted to be transmuted into it; she aspired to be the divine love, "in every activity, in all the worlds of being”, so that she might achieve what the supreme Love alone can achieve in the material world—the... aspiration was fulfilled beyond measure : the divine Love prepared her whole being, part by part, hour by hour, till it became a pure flame of psychic love quivering in the embrace of the sempiternal fire of the Love Divine. "My love for Thee, O Lord, it is Thyself, and yet my love bows down religiously before Thee ” Once she became the divine Love, the real work of her life began. Love revealed ...

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Letters on Yoga - II  >  Divine Love, Psychic Love and Human Love

... Sadhana through Love and Devotion Letters on Yoga - II Chapter I Divine Love, Psychic Love and Human Love Divine Love and Its Manifestation To bring the Divine Love and Beauty and Ananda into the world is, indeed, the whole crown and essence of our Yoga. But it has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and... Knowledge transforming all the consciousness and movements. When this has been done, then the human form can contain the Divine Love and Ananda. Till then the touches of the Divine Love and Ananda are usually momentary or brief, they cannot remain. In an impure consciousness the Divine Love if it came in would create a perturbation and possibly be attacked by a mixture which would make it impossible for... on the being—psychic love is a form taken by divine love in the human being according to the needs and possibilities of the human consciousness. If love is psychic in its nature, it always brings the sense of oneness or at least of an inner intimate closeness of being. The Divine Love is based upon oneness and the psychic derives from the Divine Love. The psychic love is pure and full of ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  Love

... May 23, 1914 Page 33 Divine Love What is Divine Love ? What is it in its essence and in manifestation? Can a human Being incarnate it in its purity and radiate it in the world ? Does it consist only of delight and sweetness, or is it also a Force ? What is its proper function in the material world ? Describing Divine Love, the Mother says, "Love is a supreme... foreshadows in some detail the working of the Divine Love in the Mother's being for enlightening and transforming her thought, reconstituting her brain, moulding her life-forces and making her body radiate "Thy divine, impersonal, sublime and calm Love through all its pores." The working continues, the transition is effected, and the Sun of the divine Love blazes forth at last against throbbing, incandescent... meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace. Love cannot exist in its pure beauty, love cannot put on its native power and intense joy of fullness until there is this interchange, this fusion between the earth and the Supreme, this movement of Love from the Divine to the creation and from the creation to the Divine. This world was a world of dead Matter, till Divine Love descended into it and ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Ascent of the Sacrifice - II

... glorify it in its essence. A supreme divine Love is a creative Power and, even though it can exist in itself silent and unchangeable, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not condemned to be a speechless and bodiless godhead. It has even been said that creation itself was an act of love or at least the building up of a field in which Divine Love could devise its symbols and fulfil itself... boundless, and when, uplifted to the Supreme, it ceases to be the weak, superficial and transient movement men call love and becomes a pure and grand and deep uniting Ananda. Although it is a divine love for the supreme and universal Divine that must be the rule of our spiritual existence, this does not exclude altogether all forms of individual love or the ties that draw soul to soul in manifested... the vital, the physical as manifesting instruments and elements of that greater oneness. Page 158 In this change the individual love also is converted by a natural heightening into a divine love for the Divine Inhabitant immanent in a mind and soul and body occupied by the One in all creatures. All love, indeed, that is adoration has a spiritual force behind it, and even when it is offered ...

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Talks on Poetry  >  The Heart and the Art of Poetry - Talk Eighteen and Nineteen

... supreme divine Love is a creative Power and, even though it can exist in itself silent and unchangeable, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not condemned to be a speech-less and bodiless godhead. It has even been said that creation itself 1. On Yoga, Vol. 1, p. 623. Page 152 was an act of love or at least the building up of a field in which Divine Love could... universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Ignorance." In the last phrase we have the rationale of the Love-Rose's arising from Nature's abyss: it is Divine Love, the "fi... all its creatures; all else strives in vain towards that end so long as Divine Love has not disclosed itself as the heart of the delivered manifestation in terres-trial Nature." 3 What "all else" — mind, life-force, physical con-sciousness — would do without the psyche is well driven home by Sri Aurobindo: "Instead of a Divine Love creator of a new heaven 1. Ibid., Vol. I, p. 177. 2 ...

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Emergence of the Psychic  >  Contact with the Psychic Being

... contact with Divine Love", it is not like that. If, through a sustained effort, a deep concentration, a great forgetfulness of self, you succeed in coming into touch with your psychic being, you will never dream of thinking, "Oh! I would like to be in contact with Divine Love" — you are in a state in which everything appears to you to be this Divine Love and nothing else. ...So, Divine Love need not... vibration is the vibration of 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 be sought and known apart from the psychic being? Page 55 No, find your psychic being and you will understand what Divine Love is. Do not try to come into direct contact with Divine Love because this will yet again be a vital desire pushing you; you will perhaps not be aware of it, but it will be a vital desire. You must make an effort to come into touch with your ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  19 May 1954

... Mother, here it is written: "The intensity of divine Love never creates a disturbance anywhere in the being." Yes. But if someone has a weak body, doesn't the intensity of divine Love create a disturbance? In the body? Why should divine Love create a disturbance in the body? But if it cannot bear the intensity? That is perhaps not divine Love, then; I don't understand. Automatically... bear, when it is a question of divine Love. Divine Love is there always in all its intensity, a formidable power. But most people—ninety-nine per cent—do not feel anything at all! What they feel of it is exclusively in proportion to what they are, to their capacity of receiving. Imagine, for instance, that you are bathing in an atmosphere all vibrant with divine Love—you are not at all aware of it... it. Sometimes, very Page 135 rarely, for a few seconds there is suddenly the feeling of "something". Then you say, "Oh, divine Love came to me!" What a joke! It is just that you were simply, for some reason or other, a wee bit open, so you felt it. But it is there, always, like the divine Consciousness. It is the same thing, it is there, all the time, in its full intensity; but one is not ...

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The Sunlit Path  >  Mundane Affairs

... all. Source Divine Love Is There Divine Love is there always in all its intensity, a formidable power. But most people—ninety-nine per cent—do not feel anything at all! What they feel of it is exclusively in proportion to what they are, to their capacity of receiving. Imagine, for instance, that you are bathing in an atmosphere all vibrant with divine Love—you are not at all aware... and contrary to your deeper need that it becomes easy; then, well, externally you cut these bonds and it is finished. Source Know How to Love It is said that to become conscious of divine Love all other love has to be abandoned. What is the best way of rejecting the other love which clings so obstinately (Laughter) and does not easily leave us? To go through it. Ah! To go through... the principle which is behind this love, and not be content until one has found the origin of the feeling in oneself. Then the outer form will crumble of itself and you will be in contact with the divine Love which is behind all things. That is the best way. To want to get rid of the one in order to find the other is very difficult. It is almost impossible. For human nature is so limited, so full ...

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Sri Aurobindo - The Poet  >  A Comment on Its Mysticism and Its Poetry

... Aurobindo has written: 3 "A supreme divine Love is a creative Power and, even though it can exist in itself silent and unchangeable, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not condemned to be a speechless and bodiless godhead. It has even been said that creation itself was an act of love or at least the building up of a field in which Divine Love could devise its symbols and fulfil itself... universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Ignorance." In the last phrase we have the rationale of the Love-Rose's arising from Nature's abyss: it is Divine Love, the "f... all its creatures; all else strives in vain towards that end so long as Divine Love has not disclosed itself as the heart of the delivered manifestation in terrestrial Nature." 1 What "all else"—mind, life-force, physical consciousness—would do without the psyche is well driven home by Sri Aurobindo: "Instead of a Divine Love creator of a new heaven and a new earth of Truth and Light, they would hold ...

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Sri Krishna In Brindavan  >  Sri Aurobindo on Integral Yoga of Divine Love

... thought and action become shapes and figures of the divine love which possesses the spirit and its members. This is the ordinary movement by which what may be at first a vague adoration of some idea of the Divine takes on the hue and character and then, once entered into the path of Yoga, the inner reality and intense experience of divine love. But there is the more intimate Yoga which from the... Sri Krishna In Brindavan Part IV Sri Aurobindo on Integral Yoga of Divine Love (Some Extracts) The Way of Devotion Bhakti in itself is as wide as the heart-yearning of the soul for the Divine and as simple and straightforward as love and desire going straight towards their object. It cannot, therefore, be fixed down to... final ecstasy are beyond the reach of the imagination and beyond expression by speech. For this is the delight of the Godhead that passes human understanding. Indian Bhakti has given to this divine love powerful forms, poetic symbols which are not in reality so much symbols as intimate expressions of truth which can find no other expression. It uses human relations and sees a divine person, not ...

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Finding the Psychic Being  >  Finding the Psychic Being

... everything appears to you to be this divine Love and nothing else. And yet it is only a covering, but a covering of a beautiful texture.       So, divine Love need not be sought and known apart from the psychic being?       No. find your psychic being and you will understand what divine Love is. Do not try to come into direct contact with divine Love because this will yet again be a vital... perception of what divine love can be... It is not enough that one morning you wake up saying "Oh! I would like to be in contact with divine Love", it is not like that. If, through a sustained effort, a deep concentration, a great forgetfulness of self, you succeed in coming into touch with your psychic being, you will never dream of thinking, "Oh! I would like to be in contact with divine Love" — you are... must make an effort to come into touch with your psychic being, to become aware and free in the consciousness of your psychic being, and then, quite naturally, spontaneously, you will know what divine Love is.         The source of sincerity, of will, of perseverance is in the psychic being, but this translates itself differently in different people.         The complete unification ...

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Varieties of Yogic Experience and Integral Realisation  >  Yogic Experience

... perfect love brings with it. Therefore, the Yoga of Divine love has for its object not Merely the God of purity and truth and wisdom but also God as the father of all who extends his wings of benignant Protection and love over all his creatures, and from that concept of the object, the relation that is indispensable for he Yoga of the Divine love emerges, namely, the relation of Page 47 ... "17 A Note Literature of Bhakti yoga. Eastern and Western, literature pertaining to religions, and literature pertaining to yogic path of Divine love, has provided voluminous descriptions of yogic experiences relating to the path of Divine love. In India, there has been a long line of saints who have described their yearnings for the Divine, their struggle with the lower nature so as to surmount... methods. Bhakti yoga may employ various means of support, but since there is a human tendency towards order, process, and system, there have been attempts to methodise the movement of Bhakti or Divine love. In a sense, numberless religions in their inmost core, Page 43 have provided numberless means and methods to approach the Reality which has been viewed as worthy of worship and ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume I  >  1931

... physical included, are not to be used as means of expression or that they are not to share in the full play and the whole meaning of love, even of divine love. On the contrary, they are a means and can be a great part of the complete expression of divine love,—provided they have the right and not the wrong movement. There are in the vital itself two kinds of love,—one full of joy and confidence and abandon... generous, unbargaining, ungrudging and very absolute in its dedication and this is akin to the psychic and well-fitted to be its complement and a means of expression of the divine love. And neither does the psychic love or the divine love despise a physical means of expression wherever that is pure and right and possible; it does not depend upon that, it does not diminish, revolt or go out like a snuffed... together like the limbs of an organic body. It is high poetic style in its full perfection and nothing of all that is transferable. You have taken his last line and put in a lotus face and made divine love bloom in it,—a pretty image, but how far from the glowing impassioned severity of phrase, "And mould thy love into a human face"! So with your madhura gopane [in sweet secrecy] and the "heart to ...

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The Gita and its Synthesis of Yoga  >  Part One

... action itself. Similarly, Gita's Vedantic yoga of devotion and divine love is not only a preparation but itself the means of liberation, and devotion continues even after liberation, since the Jiva, as distinguished from ego, who is an eternal portion of the Purushottama, can continue to subsist as that portion in a state of divine love with all its intensity and permanence in the state of liberation... flow. This is the reason why in the synthesis of the yoga of the Gita, the motive force of self-surrender and love has been assigned that indispensable place with such an emphasis that the yoga of divine love and the yoga of self-surrender is woven in the synthesis right from the beginning in some degree or the other, but gradually increases and ultimately ends in the crowning achievements of this great... worked out in its main stages, the foundations of jnana yoga are also laid down in these chapters, and a preliminary synthesis of karma yoga and jnana yoga is underlined. Even though the yoga of divine love is not distinctly marked out, still in these six chapters, there is sufficient hint that emphasizes not only the discovery of the immobile Self but also of the Lord of works, and even of Page ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2  >  LOVE

... on when the bullocks perceive, on the way, that too great a thing called Divine Love they are frightened and fall down by the sudden shock. Then the Divine Mother showers on them the psychic love which lifts them up. And the journey is resumed. By and by, the bullocks become strong and powerful, get accustomed to the Divine Love after many a Page 203 fall. Then nothing is felt... felt as too great a thing for the rest of the journey. For the Divine Love contains everything and can stand on anything.       All that is quite correct. Even the ordinary human or the psychic love many are unable to feel or understand because it is not quite in the ordinary human way.   PSYCHIC AND DIVINE LOVE         The psychic never feels that it cannot love the Divine... satisfy it but to get rid of it. If anything in your mind supports the claim, it is no wonder that the suggestions come and stop the progress. You yourself had written the clear knowledge that the divine love must be free from all these lower demands, absolute and unconditioned.         Can the suggestion of revolt come to one who loves the Divine?       If the love is absolute and ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10  >  Consciousness

... in the physical, love human and animal are not negations of the Divine love, it is not that you have to reject, cut off these so-called inferior formulations of love, these do not necessarily deny or reject the Divine love in their heart of hearts; even there in their true reality, glows the pure Divine love. To reach the Divine love, to enjoy its divine ā nanda, it is not necessary to make a bonfire... of love the same thing as I have been saying of consciousness. She says, there is only one love, the divine love and none other. There are various expressions of that love according to the conditions in which it manifests, to the degree or status of being but every where it is the same divine love behind in essence. Because of inadequate expression it becomes blurred or faint and muddy but the living... bonfire of these earthly goods and go beyond into the transcendent. Even here in this earthly mould the Divine love in its full purity can be established for it is already there behind and needs only earnest evocation. Consciousness essentially is always and everywhere the same. Its own quality is unvarying but in its expression there is growth and development, an increase in intensity and amplitude ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Consciousness

... in the physical, love human and animal are not negations of the Divine love, it is not that you have to reject, cut off these so-called inferior formulations of love, these do not necessarily deny or reject the Divine love in their heart of hearts; even there in their true reality, glows the pure Divine love. To reach the Divine love, to enjoy its divine a nanda , it is not necessary to make a bonfire... of love the same thing as I have been saying of consciousness. She says, there is only one love, the divine love and 'none other. There are various expressions of that love according to the conditions in which it manifests, to the degree or status of being but everywhere it is the same divine love behind in essence. Because of inadequate expression it becomes blurred or faint and muddy but the living... bonfire of these earthly goods and go beyond into the transcendent. Even here in this earthly mould the Divine love in its full purity can be established for it is already there behind and needs only earnest evocation. Consciousness essentially is always and everywhere the same. Its own quality is unvarying but in its expression there is growth and development, an increase in intensity and amplitude ...

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Integral Yoga - Major Aims, Methods, Processes and Results  >  PART THREE

... In that total view, two other major but penultimate experiences can be specially underlined, because one of them belongs to the path of the divine works and the other belongs to the path of the divine love, just as the penultimate experiences of the silent Being and the silent Non-Being are, as we have seen above, the culminating points of the exclusive path of Divine Knowledge. Page 47 ... Ananda Brahman (Blissful Divine) Another major penultimate experience in the integral yoga is that of Ananda Brahman (Blissful Divine), which is the principal contribution of the path of the Divine Love. Will, knowledge and love are the three divine powers in human nature and in the life of man, and they point to the three paths by which the human soul rises to the Divine. When these three paths... and without love, as Sri Aurobindo points out, we may get the rapt peace of its infinity, the absorbed silence of the Ananda, but not its absolute depth of richness and fullness. The path of the divine love is, therefore, indispensable for the integral realization of the Supreme. It is true that there is a movement of love where the human lover and the Divine loved can live in the enjoyment of ...

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Integral Yoga of Transformation  >  Part Six

... then the rise of Bhakti, because Bhakti is essentially the delight in the Presence of the Divine Consciousness and Divine Force. The crown of the union of Karma yoga and Jnana yoga is divine Love, and the divine Love expresses the delight of conscious union with the divine Being in whom we live, act and move, by whom we exist, for whom alone we learn in the end to act and to be. The three powers of... without the knowledge of the Divine Will and Divine Love. The divine will in being also is God and not the being or itself self-aware silent existence alone; and just as works find their culmination in knowledge, even so, knowledge also finds its fulfillment in works and the crown of the knowledge as also of the growth in the divine will is the divine love. Perfect knowledge leads to perfect love, integral... integral knowledge leads to multitudinous richness of divine love. As the Gita points out, one who knows the supreme Purusha, who is not only the immutable monotone of oneness but who is also the many- sided movement, and who transcends both the immobile and the mobile, and thus because one has the integral knowledge, one seeks the Divine by love in every way of his being. Here again, we arrive at the ...

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On The Mother  >  Words of the Mother

... the Divine Consciousness and the Divine love. This was the supreme love... And yet none perhaps would call it love; for it does not clothe itself in a superficial sentiment, it makes no demand in exchange for what it has done, no show of its sacrifice. 43 Aren't all the million manifestations of human love but the result of the "impulse given by a Divine love behind the human longing and seeking"... love that are unmanifested here. Once you have come in contact with this large, pure and true Divine love, if you have felt it even for a short time, you will realise what an abject thing human desire has made of it. 44 It is not that human love, in its aspiration to be transformed into Divine Love, should withdraw from the physical or the vital, and confine itself to the psychic realm alone... y of coming back to the Divine. The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace. 45 What was this world but insentient matter, till the Divine Love came down and stirred it into life? Love has so far flowered in a million imperfect ways, the noblest of them all being a mother's love for her child ...

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Sri Krishna In Brindavan  >  Selections

... Krishna In Brindavan PART III a ) A selection of poems by some of the mystics and poets of India, on themes related to Sri Krishna and his yoga of divine Love. b ) A selection from Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ' s experiences of Sri Krishna and Radha. c ) A selection from Sri Ramakrishna's experiences of Sri Krishna and Radha. (a) Andal... side of the village temple. It was under this tree that he was first seen by his disciple, the Alwar Madhura-kavi, — for the latter also is numbered among the great Twelve, "lost in the sea of Divine Love". Tradition says that while Madhura-kavi was wandering in North India as a pilgrim, one night a strange light appeared to him in the sky and travelled towards the South. Doubtful at first what s... effect of the "madness" being that in all things she is able to see nothing but forms of Krishna —, the ultimate Spirit of the universe. The Realisation of God in all things by the Vision of Divine Love. 1. Seated, she caresses Earth and cries, "This Earth is Vishnu's"; Salutes the sky and bids us "behold the Heaven He ruleth"; Or standing with tear-filled eyes cries ...

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The Aim of Life  >  Ecstasy of Divine Love

... Avatar of Divine Love, and revered him as God incarnate even during his life-time. Love is a passion and it seeks for two things, eternity and intensity, and, as revealed in the experience of the mystics in the relation of the Lover and Beloved, the seeking for eternity and for intensity is instinctive and self-born. Love is a seeking for mutual possession, and it is in Divine Love that the... The Aim of Life Radha and Krishna, by M.A.R. Chughtai, courtesy N.G.M.A, New Delhi Ecstasy of Divine Love Introduction If we study the lives of God-lovers, we find that love for God comes to them in many ways. It may come as an awakening to the beauty of the Lover, by the sight of an ideal face and image of Him, by his mysterious hints... idea of oneness, of two souls merging into each other and becoming one, finds the acme of its longing and the completeness of its satisfaction. Love, too, is a yearning for beauty, and it is in Divine Love that the yearning is eternally satisfied in the vision and the touch and the joy of the All- beautiful. Love is a child and a seeker of Delight, and it is here that it finds the highest possible ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Love Divine

... Love Divine "THE intensity of Divine Love does not produce any perturb­ation in any part of the being".¹ Why should it? If there is a perturbation, it is more likely that a different kind of love was in question. If it is Divine Love, there can be no perturbation, for each one receives it according to his capacity. Divine Love is there in its full intensity, as a tremendous force... proportion to what they are, what they can receive and hold. Indeed, you are always bathed in an atmosphere vibrant with Divine Love. Sometimes, on rare occasions, for a few seconds perhaps, there is all on a sudden just the impression of something, and you say: "there, the Divine Love came to me!" Well, it is a way of saying: the true fact being that for some reason or other you happened to be just a... are there all the while; only you do not feel it or do so only spasmodically. Once in a way you find yourself, without any rhyme or reason as it were, in that happy state and you declare that the Divine Love has at last turned towards you! But, as I say, the matter is not like that. There came about an opening in you, perhaps no more than a pinpoint, and that was sufficient for the thing to rush in; ...

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On The Mother  >  Manifold Ministry

... forms of human love, it should be a natural movement towards divine love, whether it be manifested in a personal being (an avatar, for example) or whether it is unmanifested and impersonal. In a later conversation, the Mother described the quintessence of this divine love, how difficult it is to realise, and yet how needful: This Divine Love which animates all things, penetrates all, upbears all and... satisfaction of animal appetites or sensual desires". As for herself, She fully knows her mind: I now know for certain that only one love can satisfy my being: it is the love for the Divine, the divine love, for that alone never fails. Perhaps one day I shall find the favourable conditions and the necessary help for the achievement of the supreme realisation, the transformation and divinisation of the... aspiration and ascension, to move forward at the same pace on the same spiritual path, that is the secret of a lasting union. 19 The limitations of human love in its many forms and the quality of divine love as the culmination and crystallisation of human love were to come up again for discussion in a conversation of 19 September 1956. How is one to give up - or outgrow - the lower forms of love in favour ...

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The Psychic Being  >  More Lights on the Psychic Being

... with divine Love"—you are in a state in which everything appears to you to be this divine Love and nothing else. And yet it is only a covering, but a covering of a beautiful texture. So, divine Love need not be sought and known apart from the psychic being? No, find your psychic being and you will understand what divine Love is. Do not try to come into direct contact with divine Love because... 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 saying, "Oh! I would like to be in contact with divine Love", it is not like that. If, through a sustained effort, a deep concentration, a great forgetfulness of self, you succeed in coming... must make an effort to come into touch with your psychic being, to become aware and free in the consciousness of your psychic being, and then, quite naturally, spontaneously, you will know what divine Love is. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 24 March 1951 On the physical plane the Divine expresses himself through beauty, on the mental plane through knowledge, on the vital ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  Divine Love and Human Love

... Love Words of the Mother - II Divine Love and Human Love Lean more exclusively on the Divine's love. When one receives the Divine's love, of what value can be any human love? 2 September 1939 There is always a bitter taste behind the human love―it is only the Divine Love which never disappoints. 5 May 1945 Do not grieve. Human love... So long as the ego is there, one cannot love. Love alone can love, Love alone can conquer the ego. Self-love is the great obstacle. Divine love is the great remedy. One is outwardly alone only if one is closed to the divine love. 8 December 1960 You feel lonely because you feel the need to be loved. Learn to love without demand, to love just for the joy of loving (the... purely superficial. And the "nature" of Love, as of Consciousness, is unalterable. 20 April 1967 When one has found divine Love, it is the Divine that one loves in all beings. There is no longer any division. 1 May 1967 Once one has found divine Love, all other loves, which are nothing but disguises, can lose their deformities and become pure―then it is the Divine that one loves ...

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The New Synthesis of Yoga  >  Part-2

... and developed a synthesis with increasing stress on the yoga of Divine Love. There were also other Vedantic systems of yoga, and each one of these systems reflected the synthesis of yoga of the Upanishads and the Gita, even though each one of them laid a special emphasis either on the power of knowledge or on the power of Divine Love, and these systems of synthesis often presented a scene of Page... have in the Gita the famous pronouncement: sarvam karmākhilam jnāne parisamāpyati (Bhagavadgita, IV.33), — works fulfils themselves in knowledge. Divine love is always the crown, having achieved which, nothing more remains to be achieved. But divine love attains its fullness only by the luminosity of knowledge, and its basic security and foundation rest on knowledge. These three powers assert their... cosmic play of the Divine. In some directions it is more immediately rich and fruitful, for it brings forward into the foreground along with the divine knowledge, divine works an enriched devotion of divine Love, the secrets also of the Hatha Yoga and the Raja Yoga. Thus the Tantra seeks to use the body and mental askesis for the opening up of the divine life on all its planes. Moreover, the Tantra grasps ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 9  >  The Story of Love

... paradise of the sweetest delight. The Divine Love is there with all its intensity, with all its tremendous power. But most people do not feel anything. What they feel is exclusively proportionate to what they are and what they are capable of receiving. Just imagine that you are bathed in an atmosphere wholly vibrant with divine love. But you perceive nothing of it. Sometimes, rarely... that began the awakening and the ascension, the slow formation in and out of Matter and a progress without end. (2) There is a state of consciousness in which one experiences the Divine Love everywhere. One does not feel then a .great difference between one creature and another except in their physical appearance. Even in unconsciousness and immobility, the apparently complete inertia—of... become similar to the thing you love. If you love the Divine, by the force of this love, little by little, you will become more and more like the Divine. And then one can identify oneself with the divine Love and know what it is, you cannot know it in any other way. Necessarily, the love between two human beings is always made of ignorance, misunderstanding, weakness and a terrible sense of ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  The Story of Love

... the sweetest delight. Page 135 The Divine Love is there with all its intensity, with all its tremendous power. But most people do not feel anything. What they feel is exactly proportionate to what they are and what they are capable of receiving. Just imagine that you are bathed in an atmosphere wholly vibrant with divine love. But you perceive nothing of it. Sometimes, rarely, all... is then that the awakening and the ascension began the slow formation in and out of Matter and a progress without end. (2) There is a state of consciousness in which one experiences the Divine Love everywhere. One does not feel then a great difference between one creature and another except in their physical appearance. Even in unconsciousness and immobility, the apparently complete inertia... become just like the thing you love. If you love the Divine, by the force of this love, little by little, you will become more and more like the Divine. And then one can identify oneself with the divine Love and know what it is, you cannot know it in any other way. Necessarily, the love between two human beings is always made of ignorance, misunderstanding, weakness and a terrible sense of isolation ...

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The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo  >  Love-Its Place and Power-2

... the divine Love, it can draw freely upon the latter's omnipotence. The psychic is not content to give only itself to the Divine, it aspires and endeavours to give all its nature and all its instruments of expression also to Him, so that He may transform and illumine them, and use them as perfected means of His manifestation in the material life. When psychic love is united with the divine Love and... different kind—the psychic has its own more personal love, bhakti, surrender. Love in the higher or spiritual mind is more universal and impersonal. The two must go together to make the highest divine love."² Psychic love springs from a living sense of essential identity seeking to realise itself in the bliss of perfect union with the Divine. In its widest perfection, it is a yearning for an... communion with Him. It has no other interest and no other aim in life. Its love for God is, therefore, the purest and most disinterested, and supremely capable of bringing down the transforming light of divine Love upon earth. It is this psychic love that the sâdhaka of the Integral Yoga has to develop in himself and infuse into all parts of his being, so that his whole being may become a single flame of love ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2  >  Savitri- Its Inner Significance

... because she has to transform this earth and Satyavan represents this earth. Savitri is that fullness of incarnation of Divine Love in the form of Divine Grace and Shakti who came to manifest the Supramental Light in its entirety. A full manifestation of Divine Love alone can bring to creation its final consummation, when "the entire universe becomes the total Avatar of the Supreme." 19 ... shall be changed by an unchanging will. 11 And the Divine Mother herself descends, as the daughter of Aswapati, as Savitri! Savitri is the Divine Response to human aspiration, the Divine Love incarnate in a human body. This divine holocaust is perhaps the quickest method to awaken the dark obstinate consciousness of man to his higher self. But humanity resists the Divine incarnation:... Origin and what was created. A direct Descent of the Divine Consciousness became imminent and so was there a descent of the Divine Consciousness in the form of Love. And it is this first descent of Divine Love who is "the first universal Avatar who, gradually, has assumed more and more conscious bodies and finally manifested in a kind of recognised line of Beings who have descended directly from the ...

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Sri Aurobindo came to Me  >  The Trials

... that we shall ever lose patience or give you up — that will never happen. Our patience, you will find, is tireless because it is based upon unbounded sympathy and love. Human love may give up, but divine love is stable and does not falter. We know that the aspiration of your psychic being is sincere. It is because the sincere aspiration is there that we have no right to disbelieve in your adhikara ... intelligence, the same subconscious movements of the vital brought to the surface, the same irrational impulses pushing to the same action: departure, renunciation of the soul-truth, refusal of the Divine Love and the Divine call. "It is the vital crisis, the test, the ordeal for you as for others — a test and ordeal which we would willingly spare those who are with us but which they call on themselves... thrice or four times a week, a very significant fact emerges of which I failed to take full cognisance at the time, to wit, that although he insisted on my receiving at his hands what he called divine love, it was always his human way of offering it that prevailed in the Page 42 end and induced me to comply with his invitation to attempt what seemed to me all but impossible: the radical ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume II  >  Correspondence 1934

... freedom of the Spirit which can exist in itself, be there world or no world, world order world disorder. Bhakti and the heart's call for the Divine Love and Ananda. The will Page 160 for Tapasya has in it a a truth—it is the truth of the divine Love and Ananda. The Spirit's mastery over its members. The musician and poet stand for a truth, it is truth of the expression of the Spirit through... that we shall ever lose patience or give you up—that will never happen. Our patience, you will find, is tireless because it is based on an unbounded sympathy and love. Human love may give up, but divine love is stable and does not falter. We know that the aspiration of your psychic being is sincere and the falterings of the vital cannot affect the support that we shall always give to it. It is because... can prevent the movements which make you rest- less, obscured and miserable. In asking this I am surely not asking anything excessive or beyond your power. April 1934 It is only divine love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine. The Galileo-like "je ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume I  >  1932

... point. Chaitanya's prema was nothing but a psychic divine love with a strong sublimated vital manifestation. But the moment Vaishnavism before or after him made an attempt at greater externalisation, we know what happened—a vitalistic deterioration, much corruption and decline. You cannot appeal to Chaitanya's example as against psychic or divine love; his was not something merely vital-human; in its... so insistent on bringing it down as soon as possible. And let me say also that, as regards human love and divine love, I admitted the first as that from which we have to proceed and to arrive at the other, intensifying and transforming into itself, not eliminating human love. Divine Love in my view of it, is again not something ethereal, cold and far, but a love absolutely intense, intimate and... private! I have not, I think, anywhere insisted on "a silent expression less love" and I cannot even remember having used the phrase. On the contrary, I thought I had made it clear, first that divine love and psychic love both needed a complete expression and that vital and physical love were their necessary complements and were both a part of that complete expression. At any rate, if that was not ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Motives of Devotion

... in pure and perfect love. All those that cannot coexist with the perfect union of love, must eventually fall away, while only those that can form themselves into expressions of divine love and into means of enjoying divine love, can remain. For love is the one emotion in us which can be entirely motiveless and self-existent; love need have no other motive than love. For all our emotions arise either... The Yoga of Divine Love The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter II The Motives of Devotion All religion begins with the conception of some Power or existence greater and higher than our limited and mortal selves, a thought and act of worship done to that Power, and an obedience offered to its will, its laws or its demands. But Religion, in its beginnings, sets... are; for if we met no kind of response or help to our imperfect approach, the more perfect relations could never be established. Even as men approach him, so he accepts them and responds too by the divine Love to their bhakti, tathaiva bhajate . Whatever form of being, whatever qualities they lend to him, through that form and those qualities he helps them to develop, encourages or governs their advance ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  March 27, 1961

... proportion to this detachment, the reality of the Vibration—and especially the vibration of divine Love—keeps growing and growing (out of all proportion to the body, even) in a FORMIDABLE manner, formidable! The body is beginning to feel nothing but that. Is this detachment necessary, then, for divine Love to be established? I don't know. Yes, it's as if I were living, as if the BODY were living... a total illusion! Not the same illusion, a far more serious illusion. If That was not there.... Obviously, That [divine Love] is here, like a mattress placed so you won't break your neck when you fall. That's precisely the feeling: this experience of the vibration of divine Love is the mattress... so you don't break your neck! So, petit, don't brood; whatever your difficulties may be ( laughing... same time), EVERYTHING, everything that happens now, even things which seem extremely unpleasant to our mental conceptions or our mental reactions, everything is a bath, a bath of the vibration of divine Love. So much so that if I didn't control my body, I would be smiling at everything all the time like an idiot. A beatific smile for everything (I don't show it because I control myself). ( silence ...

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Some Answers from the Mother  >  Letters to a Sadhak (1966-1969)

... make a dishonest man honest is an even more impossible miracle. 8 November 1967 Which is swifter for transformation: Divine Love or Mahakali's force? Kali's force is necessary only for those who are not yet open to Divine Love. For one who is open to Divine Love, nothing more is needed. 11 November 1967 By Your Grace, my body is now collaborating to get rid of its laziness. That... of it because I am not receptive enough. This is the exact image of the state of the world which suffers because it is not receptive, when it could live in beatitude if it would open to the Divine Love. But there is a remedy: Sincere and constant aspiration. 6 July 1967 I have begun to see that both the personal effort of the sadhak and its result depend on the Divine Grace. ... transformation. One has to cut off all connection with the manifested world in order to be immune. But in any case, transformation gives the power of victory. 18 October 1968 Is the Divine Love equal for all even in the manifestation? Yes, equal and immutable. But the capacity to perceive and receive it and the habit of distorting it differ with each one. 22 October 1968 ...

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Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history  >  The Ten Limbs of The Yoga

... Conditions of the Synthesis'), the fully revised Part I ('The Yoga of Divine Works'), the slightly revised Part II ('The Yoga of Integral Knowledge'), and the unrevised Parts III and IV ('The Yoga of Divine Love' and 'The Yoga of Self-Perfection'). An additional, incomplete chapter entitled Page 550 'The Supermind and the Yoga of Works' had been appended to Part II, opening up some more... and Devotion, the sovereign actor is the heart: through the purification of human emotions and human relationships and their elevation to a one-pointed and blissful condition of participation in divine love, the Bhaktiyogin emancipates himself from the turbulent vicissitudes of everyday existence and becomes a sharer in the divine līlā of the Lord who is the all-beautiful, the all-loving, the al... ecstasy of such spiritual union? In Sri Aurobindo's words - ...it is not possible for the tongue of human speech to tell all the utter unity and all the eternal variety of the Ananda of divine love. Our higher and our lower members are both flooded with it, the mind and life no less than the soul: even the physical body takes its share of the joy, feels the touch, is filled in all its limbs ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  Sex

... Divine. You have spoken of Divine Love; but Divine Love, when it touches the physical, does not awaken the gross lower vital propensities; indulgence of them would only repel it and make it withdraw again to the heights from which it is already difficult enough to draw it down into the coarseness of the material creation which it alone can transform. Seek the Divine Love through the only gate through... reserve a place for them. So the best answer to the question about the sadhana (What is the place of sex in our sadhana?) is "No place". One must give up the sex-satisfaction and be satisfied with the Divine Love and Ananda. The whole mistake is not to have a clear and unmistakable direction that sex (whether open or masquerading as deep romantic affection) and this Yoga cannot go together. This notion... great liberation which opens up to the Divine considerable regions of the being which otherwise tend to remain shut up. These things are a degradation of the source in the being from which bhakti, divine love and adoration arise. But the complex has deep roots in human nature and one must not be disappointed if it takes time to pull them up. A resolute detachment rejecting them as foreign elements, refusing ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1964  >  July 22, 1964

... perception, entirely; and naturally, that individual perception [of divine Love] depends on the inadequacy, the inertia, the incomprehension, the incapacity, the cells' inability to hold and keep the Vibration, anyway all that man calls his "character" and which comes from his animal evolution. ( silence ) It is said that divine Love doesn't manifest because, in the world's present state of imperfection... soon as I decided to go back into myself, it was over. Obviously, in those activities, I don't have recourse to divine Love to find the solution of the problem—I am not allowed to do so. So I understand that this is what was translated in people's thought by the idea that divine Love cannot manifest entirely, otherwise there would be catastrophes 3 —it's not that at all, that's not at all the way... notes, I don't remember where they are (they were in English, in the form of an answer to a letter). I saw, almost simultaneously, love as people "practice" it, if we may say so, and feel it, and divine Love in its origin. Both were as if shown to me side by side, and not only were they side by side, but I saw also the difference (it was almost simultaneous) between the two actions: how human action ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  Divine Love

... with marvellous flowers, scarlet, enormous―clusters of petals, innumerable drops of blood... These are the flowers that, for us, express and hold the Divine Love. 14 November 1955 Yesterday morning I distributed petals of "Divine Love". The previous night was, here, the darkest of the year and in India it is a great festival. Its true significance is that the Divine's Love is at the base... Love Words of the Mother - II Divine Love In the Divine's love we always find all support and all consolation. 7 May 1954 When you reach the contact with the Divine's love you see this love in everything and all circumstances. 20 July 1954 The Divine's love and knowledge must always govern our thoughts and actions. 24 July 1954... The Divine's love can generate in all peace and the satisfaction that comes from benevolence. 27 November 1954 The Divine's love is an eternal truth. 21 July 1955 The Divine Love is the essence of Truth and cannot be affected by human confusions. Page 116 An Old Chaldean Legend 1 Long ago, very long ago, in the desert land that is now Arabia, a divine ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1966  >  July 27, 1966

... it. And when there was in the body that identification with divine Love [a few days ago], after that had left, the cells were ordered to undergo a similar phenomenon [to what happened after Sri Aurobindo's departure]. And I understood why the whole material world is closed: it's to allow it to exist WITHOUT the experience [of divine Love]. Naturally, I had understood why I was made to close off my... incapacity to express anything superior. And then, the answer was very simple—it was very clear, very strong—and the experience came: the only solution— the only way out of the difficulty is to BECOME divine Love. And the experience was there at the same time for a few moments (it lasted long enough, maybe more than half an hour). Then you understand that everything you have to go through, all these ordeals... impossible, I couldn't go on existing outwardly without Sri Aurobindo's presence. Well then, the cells have understood that they must go on existing and living their life without the presence of divine Love. And that's how it took place in the Page 157 world: it was a necessary phenomenon for the formation and development of the material world. But we're perhaps nearing... We are nearing ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2  >  Savitri- Assault of Ether and of Fire

... s own tremendous experience of the Supreme Mother—not a secondhand account of someone else's. 7 Refer Mother's Agenda, Vol. 3: the Mother's experience of the "great pulsations" of Divine Love (13 April 1962). 8 Mother's Agenda, Vol. 6, pp. 235-37. Page 326 An awesome authenticity vibrates in every line, leaving one all a-tremble. Leaving behind the... wheeling stars. We recall the incredible depth of what the Mother wrote to Huta on 18 January 1965: "Love to all in you that loves and to all in you that does not know that it loves." 10 Divine Love in its infinite purity and power cannot be mentioned in the same breath as mental and vital love. Caring nothing for their appointment diaries, it chooses to invade some mortals at the most unexpected... measure a subjective experience is like trying to find the square root of a sonnet." The deepest mystery known to mankind is that of all-inclusive, all-overpowering and inexpressible Divine Love. An all-shattering and uncompromising Love that leaves no room for bargaining, for it dissolves everything in its path, and irresistibly carries forward universes, worlds and life to their divine ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 8  >  Love Divine

... Love Divine "The intensity of Divine Love does not produce any perturbation in any part of the being" (The Elements of Yoga). Why should it? If there is aperturbation, it is more likely that a different kind of love was in question. If it is Divine Love, there can be no perturbation, for each one receives it according to his capacity, Divine Love is there in its full intensity, as... proportion to what they are, what they can receive and hold. Indeed, you are always bathed in an atmosphere vibrant with Divine Love. Sometimes, on rare occasions, for a few seconds perhaps, there is all on a sudden just the impression of something, and you say: "there, the Divine Love came to me!" Well, it is a way of saying: the true fact being that for some reason or other you happened to be just a... only you do not feel it or do so only spasmodically. Once in a way you find yourself, without any rhyme or reason Page 137 as it were, in that happy state and you declare that the Divine Love has at last turned towards you! But, as I say, the matter is not like that. There came about an opening in you, perhaps no more than a pinpoint, and that was sufficient for the thing to rush in; ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Way of Devotion

... thought and action become shapes and figures of the divine love which possesses the spirit and its members. This is the ordinary movement by which what may be at first a vague adoration of some idea of the Divine takes on the hue and character and then, once entered into the path of Yoga, the inner reality and intense experience of divine love. But there is the more intimate Yoga which from the... The Yoga of Divine Love The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter IV The Way of Devotion Bhakti in itself is as wide as the heart-yearning of the soul for the Divine and as simple and straightforward as love and desire going straight towards their object. It cannot therefore be fixed down to any systematic method, cannot found itself on a psychological science like... final ecstasy are beyond the reach of the imagination and beyond expression by speech. For this is the delight of the Godhead that passes human understanding. Indian bhakti has given to this divine love powerful forms, poetic symbols which are not in reality so much symbols as intimate expressions of truth which can find no other expression. It uses human relations and sees a divine person, not ...

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Words of Long Ago  >  The Supreme Discovery

... role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things.... And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it... our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination—what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams? For the inner... plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light! If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve—for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours. You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  16 June 1954

... very well, besides. Yet if you persist and make the necessary effort, it is not impossible for this human love to be transformed into divine love through identification with what you love. He has not said that the love between two persons can change into divine love. It is not that at all! He has always said the opposite. He spoke about someone who had asked him about devotion, you know, about the... refuse as much as he could to surrender and bind himself closely. That's exactly the contradiction of their existence. Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo has said that one can pass from human love to divine Love. He was speaking of human love manifesting as Bhakti, as a Page 174 force of devotion for the Divine, and he says that at the beginning your love for the Divine is a very human love... the sadhak's love for the Divine. At the beginning your love is altogether human—and he speaks of it even as commercial barter. If you make progress, your love will change into divine love, into true devotion. Why do we sometimes have a special preference for a certain chapter, for instance, the one on sincerity or aspiration? You mean the desire to read it? Because one probably needs what is ...

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Some Answers from the Mother  >  Letters to a Sadhak (1935-1940)

... overwhelm me with your love, dear Mother. I know I do not deserve one iota of the kindness you show to me. What shall I say to you, you whose very nature is an Page 208 overwhelming divine love? Your love itself is a priceless gift. Why then these other gifts? There is a great joy in giving; there is a still greater joy in pleasing those we love... and when you will eat the pickles you... How extremely lovable you are, dear Mama! Is there anyone like you in the whole world? LOVE . Love, love, love to my very dear child; all the joy, all the light, all the peace of the divine love and also my loving blessings. 20 August 1939 Dearest Mama, I have returned the pot of pickles but I still have the pickles, and whenever I see them I remember you and say to myself... solved and you will get rid of your difficulties. I never feel that I am forgiving. Love does not forgive, it understands and cures. My love and blessings always. 28 August 1939 Let divine love be your goal. Let pure love be your way. Be always true to your love and all difficulties will be conquered. Love and blessings to my dear child. 9 September 1939 My dear loving ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1965  >  September 8, 1965

... Just the other day I noted something down on the subject ( Mother looks for a note, then reads it ): "Very rare and exceptional are the human beings who can understand and feel divine Love, because divine Love is free of attachment and of the need to please the object loved." Page 237 That was a discovery. That's why people don't understand; for them, love is so much like this... please the object of one's love. If you take away the attachment and the need to please, people scratch their heads and wonder if they love. And it's only when you take away those two things that divine Love begins! This, mon petit, we'll talk about again, it's a revelation. That's why they don't understand and that's why they can't feel it. × ... again, "It's not Life was only , but Life only ." × The experience of the "great pulsations" of divine Love (in April, 1962 ). ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  June 1935

... Some say that the Divine Love is like a rose; those who come nearer to it, that is, open themselves more, necessarily get more of it. Of course—but those who don't open themselves get it too without knowing it often. Unfortunately many don't recognise or appreciate their good luck and may even go grumbling and bumbling of into the darkness. But I say that the Divine Love is a rose which is... quite legitimate for the psychic being. The psychic being is a Purusha, not a flame—the psychic fire is not the being, it is something proper to it. June 8, 1935 We had a discussion on Divine Love yesterday at D's place, Can we say the Divine may love one more than another? The expression would then be a little misleading because it will bring in human comparisons. Not only a "little"... since in our stumblings and gropings the Divine here may have a soft corner for some, and not perhaps for others to the same extent. All that is rather beside the point. There is a universal divine love that is given equally to all—but also there is a special relation with each man—it is not a question of more or less, though it may appear so. But even that less or more cannot be judged by human ...

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Prayers  >  Prayers

... Truth. O Mother Supreme, my heart melts with gratitude and sings a hymn of gladness, for it knows no joy greater than to be Thy Divine Love. O sweet Mother of Love, my being prostrates before Thee in a humble supplication: Intensify in me this deathless Fire of Thy Divine Love and let me be consumed by it so that I may be transformed into a being of Thy Truth, a being of Thy Love and collaborate with... collaborate in Thy work so that this earth may be a field and camp of God and Thy Will may be accomplished in all its details. *** "Thou hast let me drink Ever so deep from the fountain of Thy Divine Love that it foods my being and yet Thou pourest more and more. It has lighted an eternal fame in my heart which ever purifies all the elements of my being and charges them with the Force of Thy Truth... Thee integrally and grant that my love for Thee may always grow more and more intense, more profound, pure and integral and thus become one day more and more perfectly perfect and absolute as Thy Divine Love, if such is Thy Will, to which I offer myself with tears of joy. *** And for me there is no question of sacrifice, because Your Work is my joy and I am prepared to do anything for it; nor ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  Sadhana through Love and Devotion

... of Works. Now to do all the actions of our daily life in a spirit of consecration to the Divine and not to give any quarter to our ego and desires is one of the most potent means of growing in divine love. Here is what Sri Aurobindo tells us in this connection: "This... is the demand made on us, that we should turn our whole life into a conscious sacrifice. Every moment and every movement... admitting of no sharing, for "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God." In the word s of the Mother: "To love truly the Di vine we must rise above all attachments. To become conscious of the Divine Love, all other love must be abandoned." But why is such a strict condition imposed ? There are two reasons for this injunction. The first one is that " there is a thirst for Love which no human... any human love however noble and beautiful it may appear to be, if it involves some attachment on the part of the lover, cannot but act as a "short-circuiting" and prevent the passage of true divine love. Hence the Mother's warning: "... whatever the sincerity, simplicity and purity of the relation between two human beings, it shuts them off more or less from the direct divine farce and ...

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Synthesis of Yoga in the Veda  >  Vedic System of Cosmic Knowledge

... reaches the highest motiveless devotion, which is Page 70 that of divine love, pure and simple, without any other demand or longing. The demand of the prayer is, in ultimate analysis, the demand for the closest union with the divine. As the Bhakti yoga rises higher, the one thing one asked for is the divine love:, the one thing feared is the loss of love, the one sorrow is a sorrow of separation... process of sacrifice or cultivation or surrender of our cognitive activities by means of intensities of clarities, symbolized in the Veda as ghrita or ghritasya dhdrāh. In the Vedic yoga of Divine Love or Divine Delight, the method is that of transmutation of sense activities effected by means of intensities of purification, symbolized in the Veda as the pressings of the soma-plant and straining... do not exist for the worshiper and lover or come in only as incidents or as results and not as objects or conditions of love. The .greatest boon of yogic prayer is eternity and intensity of the divine love. In the few examples which are taken below from Samaveda, various motives of prayers are discovered, but they express the intense need of the Rishis in their upward aspiration and effort to ...

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Bhagavadgita and Contemporary Crisis  >  What is Education

... till evening in the temple repeating continuously one refrain "Radhe Govinda, Radhe Govinda". Mira was twelve and I was nine at that time; on the previous day a saint had given a discourse on the divine love of Radha and exhorted us to repeat that mantra in order to open the doors of our heart to Radha's consciousness. Fortunately, our father and mother were away to Jamnagar, a neighbouring town, to... "What did she say?" I asked. "She said : 'Be prepared now for a long period of viraha, separation.' She then laughed and, pressing me to her bosom, she whispered into my ears: 'The path of divine love begins with a brief union and a long session of suffering of separation, since Krishna hides Himself and does not uncover Himself until you uncover yourself totally before Him!' Mira blushed... that is at once static and dynamic. And the pinnacle of Karmayoga is reached when one raises one's cognitive, conative and affective capacities and potentialities in a great synthesis where the divine love, divine knowledge and divine action flow through the liberated individual in a plenary and ecstatic and triumphant symphony. You will think that I am getting poetic; but the joy of my discovery compels ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  The Earth and Her Destiny

... to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace. Love cannot exist in its pure beauty, love cannot put on its native power and intense joy of fullness until there is this interchange, this fusion between the earth and the Supreme, this movement of love from the Divine to the creation and from the creation to the Divine. This world was a world of dead matter till Divine Love descended into it and awakened... In the Mother's Light The Earth and Her Destiny "The material world in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed, 'There is something that is worth waking to, worth living for, and it is love !' And with the awakening to love, there... this creation has moved on its road like the blind seeking for the unknown, seeking but ignorant of what it sought. Once the creation is conscious, awakened, open to love for the Divine, the Divine Love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself and the ends meet; there is the joining of the extremes, supreme Spirit and manifesting Matter ...

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Notebooks of an Apocalypse 1973-1978

... have uncommon difficulties, which cannot be resolved but through uncommon means. François, like your son Satprem, had been born to incarnate something of the divine Love and to create something through the force of this Love. But divine Love has nothing to do with the sentimental love of humans — it loves everything and everywhere, but it shuts itself in nowhere. It is a universal force. François’s... need of it. Satprem November 15, 1976 (Message from Sujata) A new life based on Something Else. May it be a new life from now on. Page 180 Look, here are two petals of divine love given by Them. May this love pervade everything with its powerful sweetness. November 18, 1976 My mother’s arrival (her last visit to India). Brincourt writes to me about the Trilogy:... editor of Mother India , an ashram review] ... then, fortunately, the first copy of the Agenda , brought by Jean-Marie in the night. It was very moving. It is so beautiful. Exactly the color of Divine Love. It represents a great victory. What a journey!... Yes, apparently blocked by this huge lorry. Curiously enough, your physical experience at the printer’s door, as you were blocked by this huge ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  31 October 1956

... must become divine before one can bear the pressure of Divine Love. It is in the "Diary". Oh! you are repeating it a little freely! Well, what does he want to know? He is asking whether man must first become divine before Love can spread over the earth. I don't think this is what is meant. Surely what you mean is that Divine Love cannot manifest until man becomes divine. Is that what... this total inconscience made a direct descent necessary, without sing through the intermediate regions, a direct descent of the divine Consciousness in its form of Love. And it is this descent of Divine Love into matter, penetrating it and adding a new element to its position, which has made possible the ascent, slow for us, but an uninterrupted ascent, from inconscience to consciousness and from darkness... again. What I said there has nothing to do with this. I was speaking not of the world in general but of human consciousness in particular; and certainly, I was alluding to the fact that this Divine Love which animates all things, penetrates all, upbears all and leads all towards progress and an ascent to the Divine, is not felt, not perceived by the human consciousness, and that even to the extent ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Ascent of the Sacrifice - I

... integral Yoga. Altruism, philanthropy, humanitarianism, service are flowers of the mental consciousness and are at best the mind's cold and pale imitation of the spiritual flame of universal Divine Love. Not truly liberative from ego-sense, they widen it at most and give it a higher and larger satisfaction; impotent in practice to change man's vital life and nature, they only modify and palliate... its whole emphasis in this field on three central dynamic processes—the development of the true soul or psychic being to take the place of the false soul of desire, the sublimation of human into divine love, the elevation of consciousness from its mental to its spiritual and Supramental plane by whose power alone both the soul and the life-force can be utterly delivered from the veils and prevarications... a higher Truth, its dedication to the Divine and the Eternal. But the most intimate character of the psychic is its pressure towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is a divine Love that it seeks most, it is the love of the Divine that is its spur, its goal, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent or the still obscure cradle of the new-born godhead within ...

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On the Path  >  1967

... To make a dishonest man honest is an even more impossible miracle.... Which is swifter for transformation: Divine Love or Mahakali's force? Page 25 Kali's force is necessary only for those who are not yet open to Divine Love. For one who is open to Divine Love, nothing more is needed. 11.11.1967 Before going to sleep I remember You and when I get up I remember You... because I am not receptive enough. This is the exact image of the state of the world which suffers because it is not receptive whereas it could live in beatitude if it would open to the Divine Love. Page 14 But there is a remedy: Sincere and constant aspiration. 6.7.1967 Your Grace has calmed the vital, the clouds disappear. I pray that the future be a sunlit... my impurities I would like to make them fall down like dust or burn them in the flame of Agni. It is good. But the most potent remedy is to open oneself more and more completely to Divine Love which is changed in our consciousness into love for the Divine and which by its mere presence consumes all impurities. 19.8.1967 Here is an amusing phrase from an anonymous author: "Thank ...

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On the Path  >  1969

... at all when I oppose You with all my obscurity. I have had clear experiences of it. It is so because it is not a personal love, but divine love which is constant, invariable, above every circumstance and always at the maximum of its activity. Divine love is limitless and unfluctuating. In fact, in each one it is limited only by the incapacity to receive it. 9.2.1969 Man often says... into love, does not love disappear? Divine love in its purity is sufficient to itself and is eternal. But as soon as it manifests on the earth it is mixed with all the egoistic movements of the mind, vital and body. . . Thus it is veiled and deformed beyond all recognition. What men call love is a sad caricature of the essential love, the Divine love. 2.4.1969 Since some days when I... God-light and God-force Revealing the secret deity in the cave." 1 Yes, undoubtedly this is what is going to happen. 18.4.1969 Isn't disinterested self-giving basically a movement of divine Love? Certainly yes, and it is also the best means to melt into the Divine and become identified with Him. 20.4.1969 Aren't self-consecration and self-renunciation two aspects of a single ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  The Mother

... Many a time during the day and in the night it seems to me that I,—that is to say, my consciousness is wholly concentrated in my heart, which is no longer an organ, not even a feeling, but the divine Love, impersonal, eternal; being this Love, I feel myself living in the centre of everything upon the whole earth, and at the same time it seems to me that I am stretching out immense, infinite arms... gathered under the robe after it had lengthened, spreading in a circle around the Mother "to form, as it were, an immense roof over the town." It is always, indeed, the Grace that acts first, the divine Love that leans down first and exerts a secret, silent pressure from above, and the human aspiration and appeal are but a reflex action from below. The fourth movement — it is not really the fourth... union only in the depths of her being, which is the common objective of all mystics, but union even in the outermost nature, and a complete possession and government of the whole being by the divine Love, so that the divine Will, realized by the Mother in her union with the Eternal, may fulfil itself in her terrestrial existence. But what is this divine Will in regard to the Mother ? "To be the ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  15 August 1956

... advantage of the psychic and spiritual influences and can be detected using the power, joy or light these bring into us for a lower life-motive. Afterwards too, even when the seeker has opened to the Divine Love transcendental, universal or immanent, yet if he tries to pour it into life, he meets the power of obscuration and Page 258 perversion of these lower Nature-forces. Always they draw... g elements, seek to capture the descending Power for themselves and their interests and degrade it into an aggrandised mental, vital or physical instrumentation for desire and ego. Instead of a Divine Love creator of a new heaven and a new earth of Truth and Light, they would hold it here prisoner as a tremendous sanction and glorifying force of sublimation to gild the mud of the old earth and colour... status; or else the realisation remains tied to an insecure half-way and mixture or is covered and even submerged by an inferior exaltation that is not the true Ananda. It is for this reason that the Divine Love which is at the heart of all creation and the most powerful of all redeeming and creative forces has yet been the least frontally present in earthly life, the least successfully redemptive, the least ...

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Letters on Yoga - II  >  Bhakti Yoga and Vaishnavism

... point. Chaitanya's prema was nothing but a psychic divine love with a strong sublimated vital manifestation. But the moment Vaishnavism before or after him made an attempt at greater externalisation, we know what happened—a vitalistic deterioration, much corruption and decline. You cannot appeal to Chaitanya's example as against psychic or divine love; it was not something merely vital-human; in its... Vaishnava sadhana and the power of the Name in it. Only, keep your poise and persevere. The Supramental is something in which the basis is absolute calm Page 465 and however intense a Divine Love there is in it it does not disturb the calm but increases its depth. Chaitanya's experience was not that of Supermind, but of a Love and Ananda brought from above into the vital—the response of the... the Asuric forces seeking to prevent it, it is approaching the terrestrial soil. The supramental is not, as you imagine, something cold, hard and rocklike. It bears within it the presence of the Divine Love as well as the Divine Truth and its reign here means for those who accept it the straight and thornless path on which there is no wall or obstacle of which the ancient Rishis saw the far-off promise ...

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Letters on Yoga - III  >  Gods, Goddesses and Semi-Divine Beings

... Page 156 It is, I suppose, the image of Sri Krishna as Lord of the divine Love and Ananda—and his flute calls the physical being to awake out of the attachments of the physical world and turn to that Love and Ananda. Krishna with Radha is the symbol of the Divine Love. The flute is the call of the Divine Love; the peacock is victory. The green circular disc you saw round Venus... Hanuman Hanuman stands for Bhakti. Hanuman = complete bhakti. Page 157 Hanuman is a symbol of Shakti and devotion. Narada Narada stands for the expression of the Divine Love and Knowledge. Mahakali and Kali Mahakali and Kali are not the same, Kali is a lesser form. Mahakali in the higher planes appears usually with the golden colour. These—Kali, Shyama, ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  The Ishavasyopanishad with a commentary in English

... contemplation of the eternal tortures in which those they had lived with and perhaps loved, were agonizing. Divine love, divine pity, the nature of the Buddha, that was the message which India sent to Europe through the lips of Jesus, and this is how the European mind interpreted divine love & divine pity! The fires of Hell aptly and piously anticipated on earth by the fires of Smithfield, the glowing... selfishness could have given us Father Damien or Jesus or Florence Nightingale. So is it finally with the lover of the whole world, of whom the mighty type is Buddha, the one unapproachable ideal of Divine Love in man, he who turned from perfect divine bliss as he had turned from perfect human bliss that not he alone but all creatures might be saved. To see your Self in all creatures and all creatures... of the Auto-da-fé, the unspeakable reek of agony that steams up thro' history from the dungeons of the Holy Office—nay, there are wise men who find an apology for these pious torturers; it was divine love after all seeking to save the soul at the cost of the perishable body! But the Aryan spirit of the East, the spirit of Buddha struggles for ever with European barbarism and surely in the end it shall ...

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More Answers from the Mother  >  Series One (1931 - 1949)

... attraction for me. Since You wrote, "Rather than avoiding this person or that... ", I thought I could talk to her and thus gradually come to the true attitude. Mother... love. If it is divine love that you mean, one can obtain it only by renouncing human love, which is a travesty and caricature of it. 26 September 1934 O Mother, I want to act according to Your will and nothing else... It is quite impossible for me to study, because inertia is there. If you do not study, the inertia will go on increasing. 4 March 1935 What is meant by "beauty" in "to bring the Divine Love and Beauty and Ananda"? There is a beauty on every plane of the being right up to the Divine himself. Material beauty is but a very poor translation of that beauty. 5 March 1935 Isn't... 1937 I ask Your forgiveness for having kept up a certain familiarity with Y, although You told me not to do so. O Mother, I want Your love! Without love how can I live? To obtain the divine love, all other love must be abandoned. 28 December 1937 A head cold has been trying to get into me for a long time already. Would You explain to me why I haven't been able to resist this time ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1967  >  December 16, 1967

... interesting. It's this ( Mother takes a piece of paper and writes ): "The best way to prepare oneself to receive Divine Love is to adhere integrally to the Truth." ( Mother then writes a second note: ) "Adhere totally to the Truth and you will be ready to receive Divine Love." When you say that to good intelligent folks, their heads spin!... ( Mother laughs ) I must say that making... aspiration, much more than a will, in English they call it an urge ) a thirst to let Divine Love express itself completely, totally, everywhere, the base, the favourable ground is the Truth. Sri Aurobindo said it, of course. He said it, he wrote it in black and white (I forget the exact words): " The pure divine love can manifest safely only in a ... in a ground " (it's not ground ...) " of Truth. ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume III  >  Correspondence 1936

... approach I can never establish any harmony within me which is "independent of persons and circumstances". The difficulty is of course that Divine Love appears to me too impersonal and cold that is lacking in warmth though rich in a cold harmony. Perhaps Divine Love is not like that: I don't know—but what I know is that human affections etc. are all rather tiresome at best and stifling at worst—and... Ananda, he holds and watches it and there is no mere excitement mixed with the flow of it through the mind, vital or body. Naturally the Ananda of samarpan [surrender] or spiritual realisation or divine love is something far greater, but the Ananda of creation has its place. Page 82 May 17,1936 Yesterday morning I was reading Krishnaprem's article in the Aryan Path on the Seventh... is something very pure, fixed and constant; it does not leap like fire and sink for want of fuel, but is steady and all- embracing and self-existent like the light of the sun. There is also a divine love that is personal, but it is not like the ordinary personal human love dependent on any return from the person—it is personal but not egoistic—it goes from the real being in the one to the real ...

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Synthesis of Yoga in the Upanishads  >  Part Two

... admitted that, despite the synthesis of divine knowledge, divine works and divine love, there was in the Upanishads a greater emphasis on divine knowledge, and we do not find that high emphasis of the Veda upon divine works. Similarly, the ardent emphasis that we find in the later developments of yoga in India upon divine love is not prominent in the Upanishads. Nonetheless, we see in the closing verses... verses of the Isha Upanishad a clear synthesis of the divine knowledge, divine works and divine love (16,17,18). The path of divine knowledge is not merely that of the pursuit of the Immutable, but of the Purusha, the Supreme He and the real I, who is beheld in the Lustre which is his most blessed form of all, and which is attained when all the rays of light are drawn together integrally (raśmīn... Knowledge. And the last phrase in verse eighteen, (nama uktim vidhema), — completest speech of submission that we in our entirety would dispose systematically — provides the method of the yoga of divine love that is inherent in the Upanishadic synthesis of yoga. Verse eighteenth is as follows: "O God Agni, knowing all things that are manifested, lead us by the good path to the felicity; remove from ...

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The Growth of a Flame  >  Guidance on Painting

... Service Aspiration in the physical for Divine Love Peace in the vital Aspiration Divine help Detachment Vital plentitude Sincerity Transformation Page 72 Psychic purity Will to conquer vital enemies Krishna's play in the material consciousness Turned towards the light Divine purity Supramental light in the subconscient Divine Love Skilfulness in the work Skill in... the paintings refer to the significances as given by the Mother to those flowers. Krishna's Light in the physical mind Tenderness Integral purity Child's hand The vital opening to Divine Love Power of expression Ananda A la promenade - Out walking (7.8.33) Offering The Lotus The bouquet The Child Psychological perfection Mango Transparency Faithfulness Krishna's... Divine Mental sincerity Resolution Mind touched by Divine Light Divine sacrifice Healing power Obedience Simple sincerity Supramental beauty in the cells Aspiration in the physical for Divine Love Idealism Countryside Peace in the cells of the body Discipline Happy humour Vital force Modesty Mental victory Devotion Vital harmony Faith Dynamic power The flame Morning glory ...

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Blessings of the Grace  >  The Mother

... entirely. And then, ‘Faith’ [6] in the all-puissance, that is the ‘Divine Love’ [7] ; faith only in what the Divine Love is. And this is what effectuates the total ‘Transformation’ [8] . These are the indispensable qualities at the base of all transformation. Develop in you this ( Unselfishness ), this ( Faith ) and this ( Divine Love ) then the fourth one ( Transformation ) will be within your reach... you are safe and sound; how much I have to stoop or come down to sort out the many forces and powers so that you are protected and well-provided for and that the Good, the True, the Grace and the Divine Love spread over all of you; how much I push you and push you towards the truth of your existence. You know nothing about it! You have no idea! What a privilege, what a marvel! What an opportune moment ...

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On The Mother  >  Approaches to the Divine

... on 15 August: In this even-fall, Thy Peace deepens and becomes more sweet and Thy: Voice more clear and distinct in the silence that fills my being. 26 And the next day: O Love, Divine Love, Thou fillest my whole being and overflowest on every side. I am Thyself even as Thou art I, and I see Thee in each being, each thing, from the soft breath of the passing breeze to the glorious... and cease, the shadows fly, and the light and the delight of union repossess the present world of inconscience and division: One single spark of Thy sublime light, one single drop of Thy divine love, can transform this suffering into an ocean of delight. While the path of Knowledge has its sure rewards, for it can lead at least to a true conception of Reality if not to its actual experience... she prays again that "the peace of Thy reign may spread throughout the earth". Again, on 1 February: I turn towards Thee and salute Thee, O liberator of the worlds, and, identified with Thy divine love, I contemplate the earth and its creatures, this mass of substance put into forms perpetually destroyed and renewed, this swarming mass of aggregates which are dissolved as soon as constituted ...

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The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo  >  Love-Its Place and Power-1

... deliverer from all egoistic littleness and limitations. It is, therefore, indispensable that this supreme Force of divine Love be discovered, realised, brought down, and harnessed to the transformation and perfection of human life. Without a regular, canalised flow of the divine Love, the "fire-passion of Grace", life cannot become a perennial torrent of Light, and man a manifesting medium of the unveiled... ² The love of the heart of Râdhâ mounts ¹"His being remains but in another form, in another glory, and in another power"—Suso, the mystic. "When the soul is plunged in the fire of divine love, like iron, it first loses its blackness, and then growing to white heat, it becomes like unto the fire itself. And lastly, it grows liquid, and losing its nature is transmuted into an utterly different... all-transforming and all fulfilline Mother of all beings. Overflowing His fatherly solicitude it is His motherly love and tenderness that rains down upon His struggling children. This is the divine Love towards which our human love naturally gravitates, once we open to its beatific Force. This is the mellifluous bosom upon which we learn to rest and revive our spiritual possibilities. This is the ...

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Visions of Champaklal  >  Vision of Auroville Foundation Ceremony

... future! This vision reminds me of what the Mother once told me—that the flowers of Divine Love, which She used to give to Kamala for preparing Blessing Packets, were charged by Her. Now She gave me the experience of how She would do it. I saw the whole Meditation Hall of Matrimandir charged with the supreme Divine Love. When I went to Matrimandir on 7th December 1978, I wanted to go down, but could... all with an inner significance. I saw the Mother just above each youth participating in the Foundation Ceremony, with Her beatific, sweet, supreme smile. She radiated bright golden light and Her Divine Love. This reminded me of Krishna's Ras Lila. Each participant was on a lion, holding his country's flag in one hand and the earth of his land in the other, marching towards the Foundation Urn. The whole ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2  >  The Book of Beginnings- Savitri as a Path of Initiation

... and it is She herself who is bom of earth as the divine soul in us. Hers is "the infant longing" reaching out in us towards her Cosmic Self. Sri Aurobindo now sets before us a dazzling vision of divine love incarnate. In all Savitri there is no more perfect poetry 3 Savitri, p. 2. Page 127 than the description of the radiant goddess in Book 1, Canto 2. Later she will... possession" of every part, and thus is able to make a perfect offering. Uniting his will with the Divine Will he makes an impassioned plea for an end to Earth's suffering, knowing that only the Divine Love incarnate in the world can end the reign of Falsehood and Death. His prayer is granted: Savitri will be bom on earth and thereafter she will take up the Yoga. All that can be done by Man's strength... of magical poetry Sri Aurobindo evokes the images of our deepest yearning, the beauty that ever calls us home. In answer to his wordless prayer the veil is partly drawn and once again the face of Divine Love is revealed, not cast in a human mould as it was in the beginning of the path, but now an overwhelming splendour of implacable light and bliss. Aswapati surrenders his human nature at the feet of ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 1  >  Savitri — the Epic of the Spirit

... life by the intervention of a power of the Divine. It is She who acts as an "ambassadress" between Eternity and Time. She embodies herself forth in the form of Divine Love, or rather, of a being carrying the saving power of the Divine Love within herself. All true human love has this divine element in it, however, perverted it may be in its actual expression. The highest ideal of love conceived... disguised as Love And laid its hands upon the body of Time. 12 In the language of the Master: "Death is a shadow of love." This love "wider than the universe" is really the Divine Love. Love and Death seem to embody two contradictory principles, one affirming the divine eternity and immortality, the other, insisting on the eternity of the Nescience, of mortality. Through three ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  Divine Love

... Part I: Letters of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Divine Love Why didn't you come yourself? I would have seen you for a few minutes and told you something interesting and helpful as an answer to your letter of this morning. For, in speaking it would have been better than anything I could write. At Pranam time I felt... felt that you were still depressed. I 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... human kindness —though surely it contained all that human kindness can be at its best — but Mahalakshmi's love, Mahasaraswathi's care, Maheshwari's embracing and enveloping light. Do not think of Divine Love as something cold or impersonal or distantly high; it is something as warm and close and tender as any feeling can possibly be. It does not abolish whatever is pure and sweet in human love, but ...

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Patterns of the Present  >  6: The Supramental “Catastrophe”

... of ‘preparing’ or ‘churning Matter’ are childishness. They are human restlessness. The vision was of a beauty so majestic and so calm, so smiling, oh! It was full, truly full of the divine Love. And not a divine Love that ‘pardons’, it is not like that at all: each thing in its place, realising its inner rhythm as perfectly as possible.” 41 The more the Mother’s body became supramentalised,... said, and if the Supermind in its full power appeared suddenly on the earth “everybody would disappear.” 20 – “Sri Aurobindo has said … that if the divine Consciousness, the divine Power, the divine Love, the Truth, manifested too rapidly upon the earth, the earth would be dissolved! She would not be able to stand it!” 21 The Family of the Aspiration “You are on the earth at this moment ...

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Letters on Yoga - I  >  Philosophical Thought and Yoga

... 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. But there are unhappily its diminutions in the human mind, human vital, human physical; there the... connected with the fact that Love, when it is worthy of the name, is always a seeking for union, for oneness, but also in its secret foundation it is a seeking, if sometimes only a dim groping for the Divine. Love Page 370 in its depths is a contact of the Divine Possibility or Reality in oneself with the Divine Possibility or Reality in the loved. It is the inability to affirm or keep this character ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Mystery of Love

... The Yoga of Divine Love The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter VIII The Mystery of Love The Adoration of the impersonal Divine would not be strictly a Yoga of devotion according to the current interpretation; for in the current forms of Yoga it is supposed that the Impersonal can only be sought for a complete unity in which God and our own person disappear and... crown of all the varied experiences of spiritual relation between the individual soul and God that the One became many in the universe. Still, the more varied and most intimate experience of divine love cannot come by the pursuit of the impersonal Infinite alone; for that the Godhead we adore must become near and personal to us. It is possible for the Impersonal to reveal within itself all the riches... into a sole ecstasy of bliss and oneness. But that too is no monotony; it is not possible for the tongue of human speech to tell all the utter unity and all the eternal variety of the ananda of divine love. Our higher and our lower members are both flooded with it, the mind and life no less than the soul: even the physical body takes its share of the joy, feels the touch, is filled in all its limbs ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Godward Emotions

... The Yoga of Divine Love The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter III The Godward Emotions The principle of Yoga is to turn God-ward all or any of the powers of the human consciousness so that through that activity of the being there may be contact, relation, union. In the Yoga of Bhakti it is the emotional nature that is made the instrument. Its main principle... relation between man and the Divine Being by which through the ever intenser flowing of the heart's emotions towards him the human soul may at last be wedded to and grow one with him in a passion of divine Love. It is not ultimately the pure peace of oneness or the power and desireless will of oneness, but the ecstatic joy of union which the devotee seeks by his Yoga. Every feeling that can make the heart... remains only for the joy of the relation. Also its objects, the artha or interest it seeks to realise, become higher and higher until we reach the highest motiveless devotion, which is that of divine love pure and simple without any other demand or longing. The relations which arise out of this attitude towards the Divine, are that of the divine Father and the Mother with the child and that of ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Comments on Specific Prières

... approach, I can never establish any harmony within which is "independent of circumstances or persons". The difficulty, of course, is that Divine Love appears to me too impersonal and cold, that is, lacking in warmth though not a cold harmony. But perhaps Divine Love is not like that. Love cannot be cold—for there is no such thing as cold love, but the love of which the Mother speaks in that passage... passage is something very pure, fixed and constant; it does not leap like fire and sink for want of fuel, but is steady and all-embracing and self-existent like the light of the sun. There is also a divine love that is personal, but it is not like the ordinary personal human love dependent on any return from the person—it is personal but not egoistic,—it goes from the real being in the one to the real being ...

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Emergence of the Psychic  >  The Psychic Being - Its Nature and Function

... higher Truth, its dedication to the Divine and the Eternal. But the most intimate character of the psychic is its pressure towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is a divine Love that it seeks most, it is the love of the Divine that is its spur, its goal, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent or the still obscure cradle of the new-born godhead within... Highest; but it calls down also this transcendent Love and Beatitude to deliver and transform this world of hatred and strife and division and darkness and jarring Ignorance. It opens to a universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, Page 8 for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that... not attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or their perversions and reveal to them their true abounding share of the intimacy and the oneness ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 534

... them, divine strength grows by the prodigality of its self-expenditure, divine love can squander itself utterly, yet never waste or diminish. Can human love change into divine love, human strength into divine strength and human knowledge into divine knowledge? There is only one love. Human love is nothing but divine love perverted and distorted by the instrument through which it is expressed ...

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On Education  >  The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations

... misunderstanding and irritability, of friction and incomprehension. Moreover, it is a well-known fact that one grows into the likeness of what one loves. Therefore if you want to be like the Divine, love Him alone. Only one who has known the ecstasy of the exchange of love with the Divine can know how insipid and dull and feeble any other exchange is in comparison. And even if the most austere ... only for human beings to have made some indispensable progress in their consciousness and in their bodies; for the vulgarity of man's vanity and the stupidity of his conceit mistake the sublime divine love, when it expresses itself in a human form, for a sign of weakness and dependence and need. And yet man already knows, at first obscurely, but more and more clearly as he draws nearer to perfection... physical substance so that it may no longer conceal the Divine when he takes on an outer form in Matter. For then this marvellous tenderness will be able to express itself freely in the world, the divine love which has the power of changing life into a paradise of sweet joy. This, you will say, is the culmination, the crown of the effort, the final victory; but what must be done in order to achieve ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  General

... 131 Divine Love can overcome the evil and the cruel―the tiger does not attack the yogi. Unmanifest Divine Love: the splendour of the marvellous love which the Divine keeps for the pure heart. Indeed, all life is love if we know how to live it. 13 July 1963 Sweetness is within every heart. Bitterness is an illusion that melts in the Sun of Divine Love. July 1966 ...

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Some Answers from the Mother  >  Letters to a Young Sadhak

... There is a joy in seeking, a joy in waiting, a joy in aspiring, at least as great as in possessing. Indeed, nothing brings more happiness than a pure and disinterested love. The true divine love is above all quarrels. It is the experience of perfect union in an invariable joy and peace. Page 172 Radha is the symbol of loving consecration to the Divine. Keep always... steady because the sovereignty of your soul is not yet definitively established over all the being. I don't see anything wrong in not being sentimental; nothing is further from true love, the divine love, than sentimentality. All will be done, Mother, but why is my heart becoming more and more dry and hard? Are you quite sure it is so dry and hard? Don't you call "dry and hard" an absence... inestimable gain. A love which is sufficiently strong can make a person the slave of the beloved. You speak here of vital love, but certainly not of psychic love and still less of the Divine Love. The person I love belongs to me. This is a very ugly love, quite egoistic. The Ashram is not a place for being in love with anyone. If you want to lapse into such a stupidity ...

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Some Answers from the Mother  >  Letters to a Sadhak

... doing ; poor table, what a treatment!! I prefer not to think of what will come out of so much unconsciousness and carelessness. 20 July 1932 Page 18 "One single drop of Thy divine love can transform this suffering into an ocean of delight! "Oh! Let all tears be wiped away, all suffering relieved, all anguish dispelled, and let a calm serenity dwell in every heart. "I... t is it really necessary? This is not what heals. Healing comes not from the head but from the heart. To understand is good, but to will is better. Self-love is the great obstacle. Divine love is the great remedy. I am weeping without knowing why. Weep if you like, but do not worry. After the rain the sun shines more bright. I am rolling in my bed in the hope of getting... in me, Thy Peace is in me, Thy Peace is in me. Sleep, child, sleep, with sweet Mother in your heart! Awake, child, awake, with sweet Mother in your heart! 21 July 1932 "O Love, Divine Love, in a fecund silence I bow to Thee" 6 ... I open myself to Thee and I would obey Thee with an absolute faithfulness. 28 July 1932 Page 20 True greatness , true superiority ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  On Human Relationships in Sadhana

... others . Do we not read in the Bible? - "1the Lord thy God am a jealous God." The Mother also has said: 'To love truly the Divine we must rise above all attachments. To become conscious of the Divine Love, all other love must be abandoned." But , we wonder, why is thi s harsh injunction imposed ? Two different reasons are advanced in its support. The first one is: "There is a thirst for... short-circuit and cut off the direct connection with the Divine.... Moreo- ve , it is a well-known fact that one grows into the likeness of what one loves. Therefore if you want to be like the Divine, love Him alone." (M C W, Vol. 12, pp. 68-69) "Love Him alone?" — What a disconcerting demand is this if How disturbing for the ego-bound attached heart of man! The sadhaka may at this point... always the real Lover behind the grotesque masks of various names and forms. As Sri Aurobindo reminds us: "... our aim is to go beyond emotion to the height and depth and intensity of the Divine Love and mere feel through the inner psychic heart an inexhaustible oneness with the Divine which the spasmodic leapings of the vital emotions cannot reach or experience." (Letters on Yoga, p. 754) ...

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Arjuna's Argument At Kurukshetra And Sri Krishna's Answers  >  Relationship between Knowledge, Action and Devotion

... flow. This is the reason why in the synthesis of the yoga of the Gita, the motive force of self-surrender and love has been assigned that indispensable place with such an emphasis that the yoga of divine love and the yoga of self-surrender is woven in the synthesis right from the beginning in some degree or the other, but gradually increases and ultimately ends in the crowning achievements of this great... worked out in its main stages, the foundations of Jnana yoga are also laid down in these chapters, and a preliminary synthesis of karma yoga and Jnana yoga is underlined. Even though the yoga of divine love is not distinctly marked out, still in these six chapters, there is sufficient hint that emphasizes not only the discovery of the immobile Self but also of the Lord of works, and even of Him, who... and vijñānam). 4 But the sacrifice of the works continues and the path of Works becomes one with but does not disappear into the path of Knowledge. In these six chapters (VII—XII), the yoga of divine love becomes more and more pronounced and the steps of Bhakti yoga are expounded with insistence on devotion, on adoration and seeking of the supreme Self as the Divine Lord. But the emphasis on the path ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1  >  The Psychic Being

... order to change it first into higher mind and then into a still higher thing. Before divine Love and Ananda can be made to settle, there is much more that is to be done — first the psychic love must be there and other things besides.         How would you distinguish the psychic love from the divine love?       The psychic love is pure and full of self-giving without  Page 89 ... egoistic demands, but it is human and can err and suffer. The Divine Love is something much vaster and deeper and full of light and Ananda.         One is told that without a universal love there can be no real progress. But mostly one remains inwardly withdrawn and concentrated on the Mother.       You are not able now to have the universal love— it is not in your nature ...

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Towards the Light  >  Of Love And Aspiration

... means that it has not: given itself, it wants to keep itself for itself. * Divine love has an element of detachment which human love has not; and yet Divine love can be as passionate as human love, nay, Divine love has an intensity which human love cannot attain. It is the element of detachment which intensifies love, because it is this ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - An Approach And A Study  >  Savitri, An Epic

... life by the intervention of a power of the Divine. It is She who acts as an "ambassadress" between Eternity and Time. She embodies herself forth in the form of Divine Love, or rather, of a being carrying the saving power of the Divine Love within herself. All true human love has this divine element in it, however, perverted it may be in its actual expression. The highest ideal of love conceived by... upon the body of Time". Sāvitrī, Book II, Canto 9. Page 43 In the language of the Master—"death is a shadow of love". This love "wider than the universe" is really the Divine Love. Love and Death seem to embody two contradictory principles, one affirming the divine Eternity and the immortality, the other, insisting on the eternity of the Nescience, of mortality. Through three ...

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Life of Sri Aurobindo  >  Pondicherry: 1910-1926

... it is true that he loves each the most. This feeling is not an illusion or delusive self-hypnotism, but quite real. The spontaneous dynamic law of the Supreme Truth which he embodies, is love – divine Love. "In all the inmates, the delight of Surrender is overflowing – the bliss of surrender, its sparkle pervades all. All is given up, everything is surrendered. How free you feel! How light and ... and in addition for the ac­ceptance of unworthy ones like us. Standing on the brink of Eternity the soul saw his dreamy and loving eyes, then was it captured for ever. The inexplicable mystery of divine love was here a tangible experience! Who can explain a fact? A fact is a fact and an experience an experience. There is no explanation possible. "'What should I give him?' is the question of the mind... this experience! "Everyone is trying to maintain Samata – equality. Everyone is quiet and is trying hard to remain calm. But to-day all the barriers of humanity are swept away by the flood of Divine Love. Page 197 The soul has its Samata – its equality – but the whole nature is in agitation as unknown waters have rushed into it. Knowledge is laid on the shelf – it is all a flood ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book One  >  Prologue

... personification —I came to know it later —of him who is called the Man of Sorrows." Much, much later, years later in fact, Mirra would understand what her experience meant: "The impersonal, eternal divine Love. Being this Love, I feel myself living in the centre of all things upon the Page 127 whole earth and, at the same time, it seems to me that I am immense, infinite arms... gathered up, nestled upon my breast, vaster than the universe." A boundless love. A love that intensifies the impulses that are swift and straight and frank. A love that strengthens. Divine Love. Years before, Mother had related to us an ancient Chaldean legend. "Long ago, very long ago, in the arid country which is now Arabia, a divine being had incarnated upon earth to awaken there... bush covered itself with marvellous flowers, scarlet, enormous, clusters of petals, innumerable drops of blood. . . ." Mother named the pomegranate flower, which blossoms even in the desert: DIVINE LOVE. Page 130 15 Deer, Squirrels & Gnomes "I did not know what meditation was ..." said Mother. Although nobody had spoken to Mirra of meditation ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Seeing the Mother in Visions and Dreams

... in the Pranam hall before the Mother came down, I saw: From a high place the Mother is coming down in us, wearing a rosy coloured sari and having a "Divine Love" flower in her hair. What does this signify? It is a symbol of the descent of Divine Love. 5 June 1933 I saw Mother's form in a dream last night. Was it real or merely an imagination? Page 271 What do you mean by real... the trance, according to the ways of trance. It is also in this way that it can go on in conscious sleep. 10 June 1936 Some months ago in a vision, I offered the Mother three flowers of "Divine Love". Has this any meaning for my sadhana? It is not quite clear what this number 3 means in this connection. Possibly it is the aspiration for the Divine's love in the three parts of the being. ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  26 August 1953

... ess sent down from itself into an obscure and darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the Divine. The material world in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed: 'There is something worth waking to, worth living for, and it is love!' And with the... love there entered into the world the possibility of coming back to the Divine. The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 2 June 1929 ) Where does love come from? Where does love come from? From the Origin of the universe. Besides, I say that there. That's... does is truly one of the ugliest things in the world. And it is one of the most widespread and it has become so widespread, that it is almost spontaneous in man. Nothing can turn its back on the divine love more totally than that, that wish to calculate and profit. Do flowers love? This is their form of love, this blossoming. Certainly, when one sees a rose opening to the sun, it is like a need ...

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On Education  >  Four Austerities And Four Liberations (The Mother)

... all love that is between human beings; for, however beautiful and pure it may be, it creates a kind of short circuit and cuts the direct connection with the Divine.     One who has known Divine Love, finds all other love obscure, mixed with smallness and egoism and darkness. It Page 156 looks like a bargain or a struggle for superiority and authority: and even in the best of men... misunderstanding and sensitiveness, frictions and misgivings.     Besides, it is a well-known fact that you grow into the likeness of that which you love. If therefore you want to be like the Divine, love Him alone. One who has experienced the ecstasy of the communion of love with the Divine can alone know how insipid, dull and feeble all other love is, in comparison. And even if the most austere... of his perfection only when human beings have made some indispensable progress in their consciousness and in their body. For man's vanity with its meanness and his stupid conceit take the sublime divine love, when it expresses itself in a human form, as a sign of weakness and dependence and need.     And yet man already knows, obscurely in the beginning, but more and more clearly as he progresses ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  19 September 1956

... consequences, one rises above circumstances and lets them pass like things that do not touch you and do not impair your consciousness. That is what it means. It is said that to become conscious of divine Love all other love has to be abandoned. What is the best way of rejecting the other love which clings so obstinately (Laughter) and does not easily leave us? To go through it. Ah! To go through... principle which is behind this love, and not be content until one has found the origin of the feeling in oneself. Then the outer form will crumble of itself and you will be in contact with the divine Love which is behind all things. That is the best way. To want to get rid of the one in order to find the other is very difficult. It is almost impossible. For human nature is so limited, so full... is not altogether gross. As for yoga we may add something else: it is as I said in the beginning, the will to pierce through this limited and human form of love and discover the principle of divine Love which is behind it. Then one is sure to get a result. This is better than drying up one's heart. It is perhaps a little more difficult but it is better in every way, for like this, instead of eg ...

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Preparing for the Miraculous  >  11: The Kalki Avatar

... ready to receive and manifest the supramental Light in its entirety.” 24 In other words, the divine figure which the Mother saw at the base of the material universe was a personification of the divine Love making the upward climb possible, and to this end incarnating in “Avatars” when the realization of a new level of consciousness became necessary. We find this confirmed in Sri Aurobindo. “Are... rather with the opposite of things; it is in the Abyss that I have to plunge to build a bridge between the two. But that too is necessary for my work and one has to face it.” 32 “It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting the earth out of its darkness towards the Divine.” 33 “Anyone who... that is necessary for the play.” 43 He wrote “Divine Consciousness” with capital letters. And there is for example the following statement of which we cannot even sound the depth: “It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine.” 44 In the last ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  November 12, 1960

... it's a LAW, you can't change the Law.' –'But I CAME to change the Law.' –'Then pay the price.' ( silence ) What can make them yield? Divine Love. It's the only thing. Sri Aurobindo has explained it in Savitri . Only when Divine Love has manifested in all its purity will everything yield, will it all yield—it will then be done. It's the only thing that can do it. It will be... one with a power over hostile wills. Only ... for the world to change, it must manifest here in all its fullness. We have to be up to it ... Sri Aurobindo had also written to the effect, 'If Divine Love were to manifest now in all its fullness and totality, not a single material organism would but burst.' So we must learn to widen, widen, widen not only the inner consciousness (that is relatively ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1968  >  January 12, 1968

... You have spoken of Divine Love; but Divine Love, when it touches the physical, does not awaken the gross lower vital propensities; indulgence of them would only repel it and make it withdraw again to the heights from which it is already difficult enough to draw it down into the coarseness of the material creation which it Page 32 alone can transform. Seek the Divine Love through the only ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1963  >  July 24, 1963

... 235 I intend to distribute this for August 15. (Satprem, in English:) Is it still hanging? ( Mother laughs and does not reply ) There are two other letters: To bring the Divine Love and Beauty and Ananda into the world is, indeed, the whole crown and essence of our yoga. But it has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and guard the... otherwise, may find Page 236 itself unrecognised, rejected or rapidly degenerating and lost in the frailty of man's inferior nature. But when it comes in the divine truth and power, Divine Love descends first as something transcendent and universal and out of that transcendence and universality it applies itself to persons according to the Divine Truth and Will, creating a vaster, greater... greater, purer personal love than any the human mind or heart can now imagine. It is when one has felt this descent that one can be really an instrument for the birth and action of the Divine Love in the world. ( XXIII.753 ) They don't give the date, but I find it most interesting. And the last one: The importance of the body is obvious; it is because he has developed or been given a body ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 1  >  Savitri as an Epic

... life by the intervention of a power of the Divine. It is she who acts as an "ambassadress" between Eternity and Time. She embodies forth herself in the form of Divine Love, or rather of a being carrying the saving power of the Divine Love within herself. All true human love has this divine element in it. Love, in truth, is that embodiment of the Eternal in Time which carries with it the stamp of... of immortality. Eternity drew close disguised as Love And laid its hand upon the body of Time. 4 Savitri affirms the necessity of the birth of a new power, the Power of Divine Love, which alone can save man from the reign of Ignorance which is Death. Sri Aurobindo's Savitri is, in many respects, comparable to the highest spiritual poetry of the world, the Vedas and ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  Categories of Love

... change of the personal into a wide universal consciousness, free from attachment and ignorance. What is the nature of the Divine Love? Can you say that it is in its nature free from all lower bondage, vast, pure and luminous? Divine love is of two kinds — the Divine love for the creation and the souls that are part of itself and the love of the seeker and love for the Divine Beloved; it has both ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume I  >  1933

... great liberation which opens up to the Divine considerable regions of the being which otherwise tend to remain shut up. These things are a degradation of the source in the being from which bhakti, divine love and adoration arise. But the complex has deep roots in human nature and one must not be disappointed if it takes time to pull them up. A resolute detachment rejecting them as foreign elements... anything I could write. At pranam time I felt that you were still depressed and I 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... merely human kindness—though surely it contained all that human kindness can be at its best—but Mahalakshmi's love, Mahasaraswati's care, Maheswari's embracing and enveloping light. Do not think of Divine Love as something cold or impersonal or distantly high—it is something as warm and close and tender as any feeling can possibly be. It does not abolish whatever is pure and sweet in human love, but i ...

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Supermind in Integral Yoga  >  Part Six

... essential is missing, we must go beyond the Upanishads to seek it, — as for instance, when we add to its emphasis on divine knowledge the indispensable ardent emphasis of the later teachings upon divine love and the high emphasis of the Veda upon divine works." 56 The Synthesis of Yoga in the Gita There came to be developed, in the later history of Indian yoga, the great synthesis... Purusha, Ishawara, got reiterated and were given in the Gita the foundational position in regard to the methods and aims of its synthetic yoga. The Gita also brought into the forefront the yoga of divine love and discovered the principle of self-surrender which is essential Page 73 for the right relationship between the human soul and the Divine Lover; this principle of self-surrender was... A special emphasis is, however, made on the discovery of the psychic entity and of the utilization of the powers of the psychic entity that have been discovered in various systems of the yoga of Divine Love. In fact, in the synthesis of yoga of Sri Aurobindo, the yoga of the psychic entity plays a major role, and a great stress is laid right from the beginning on the awakening of the psychic being, ...

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Bhagavadgita and Contemporary Crisis  >  The Princess

... questions." "The Gita is a book of the science of Yoga. But is seems to contain three sciences, science of Yoga of Works, Karma Yoga, science of Yoga of Knowledge, Jnanayoga, and science of Yoga of Divine Love, Bhaktiyoga. Why are these yogas so-called? Why, for instance, is Karmayoga so called?" I answered as follows: "Yoga of Works is so called because it employs a method of utilising all the... powers of reasoning, of analysis and synthesis, our modes of knowledge, our capacities of discrimination and co-ordination, —all the elements that constitute our processes of cognition. "Yoga of Divine Love is so called because the goal is to arrive at the climax of unmixed bliss that can never dry up, of sweetness and purity that can never be exhausted, of oceanic love that can embrace each and all... knowledge. iii) Thirdly, we become completely self-surrendered to the Supreme Being in a state of full love, full adoration, full union. This is the result appropriate to the Bhakti Yoga, Yoga of Divine Love. "When these three results are synthesised, we can realise the significance of the great pronouncement of the Gita which Krishna declares to Arjuna towards the close of his teaching, namely ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  April 1935

... collection? Unfortunately, experience seems to show that one must be divine oneself before one can bear the pressure of divine love. Come down, Sir,—for heaven's sake give us something and make life more substantial and concrete. I am really beginning to doubt if things like divine Love, Knowledge, etc. can be brought down in me! In the old days long before you came plenty of things were brought... one is open".] Open to the general atmosphere? Considering what the general atmosphere is just now, that is hardly a desirable aperture. April 8, 1935 The Divine writing, not the Divine Love, has made me a little peaceful. But the way you are hammering the "Supra-mental" on us in everything, in every problem, in every difficulty, as the solution to all riddles, panacea to all ills, one ...

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Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  August

... it is true that he loves each the most. This feeling is not an illusion or delusive self-hypnotism but quite real. The spontaneous dynamic law of the Suprerne Truth which he embodies is love – divine love. In all the inmates the delight of surrender is over­flowing – the bliss of surrender, its sparkle pervades all. All is given up, everything is surrendered. How free you feel ! How light and... addition for the acceptance of unworthy persons like us ? Standing on the brink of Eternity when the soul saw his dreamy and loving eyes, then was it captured for ever. The inex­plicable mystery of divine love was here a tangible expe­rience ! who can explain a fact ? A fact is a fact and an experience an experience. There is no explanation possible. "What should I give him ?" is the question of... experience ! Everyone is trying to maintain samat ā – equality. Everyone is quiet and is trying hard to remain calm. But to-day all the barriers of humanity are swept away by the flood of Divine Love. The soul has its samat ā – its equality – but the whole nature is in agitation as unknown waters have rushed into it. Knowledge is laid on the shelf – and it is all a flood of love. To-day ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 2  >  Of Love and Aspiration

... If any part in you is without joy, it means that it has not given itself, it wants to keep itself for itself. *** Divine love has an element of detachment which human love has not; and yet Divine love can be as passionate as human love, nay, Divine love has an intensity which human love carowt attain. It is the element of detachment which intensifies love, because it is this which ...

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On The Mother  >  A Chronology of the Mother's Life

... identification with Thy divine infinite Love, Thou didst turn my eyes to this complex body which has to serve Thee as Thy instrument. And Thou didst tell me: "It is myself...." And indeed I saw Thy divine Love, clothed in intelligence, then in strength, constituting this body in its smallest cells....' - May 25 'All the hearts of men beat within my heart, all their thoughts vibrate in my thought... Aurobindo's last prose writings The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth serialised in the Bulletin. - Dec 1 Presentation of her drama Towards the Future. 'Only one love can satisfy... Divine Love, for that .alone never fails.' 1950 Oct 18- Draws an outline off the spiritual map of India on a wall in the Playground, from which is prepared a relief map in plaster. Thereafter takes the... relation to the new or supramental creation... the vision of a great universal Rhythm in which each thing takes its place... a vision of a beauty so majestic, so calm, so smiling... full of the divine Love....' 1966 Jan 22 'I have never had the same experience twice... I am all the while... on the march. The work of transformation of the consciousness is so rapid, must be done so quickly that ...

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On The Mother  >  Consecration

... plant that does not speak to me of Thee and Thy name is written Upon everything I see .... Oh, may all know Thee, love Thee, serve Thee; may all receive the supreme consecration! O Love, divine Love, spread abroad in the world, regenerate life, enlighten the intelligence, break the barriers of egoism, scatter the obstacles of ignorance, shine resplendent as sovereign Master of the earth.... awakened to receive Thy sublime influence": My whole being down to its smallest atom aspires for the perfect knowledge of Thy presence and a complete union with it .... Page 97 Thy divine love floods my being; Thy supreme light is shining in every cell .... 21 May the God with form who manifests in this aggregate be entirely moulded from Thy complete and sublime love .... 22... earth that supplicates to Thee, then is ingathered in the silence of the night, waiting in both patience and anxiety for the illumination so ardently desired. If there is a sweetness in being Thy divine love at work in the world, there is as great a sweetness in being the infinite aspiration which rises towards that infinite love. And to be able to change thus, to be successively, almost simultaneously ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Six  >  Mirra's Prayers

... gratitude rises from my heart, I seem to have at last arrived at the threshold which I have sought so long. "Grant, O Lord, that I may be pure enough, impersonal enough, animated enough with Thy divine love, to be able to cross it definitively. "O to belong to Thee, without any darkness or restriction." On April 4 Mirra wrote: "This body is Thy instrument; this will is Thy servant; this i... blows, Thou makest Thyself manifest in our hearts and livest in all beings. There is no animal, no plant that does not speak to me of Thee and Thy name is written on all I look at____ "O Love, divine Love, spread in the world, regenerate life, enlighten the intelligence, break down the dams of egoism, dispel the obstacle of ignorance and be the resplendent Master of the earth." Back in Pondicherry... turned my look towards this complicated body which has to serve Thee as an instrument. And Thou hast said to me: 'It is myself; seest thou not that my light shines in it?' And in fact I saw Thy divine Love, clad in intelligence, and then in force, constitute this body in its smallest cells and radiate in it to such a point that it became nothing else than a mass of millions of radiant sparks, which ...

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Early Cultural Writings  >  The National Value of Art

... religion and it is in the service of spirituality that Art reaches its highest self-expression. Spirituality is a single word expressive of three lines of human aspiration towards divine knowledge, divine love and joy, divine strength, and that will be the highest and most perfect Art which, while satisfying the physical requirements of the aesthetic sense, the laws of formal beauty, the emotional demand... the soul of man, in the stage when it is rising from emotion to intellect, looks, receives the suggestion and is uplifted towards a higher development, a diviner knowledge. So it is with the divine love and joy which pulsates throughout existence and is far superior to alloyed earthly pleasure. Catholic, perfect, unmixed with repulsion, radiating through all things, the common no less than the high ...

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The Renaissance in India  >  Indian Spirituality and Life - 3

... intelligence was called to a supreme knowledge, the dynamic active and creative powers pointed to openness and unity with an infinite and universal Will, the heart and sense put in contact with a divine love and joy and beauty. But this highest meaning was also put everywhere indicatively or in symbols behind the whole system of living, even in its details, so that its impression might fall in whatever... evolution. The complete light of spiritual knowledge when it emerges from veil and compromise and goes beyond all symbols and middle significances, the absolute and universal Page 222 divine love, the beauty of the All-beautiful, the noblest dharma of unity with all beings, universal compassion and benevolence calm and sweet in the perfect purity of the spirit, the upsurge of the psychical ...

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The Renaissance in India  >  Indian Literature - 5

... of the centre of synthesis from knowledge to spiritual love and delight the earlier significance of Vedanta. The perfect outcome of this evolution is to be found in the philosophy and religion of divine love promulgated by Chaitanya. It is the later developments of Vedantic philosophy, the Puranic ideas and images and the poetic and aesthetic spirituality of the religions of devotion that inspired... the same figures by the devout poets of the religion of Chaitanya. All the spiritual experience that lay behind the symbol was embodied in that inspired prophet and incarnation of the ecstasy of divine love and its spiritual philosophy put into clear form in his teaching. His followers continued the poetic tradition of the earlier singers and though they fall below them in genius, yet left behind a ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Way and the Bhakta

... and arrives through the Divine at conscious oneness with all things and beings, a will emptied of egoism and acting only by the command and as an instrumentation of the secret Master of works, a divine love whose one aspiration is towards a close intimacy with the supreme Soul of all existence, accomplished by the unity of these three perfected powers an inner all-comprehending unity with the transcendent... swiftest, largest and greatest way. On me, says the Godhead to the soul of man, repose all thy mind and lodge all thy understanding in me: I will lift them up bathed in the supernal blaze of the divine love and will and knowledge to myself from whom these things flow. Doubt not that thou shalt dwell in me above this mortal existence. The chain of the limiting earthly nature cannot hold the immortal ...

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A Centenary Tribute  >  Extracts from Amal Kiran's Works-The Passing of Sri Aurobindo

... "It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness to the Divine." We may say that some undreamt-of calamity would have afflicted the world if the vast poison had not been drawn away into the body of this one man whose spiritual consciousness, armed with divine Love, had made ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume I  >  1930

... poems, "Who?" and "In the Moonlight" can be taken. I think it is these two you wanted to include in the book—I have not got your note by me at the moment. (3) The two Conversations, ¹ 9 (on Divine Love) and 14 (on Art and Yoga), can also be included in the book. (4) The Letter was not written by me; it is not well expressed and the ideas in it belong to an order of thought that I have ... subconscious movements of the vital brought to the surface, the same irrational impulses pushing to the same action,—departure, renunciation of the soul's truth, refusal Page 38 of the Divine Love and the Divine Call. It is the vital crisis, the test, the ordeal for you as for others — a test and ordeal which we would willingly spare to those who are with us but which they call on themselves ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume II  >  Dilip Da

... would put her hand on his head, stroke it gently, and then both of them go off into some unknown world with her right palm on his head. We would look on entranced at the Tenderness incarnate of Divine Love; Sri Aurobindo and Dilipda? An infinitude of Knowledge answering finite's myriad questions. Never linear, always spherical. Each droplet sparkling like a many-facetted diamond. Always unassuming... like a cool breeze blows away mind's cobwebs. No insistence to toe his line. No judgment, always a clarity of vision. Comprehension. Compassion. Rarely, a sigh escapes the Guru's lips, "It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear." Sujata Nahar 19 October 2004 (Mahasashti 1411) Page 18 Page 19 ...

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Sri Aurobindo came to Me  >  Guru The Transformer

... induced to flower on the soil of our undivine earth and make it a peer of paradise in the Page 67 foreseeable future! Really, Master mine, you are nothing if not baffling, since this Divine Love of yours does look like something to swear by — not something to lean on! But as I do not claim that my findings are right, I shall wait till I have some clarification on this point, to use a banal... somewhere, a wrong movement indulged or a petty desire causing a recoil, sometimes by its satisfaction, sometimes by its disappointment. "If the Mother and I want you to progress and to accept the divine love we give you, it is for your own sake and precisely because in that love there is constant peace and joy and adoration and causeless sorrow of this kind will disappear altogether. Our love is there ...

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Beyond Man  >  Chapter Twenty: The Golden Day

... night and day besides and above the enormous general labour she was performing, and that constant occult effort was only very partially visible to human eyes. Sri Aurobindo once wrote: ‘It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine.’ 34 One who realizes... enter consciously into death and thanks to his work ‘behind the veil,’ his fifth ‘dream’ became reality hardly six years after his departure. It is of the essence of his heart as Avatar, of his divine Love, to keep helping humanity on the road forward just as he has always done, ‘carrying on the evolution’ till he will be visible for everybody in a transformed world. As the Mother said, he has confided ...

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Sri Aurobindo came to Me  >  Glossary

... contemporaries saw in him an Avatar of Krishna, a manifestation of the Divine Love. Shankara and Vivekananda were certainly Vibhutis; they cannot be reckoned as more, though as Vibhutis they were great. It was not my intention to question in any degree Chaitanya's position as an Avatar of Krishna and the Divine Love. That character Page 374 of the manifestation appears very ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume IV  >  Correspondence 1950

... Avatar of Krishna, a manifestation of the Divine Love. Shankara and Vivekananda were certainly Vibhutis; they cannot be reckoned as more, though as Vibhutis they were very great. * Page 255 February 2, 1950 It was not my intention* to question in any degree Chait-anya’s position as an Avatar of Krishna and the Divine Love. That character of the manifestation ...

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Beyond Man  >  Chapter Twenty-six: In the Crucible

... poured out his Love into the Night of the Manifestation in order that that Night should no longer remain an eternal, coagulated darkness, but that it might evolve back towards its Origin. That Divine Love is the essence of the psyche. If that Love is divine, then the psyche must be divine, exist in the Divine, have come forth from Him and carry Him most intimately in its being in the course of its... of paradise.’ Who else would have been willing to bear that, years in succession, not for oneself but for others? Again we hear Sri Aurobindo’s words, which might have been hers too: ‘It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear.’ Who else would have been capable of bearing that? Which other body would have been capable of being taken apart, as it were, and then reconnected to another ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Systems of Yoga

... another kind than the Monist's, in the Transcendent and Supra-cosmic. But, here too, the exclusive result is not inevitable. The Yoga itself provides a first corrective by not confining the play of divine love to the relation between the supreme Soul and the individual, but extending it to a common feeling and mutual worship between the devotees themselves united in the same realisation of the supreme... spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards freedom, power and perfection in the human being. We can see also that in the integral view of things these three paths are one. Divine Love should normally lead to the perfect knowledge of the Beloved by perfect intimacy, thus becoming a path of Knowledge, and to divine service, thus becoming a path of Works. So also should perfect Knowledge ...

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Letters on Yoga - I  >  The Meaning and Purpose of Avatarhood

... contemporaries saw in him an Avatar of Krishna, a manifestation of the divine love. Shankara and Vivekananda were certainly Vibhutis; they cannot be reckoned as more, though as Vibhutis they were very great. It was not my intention to question in any degree Chaitanya's position as an Avatar of Krishna and the divine love. That character of the manifestation appears very clearly from all the ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Concentration

... the insistence of the soul's will upon it must yield up all the facets of its truth. Thus if it be the divine Love that is the subject of concentration, it is on the essence of the idea of God as Love that the mind should concentrate in such a way that the various manifestation of the divine Love should arise luminously, not only to the thought, but in the heart and being and vision of the sadhaka ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Love and the Triple Path

... The Yoga of Divine Love The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter I Love and the Triple Path Will, knowledge and love are the three divine powers in human nature and the life of man, and they point to the three paths by which the human soul rises to the divine. The integrality of them, the union of man with God in all the three, must therefore, as we have seen,... even the sole Reality. But worship is only the first step on the path of devotion. Where external worship changes into the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the intensity of divine love; that love leads to the joy of closeness in our relations with the Divine; the joy of closeness passes into the bliss of union. Love too as well as knowledge brings us to a highest oneness and it ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Three Purushas

... adoration of the one Lord, at first separately as if they were two different ways of arriving at the Brahmic status, brahmabhūyāya ,—one taking the form of quietistic sannyāsa , the other a form of divine love and divine action,—the Gita proceeds now to unite the personal and the impersonal in the Purushottama and to define their relations. For the object of the Gita is to get rid of exclusions and separative... with all objects and creatures, he brings that boundless equality, that deep oneness down into his mind and heart and life and body and founds on it in an indivisible integrality the trinity of divine love, divine works and divine knowledge. This is the Gita's way of salvation. And is that not too after all the real Adwaita which makes no least scission in the one eternal Existence? This utmost ...

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Essays Divine and Human  >  Bhakti

... Infinite in one secret embraceable body and see Him seated in each & all of these bodies that are visible & sensible? Then has its widest & profoundest truth come also into thy possession. 493) Divine Love has simultaneously a double play, an universal movement, deep, calm & bottomless like the nether Ocean, which broods upon the whole world and each thing that is in it as upon a level bed with an... shadow that conceals half the globe of truth from its own sunlight; but divine knowledge embraces opposite truths & reconciles them, divine strength grows by the prodigality of its self-expenditure, divine love can squander itself utterly, yet never waste or diminish. 534) The rejection of falsehood by the mind seeking after truth is one of the chief causes why mind cannot attain to the settled, rounded ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  Human Relations and the Spiritual Life

... all rest on the external physical relations; it is the Divine alone with whom one has then to do. The attachment to parents belongs to the ordinary physical nature—it has nothing to do with Divine Love. Old Relations We are sorry to hear that she is suffering from such serious difficulties and certainly we are prepared to give her what inner help we can. It is not, however, any force from... whole of human love—and it is the reaction of the demand and desire it brings that creates the opposite feeling. It is when this selfish element is rejected that one can feel the true psychic or divine love. Love does not consist in demands and desires—demand and desire spring from ego. Love exists for its own sake and does Page 300 not offer itself on conditions. These feelings do ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  August 27, 1914

... The Mother with Letters on the Mother August 27, 1914 To be the divine love, love powerful, infinite, unfathomable, in every activity, in all the worlds of being—it is for this I cry to Thee, O Lord. Let me be consumed by this love divine, love powerful, infinite, unfathomable, in every activity, in all the worlds of being! Transmute me into that burning ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  Messages Written for Special Occasions

... by the birth and growth of that greater consciousness in yourself that you will see the Divine and understand its action even behind its terrestrial disguises. 24 November 1929 To bring the Divine Love and Beauty and Ananda into the world is, indeed, the whole crown and essence of our Yoga. But it has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and guard the... inexhaustible energy for which you ask and your service will be perfect. 27 November 1940 Page 838 For Satyendra A veil behind the heart, a lid over the mind divide us from the Divine. Love and devotion rend the veil, in the quietude of the mind the lid thins and vanishes. 9 September 1936 May the inner Sun tranquillise and illumine the mind and awaken fully the heart and guide ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  Help from the Guide

... collection? Who can be and remain otherwise unless and until one is divine oneself? Unfortunately, experience seems to show that one must be divine oneself before one can bear the pressure of divine love. 8 April 1935 The Divine loves all equally but there seem to be some who are dearer to Him. You seem to say some such thing in Essays on the Gita—that Arjuna was dearer to Krishna because... since in our stumblings and gropings the Divine here may have a soft corner for some, and not perhaps for others to the same extent. All that is rather beside the point. There is a universal divine love that is given equally to all—but also there is a special relation with each man—it is not a question of more or less, though it may appear so. But even that less or more cannot be judged by human ...

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The Signature Of Truth  >  KNOWLEDGE BY UNITY

... is to give yourself up to the Grace of the Divine; for, it is under the form of Grace, of Love, that it has consented to uplift the universe after the first involution was established. With the Divine Love is the supreme power of transformation. It has this power because it is for the sake of Transformation that it has given itself to the world and manifested everywhere. Not only has it infused itself... tremendous sacrifice. But the Divine cannot really be Page 39 diminished, its infinite essence can never become less, no matter what "sacrifices" arc made ... The moment you open to the Divine Love, you also receive its power of Transformation. But it is not in terms of quantity that you can measure it; what is essential is the true contact; for, you will find that the true contact with it ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  January 14, 1917

... 1917 ... "May all who are unhappy become happy, may the wicked become good, may the sick become healthy!" Thus was formulated the aspiration within me concerning the manifestation of Thy divine Love through this instrument. It was like a request, a request a child makes to its father with the certitude that it will be granted. For the certitude was in me when I asked: it seemed to me so simple... beauty, is this not more natural and also more fruitful than always to suffer and toil in an ignorant struggle unwillingly undergone? If Thou allowest the heart to blossom freely at the touch of Thy divine Love, this transformation is easy and comes of itself. Wilt Thou not grant this, O Lord, as a pledge of Thy mercy? It is with the confidence of a child that my heart implores Thee this evening. ...

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Sri Aurobindo And The Mother - On India  >  The Mother - Messages and Visions

... churning Matter. .. are a childishness. It is human restlessness.     The vision was of a beauty 50- majestic, so calm, so smiling, oh! . .. it was full, truly full of the divine Love. And not a divine Love that "pardons"-it is not at all that, not at all! Each thing in its place, realising its inner rhythm as perfectly as it can.     It was a very beautiful gift. ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  August 27, 1914

... August 27, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. To be the divine love, love powerful, infinite, unfathomable, in every activity, in all the worlds of being—it is for this I cry to Thee, O Lord. Let me be consumed with this love divine, love powerful, infinite, unfathomable, in every activity, in all the worlds of being! Transmute me into that burning ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  March 7, 1961

... with the Divine 2 , the friendly relationship you can have with the Divine—you understand each other, you don't fear each other, you're good friends! And this one is a wonder! ( Mother gives Divine Love Governing the World 3 ) What strength! It's generous, expansive, without narrowness, pettiness, or limitations—when that comes.... ( After the work, towards the end of the conversation:... every day. (I used to do my translation then, but since I'm at least two or three years ahead of the Bulletin , it doesn't matter, I won't be delaying the work! I have almost finished 'The Yoga of Divine Love'; now there's only 'The Yoga of Self-Perfection'—that's quite a job, oh!... I miss it—this translation was my pleasure.) But the work on the body is useful—something must be attempted in life; we ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1963  >  May 11, 1963

... pulls out a box ) It's turned completely yellow.... Does it matter? The water would soak into it! Because I have to write with chandanam mixed in water, you understand, and with a twig of "Divine Love"! [pomegranate] Page 132 Without a piece of cotton or anything? No, nothing. A twig which I cut into a nib. Are the drawings small? It's a rectangle divided into three c... did), a square divided into nine smaller squares. It is the image of the realization (not realization—gestation), the birth of Mahalakshmi's consciousness in Matter, that is to say, the form of divine love in Matter. ( Mother pores over the diagram for a long time. It should be noted that the figures of the diagram must be read and written in a particular order to have their full power. ) Oh ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1963  >  August 24, 1963

... intolerant of, or intolerable to (yes, intolerable to) all that's unlike it! It's the same thing, or almost (not quite the same but almost), as supreme divine Love: the vibration of that ecstasy or rapture is a first hint of the vibration of divine Love, and that's absolutely... yes, there is no other word, intolerant, in the sense that it doesn't brook the presence of anything contrary to it. So that ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1966  >  August 3, 1966

... totally and CONSTANTLY in their aspiration. It's extremely interesting, really very interesting. I told you last time about those moments I had, which really were moments of realization [of divine Love]; then I clearly saw that it went away because "it" couldn't stay, and I immediately wanted to know why it couldn't stay. To just say, "Things aren't ready... things aren't ready," is quite meaningless... ) or like that. This is expressed by a will to endure or to last, or by a need for the annihilation of rest. And then, when these cells are full of that light—that golden light, that splendor of divine Love—there is a sort of thirst, a need to participate in That, which takes away all that is or can be difficult in the endurance: that disappears, it becomes a glory. Then... That's what is being learned ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1968  >  September 28, 1968

... But it must be in the psychic TURNED TOWARDS MATTER. And not just a thought: it must be a spontaneous way of being. It can be expressed in different ways.... It's a terrestrial manifestation of divine Love in its form of... it has something to do with benevolence—it's not "benevolence," but a way of existing, feeling, seeing, acting, which is a sort of... (words are stupid), a "psychic benevolence... here ( gesture around the head ). "Benevolence" ( laughing ) is the ridiculous human distortion of "that." It's a very, very peculiar vibration. What we might call "one of the ways of being of divine Love." And it can become a very material vibration. It must be to teach us to cultivate that! Page 269 × ...

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The Indian Spirit and the World's Future  >  The Passing of Sri Aurobindo: Its Inner Significance and Consequence

... "It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness to the Divine." We may say that some undreamt-of calamity would have afflicted the world if the vast poison had not been drawn away into the body of this one man whose spiritual consciousness, armed with divine Love, had made ...

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Sri Krishna In Brindavan  >  Preface

... and creativity is endless. The principal theme of this monograph is centred on harmony; it presents the story of Sri Krishna and his manifestation in Brindavan as the sweetness and nectar of Divine Love that mysteriously binds the individual soul with the Supreme and with all the other souls and manifestations of the Supreme in the world. In the depth of the human soul there breathes the Reality... cross humanised Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity. Yet it is said that none of these four events ever happened. — Sri Aurobindo Page 11 Love, - Divine Love Love is a passion and it seeks for two things, eternity and intensity, and in the relation of the Lover and Beloved the seeking for eternity and for intensity is instinctive and self-born. ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  6 FEBRUARY 1939

... There is a line in Dante which says that even eternal hell is a creation of the Divine Love. I wonder what Lajpat Rai would say to that. And what does Dante mean by it? I don't understand it myself. One can understand being thrown into hell in order that one may rise up to heaven from it; but how can the Divine Love create eternal hell?9 PURANI: Your reference to Dante reminds me of Lascellers ...

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Listen with your Heart - Welcome the Mother  >  Page-1 to 47

... closed lotus-hearts from their heavy trance of forgotten joy. One by one, new deathless flowers grew in number smiling, dancing In the sacred garden of the Temple, nourished by the Divine Love. The prolonged agony of night vanished in the golden Light of a New Sun. The long-awaited Mother has come and taken the sick unhappy child, The abandoned weeping earth to Her bosom... raise the head. A dull green curtain hides their pink and white yearning. Yet in that liquid desert rises high among the lost tribe, An exotic golden lotus in full bloom radiating divine Love And Ananda in transmuting waves to hasten the psychic birth, Some shining Godhead fallen from heaven floating on the silent night. The somnolent buds slowly wake up from their ...

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Listen with your Heart - Welcome the Mother  >  Page-86 to 119

... my soul most desires. Her Love gives me all I need in life and more. By Her Grace, a tiny spark becomes a giant Star. 86 - 87 The Divine Love to the Musician A musician, self-taught, who never went to a school of music, Once upon a time, found himself in a community of gentle folks. But nobody liked his violin music... Immortal One, The constant Friend and Companion in life and death through Eternity. 104 - 105 Supreme Musician I am the mystic golden cord of Divine Love and Ananda, Uniting all creation in My embrace, holding all in My Ocean. Become aware of Me alone, filling endless time, occupying empty space. This apparent world with its fog, wind, rain ...

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Sri Aurobindo And The Mother  >  The Mother

... 1906, gives us the profundity of her experience. Speaking of this vision, she said: I have had the experience of being 'missioned', so to speak, in a form of Love and Consciousness combined—divine Love in its supreme purity, divine Consciousness in its supreme purity—and emanated DIRECTLY, without passing through all the intermediate states, directly into the nethermost depths of the Inconscient... (...) Many a time in the day and night it seems to me that I am, or rather my consciousness is, concentrated entirely in my heart which is no longer an organ, not even a feeling, but the divine Love, impersonal, eternal; and being this Love I feel myself living at the centre of each thing upon the entire earth, and at the same time I seem to stretch out immense, infinite arms and envelop with ...

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Child, Teacher and Teacher Education  >  Notes Relating to Spiritual Education

... ceremonies, too, are not entirely excluded. But the important point is that Yogic methods aim at living contact with the object of faith, prayer, adoration and worship. Experience and realization of the Divine love and the perennial source of that love are to be experienced and realized. Moreover, in Yoga, there is constant insistence on consecration, discipline and purification, renunciation and concentration... vibrations of the will and aspiration. Prayer is only a joy of relationship with the Divine. At higher and higher reaches of Yoga, one can reach the highest motiveless devotion, which is that of Divine love pure and simple without any other demand or longing. * * * In the process of spiritual education, all the methods of Bhaktiyoga have a place, provided two important conditions are fulfilled ...

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Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays  >  Yoga and Education

... Standards of Moral Conduct and Spiritual Freedom, The Divine Work, Supermind and the Yoga of Divine Works Emotions and Devotion, Aspiration and Prayer, The Divine Love and Grace, The Divine Personality. The Delight of the Divine Love, Ecstasy and Union with the Divine Self-Perfection, Instruments of the Spirit and their purification, Psychology of Self-Perfection, Perfection of Personality ...

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Supermind in Integral Yoga  >  Notes and References

... the status of consciousness or knowledge. Similarly, the capital importance that is laid down in the Gita for the path of Bhakti or Divine Love can have no place, if each individual Purusha is independent of all the other Purushas or any Supreme Purusha to whom divine love can be offered and continued to be offered in the state of liberation. The Gita, on the other hand, admits the reality of the individual ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10  >  Prayers and Meditations of the Mother

... Outside this state, there are infinite degrees of consciousness descending down to the complete darkness, the veritable inconscience which may be a domain not yet touched by the light of Thy divine love (but that appears improbable in physical substance), or which is by reason of some ignorance, outside our individual region of perception. Page 77 —"II faudrait que chaque jour... life; I wish, if they are destined to pass for a long or a brief period into other hands than ours, that these hands may be gentle to them and may feel all the respect that is due to what Thy divine Love, O Lord, has made to emerge from the dark inconscience of chaos. (3.3.1914) 1 A deep concentration seized on me, and I perceived that I was identifying myself with a single cherry-blossom ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Prayers and Meditations of the Mother

... ³Outside this state, there are infinite degrees of consciousness descending down to the complete darkness, the veritable inconscience which may be a domain not yet touched by the light of Thy divine love (but that appears improbable in physical substance), or which is by reason of some ignorance, outside our individual region of perception. Page 225 philosophical. Here is an obvious... our life; I wish, if they are destined to pass for a long or a brief period into other hands than ours, that these hands may be gentle to them and may feel all the respect that is due to what Thy divine Love, O Lord, has made to emerge from the dark inconscience of chaos. (3.3.1914) Page 232 plant world also: It is oneness not partial or vague but total and absolute: Une grande ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Love and Death

... love depicted here in these plays of Sri Aurobindo is of earth, earthly, even earthy: it is not, one might say, the Divine Love – embodiment of the Supreme Ananda or Sachchidananda. And yet Love is one and indivisible, it is always and everywhere the same, essentially the Divine Love – in various moulds. And the mould in which Sri Aurobindo has cast even earthly human love is divinely noble and beautiful ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 6  >  TOWARDS REDEMPTION

... of egoism upon which is based this inconscient creation. In the midst of this utter negation, this denial by the universe of its origin, the Divine Love descended and lodged itself in order to bring back the erring creation to its lost home. The Divine Love became involved and entangled in the Inconscient, became one with it; only so could she (it was indeed the Divine Mother in her Grace) suffuse ...

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Savitri  >  Yoga

... and tens will be incidentally included in the catch. Possess the Divine and be possessed by the Divine; all else come as a matter of course, and no seeming hardship will really matter. "It is only divine Love", Sri Aurobindo wrote in 1934, "which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the...       In the first three parts of The Synthesis of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo outlines the dynamics of the three classical paths—the Yoga of Divine Work, the Yoga of Integral Knowledge, and the Yoga of Divine Love, and in the final part describes the Yoga of Self-Perfection which uses all three disciplines in a bold way:   To arrive by the shortest way at the largest development of spiritual power ...

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On The Mother  >  Coming of the Disciples

... is no one in the whole world as as lovable as his "dear Mama" and receives in immediate response: Love, love, love to my very dear child; all the joy, all the light, all the peace of the divine love and also my loving blessings. 66 Where could one find an arbour of security as restful and as beneficent and as perfectly secure as the Mother's love? XIII Rishabhchand was one... words, in her gestures and in all her ways and dealings with men; so much so that the word Mother has come to mean Love; and to be near her is to feel that we are in the physical presence of divine Love itself.. .. 67 The feeling of utter consecration to the Mother blotted out all else from Rishabhchand's horizon of consciousness, and for forty years he was to live and move in the Ashram ...

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On The Mother  >  A Passage to Japan

... "The Bird of Fire", written sixteen years later. "The Bird of Fire" is "the living vehicle of the gold fire of the Divine Light and the white fire of the Divine Tapas and the crimson fire of the Divine Love - and everything else of the Divine Consciousness". 39 We may perhaps equate these three aspects with Mirra's categories of Light, Power of Realisation and Sovereign Consciousness. XIII... ladder! On 28 April, Mirra has a vision of the divine Master again, and she receives gifts of Grace from the Eternal Mother: Lo! here are flowers and benedictions! here is the smile of divine Love! It is without preferences and without repulsions. It streams out towards all in a generous flow and never takes back its marvellous gifts! 43 And thus, in Mirra's vision, the Eternal Mother ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - An Approach And A Study  >  Summary of Book-1

... like one imprisoned and she wanted to break the limits that kept her in captivity. Besides this deep and powerful aspiration, this feeling of herself being akin to the divinity she had in her the divine love for all, a universal sympathy that went out constantly to help all men. She gave herself freely to men in an act of inner sympathy so "that heaven might native grow on mortal soil". This sympathy... the Divine omniscient Goddess bent down on the cosmos the ears that were plugged were opened and Nature heard Her Page 137 steps. Even earth's silence was kindled to the fire of divine love and everywhere was felt a movement of consecration, as if a cosmic sacrificial rite was being performed: Earth that was merely "a shadow whirling in the hollow gulf of space"—now "felt the Imp ...

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The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo  >  The Integral Perfection

... the sustaining and succouring hand of the Supreme, and His dispensation of infinite love and compassion. Grief, suffering, disgrace, defeat—everything is so decreed and so arranged by the divine Love that it cannot but conduce to the spiritual progress of the sâdhaka, if he can remain unwavering in this Kalyān-śraddhā. Prema-sāmarthya is a limitless capacity for love. The main function of... supramental will will be like a flame-shaft of the gnostic Force shooting straight at its target. The supramental feelings and emotions will be currents and waves and ripples of, the unebbing divine love and delight, and even in their most intense and impetuous movements, they will preserve their inherent rhythm and play in perfect tune with all the movements of the nature. They will impart a ...

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Growing up with the Mother  >  Questions and Answers on Flowers

... of the nature in the love for the Divine. 1 July 1970 * * * Mother, Yesterday you explained to me the difference between “Love from the Divine” and “Divine Love”. Could you write it down for me ? When I say “Divine Love”, I mean the vibration of love that is at the origin of all love and fills the universe. When I say “Love from the Divine”, I mean a vibration of love that the ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  Nirvana and Works in the World

... oneness with him in our self-existent being and of a certain differentiation in our active being. It is the persistence of the latter in a play of divine works which are urged by the motive power of divine love and constituted by a perfected divine Nature, it is the vision of the Divine in the world harmonised with a realisation of the Divine in the self which makes action and devotion possible to the liberated... compassion. Therefore too, even when he has found oneness with the Divine in his timeless and immutable self, is he still capable, since he embraces the relations also of the play of Nature, of divine love for man and of love for the Divine, of bhakti. Page 239 That this is the drift of the meaning, becomes clearer when we have fathomed the sense of the sixth chapter which is a large comment ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Synthesis of Devotion and Knowledge

... another and greater necessity for the Karmayogin who has unified his Yoga of works with the Yoga of knowledge. Not knowledge and works alone are demanded of him now, bhakti also, devotion to the Divine, love and adoration and the soul's desire of the Highest. This demand, not expressly made until now, had yet been prepared when the Teacher laid down as the necessary turn of his Yoga the conversion of... these at all, there would be no divine hope for man or for any soul in Maya. Therefore according to their nature, as they approach him, he accepts their bhakti and answers to it with the reply of divine love and compassion. These forms are after all a certain kind of Page 286 manifestation through which the imperfect human intelligence can touch him, these desires are first means by which ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  24 March 1954

... What? Human love. Human? Why, haven't I said it? It is Love. When it becomes human love, it is as I have described it. Love in its origin is divine love. Love in man, that is, love grown human, is distorted, deformed; it is only divine love which is pure. How can the senses be used for self-development? Developing through sensations? It is very much in fashion. It is much in fashion ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Special Relation with the Mother

... exterior formation and does not belong to the past or to the future evolution, at any rate in its present figure. It must either disappear or change. 10 June 1935 Yesterday we discussed the Divine Love in relation to the sadhaks. My points were these: 1) It is said that the psychic being of each sadhak has a special relation to the Divine; this must mean that the psychic gets from the Divine... not very helpful; for it is a subject which is beyond mental analysis and the constructions of the mind about it are apt to be either very partially true or else erroneous. There is a universal Divine Love which is equal for all. There is also a psychic connection which is individual; it is the same essentially for all, but it admits of a special relation with each which is not the same for all but ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Knowledge by Unity with the Divine - The Divine Will in the World

... is to give yourself up to the Grace of the Divine; for, it is under the form of Grace, of Love, that it has consented to uplift the universe after the first involution was established. With the Divine Love is the supreme power of Transformation. It has this power because it is for the sake of Transformation that it has given itself to the world and manifested everywhere. Not only has it infused itself... thing it would be a tremendous sacrifice. But the Divine cannot really be diminished, its infinite essence can never become less, no matter what "sacrifices" are made.... The moment you open to the Divine Love, you also receive its power of Transformation. But it is not in terms of quantity that you can measure it; what is essential is the true contact; for, you will find that the true contact with it ...

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Work - an offering  >  The Worker

... and cannot be governed by petty human considerations. The Mother Divine Love, Grace and Care The reason for people to come and settle here is surely not to find comfort and luxury - this can be found anywhere if one is lucky enough. But what one can get here, that is not got in any other place: it is the Divine Love, Grace and Care. It is when this is forgotten or disregarded that people ...

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The Sunlit Path  >  Courage, Endurance, Effort

... know that the blows which the Lord deals us in His infinite love and grace are the surest and quickest way to make us progress. And the harder the blows the more they feel the greatness of the divine Love. Ordinary men, on the contrary, always ask God to give them an easy, pleasant and successful life. In every personal satisfaction they see a sign of divine mercy; but if on the contrary they... know that very persistent efforts, a very steadfast endurance are necessary to master the least weakness, the least pettiness, the least meanness in one's nature. What is the use of talking about divine Love if one can't love without egoism? What is the use of talking about immortality if one is stubbornly attached to the past and the present and if one doesn't want to give anything in order to receive ...

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Notes on the Way  >  27 November 1965

... "preparing", or of "churning Matter"... are a childishness. It is human restlessness. The vision was of a beauty so majestic, so calm, so smiling. Oh! it was full, truly full of the divine Love. And not a divine Love that "pardons"—it is not at all that, not at all! Each thing in its place, realising its inner rhythm as perfectly as it can. It was a very beautiful gift. Well, all these things ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 94

... intolerant or intolerable—intolerable rather—to everything that is unlike it. It is the same thing or almost—not quite the same, but almost—as the supreme divine Love; the vibration of this ecstasy or rapture is a small beginning of the vibration of divine Love, and that is absolutely—yes, there is no other word for it—intolerant, in Page 173 the sense that it will not permit the presence of anything ...

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The Secret of the Veda  >  The Guardians of the Light

... are said to be Mitra, or to be like Mitra, or to become Mitra,—as we should now say, the divine Will-force, or whatever other power and personality of the godhead, reveals itself eventually as the divine Love. Therefore we must suppose that to these symbolists Mitra was essentially the Lord of Love, a divine friend, a kindly helper of men and immortals. The Veda speaks of him as the most beloved of the... the wideness of earth, may we attain to our abiding-place in the law of working of Mitra, son of Infinity, and dwell in his grace." It is when Agni becomes Mitra, when the divine Will realises the divine Love that, in the Vedic image, the Lord and his Spouse agree in their mansion. The well-accorded happiness of the Truth is Mitra's law of working; for it is upon Truth and divine Knowledge that this ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice

... oneness. All unity between creatures is in its essence a self-finding, a fusion with that from which we have separated, a discovery of one's self in others. Page 107 But it is only a divine love and unity that can possess in the light what the human forms of these things seek for in the darkness. For the true unity is not merely an association and agglomeration like that of physical cells... peace, bliss, harmony, universality, mastery, purity, perfection; it must convert itself into a receptacle of divine knowledge, an instrument of divine Will-Power and Force of Being, a channel of divine Love, Joy and Beauty. This is the transformation to be effected, Page 131 an integral transformation of all that we now are or seem to be, by the joining—Yoga—of the finite being in Time with ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of the Gita

... heart within that waits behind them for its hour; all our feelings, impelled by this inner heart in which dwells the Divine, will be transmuted into calm and intense movements of a twin passion of divine Love and manifold Ananda. This is the definition of a divine humanity or a supramental race. This, not an exaggerated or even a sublimated energy of human intellect and action, is the type of the superman... case our present preoccupation is with a Yoga, integral in its aim and complete movement, but starting from works and proceeding by works although at each step more and more moved by a vivifying divine love and more and more illumined by a helping divine knowledge. The greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race, the most perfect system of Karmayoga known to man in the past ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Master of the Work

... by renouncing the impulse to act or to kill it by cutting away from us all movement of personality. It is easier to exalt it into self-forgetfulness immersed in a trance of peace or an ecstasy of divine Love. But our more difficult problem is to liberate the true Person and attain to a divine manhood which shall be the pure vessel of a divine force and the perfect instrument of a divine action. Step... liberated calm and peace, not merely with a passive or active submission in our works or through the mystery of union with a universal Knowledge and Power filling and guiding us, but with an ecstasy of divine Love and divine Delight that shoots up beyond silent Witness and active World-Power to some positive divination of a greater beatific secret. For it is not so much knowledge leading to some ineffable ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1970  >  July 8, 1970

... .. 1 ( Mother smiles and plunges in again ) × The pomegranate tree is the symbol of Divine Love; Mother called the fruit "Divine Love Spreading over the World." ...

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The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo  >  A Pathway towards Immortality

... from the time the Victory had been promised, bearing - as a line of Savitri phrases it - "the fierce inner wounds that are slow to heal." Nothing save Divine Love in the supreme degree could support him in such a journey - Divine Love that throws itself out infinitely to lead the evolving world, sparing itself no struggle however dangerous, no self-immolation however exorbitant. A body ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1964  >  January 4, 1964

... apparently and are in relation with very different aspects of the Mother, yet who all, for a reason which I know, will find the fullness of their being only when, Truth having been fulfilled on earth, divine Love will be able to manifest purely—that's why I called you Satprem. And there are other people, whom I know very well, who appear to be at the other end (how can I put it?) of the realization of their... different in origin, entirely different in influence), and yet who have exactly the same character... with regard to something else, which I will tell only when the time comes. And it's only when divine Love can manifest in its absoluteness that they will have the fullness of their being. So that for the moment they have, like you, but for very different reasons, the feeling that... things don't move ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1963  >  October 3, 1963

... which she has already commented on July 24 , and she adds this comment: ) If divine Love were to descend first, before divine Truth, certain Page 335 beings with a special power or receptivity might draw it into themselves, personally, and then all those wrong impulses might occur. 1 But if this divine Love descends only in the Truth, in the Truth-Consciousness, it will enter someone ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1965  >  March 20, 1965

... that is still elusive (elusive in its essence): it has to do with feeling, with sensation, with perception, also with aspiration—it has to do with all that, and it is... what we habitually call divine Love (that is, essential Love, that which is expressed by Love and seems to be beyond the Manifestation and Nonmanifestation, which, naturally, becomes Love in the Manifestation). And That would be the... do not follow each other, they are concomitant), if you go beyond, you encounter this "something" which, I don't know why, I call Love.... Probably because the vibration of true Love (what I call divine Love, which is at work in the world) bears the closest resemblance to That. It is something absolutely inexpressible, which belongs neither to "receiving" nor to "giving," neither to uniting nor to absorbing ...

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Some Answers from the Mother  >  Letters to "My little smile"

... me of this discouragement and this revolt, please. Will You not save me from them? With all my will I want to save you, but you must allow me to do so. To revolt is to reject the Divine Love and only the Divine Love has the power to save. 28 December 1932 Dear Mother, Am I not Your child? Yes, I know that I am a naughty child, but what can I do? Naughty or not, in any case I am Yours ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  July 28, 1961

... happened in Matter (that is, in what had created Matter) and that this involution had led to a state of Page 277 Inconscience, total unconsciousness, the ancient lore says that at once the divine Love descended straight from the Lord into Matter and began to awaken what was involved there. Other traditions speak of the Consciousness, the divine Consciousness, instead of Love. One even finds... aspiration to Consciousness and the beginning of evolution. I have had this experience. I have had the experience of being 'missioned,' so to speak, in a form of Love and Consciousness combined—divine Love in its supreme purity, divine Consciousness in its supreme purity—and emanated DIRECTLY, without passing through all the intermediate states, directly into the nethermost depths of the Inconscient ...

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Beyond Man  >  Chapter Nine: From Man to Superman

... intensity than at the time of the creation of the four original beings.’ This Love is the essence of the Divine, the essence of the Self, of the All-Soul in our world. Because of the presence of the divine Love the Inconscient could no longer remain stagnant in its inertia, in its endless sleep. Love was the catalyst by which the degenerated manifestation would be led back towards the origin which had become... the psychic being is something that takes place on earth,’ 26 said the Mother. For ‘it is only on the Earth — I do not even mean the material universe — only on the Earth that this descent of divine Love, at the origin of the divine Presence in the heart of matter, has taken place.’ 27 That is why only human beings — the human beings of the evolution, children of an earthly creation — ‘have a ...

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Overman  >  3: Turning Towards the Earth

... emerges always out of the coverings, it is the same thing in essence even if greater in degree, that there is behind others – and it is to awaken that that he is there.” 27 “It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine.” 28 “As for... performed “in grim earnest”, for the Avatar’s difficulties and suffering are real. The difficulties must be conquered to make them conquerable by the ones who will follow on the newly paved path. “Only divine Love” can bear such a burden. His greater knowledge gives him also a deeper insight into the “impossibility” of the task, for if it were not impossible for ordinary human beings, he would not have to ...

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Beyond Man  >  Epilogue: The Sun For Ever

... notwithstanding, of the event to avert any irreparable disaster, and the ‘benevolence’ of its interventions, its intimate understanding of all elements involved in the process of transformation and its divine Love for them, be they people, objects or structures. Considering this, the events of 1989 will probably come to the reader’s mind. The East European communist bloc collapsed like a house of cards... longer hold the Earth in its grip will undoubtedly result in new evolutionary processes and mechanisms. The supramental being, as the incorporation of the Unity-Consciousness which in essence is divine Love, will transpose the world into a higher mode of happiness and well-being. What is to happen? The unexpected, the unimagined, the unparalleled — tomorrow, today, now. The possibility of all ...

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Sri Aurobindo came to Me  >  Sri Aurobindo's Message

... blessed for having seen what so few have glimpsed: to wit, the love divine that flowers in him through Heaven's magic touch — the love about which he wrote to me in a letter, in 1934: "It is only divine love which can bear the burden I have Page 271 to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the... love we humans know of, a blend of gold and alloy, but the inviolate love purged of its dross — which has inspired his epic poem, Savitri, wherein he has limned his breath-taking Realisation of Divine Love with a convincingness which though our intellect cannot comprehend, our hearts cannot help but accept as the last pinnacle of Attainment. I know, of course, that those who long to soar to the ...

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Chaitanya and Mira  >  Appendix

... in him an Avatar of Krishna, a manifestation of the Divine Love. Shankara and Vivekananda were certainly Vibhutis; they cannot be reckoned as more, though as Vibhutis they were very great. SRI AUROBINDO Dilip, It was not my intention to question in any degree Chaitanya's position as an Avatar of Krishna and the Divine Love. That character of the manifestation appears ...

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Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother  >  7 September 1933

... anything I could write. At pranam time I felt that you were still depressed and 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... Mèrely human kindness—though surely it contained all that human kindness can be at its best—but Mahalakshmi's love, Mahasaraswati's care, Maheshwari's embracing and enveloping light. Do not think of Divine Love as something cold or impersonal or distantly high—it is something as warm and close and tender as any feeling can possibly be. It does not abolish whatever is pure and sweet in human love, but i ...

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The Story of a Soul  >  14 November 1955

... flowers, scarlet, enormous—clusters of petals, innumerable drops of blood ... These are the flowers that, for us, express and hold the Divine Love. About this flower the Mother has also explained: Yesterday morning I distributed petals of "Divine Love". The previous night was the darkest of the year and in India it is a great festival. Its true significance is that the Divine's Love is at ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1962  >  June 12, 1962

... it from a distance, wordlessly, in silence. But what gets through all that crust? I don't know!... Over and over, I keep saying one thing: "To divine Love, all human confusions and misunderstandings are unknown." There. Well, we will see. "Wherever divine Love is present, human confusions and misunderstandings cannot exist, cannot enter." That's the only solution. But not an ATOM of mind must be ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1966  >  October 12, 1966

... belonging to the unmanifested divine Love. I myself experienced the passage through all these regions, and this one [the region of white light in which the meditation took place] was the very last belonging to the light... I don't recall, he used to put together all the regions of light, and then, beyond them, the regions... basically, they were regions of divine Love, but unmanifested, that is to ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1968  >  October 30, 1968

... October 30, 1968 ( Regarding the message Mother has given to Satprem for his birthday. ) "Here are the Light and the Divine Love which are always with you on the path, every outcome of which is only the starting point for a new stage." It's precisely the experience I've had these last few days (yesterday, I think)... So when I wrote your card, I remembered your question. I thought I should write something for you about that. Then I evoked Sri Aurobindo in his portrait. 1 I wrote, "Here is the Light and the Divine Love which always accompany you... "Which are always with you on the path..." And there I asked, "Well, where do we stand?" (for you). And he answered... "...every outcome of which is only ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1965  >  November 27, 1965

... "spreading" [the ideal], of "preparing" or churning Matter—childishness. It's human agitation. The vision had such majestic and calm and smiling beauty, oh!... It was full, really full of divine Love. And not a divine Love that "forgives"—that's not at all the point, not at all!—each thing in its own place, realizing its inner rhythm as perfectly as it can. That's all. Page 306 That was a very ...

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Our Light and Delight  >  The Birth-Centenary of the Mother

... of Sri Aurobindo: now the concentration of the Supermind's transformative pressure was wholly on the Mother's body. Sri Aurobindo has well summed up the Avatar's situation: "It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine. The Gallio-like 'Je... quite another thing that enables me to walk unweeping and unlamenting towards the goal" (April 1934). Obviously, if her remark to me was to be fully understood, the Mother desired the Divine Love, which was sustaining her, to fulfil its aim of supramental descent and transformation in this very birth of hers: she had no inclination to write "To be continued" to the story of her present ...

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Child, Teacher and Teacher Education  >  Philosophy of Spiritual Education 2

... "Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities...;" viii ... for liberation but action can never be itself the instrument of liberation. The exclusive path of Karma yoga tends to assign supreme importance to divine action rather than to divine knowledge or divine love. These conflicts became prominent in India soon after the period of the original and esoteric system of the Vedic synthesis of yoga and they have continued to fuel controversies right up to the present ...

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Integral Yoga - Major Aims, Methods, Processes and Results  >  PART TWO

... of the Infinite and confident of the presence and guidance of the Divine and his shakti. This means that the seeker should have already made considerable advance on the triple path of knowledge, divine love and divine works as a result of which the seeker has become aware of the Object of divine knowledge and has developed love of the Divine Lover and has also become confident of the working of the... necessity of process of elimination or transformation of the inferior mentality remains always imperative. Page 28 The second method is to turn inward which comes naturally to the way of Divine Love. In this method, one rejects the intellect and its action, one listens for the voice, waits for the impulsion or the command, obeys only the idea and the will and power of the Lord within, the divine ...

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Integral Yoga of Transformation  >  Part Four

... body, life and mind, and it is they that support our individual life , mind and body. The psychic entity is the deputy of the individual self, jivatman, and it is a spark of the divine fire and divine love which are operations of the principle of Ananda, which is itself the union of Sat and Chit, the two other elements of Sachchidananda. It is the psychic entity which is missioned to work in the ... the reigns of government that there can take place a real hormonisation of our being and our life." 40 Psychic Development and the Role of the Yoga of knowledge, Yoga of Will and Yoga of Divine Love As pointed out above, the entire process is extremely long and difficult, and major efforts are necessary for the soul's complete emergence from its inmost depths right up to our surface ...

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Sri Krishna In Brindavan  >  On Puranic Literature

... of the center of synthesis from knowledge to spiritual love and delight the earlier significance of Vedanta. The perfect outcome of this evolution is to be found in the philosophy and religion of divine love promulgated by Chaitanya. Thus under the stress of temperamental variation the poetry of the Vaishnavas puts on very different artistic forms in different provinces. There is first the use of... the same figures by the devout poets of the religion of Chaitanya. All the spiritual experience that lay behind the symbol was embodied in that inspired prophet and incarnation of the ecstasy of divine love and its spiritual philosophy put into clear form in his teaching. His followers continued the poetic tradition of the earlier singers and though they fall below them in genius, yet left behind a ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  On Aspiration

... recognise whether his governing impulse of the moment is of the nature of a desire or of an aspiration. Thus, an aspiration is, in its origin, a thirst arising from the soul, a yearning towards the divine love, light and progress. There can be, nay should be, a great intensity in an aspiration but never any froth and spume of egoistic fervour. In an aspiration there is constant turning to the Divine but... Page 42 An aspiration is "an inner enthusiasm towards the New, the Unknown, the Perfection." It is "a yearning, a longing for the contact with the Divine Force, divine Harmony, divine Love." An aspiration is "an inner flame, a need for the light... A luminous enthusiasm that seizes the whole being... An unquenchable thirst, an elan, a luminous drive towards all that is high, all that ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  June 1936

... things that it hates because liking and disliking are its native atmosphere. But with having psychic love for all, is there also going to be any pure divine love for a particular one? But first you must realise what the "pure divine" love is! Of course new friendships may come up and old ones break, but I am inclined to wonder whether such personal pure ties will be there or not. But ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  December 1934

... Yoga is the rasa of the Divine and of the divine consciousness which means the rasa of Peace, of Silence, of inner Light and Bliss, of growing inner Knowledge, of increasing inner Power, of the Divine Love, of all the infinite fields of experience that open to one with the opening of the inner consciousness. The true rasa of poetry, painting or any other activity is truly found when these things are... works taken from one and done by the universal or the supreme Mother or by the Divine Power controlling and acting from behind the heart. By constant reference of all one's will and works to the Divine, love and adoration grow, the psychic being comes forward. By the reference to the Power above one can come to feel it above and its descent and the opening to an increasing consciousness and knowledge ...

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Evolution and the Earthly Destiny  >  Prayers and Meditations of the Mother

... 3 Outside this state, there are infinite degrees of consciousness descending down to the complete darkness, the veritable inconscience which may be a domain not yet touched by the light of Thy divine love (but that appears improbable in physical substance), or which is by reason of some ignorance, outside our individual region of perception. Page 275 philosophical. Here is an obvious... wish, if they are destined to pass for a long or a brief period into other hands than ours, that these hands may be gentle to them and may feel all the respect that is due to what Thy divine Love, 0 Lord, has made to emerge from the dark inconscience of chaos. (3.3.1914) Page 282 plant world also. It is oneness not partial or vague but total and absolute: Une ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10  >  Love and Love

... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10 IV Love and Love The Mother says: there is only one Love, there are not two. And it is Divine Love. The difference arises only in its expression, in its application. In its essential quality and substance it is always the same. Take for example human love; stripped of the mere human element, love remains the same... be negatived. Divine Consciousness, Divine Delight, Divine Power, indeed, Divine Being—they each and all exist as absolute and unitary realities, that is to say, one without a second. Even like Divine Love, there is only one Divine Consciousness, one Divine Power, one Divine Bliss, one Divine Page 133 Being, however various they may appear in outward name and form. But the physical ...

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The Mother Abides - Final Reflections  >  Love the Divine

... The Mother Abides - Final Reflections Love the Divine "Love the Divine alone and the Divine will always be with you." Mother wrote this to one of her children. It is the key to solve problems, the magic mantra to cure the ills of human life and consciousness, the one remedy for all inner and outer ailments. Take ego, for example. It epitomises, in a... under check, and even to master it. Yet the ego remains, it is there all the time; it is not uprooted, dissolved, annulled. The method suggested here is simpler. Dissolve the ego through divine love. First you love the Divine—but you can love the Divine only when he has already entered into your heart, when he is already there; it is his Love that radiates through you and you love him. The fact ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1  >  Man and the Gods

... capable when one knows how to treat it in occult knowledge and power. The human body can suffer a sea-change which is not within the reach of the radiant body of an immortal. 4   Divine Love is something aloof, apart, beyond. Even then it is there behind supporting, animating, helping all and everything. It is indeed the secret Delight in things. It is the sense of utter identity of... rien ne d é concerte et que rien n'attendrit. Vous ne pouvez avoir de subites cl é mences Qui d é rangent le monde, ô Dieu, tranquille esprit! ¹ This is the divine love, love proper to Maheshwari. But there is another love more intimate, close, human-the love of Mahalakshmi. This is the love that comes down here upon earth and takes on an earthly quality, a terrestrial ...

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Blessings of the Grace  >  Aspiration

... aspiration to pursue, then you are projected into a world which cannot be compared, a world of delight and of splendour, of beauty and of harmony, of peace and of sovereign power, of compassion and divine love and the transforming consciousness, — a state where suffering and misfortune, hatred and envy, pain and passion, desire and fear, doubt and deviations cannot live, cannot exist, where ignorance and... vicissitudes on the way. Firstly one must will, — will ardently, will sincerely, will constantly, — that all in you becomes an expression of the Divine, solely a vessel for the divine Truth and the divine Love and that His light may course through you without any obstruction or conflict, in its purity, in its clarity, in its grandeur and in its essence. And the first step necessary towards its accomplishment ...

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Talks by Nirodbaran  >  3 September 1969

... badly and he was bleeding from his forehead, and even then he said: "Merecho kolsbi kana. Ta boleki prem dobona?" (Because they have hurt me, shouldn't I love them?) This is the Divine Friend, Divine Love. Then another anecdote comes to my mind, apropos of the relation between Sri Ramakrishna and his famous disciple with the independent spirit - Vivekananda, before he was converted. You know... and Sri Ramakrishna simply embraced him and forgot everything. It doesn't matter whether you believe or don't believe, the fact that you love Page 130 me is enough. This is what divine love is. A true love. If we can love the Divine in this way well, forgetting our ego, that itself is a big achievement. Mother also said in one context, "I show my Divine form only to those who love me" ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3  >  Towards Redemption

... knots of egoism upon which is based this inconscient creation. In the midst of this utter negation, this denial by the universe of its origin, the Divine Love descended and lodged itself in order to bring back the erring creation to its lost home. The Divine Love became involved and entangled in the Inconscient, became one with it; only so could she (it was indeed the Divine Mother in her Grace) suffuse ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Love and Love

... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 Love and Love THE Mother says: there is only one Love, there are not two. And it is Divine Love. The difference arises only in its expression, in its application. In its essential quality and substance it is always the same. Take for example human love; stripped of the mere human element, love remains the... be negatived. Divine Consciousness, Divine Delight, Divine Power, indeed, Divine Being – they each and all exist as absolute and unitary realities, that is to say, one without a second. Even like Divine Love, there is only one Divine Consciousness, one Divine Power, one Divine Bliss, one Divine Being, however various they may appear in outward name and form. But the physical consciousness, the physical ...

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On The Mother  >  The Meeting

... a consciousness of their own, and each thing has its Own individuality and character.³ There is a hint of all this in the prayer of 3 March 1914. For Mirra, material things are created by divine Love from the dark inconscience of chaos, and hence deserving of gentle and affectionate handling. The next day Mirra will be leaving her quiet and sanctified room, parting from her circle of friends... with serenity and confidence and faith, all can be faced and mastered. And so like a silent canticle, like a mute adoration, like a steady flame, her aspiration rises towards Him and coaxes His divine Love to come down and illuminate her heart: Page 81 Thou art the wonderful magician, he who transfigures all things, from ugliness brings forth beauty, from darkness light, from the mud ...

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On The Mother  >  International Centre

... farther, and ask for Divine Love alone: These rare souls must reject all forms of love between human beings, for however beautiful and pure they may be, they cause a kind of short-circuit and cut off the direct connection with the Divine. ... ...it is a well-known fact that one grows into the likeness of what one loves. Therefore if you want to be like the Divine, love Him alone. Only one ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  Sincerity

... obstacles. To complain and grumble is to lapse into doubt and darkness, and become unsteady. But, instead, if we quietly offer our difficulties to the divine Force, which is the dynamic aspect of divine Love, it will turn them into blessings, and help us derive from them the knowledge and strength needed for the next step forward. Sincerity requires a constant inner reference of all our experiences,... divine Mother, so that she may turn them to good account for our transformation. Sincerity imparts Page 168 to us the inner perception that, whatever the appearances may be, it is the divine Love that arranges from behind all the events and circumstances of our life in such a ,way that each of them is meant to conduce to our progress, if only we know how to face them with faith and confidence ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  Peace

... permanent, radical, absolute, something that is sovereign in action as well as inaction, in life as well as in death—the infinite and fathomless peace of the Eternal. "May the peace of Thy divine Love be on all things.” It is this peace of the Divine which she passionately invokes in her Prayer of March 10, 1914 :— "In the silence of the night Thy Peace reigned over all things,... painful and miserable seems to me their life of ignorance and obscurity, their life of foolish agitation and profitless dissipation, when a single spark of Thy sublime light, a single drop of Thy divine love can transform this suffering into an ocean of joy ! "O Lord, my prayer rises towards Thee: May they know at last Thy peace and that calm and irresistible power which springs from an immutable ...

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At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo  >  Part - I

... can carry you farther and farther on the path of transformation. Let the greater consciousness, the vastness and the peace grow in you and the psychic liberated from these veils flood you with the divine love and the soul’s happiness. We shall certainly concentrate our endeavour to help you towards that.” I had a bent towards meditation. I was not attracted by the gospel of work nor did I understand... away by the Ananda he holds and watches it and there is no more excitement mixed with the flow of it through the mind, vital or body. Naturally the Ananda of samarpaṇ or spiritual realisation or divine love is something far greater, but the Ananda of creation has its place.” As the consciousness gets gradually awakened because of our stay here, all of us can to a certain extent understand, if we ...

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Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history  >  Translations

... Such poetry may be sensuous? but it is not really sensual, this sense of love-play between young cowherdesses and the dark-hued boyish Krishna is more a pastoral - or even proletarian - version of divine love than an exercise in eroticism, .and although the imagery is often bold, often audacious, often even outlandish, there is seldom any suggestion of mere sexuality. What can be purer, yet more charged... Aurobindo makes, in his 'transcreations', one song, one orchestrated symphony on the theme of Love Divine in the more familiar images of universal human love. IV Between human and divine love, there are various other Powers that too command human affections and adorations: the country, for instance, the country as Motherland (or fatherland), and Nature whether in its benign or in its ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Three  >  Judaism

... therefore not surprising that the Hebrew race excelled as a law-giver— take Moses and his Ten 'Thou Shalt Nots'! Although for the Cabala the role of man on earth is "to renew the unimpeded flow of Divine Love," the watchword of exoteric Judaism is rather Justice. God, in it, is basically depicted as the Judge of mankind, and not its Lover as in Hinduism. Perhaps it was also against this sense of severity... boasted of his own devotion to Krishna, to there and then take some dust from his own feet and apply it on the head of his worshipped One. No. At any rate, he who "stands for the expression of Divine love and knowledge" was willing enough to take the trouble of travelling the two worlds for Narayana's sake. First he went to the abode of the Page 104 gods, explained to them the situation ...

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Early Cultural Writings  >  Epistles from Abroad - III

... and the book that is written by God in the human heart, the eternal and apaurusheya Veda. By achar it understands all moral discipline by which the heart is purified and made a fit vessel for divine love. There are certain kriyas , certain rules of shastra , certain details of achar , which are for all time and of perpetual application; there are others which are temporary, changing with the variation ...

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Collected Poems  >  Six Poems - Notes

... lose all lyrical quality and the soul of its rhythm. The Bird of Fire is the living vehicle of the gold fire of the Divine Light and the white fire of the Divine Tapas and the crimson fire of Divine Love—and everything else of the Divine Consciousness. Shiva - The Inconscient Creator The quantitative metre of Trance is suited only for a very brief lyrical poem. For longer poems I have sought ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  The Supreme Vaishnava Saint and Poet

... side of the village temple. It was under this tree that he was first seen by his disciple, the Alwar Madhura-kavi,—for the latter also is numbered among the great Twelve, "lost in the sea of Divine Love". Tradition says that while Madhura-kavi was wandering in North India as a pilgrim, one night a strange light appeared to him in the sky and travelled towards the South. Doubtful at first what s ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  Meditation

... which gives us in various ways an increasing mastery over the workings of that on which we meditate or enables us to create it and make it active in ourselves. Thus by fixing the mind on the idea of Divine Love, we can come to the knowledge of that principle and its workings, put ourselves into communion with it, create it in ourselves and impose its law on the heart and the senses. In Yoga concentration ...

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Kena and Other Upanishads  >  A Last Word

... essential is missing, we must go beyond the Upanishads to seek it,—as for instance, when we add to its emphasis on divine knowledge the indispensable ardent emphasis of the later teachings upon divine love and the high emphasis of the Veda upon divine works. The Vedic gospel of a supreme victory in heaven and on earth for the divine in man, the Christian gospel of a kingdom of God and divine city ...

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Kena and Other Upanishads  >  Sadananda's Essence of Vedanta

... यादीनि ॥१२॥ 12) By adoration is understood the various forms of mental working which have for their whole subject and purpose the Eternal in His aspect as a Personal Deity—Shandilyaʼs Art of Divine Love, for example. एतेषां नित्यादीनां बुद्धिशुद्धिः परं प्रयोजनमुपासनानां तु चित्तैकाग्रयम् । तमेतमात्मानं वेदानुवचनेन ब्राह्मणा विविदिषन्ति यज्ञेनेत्यादिश्रुतेः, तपसा कल्मषं हन्तित्यादिस्मृतेश्च ...

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Kena and Other Upanishads  >  An Incomplete Work of Vedantic Exegesis

... the supremacy of physical laws or the subjection of the ephemeral individual to the interests of the slightly less ephemeral race is no substitute for a belief in Christ or Buddha, for the law of Divine Love or the trust in Divine Power & Providence. If Philosophy failed to be an ethical control or a spiritual force, Science has failed still more completely, and for a very simple reason—the intellect ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  Our Demand and Need from the Gita

... of the Divine; and in some directions it is more immediately rich and fruitful, for it brings forward into the foreground along with divine knowledge, divine works and an enriched devotion of divine Love, the secrets also of the Hatha and Raja Yogas, the use of the body and of mental askesis for the opening up of the divine life on all its planes, to which the Gita gives only a passing and perfunctory ...

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Ambu's Correspondence with The Mother  >  6 June 1934

... 6 June 1934 My dear Baby, When a box is full you can put nothing in it so it is useless; it is much better to be like an empty box which can be filled with all the treasures of the divine Love and Light. With my blessings 6 June 1934 ...

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Images Of The Future  >  Images of the future

... the splendour of Day; they put them to death one after another so that only God would be. That is why they do not fear, when necessary, being among the condemned so as to receive and propagate the divine love. In fact, it has always been thus across the centuries and millennia. From religion to religion, we have broken the tabus of the past, and those who have done so have been counted among outlaws ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Overhead Poetry - Poems with Sri Aurobindo's Comment - 1

... together like the limbs of an organic body. It is high poetic style in its full perfection and nothing at all that is transferable. You have taken his last line and put in a lotus-face and made divine love bloom in it,—a pretty image, but how far from the glowing impassioned severity of the phrase: 'And mould Page 71 Thy love into a human face'!" To the poet himself: "The quotations ...

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Visions of Champaklal  >  Golden Waterfall

... covered, including its many open souls, by forces of darkness and obscurity, which are gradually van­quished with the appearance of a huge ball of dark red colour, symbolising the appearance of Divine Love. The “Waterfall” is a flow from the higher consciousness that dispels the hostile forces and paves the way for a “rainbow”—the sign of peace and deliverance. Finally, there is transparent golden ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  Give Yourself

... is lacking and should be increased; for this you must open yourself, and one opens oneself only if one gives oneself . Surely you are trying more or less consciously to draw the forces and the divine love towards you. The method is bad. Give yourself without calculating and without expecting anything in return, and then you will become capable of receiving. The Mother ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 1  >  Savitri in World Literature

... Page 471 is Beatrice herself, who leads Dante to the highest Heaven (Paradiso, in 33 cantos) where he has the vision climactic, the vision of "the infinite and motionless sea of divine love." Its theme, taken literally, is the condition of souls after death; for on this and around this the whole action of the work turns: considered allegorically, it is man who has freedom ...

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Champaklal Speaks  >  The Flower Sentences

... forerunners of transformation . 29.9.1929 With simple sincerity offer your vital being to the Divine and the realisation will begin. 2.10.1929 To an aspiration for the Divine Love , supported by faithfulness and sincerity in the vital , the Divine's Love will surely answer. 4.10.1929 The devotion that accompanies Radha's absolute consecration , this alone ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume I  >  Preface

... daughter disciple flowered out attaining their supreme goal. Their evolution was manyfaceted. The Integral Yoga embraces the whole of life. Indira Devi expressed her ultimate self surrender and divine love through poetry, songs, dance and service to her Guru. Sri Aurobindo asked her to write poetry in English that she had not attempted before. Her first poem "When day is done..." was acclaimed by Sri ...

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Sri Aurobindo came to Me  >  Messenger of the Incommunicable

... divinised so as to be a fit instrument and receptacle for the realisation of the Divine. It has its part in the Divine lila, even according to the Vaishanava sadhana in the joy and beauty of Divine Love. That does not mean that the body has to be valued for its own separate sake or that the creation of a divine body in a future evolution of the whole being has to be contemplated as an end and not ...

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Preparing for the Miraculous  >  10: Theodicy: “Nature does not Make Mistakes”

... noteworthy that it was the Great Mother’s second intervention which created the possibility of the manifestation to return to its Origin instead of having to remain forever separated from it. The divine Love which she poured into it would be incarnated in the progressive succession of the Avatars enabling and supporting the evolution. This Love would also create the presence of the soul, the divine Self ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  11: The Mother’s War

... reader may recall how in the Beginning the Universal Mother turned towards ‘the Lord’ and prayed that he should redeem what had gone wrong. At that moment the Lord ordered the Mother to infuse her divine Love into the manifestation. This resulted, on the one hand, in the creation of the Gods, on the other in ‘ensouling’ the manifestation – an ensoulment that on the occult side of the evolution has led ...

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Beyond Man  >  Chapter Twenty-four: The Transfer of Power

... organ and then again that other one that was affected. But fundamentally it was one continual crisis her body was experiencing, all those years. She really must have decided from beyond death and in divine Love to take this kind of agony upon her. ‘It’s not a joke,’ she said in English in the middle of a French conversation, but she had often noticed that it was Sri Aurobindo who spoke in English through ...

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Beyond Man  >  Chapter Twenty-five: The New Utopia: Auroville

... social evolution, when all individuals in the Unity-Consciousness will no longer be governed by a social authority but directly by the Godhead, in a concrete relation of unity with all others in divine Love. Any deviation from or resistance against this Order founded on divine Unity will then no longer be thinkable, it will be impossible. The Mother formulated it as follows: ‘The [ultimate and real] ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  16 November 1934

... fight and conquer." Accept me, my dear General, as Your humble soldier. I carry Your banner of Truth and Light. I accept no defeat. A decisive Victory is crowned upon You, my dear Mother. Divine Love is the Victor. Yes, my dear child, you are my good warrior and you will have your share in the Victory. With love and blessings always 16 November 1934 ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  27 December 1934

... receive You! You appear on the steps, and we begin this noise. My dear Mother, may a collective and concentrated will be created, a will consecrated to the Divine for the manifestation of the Divine Love. My very dear child, yes it is quite sure; if many could think and feel like you, things would become so much easier and so much time would be saved! All love to you 27 December 1934 ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  28 March 1935

... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 28 March 1935 My dear Mother, A full trust and confidence in the Divine Love saves a sadhak from all dangers and difficulties and gives him happiness, peace and joy. My dear Mother, grant me a force that brings an integral and complete self-giving to the Divine. Yes, it ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  26 August 1935

... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 26 August 1935 My dear Mother, Let me tell You that whoever opens himself to the Divine Love feels You very very concretely as the Mother. There comes a humility, a gentleness and a complete surrender and consecration to You. I am always with you, keeping you in my arms. Let nothing ...

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Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother  >  1 April 1963

... (Correspondence with Gautam Chawalla) Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother 1 April 1963 My child, today you will be born to Divine Love — the True Love. With my blessings 1 April 1963 ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  3: Explorations of the Occult

... in their work. If the world had to continue like this, it would never turn godlike, it would never become its divine Origin again. But when she emanated the gods, the Great Creatrix poured her divine Love into the dark Inconscient. It is this Love that is the driving force of the development of the world, of its evolution on the way back, or up, to its divinization. And as all forces are beings and ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  4: A Synthesis in the Making

... write: ‘Many times in the day and in the night it seems to me that I am, or rather that my consciousness is, concentrated entirely in my heart which is no longer an organ, not even a feeling, but the divine Love, impersonal, eternal; and being this Love I feel myself living at the centre of each thing upon the entire Earth, and at the same time I seem to stretch out immensely long, infinitely long arms and ...

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Chaitanya and Mira  >  Mira - Act One

... sobriety. MIRA ( smiling sweetly ) Forgive me, sire! For what I sang was not The gospel of madness but of the sober Soul's Discovery of the last Reality. Whose other name is Divine Love. And when This is borne home to our Radha-soul, she sings: "Austerities, virtues, learning, genius, pomp, Scholarship, prudence — these move not the heart Of the world's Unique Beloved ...

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Wager of Ambrosia  >  Obeisances to the Divine on the Battlefield

... mystery to all.  In a sequel to this supplication of Arjuna, Jnaneshwar writes: And lo, the wonder! As if the ocean rose up in waves under the full moon, the Lord let himself surge in divine love to satisfy the wish of his fond and very dear friend, exceptional as he was amidst others. When a person leaves behind the waking condition and enters into a dream state, he identifies himself in ...

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Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 3)  >  chapter 014

... spirit is an important part of yoga, but so also is the opening of the heart and the mind and the bodily consciousness to the soothing calm of the Divine Grace, the tranquillising tenderness of the Divine Love. The gradual natural evolving method lit up by the truth-instinct of that spontaneous sweetness and light and strength within us which is our individual soul - this is for us who follow Sri Aurobindo ...

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Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 1)  >  chapter 007

... The Mother remarked: "The Ashram is not a place of Justice, It is a place of Grace. If justice were done, who would deserve to be kept here?" All of us are allowed to be in the Ashram because the Divine Love overlooks our weaknesses. There can be no claim in this Yoga: we have to surrender ourselves to gain everything. Hasn't the Mother often declared: "Let me do your Yoga for you. All I am asking is: ...

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The Mother - Past-Present-Future  >  Prospects of the Physical Transformation

... withdrawing from her earthly sheath she has not abandoned her mission nor has she withdrawn merely because her children proved unworthy. Unworthy in many respects we all certainly have been, but the Divine Love is not offended by the unworthiness of its objects: it knows very well the nature of the stuff it deals with and it gives itself ceaselessly and will carry out what it has set its heart upon. The ...

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The Mother - Past-Present-Future  >  The Passing of the Mother

... her and Sri Aurobindo—once joint Avatars of the Supermind—working together from a greater coign of vantage, there should be no grief or despondency on losing sight of that marvellous embodiment of divine love and loveliness that the Mother was for ninety-five years upon earth. The integral transformation of the world's evolutionary life, down to its most material aspect, for which she toiled with the ...

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Amal-Kiran - Poet and Critic  >  Forerunner of the Divine Word

... of clay I supplicate: Speak to me heart to heart words intimate, And all Thy formless glory turn to love And mould Thy love into a human face. If Radha saw divine Love moulded in Krishna's face, why not Amal Kiran who saw it moulded in Sri Aurobindo's ? Anyway, here is Sri Aurobindo's own comment on the poem: "A very beautiful poem, one of the very ...

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Amal-Kiran - Poet and Critic  >  The Friend Who Impressed Me So Deeply

... together like the limbs of an organic body. It is high poetic style in its full perfection and nothing of all that is transferable. You have taken his last line and put in a lotus-face and made divine love bloom in it, - a pretty image, but how far from the glowing impassioned severity of phrase: 'And mould thy love into a human face!'" I shall pass by me constant and ready help plus en ...

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Beyond Man  >  Chapter Twenty-eight: The Caterpillar and the Butterfly

... never hoped that it wouldn’t take time?’ Satprem: ‘Well yes, of course.’ — The Mother: ‘But I have never believed that it could come quickly! … If the divine Consciousness, the divine Power, the divine Love, if the Truth would manifest too quickly upon the Earth, the Earth would be dissolved!’ (15 November 1967) ‘We think that this, this appearance [the Mother points to her body] … to the ordinary ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  01 January 1973

... things about the Matrimandir, I can dare to write knowing that you will understand me. Mother, I am neither an Ashramite nor an Aurovilian but a child of yours and a lover of the Divine Beauty, Divine Love, Divine Peace and the Supreme Truth. I am here because of you, your work and your Love. I remain your child in all Truth and Love. Huta ...

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My Savitri work with the Mother  >  21 February 1959

... deeper and more constant, we may unite always more, so that we may be Thy worthy servitors. Remove from us all egoism and mean pride, all covetousness and obscurity, so that all aflame with Thy divine love, we may be Thy torches in this world. O Lord, eternal Master, enlighten us, guide our steps, show us the way towards the realisation of Thy law, towards the accomplishment of Thy work O ...

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My Savitri work with the Mother  >  24 November 1957

... followed suit. The Message read: Who is the superman? He who can rise above this matter-regarding broken mental human unit and possess himself universalised and deified in a divine force, a divine love and joy and a divine knowledge. If thou keepest this limited human ego and thinkest thyself the superman, thou art but the fool of thy own pride, the plaything of thy own force and the instrument ...

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My Savitri work with the Mother  >  01 May 1960

... desires—I believed in an ideal, true and pure love that was service, devotion, unselfishness. But, alas, my mad dream never came true. I could not find my match, because my life was meant to receive the divine love which is incomparable, priceless." He said: "You give me quite a turn—you do fascinate me. You see, I wish to marry a girl for her inner quality and refined culture. I don't go in for flamboyance ...

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Letters on Yoga - I  >  The Descent of the Supermind

... Yogas that aim at a transformation of any kind except that of ignorance into knowledge. The idea varies,—sometimes a divine knowledge or power or else a divine purity or an ethical perfection or a divine love. What has to be overcome is the opposition of the Ignorance that does not want the transformation of the nature. If that can be overcome, then old spiritual ideas will not form an obstacle. ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Object of Knowledge

... through these to the Divine in things and divinely reply to it. Eliminate the falsity of the heart with its turbid passions and desires and its dual emotions; a deeper heart in us can open with its divine love for all creatures and its infinite passion and yearning for the responses of the Infinite. Eliminate the falsity of the thought with its imperfect mental constructions, its arrogant assertions and ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Integral Perfection

... action will effect is an integral conversion of our ethical being into the Truth and Right of the divine nature, of our intellectual into the illumination of divine knowledge, our emotional into the divine love and unity, our dynamic and volitional into a working of the divine power, our aesthetic into a plenary reception and a creative enjoyment of divine beauty, not excluding even in Page 621 ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Delight of the Divine

... The Yoga of Divine Love The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter VI The Delight of the Divine This then is the way of devotion and this its justification to the highest and the widest, the most integral knowledge, and we can now perceive what form and place it will take in an integral Yoga. Yoga is in essence the union of the soul with the immortal being and c ...

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The Life Divine  >  The Triple Transformation

... of pure self, silent, tranquil, illimitable; or it rises into regions of light or of felicity, or into planes where it feels an infinite Power or a divine Presence or experiences the contact of a divine Love or Beauty or the atmosphere of a wider and greater and luminous Knowledge. In the return the spiritual impression abides; but the mental record is often blurred and remains as a vague or a fragmentary ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Release from the Ego

... many forms or rather in many aspects and poises, Brahman acting upon Brahman, one Page 366 Nara-Narayana 3 everywhere. In that larger play of the Divine the joy of the relations of divine love also is possible without the lapse into the ego-sense,—just as the supreme state of human love likewise is described as the unity of one soul in two bodies. The ego-sense is not indispensable to ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Renunciation

... the race and the battle, unsullied whether by the joy of the world or by its suffering. The ecstasy of the divine Page 327 embrace will not abandon him because he obeys the impulse of divine love for God in humanity; or if it seems to draw back from him for a while, he knows by experience that it is to try and test him still farther so that some imperfection in his own way of meeting it may ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Oneness

... which now supports mind and body and becomes a figure of the all-blissful conscious-force of Sachchidananda. We have similarly to change our sensational and emotional mentality into a play of the divine Love and universal Delight; and we have to surcharge the intellect which seeks to know and will in us with the light of the divine Knowledge-Will until it is transformed into a figure of that higher and ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Samadhi

... return into any illusory or inferior state of existence. Samadhi is not so all-important in the Yoga of devotion, but it still has its place there as the swoon of being into which the ecstasy of divine love casts the soul. To enter into it is the supreme step of the ladder of Yogic practice in Rajayoga and Hathayoga. What then is the nature of Samadhi or the utility of its trance in an integral Yoga ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Higher and the Lower Knowledge

... that our mental, vital, physical existence shall become full of the divine nature. Our intelligent mentality is to become a play of the divine knowledge-will, our mental soul-life a play of the divine love and delight, our vitality a play of the divine life, our physical being a mould of the divine substance. This God-action in us is to be realised by an opening of ourselves to the divine gnosis and ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  Salvation through Works

... because in the solitude alone with the Eternal they can best develop their divine strength ( Brahmatej ) to use it for divine purposes. Once attained they pour it in a stream of divine knowledge or divine love over the world; such were Shankaracharya and Ramakrishna. Sometimes it is the sorrows & miseries of the world that find them in ease & felicity and drive them out, as Buddha & Christ were driven ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  Works, Devotion and Knowledge

... aspiration one adoration of him and self-surrender, to direct the whole self Godwards in an entire union is the way to rise out of a mundane into a divine existence. This is the Gita's teaching of divine love and devotion, in which knowledge, works and the heart's longing become one in a supreme unification, a merging of all their divergences, an intertwining of all their threads, a high fusion, a wide ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Divine Birth and Divine Works

... the divine nature in man above this lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He comes as the divine personality which shall fill the consciousness of the human being and replace the limited egoistic personality, so that it shall be liberated out of ego into infinity and ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Vision of the World-Spirit - Time the Destroyer

... creatures. But there is too the sterner aspect of his divine government of the world which meets us from the beginning, the aspect of destruction, and to ignore it is to miss the full reality of the divine Love and Peace and Calm and Eternity and even to throw on it an aspect of partiality and illusion, because the comforting exclusive form in which it is put is not borne out by the nature of the world ...

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Letters on Poetry and Art  >  Translation: Practice

... together like the limbs of an organic body. It is high poetic style in its full perfection and nothing of all that is transferable. You have taken his last line and put in a lotus face and made divine love bloom in it,—a pretty image, but how far from the glowing impassioned severity of phrase, "And mould thy love into a human face"! So with your মধুর গোপনে and the "heart to heart words intimate". ...

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Letters on Yoga - III  >  Colours

... nature of the red. Red (when it does not mean the light of the physical consciousness) indicates always some kind of Force or Power, but what power it is depends on the shade. Deep red is the Divine Love—rosy is the psychic love. The deep red is the light of the Power that descended before the 24th [ November 1933 ] for the transformation of the physical. The deep red light is a Light ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  Ego and Its Forms

... becomes the development, perfection, siddhi of the Divine Consciousness, its will and its instrumentation in this body—and that can only be when these things become secondary, and bhakti for the Divine, love for the Divine, oneness with the Divine in consciousness, will, heart and body, become the sole aim—the rest is then only the fulfilment of the Divine Will by the Divine Power. This attitude is ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  Dealing with Hostile Attacks

... intelligence, the same subconscious movements of the vital brought to the surface, the same irrational impulses pushing to the same action,—departure, renunciation of the soul's truth, refusal of the Divine Love and the Divine Call. It is the vital crisis, the test, the ordeal for you as for others—a test and ordeal which we would willingly spare to those who are with us but which they call on themselves ...

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Letters on Yoga - II  >  Combining Work, Meditation and Bhakti

... works taken from one and done by the universal or the supreme Mother or by the Divine Power controlling and acting from behind the heart. By constant reference of all one's will and works to the Divine, love and adoration grow, the psychic being comes forward. By the reference to the Power above we can come to feel it above and its descent and the opening to an increasing consciousness and knowledge ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  The Vital Element of Love

... again your own misunderstanding that you have erected between yourself and the Mother. The picture-flower which she sent to you in return for your peacock is the pomegranate-flower, the flower of Divine Love and I do not know what better answer you could have expected. Yet merely because you could Page 471 not recognise it in its reduced picture form, you jumped to the conclusion that the ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  The Right Way of Loving the Mother

... the usual vital feeling which men call by that name; for that is not love, but only a vital desire, an instinct of appropriation, the impulse to possess and monopolise. Not only is this not the divine Love, but it ought not to be allowed to mix in the least degree in the Yoga. The true love for the Divine is a self-giving, free of demand, full of submission and surrender; it makes no claim, imposes ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  The Mother's Love

... every day at Pranam she is trying to put a sustaining force upon him. He must learn to be very quiet in mind and vital and consecrate himself so that he may become conscious as well as receive. The Divine Love, unlike the human, is deep and vast and silent; one must become quiet and wide to be aware of it and reply to it. He must make it his whole object to be surrendered so that he may become a vessel ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  On His Published Prose Writings

... "There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realisation,—most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest abysses of Matter, the Ananda that holds the key of a wonderful divinest Life and even ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  His Temperament and Character

... is done—for it is in a transformed consciousness here and not only above where the Ananda always exists that I seek their base of permanence. 4 August 1934 The Burden of Love It is only divine love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine. The Gallio-like "Je m'en ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  Human Relations and the Ashram

... So the best answer to the question about the sadhana Page 722 (What is the place of sex in our sadhana?) is "No place". One must give up the sex-satisfaction and be satisfied with the Divine Love and Ananda. Sometimes I get the idea that I should talk and laugh and mix with women and touch them and yet remain free. This alone could be called true conquest. The idea you speak of is ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Understanding the Mother's Actions

... just the same way, which is about as impossible a thing as could be demanded in this world and would make all action and all direction of either work or sadhana impossible. The Mother extends the divine love and protection to all, but the form she gives to her action must vary with the different nature and need of each, the demands of the work, the necessities of their sadhana. The idea about Europeans ...

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Letters on Yoga - II  >  The Adwaita of Shankaracharya

... peace and freedom of the Spirit which can exist in itself, be there world or no world, world-order or world-disorder. Bhakti and the heart's call for the Divine have a truth—it is the truth of the divine Love and Ananda. The will for Tapasya has in it a truth—it is the truth of the Spirit's mastery over its members. The musician and poet stand for a truth, it is the truth of the expression of the Spirit ...

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Letters on Yoga - II  >  Christianity and Theosophy

... extracts 1 the true nature of the transformation spoken of here. It seems to be something mental and moral with the love of God and a certain kind of union in separateness brought about by this divine love as the spiritualising element. Love of God and union in separateness through that love and a transformation of the nature by realising certain mental, ethical, emotional, perhaps even physical ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  The Radha-Power

... Presences indispensable for the supramental realisation,—most of all one who is her Personality of that Page 72 mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest abysses of Matter, the Ananda that holds the key of a wonderful divinest Life and even ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  December 27, 1916

... Thy sublime love that it may radiate from there on the world. My heart is wide open in my breast; my heart is open and turned towards Thee, it is open and empty that Thou mayst fill it with Thy divine Love; it is empty of all but Thee and Thy presence fills it through and through and yet leaves it empty, for it can contain also all the infinite variety of the manifested world.... O Lord, my arms ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  April 28, 1917

... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother April 28, 1917 "Lo! here are flowers and benedictions! here is the smile of divine Love! It is without preferences and without repulsions. It streams out towards all in a generous flow and never takes back its marvellous gifts." Her arms outstretched in a gesture of ecstasy, the eternal Mother ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  The Sadhana of 1927-1929

... the Saraswati power in Y . 6 October 1934 Come down, Sir,—for heaven's sake give us something and make life more substantial and concrete. I am really beginning to doubt that things like divine Love, Knowledge, etc. can be brought down in me. In the old days long before you came 2 plenty of things were Page 274 brought down—including the love. Hardly one could bear it and ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  1 March 1951

... psychic, but the sense of the beauty of form, of appearance, of colour, the educated, refined vital fully possesses. And not love? That depends on what you mean by "love"! There would not be divine love there, naturally, but all passions, attractions, desires exist in the vital. Only, the quality of these movements has been completely changed due to the descent and diffusion of the divine Consciousness ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  February 11, 1914

... boldest and most dangerous. How simple everything is for him who sees all things from the height of Thy eternity! I hail Thee, O Lord, with a joyful and trusting devotion. May the peace of Thy divine love be with all beings. Page 71 ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  February 5, 1914

... Prayers and Meditations February 5, 1914 What could be said that is not always the very same aspiration: the law of divine love, the purest expression of what we can conceive of Thee, must be realised more and more upon earth and triumph over all ignorant egoism; we must become more and more perfectly the faithful servitors of that power of love and light ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  March 13, 1914

... says. Outside this state there are infinite grades of consciousness, going right down to complete darkness, the veritable inconscience which may be a domain yet untouched by the light of Thy divine Love (but this seems improbable in physical substance), or which is, for some kind of reason of ignorance, outside our individual range of perception. This is, however, only a way of speaking, and ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  March 20, 1914

... Prayers and Meditations March 20, 1914 Thou art consciousness and light, Thou art peace in the depth of all things, the divine love that transfigures, the knowledge that triumphs over darkness. To feel Thee and aspire to Thee one should have emerged from the immense sea of the subconscient, one should have begun to crystallise, to grow distinct so as to ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  May 9, 1914

... Thine so that Thou alone mayst be the will acting through this fragile and transient instrument. O my sweet Master, how ardently my love aspires to Thee.... Grant that I may be nothing but Thy Divine Love and that in every being this Love may awake, powerful and victorious. Let me be a vast mantle of love enveloping all the earth, entering all hearts, murmuring in every ear Thy divine message of ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  September 1, 1914

... world of misery and ignorance, when we saw our children locked in a sombre struggle, flung upon each other by energies that had deviated from their true aim, we willed ardently that the light of Divine Love should be made manifest, a transfiguring force at the centre of these distracted elements. Then, that the will might be yet more powerful and effective, we turned towards Thee, O unthinkable Supreme ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  3 May 1951

... all, there is nothing which is not divine in its origin and which does not exist here under a completely distorted, travestied form. The other day we had spoken at length about the way in which divine Love is deformed in its manifestation here, it is the same thing. How can money be reconquered for the Mother? Ah!...There is a hint here. Three things are interdependent (Sri Aurobindo says here): ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  16 November 1955

... manifested in the world, is obscurely seeking." Page 367 Yes. But you are not told anything about the love of riches or the love of power or the love of knowledge. You are told about the divine Love; it is not altogether the same thing. Nothing is said about enjoying ambition or desire or even aspiration; what is spoken of is the enjoying of the divine Presence. That's completely different; ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  25 July 1956

... Questions and Answers (1956) 25 July 1956 " It may be said that a complete act of divine love and worship has in it three parts that are the expressions of a single whole,―a practical worship of the Divine in the act, a symbol of worship in the form of the act expressing some vision and seeking or some relation ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  8 August 1956

... when it is only the austere spiritual will that follows in a struggling uplifting tension Page 251 the steep ascent, and the heart is still asleep or bound to silence. If the spirit of divine love can enter, the hardness of the way diminishes, the tension is lightened, there is a sweetness and joy even in the core of difficulty and struggle." The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 154-55 ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  3 April 1957

... " Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer; Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  22 March 1957

... know that very persistent efforts, a very steadfast endurance are necessary to master the least weakness, the least pettiness, the least meanness in one's nature. What is the use of talking about divine Love if one can't love without egoism? What is the use of talking about immortality if one is stubbornly attached to the past and the present and if one doesn't want to give anything in order to receive ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  25 August 1954

... There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realisation,—most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest abysses of Matter, the Ananda that holds the key of a wonderful divinest Life and even ...

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Guidance on Education  >  Teachers - Teaching

... Yes, try it is very much needed. Money seems to have become the Supreme Lord these days. Truth is receding in the background; as for Love it is quite out of sight! I mean Divine Love, because what human beings call love is a very good friend of money. Blessings. 13 June 1964 * Page 58 Mother, For giving true education you have said: ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 49

... on earth so that the effects are not shattering. Sri Aurobindo has explained this in one of his letters. Someone asked him, "Why does it not come immediately?" He answered something like this: if divine love were to manifest in its essence upon earth, it would be like a bombshell; because the earth is neither supple nor receptive enough to be able to widen itself to the dimensions of this love. It not ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 170, 171

... far from it. That is why the consciousness which is at work to transform mankind, unites Force with Love, and the One who must realise this transformation will come on earth with the Power of Divine Love. 10 October 1969 ...

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Notes on the Way  >  28 September 1966

... convinced of it, because as soon as you are within your inner being you look upon that with contempt (as regards oneself). But then, all of a sudden, when there comes this true Compassion of the Divine Love, and when one sees all these things that appear so horrible, so abnormal, so absurd, this great pain which is upon all beings and even upon all things... then there takes birth in this physical being ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  The True Aim of Life

... us to do is the only thing valid. 6 January 1973 What is lasting, eternal, immortal and infinite, that indeed is worth having, worth conquering, worth possessing. It is divine Light, divine Love, divine Life―it is also Supreme Peace, Perfect Joy and All-Mastery upon earth with the Complete Manifestation as the crowning. Page 8 ...

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Words of the Mother - I  >  Relations with Persons Outside the Ashram

... even behind our struggles and difficulties, but not accepting the nature of man and the world as it is―our aim is to move towards a by a greater and happier manifestation. That too is a labour of divine Love. 2 22 October 1933 What Sri Aurobindo has written is absolutely true and must be followed. There is only one new fact―from the beginning of this year a new consciousness has manifested ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  Endurance

... is to endure. 20 August 1954 The victory is to the most enduring. 6 September 1954 Endure and you will triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. And with the Grace and divine love nothing is impossible. My force and love are with you. At the end of the struggle there is Victory. 7 January 1966 In silent endurance, one step forward towards victory with the ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  March 6, 1914

... March 6, 1914 Geneva After having suffered acutely from their suffering, I turned towards Thee, trying to heal it by infusing into it a little of that divine Love which is the source of all peace and all happiness. We must not run away from suffering, we must not love and cultivate it either, we must learn how to go deep down into it sufficiently to turn it ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  March 1, 1914

... lead the most ascetic life, yet if some bond of illusion held back our consciousness far from Thy absolute Consciousness, if some egoistic attachment cut us off from the integral communion with Thy divine Love, we would be no nearer Thee despite all outer circumstances. Can any circumstances be considered more or less favourable? I doubt it; it is the idea we have about them which enables us to profit ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  February 19, 1914

... and negligence. Oh! to become Thy living love so powerfully as to transfigure and illumine all things, so completely as to awaken peace and benevolent satisfaction in all. Oh, to become Thy divine love, pure and clear-sighted, to be that always and everywhere!... Page 78 ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  April 7, 1914

... completely enough to be nothing but an instrument moulded solely by the forces it has to manifest? When will my consciousness of unity be no longer tinged with any inertia; when will my feeling of divine love be no longer mixed with any weakness? O Lord, all thought seems dead within me, now that I have asked these questions. I search for my conscious mind and I do not find it; I search for my ind ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  April 3, 1914

... rises from my heart, it seems to me that I have at last reached the threshold I sought so much. Page 116 Grant, O Lord, that I may be sufficiently pure, impersonal, animated with Thy divine love to be able to cross it definitively. Oh, to belong to Thee without any darkness, without any restriction! Page 117 ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  April 13, 1914

... its very purpose will be to enable the greatest possible number of beings to perceive Thee. Oh, may all know Thee, love Thee, serve Thee; may all receive the supreme consecration! O Love, divine Love, spread abroad in the world, regenerate life, enlighten the intelligence, break the barriers of egoism, scatter the obstacles of ignorance, shine resplendent as sovereign Master of the earth. ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  June 1, 1914

... Prayers and Meditations June 1, 1914 O vivtorious power of divine Love, Thou art the sovereign Master of this universe, Thou art its creator and its saviour, Thou hast permitted it to emerge from chaos, and now Thou leadest it to its eternal goal. There is not a thing so humble but in it I see Thee resplendent, not a being apparently so hostile to Thy ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  December 25, 1916

... sublime felicity that accompanies this inexhaustible expansion of love; for love is sufficient unto itself and needs no reciprocity; this is true even of individual love, how much more true then of divine love which so nobly reflects the infinite. "Be this love in all things and everywhere, ever more widely, ever more intensely, and the whole world will become at the same time thy work and thy wealth ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  November 3, 1912

... November 3, 1912 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. Let Thy Light be in me like a Fire that makes all alive; let Thy divine Love penetrate me. I aspire with all my being for Thy reign as sovereign and master of my mind and heart and body; let them be Thy docile instruments and Thy faithful servitors. Page 3 ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  April 28, 1917

... least of my external activities, in the smallest recesses of my heart and of my action. I salute Thee, O Lord, deliverer of beings! "Lo! here are flowers and benedictions! here is the smile of divine Love! It is without preferences and without repulsions. It streams out towards all in a generous flow and never takes back its marvellous gifts!" Her arms outstretched in a gesture of ecstasy, the ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 103, 104, 105, 106, 107

... upon yourself a necessity, the necessity for a violent impulsion—to react to something violent. ( Silence ) This is an experience I am having more and more: for the contact with this true divine Love to be able to manifest, that is, to express itself freely, it demands an extraordinary strength in beings and things, which does not yet exist. Otherwise everything falls apart. There are lots ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 139

... Aphorism - 139 139—Who is the superman? He who can rise above this matter-regarding broken mental human unit and possess himself universalised and deified in a divine force, a divine love and joy and a divine knowledge. The superman is now in the making and a new consciousness has very recently manifested on earth to bring this process to perfection. But it is unlikely that ...

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More Answers from the Mother  >  Series Five (1960 - 1973)

... Blessings. 2 July 1971 The victory is the one that we must win over ourselves so that we belong to the Divine alone. Love. 29 September 1971 In the creation Mahakali manifests the divine love; but so powerful and sublime is this love that most men are afraid of it. 18 October 1971 We are on earth in order to progress and to perfect ourselves in the course of many successive lives ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  April 25, 1961

... I said—well, well! Here's a person who's dead now, but she was the disciple of a Tibetan Buddhist lama and considered a very great spiritual leader, and she writes, 'Christ is the incarnation of divine love on earth.' And that's that. 'And the world will be transformed when Christ is reborn, when he comes back to earth.' But why the devil does she put 'Christ'? Because she was born Christian?... It's ...

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Some Answers from the Mother  >  Letters to a Student (2)

... symbolically, during the hours before midnight the sun is setting, while from the first hour after midnight it begins to rise. Blessings. 22 August 1969 There is only one love, the Divine Love, eternal, universal, equal for everyone and everything. It is man (the human being) who calls all kinds of feelings "love": all the desires, attractions, vital exchanges, sexual relations, attachments ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  December 16, 1961

... you understand (the other part of the being is quite all right)—the body is in this state. All the rest is very happy—very happy, in perpetual joy and eurythmy ( gesture of great waves ), feeling divine Love (not Love as such... I don't know how to say it): this Love without object, this Love which is neither 'originated' nor 'received'—without object, without cause or origin. It's the feeling of floating ...

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More Answers from the Mother  >  Series Six (1961 - 1968)

... had is just the one I wanted for you, and it came in the way I expected. Keep it, and let it grow steadily, so that it remains with you for ever. As for the recent happenings, fear nothing. The Divine Love is the essence of Truth and cannot be affected by the human confusions. Clouds come and clouds go but the Sun of Truth never stops shining. With love and blessings. 7 June 1962 ( The ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  October 8, 1956

... change. ( later, at 1 p.m. ) Won't you at least take a flower? I wanted to take this little rose ( 'Tenderness for the Divine' ), for I consider it to be the manifestation nearest to divine Love. It's disinterested, spontaneous, intimate. This is what I wanted to take with me to my super-heaven, as the most precious thing in the human heart. Page 91 ...

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More Answers from the Mother  >  Series Three (1938 - 1971)

... seriously? I wonder. Yes, try—it is very much needed. Money seems to have become the Supreme Lord these days. Truth is receding in the background; as for Love it is quite out of sight! I mean Divine Love, because what human beings call love is a very good friend of money. Blessings. 13 June 1964 Page 237 Mother, Now one question, if you care to reply. Each time that ...

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Some Answers from the Mother  >  Letters to a Young Captain (1961-1970)

... is very necessary! 3 June 1964 Page 296 (Regarding love) How can one direct this human love towards the ideal love, the true love? There is only one true love—it is the Divine Love; all other loves are diminutions, limitations and deformations of that Love. Even the love of the bhakta for his God is a diminution and often is tainted by egoism. But as one tends quite naturally ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  The Soul (the Psychic)

... Page 331 Live in the consciousness of the psychic centre; thus your will will express the Divine's Will alone and your transformed being will then be able to receive and manifest the Divine Love. 25 September 1934 The centre of the human being is the psychic which is the dwelling-place of the immanent Divine. Unification means organisation and harmonisation of all the parts of ...

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Words of the Mother - III  >  Transformation

... Silence all outside noise, aspire for the Divine's help; open integrally to it then it comes and surrender to its action, and it will effectively bring about your transformation. With the Divine Love is the supreme power of Transformation. With the Divine's Love is the power of Transformation. It has this power because it is for the sake of Transformation that it has given itself to the ...

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Words of the Mother - III  >  Messages for the Supramental Manifestation upon Earth

... Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow. Written in 1956 Page 188 1968 Truth alone can give to the world the power of receiving and manifesting the Divine Love. 1972 It is only when the Supramental manifests in the body-mind that its presence can be permanent. ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1965  >  July 10, 1965

... an idiot. If it were just for me, I would give them a good thrashing! But I am asked not to do it, so I don't do it. But I do feel that before the eyes of this wonderful Grace—of this resplendent divine Love and this omnipotent Power—we are deeply ridiculous, that's all. ( silence ) There are also mischievous spirits. Mischievous spirits that come Page 171 and suggest all kinds of things ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1965  >  June 23, 1965

... to the residents. So in that park I had seen the "Pavilion of Love" (but I don't like to use that word because men have turned it into something ludicrous); I am referring to the principle of divine Love. But it has been changed: it will be the "Pavilion of the Mother"; but not this ( Mother points to herself ): the Mother, the true Mother, the principle of the Mother. (I say "Mother" because Sri ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1964  >  September 16, 1964

... just that you attract a necessity, the necessity of a violent impulse—of a reaction to a violence. ( silence ) It's an experience I have more and more clearly: for the contact with that true divine Love to be able to manifest, that is, to express itself freely, it requires a POWER in beings and in things... which doesn't exist yet. Otherwise, everything breaks apart. There are scores of very ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1965  >  June 5, 1965

... to me. So I answered, because it's true: "...one is always a virgin every time one awakens to a new love, for in each case it is a new part of the being, a new state of being that awakens to divine Love." I wrote it, but didn't send it. Another note: "People, in their blindness, leave the light... ( Mother takes over ) which they are used to, in order to go to the darkness ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1964  >  February 22, 1964

... are used to receiving through infiltration and a radical descent is a tremendous one. Several times in his letters, Sri Aurobindo wrote that if the higher Light were to descend abruptly, or if divine Love were to descend abruptly, without preparation... the matter would be shattered . It appears to be quite true! ( silence ) Even now ( Mother touches her hands and fingers ), one feels... not ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1969  >  December 17, 1969

... possible, very universal. LOVE is self-giving without asking for anything in exchange. I repeat, it's not at all on this plane ( gesture below ), because it was... the exact definition of divine Love as it acts. Then the two dark things: MEANNESS is a weakness that calculates and... ( laughing ) demands from others the virtues one does not have. SELFISHNESS is to put oneself at the ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1968  >  February 3, 1968

... immense ocean of luminous consciousness, and so powerful! Tremendously powerful. And something so sweet at the same time, so compassionate, but causeless—there was no cause: just like that. Like Divine Love which is without object, it's like that. So this body starts floating in that, lighter and lighter, more and more transparent, and still remains... the impression is of bark, but not even all over ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1967  >  December 20, 1967

... triumph of the Truth." So to the superficial mind ... On our part, we know it's true because, as Sri Aurobindo said, the Truth has to be truly established Page 409 and to reign for Divine Love to be able to manifest in all its power and glory without ... without demolishing everything. Sri Aurobindo put it even more strongly, he said it would "destroy" everything. So that's the message ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1968  >  November 2, 1968

... ( long silence ) One wonders what it will take to shake all this? ( Mother goes again into a meditation, then gives a start ) Page 301 There was in my hand a vase containing Divine Love [pomegranate] flowers; I wanted to hand it to you, and when it came above my knees... Did you see that movement? Yes. It was the vase falling on my knees. It didn't fall on the floor, it ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1971  >  November 27, 1971

... her forehead in her hands ) Page 308 "The Divine has an equal love for all human beings, but it is the obscurity of consciousness of most men which prevents them from perceiving this divine love...." I said it, and then the experience came, the experience I just told you: "...Truth is wonderful. It is in our perception that it is distorted." Yes, as if all of a sudden.. ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973  >  January 1, 1972

... January Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 January 1, 1972 Happy New Year, mon petit! ( Mother takes Satprem's hands. He offers her a "Divine Love." 1 She then distributes some presents. ) You saw Indira's letter, I showed it to you.... Yes, Mother, I noted it down. They're becoming conscious up there, some very interesting things are happening ...

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Blake's Tyger  >  The Miltonic Basis of the Poem

... remains Miltonic when he is face to face with 57. Keynes, ed. cit . , pp. 1 49- 1 50 ( The Marriage of Heaven and Hell , pls. 3. 4, 5-6) 58. Ibid . , p. 90 ( Annotations to Swedenborg's Divine Love ). 59. Ibid . , p . 495 ( Milton , I, 14, 11 . 1 -2 ) . 60. Ibid . , p . 482 ( ibid . . I, 3, 11 .3-4). 61 . Ibid . , p . 48 1 ( ibid . , I , 2 , 1 . 12 ) . cf. Paradise Lost ...

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Aspects of Sri Aurobindo  >  A Gross Misunderstanding of Sri Aurobindo

... too is necessary for my work and one has to face it." 2 Let me cite also some other words to bring home to Nair's unseeing mind the character of the work Sri Aurobindo undertook: "It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine. The Gallio-like 'Je m'en ...

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My Savitri work with the Mother  >  01 September 1965

... we had a peaceful meditation. After that the Mother looked at me for quite a long time. Then suddenly she spread her arms and took me into them—she kissed my forehead and cheeks. It was a perfect Divine Love. She promised me: Child, henceforth everything will come automatically—spontaneously through your hand. My Inspiration will hover over your head. When you invoke it, it will come. Despite ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy And Yoga - Some Aspects  >  Essence Of Life

... much clash, conflict and bitter struggle in their daily and ephemeral lives. You know very well that those who have realised their real Selves like the sages I have mentioned above are full of divine Love because they live in their Selves and not in division as all the rest of the creatures, human, beasts, birds, reptiles, worms Page 64 etc. do. When T3ine sees the One Self ...

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Sri Krishna In Brindavan  >  Exile of Sri Krishna in Brindavan

... the life of Sri Krishna be contained in this small monograph, the purpose of which is only to depict Sri Krishna's exile to Brindavan? That episode of Sri Krishna's life gave birth to the Path of Divine Love. That Path has stirred millions to seek in their hearts, the unutterable love of the gopis and of Radha, and to strive to hear the flute of Sri Krishna, to allow its music and its divine call to ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  November 1936

... to be done. Yes, that is the proper way. But aspiration for what? Aspiration for the Divine or aspiration for faith and consciousness and the perfection of self-giving—aspiration for divine love, bhakti, anything that connects the soul with the Divine. Does the psychic come to the front even if the vital is impure? Well, it may; anything is possible; but if it does, it will certainly ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  21 NOVEMBER 1939

... does one seek human love after taking up Yoga?" SRI AUROBINDO: But is the man conscious of the Divine? If he is, either of two things may happen. All human relations may fall off or, keeping the divine love, he may keep human love as an appendage trying to raise it towards the Divine. I am not speaking of sex relations. NIRODBARAN: He may have faith that here is the Divine. SRI AUROBINDO: Faith ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  19 NOVEMBER 1939

... and aspiration? SRI AUROBINDO: I meant true love, not vital love with desire and possessiveness, or physical love. That of course can't be—though Blake says the physical act of love is part of divine love or its fulfilment. If it is true love with a psychic or higher element in it, then it helps to awaken the Divine in oneself or bring a high uplifting of one's nature. I said there "love and adoration" ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 3  >  Part-V

... n unless they are constitutional, when they will be there for other things also, not for women only.   What is sublimation of sex as some people put it? If the sex seeks the Divine Love and Ananda, it must be the Page 124 sex that gets it - the sex impulse changed from a lower into a higher anandamaya sex impulse. That or mostly like it is what people mean ...

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Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo  >  Laughter Of The Gods

... of God and found the very rasa which is at the root of things. His love and compassion flowed towards all men and creatures like a life-giving ocean. He said in one of his letters: "It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine. The Gallio-like 'Je m'en ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy And Yoga - Some Aspects  >  Evolutionary Types - Religious and Spiritual Man

... the Divine are rare and hard to find anywhere in the Page 35 world. Their presence helps to uplift humanity by setting examples of egoless ness, disinterested work, truth and divine love and compassion before the rest of humanity. Men are confined to their ego-consciousness which ties them down to their narrow and ignorant body-mind life complex and separates them from all other ...

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My Savitri work with the Mother  >  17 November 1961

... the undying rapture's boon: Offered to the daughter of infinity Her passion flower of love and doom she gave. || 2.8 || Here I perceived that Savitri brought the gift of Divine Grace and Divine Love but the Earth rejected it and on her part gave Savitri the opposite. ...

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The Story of a Soul  >  27 September 1954

... heart! You will not disappoint me, will You? Compassionate Mother, bring a marvellous transformation to my life so that I may forget my past, forget everyone. And fill this life of mine with Divine Love and Truth. I am waiting for that auspicious day. Mother, will You be gracious now? I have been wandering and groping in the desert of time. Be my Oasis! You have given me a woman's form ...

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The Story of a Soul  >  12 February 1955

... my departure for good. In the course of our conversation I asked the Mother, "What are the important points of this Integral Yoga? What should I do?" She smiled and replied, "Have faith in the Divine, love the Divine, and develop the consciousness." She saw the confusion in my mind, and patting my hands assured me that she would see me through. Tears of gratitude sprang to my eyes. I pulled the ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  Hymn to the Mother

... About the symbolism Sri Aurobindo wrote: "The Bird of Fire is the living vehicle of the gold fire of the Divine Light and the white fire of the Divine Tapas and the crimson fire of the Divine Love — and everything else of the Divine Consciousness." Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Six Poems - Notes ============= ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  Thought the Paraclete

... Human Relations and the Spiritual Life In connection with the China rose the Mother has revealed: I wanted to take this little rose, for I consider it to be the manifestation nearest to divine Love. It is disinterested, spontaneous, intimate. This is what I wanted to take with me to my super-heaven, as the most precious thing in the human heart. The Mother, Mother's Agenda — 1951-1960: ...

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Child, Teacher and Teacher Education  >  Philosophy of Spiritual Education 3

... the culmination of sagehood; he was, again, dynamic and heroic, since he battled from early boyhood and throughout his life for the upholding of justice and unity of people; and he was full of divine love, which has been sung as an immortal theme of harmonious unity, duality and multiplicity; and he readily agreed to serve with consummate skill as the charioteer of his friend and disciple, Arjuna ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  The Conquest of Self-love

... transform you." (lbid., pp.2-3) We recall here the words uttered by Bellecius in his Solid Vir-tue: "Self-love is the rival, adversary and sworn enemy of the love of the Divine. Divine love cannot enter our heart unless self-love is banished thence." But the question of questions is: "How to do it". Here is Sri Aurobindo' s prescription: "The remedy is to think constantly ...

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Varieties of Yogic Experience and Integral Realisation  >  Appendix

... effect of the "madness” being that in all things she is able to see nothing but forms of Krishna —,the ultimate Spirit of the universe. The Realisation of God in all things by the Vision of Divine Love. 1. Seated, she caresses Earth and cries, "This earth is Vishnu's"; Salutes the sky and bids us "behold the Heaven He ruleth"; Or standing with tear-filled eyes cries aloud, "O sea ...

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The Gita and its Synthesis of Yoga  >  Part Three

... Immutable, akśara, which is above the three gunas, but also the method of rising above the lower nature in which the operations of the higher nature are manifested in the form of divine knowledge, divine love, and divine works founded on the spiritual universality. It is this which is emphasized in the twelfth chapter when it speaks of those who are not only dear, but also exceedingly dear to the Supreme ...

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Varieties of Yogic Experience and Integral Realisation  >  A Synoptic Note

... three instruments are our cognitive faculties, affective faculties, and conative faculties. The processes of Jnana yoga are more easily woven into cognitive faculties, those of the yoga of Bhakti or divine love are more easily woven into our affective faculties, and those of Karma yoga or yoga of divine works are woven more easily into our conative faculties. This weaving is done, first, by some kind of ...

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Gods and the World  >  The Colloquy of Indra and Agastya

... terrible struggle towards the goal. Indra replies that Agastya is his friend and brother, brother in the soul as children of one Supreme Being, friend as comrades in a common effort and One in the divine love that unites God and man, and by this friendship and alliance has attained to the present stage in his progressive perfection; but now he treats Indra as an inferior Power and wishes to go beyond ...

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Indian Identity and Cultural Continuity  >  Philosophy of Indianness

... always present; into the fourth period India had, even while getting exhausted, a kind of rejuvenation with the birth of a number of Indian languages and new religions of Bhakti and submission to Divine Love and Will. We must examine these periods and arrive at our own impartial judgement of India's Indianness. In broad terms, it can be stated that Indian spirit and Indian temperament have manifested ...

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Significance of Indian Yoga  >  An Overview-4

... this, the Supreme, which becomes the Jiva and by which this world is upheld." 71 If we study this in conjunction with the doctrine of the three Purushas, we get the basis of the path of Divine Love and also its synthesis with the path of knowledge and path of works. Says Sri Krishna: "There are two Purushas in the world, the kshara and Page 45 the akshara. Kshara is the ...

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Integral Yoga of Transformation  >  Part Seven

... psychic being, at a suitable stage of human evolution, begins to come forward more openly and sovereignly on the surface consciousness and takes recourse to the path of knowledge, divine work and divine love, even so, it brings out more and more effectively its own divine nature, swabhava, and stamps it more and more visibly on the satwic, rajasic and tamasic personality. It is then that one recognizes ...

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Talks by Nirodbaran  >  6 August 1969

... this battle! We must have fought, we must have killed, we must have been killed, we symbolizing the individual souls who are all in love with the One Krishna. 'Rasa Lila' (the play of Divine Love) is a symbol of this spiritual play of love, of the One Krishna having infinite relations with all individual souls. 128Sir, in Bengali. 129O Friend, my Friend. Page 87 ...

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A Vision of United India  >  Hindu-Muslim unity

... Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection. Christianity gave him Page 180 some vision of Divine love and charity, Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler and purer; Judaism and Islam, how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him ...

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The Supreme  >  The Transformation of the Body

... unwavering Peace, and I charge it with the Luminous Power of the Divine Reality. In this way it becomes complete in all the aspects of the Lord: the Light with His knowledge, the Joy that brings the Divine Love, the Peace with its Perfect Serenity, and the Power to endure eternally until it dissolves itself in the Supreme Will. This is how I work. And I charge each cell with this Divine Consciousness and ...

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The Supreme  >  The Luminous Gaze of the Supreme

... prepare him so as to communicate with his soul. That is how I communicate with his soul. You understand, it is my gaze which sees, prepares the instrument, then consents to bless in order to pour the divine love. In a glance I do all this. Well, you know, my eyes reflect the Soul, bring forth all the qualities of the soul in its divine purity. They are transparent and lucid, they radiate light and joy ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1  >  THE MOTHER AND HER WORKING

... is accepted as the Guru.         I must increase my knowledge about the Mother so that I may be able to understand Her more and more. What is the meaning of "Radha"?       Radha is Divine Love and Ananda (the word means adoration and also delight).         You often speak of "the Mother's Force". What is it?       The Mother's force is the manifestation of the Mother herself ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10  >  Go through

... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10 XIII Go through It is said one must be free from human love if one is to enjoy Divine Love. But to be free is usually taken to mean to reject, to reject naturally by force, that is to say, to coerce, to repress and suppress. "But who can coerce a force of Nature?" the Gita asks. Indeed a force of Nature like human ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 2  >  Goethe

... God's love for man. And the soul meant for perdition and about to be seized and carried away by Satan finds itself suddenly free and lifted up and borne by Heaven's messengers. Human Jove is divine love itself in earthly form and figure and whatever its apparent aberrations it is in soul and substance that thing. Satan is hoisted with his own petard. That is God's irony. But Goethe's Satan seems ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Beyond Vedanta

... Thee." Still the Vaishnava love in its concrete reality is a mani­festation in a subtle world, the world of an inner physical consciousness. Therefore one more step has to be taken when the Divine Love will incarnate in its integral and absolute reality upon this physical earth in a concretely material frame. Page 183 ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Go Through

... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 Go Through IT is said one must be free from human love if one is to enjoy Divine Love. But to be free is usually taken to mean to reject, to reject naturally by force, that is to say, to coerce, to repress and suppress. "But who can coerce a force of Nature?" the Gita asks. Indeed a force of Nature like ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10  >  Beyond Vedanta

... love in its concrete reality is a manifestation Page 11 in a subtle world, the world of an inner physical consciousness. Therefore one more step has to be taken when the Divine Love will incarnate in its integral and absolute reality upon this physical earth in a concretely material frame. Page 12 ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 2  >  Walter Hilton

... Does not the Gita too say: "As one approaches Me, so do I appear to him." Ye yathā mām prapadyante. Indeed, it would be interesting to compare and contrast the Eastern and Western approach to Divine Love, the Christian and the Vaishnava, for example. Indian spirituality, whatever its outer form or credal formulation, has always a background of utter unity. This unity, again, is threefold or triune ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 6  >  Notes on Savitri

... The whole thing refers to the New Creation coming down from above – now down into the psycho-vital or physico-­vital or even the subtle physical plane. This New Crea­tion is the creation of the Divine Love – the Mother's Love. Morning Star – Venus, Goddess of Love – embodying New Creation. Amber colour representing a particular plane of con­sciousness. Yellow + red + a touch of brown – physico-vital ...

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Integral Yoga - Major Aims, Methods, Processes and Results  >  PART ONE

... hand, that Life-Force cannot be regenerated radically without the descent of the infallible light of the supermind. Even if one can succeed in arriving at purity of the states of knowledge and of divine love by the pursuit of Jnana Yoga and Bhakti Yoga, the demands of the Life-Force will oblige the seeker to deal with the impurities and dualities of the ego-consciousness which seem to be inextricably ...

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A Pilgrims Quest for the Highest and the Best  >  Supermind in the Veda and the Aim of Immortality

... of the Divine; and in some directions it is more immediately rich and fruitful, for it brings forward into the foreground along with divine knowledge, divine works and an enriched devotion of divine Love, the secrets also of the Hatha and Raja Yogas, the use of the body and of mental askesis for the opening up of the divine life on all its planes, to which the Gita gives only a passing and perfunctory ...

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A Pilgrims Quest for the Highest and the Best  >  Ethics,Religion and Yoga

... liberation but action can never be itself the instrument of liberation. The exclusive path of Karma yoga tends to assign supreme importance to divine action rather than to divine knowledge or divine love. These conflicts became prominent in India soon after the period of the original and esoteric system of the Vedic synthesis of yoga and they have continued to fuel controversies right up to the ...

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A Pilgrims Quest for the Highest and the Best  >  Another Line of Inquiry

... "Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities...." 43 ...

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Landmarks of Hinduism  >  Significant Features of Hinduism

... and austerer ideals of dharma. The third stage, the loftiest stage of spiritual evolution, goes beyond all symbols and middle significances in order to arrive at the absolute and universal divine love, the beauty of All-beautiful, noblest dharma of unity with all beings, universal compassion and benevolence, the upsurge of the psychical being into the spiritual ecstasy. It is here that Hinduism ...

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The Veda and Indian Culture  >  The Ancient Book of Wisdom

... the stuff of consciousness can be controlled and brought to a state of complete stillness in which the Object of Knowledge stands out clearly and luminously. The Yoga of Knowledge, the Yoga of Divine Love and the Yoga of Action took up, respectively, the workings of cognition, affection and conation, and arrived at extraordinary experiences of higher levels of consciousness and their corresponding ...

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Sri Aurobindo and Integral Yoga  >  Appendix

... of the Divine; and in some directions it is more immediately rich and fruitful, for it brings forward into the foreground along with divine knowledge, divine works and an enriched devotion of divine Love, the secrets also of the Hatha and Raja Yogas, the use of the body and of mental askesis for the opening up of the divine life on all its planes, to which the Gita gives only a passing and perfunctory ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 7  >  Lines of Tantra

... the Vedantins stop with the realisation of the Ananda plane; saccidananda has been their limit. But these Siddhacharyas of the esoteric cult have passed beyond the realm of Delight to that of Divine Love; this Love too has changed from an inner experience to a divine Passion and Joy in the physical body. In other words, they have arrived at the experience of bodily delight with the full consciousness ...

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By The Way - Part III  >  P-143 to 189

... (Love Divine. With love we fight. For love we conquer. Through love we transform. In love we realise.) Page 167 (To Pranab. The divine love and affection wishes you Bonne Fête and Bonne Année.) Page 168 (To Pranab. Let the Divine's Love be with you at every moment and in everything.) Page 169 ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - An Approach And A Study  >  Introduction

... not only poets like Blake and others in the past have resorted to the symbol but that many of the modem poets have used it effectively. Francis Thom- son's The Hound of Heaven is symbolic of the Divine Love pursuing insistently its victim, the human soul. W. B. Yeats and AE in their poems and dramas make profuse use of ancient Irish legends which are symbolic: Deirdre, Countess Catheleen, Unicorn from ...

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Sri Aurobindo - His Life Unique  >  Sri Aurobindo in Baroda

... prapadyante tamstathaiva bhajdmyaham" (as they approach me so do I respond). — Tilak (written to the editor of the Young India). Page 124 to act as saints, to rise to the height of divine love and practise it in relation to their adversaries or oppressors is to ignore human nature. It is to set a premium on injustice and violence by paralysing the hand of the deliverer when raised to strike ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  Physical Transformation

... leading to the establishment of the divine life on earth. On more or less the same subject, the Mother says in The Supreme Discovery: "Let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love and give up to Him, without reservation, this marvellous instrument, our material organism. He will make it produce its maximum on every plane of activity.” The stress is, as always, on the physical ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  The Soul or the Psychic-1

... of universal love. "Live in the consciousness of the psychic centre, thus your will shall express the Divine’s Will alone and your transformed being will then be able to receive and manifest the Divine Love.”¹ What we know as faith in the Divine Presence everywhere and the Divine's power to heal and redeem all, is a gift of the psychic. It is nothing irrational or superstitious, as the callow ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  The Goal of Human life

... painful and miserable seems to me their life of ignorance and obscurity, their life of foolish agitation and profitless dissipation, when a single spark of Thy sublime light, a single drop of Thy divine love can transform this suffering into an ocean of joy /" ² "Give peace and light to them all, O Lord; open their blinded eyes and their obscured understanding; calm their useless torments and ...

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Life of Sri Aurobindo  >  Bibliography

... Synthesis; Part I: The Yoga of Divine Works; Part II: The Yoga of Integral Knowledge. Volume 21 The Synthesis of Yoga , PARTS THREE AND FOUR. Part III: The Yoga of Divine Love; Part IV: The Yoga of Self-Perfection. Volume 22 Letters on Yoga, Part One: The Supramental Evolution; Integral Yoga and Other Paths; Religion, Morality, Idealism ...

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Moments Eternal  >  Memories

... being too, by reading this writing of Sri Aurobindo, would become vast and fill with ananda . It was from then that an irresistible eagerness to know Sri Aurobindo was born in us. This same divine love and forgiveness lay at the root of Sri Chaitanyadev’s transformation of Jagai and Madhai’s nature. With thy pitcher thou hast hit me For that, shall I not love thee? I still remember ...

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Moments Eternal  >  The Four Aspects of the Mother

... flowers in zari (golden thread). She gave everyone flowers as blessings. Inside the small envelope there were dried petals of the pomegranate flower ( Divine’s Love ). The Mother used to shower this divine Love on us on this special day. On this special day the Mother used to bring down Mahakali. Mahakali was seated within the Mother. And unknowingly we would all feel a little of the different aspects of ...

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Sri Aurobindo - some aspects of His Vision  >  The Life Divine : Some Aspects

... erect their structured dreams: An unborn Power must build reality. 8 Supermind brings to birth that unborn Power. Is it only Power ? It is much more; listen to the voice of the maternal Divine Love. "0 beloved children, sorrowful and ignorant and thou, 0 rebellious and violent Nature, open your hearts, tranquillise your force, it is the omnipotence of Love that is coming to you ...

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Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history  >  Karmayogin

... satisfying the spiritual being or in advancing the growth of spirituality in the race: Spirituality is a single word expressive of three lines of human aspiration towards divine knowledge, divine love and joy, divine strength, and that will be the highest and most perfect Art which, while satisfying the physical requirements of the aesthetic sense, the laws of formal beauty, the emotional demand ...

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Notebooks of an Apocalypse 1978-1982

... clasp you in my arms, we continue. The Victory is in every pure little gesture. With tenderness to all my brothers and sisters Satprem Page 19 I still have with me the Divine Love 2 that you gave me when I left... I'll come back.   April 4, 1978 Registered letter from Andre Morisset to the Institute. Our white pigeon chased by blackbirds and drowned in the septic ...

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On The Mother  >  Launching the Arya

... world of misery and ignorance, when we saw our children locked in a sombre struggle, flung upon each other by energies that had deviated from their true aim, we willed ardently that the light of Divine Love should be made manifest, a transfiguring force at the centre of these distracted elements. Then, that the will might be yet more powerful and effective, we turned towards Thee, O unthinkable Supreme ...

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On The Mother  >  A Choice of Games

... divine nature in man above this lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic. disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He comes as the divine personality which shall fill the consciousness of the human being and replace the limited egoistic personality, so that it shall be liberated out of ego into infinity and ...

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On The Mother  >  I want only You

... great Powers of the Mother too, but they were difficult to bring down; and yet, however difficult, "her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love," had to be brought down if the supramental realisation was ever to take place, for that power of Ananda alone could "heal the gulf between the highest heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest ...

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On The Mother  >  Matrimandir

... therefore the earth tastes sweet today - for those who have a taste. 24 As for the promiscuously misused word 'love', the Mother had written on 6 September 1969: There is only one love, the Divine Love, eternal, universal, equal for everyone and everything. It is man (the human being) who calls all kinds of feelings "love": all the desires, attractions, vital exchanges, sexual relations, attachments ...

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On the Path  >  1968

... Is this the beginning, though very small, of the desired change for the nights? Yes, it is a good beginning. The nights will thus become more and more conscious. 20.10.1968 Is Divine Love equal for all even in the manifestation ? Yes, equal and immutable. But it is the capacity to perceive and receive it and the habit of distorting it that are different in each one ...

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Mother or The Divine Materialism - I  >  19: The First Round: 1926-1950

... halt, only the work on Savitri proceeded steadily. I wonder if he had taken the decision to leave the body and was therefore in a hurry to finish his epic in time. 70 Undated It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear. 71 × ...

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At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo  >  29 July 1937

... does not want to fulfil the sadhana unless it can get by it the things it wanted. It wants the satisfaction of the ego, self-fulfilment, appreciation, the granting of its desires. It measures the Divine Love by the outward favours showered upon it and looks jealously to see who gets more of these favours than itself, then says that the Divine has no love for it and assigns reasons which are either derogatory ...

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Sri Aurobindo - His Life Unique  >  Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry

... may be pure enough, impersonal 28. Prayers and Meditations— The Mother. Page 380 The Mother in Japan, 1918 enough, animated enough with Thy divine love, to be able to cross it definitively. "O to belong to Thee, without any darkness or restriction!" 29 It was a meeting of two prophet-souls, two God-sent Pioneers, and their fusion ...

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The Divine Collaborators  >  Physical Transformation

... to the establishment of the divine life on earth. On more or less the same subject, the Mother says in "The Supreme Discovery": "Let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love and give up to Him, without reservation, this marvellous instrument our material organism. He will make it produce its maximum on every plane of. activity." The stress is, as always, on the physical ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Four  >  The Consecrated House

... our life; I wish, if they are destined to pass for a long or a brief period into other hands than ours, that those hands may be gentle to them and may feel all the respect that is due to what Thy divine Love, O Lord, has made to emerge from the dark inconscience of chaos. "Then I turn towards the future, and my gaze becomes still more grave. What it has in store for us, I do not know and am not ...

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Growing up with the Mother  >  Meditations

... blessings. * * * 5 July 1971 The victory is the one that we must win over ourselves so that we belong to the Divine alone. Love. 18.10.71 In the creation Mahakali manifests the divine love; but so powerful and sublime is this love that most men are afraid of it. * * * We are on earth in order to progress and to perfect ourselves in the course of many successive lives. What ...

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Collected Plays and Stories  >  Eric (A Dramatic Romance)

... sign I ask. ASLAUG ( singing, outside ) Love is the hoop of the gods     Hearts to combine. Page 533 Iron is broken, the sword Sleeps in the grave of its lord.     Love is divine. Love is the hoop of the gods     Hearts to combine. ERIC Is that your answer? Freya, mother of heaven, Thou wast forgotten. The heart! the seat is there. For unity is sweet substance of the ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  Thoughts and Glimpses

... Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  Above the Gunas

... favour. Divine works are effective for salvation because they lead us towards this perfection and to a knowledge of self and nature and God by a growing unity with the inner Master of our existence. Divine love is effective because by it we grow into the likeness of the sole and supreme object of our adoration and call down the answering love of the Highest to flood us with the light of his knowledge and ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Gist of the Karmayoga

... which is yet itself greater than mutable Nature and the world of action, even as knowledge is greater than works. What is the relation between these three things? between works and knowledge and divine love? between the soul in Nature and the immutable Self and that which is at once the changeless Self of all and the Master of knowledge and love and works, the supreme Divinity who is here with me in ...

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The Renaissance in India  >  Indian Spirituality and Life - 1

... beneficent even in the mask of destruction, it is Chandi or it is Kali, the dark Mother. The One Godhead manifests himself in the form of his qualities in various names and godheads. The God of divine love of the Vaishnava, the God of divine power of the Shakta appear as two different godheads; but in truth they are the one infinite Deity in different figures. 2 One may Page 194 approach ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Yoga of the Intelligent Will

... the Gita. It is far from being all, but it is the first indispensable practical unity of knowledge and works with a hint already of the third crowning intensest element in the soul's completeness, divine love and devotion. Page 104 ...

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Auroville references in Mother's Agenda  >  1965

... the residents. So in that park I had seen the "Pavilion of Love" (but I don't like to use that word because men have turned it into something ludicrous); I am referring to the principle of divine Love. But it has been changed: it will be the "Pavilion of the Mother"; but not this (Motherpoints to herself): the Mother, the true Mother, the principle of the Mother. (I say "Mother" because Sri ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  November 28, 1913

... may be united always more and more closely to Thee and become Thy servitors worthy of Thee. Remove from us all egoism, root out all petty vanity, greed and obscurity. May we be all ablaze with Thy divine Love; make us Thy torches in the world.] 1 A silent hymn of praise rises from my heart like the white smoke of incense of the perfumes of the East. And in the serenity of a perfect surrender ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  November 29, 1913

... sorrowful and miserable seems to me their life of ignorance and obscurity, their life of mad agitation and unprofitable dispersion!—when one single spark of Thy sublime light, one single drop of Thy divine love, can transform this suffering into an ocean of delight! O Lord, my prayer soars towards Thee: May they know at last Thy peace and that calm and irresistible strength which comes of an immutable ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  August 16, 1913

... Prayers and Meditations August 16, 1913 O Love, divine Love, Thou fillest my whole being and overflowest on every side. I am Thyself even as Thou art I, and I see Thee in each being, each thing, from the soft breath of the passing breeze to the glorious sun which gives us light and is a symbol of Thee. O Thou whom I cannot understand, in the silence ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  February 1, 1914

... of all and remote from all, centre of condensation for all energies, creator of conscious individualities: I turn towards Thee and salute Thee, O liberator of the worlds, and, identified with Thy divine love, I contemplate the earth and its creatures, this mass of substance put into forms perpetually destroyed and renewed, this swarming mass of aggregates which are dissolved as soon as constituted, of ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  February 14, 1914

... all care for contingencies, deliver us from the ordinary outlook on things. Grant that we may henceforth see only with Thy eyes and act only by Thy will. Transform us into living torches of Thy divine love. With reverence, with devotion, in a joyful consecration of my whole being I give myself, O Lord, to the fulfilment of Thy law. Peace, peace upon all the earth! Page 74 ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  May 3, 1914

... Prayers and Meditations May 3, 1914 O Divine Love, supreme Knowledge, perfect Oneness, at every moment of the day I call to Thee so as to be nothing but Thou alone! May this instrument serve Thee, conscious of being an instrument, and may all my consciousness, merged in Thine, contemplate all things with Thy divine vision. O Lord, Lord, grant that ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  December 21, 1916

... deaf to Thy direct suggestion?). And still I do not understand at the moment what to do. Thou knowest what happiness would be mine if by Thy grace I could be integrally transformed into a hearth of divine love—that love which is the first and highest manifestation of Thy eternal Truth, that love which is at once the completest expression in this world of Thy Truth and the most direct road to lead to it ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  December 27, 1916

... Thy sublime love that it may radiate from there on the world. My heart is wide open in my breast; my heart is open and turned towards Thee, it is open and empty that Thou mayst fill it with Thy divine Love; it is empty of all but Thee and Thy presence fills it through and through and yet leaves it empty, for it can contain also all the infinite variety of the manifested world.... O Lord, my arms ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Stepping Back

... fugitive, so there is nothing in it worth getting upset about. What is lasting, eternal, immortal and infinite—that indeed is worth having, worth conquering, worth possessing. It is Divine Light, Divine Love, Divine Life—it is also Supreme Peace, Perfect Joy and All-Mastery upon earth with the Complete Manifestation as the crowning. When you get the sense of the relativity of things, then whatever happens ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  19 August 1953

... cases. You say that perhaps stones also feel love? 1 It is possible. Can it be known? One can feel it. There is a certain state of consciousness in which one perceives this divine Love wherever it is found, and one does not feel so great a difference between creatures as it appears physically. There is much more aspiration than one would think in things we call inanimate. Much ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  14 April 1954

... one grows into the likeness of what one loves. So if one loves the Divine, gradually, through this effort of love, one grows more and more like the Divine, and then one can be identified with the divine love and know what it is, otherwise one can't. Inevitably, love between two human beings, whatever it may be, is always made of ignorance, lack of understanding, weakness and that terrible sense of ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  Remarks on the Current State of the Sadhana (1931-1947)

... which? who? But there is nothing new in that. It was coming down before Nov. 24, but afterwards all the damned mud arose and it stopped. But there are two red crimson lights. One is supramental Divine Love. The other is the supramental physical Force. 14 May 1935 It seems to me that my sadhana has come to a standstill. Is it because of the physical tamas? It is probable that you have come ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  The Ashram and the Outside World

... of man and the Page 812 world as it is—our aim is to move towards a more divine working which will replace what now is by a greater and happier manifestation. That too is a labour of divine Love. 22 October 1933 It seems as if we avoid the world much more than the Mayavadin sannyasis. Some of them start hospitals and schools and do famine relief; some even joined the Satyagraha Movement ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  September 1, 1914

... world of misery and ignorance, when we saw our children locked in a sombre struggle, flung upon each other by energies that had deviated from their true aim, we willed ardently that the light of Divine Love should be made manifest, a transfiguring force at the centre of these distracted elements. Then, that the will might be yet more powerful and effective, we turned towards Thee, O unthinkable Supreme ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  November 28, 1913

... may be united always more and more closely to Thee and become Thy servitors worthy of Thee. Remove from us all egoism, root out all petty vanity, greed and obscurity. May we be all ablaze with Thy divine Love; make us Thy torches in the world. ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  Admission, Staying, Departure

... intelligence, the same subconscious movements of the vital brought to the surface, the same irrational impulses pushing to the same action,—departure, renunciation of the soul's truth, refusal of the Divine Love and the Divine Call. It is the vital crisis, the test, the ordeal for you as for others—a test and ordeal which we would willingly spare to those who are with us but which they call on themselves ...

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The Sunlit Path  >  Other Persons and Forces

... fugitive, so there is nothing in it worth getting upset about. What is lasting, eternal, immortal and infinite—that indeed is worth having, worth conquering, worth possessing. It is Divine Light, Divine Love, Divine Life—it is also Supreme Peace, Perfect Joy and All-Mastery upon earth with the Complete Manifestation as the crowning. When you get the sense of the relativity of things, then whatever happens ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Wrong Ideas about the Mother's Smile and Touch

... the ordinary vital human love is full of contrary movements of distrust, misunderstanding, jealousy, anger, despair. But in Yoga this is most undesirable—for here trust in the Mother, faith in her divine Love is of great importance; anything that denies or disturbs it opens the door to obstacles and wrong reactions. It is not that there should be no love in the vital, but it must purify itself of these ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Flowers at Pranam

... Mother gives a flower, she gives the power of the thing it means—if the sadhak is ready or willing to receive it, he can do so. 17 March 1934 Page 557 X prophesies that I will get a "Divine Love" flower today; she wants half my share! I said I never get the nice white flowers she does. In any case we do not get what our mind thinks we should get. Obviously not—the mind chooses according ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  Therapeutic Force and Healing

... to be a fit instrument and receptacle for the realisation and manifestation of the Divine. It has its part in the divine Lila, even, according to the Vaishnava sadhana, in the joy and beauty of Divine Love. That does not mean that the body has to be valued for its own separate sake or that the creation of a divine body in a future evolution of the whole being has to be contemplated as an end and not ...

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How to Bring up a Child  >  When Children Cry for Things

... brought Her First Aid box, washed his forehead with spirit, bandaged it nicely and showered him with love. She also gave him some ‘Sweets’ and sent him home with me. I was amazed to see the beauty of Divine Love becoming human. Page 49 Games of Skill   The Mother was very fond of games of skill. She once told me that we should introduce ...

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Lights on Yoga  >  Work

... one's works taken from one and done by the universal or supreme Mother or by the Divine Power controlling and acting from behind the heart. By constant referring of all one's will and works to the Divine, love and adoration grow, the psychic being comes forward. By the reference to the Power above, we can come to feel it above and its descent and the opening to an increasing consciousness and knowledge ...

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Our Many Selves  >  Organisation, Harmonisation, Unification

... peace and freedom of the Spirit which can exist in itself, be there world or no world, world-order or world-disorder. Bhakti and the heart’s call for the Divine have a truth—it is the truth of the divine Love and Ananda. The will for Tapasya has in it a truth—it is the truth of the Spirit’s mastery over its members. The musician and poet stand for a truth, it is the truth of the expression of the Spirit ...

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Emergence of the Psychic  >  Index

... Consciousness cosmic 99.102,107,111 reversal of xxvi, 59 Consciousness-Force 108,110 Consecration 101 Desire 57 soul of, (desire-soul) 18,90, 94 Dharma 10 Divine Love 55, 56 Divine (Presence), the 14,18, 24, 25, 36, 55 and the psychic being 8, 15, 22 Divine spark 14; see also the Psyche, Psychic entity Emotions (feelings) 19, 21, ...

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The Mother on Auroville  >  A Talk in June 1965

... to supply water to the residents. So in this park, I saw the "Pavilion of Love". But I dislike this word, for man has turned it into something grotesque; I am speaking of the principle of Divine Love. But that has changed: it will be "The Pavilion of the Mother", but not this (Mother points to herself) —the Mother, the true Mother, the principle of the Mother. I say "Mother" because Sri Aurobindo ...

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India's Rebirth  >  1910-1922: Essays, Letters and Articles

... Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer; Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  February 22, 1914

... this way: Many a time in the day and night it seems to me that I am, or rather my consciousness is, concentrated entirely in my heart which is no longer an organ, not even a feeling, but the divine Love, impersonal, eternal; and being this Love I feel myself living at the centre of each thing upon the entire earth, and at the same time I seem to stretch out immense, infinite arms and envelop with ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  March 3, 1914

... outer side of our life; I wish that if they are destined to pass into other hands than ours for any length of time, these hands may be gentle to them and know all the respect that is due to what Thy divine Love, O Lord, has brought out from the dark inconscience of chaos. Then I turn towards the future and my gaze becomes more solemn still. What it holds in store for us I do not know nor care to know; ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  February 23, 1914

... see life only through Thee, and the illusion of material reality may come to an end and be replaced by a perception more in conformity with Thy eternal reality. Let me live constantly in Thy divine Love, so that it may live in me and through me. Grant that I may be an efficient and clear-sighted collaborator and that everything within me may foster the plenitude of Thy manifestation. I know ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  May 22, 1914

... of Thy sole Reality. Page 151 Nothing is in the universe but Thy Life, Thy Light, Thy Love. Let everything become resplendent and transfigured by the knowledge of Thy Truth. Thy divine love floods my being; Thy supreme light is shining in every cell; all exults because it knows Thee and because it is one with Thee. Page 152 ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  May 20, 1914

... Love, Thou didst turn my eyes to this complex body which has to serve Thee as Thy instrument. And Thou didst tell me, "It is myself; dost thou not see my light shining in it?" And indeed I saw Thy divine Love, clothed in intelligence, then in strength, constituting this body in its smallest cells and shining so brightly in it that it was nothing but a combination of millions of radiant sparks, all manifesting ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  May 23, 1914

... complete, luminous, powerful; may this love become an irresistible urge towards Thee, the invincible means of manifesting Thee. May everything in this being become pure, profound, disinterested, divine love—from the unfathomable depths to the outermost substance. May the God with form who manifests in this aggregate be entirely moulded from Thy complete and sublime love, the love which is at once the ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  May 31, 1914

... earth that supplicates to Thee, then is ingathered in the silence of the night, waiting in both patience and anxiety for the illumination so ardently desired. If there is a sweetness in being Thy divine love at work in the world, there is as great a sweetness in being the infinite aspiration which rises towards that infinite love. And to be able to change thus, to be successively, almost simultaneously ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  May 26, 1914

... shadow and the struggle: O sweet Master, O supreme Giver of illumination and purity, grant that all substance and every activity may be no more anything other than a constant manifestation of Thy divine Love and Thy sovereign Serenity.... And in my heart is the song of gladness of Thy sublime magnificence. Page 157 ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  January 23, 1917

... would not be communicated. It was like a glowing hearth whence the breath of thought wafted far many sparks which, entering the secrecy of men's hearts, kindled other similar fires, fires of Thy divine Love, O Lord, that Love which impels and draws all human beings irresistibly to Thee. O my sweet Lord, grant that this may not be only a vision of my enrapt consciousness, but indeed a reality, effectively ...

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The Signature Of Truth  >  STEPPING BACK

... there is nothing in it worth getting upset about. What is lasting, eternal, immortal and infinite—that indeed is worth having, worth conquering, worth possessing. It is Divine Light, Divine Love, Divine Life—it is also Supreme Peace, Perfect Joy and All-Mastery upon earth with the Complete Manifestation as the crowning. When you get the sense of the relativity of things, then whatever happens ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  March 17, 1914

... live in Thee, to be Thyself; and then nothing is any longer impossible to a man who manifests Thy omnipotence. Lord, my aspiration rises to Thee like a silent canticle, a mute adoration, and Thy divine Love illumines my heart. O divine Master, I bow to Thee! Page 101 ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  March 15, 1914

... unmixed, of a calm serenity, which seems vast as the universe, deep as the unfathomable depths which lead to Thee. Oh, these silent and pure nights when my heart overflows and unites with Thy divine Love to penetrate all things, embrace all life, illumine and regenerate all thought, purify all feeling, awaken in every being the consciousness of Thy marvellous Presence and of the ineffable peace that ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 108

... psychic. The gods do not have within them the divine spark, which is the core of the psychic, because only on earth—I am not even speaking of the material universe—only on earth did this descent of divine Love take place, which was the origin of the divine Presence in the core of Matter. And naturally, since they have no psychic being, they do not know the psychic being. Some of these beings have even ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455

... He pretends not to love, take pity. This is the most charming criticism one can make of jealousy and also the best way to cure it by overcoming the limits of the ego and by uniting with the Divine Love which is eternal and universal. 6 April 1970 Page 338 × Sri Krishna loved Radha best among the gopis ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 33

... know that the blows which the Lord deals us in His infinite love and grace are the surest and quickest way to make us progress. And the harder the blows the more they feel the greatness of the divine Love. Page 57 Ordinary men, on the contrary, always ask God to give them an easy, pleasant and successful life. In every personal satisfaction they see a sign of divine mercy; but if on the ...

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Notes on the Way  >  1 September 1971

... everything. Yes, it is like that all the while. Page 270 ( Silence ) I feel... it flows in this way ( Mother makes a gesture across herself ) constantly. It is perhaps that, Divine Love in Matter. (Mother laughs a great deal.) It is so intense and glowing at the same time—glowing. And it is so strong... it is so strong that one can hardly call it by the name "Love", for it does ...

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On Education  >  Conduct

... discuss the matter? Yes, try—it is very much needed. Money seems to have become the Supreme Lord these days—truth is receding in the background, as for Love, it is quite out of sight! I mean Divine Love because what human beings call love is a very good friend of money. When a child wants to impress you by telling you stories of the wealth of his family, you must not keep quiet. You must ...

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On Education  >  Towards the Future

... followed do not mean an irreparable misfortune to you. Page 469 SHE Have no fear. I now know for certain that only one love can satisfy my being: it is the love for the Divine, the divine love, for that alone never fails. Perhaps one day I shall find the favourable conditions and the necessary help for the achievement of the supreme realisation, the transformation and divinisation of the ...

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Letters on Poetry and Art  >  On Some Poems Written during the 1930s

... lose all lyrical quality and the soul of its rhythm. The Bird of Fire is the living vehicle of the gold fire of the Divine Light and the white fire of the Divine Tapas and the crimson fire of Divine Love—and everything else of the Divine Consciousness. Shiva - The Inconscient Creator The quantitative metre of Trance is suited only for a very brief lyrical poem. For longer poems I have sought ...

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Letters on Yoga - II  >  The Divine Force in Work

... and watches it and there is no mere excitement mixed with the divine flow of it through the conscious instrument and the body. There is a greater Ananda of samarpaṇa , of spiritual realisation or divine love, but in the spiritual consciousness and life the Ananda of creation has its place. To observe whether it [ one's work ] is really well done or not and feel the Ananda of work done for the ...

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Letters on Yoga - II  >  The Central Processes of the Sadhana

... Tapasya, Aradhana, Dhyana Sadhana is the practice of Yoga. Tapasya is the concentration of the will to get the results of sadhana and to conquer the lower nature. Aradhana is worship of the Divine, love, self-surrender, aspiration to the Divine, calling the name, prayer. Dhyana is inner concentration of the consciousness, meditation, going inside in Samadhi. Dhyana, tapasya and aradhana are all ...

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The Human Cycle  >  Reason and Religion

... that part is quite secondary and subordinate. It cannot lay down the law for the religious life, it cannot determine in its own right the system of divine knowledge; it cannot school and lesson the divine love and delight; it cannot set bounds to spiritual experience or lay its yoke upon the action of the spiritual man. Its sole legitimate sphere is to explain as best it can, in its own language and to ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Suprarational Good

... of truth and right are a seeking after conscious unity with the law of the divine knowledge and will; its parts of sympathy and charity are a movement towards the infinity and universality of the divine love; its parts of strength and manhood are an edification of the divine strength and power. That is the Page 153 heart of its meaning. Its high fulfilment comes when the being of the man ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >    Note on the Text

... Period 2. Chapter XXV. Never revised. Chapter XXVI . Lightly revised during Period 2. Chapters XXVII and XXVIII . Never revised. Part III: The Yoga of Divine Love No chapter in this part was ever revised by Sri Aurobindo. The texts of these eight chapters are identical to those of Arya chapters XLI - XLVIII. They were renumbered I - VIII and ...

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Hymns to the Mystic Fire  >  RV V.10

... heaven. Man the Doer, the Manu, the Krana, perfecting himself by works, is lifted by the divine will to Vijnana, to the ideal self of true knowledge & right action & emotion, attains by Truth to Divine Love & Bliss, Mayas, the dháma or seat ofMitra, and thus ascends to the Tapas where Agni is [.....]. This ascension Gaya, the Rishi, is enabled by the fixed symbolic style of the Veda, to express with ...

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Letters on Yoga - I  >  Science and Yoga

... divine Light and a greater knowledge, our petty personal troubled blind stumbling will into a great calm tranquil luminous Will and Force, our little restless tormented feelings into a wide intense divine Love and Ananda, our small suffering personality into the one Person of which it is an obscure outcome. If one insists on one's own ideas and reasonings, the greater Light and Knowledge cannot come or ...

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Letters on Yoga - III  >  The Inward Movement

... Yoga is the rasa of the Divine and of the divine consciousness which means the rasa of Peace, of Silence, of inner Light and Bliss, of growing inner Knowledge, of increasing inner Power, of the Divine Love, of all the infinite fields of experience that open to one with the opening of the inner consciousness. The true rasa of poetry, painting or any other activity is truly found when these activities ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  The Mind and Other Levels of Being

... still; to struggle with them and try to stop them is no use, there must be only a quiet rejection. On the other hand if thoughts come up from within, from the psychic, thoughts of the Mother, of divine love and joy, perceptions of truth etc., these of course must be permitted, as they help to make the psychic active. When it [ one's inner perception ] is at the heart, it is probable that the ...

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Letters on Yoga - III  >  The Descent of the Higher Consciousness and Force

... but the beginning once there it is sure to take place, if one is steady and constant. It becomes besides the sure base on which all the rest,—power and strength, light and knowledge, Ananda and divine love, can come in and securely fill the consciousness. The usual mental means to widen the consciousness is to think of and feel oneself as spreading out into space beyond the body—as a corrective ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  Vigilance, Resolution, Will and the Divine Help

... accept it, to stress it, to aspire to keep and increase it—to reject the confusion. What "reason" do you need to aspire for peace, purity, freedom from the lower nature, light, strength, Ananda, divine love, divine service? These are things good in themselves and the highest possible aim of human endeavour. If not a will, you have a wish in you or an aspiration; the word does not matter, the ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  Time and Change of the Nature

... you can repair the wrong you seem to have done. Admitting that it is as you say, it seems to me that the reparation lies precisely in this, in making yourself a vessel for the Divine Truth and the Divine Love. And the first steps towards that are a complete self-consecration and self-purification, a complete opening of oneself to the Divine, rejecting all in oneself that can stand in the way of the fulfilment ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  Difficulties of the Physical Nature

... does not want to fulfil the sadhana unless it can get by it the things it wanted. It wants the satisfaction of the ego, "self-fulfilment", appreciation, the granting of its desires. It measures the Divine Love by the outward favours showered upon it and looks jealously to see who gets more of these favours than itself, then says that the Divine has no love for it and assigns reasons which are either derogatory ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  The Mother - VI

... There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realisation,—most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest abysses of Matter, the Ananda that holds the key of a wonderful divinest Life and even ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  The Mother's Illness in 1931 and Her Temporary Retirement

... in private! I have not, I think, anywhere insisted on a "silent expressionless love" and I cannot even remember having used the phrase. On the contrary, I thought I had made it clear, first, that divine love and psychic love both needed a complete expression and that vital and physical love were their necessary complements and were both a part of that complete expression. At any rate, if that was not ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Other Dreams and Experiences

... The dream was an indication of what the Mother and myself are and represent—I do not think that it is necessary to say more than that. It indicates that the fulfilment of what we stand for is the Divine Love and Ananda. 1933 On Darshan Day and the day before it I felt an intense love for you and for the Mother. It possessed my whole being for some time. There was a high and profound reverence ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  Isha Upanishad: All that is world in the Universe

... but if the emotional impulse predominates over the intellectual, its tendency is to adopt modified Monism as a final solution. Lastly there is the emotional state of soul which reaches God through divine love; this naturally attaches itself to Dualism; for the only desire of love is to attain the loved one & go on loving for ever; an impossibility unless the feeling of difference in Union goes on for ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  The Higher Lines of Karma

... much nearer to a full seeing Page 419 came that larger experience of theirs that either through an urge towards absolute knowledge or a pure impersonality of the will or an ecstasy of divine love and absolute delight,—and even through an absorbing concentration of the psychical and the vital and physical being,—the soul turns towards the Supreme and that on each part of our self and nature ...

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The Secret of the Veda  >  The Colloquy of Indra and Agastya

... terrible struggle towards the goal. Indra replies that Agastya is his friend and brother,—brother in the soul as children of one Supreme Being, friend as comrades in a common effort and one in the divine love that unites God and man,—and by this friendship and alliance has attained to the present stage in his progressive perfection; but now he treats Indra as an inferior Power and wishes to go beyond ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Equality and the Annihilation of Ego

... self-giving will be its brilliant texture. And this surrender will be not only to a divine Will which we perceive and accept and obey, but to a divine Wisdom in the Will which we recognise and a divine Love in it which we feel and rapturously suffer, the wisdom and love of a supreme Spirit and Self of ourselves and all with which we can achieve a happy and perfect unity. A lonely power, peace and stillness ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Gnosis and Ananda

... illimitable. And since love is the effective power and soul-symbol of bliss-oneness he will approach and enter into this oneness by the gate of universal love, a sublimation of human love at first, a divine love afterwards, at its summits a thing of beauty, sweetness and splendour now to us inconceivable. He will be one in bliss-consciousness with all the world-play and its powers and happenings and there ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Divine Personality

... The Yoga of Divine Love The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter V The Divine Personality One Question rises immediately in a synthetic Yoga which must not only comprise but unify knowledge and devotion, the difficult and troubling question of the divine Personality. All the trend of modern thought has been towards the belittling of personality; it has seen behind ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Soul and Its Liberation

... the divine nature. The intense religious ecstasy which knows only God and ourselves and shuts out all else, is only to it an intimate experience which prepares it for sharing in the embrace of the divine Love and Delight around all creatures. A heavenly bliss which unites God and ourselves and the blest, but enables us to look with a remote indifference on the unblest and their sufferings is not possible ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Ananda Brahman

... The Yoga of Divine Love The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter VII The Ananda Brahman The way of devotion in the integral synthetic Yoga will take the form of a seeking after the Divine through love and delight and a seizing with joy on all the ways of his being. It will find its acme in a perfect union of love and a perfect enjoyment of all the ways of the soul's ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Modes of the Self

... with the object of our love and adoration. But again for divine works in the world the individual Self converts itself into a centre of consciousness through which the divine Will, one with the divine Love and Light, pours itself out in the multiplicity of the universe. We arrive in the same way at our unity with all our fellow-beings through the identity of this self with the Supreme and with the ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Purified Understanding

... of all clearness and harmony even as the darkness of ignorance is the cause of all our stumblings. Love, for example, is the purifier of the heart and by reducing all our emotions into terms of divine love the heart is perfected and fulfilled; yet love itself needs to be clarified by divine knowledge. The heart's love of God may be blind, narrow and ignorant and lead to fanaticism and obscurantism; ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Release from the Heart and the Mind

... reality of pure, equal and calmly intense love and joy and oneness. The real soul emerges and takes the place left vacant by the desire-mind. The cleansed and emptied cup is filled with the wine of divine love and delight and no longer with the sweet and bitter poison of passion. The passions, even the passion for good, misrepresent the divine nature. The passion of pity with its impure elements of physical ...

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Overhead Poetry  >  This Errant Life

... together like the limbs of an organic body. It is high poetic style in its full perfection and nothing at all that is transferable. You have taken his last line and put in a lotus-face and made divine love bloom in it,—a pretty image, but how far from the glowing impassioned severity of the phrase: 'And mould Thy love into a human face'!" To the poet himself: "The quotations [AE] makes [from ...

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Talks on Poetry  >  The Heart and the Art of Poetry - Talk Eleven

... heart. The sense of eternity-in-time links up with the "White Omnipresence" and the banishment of all fear, while the sense of eternal bliss in the heart connects with the feeling of the kiss of the Divine Love in even the crudest, cruellest and most calamitous touch of experience. I may mention for your interest that a businessman almost jumped up with pleasure on reading: White Omnipresence! where ...

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Bande Mataram  >  The Morality of Boycott

... mass of mankind do not and cannot rise to that height. Politics is concerned with masses of mankind and not with individuals. To ask masses of mankind to act as saints, to rise to the height of divine love and practise it in relation to their adversaries or oppressors, is to ignore human nature. It is to set a premium on injustice and violence by paralysing the hand of the deliverer when raised to ...

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Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit  >  Letters on Yoga (Letters to N.)

... থাকলে যজ্ঞ পূর্ণ হয় না ৷ আমরা বলতে পারি psychicএ, মনে, প্রাণে, দেহে ও অবচেতনায়, এই পাঁচটী অগ্নির দরকার ৷ 9.4.34 নীল — Higher Mind, ACÚST QUICOT – Light of divine Truth, উজ্জ্বল লাল – হয় Divine Love নয় ঊর্ধচেতনার Force. 11.4.34 ন: আমার সব সময় নীরব গম্ভীর এবং নির্জনতায় থাকতে ইচ্ছা হচ্ছে ৷ বাইরের দিকে গেলে এবং একটু বাজে কথা বললে চঞ্চল হয়ে যাই ৷ উ: Inner beingএ যা হচ্ছে, তারই ফল ...

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Essays Divine and Human  >  Partial Systems of Yoga

... each of which opens out from the one that precedes it: Aspiration and self-consecration; devotion; adoration and worship; love; possession of the whole being and life by the Divine; joy of the Divine Love and the beauty and sweetness of the Divine; the absolute Bliss of the Absolute. Faith is our first need; for without faith in the Divine, in the existence and the all-importance of the Divine ...

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Essays Divine and Human  >  Jnana

... ss, ritam the key of ananda. 139) Who is the superman? He who can rise above this matter-regarding broken mental human unit and possess himself universalised and deified in a divine force, a divine love & joy and a divine knowledge. 140) If thou keepest this limited human ego & thinkest thyself the superman, thou art but the fool of thy own pride, the plaything of thy own force and the instrument ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  The Yoga and Its Objects

... world seen and unseen must be recognised as one supreme expression of concealed Wisdom, Power and Bliss, and the entire being given up, as an engine is passive in the hands of the driver, for the divine Love, Might and perfect Intelligence to do its work and fulfil its divine Lila. Ahaṅkāra must be blotted out in order that we may have, as God intends us ultimately to have, the perfect bliss, the perfect ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  Heraclitus - VII

... third aspect of the Self and of Brahman; besides the universal consciousness active in divine knowledge, besides the universal force active in divine will, it saw the universal delight active in divine love and joy. European thought, following the line of Heraclitus' thinking, has fixed itself on reason and on force and made them the principles towards whose perfection our being has to aspire. Force ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1971  >  July 28, 1971

... laughter ) ( Mother plunges within, then surfaces and hands Satprem a piece of paper ) I want to give this for August 15: "A veil behind the heart, a lid over the mind divide us from the Divine. Love and devotion rend the veil, in the quietude of the mind the lid thins and vanishes." September 9, 1936 Sri Aurobindo On Himself , XXVI.215 Page 205 There's a terrible mess ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1971  >  September 8, 1971

... like a warm gold lifting everything up. Yes, that's how my body feels all the time. ( silence ) I feel That flowing like this ( gesture through herself ) constantly. Maybe that's what Divine Love in matter is? ( Mother laughs merrily ) It's so intense and warm at the same time—warm. And so strong... it's so strong that you can't really use the word "love," because it doesn't correspond ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1963  >  September 18, 1963

... assez grands et assez forts pour être bons. 1 But then the word bon [good] no longer had that sense of opposition to "evil": it contained all the divine splendor. It was the radiance of divine Love. ( silence ) Any translation of the word bon [good] into English is very small and all the way down. I didn't want to put it into English. But today, all at once it came to me in English ...

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Sri Aurobindo - The Poet  >  Some Notes on Sri Aurobindo's Poems

... symbolism Sri Aurobindo wrote: "The Bird of Fire is the living Page 366 vehicle of the gold fire of the Divine Light and the white fire of the Divine Tapas and the crimson fire of Divine Love— and everything else of the Divine Consciousness." Here we may quote some lines from Savitri, Book I, Canto 2, together with Sri Aurobindo's remarks in reference to them: Almost they ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  July 12, 1960

... and I was about to intervene to help him when I was abruptly stopped. I was faced by a massive blackness (blacker than the blackest physical thing) and suddenly, right at its center, I saw the Divine Love shining with such a splendor—I had never seen it so splendid. And now it has become constant; each time I hear or see something ugly or horrible, or each time something ugly or horrible happens ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  Receptivity

... is lacking and should be increased; for this you must open yourself, and one opens oneself only if one gives oneself . Surely you are trying more or less consciously to draw the forces and the divine love towards you. The method is bad. Give yourself without calculating and without expecting anything in return, and then you will become capable of receiving. How can we know that we are receptive ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  August 18, 1961

... Aurobindo on August 15. ) Have you been working? Yes. Ah!... Good. Here ( Mother gives some flowers ), this is the Generosity 1 of inspiration, and this is the crowning achievement [Divine Love 2 ]. So, petit, everything all right?... Yes? A little difficult. That ( pointing to the forehead ) must remain silent.... Well, yes . ... Let it come from here ( pointing to ...

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Blake's Tyger  >  Index

... philosophy, 27 America, 163, 202, 203 Ancient Mariner , The, 126 "And did these feet in ancient time . . ." (interpretation), 245-53 "Angel Tiger", 42 Annotations to Swedenborg's Divine Love, 70 fn. 58 Anti-Trinitarianism, 101-02 Arianism, 101 , 102 Arius, 102 Art, Artist, 10, 140, 141 "aspire", 96, 98, 99, 100, 104, 105, 107, 111 , 129, 226-27, 162 Aurobindo, Sri ...

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Blake's Tyger  >  The Poem in the General Context of Blake's Work

... 252. Ibid., p. 655 (ibid., 30, 1 .19). 253. Ibid., p. 743 (ibid., 4, 96, 1 .7). 254. Ibid., p. 578 (A Descriptive Catalogue). 255. Ibid., p. 90 (Annotation to Swedenborg's Divine Love, p. 10). 256. Ibid., p. 495 (Milton I, 14, 11 .1-2). 257. Ibid., p. 98 (All Religions Are One, Principle 5th). 258. Ibid., p. 510 (Milton I, 24, 1 .71). 259. Ibid., p ...

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A Centenary Tribute  >  Essays on Amal Kiran-Rita Nath Keshari

...   'Pure speed' here denotes a new dimension or a divine dynamism into which the unencumbered soul can gain entry and possess the hidden treasure. This is seemingly quite a bargain because divine love stoops to the mortal's level when he detaches himself completely from others of his kind. The icon of treasure is extended to highlight 'luxury' in the third line. In this rarefied atmosphere a ...

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Visions of Champaklal  >  Conquest of the Asura on Mahasamadhi Day

... bodies. It is coming out from different centres (chakras) in different individuals. The colour of the fire coming out from each one indicates the consciousness; white (the Mother's Light), red (Divine Love), Green (Vital Energy), yellow (Mind Plane), blue (Illumined Mind), pink (Psychic Love), golden (Light of Divine Truth). The Asura represents the evil forces that are at work even in the premises ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  18: The New Body

... lost her sense of humour nor her interest. This is what really appears superhuman to somebody who reads the available documents with openness and some insight. In fact, it was divine. ‘It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine,’ 7 Sri Aurobindo ...

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Beyond Man  >  Chapter Seven: Sri Aurobindo’s Vision

... gradually more and more to his own perception till the moment that he will also objectively be what he has always subjectively been and experience that which is the stake of the whole Play: pure, divine Love. We are the growing Godhead. ‘Brahman, sir, is the name given by Indian philosophy since the beginning of time to the one Reality, eternal and infinite, which is the Self, the Divine, the All ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume IV  >  Correspondence 1943

... true. I hope you will dispel les nuages [the clouds] at once and come quite clear of them to the Darshan with the taste for life recovered and ready to go forward on the path towards the divine Love and Ananda. * September 3, 1943 (Krishnaprem’s letter to Dilipda dated 25 August 1943) Thanks for your booklet of poems... As regards my remark that ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume IV  >  Correspondence 1941

... the Asuric forces seeking to prevent it, it is approaching the terrestrial soil. The supramental is not, as you imagine, something cold, hard and rock-like. It bears with it the presence of the Divine Love as well as the Divine Truth and its reign here means for those who accept it the straight and thornless path in which there is no wall or obstacle of which the ancient Rishis saw the far-off promise ...

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Chaitanya and Mira  >  Mira - Act Three

... to see the deep as deep Or the drop in the deep: one must, withal, See the deep in a drop — Gopal in the Guru—before One could have an inkling of the starry secret Of human-divine love, the Infinite held In the finite, the Timeless in a fleeting moment. But to resume my story. ( She masters her emotion with effort ) At the time My Gurudev was living in strict ...

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Sri Aurobindo came to Me  >  The Ashram Some Disciplessacame

... together like the limbs of an organic body. It is high poetic style in its full perfection and nothing of all that is transferable. You have taken his last line and put in a lotus-face and made divine love bloom in it, — a pretty image, but how far from the glowing impassioned severity of phrase: 'And mould thy love into a human face!"' I shall pass by the constant and ready help plus encouragement ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume IV  >  Correspondence 1949

... to be fit instrument and receptacle for the realisation and manifestation of the Divine. It has its part in the divine lila, even, according to the Vaishnava sadhana, in the joy and beauty of Divine Love. That does not mean that the body has to be valued for its own separate sake or that the creation of a divine body in a future evolution of the whole being has to be contemplated as an end and ...

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Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother  >  21 September 1966

... and change the life of the person one loves? It all depends on the quality of the love. If it is an egoistic, monopolising love, one can do nothing for the person one thinks one loves. Only divine love has the power to change someone’s life by opening in him the doors of his soul. 21 September 1966 ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  12: Sri Aurobindo’s Descent into Death

... There are among them presences indispensable for the supramental realization – most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest abysses of Matter, the Ananda that holds the key of a wonderful divinest Life and even ...

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The Mother (biography)  >  6: Speaking the Word

... the Inconscient the longing to return to its Origin. And the instruments of the evolution towards that End – which is also the Beginning – are the Avatars , incarnations in the evolution of the Divine Love ever radiating in the depths of our evolutionary world. All this the One must have wanted to happen, for nothing can exist or come into manifest being without Its consent, and everything consists ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  Undated?

... for it to be called simply "the Matrimandir Garden" and not "Love". For she said: I dislike this word [Love], for man has turned it into something grotesque; I am speaking of the principle of Divine Love. But that has changed: it will be the Matrimandir Gardens . The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Early Talks ...

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My Savitri work with the Mother  >  12 December 1957

... Now I started painting a variety of flowers sent by the Mother. On 12th December 1957 in the morning I received from the Mother a flower Punica, the Mother gave this significance to it: "Divine Love—a flower reputed to bloom even in the desert." Also, chrysanthemums came along. I painted both flowers with the new technique taught by the Mother. When she saw them, she remarked: Oh! I like ...

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White Roses  >  06 February 1957

... 1957 White Roses 06 February 1957 This is a painting (of St. Anne) from Leonardo da Vinci; is it not a beautiful image of Divine Love and Compassion? The Compassion that effaces all errors and wipes off all mistakes... ...

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Words of the Mother - I  >  Early Talks

... used to supply water to the residents. So in this park, I saw the "Pavilion of Love". But I dislike this word, for man has turned it into something grotesque; I am speaking of the principle of Divine Love. But that has changed: it will be "The Pavilion of the Mother"―but not this ( Mother points to herself )―the Mother, the true Mother, the principle of the Mother. I say "Mother" because Sri Aurobindo ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  August 25, 1954

... are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realization,—most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda 1 which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest abysses of Matter, the Ananda that holds the key of a wonderful divines Life and even ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  November 7, 1961

... expressing the beginning of conscious, wakeful action. I have experienced the descent into the Inconscient many times (you remember, once you were there the day it happened—it had to do with divine Love 6 ); this experience of descending to the very bottom of the Inconscient and finding there the Divine Consciousness, the Divine Presence, under one form or another. It has happened quite frequently ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1961  >  January 10, 1961

... prepared on earth so its effects are not devastating. Sri Aurobindo has explained it in one of his letters. Someone asked him, 'Why doesn't this Love come now?', and he replied something like this: If divine Love in its essence were to manifest on earth, it would be like an explosion; for the earth is not supple enough or receptive enough to widen to the measure of this Love. The earth must not only open ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  December 28, 1958

... indeed suspect that you want to endure, to bear this struggle all alone. Oh, I think I understand a number of things about the mechanism of these attacks and their connection with me, about the Divine Love that embraces all and takes into itself the suffering and the evil of men—all this overwhelms me with a sudden understanding. It seems to me that I am seeing and feeling all that you are facing, ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  Suffering

... world is full of sufferings and sorrows. Page 247 One should try never to be the cause of any additional suffering. 10 October 1970 The only remedy for all human suffering: divine love. Turn towards the Divine, all your sufferings will disappear. Do not take the sorrows of life for what they seem to be; they are in truth a way to greater achievements. ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  May 28, 1959

... met someone here. But you do not believe in these things, so I shall not speak of it further. I can gag this also and tell myself that one day all will be filled in the inner Page 306 divine love. But that does not prevent this other need in me from living and from finding that life is dry and from saying, 'Why this outer manifestation if all life is in the inner realms?' But neither can ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 493, 494

... Infinite in one secret embraceable body and see Him seated in each and all of these bodies that are visible and sensible? Then has its widest and profoundest truth come also into thy possession. 494—Divine Love has simultaneously a double play, an universal movement, deep, calm and bottomless like the nether Ocean, which broods upon the whole world and each thing that is in it as upon a level bed with an ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 504

... would suit better, "As surely as God loveth." In our sorrowful age, almost withered by the excessive domination of the intellect, nothing can be at once more necessary and more precious than Divine Love. 29 April 1970 ...

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Notes on the Way  >  15 November 1967

... changes it? Yes. But Sri Aurobindo says (I read it two days ago, I do not know where he has written it, for it was only a quotation) that if the divine Consciousness, the divine Power, the divine Love, the Truth manifested itself too rapidly upon the earth, the earth would be dissolved! She would not be able to bear it... brrf! I am translating, but the idea is that. But perhaps not the ...

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Words of the Mother - I  >  Comfort and Happiness

... people to come and settle here is surely not to find comfort and luxury—this can be found anywhere if one is lucky enough. But what one can get here, that is not got in any other place: it is the Divine Love, Grace and Care. It is when this is forgotten or disregarded that people begin to feel miserable here. Indeed whenever somebody feels unhappy and discontented, it can be taken as a sure sign that ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  March 3, 1957

... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 March 3, 1957 ( Letter to Mother from Satprem ) 3.3.57 I name you Satprem (true love) for it is only when you awaken to divine love that you will feel that you love. Signed : Mother ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1967  >  November 15, 1967

... Yes. But Sri Aurobindo said (I read it two days ago, I don't know where he wrote it because it was a quotation) that if the divine Page 363 Consciousness, the divine Power, the divine Love, the Truth, were to manifest on earth too rapidly, the earth would be dissolved! It couldn't bear it ... brrf! I am interpreting, but there's the idea! Well, maybe not the high divine dose ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1967  >  September 6, 1967

... force that can dissolve them. I knew it in principle, but now I know it in practice: it is the force of Love. Love is truly all-victorious—but true Love, not what men call "love," not that: true, divine Love. You see one drop of "That" in its perfection, and all shadows Page 278 disappear—all disharmony disappears. It can only be in its perfection, in its essential purity. It truly ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1968  >  January 10, 1968

... 1 It's an explanation, the beginning of an explanation. Because there [in the message for February 21], I say, "Serve the Truth and Page 20 you will hasten the coming of Divine Love." 2 —"Ah, what does that mean?" So here I say, "Truth alone can give the world the capacity to receive..." and so on. Now I have to make a decent copy of it ( Mother stops and puts the palms ...

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Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 3)  >  chapter 007

... reward. We may also remember what the Mother has recorded on his Samadhi - the suffering he underwent for the world's sake. He has himself Page 78 written to Dilip that it was only divine love that made him go on and on working for the world without weeping and lamenting - so great was the suffering because of his struggle with what he called the Abyss. Without the suffering being less ...

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On Sri Aurobindo's Savitri  >  Some Notes on Sri Aurobindo's Poems

... foot measure." About the symbolism Sri Aurobindo wrote: "The Bird of Fire is the living vehicle of the gold fire of the Divine Light and the white fire of the Divine Tapas and the crimson fire of Divine Love - and everything else of the Divine Consciousness." Here we may quote some lines from Savitri, Book I, Canto 2, together with Sri Aurobindo's remarks in reference to them: Almost ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1966  >  September 28, 1966

... lives), the whiplash is necessary. I am convinced of this, because as soon as you are in your inner being, you treat this with contempt (for yourself). But then, when that true Compassion of divine Love comes and you see all those things that look so horrible, so abnormal, so absurd, that great pain over all beings and even over things... Then there was born in this physical being the aspiration ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1965  >  January 12, 1965

... have in themselves the divine spark which is the heart of the psychic being, since only ON THE EARTH (I am not even referring to the material universe), only on the earth was there the Descent of divine Love that was the origin of the divine Presence in the heart of Matter. And naturally, as they don't have a psychic being, they don't know, they have no knowledge of the psychic being. Some of those beings ...

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Light and Laughter  >  Talk Three (February 24, 1971)

... intimacy is wanted, the relation has to be of love — if the Divine does not bring love to humanity, humanity will fail to respond to the Divine's call. And how shall solid and concrete earth know Divine Love unless the Divine Himself becomes solid and concrete to earth? I believe the central truth here has been seized with a fair degree of success by an Ashram poet at almost the commencement of his frail ...

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Our Light and Delight  >  The Mother, Sri Aurobindo and the Procession of the Avatars

... moments he manifested Krishna, grew luminous in mind and body and was Krishna himself and spoke and acted as the Lord. His con- temporaries saw in him an Avatar of Krishna, a manifestation of the Divine Love. "Shankara and Vivekananda were certainly Vibhutis; they cannot be reckoned as more, though as Vibhutis they were very great." Adverting to several of these names again and bringing ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 1  >  An Approach to Sri Aurobindo's Savitri

... her mission, (iii) Narad's intervention foretelling the future but encouraging the destined union of betrothal and explaining also the cause of Pain and Death and Fate, (iv) the development of Divine Love in both Satyavan and Savitri during the one year of 11 Ibid., p. 348. 12 Ibid., p. 351-53. Page 413 their close companionship in the forest Ashram, (v) Savitri ...

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Debou's Correspondence with The Mother  >  24 October 1949

... with The Mother 24 October 1949 For Debou, a prayer My sweet Mother, Grant that I do not waste in a vain human relationship the splendour of the divine love that Your Grace is pouring out on me so generously. 24 October 1949 ...

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Debou's Correspondence with The Mother  >  31 December 1968

... do what you ought to do, you will know what you ought to know. But for that you need to have transcended all the limitations of the ego. It is to the sincerity of your aspiration that the divine love answers spontaneously. ...

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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 ...

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A Greater Psychology  >  Liberation and Transformation

... that aim at a transformation of any kind except that of ignorance into knowledge. The idea varies, —sometimes a divine knowledge or power or else a divine purity or an ethical perfection or a divine love. What has to be overcome is the opposition of the Ignorance that does not want the transformation of the nature. If that can be overcome, then old spiritual ideas will not form an obstacle ...

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A Greater Psychology  >  States of Consciousness

... return into any illusory or inferior state of existence. Samadhi is not so all-important in the Yoga of devotion, but it still has its place there as the swoon of being into which the ecstasy of divine love casts the soul. To enter into it is the supreme step of the ladder of Yogic practice in Rajayoga and Hathayoga. The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 498 Page 216 Samadhi in the Gita ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  To the World Vegetarian Congress

... physical mind is to doubt. If you listen to it, it will always find a thousand reasons for doubting. But you must know that the physical mind is working in ignorance and full of falsehood. The Divine Love is the essence of Truth and cannot be affected by the human confusions. In the Ashram one must do only what one may do publicly, for nothing remains hidden. As for my protection it is equally ...

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Prayers and Aspirations  >  Keep Smiling

... Mother's glory, sing Her glory.     Sing only of the Mother's glory, All the time, day and night,     sing only of the Mother's glory. (2)     Smiling always, make everyone smile.     With divine love always in your heart, (2)     Receive everyone always with affection (3) With respect, with respect, with respect. ...

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Champaklal's Treasures  >  To the World Vegetarian Congress

... physical mind is to doubt. If you listen to it it will always find a thousand reasons for doubting. But you must know that the physical mind is working in ignorance and full of falsehoods. The Divine Love is the essence of Truth and cannot be affected by the human confusions. In the Ashram one must do only what one may do publicly, for nothing remains hidden. As for my protection it is equally ...

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Landmarks of Hinduism  >  Vedas, Puranas and Thereafter

... centre of the synthesis from knowledge to spiritual love and delight the earlier significance of the Vedanta. The perfect outcome of this evolution is to be found in the philosophy and religion of divine love promulgated by Sri Chaitanya. It is true that the Vedic Gods rapidly lost in the Puranas their deep original significance. The great Trinity, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva came to dominate and gave ...

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Landmarks of Hinduism  >  Vedic tradition and contemporary crisis

... X.191.4 Page 106 When we come to the Bhagavadgita, we find the quintessence of the Vedas and the Upanishads, and yet something much more, the unique synthesis of knowledge, works. Divine Love, formulated in such fullness so as to resolve the crisis of the representative Man entangled in a crisis of action. Even today, when we read the Gita, we find that our own contemporary crisis is ...

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A Philosophy of Evolution for the Contemporary Man  >  Discontent of the Contemporary Man

... the feet of Agastya, Yajnavalkya, Aruni and Buddha, laugh with the sanyasin at the snaring net of Maya and meditate with Shankara on the reality of the Brahman, and yet yearn with Chaitanya for divine love and ecstasy. He may do all this and yet find that he has no answer to his deeper quest and longing, which is still inarticulate and uncertain. He may wish to engage in further study. ...

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The New Synthesis of Yoga  >  Part-1

... whatever their specialized differences, reflect a good deal of Tantric system and spirit of synthesis. The yogic system of Sri Chaitanya adds a most precious contribution to the path of the Divine Love. The yogic system of Guru Nanak, too, manifests a synthesis, and it is a remarkable development that aimed at the assimilation of Hinduism and Islam. Guru Nanak also aimed at purifying the yogic ...

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Varieties of Yogic Experience and Integral Realisation  >  Yoga Its Distinguishing Features

... instruments are our cognitive faculties, affective faculties, and conative faculties. The processes of Jnāna yoga are more easily woven into cognitive faculties, those of the yoga of bhakti or divine love are more easily woven into our affective faculties, and those of karma yoga or yoga of divine works are woven more easily into our conative faculties. This weaving is done, first, by some kind ...

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Bhagavadgita and Contemporary Crisis  >  An Ordinary Seeker

... that the Gita means to give us. It is, we might say, the first indispensable practical unity of knowledge and works with a hint already of the third crowning element in the soul's completeness, divine love and devotion. More I hope to learn a little later. For the time being, I have the delight of finding the way and the aspiration to implement what I have learnt. I want to walk on the path. ...

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Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays  >  Vedic Knowledge and Supermind in the Light of Sri Aurobindo

... samudro arnavah. Why is it called the mantra that can wipe out the sins? Because if you know the origin of all this, what is all this darkness and how darkness can be removed by the power of the Divine Love and by the mystic Fire, if you know this, all sins can be wiped out. That is why it is called the mantra of wiping out the sins. It simply says: In the beginning there was tapas. (Tapas is nothing ...

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Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays  >  Philosophy of Indianness

... the fourth period India had, even while getting exhausted, a kind of rejuvenation with the birth of a number of Indian languages and new religions Page 437 of Bhakti and submission to Divine Love and Will. We must examine these periods and arrive at our own impartial judgement of India's Indianness. In broad terms, it can be stated that Indian spirit and Indian temperament have manifested ...

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Sri Aurobindo and Integral Yoga  >  Sri Aurobindo

... ascent into the Supermind and the transforming descent of the supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature.'22 This would also mean a complete synthesis of divine knowledge, divine love and divine action, leading to an integral perfection of all the members, parts and planes of being the divine supermind in the divine body, a temporal sign of the spirit's victory here over Death ...

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A Pilgrims Quest for the Highest and the Best  >  Systems of Yoga, Methods of yoga and Verifiability of Yogic Knowledge

... emotions, and by sublimating them through the processes of remembrance, adoration, offering, submission and surrender, leads to those spiritual experiences in which one gets united by the power of divine love with the supreme divine consciousness and its delight in states of supernal ecstasy. The methods of the yoga of Devotion, when followed with regularity and constancy, confirm the repeated experiences ...

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Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays  >  Philosophy of Spiritual Education

... that marks the culmination of sagehood; he was dynamic and heroic, since he battled from early boyhood and throughout his life for the upholding of justice and unity of people; and he was full of divine love, which has been sung as an immortal theme of harmonious unity, duality and multiplicity; and he readily agreed to serve with consummate skill as the charioteer of his friend and disciple, Arjuna ...

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Arjuna's Argument At Kurukshetra And Sri Krishna's Answers  >  Appendices

... of the Divine; and in some directions it is more immediately rich and fruitful, for it brings forward into the foreground along with divine knowledge, divine works and an enriched devotion of divine Love, the secrets also of the Hatha and Raja Yogas, the use of the body and of mental askesis for the opening up of the divine life on all its planes, to which the Gita gives only a passing and perfunctory ...

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The Good Teacher and The Good Pupil  >  An Eploration

... resulting Khajuraho. Photo Olivier Barot Page 28 in a complete stillness in which the Object of Knowledge stands out clearly and luminously. The Yoga of Knowledge, the Yoga of Divine Love and the Yoga of Action took up, respectively, the workings of cognition, affection and conation, and arrived at extraordinary experiences of higher levels of consciousness and their corresponding ...

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Sri Rama  >  Introduction

... celestial goddess who had also descended on the earth to lead the human story of struggle against evil, to secure imperishable victory of the Good, and to redeem the burden of human love so that the divine love and its glory can perennially aspire to live divinely beyond the ordinary ties and knots of human comedy and tragedy. Sri Rama, the most beloved prince of Dasaratha and his Ayodhya and its people ...

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Sri Krishna In Brindavan  >  The Avatara descends on the earth

... their birth or at advanced stages of maturity and ripeness in their wisdom and in their deeds. We shall leave these debates for the debaters, and we shall not allow our story of the mystery of the Divine Love that Krishna manifested in Brindavan to be diluted but allow our soul to experience what those in Gokul and Brindavan felt and knew of that playful Child, of that captivating Youth, of that Flute ...

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Mystery and Excellence of the Human Body  >  Body reaching out Beyond Itself

... include Raja Yoga (Yoga of meditative concentration), ' Buddhi Yoga (Yoga of intelligent will), Karma Yoga (Yoga of Divine works), Jnana Yoga (Yoga of Divine knowledge), Bhakti Yoga (Yoga of Divine Love), etc. There are also many other systems of Yoga like Mantra Yoga, Kriya Yoga and others. Another very important system of Yoga is that of Tantra. In India, there have been many attempts at s ...

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Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Its Role, Responsibility and Future Destiny  >  Wrong Relationship Between Sadhaks and Sadhikas

... and incomprehension." (The Mother, On Education, CWM Vol. 12, p. 69) (2)"It is a well-known fact that one grows into the likeness of what one loves. Therefore if you want to be like the Divine, love him alone. Only one who has known the ecstasy of the exchange of love with the Divine can know how insipid and dull and feeble any other exchange is in comparison." (Ibid.) (3)"Since we ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  The Ninefold Daily Sadhana

... fugitive, so there is nothing in it worth getting upset about. What is lasting, eternal, immortal and infinite — that indeed is worth having, worth conquering, worth possessing. It is Divine Light, Divine Love, Divine Life — it is also Supreme Peace, Perfect Joy and All-Mastery upon earth with the Complete Manifestation as the Crowning. When you get the sense of relativity of things, then whatever happens ...

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Sri Aurobindo And The Mother  >  The Mother meets Sri Aurobindo

... immense gratitude rises from my heart, it seems to me that I have at last reached the threshold I sought so much. Grant, O Lord, that I may be sufficiently pure, impersonal, animated with Thy divine love to be able to cross it definitively. Oh, to belong to Thee without any darkness, without any restriction!¹ April 7, 1914 O Lord, all thought seems dead within me.... I search for ...

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The Destiny of the Body  >  The Mind-Consciousness: Its Achievements and Failures

... 18. 4 Ibid. 5 Yoga ś ikhopani ṣ ad, 6.60. Page 117 Sachchidananda. We have similarly to change our sensational and emotional mentality into a play of divine Love and universal Delight; and we have to surcharge the intellect which seeks to know and will in us with the light of the divine Knowledge-Will until it is transformed into a figure of that higher ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 3  >  Part-VII

... influence, whether a good one or a bad one.         In meditation I saw three flowers of "Divine Ananda" hanging from a bower. Some time ago there was a similar vision of the three flowers of "Divine Love" offered to the Mother. Has this any correspondence with my sadhana?       It is not quite clear what this number 3 means in this connection. Possibly it is the aspiration for the divine's ...

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Memorable Contacts with The Mother  >  XIX: OUR DEBT AND HOMAGE

... support. But my personal loss counted for nothing before the tremendous void felt by the entire Ashram. The Mother had made us forget Sri Aurobindo’s most painful absence by her all-encompassing divine love and solicitude. But who is there to console us now? Who shall guide and protect us? We have to seek for that consolation within our hearts. As Nolini says, "The Mother’s physical body was our ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  May 1935

... Heavens? which? who? But there is nothing new in that. It was coming down before Nov. 34, but afterwards all the damned mud arose and it stopped. But there are red crimson lights. One is supramental Divine Love. The other is the supramental physical Force. I am reading your Intuitive Mind. Can you not release that manuscript in the meantime? Which blessed manuscript? I have a hundred! I don't recall ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  August 1935

... . What is it that could melt you so as to give us 'a patting during darshan? It is my mathematical discovery—don't seek for any other cause—my grand new, brand-new mathematical formula. Divine Love concretising itself? or the Divine himself elated at the thought of an impending big deal? What great expectations! Besides I'm not Roosevelt. I am only going ahead, therefore visibly cheerful ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  January 1937

... Hirendranath Dutt, theosophist and philosopher, in one of his articles on Rāslīlā , asks why mystics and yogis use so much the imagery of passion, wine etc. in their description of experiences of Divine Love. Then he quotes Underhill to say "... it [human love] most certainly does offer upon lower levels a strangely exact parallel to the sequence of states in which man's spiritual consciousness unfolds ...

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A Vision of United India  >  India's spiritual heritage

... a successful journey? And what of Indian names? One commonly meets people with names such as Avadh -indestructible, Pratap - the glory of God, Anand _ indivisible bliss, Preeti - divine love, Amar - immortal, Vaibhav - the grandeur or majesty of the divine, Shanti - supreme peace, Kaanti - the glory of God, and Mohini - the enchanting aspect of the absolute. And these are ...

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The Supreme  >  The Mother's Feet

... opens the door and I enter into the depths of this inconscience and I kindle the light to illumine the atoms in the torpor of inconscience. I put there a bit of force to awaken them and I give this Divine Love so that they may aspire more. I charge each atom in this way. There where we have placed our feet and left our footprints behind, those atoms irradiate and influence others which are in their proximity ...

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The Supreme  >  The Mother's Voice

... and a smiling benevolence. My voice is enveloped with an atmosphere which awakes in us an intense aspiration which strengthens the will to strive till the goal, and the sentiment of devotion and divine love. It penetrates into the hearts and awakes the central being, removes the screen which covers the psychic flame to lead the consciousness towards the Lord of our existence. My voice has an extraordinary ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 3  >  Part-II

... different kind - the psychic has its own more personal love, bhakti, surrender. Love in the higher or spiritual mind is more universal and impersonal. The two must join together to make the highest divine love.   We cannot be satisfied with experiences of the Mother's infinite Peace and Silence: they are impersonal. We also want something of her personality - of her presence, love, joy and ...

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On Savitri  >  Notes on ''Savitri''

... The whole thing refers to the New Creation coming down from above - now down into the psycho-vital or physico-vital or even the subtle physical plane. This New Creation is the creation of the Divine Love - the Mother's Love. Morning Star - Venus, Goddess of Love - embodying New Creation. Amber colour representing a particular plane of consciousness. Yellow+red+a touch of brown ...

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Conversations with Sri Aurobindo  >  Conversations 1926

... the divine force. Is it a force of Knowledge? Not exactly. Knowledge manifests more by a force whose colour is golden. Though it includes many other things. Then it is a force of divine love. It is a force of true devotion that raises the psychic being to a pure aspiration. It includes also many things. But names are always limiting. You must not hanker after naming things but ...

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Pradyot's Correspondence with The Mother  >  5 April 1963

... April 1963 My dear child This is simply mischief from somebody who wants to interfere with our work. But such a thing cannot be tolerated and must fly away in front of the Power from the Divine. Love 5 April 1963 ...

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Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  Third Series - Introduction

... divine nature in men above their lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He comes as a divine personality, which shall fill the consciousness of the human being, to replace the limited egoistic personality, "so that it shall be liberated out of ego into infinity and ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 2  >  T. S. Eliot

... which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre – To be redeemed from fire by fire.¹ The Divine Love is a greater fire than the low smouldering fire that our secular unregenerate life is. One has to choose and declare his adhesion. Indeed, the stage of conversion, the crucial turn from the ordinary ...

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Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother  >  22 June 1963

... exert yourself and never hurry. Do what can be done in the time you have but without strain—in a quiet flow of peace. All work must be play, but a Divine play played for the Divine, with the Divine. Love 22 June 1963 ...

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A stream of Surrender : Minakshi-Amma  >  content

... writes in connection with the austerity of love ("of all austerities the most difficult" she calls it), that "one grows into the likeness of what one loves. Therefore, if you want to be like the Divine, love Him alone." That Amma had travelled far on that road, was proved to me when, in the same period, my old Gujarati teacher told me, "You know, Appa and Anuma were outgoing and effusive, always full ...

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Blessings of the Grace  >  Sri Aurobindo

... students are developing here, and they come in contact with this atmosphere of purity, of truth where the consciousness is charged by the transforming force of progress towards perfection and the divine love which is found nowhere, even for the cultural and aesthetic development, the refinement of the senses, of the highest degree of virtue, the appreciation of beauty, of sanctity, and of the subtle ...

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Blessings of the Grace  >  Blessings of the Grace

... Beaumontia Grandiflora , Herald’s Trumpet, Easter Lily Vine. It is a bowl-shaped flower into which Mother places the other flowers one by one. [ ↩ ] ‘Faith’ – Hibiscus Albo Variegata . [ ↩ ] ‘Divine Love’ – Punica Granatum , Pomegranate Flower. [ ↩ ] ‘Transformation’ – Millingtonia Hortensis , flower of the Indian Cork Tree. [ ↩ ] The conversation took place in the ‘Interview Room’ on ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  20 NOVEMBER 1939

... without any physical element. You can't say the physical is predominantly so. Blake and others actually say that spiritual love should be sanctified by vital and physical action. They are part of divine love. NIRODBARAN: In woman, people say, a moment comes when she surrenders everything to the beloved. The physical being is a part of that surrender. SRI AUROBINDO: That is the attitude of submission ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  The Hero and the Nymph

... the nature of supreme love to linger long on our murky earth: "Only a little the God-light can stay:"¹ Secondly the limitation is that of a mixture, a dilution. The quality and nature of Divine Love entering earth suffers an alteration, a diminution and pollution. It is mixed with baser elements of human nature. Kalidasa too mentions these – foremost of all is jealousy – jealousy that caught ...

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Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history  >  Poet of Yoga

... the waters of Eternity. 52 The 'Bird of Fire' is the Agni-bird, "the living vehicle of the gold fire of the Divine Light and the white fire of the Divine Tapas and the crimson fire of Divine Love - and everything else of the Divine Consciousness". 53 As for the form of the verse, it is claimed to be a compromise between the stress system and the foot measure and lines of twelve and ten stresses ...

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Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history  >  Bibliography

... Conditions of the Synthesis; Part I: The Yoga of Divine Works; Pan II: The Yoga of Integral Knowledge. Volume 21 — The Synthesis of Yoga , PARTS THREE 'AND FOUR. Part III: The Yoga of Divine Love; Part IV: The Yoga of Self-Perfection. Volume 22 — Letters on Yoga, PART ONE: The Supramental Evolution; Integral Yoga and Other Paths; Religion, Morality, Idealism and Yoga; Reason ...

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On The Mother  >  Sadhana of the Body

... a fresh aspiration of the cells for peace and. plasticity: pain was "the smack of a whip" that set the body on the road back to aspiration, cure, ānanda. The aspiration evoked the response of Divine Love, the intervention of Grace, and the return of health and sweetness, for "an evil always carries its own remedy.... The three things - suffering as a means of progress, progress and the cure of suffering ...

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On The Mother  >  Immortal Sunlight

... August 1971, Sri Aurobindo's 99th birthday, the Mother distributed as the message for the day a sentence from the Master himself: A veil behind the heart, a lid over the mind divide us from the Divine. Love and devotion rend the veil, in the quietude of the mind the lid thins and vanishes. 1 And her own message for the occasion was broadcast by the All India Radio, Pondicherry: Today is the ...

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Mother or The New Species - II  >  14: The Mechanism of the Contagion

... state" that Mother often called the "state of Harmony" and Sri Aurobindo the "Supramental": Because in proportion to this detachment, the reality of the Vibration—and especially the vibration of divine Love—keeps growing and growing (out of all proportion to the body, even) in a formidable manner, formidable! The body is beginning to feel nothing but that. Yes, it's as if I were living, as if THE BODY ...

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On The Mother  >  Year of Wonders

... of Light and Life - the Matrimandir - how sunflower-like all thoughts, all aspirations, all actions, all, all would turn towards the Divine and receive the Light of Divine Truth and the warmth of Divine Love, all this was wrapped up in the future, but that future had already begun to unfold itself out of the lotus-bud of the Inauguration on 28 February 1968. For millions and millions of years the earth ...

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On The Mother  >  Tea, Flowers and Flu

... swiftest, largest and greatest way. On Me, says the Godhead to the soul of man, repose all thy mind and lodge all thy understanding in Me: I will lift them up bathed in the supernal blaze of the divine love and will and knowledge to Myself.... ... The God-lover dear to God is a soul of wide equality .... And the crown of this equality is love founded on knowledge, fulfilled in instrumental action ...

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On The Mother  >  The Golden Bridge

... joyous; it is the vital which dramatises and makes itself unhappy without any reason." 29 VI It is at the vital level, alas, that jealousies and quarrels are rife, but psychic or divine love transcends all rivalry and struggle. True love eschews mere sentiment and tempestuous passion, and is silent in its very strength. At one point the Mother has to tell the sadhak sharply: ...

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On The Mother  >  Ashram Calendar

... conquered. There is a lustre in his eyes that infuses itself into the soul of man and sets it aflame. The flame goes on growing in intensity. He puts into the heart of man the flower-seed of Divine love that is sure to grow .... 11 Such, then, were the gains of the Darshan for the sadhaks, disciples and visitors who filed past Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and received the touch of ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine  >  Man in the Universe

... I will give what Mother has to say on this problem. "Is the supramental truth-consciousness only power, only knowledge and illumination ? it is much more. Listen to the voice of the maternal Divine Love : "Oh beloved children, sorrowful and ignorant, and thou of rebellious and violent nature, open your hearts, tranquillize your force. It is the Omnipotence of Love that is coming to you." ...

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Life of Sri Aurobindo  >  Sri Aurobindo on Himself

... follow in practice, but in getting the psychic consciousness back and putting its light into this vital part and making that part turn wholly to the Mother, ¹ 11-6-1932 It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine.² I have never ...

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Spiritual bouquets to a friend  >  Letter from Rishabhchand to Rutledge Tompkins

... selfoffering and selfless, passionate love. The Mother's love for you doesn't depend on what you do or say-it is causeless, eternal and infinite. Your psychic is Her true child in you. Live in that divine Love. Try to see Her radiant smile even in Her frowns and accept Her blows, if and when they come, as Her blessings. How can She transform our recalcitrant parts without dealing a few compassionate blows ...

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The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo  >  The Integral Transformation-3

... pure self, silent, tranquil, illimitable; or it rises into regions of light or of felicity, or into planes where it feels an in- finite Power or a divine Presence or experiences the contact of a divine Love or Beauty or the atmosphere of a wider and greater and luminous Knowledge."² In the beginning, when the mind comes down from these shining altitudes of experience, it finds that it has brought back ...

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The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo  >  Mind and its Purification-3

... rudraśakti, which destroys what has to be destroyed, but without any reactions of anger or vindictive violence. It hurls its destructive fire from a poise of all-seeing calm and impelled by the divine Love, which hurts in order to rouse and exalt, and destroys in order to new-create. Lust is a perversion of love, and sorrow and suffering of the essential delight of existence. All these energies will ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  Grace

... give yourself up to the Grace of the Divine; for, it is under the form of Grace, of Love, that it has consented to uplift the universe after the first involution was established... . With the Divine Love is the supreme power of Transformation. It has this power because it is for the sake of Transformation that it has given itself to the world and manifested everywhere. Not only has it infused itself ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  The Service of the Divine

... all nature, harmonized and integrated, quickened and illumined, ecstatically responding to the touch of ¹Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, June 30, 1914. Page 107 divine Love and impeccably moved by the divine Force. The Will of the eternal Doer functions through the co-operating will of the apparent human doer, using the means and achieving the ends decreed by itself ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  Yogic Action-2

... the most ascetic life, still if some bond of illusion held back the consciousness far from Thy absolute Consciousness, if some egoistic attachment deprived us of the integral communion with Thy divine Love, we should be no nearer to Thee, whatever might be the outer circumstances. Are there even Page 314 circumstances more or less favourable ? I doubt it; it is the idea we form ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - An Approach And A Study  >  Summary of Book-10

... "My whole being is filled with Love". "My love eternal sits throned on God's calm; For Love must soar beyond the very heavens "It must change its human ways to ways divine." "Love human must be transformed and become divine. "...not for my heart's sweet poignancy Nor for my happy body's bliss alone I have claimed from thee the living Satyavan, But ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  Self-Surrender

... January 13, 1914. Page 47 last arrived at the threshold which I have so long sought. "Grant, O Lord, that I may be pure enough, impersonal enough, animated enough with Thy divine Love, to be able to cross it definitively. " O to belong to Thee, without any darkness or restriction /" But even this does not seem to satisfy the exacting Lover. He insists on more ...

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Moments Eternal  >  Eternal Sacrifice

... final prayer went up: O Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do . Many centuries prior to this, another incarnation of the Divine had come down to the earth. His aim was to spread divine Love amongst humanity. But people began chasing him in order to kill him. They inflicted wounds on his body as he continued to flee across the desert. Suddenly in the middle of this barren desert he saw ...

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Prithwi Singh's Correspondence with The Mother  >  19 July 1967

... on my birthday. It was the same feeling when I received Your kind message on the Israeli war. All this has made me convinced, not mentally alone, but from the depth of my being, that the power of Divine Love is greater than the power of Divine wrath. Now I will pray to be enlightened on one point. At present the working is going on with direct Supra-mental Force. Its immediate action on the world ...

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Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  Second Series - Introduction

... the divine nature in men above their lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He comes as a divine personality, which shall fill the consciousness of the human being, to replace the limited egoistic personality, "so that it shall be liberated out of ego into infinity and ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - An Approach And A Study  >  Summary of Book-3-Part-2

... is an eternal power of the Divine. Savitri's progress takes her through the darkest Night to the reign of the Double Twilight. She affirms her eternal Being, her immortality and her right to divine Love. Death finding negation ineffective resorts to refusal and opposition. Savitri sees no real negation; she finds that "the great Negation was the Real's face", and "the Inconscient is the sup ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine  >  Delight of Existence - the Solution

... consecrated by accepting universal love. How far can the expression of universal love be attained in life ? If you want to see it exemplified, you see it in Christ. You can say, not only universal but Divine Love, for that matter. Q : Do you think that Christianity has over-exaggerated suffering so that it has become a distortion of what Christ Himself tried to... A : Not only that; you must ...

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Mother or The Divine Materialism - I  >  13: And the Earth

... men—far from it. That is why the Consciousness that is striving to transform humanity unites force with love, and he who is to realize this transformation will come upon earth with the Power of Divine Love. 37 Behind her irony, her mischievous laughter, her violent heart athirst for progress, Mirra, Mother, was perhaps first and foremost love: To be an immense mantle of love enveloping the whole ...

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The Philosophy of Love  >  The Philpsophy of Love

... philosopher. I look at the state of the world and the ages. Today I awoke with the philosophy of Love. Love Love for the sea Love for music Love for beauty Love for Mother Divine Love I feel great pity for these poor men, who are what, who love what ? This world was created for love And it is by love we live. Page 7 It is the first instinct of life. ...

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At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo  >  Undated

... until it becomes the development, perfection, siddhi of the Divine Consciousness, it will and its instrument in this body — and that can only be when these things become secondary and bhakti for the Divine, love for the Divine, oneness with the Divine in consciousness, will, heart and body becomes the sole aim — the rest becomes merely the fulfilment of the Divine’s Will by the Divine Power. This attitude ...

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Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history  >  Global Comprehension

... third aspect of the Self and of Brahman, besides the universal consciousness active in divine knowledge, besides the universal force active in divine will, it saw the universal delight active in divine love and joy". 68 But this third constituent of the ultimate triune Reality seems to have escaped the Greek thinker, as it has escaped many other Western thinkers and philosophers. Yet, perhaps, Heraclitus' ...

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Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history  >  Arya - A God's Labour

... morning, sitting near a window with a shawl wrapped round her. The jottings were really transcripts of her conversations with the Divine! On 1 February 1914 she wrote; ...identified with Thy divine love, I contemplate the earth and its creatures, this mass of substance put into forms perpetually destroyed and renewed, this swarming mass of aggregates which are dissolved as soon as constituted, of ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Five  >  Break the Habit

... eternal." It was intolerable to Mother to see physical suffering. "Physical suffering is to me like a child being beaten.... But then," Mother told Satprem one day, "when that true Compassion of Divine Love comes and you see all those things that look so horrible, so abnormal, so absurd, that great pain over all beings and even over things.... Then there was born in this physical being the aspiration ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Three  >  The Hidden Meaning

... "It's all yellowed. Does it matter?" she asked. "It'll soak water!" he objected. "You see, because Page 145 I write with chandanam 1 mixed with water, using a twig of 'Divine Love'!" 2 "Without any cotton-tip? Without anything?" "Yes, without anything," he nodded. "Only a twig which I whittle into a pen." "Are the designs small?" "The image is a rectangle ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Four  >  The Eternal Birth

... knowledge, a man self-lost in meditation —you will never find such a man in the entire universe." 1 Aurobindo has a second meaning: a red lotus. Red is the colour of revolt. And the colour of Divine Love. A third meaning: a blue lotus. The blue colour is associated with Sri Krishna — Krishna and his delight. "Pale blue light is my light," Sri Aurobindo was to say one day. * * * 1. ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine's Love

... things. Aspiration in the physical for the Divine's Love implies that the physical asks for nothing else save that it should feel how the Divine loves it. It realises that all its usual satisfactions are utterly insufficient. But there cannot be a compromise: if the physical wants the Divine's Love it must want that alone and not say, "I shall have the Divine's Love and at the same time keep my other attachments... 1930 - 1931 1930 - 1931 Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine's Love Here is the flower we have called "Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine's Love." By the "Physical" I mean the physical consciousness, the most ordinary outward-going consciousness, the normal consciousness of most human beings, which sets such... mean that the very consciousness in you which hankers after material comfort and well-being should of itself, without being compelled by the higher parts of your nature, ask exclusively for the Divine's Love. Usually you have to show it the Light by means of your higher parts; surely this has to be done persistently, otherwise the physical would never learn and it would take Nature's common round of ...

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The Signature Of Truth  >  ASPIRATION IN THE PSYHIC

... asks for nothing else save that it should feel how the Divine loves it. It realises that all its usual satisfactions are utterly insufficient. But there cannot be a compromise: if the physical wants the Divine's Love it must want that alone and not say, "I shall have the Divine's Love and at the same time keep my other attachments, needs and enjoyments ..." The fundamental seat of aspiration... "Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine's Love." By the "Physical" I mean the physical consciousness, the most ordinary outward-going consciousness, the normal consciousness of most human beings, which sets such great store by comfort, good food, good clothes, happy relationship, etc., instead of aspiring for the higher things. Aspiration in the physical for the Divine's Love implies that the physical asks... consciousness in you which hankers after material comfort and Page 92 well-being should of itself, without being compelled by the higher parts of your nature, ask exclusively for the Divine's Love. Usually you have to show it the Light by means of your higher parts; surely this has to be done persistently, otherwise the physical would never learn and it would take Nature's common round of ...

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Champaklal's Treasures  >  Very Precious

... special packets of DIVINE'S LOVE. You remember Kamala had wanted plastic boxes and you had arranged for them. Kamala would fill a box and send it to Mother or give it personally. How happy Mother was when she received the box each time! It was a great privilege for Kamala. At some stage Mother stopped using these packets. I could not understand why she was still sending the Divine's Love flowers for making... making packets, though she was not using them. The collection went on growing. Then on the occasion of the last Kali Puja day, she said she would give these Divine's Love packets to people. It was on 5.11.1972. She distributed them freely. ...

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Champaklal Speaks  >  Very Precious

... packets of Divine's love . You remember once Kamala wanted plastic boxes for the work and you arranged for them. Kamala would fill a box with packets and send it to Mother or give it personally. How happy Mother was, each time she received a box! It was a great privilege for Kamala. At some stage Mother stopped using these packets. I could not understand why she was still sending the Divine's love flowers... flowers for making packets, though she was not using them. The collection went on growing. Then on the occasion of Kali Puja day in 1972, she said she would give these Divine's love blessing packets to all. It was on 5.11.1972. She distributed them freely. ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  The Avatar

... The supreme Divine manifested in an earthly form —generally a human form — for a definite purpose. They have a disastrous atmosphere. They are pessimistic, dissatisfied, shrivelled up — out of tune with both sides at once, with the soul and with physical nature, which makes their life very miserable. Am I truly Yesterday morning I distributed petals of "Divine's Love". The previous night... night was, here, the darkest of the year and in India it is a great festival. Its true significance is that the Divine's Love is at the base and core of all manifestation even where it seems most completely inconscient. ...

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White Roses  >  31 January 1961

... value have always to face many ordeals. And thirdly, when I say to take refuge in the Divine's love, I do not mean that it is all sufficient in itself. Not so; personal effort and favourable circumstances are also necessary for the promptness of the advance. But those who can take refuge in the Divine's love find there a support, a protection and a joy that give them strength to face all the ordeals ...

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Pradyot's Correspondence with The Mother  >  14 October 1968

... consciously aspired for it to be able to do my work. Is it that the Sex-God did not like it and struck me on the victory day? Surely the Sex-God is not stronger that the Divine's Love and you can be assured that the Divine's Love is with you and the Sex-God will have to behave properly! Blessings 14 October 1968 ...

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My Savitri work with the Mother  >  31 January 1961

... value have always to face many ordeals. And thirdly, when I say to take refuge in the Divine's love, I do not mean that it is all sufficient in itself. Not so, personal effort and favourable circumstances are also necessary for the promptness of the advance. But those who can take refuge in the Divine's love, find there a support, a protection and a joy that gives them strength to face all the ordeals... , and I need not tell you my love—you know it. If I had not gone through difficult times, I would have never grasped the true meaning, the true purpose of life. I am extremely lucky that the Mother guided me directly and put me on the path which leads to the Supreme Truth and the Supreme Love. My whole being aspires for nothing but everlasting union with the Divine. Sri Aurobindo's promising words... words are really encouraging: In the end a union, a closeness, a contact, companionship in the soul with the Divine, and yet more wonderful oneness in living. ...

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Champaklal Speaks  >  Burden on Mother

... Surrender, Humility, Purity, Devotion, Tapasya, and finally a flower of Divine's love placed in one of Gratitude . Then as I was about to go to Mother with all these, the idea came to me: “What am I doing? The same thing for which I find fault with others!” Then I left all other flowers except Gratitude with Divine's love and Humility placed within it. I felt—and I still feel—that one flower ...

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White Roses  >  31 March 1960

... 1960 White Roses 31 March 1960 Money and a jewel can be replaced, the Divine's love is unreplaceable. ...

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White Roses  >  02 February 1956

... 1956 White Roses 02 February 1956 The Divine's love is always with you and that is the only thing that never fails in life. ...

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Champaklal's Correspondence with The Mother  >  30 March 1948

... Correspondence with The Mother 30 March 1948 The generosity of your absolute self-giving will bring to you the revelation of the generosity of the Divine's Love. 30 March 1948 ...

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Pradyot's Correspondence with The Mother  >  Undated

... Pradyot's Correspondence Pradyot's Correspondence with The Mother Undated Nothing can ultimately oppose the Divine's Love. It is the Eternal Victor. Love Undated ...

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My Savitri work with the Mother  >  12 January 1968

... Next day I received a card from the Mother with these promising words. 12.1.68 To my very dear little child Huta Let your thoughts be filled with the Divine's Truth and your heart be filled with the Divine's Love. It was the beginning of my new life, new work and new consciousness. ...

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White Roses  >  21 December 1960

... go to Nirvana; and this can be obtained only by a very strict tapasya of complete detachment. There is also another and more simple way of getting out of trouble, it is to take refuge in the Divine's love. ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  Human Love is Fugitive

... Part I: Letters of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Human Love is Fugitive Do not grieve. Human love is fugitive. It is only the Divine's love that never fails. With love and blessings. The Mother continue ...

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White Roses  >  14 April 1958

... 1958 White Roses 14 April 1958 The Divine alone is love—all the rest is selfish sentimentality. The Mother, Mother's Agenda — 1951-1960: Undated 1958 But the Divine's love is everywhere and everything. The Mother, Mother's Agenda — 1964: July 22, 1964 ...

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Indra Sen's Correspondence with The Mother  >  24 October 1946

... rebellious in [our] material into strength and perfect truth, hammer straight what is wry and perverse and expel what is impure or defective". My dear child, Tonight I gave petals of the Divine's love because no love is greater than that of Mahakali for her children. 24 October 1946 ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  29 February 1968

... me the message of 29.2.1968, saying: This is the continuation of the message of 21.2.68. It read: Truth alone can give to the world the power of receiving and manifesting the Divine's Love . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Messages for the Supramental Manifestation upon Earth On that day, 29.2.1968, at 5.15 p.m., the Mother gave Darshan from her balcony to the Ashramites ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  21 February 1968

... on of the Divine's Love is to collaborate for the triumph of the Truth . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Darshan Messages She smiled and said: Child, the continuation of this message will come on the 29th . Not once but often the Mother told me and wrote to me about Truth and Love. As a matter of fact, the whole theme of the Matrimandir is based on TRUTH and LOVE. The Mother ...

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Champaklal Speaks  >  30 March 1948

... generosity of your absolute self-giving will bring to you the revelation of the generosity of the Divine's Love. 30.3.1948 The Mother (I once received a telegram from someone who was in great difficulty. I sent it to Mother for reply. Sri Aurobindo wrote): Keep faith quietude openness to divine power. Ashirvada. Sri Aurobindo Today it was the day of changing the pillow-cover on ...

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My Savitri work with the Mother  >  31 March 1960

... for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine. She had written under this: My dear little child Huta, Do not be worried. Since a few days I knew that you were in difficulties and my love and force were with you more intimately than ever. Money and ajewel can be replaced, the Divine's love is unreplaceable. With love and blessings Relief flooded through me temporarily... temporarily. I knew that everything passed with time—but some things leave scars. I had loved the feeling of the sacred chain around my neck. It had given me a sense of security. But now? Tears ran down my face, the slow, painful tears of utter despair. Gaizmore Hotel was a big building with rooms converted into bed-sitters. It had a good number of tenants. My bed-sitter with cooking facilities was ...

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Collected Poems  >  Madhusudan Dutt

... Madhusudan Dutt Poet, who first with skill inspired did teach Greatness to our divine Bengali speech,— Divine, but rather with delightful moan Spring's golden mother makes when twin-alone She lies with golden Love and heaven's birds Call hymeneal with enchanting words Over their passionate faces, rather these Than with the calm and grandiose... Wherein the birds of spring and summer and all flowers And murmuring waters flow, her widowed hours Making melodious who divinely loved. No human hands such notes ambrosial moved; These accents are not of the imperfect earth; Rather the god was voiceful in their birth, The god himself of the enchanting flute, The god himself took up thy pen and wrote. ... months doth choose Than courts of kings, with Sita in the grove Of happy blossoms, (O musical voice of love Murmuring sweet words with sweeter sobs between!) With Shoorpa in the Vindhyan forests green Laying her wonderful heart upon the sod Page 35 Made holy by the well-loved feet that trod Its vocal shades; and more unearthly bright Thy jewelled songs made of relucent light Wherein ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  The Divine Grace and Love

... Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 The Divine Grace and Love THE MOTHER says that there can be Love without Grace as there can also be Grace without Love, although the two are essentially one and the same. Grace means gift, it is a gesture of the giving of boon from the Divine. The Divine gives out of His Plenitude what we want, what we need, what we should... But instead of giving any boon, any treasure physical or material or even spiritual, however precious, instead of giving anything the Divine may give Himself to one who approaches Him; then it becomes something more than the Grace, it is Love, the Divine's Love – His own Self. It is His own substance, His own delight of being that He gives, not anything external or extraneous. One remembers the story... is a form of herself in an attitude that belongs particularly to her. Love is of Mahalaxmi it is her own special form and gesture. Or, Page 206 varying the image we may say Grace is Shiva, the benign white radiance on the supreme heights enveloping the creation in its calm immutable compassion; while Krishna is Love, the immortal delight dwelling in the heart of mortality. Page 207 ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10  >  The Divine Grace and Love

... Aurobindo - Part 10 XII The Divine Grace and Love The Mother says that there can be Love without Grace as there can also be Grace without Love, although the two are essentially one and the same. Grace means gift, it is a gesture of the giving of boon from the Divine. The Divine gives out of His Plenitude what we want, what we need, what we should... But instead of giving any boon, any treasure physical or material or even spiritual, however precious, instead of giving anything the Divine may give Himself to one who approaches Him; then it becomes something more than the Grace, it is Love, the Divine's Love—His own Self. It is His own substance, His own delight of being that He gives, not anything external or extraneous. One remembers the... self, it is a form of herself in an attitude that belongs particularly to her. Love is of Mahalaxmi, it is her own special form and gesture. Or, varying the image we may say Grace is Shiva, the benign white radiance on the supreme heights enveloping the creation in its calm immutable compassion; while Krishna is Love, the immortal delight dwelling in the heart of mortality. Page 48 ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1968  >  January 27, 1968

... remained in India to live with Sri Aurobindo, when he left his body I continued to live here in order to do his work which is by serving the Truth and enlightening humanity to hasten the rule of the Divine's Love upon earth." There, and that's that. Period. It came in English and afterwards I put it into French. It was Pavitra who read me the gentleman's letter yesterday evening, and while he was ...

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Champaklal Speaks  >  My Room in Library House

... no furniture, just a thin narrow quilt and a pillow; in a corner, on a small chest (for clothes etc) covered with a cloth, I had kept a photo of Mother and Sri Aurobindo and a single flower of Divine's love . The chest also served as my table. In my present room, there is no space left to keep any extra piece of furniture. In those days, Barin's room was like my present room. However, I was happy in ...

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Words of the Mother - I  >  Outer Life

... remained in India to live with Sri Aurobindo. When he left his body, I continued to live here in order to do his work which is, by serving the Truth and enlightening mankind, to hasten the rule of the Divine's Love upon earth. 21 February 1968 Do not ask questions about the details of the material existence of this body; they are in themselves of no interest and must not attract attention... give a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo's great teaching and in his teaching he reveals that all the nations are essentially one and meant to express the Divine Unity upon earth through an organised and harmonious diversity. 15 August 1954 Divine Mother, The officer who is preparing the electoral rolls wants the name of the Mother included in the lists. If the Mother permits, I shall give ...

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Words of the Mother - III  >  Puja Messages

... fertilising the soil, the bush was covered with marvellous flowers, scarlet, large, crowded with petals... innumerable drops of blood. These are the flowers which express and contain for us the Divine's Love. 14 November 1955 Durga Puja 1957 MAHASHTAMI To express our gratitude to Sri Aurobindo we can do nothing better than to be a living demonstration of his teaching. 30 September... Mother divine, thou art with us, each day thou givest me the assurance, and closely united in an identification which grows more and more integral, more and more constant, we turn to the Lord of the universe and to That which is beyond in a great aspiration towards the new Light. 31 October 1955 Kali Puja 1955 Long, long ago, in the dry land which is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated... incarnated upon earth to awaken in it the supreme love. As expected it was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, pursued. Mortally wounded by its assailants, it wanted to die quietly in solitude in order to be able to accomplish its work, and being pursued, it ran away. Suddenly, in the vast desert land there appeared a small pomegranate bush. The saviour crept in under the low branches, to leave ...

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Spiritual bouquets to a friend  >  The Mother

... Consciousness, he left his body in 1950, the Mother "continued to live in order to do his work which is : By serving Truth and enlightening mankind to hasten the rule of Divine's Love upon the earth." She declared, "There is a Supreme Divine Consciousness. We want to manifest this Consciousness in the physical life." In furtherance of the realisation of Sri Aurobindo's ideal of human unity, the... realised the Divine at the age of twenty two. She had also practised the Gita's Karmayoga. She came to India for good in 1920 and began to collaborate with Sri Aurobindo in his integral Yoga. When he went into seclusion after his great Siddhi in 1926, he gave the charge of the inmates in the Mother's hands. Thus the Ashram was founded and the Mother was accepted as the Divine Mother. ... them. ** * To smile at an enemy is to disarm him. ** * The whole of our life should be a prayer offered to the Divine. ** * All sincere prayers are granted, every call is answered. ** * To work for the Divine is to pray with the body. ** * But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. ** ...

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Words of the Mother - I  >  Conditions for Admission

... from difficulties that one must come here. It is not even to find the sweetness of love and protection, for the Divine's love and protection can be enjoyed everywhere if one takes the right attitude. When one wants to give oneself totally in service to the Divine, to consecrate oneself totally to the Divine's work, simply for the joy of giving oneself and of serving, without asking for anything... absolutely contrary to the spiritual life. The spiritual life demands that one is exclusively turned towards the Divine and the Divine alone. All that one does should be done for the Divine ; all occupations, all aspirations, all, without exception, should be directed towards the Divine with a complete surrender of the whole being. I know that this cannot be done in a day. But the decision that... Sincerity, courage, discipline, endurance, absolute faith in the Divine work and unassailable trust in the Divine Grace. All this must be accompanied by a sustained, ardent and persevering aspiration, and by a limitless patience. 28 December 1966 The Ashram is meant for those who want to consecrate their lives to the Divine. June 1971 The two indispensable conditions to live as ...

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Towards the Light  >  Of The Divine And Its Helps

... but give thyself and all to its Divine owner. * Knowledge and power belong to the Divine and are bestowed when and on whom He chooses; covet them not. But devotion and love are man's and by love and (devotion Page 10 you can enter into divine power and knowledge. ... * Let the Divine think through you, feel through you and act through you. Then only right and perfect use will be made of the- instruments that compose your being. Let the Divine's Thoughts shine in your mind, let the Divine's Love swell in your heart, let the Divine's Energy impel your limbs. *... imminent mother-hood, the birth of the Divine in you. Await in calmness, await in breathless readiness. * Silence is the gate through which you enter the Divine. The senses silent, you will sense the Divine. The brain silent, you will understand Him. Your passions silent, you will love Him. Your desires silent, you will possess ...

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White Roses  >  23 February 1956

... 1956 White Roses 23 February 1956 Let the Divine's Light, Love and Force save you from the clutches of the devil. ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 2  >  Of the Divine and Its Help

... oneself: both mean stealing from the Divine. Sattva is a sharing with the Divine. Neither steal nor share, but give thyself and all to its Divine owner. * * * Knowledge and power belong to the Divine and are bestowed when and on whom He chooses; covet them not. But devotion and love are man's and by love and devotion you can enter into divine power and knowledge. * * *... motherhood, the birth of the Divine in you. Await in calmness, await in breathless readiness. * * * Silence is the gate through which you enter the Divine. The senses silent, you will sense the Divine. The brain silent, you will understand Him. Your passions silent, you will love Him. Your desires silent, you will possess Him. * * * The Divine never withdraws from... feel through you and act through you. Then only right and perfect use will be made of the instruments that compose your being. Let the Divine's Thoughts shine in your mind, Divine's Love swell in your heart, let the Divine's impel your limbs. * * * Let the taste of Immortality fill my mouth. . . all mortalities will turn insipid. * * * A little of Her Grace is sufficient ...

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Prithwi Singh's Correspondence with The Mother  >  16 June 1941

... Singh's Correspondence with The Mother 16 June 1941 My dear child, In the physical the joy of being is the best expression of gratitude towards the Divine. My love and blessings 16 June 1941 ...

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Ambu's Correspondence with The Mother  >  29 March 1935

... Ambu's Correspondence Ambu's Correspondence with The Mother 29 March 1935 My Love, What is the meaning of "service"? The work that is done not for oneself but as a disinterested offering to the Divine. With love and blessings to my dear faithful Baby 29 March 1935 ...

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The Sun and The Rainbow  >  A Dream-Vision - January 3,1962

... which you were holding in your other hand. The flower is: "The Joy of Faithfulness." And inside this flower there is just one petal of "The Divine's Love". You say, "At present take this. It will do. By and by you will find the whole of the flower meaning 'The Divine's Invisible Truth'."     SEHRA Page 197 ... very flower you have chosen - the flower meaning 'The Divine's Invisible Truth'. You have been searching for this truth. Already I have made you see something of it today when you saw me at the edge of the door high up with the fire mounting towards me. Looking with your human eyes you feared, but at the end you saw the truth that I am the Divine and so the fear you had was gone." Then you pull... shutting my mouth says, "Wait. Just look!" Then, with the fear that the fire would touch you. I close my eyes and say to myself, in an appeal to Sri Aurobindo, "How can this happen? Mother is divine and she must know that the fire is below her!" Then I open my eyes and see that you are now facing the door and looking at the fire. The fire is touching you and yet nothing happens: it is as if it ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  Undated

... harassings. I undergo all possible pinchings, tortures and troubles, but our goal is something else—it is the Divine Life. You are quite right in not allowing the moods and fancies of the people to affect you. You must soar above all that in the constant feeling of the Divine's Presence, Love and Protection. With you always Undated ...

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Champaklal Speaks  >  Birthday Cards

... by the Divine's Love. Let it be with Peace and Joy in my love and blessings The Mother 2.2.1968 Bonne Fête! To Champaklal With love and blessings for a wonderful year The Mother 2.2.1969 Bonne Fête To Champaklal the Faithful with love and blessings for a happy, healthy and useful year in light, joy and love The Mother 2.2.1970 With love and blessings... specially prepared for his birthday by Gautam With love, The Mother 2.2.1965 Champaklal Master of the “cards”, how to prepare a card for you? Here is only some material for a card. With full appreciation of you, your work and your devotion and with blessings and love The Mother 2.2.1966 To Champaklal with love and blessings for a strong, healthy, luminous and happy... Mother to Champaklal Love Peace Strength Silence Consciousness The Mother 2.2.1970 Bonne Fête! Champaklal! 2.2.1971 From Sri Aurobindo to Champaklal Bonne Fête! Blessings The Mother 2.2.1971 To Champaklal 1st Prize of Faithfulness With my full love bonne fête The Mother 2.2.1972 Bonne Fête à Champaklal with love and blessings The ...

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Words of the Mother - III  >  Darshan Messages

... the Inconscient there also shines the Divine Consciousness, resplendent and eternal. Page 185 21 February 1965 Above all the complications of the so-called human wisdom stands the luminous simplicity of the Divine's Grace, ready to act if we allow It to do so. 21 February 1968 The best way to hasten the manifestation of the Divine's Love is to collaborate for the triumph of... meet and find their harmony: it is the aspiration for a divine consciousness. 21 February 1973 The more we advance on the way, the more the need of the Divine Presence becomes imperative and indispensable. Page 187 24 April 1973 Beyond man's consciousness Beyond speech O Thou, Supreme Consciousness Unique Reality Divine Truth ... liberating action of the Divine Grace upon earth among men. These two aspects are equally indispensable, but are not equally appreciated. The sovereign immutable peace that liberates from anxiety, tension and suffering. The dynamic all-powerful progress that liberates from fetters, bondages and inertia. The peace is universally appreciated and recognised as divine, but the progress is welcomed ...

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Visions of Champaklal  >  Visions of Champaklal

... you the revelation of the Divine's Love.” The simple secret is that one must have the faith of a child, boundless and absolute, in the Divine Grace. The best offering to God is love, single-minded devotion and complete self-surrender that knows no complaint. Sincerity and unselfishness to the last particle of one's being are essential so that consecration to the Divine becomes the breath of life... consciousness—the consciousness of the Divine Presence and it even tends to lose all distinction from the surroundings and to feel one with them. This is the principal difference between those who believe in God with their intellect and those who believe in God with their whole being—between knowing from outside and knowing with an inner self-identification with the Divine. The difference between ordinary... peaceful and God-oriented vital being to develop during the sadhana. The visions also show in general for man, as seen and experienced in particular by Champaklal, the existence and aspects of the Divine in relation to man. As a physical being man may be seen as a child of God. (Champaklal saw his Father and Mother in Sri Aurobindo and the Mother respectively.) This is the first aspect, whereby according ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  15 June 1935

... In all clouds, all difficulties, all obstacles faith in the Divine is the only guide, strength and protection. It is faith in the Divine and love that save a sadhak and carry him beyond the dangers to a life of immortal bliss. Fortify my faith, O my dear Mother. Yes, never let anything cloud your faith in my love for you and in my constant presence and help. And rise high enough ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 425, 426, 427

... is the instrument of my rapture. Someone who has experienced love for the Divine can no longer love anything but the Divine, and it is the Divine he loves in all those for whom he feels affection; besides, this is the best way to love, because in this way one can be a powerful help for others to become conscious of the Divine who manifests in them. 27 March 1970 ... 426, 427 425—The next greatest rapture to the love of God, is the love of God in men; there, too, one has the joy of multiplicity. 426—For monogamy may be the best for the body, but the soul that loves God in men dwells here always as the boundless and ecstatic polygamist; yet all the time—that is the secret—It is in love with only one being. 427—The whole world is my seraglio and ...

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Ambu's Correspondence with The Mother  >  29 September 1941

... With my love and blessings 29 September 1941 UNDATED LETTERS OF THE PERIOD 1934-1936 The red lotus is the Avatar. The white lotus is the Divine Consciousness. In a prayer you ask something from the Divine—in a meditation you contemplate and express a truth. Love and blessings to my dear faithful Baby Ma, what is perfection? To be exactly what the Divine wants of... Receive fully what I give you; like that you can help me in my work for you. The great secret for receiving is to give oneself. Give yourself unreservedly to the Divine and you will receive fully the Divine's Love and Happiness. You say that you want to become conscious of my presence in you; is it not your goal? First you must want it, and then you must try again and again... me in your mind and I will always remain there. With love and blessings It is because you allow the discontentment to come that you cannot feel the presence of "Mother" who is always with you, helping, protecting and loving. O my lovely Ma, Often in the day my faith gets shaken. My days are passing in struggle. Thy love and presence 1 forget. Yes, you must steadily push ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  Undated?

... Here is a message from the Mother in connection with Love: Do you know what is true love? There is only one true love, the love from the Divine, which, in human beings, turns into love for the Divine. Shall we say that the nature of the Divine is Love . The Mother, On Education: The New Age Association Somebody questioned the Mother:... varieties of Hibiscus. The Mother very much wanted these varieties of Hibiscus in all these gardens, ranging from white to multicoloured, small to big, single to double or multiple petals. In fact she loved all flowers. So by early 1970, Richard and his helpers had started a Nursery, close to the Matrimandir, to start preparing all the plants for the future gardens. But he was also deeply interested ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  The Divine Is with You

... response that never fails is the Divine's. The only love that never fails is the Divine's. Love the Divine alone and the Divine will always be with you. 6 August 1963 The opinion of the Supreme Lord alone has importance. The Supreme Lord alone deserves all our love and He returns it to us a hundredfold. 11 February 1970 Take the Divine alone into your soul's confidence... Man's Relationship with the Divine Man's Relationship with the Divine Words of the Mother - II The Divine Is with You Never forget that you are not alone. The Divine is with you helping and guiding you. He is the companion who never fails, the friend whose love comforts and strengthens. Have faith and He will do everything for you. Never forget... forget that you are not alone. The Divine is with you helping and guiding you. He is the companion who never fails, the friend whose love comforts and strengthens. The more you feel lonely, the more you are ready to perceive His luminous Presence. Have faith and He will do everything for you. 27 September 1951 Page 9 It is in the Divine that we shall always find all that we need. ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Five  >  They Meet

... remained in India to live with Sri Aurobindo. When he left his body, I continued to live here in order to do his work which is by serving the Truth and enlightening humanity, to hasten the rule of the Divine's Love upon earth." It had been a pretty long voyage. Since March 7 Mirra Page 578 had not put her foot ashore, till the Kaga Maru reached Colombo. There, small boats were bobbing... myself but for the earth-consciousness." The fulfilment of evolution. Concentrated into a brief period. To bring down the Spirit Divine into Matter. To raise up the Divine latent in Matter. To join the Two. The Life Divine upon Earth. Here and now. "It is now, in this life that I insist on it and not in another or in the hereafter." Page 581 ... are the same," Sri Aurobindo said simply, "the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play." He stated further, setting at rest any doubt anyone could have, "There is no difference between the Mother's path and mine; we have and have always had the same path, the path that leads to the supramental change and the divine realisation; not only at the end, but from the beginning ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  18 June 1935

... shown the right path and the right attitude. We are trying our best—but ... My dear Mother, as the Divine wills. Let this day be for you the day of complete liberation from all that is not the Divine, let it be the day of your absolute, integral consecration to the Divine. Our love, blessings and help are always with you and today they will be with you in a special way. 18 June 1935 ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  19 November 1934

... myself and in You and in the final Victory of the Divine Light. Yes, fear not. The attack is not on you only but on the whole place, because of the approaching darshan. We have only to say—in perfect peace—to these adverse forces: what you are trying to do is perfectly useless—you can in no way interfere with the victory of the Divine. All love and blessings to you, my dear child 19 November ...

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Champaklal's Treasures  >  Myself and My Creed: The Declaration of a True Slave of God

... distributed petals of “Divine's Love”. The previous night was, here, the darkest of the year and in India it is a great festival. Its true significance is that the Divine's Love is at the base and core of all manifestation even where it seems most completely inconscient. There is JUSTICE INELUCTABLE There is here a Consciousness working. Each one when he goes against this divine Consciousness loses... convinced that I can foresee better the consequences and the results of things and actions. For those who are afraid of a word. This is what we mean by “Divine”: all the knowledge we have to acquire, all the power we have to obtain, all the love we have to become, all the perfection we have to achieve, all the harmonious and progressive poise we must make manifest in light and joy, all the unknown... Since I love only You, 0 Lord, it is You alone whom I love in all and in each one; and by dint of loving You in them, I shall end up by making them a little conscious of You. For them, the real thing is to know how to let themselves be loved without any preference and obstruction. But, not only do they not want to be loved except in their own way, they do not want also to open themselves to love unless ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  Love for the Divine

... the true and sacred love is there (love from the Divine and for the Divine), whatever happens is always utilised as a means for increasing and perfecting the union. This leaves no place for worry, regret and depression, but, on the contrary, fills the consciousness with the certitude of victory. Integral love for the Divine: pure, complete and irrevocable, it is a love that gives itself for... your being? I refuse to believe it. Child, you say to me, "To love me is to do what I want." But I say to you that for the Divine to love truly is to do what is best for the one He loves. May 1946 Each and every one, when he turns to the Divine, demands that He should do for him exactly what he asks. Whereas the Divine does for each one what is best for him from all points of view.... always be close to the object of your love, for you will grow into his likeness. 27 November 1952 It is said that one grows into the likeness of what one loves; but with regard to God it is also true that one can remain always with Him only when one grows into His likeness. It is not through human love that one can learn to love the Divine, for the love is of quite a different nature. First ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  Opinions of Others

... exclusively turned towards the Divine, not under the divine influence alone. And then, instead of bringing with oneself the divine atmosphere made of love, tolerance, understanding, patience, it is one's ego that throws itself out, in response to another's ego, with stiffness and hurt feelings, and the disharmony is aggravated. The ego never understands that the Divine has different workings in different... feeling of the Divine's Presence, Love and Protection. Don't let anything from outside approach and disturb you. What people think, do or say is of little importance. The only thing that counts is your relation with the Divine. 30 April 1933 It is always regrettable when one is open to the influence of another person. One shouldn't admit any influence except that of the Divine. 22 March... and curse you. But the Divine will be with you. 17 September 1953 To be plastic towards the Divine means not to oppose Him with the rigidity of preconceived ideas and fixed principles. And this requires a great strength, for the more you are plastic to the divine will, the more you come in conflict with the human wills that are not in contact with the divine will. Give your will entirely ...

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Words of the Mother - III  >  The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth

... are of a very special kind. ( Message for the third anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth ) Truth alone can give to the world the power of receiving and manifesting the Divine's Love. 29 February 1968 × Written in the leap year 1956, this statement was first publicly distributed as the... 29 February 1956 During the common meditation on Wednesday This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine. As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that "... pure coincidence? For Sri Aurobindo "coincidences" do not exist. All that happens is the result of the action of the Divine Consciousness. The Force which is at work at this moment is a Force of harmony that makes for unity—the unification of all the symbols that express the Divine Truth. 5 May 1967 " In 1967 the Supermind will enter the phase of realising power." What does "realising power" ...

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On The Mother  >  Integral Sadhana

... uncompromising Divine. As the Mother said in her talk on "Knowledge by Unity with the Divine": Life is a battlefield in which the Divine succeeds in detail only when the lower nature is receptive to its impulsions instead of siding with the hostile forces .... What you have to do is to give yourself up to the Grace of the Divine; for, it is under the form of Grace, of Love, that it has consented... clean sweep of it all - and, then, the Next Future! II In one of her talks, the Mother showed the flower - Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine's Love - and explained that such aspiration should exclude all the lower forms of love. In itself, physical nature is but a darkness, and without the light of the psychic its education cannot start. The Mother's clear guideline is that the sadhak... the divine Consciousness which spread into Matter and slowly lifted up Matter, made it develop to return to the Divine. The psychic being was formed by this divine centre progressively through all the births. There comes a time when it reaches a kind of perfection .... Then, most often, as it has an aspiration for realisation, for a greater perfection to manifest yet better the Divine, it generally ...

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Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 2)  >  chapter 025

... for perfection. In our immediate practical context, all life proves to be Yoga when whatever we do is made an occasion to invoke the Divine and lay it at His holy feet. To the Divine's love for us there is nothing great or small. The whole of us is wanted. This love is infinite and cannot be satisfied unless every finite bit of our lives is consciously dedicated to it. (16.4.1991)  ... way of putting the matter is that whatever happens is turned by her to our good. I say this because in the world, originally posited by the Divine, of a myriad mixed influences and agencies, many events have to be considered as imposed on the Divine, but the Divine always meets them with a spiritual strategy which invariably looks to the inner good of us all so that everything is made to work for our... present to me and happy thoughts fly towards you. Especially at the Samadhi there is a close communication, for there more than anywhere else I have a sense of us meeting within that eternal source of love and unity - the Mother's creative and transformative and all-harmonising heart. Always to live with a sense of being born from that fountain of felicity is the very meaning of life for us.   ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  Is all that Happens in Life Always for the Best?

... pre-determined Goal of Page 345 this divine Guidance. For, surely a Goal there is and every individual soul, whoever he may be and at whatever stage of development he may actually be, is being certainly led to the one common final destination: Union with the Divine and its accompanying attainments, such as, divine Light, Love, Life, Peace, Knowledge, Truth, Good, Power, Bliss, Harmony... regards the purpose of this constant divine Guidance. We must bear in mind that this Guidance. We least concerned with the fulfilment of the interests of the ego or with the satisfaction of the desires of the physical-vital-mental self of man. "Its main concern is with the growth of our being and consciousness, the growth towards a higher self, towards the Divine,... the rest is secondary, sometimes... Guidance and come to believe that his life's vicissitudes are after all made up of a series of random accidents. The sadhaka must believe with all his heart that the divine Guidance is always there and has been leading him to the Divine through the progressive growth of his consciousness. All the circumstances of his life tend, without his knowing it, towards the development of his being and consciousness ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  12 May 1954

... sincere. To let nothing pass. That is, all one does, all one feels, all one thinks, all one wants, is it exclusively the Divine. "I want nothing but the Divine, I think of nothing but the Divine, I do nothing but what will lead me to the Divine, I love nothing but the Divine." Try—try, just to see, try for half an hour, you will see how difficult it is! And during that time take great care that... is the sign to indicate that a sadhak's determination to surrender to the Divine is having practical effect in his life?" And Sri Aurobindo replies: "The sign is that he has full obedience without question or revolt or demand or condition and that he answers to all divine influences and rejects all that are not from the Divine." Isn't this a resigned surrender? Resigned? What does that mean... have the power of rejecting all influences except that of the Divine. These are great results. When one has attained these, one is already quite advanced. Do you know how to distinguish between an influence coming from the Divine and one coming from elsewhere?... When you feel an impulse in you, can you tell whether it comes from the Divine or from elsewhere? A little. A little! Ah! That's good ...

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Sri Aurobindo - The Poet  >  Sri Aurobindo - Poet of Yoga

... creative, could not be bettered. The epithet "diamond" too is worth noting for its double felicity: not only is it true to the inner sight to which the Divine's will is a tremendous white lustre just as the Divine's knowledge is a gold blaze and the Divine's love a crimson flare—it is also extraordinarily apt when the Spirit concealed in Matter is visioned, a presence holding material Page 53 ... God, smitten purple with the incarnate divine Desire, Rose of Life, crowded with petals, colour's lyre! Transform the body of the mortal like a sweet and magical rhyme; Bridge our earthhood and heavenhood, make deathless the Children of Time. Rose of God, like a blush of rapture on Eternity's face, Page 50 Rose of Love, ruby depth of all being, fire-passion of... imagery wakes in us an intuition of glorious purposes at work. To miss the sense of a divine reality that is borne on the profoundly moving language and rhythm and to say that we are face to face with abstractions covered by ornate phraseology is to be deaf and blind and numb. The Infinite, the Eternal, the Divine—these are riot in mystical poetry philosophical abstractions. A certain philosophical ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  14 July 1954

... transmitting forces. They lived in Tlemcen. I was in Paris. I used to correspond with them. I had not yet met them at all. And then, one day, she sent me in a letter petals of the pomegranate flower, "Divine's Love". At that time I had not given the meaning to the flower. She sent me petals of pomegranate flowers telling me that these petals were bringing me her protection and force. Now, at that time I... the sense of your separate person. Do you feel that you are the Divine, and only the Divine? No! ( Laughter ) Well, the Divine is this... Precisely, so long as you feel that you are Manoj, well, Manoj must make an effort. If you can completely get rid of the notion of Manoj, there is no longer anything but the Divine, and it is the Divine who will make the effort, naturally!... But so long as there is... Aurobindo make a difference between the Divine and the Shakti? Here he speaks of "surrender of oneself and all one is and has and every plane of the consciousness and every movement to the Divine and the Shakti". He has said that the Divine is the Supreme. That's the origin. He has said, hasn't he? at the very beginning of this chapter, I think, he has said, "The Divine..." (The child reads the text) ...

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Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  First Series - Introduction

... the unquiet and suffering may live in the calm and bliss of the Divine."2 "The Avatar comes to reveal the divine nature in men above their lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine loves. He comes as a divine personality, which shall fill the consciousness of the human being... descend as an incarnation of divine life, the divine personality and power in its characteristic action, for a mission ostensibly social, ethical and political, as is represented in the story of Rama and Krishna; but always then his descent becomes in the soul of the race a permanent power for the inner and Spiritual rebirth."1 "He comes as the divine power and love which calls men to itself, so... lived the Divine and showed us how the Divine cares for the world, how he comes down and works for man. I shall never forget how he who was at one time – in his own words – "not merely a non-co-operator but an enemy of British Imperialism" bestowed such anxious care on the health of Churchill, listening carefully to the health bulletins!It was the work of the Divine, it was the Divine's work for the ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Elements of Perfection

... negative; each according to its own idea leads towards some likeness to the Divine, sādṛśya , and each finds its own way, such as the love and worship of the Bhakta and the growing into the likeness of the Divine by love. But for the integral Yoga perfection will mean a divine spirit and a divine nature which will admit of a divine relation and action in the world; it will mean also in its entirety a ... gunas and the dualities into the high truth of the divine calm and the divine action, then spiritual perfection becomes possible. Purification and freedom are the indispensable antecedents of perfection. A spiritual self-perfection can only mean a growing into oneness with the nature of divine being, and therefore according to our conception of divine being will be the aim, effort and method of our seeking... its limitations, enlarged, rounded so that the whole manhood in us may become the basis of a divine manhood, when the Purusha, the real Man in us, the divine Soul, shall act fully in this human instrument and shine fully through this human vessel. To divinise the perfected nature we have to call in the divine Power or Shakti to replace our limited human energy so that this may be shaped into the image ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Principle of the Integral Yoga

... Yoga of knowledge, love and works has to be extended into a Yoga of spiritual and gnostic self-perfection. As gnostic knowledge, will and ananda are a direct instrumentation of spirit and can only be won by growing into the spirit, into divine being, this growth has to be the first aim of our Yoga. The mental being has to enlarge itself into the oneness of the Divine before the Divine will perfect in... reason why the triple way of knowledge, works and love becomes the key-note of the whole Yoga, for that is the direct means for the soul in mind to rise to its highest intensities where it passes upward into the divine oneness. That too is the reason why the Yoga must be integral. For if immergence in the Infinite or some close union with the Divine were all our aim, an integral Yoga would be superfluous... Yoga of self-perfection. For we shall see that this also need not be postponed entirely, but a certain preparation of it is part of and a certain initiation into it proceeds by the growth of the divine works, love and knowledge. Page 615 × Mukti. × ...

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Learning with the Mother  >  THE RECITATIONS

... equanimity. *** Only he who loves can recognise love. Those who are incapable of offering themselves in a sincere love, will never recognise love anywhere; and the more divine the love, that is to say devoid of egoism, the less they can recognise it. *** Concentration upon oneself leads to decay and death. Solely a concentration on the Divine brings life, progress and realisation... n. *** It is for the Divine Grace that one must pray; if the divine justice were to manifest, they will be few who would be able to stand up in front of Her. *** Love alone can understand and enter into the secrets of divine action, the mind, especially the physical mind is incapable of seeing correctly, and yet it always wants to judge. *** Only a true and sincere humility... more into the light and the power of my love that is always with you. *** One must have complete confidence in the victory of the Divine; and this general victory will imply the personal victory of all those who have remained faithful and confident. *** To do at every moment the best one can and leave the result in the hands of the Divine, such is the surest way to peace, happiness ...

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Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 3)  >  chapter 003

... clear a passage for His love to act, we get Him to put Himself at our disposal and we set Him to unravel the numberless knots of our nature. This is a work He is most eager to do and it is a work He alone can do, but He cannot do it unless we abandon ourselves to Him as a child to its mother. Sri Aurobindo's Yoga wants our self-surrender to the Divine so that the Divine may take away from us the... the whole load of our imperfection, lay His all-transformative love at our service and save us the Herculean labour of cleaning the Augean stable of our condition humaine.   In the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo the Divine's love is all agog to shoulder such a job because this Yoga is of what he desig- Page 36 nates as the Supermind whose purpose is to manifest in the long run a life... dynamised in either case - profound love is astir, but on the one side it is tugged by a dazzle of beauty and bliss while on the other it is drawn by a tranquil glow of compassionate grandeur.   You have referred to a poem of mine, after reading which the Mother had asked everyone present at the time to read. Here it is:   PRANAM TO THE DIVINE MOTHER .   There are two ways ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  The Superman

... up from the animal with open eyes towards her divine ideal. But God is complex, not simple; and the temptation of the human intellect is to make a short cut to the divine nature by the exclusive worship of one of its principles. Knowledge, Love whose secret word is Delight, Power and Unity are some of the Names of God. But though they are all divine, yet to follow any of them exclusively is to invite... great and divine riddle; but it is no knot of Gordius, nor is its all-wise Author a dead king that he should suffer us to mock his intention and cut through to our will with the fierce impatience of the hasty mortal conqueror. None of these oppositions is more constant than that of Power and Love: yet neither of these deities can be safely neglected. What can be more divine than Love? But followed... Page 152 gracious hands and link themselves together naturally and with delight as in the pastoral round of Brindavan, divine Krishna dominating and holding together its perfect circles. To evolve in the sense of the God is to grow in intuition, in light, in joy, in love, in happy mastery; to serve by rule and to rule by service; to be able to be bold and swift and even violent without hurt or ...

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Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 2)  >  chapter 026

... unceasingly. In Sri Aurobindo it discovers the sight and the light - the hidden divine truth behind the evolving human is caught in its fullness and in a concentrated form in that tranquil countenance in which the entire broken history of mankind becomes a single shining whole of a knowledge penetrating all problems and a love whose purity, intensity and widensss can suffuse all sorrow and raise every... Nirvana, and this can be obtained only by a very strict tapasya of complete detachment.   There is also another and more simple way of getting out of trouble, it is to take refuge in the Divine's love. With my blessings.   *   ... Death is not at all what you believe it to be. You expect from death some neutral quietness of an unconscious rest. But to obtain that rest you must... own child to yourselves!"   Trying to hold the heart-wrench within the mass of peace which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had packed into me and to keep the thought of the lost loved one moving towards the Divine on the constant flow of my feeling towards them which has been going on for years - in trying to do this from hour to hour an extreme withdrawnness and depth-exploration took place, I ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Divine Teacher

... this eternal divine Consciousness always present in every human being, this God in man, takes possession partly 4 or wholly of the human consciousness and becomes in visible human shape the guide, teacher, leader of the world, not as those who living in their humanity yet feel something of the power or light or love of the divine Gnosis informing and conducting them, but out of that divine Gnosis itself... instrument, does not perceive that he is an instrument and has to confess at last that all the while he did not really know his divine Friend. He has received counsel from his wisdom, help from his power, has loved and been loved, has even adored without understanding his divine nature; but he has been guided like all others through his own egoism and the counsel, help and direction have been given in... is revealed ordinarily in an efflorescence of its powers, in energies and magnitudes of its knowledge, love, joy, developed force of being, 3 in degrees and faces of its divinity. But when the divine Consciousness and Power, taking upon itself the human form and the human mode of action, possesses it not only by powers and magnitudes, by degrees and outward faces of itself but out of its eternal ...

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On Education  >  The New Age Association

... 9 Page 303 Ninth Seminar: 27 November 1966 What is true love and how to find it? 10 Do you know what is true love? There is only one true love, the love from the Divine, which, in human beings, turns into love for the Divine. Shall we say that the nature of the Divine is Love. Tenth Seminar: 19 February 1967 Why is the Choice imperative? 11 ... way of surmounting the ordinary mental activity? 1 My answer: Keep silent. Second Seminar: 22 November 1964 How to be steady and sincere in our aspiration for the Divine Life. 2 Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain. Page 301 Third Seminar: 14 February 1965 How to discriminate between Truth and falsehood in the impulses of action. 3... way. Twenty-Seventh Seminar: 25 February 1973 How to collaborate in all sincerity in showing to the Page 315 world that man can be a true servant of the Divine? 34 By being a true servant of the Divine. 24 February 1973 Twenty-Eighth Seminar: 22 April 1973 How to reconcile the individual's claim for freedom with the collectivity's need for unity and order? 35 ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  20 June 1956

... the Divine through love alone? Oh! yes, my child, certainly. It is even the most direct way. One can realise the Divine, that is to say, identify oneself with the Divine, become fully conscious of the Divine and be an instrument of the Divine. But naturally, one does not realise the integral yoga, for it is only along one line. But from the point of view of identification with the Divine it is... It is love. But after that, Sri Aurobindo continues: "which, if not what we call intuition―for that, though not of the mind, yet descends through the mind―has yet a direct touch upon Truth and is nearer to the Divine than the human intellect in its pride of knowledge." Is there a relation between this mystic light and intuition? It is not intuition. It is knowledge through love, light through... through love, understanding through love. Sri Aurobindo says that it is not intuition, for intuition belongs to the intellect at least in its expression, the expression of intuition is intellectual. While this is a kind of direct knowledge almost by identity, which comes from love. And "the inner oracle"? The oracle? That is the power of divination, of foresight, of understanding symbols, and ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2  >  GENERAL SADHANA

...       I am aware that there is a small part somewhere in me which keeps itself aloof from the present working of the transformation. It harps on its egoistic attitude — "unless the Divine loves me I cannot love Him."       Is it a part of your nature that clings to these things or is it a movement of the general nature which forces itself in and the truer tendency in this part is overpowered... about when he was so open to the Mother. Had he then not accepted her as the Divine?       On the contrary he began more and more to make a distinction between the Mother and the Divine and to say he had no need of help or any outer mediary; he claimed to Page 133 be identified with the Divine, not with the Mother. That is his present attitude.         It is said...       This afternoon I met H. A short talk with him had a profound effect on me as he is always full of the Mother's love and joy which he spontaneously communicates to others. But after sometime I was annoyed and depressed with myself because I could not receive the Mother's love and joy in the same way at this stage of my sadhana. Page 124       There is no need for sadness ...

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The Sunlit Path  >  Sincerity, Vigilance, Will-power

... sincere. To let nothing pass. That is, all one does, all one feels, all one thinks, all one wants, is it exclusively the Divine. "I want nothing but the Divine, I think of nothing but the Divine, I do nothing but what will lead me to the Divine, I love nothing but the Divine." Try—try, just to see, try for half an hour, you will see how difficult it is! Source Unhappiness and Insincerity... unified. And when you have a will, you will be able to say, say to the Divine: "I want what You want." But not before that. Because in order to want what the Divine wants, you must have a will, otherwise you can will nothing at all. You would like to. You would like it very much. You would very much like to want what the Divine wants to do. You don't possess a will to give to Him and to put at His... one's being and put them before this psychic consciousness so that they fall into their true place in relation to this centre; finally, to organise all one's aspiration towards the Divine and one's progress towards the Divine. That is the positive side. At the same time the negative side consists in refusing methodically and with discernment all the influences which come from outside or from the ...

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