... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XVII The Action of the Divine Shakti This is the nature of the divine Shakti that it is the timeless power of the Divine which manifests itself in time as a universal force creating, constituting, maintaining and directing all the movements and workings of the universe. This universal Power is... into oneness with universal Prakriti, has become an individualised form and action of the divine Shakti. He is still aware of his personal existence, but it is as the Purusha supporting and observing the whole action, conscious of it in his self-knowledge and enabling by his participation the divine Shakti to do in him the works and the will of the Ishwara. The Master of the power is then sometimes... rid of it—as for the lower life the development of ego, so for the higher life this reverse movement of elimination of the ego is indispensable. To see our actions as not our own but those of the divine Shakti working in the form of the lower Prakriti on the inferior levels of the conscious being, helps powerfully towards this change. And if we can do this, then the separation of our mental, vital and ...
... reality permeating all the seven limbs of every single act of the sadhaka. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: Page 158 "But a time will come when you will... realise that the divine Shakti not only inspires and guides, but initiates and carries out your works; all your movements are originated by her, all your powers are hers, mind, fife and body are conscious and joyful instruments... things should be allowed to intrude' as motives behind any of the sadhaka' s actions. The "only object in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfil, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works." (Ibid., p. 15) Third condition — All has to be done for the Divine, either directly if the sadhaka has reached that advanced stage of consciousness or, at least, ... A sadhaka following the Path of the Yoga of Transformation should know that, much more than offering his actions, he should try to offer his state of consciousness to the Divine so that the Divine Shakti could mould it in her own way. Offering for transformation what one is is infinitely more important than offering what one does. In the words of the Mother, "if you truly want to receive ...
... its bottomless aggressive ignorance and its petty self-confident knowledge. The human mind shut in the prison of its half-lit obscurity cannot follow the many-sided freedom of the steps of the Divine Shakti.......Open rather your soul to her and be content to feel her with the psychic nature and see her with the psychic vision that alone can make a straight response to the Truth." "Then the... questions, the Gita doesn't give the core of the integral Yoga. First of all, the central, dynamic principle of our Yoga is an integral, unreserved and co-operative surrender to the Mother, the Supreme Divine Shakti. There is no mention of the Mother in the Gita. It is the cardinal principle of Tantra, which dominated and directed Sri Ramkrishna's life, and was ultimately accepted by Sri Ramakrishna's Vedantic... safe and we flinch not from the great adventure. For a dynamic Divinity is our birth-right and we must take possession of it, cost whatever it may. We depend not on ourselves, but on the Supreme Divine Shakti, the Mother! We must dare all and achieve the highest. I fully share your admiration for De Chardin. Whereas Paul Tillich, Northrop, Sorokin, Allport etc. have been striving to catch a glimpse ...
... it is manifest only when we renounce the egoism of the worker, and its direct movement increases in proportion as that renunciation becomes more and more complete. Only when our surrender to his Divine Shakti is absolute, shall we have the right to live in his absolute presence. And only then can we see our work throw itself naturally, completely and simply into the mould of the Divine Will. Page... rooted out from the nature can the seeker know his true person that stands above as a portion and power of the Divine Page 247 and renounce all motive-force other than the will of the Divine Shakti. There are gradations in this last integralising movement; for it cannot be done at once or without long approaches that bring it progressively nearer and make it at last possible. The first... essence of a perfect Karmayoga. For while we cherish the instrumental ego, we may pretend to ourselves that we are conscious instruments of the Divine, but in reality we are trying to make of the Divine Shakti an instrument of our own desires or our egoistic purpose. And Page 250 even if the ego is subjected but not eliminated, we may indeed be engines of the Divine Work, but we shall be imperfect ...
... is taking a different course, from that laid in the Yogic Sadhan. Shakti is of two kinds, the lower of the mind desires and the higher Divine Shakti. When the first has been quieted and the higher consciousness made normal in you, it is possible for the Divine Shakti to take up all your activities. This action of yielding and giving place to the higher Shakti is the aim of the Shakti Upasana. Let the... finish this letter and put it in the post. First about your Yoga. You wish to give me the charge of your Yoga and I am willing to take it, that is to say to give it to Him who is moving by His divine Shakti both you and myself whether secretly or openly. But you must know the necessary result will be that you will have to follow that special way which He has given to me and which I call the integral... truth of the highest self or the law of the divine nature, to find one's own divine capacities, great and small, and fulfil them in life as a sacrifice to the Highest or as a true instrument of the divine Shakti. About the latter ideal I may write at some later times. At present, I shall only say something about the difficulty you feel in fulfilling the ordinary ideal. This ideal involves the building ...
... higher powers of the Divine Shakti in herself,— there arrives also a somewhat similar stage, that she must discover the cosmic spirit and cosmic consciousness. This is in the context that Savitri has a task to do and she cannot disappear into the Unmanifest. The gulf between that Ultimate Reality and this Manifestation has to be filled. Only after that the Divine Shakti would work in her in... the imperative is the integral readiness to embody and manifest the whole in her person. Such is the only decisive or essential factor. Savitri must presently open herself out to hold in her the Divine Shakti for the work of the Divine. Towards this "all finitising movement of the instrumental members of the personality" must be overcome. Savitri has done this. Now tranquil or receptive identification... should open to higher working. It tells a story, it makes us think, meditate, struggle; "it takes us to the spaces of a divine calm where all is one seamless Ananda." Aswapati's invocation to the Divine Shakti and her response, that she shall descend carrying all mights and greatnesses in her, are sufficiently indicative of the role of the Tantra in the efficacy of the Integral Yoga. To effect ...
... This Master of the work and his divine Shakti not only preside over the works of the universe but they originate these works, inhabit these works, control them and override all the happenings in the world. But it is the veil of our desire and it is the veil of the ego that prevent us from coming into contact with them, and it is only when our surrender to the Divine Shakti is absolute that we are able... can we see our work throwing itself naturally, completely and simply into the mould of the Divine Will. In the integral Karma Yoga, Sri Aurobindo points out, it is not enough to know the Divine Shakti as the one Cosmic Force that moves us and all creatures on the planes of Mind, Life and Matter. For at the level of Mind, Life and Matter, the cosmic force acts as the lower Nature, Apara Prakriti... spiritualized body-consciousness, there is a stumbling response to the Supreme Power. Page 48 This stumbling response can be remedied, according to Sri Aurobindo, when we open to the Divine Shakti in the truth of a force, as the supramental Para Prakriti, which transcends the lower Prakriti of the mind, life and body. As in other paths which are integrated in the integral yoga, even so, in ...
... irrevocable. It is an irrevocable transformation of attitude. What is the difference between the divine Shakti and the divine Power? Page 356 The divine Power is only a part of the divine Shakti; the divine Power is an attribute of the divine Shakti. Sri Aurobindo uses the word divine Shakti, here, in the sense of chit-tapas , the creative power, the creative consciousness; consequently ...
... features, the perfection of the intelligence, heart, vital consciousness and body, the perfection of the fundamental soul powers, the perfection of the surrender of our instruments and action to the divine Shakti, depend at every moment of their progression on a fourth power that is covertly and overtly the pivot of all endeavour and action, faith, śraddhā . The perfect faith is an assent of the whole being... the integral Yoga and that may be described as faith in God and the Shakti, faith in the presence and power of the Divine in us and the world, a faith that all in the world is the working of one divine Shakti, that all the steps of the Yoga, its strivings and sufferings and failures as well as its successes and satisfactions and victories are utilities and necessities of her workings and that by a firm... experiences of the Infinite. His progress is an ascent from level to level and each new height brings in other vistas and revelations of the much that has still to be done, bhūri kartvam , till the divine Shakti has at last taken up all his endeavour and he has only to assent and participate gladly by a consenting oneness in her luminous workings. That which will support him through these changes, struggles ...
... become aware of the divine Shakti, draw her to us and call her in to fill the whole system and take up the charge of all our activities. There will then be no separate personal will or individual energy trying to conduct our actions, no sense of a little personal self as the doer, nor will it be the lower energy of the three gunas, the mental, vital and physical nature. The divine Shakti will fill Page... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XVI The Divine Shakti The relation between the Purusha and Prakriti which emerges as one advances in the Yoga of self-perfection is the next thing that we have to understand carefully in this part of the Yoga. In the spiritual truth of our being the power which we call Nature is the power of being... itself as the direct will and the all-guiding power of the Purushottama. We replace the inferior action of the limited, ignorant and imperfect personal will and energy in us by the action of the divine Shakti. To open ourselves to the universal energy is always possible to us, because that is all around us and always flowing into us, it is that which supports and supplies all our inner and outer action ...
... II) Offering of all the actions, all that is done in your life as a sacrifice to the Lord. III) Realisation of the higher Divine Shakti doing all the works. (a) Living with the constant idea that it is the Shakti which does the work. (b) Feeling of the Divine Shakti descending from above the mind and moving the whole being. 1921 Sri Aurobindo (Punamchand's letter to Sri Aurobindo)... initial minimum, so much the better. The work will proceed more easily and quickly and with a surer immediate prospect. Preserve the right consciousness and attitude, keep yourself open to the Divine Shakti and let her will be done through you. 1 January 1928 Sri Aurobindo Punamchand, I have not been "angry" with you, but have simply been observing your state of consciousness and your action ...
... II) Offering of all the actions, all that is done in your life as a sacrifice to the Lord. III) Realisation of the higher Divine Shakti doing all the works. (a) Living with the constant idea that it is the Shakti which does the work. (b) Feeling of the Divine Shakti descending from above the mind and moving the whole being. 1921 Sri Aurobindo Punamchand As regards the amount... initial minimum, so much the better. The work will proceed more easily and quickly and with a surer immediate prospect. Preserve the right consciousness and attitude, keep yourself open to the Divine Shakti and let her will be done through you. Sri Aurobindo Write to Punamchand asking what are the 500/- that reached us today. Whenever he sends money, he should inform us at the same time what ...
... reason, the emotional mind, the life mind and the physical nature and brings into us the peace and freedom of the spirit, and a dynamical substitution of the action of the supreme and universal divine Shakti under the control of the Ishwara for that of the lower Prakriti,—an action whose complete operation must be preceded by the perfection of the natural instruments. And all these things together,... with so much accomplished and think that all has been done that was needed for the divine conversion. A momentous question however arises as light grows, the question through what medium is the divine Shakti to act in the human being? Is it to be always through the mind only and on the mind plane or in some greater supramental formulation which is more proper to a divine action and which will take up... being can raise himself above mind, enter into some kind of fusing union with the supramental and build up in himself a level of supermind, a developed gnosis by the form and power of which the divine Shakti can directly act, not through a mental translation, but organically in her supramental nature. It is here necessary in a matter so remote from the ordinary lines of our thought and experience ...
... can become aware when you enter into touch of oneness with the Conscious Force that upholds us and the universe" [ p. 28 ]. Is it the Cosmic Spirit that is meant or the Overmind? It is the Divine Shakti—who acts on all the planes and has all the aspects. 16 June 1933 I am or was under the impression that Mother is the Cosmic and Supracosmic Mahashakti. I don't quite understand the question... bliss over which the Mother stands as the unveiled eternal Power" [ p. 32 ]. Are we to understand that the Transcendent Mother stands above the Ananda plane? There would then be four steps of the Divine Shakti: (1) The Transcendent Mahashakti who stands above the Ananda plane and who bears the supreme Divine in her eternal consciousness. (2) The Mahashakti immanent in the worlds of Sat-Chit-Ananda... has its effect; if you are sincere you will grow into the divine life" [ p. 26 ]. Again "One cannot become altogether this at once, but if one aspires at all times and calls in the aid of the Divine Shakti with a true heart and a straightforward will, one grows more and more into the true consciousness" [ cf. p. 27 ]. It is of course said that the success will come sooner or later,—it is for that ...
... 141 All your life must be an offering and a sacrifice to the Supreme your only object in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfil, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works You must grow in the divine consciousness till there is no difference between your will and hers, no motive except her impulsion in you, no action that is not her conscious action... Aurobindo has answered! these nagging questions in one short sentence: "... your only object in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfil, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works." (The Mother, Cent. Ed., p. 15) But suppose a sadhaka thinks that he has. indeed reached this ideal state and doing all his actions following the prescription given by... he himself after all who w as in charge of executing the actions. Now even this sense of "I a m the worker" will be abrogated from his consciousness. He will concretely feel that it is the divine Shakti herself who is carrying 0u t all his works; all his movements are originated by her; all his Powers are hers, and his mind and life and body are only conscious and joyful instruments of her ...
... functioning personal will. And so long as this state of affairs continues, the sadhaka cannot shirk his responsibility and pretend to leave everything, including his sadhana, to the care of the Divine Shakti; for, he should not fallaciously argue, "is not this Shakti the sole Agent in the world?" No, this will not do. For this will be the case of a serious dharma-sankaratā, a tragic confusion... as the sense of a separative ego with a separate will of its own is present in the sadhaka, he has to apply his personal effort quite seriously and not leave everything to the action of the divine Shakti. Hence is the admonition of Sri Aurobindo: "Reject the false notion that the divine Power will do and is .bound to do everything for you at your demand and even though you do not satisfy... purpose of building up his spiritual life and bringing him to the fruition of his divine goal. Thus is solved the puzzling riddle of personal effort in sadhana vis-à-vis the action of the Divine Shakti, through a harmonious reconciliation of the two factors in the light of the Mother's dictum: "Everything has its own place and everything should be at its place" — "Chaque chose a une place et ...
... II. Offering of all the actions, all that is done in your life as a sacrifice to the Lord. III. Realisation of the Higher Divine Shakti doing all the works. (a) Living with the constant idea that it is the Shakti which does the work. (b) Feeling of the Divine Shakti descending from above the mind and moving the whole being. 1921 [2] Pondicherry August 15th 1923 The bearer Punamchand... much the better. The work will proceed more easily and quickly and with a surer immediate prospect. Preserve the right Page 430 consciousness and attitude, keep yourself open to the Divine Shakti and let her will be done through you. [5] Punamchand I am surprised to see from your letter that you have received from Vithaldas an offer of Rs 500 a month towards the expenses of the ...
... le instrument for all action of the Divine Power on the material world and the physical nature. It is therefore only when this vital is transformed and made a pure and strong instrument of the Divine Shakti, that there can be a divine life. Then only can there be a successful transformation of the physical nature or a free perfected divine action on the external world; for with our present means any... reason all the old experiences are stopped. The heart has to be made the centre and through bhakti and aspiration you have to bring forward the psychic being and enter into close touch with the Divine Shakti. If you can do this, your sadhana will begin again with a better result. Obviously when there is that inability to control and overeagerness, it must be a movement of a vital nature. The... movements, it can be done only on condition you allow your psychic being, the soul in you, to awake fully, to establish its rule and, opening Page 126 all to the permanent touch of the divine Shakti, impose its own way of pure devotion, whole-hearted aspiration and complete uncompromising urge to all that is divine on the mind and heart and vital nature. There is no other way and it is no use ...
... movement; it should naturally result in the growth of a larger Yogic consciousness prevailing over the small external consciousness and becoming a means for transformation under the pressure of the Divine Shakti. But here too it is possible for errors to take place—especially an outside Force may come in and replace the larger consciousness behind by a larger vital ego which pretends to be that. One must... be avoided. The ego has to be overcome, but the central personal being (which is not the ego but the individual self, soul, a portion of the Divine) has to remain a channel and instrument of the Divine Shakti. As for others, sadhaks etc. one can feel them in one's universalised consciousness, be aware of their movements, live in harmony with them in the Divine All, but not allow or call their presence... field of confused and disorderly experiences or a plaything of all sorts of mental and vital beings and forces. Only one rule or influence other than one's own should be admitted, the rule of the Divine Shakti over the adhar. Avoiding the Dangers of the Intermediate Zone You are taking the first steps towards the cosmic consciousness in which there are all things good and bad, true and false, the ...
... Mother. Each is something that she has seen in her vision, gathered into her heart of beauty and power and created in her Ananda. But there are many planes of her creation, many steps of the Divine Shakti. At the summit of this manifestation of which we are a part there are worlds of infinite existence, consciousness, force and bliss over which the Mother stands as the unveiled eternal Power. All... and obliges them to meet and unite that a hidden Ananda may play from behind the veil and make of them its rhythms and its figures. This is the power of MAHALAKSHMI and there is no aspect of the Divine Shakti more attractive to the heart of embodied beings. Maheshwari can appear too calm and great and distant for the littleness of earthly nature to approach or contain her, Mahakali too swift and formidable... its bottomless aggressive ignorance and its petty self-confident knowledge. The human mind shut in the prison of its half-lit obscurity cannot follow the many-sided freedom of the steps of the Divine Shakti. The rapidity and complexity of her vision and action outrun its stumbling comprehension; the measures of her movement are not its measures. Bewildered by the swift alternation of her many different ...
... equal privilege of being close to the Divine and receiving his Grace. On noting this discrepancy we often feel tempted to impute a charge of partiality on the all-powerful Divine. We wonder why the Divine Shakti cannot make us progress equally when outwardly all of us fulfil the same conditions and religiously adhere to the same practices. But there is no use throwing the blame on the Divine and... signs, Sri Aurobindo has indicated: "If it is found that the mind of the sadhaka remains shut up in its own ideas and preferences and because of that acts as an obstacle to the action of the divine Shakti in its ādhāra; "if it is found that the vital being of the sadhaka is whirling in the vortex of its greeds and desires; "if it is found that the physical being of the sadhaka has... all the doors and windows of the being and — what is more wonderful — makes possible in its turn the self-giving of the Divine himself in the sadhaka 's ādhāra. Then, the Light and Force of the Divine Shakti become active the sadhaka' s consciousness and remoulds him into a completely new being through a process of rapid transformation. As an ultimate attainment, the mind and the heart and the body ...
... Bihari-Da Among the Not So Great Bihari-da’s Diary (1) Day by day the working of the Divine Shakti in this bodytransformation is becoming clear. Actually it is a journey through an untrodden path, most dangerous and unaccountable, most uncertain and bewildering, but a journey towards a fulfilment of Mother Nature. First I was bewildered (maybe in 1942)... 1942) when I was going through physical agony (stomach and heart pain) but could not find the cause of the ailment. I was sure it was the action of the Divine Shakti in her working of transformation of the cells of the body. It was the first sign of the awakening of the cells. (2) When one comes in contact with the Divine Power, one at once can start thinking that he is an Avatar or Messiah. The ...
... knowledge, will, action, life to the Spirit within him and in the world. 3 And it so happens that the universal energy is always flowing around us and into us. We have "to connect" with this divine Shakti to get the transformation going. But how can we connect unless we know what it is and how it acts? The massive recordation of Tantra gives the answers with its innumerable ranges of experience... infinite ocean of all the power and energy of illimitable consciousness, an infinite ocean of Ananda, of the self-moved delight of existence." 4 The method of Tantra teaches us to draw the divine Shakti to us so she can transform us. The Integral Yoga brings the two poles of reality—Brahman and Shakti, Purusha and Prakriti—together. It does not countenance the mere formulaic mechanics of Tantra ...
... intervention had to be sought. Being new and too young to understand all this, I asked Sri Aurobindo what exactly was this unique thing called "the Mother's Force". Was it the same thing as divine Shakti? There came forth one of the most beautiful and comprehensive explanations on the Mother he has ever given me in a few lines: There is one divine Force which acts in the universe and in the... stands for all these, but she is working here in the body to bring down something not yet expressed in this material world so as to transform life here—it is so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti working here for that purpose. She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine Force. The Master further explained ...
... realisation it is not enough to rescue the Purusha from subjection to Prakriti; we must transfer the allegiance of the Purusha from the lower Prakriti with its play of ignorant Forces to the Supreme Divine Shakti, the Mother. It is a mistake to identify the Mother with the lower Prakriti and its mechanism of forces. Prakriti here is a mechanism only which has been put forth for the working of the evolutionary... Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. This outer side appears here to be mechanical, a play of the forces, gunas etc. Behind it is the living Consciousness and Force of the Divine, the divine Shakti. The Prakriti itself is divided into the lower and higher,—the lower is the Prakriti of the Ignorance, the Prakriti of mind, life and matter separated in consciousness from the Divine; the higher ...
... being are not surrendered or do not on their own account call for the higher life, this struggle is likely to continue. Surrender everything, reject all other desires or interests, call on the divine Shakti to open the vital nature and bring down calm, peace, light, Ananda into all the centres. Aspire, await with faith and patience the result. All depends on a complete sincerity and an integral co... impulses, the physical's habitual actions, the life of the ego—all such insistence is contrary to surrender. All egoism and self-will has to be abandoned and one must seek to be governed only by the Divine Shakti. No complete surrender is possible without the psychic opening. It is impossible to become like a child giving oneself entirely until the psychic is in control and stronger than the vital ...
... controlling or "helping" them, claiming the part of a superior sadhaka, one with greater knowledge and with occult powers. The larger vital being itself has to give up its powers and capacities to the Divine Shakti from whom they come and must use them only as the Mother's instrument and according to her directions; if it intervenes with Page 152 the claim of its ego and puts itself between her... ordinary life. But to enter into a path of Yoga whose whole object is to substitute for these human things the law and power of a greater Truth and the whole heart of whose method is surrender to the Divine Shakti, and yet to go on claiming this so-called freedom which is no more than a subjection to certain ignorant cosmic Forces, is to indulge in a blind contradiction and to claim the right to lead a double ...
... attended with all the difficulties and uncertainties and obstacles which go with a mixed and yet unformed working,—such as you had at the beginning, but have now got over,—but we must trust to the divine Shakti to overcome them. The one difficulty that it is in our power to avoid is that of the relation between those who are working on these different lines. There the first necessity is that there should... must be based on the fundamental principle of our Yoga to see God in all and the one Self in all acting through different natures and all energies, even those which are hostile, as workings of the divine Shakti although behind the veil of the ahankara and the ignorant mentality. There are movements at work new and old which are not the definite reality of the future but are needed at the present moment ...
... nature, he couldn't have done it all by himself, as you have done. I also did not do it all by myself, if you mean by myself the Aurobindo that was. He did it by the help of Krishna and the Divine Shakti. I had help from human sources also. Page 412 I should say that Avatars are like well-fitted, well-equipped Rolls-Royce machines. All sufficient to themselves—perfect and complete... through my own efforts and example. Transform your nature from the animal to the spiritual, grow into a higher divine consciousness. All this you can do by your own aspiration and by the force of the Divine Shakti." That, if you please, is not the utterance of a madman or an imbecile. I have said, "I have opened the Way; now you with the Divine help can follow it." I have not said "Find the way for yourself ...
... transformation of the vital movements, it can be done only on condition you allow your psychic being, the soul in you, to awake fully, to establish its rule and open to the permanent touch of the divine Shakti and impose its way of devout aspiration and complete surrender on the mind and heart and vital nature. There is no other way and it is no use hankering after a more comfortable path. Nānyaḥ panthā... much more difficult endeavour. To act out of this greater consciousness becomes the only rule of life, abandoning all other dharmas. Not to serve either one's own ego or others, but to serve the Divine Shakti and be the instrument of her works is the law of this life. Your other question,—about the Asrama, arises only when Page 728 you have found your call and your true way,—if that leads ...
... cover Page 29 for your desires, egoistic demands and vital insistences, if you put these things in place of the true aspiration or mix them with it and try to impose them on the Divine Shakti, then it is idle to invoke the divine Grace to transform you. If you open yourself on one side or in one part to the Truth and on another side are constantly opening the gates to hostile... plane of the consciousness and every movement to the Divine and the Shakti. * In proportion as the surrender and self-consecration progress the Sadhaka becomes conscious of the Divine Shakti doing the Sadhana, pouring into him more and more of herself, founding in him the freedom and perfection of the Divine Nature. The more this conscious process replaces his own effort, the more ...
... the full divine Shakti in her? There is one divine Force which acts in the universe and in the individual and is also beyond the individual and the universe. The Mother stands for all these, but she is working here in the body to bring down something not yet expressed in this material world so as to transform life here — it is so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti working here ...
... nt, orientates it towards the infinite and absolute Godhead. This truth of the dynamic omnipresence of the divine Power of being is the foundation of the theory of the Vibhuti. The infinite divine Shakti is present everywhere and secretly supports the lower formulation, parā prakṛtir me yayā dhāryate jagat , but it holds itself back, hidden in the heart of each natural existence, sarvabhūtānāṁ... consciousness and delight, and in the world all throws itself out and finds itself again by energy of being, energy of consciousness and energy of delight; this is a world of the works of the divine Shakti. That Shakti shapes herself here in innumerable kinds of beings and each of them has its own characteristic powers of her force. Each power is the Divine himself in that form, in the lion as in ...
... notebooks; therefore his request cannot be complied with. Suggest to him the separation of Purusha and Prakriti, introspection, rejection of ego and desire wherever he sees it. Also to open to the Divine Shakti. 22 June 1927 Page 593 I was discouraged to learn that you have not yet come out. I would like to come to Pondicherry on the 15th August and remain for about three months. I try... silently to the influence and allowing that to work while rejecting all lower influences and lower movements. I do not know if he is quite ready for that as yet. If he can once open himself to the Divine Shakti and feel the Power and get accustomed to its working, it would then be different and he would profit by his stay. Otherwise he may find the conditions too difficult for him here. 20 July 1928 ...
... persistent faith which no circumstance or event can break. If difficulties occur, they raise not mental doubts or an inert acquiescence, but the firm belief that, with sincere consecration, the Divine Shakti will remove the difficulties, and with this belief a greater turning to her and dependence on her for that purpose. When there is full faith and consecration, there comes also a receptivity to the... from the smallest to the greatest, doing them with a quiet mind and without ego-sense or attachment and offering them to Him as a sacrifice. He may also try or aspire to feel the presence of the Divine Shakti behind the world and its forces, distinguish between the lower nature of the Ignorance and the higher divine nature whose character is absolute calm, peace, power, Light and Bliss and aspire to ...
... self-regarding ego. All your life must be an offering and a sacrifice to the Supreme; your only object in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfil, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works. You must grow in the divine consciousness till there is no difference between your will and hers, no motive except her impulsion in you, no action that is not her conscious action... her hands to have her present guidance, her direct command or impulse, the sure indication of the thing to be done and the way to do it and the result. And afterwards you will realise that the divine Shakti not only inspires and guides, but initiates and carries out your works; all your movements are originated by her, all your powers are Page 12 hers, mind, life and body are conscious ...
... reserve—interpreted not as a complete surrender to the Divine Shakti, but as giving yourself up to anything that came, which might very well be a wrong movement of the lower vital Nature or even a hostile force. I have repeatedly said that this kind of passivity is not the meaning of surrender. You cannot surrender at the same time to the Divine Shakti and to the movements of the lower cosmic Nature. ...
... into Page 182 some contact with that which is beyond, though aware of and dominant over the action of the universe. It is thus by an integralisation of our divided being that the Divine Shakti in the Yoga will proceed to its object; for liberation, perfection, mastery are dependent on this integralisation, since the little wave on the surface cannot control its own movement, much less... possibilities for the conscious and no longer the more than half-inconscient incarnation and self-expression of the Spirit. All this and more becomes more and more possible as the working of the Divine Shakti increases in us and, against much resistance or labour to respond of our obscure consciousness, through much struggle and movement of progress and regression and renewed progress necessitated by ...
... spiritual experience can only come by an opening of human consciousness to the Divine Consciousness; there must be the power to receive in us the working and command and dynamic presence of the Divine Shakti and surrender ourselves to her control; it is that surrender and that control which bring the guidance. But the surrender is not sure, there is no absolute certitude of the guidance so long as we... assigned to himself in the human creature. But its first condition for this liberality is that our works in the world too must be part of the sacrifice offered to the Highest and to none else, to the Divine Shakti and to no other Power, in the right spirit and with the right knowledge, by the free soul and not by the hypnotised bondslave of material Nature. If a division of works has to be made, it is between ...
... under the impulsion and guidance of a divine Will that surpasses us. And last, the supreme result, to be exalted into an identity in knowledge, force, consciousness, act, joy of existence with the Divine Shakti; to feel a dynamic movement not dominated by mortal desire and vital instinct and impulse and illusive mental free-will, but luminously conceived and evolved in an immortal self-delight and an infinite... × rahasyam uttamam. × This Power is the conscious divine Shakti of the Ishwara, the transcendent and universal Mother. × It is not indispensable for the Karmayoga ...
... dictating him ‘the ten limbs’ of it. Sri Aurobindo himself spoke about ‘the prominent and dominant role’ played by Krishna in his sadhana, which he had worked out ‘with the help of Krishna and the Divine Shakti.’ ‘I always saw [Krishna] near Sri Aurobindo,’ said the Mother. We remember that Krishna was one of the Ten Avatars, more specifically, the Avatar of the Overmind. ‘It was a descent of the Supreme... worlds. ‘Mother’s pressure for a change is always strong — even when she doesn’t put it as a force,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo. ‘It is there by the very nature of the Divine Energy in her,’ 24 the Divine Shakti. The Overmind, personified in Shri Krishna, having established itself in matter, the Mother now started to work out its possibilities without delay. As she herself relates: ‘Sri Aurobindo ...
... to have become magnified and there was a light pervading her and the face was of a Goddess. I can only say that it was the face of Maheshwari. Sri Aurobindo has written of this aspect of the Divine Shakti: "Imperial Maheshwari is seated in the wideness above the thinking mind and will and sublimates and greatens them into wisdom and largeness or floods with a splendour beyond them. For she is the... deliberately keep any barriers between themselves and their disciples. I have found the Mother behaving without the slightest sense of the gulf separating her in quality of consciousness from us. The Divine Shakti, I have Page 69 learnt, does not go on thinking of her own greatness, does not stand on her supreme dignity as human V.I.P.'s do. Once I found the Mother come very sweetly ...
... itself as the direct will and the all-guiding power of the Purushottama. We replace the inferior action of the limited, ignorant and imperfect personal will and energy in us by the action of the divine Shakti. To open ourselves to the universal energy is always possible to us, because that is all around us and always flowing into us, it is that which supports and supplies all our inner and outer action... Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. This outer side appears here to be mechanical, a play of the forces, Gunas, etc. Behind it is the living Consciousness and Force of the Divine, the divine Shakti. The Prakriti itself is divided into the lower and higher, — the lower is the Prakriti of the Ignorance, the Prakriti of mind, life and Matter separated in consciousness from the Divine; the ...
... is taking a different course, from that laid in the Yogic Sadhan. Shakti is of two kinds, the lower of the mind desires and the higher Divine Shakti. When the first has been quieted and the higher consciousness made normal in you, it is possible for the Divine Shakti to take up all your activities. This action of yielding and giving place to the higher Shakti is the aim of the Shakti Upasana. Let the ...
... necessarily the withdrawal from all outer activities and self-absorption in the inner depths; for us 'to meditate' means to keep one's whole consciousness turned and open to the Divine and the Divine Shakti, be it subjectively or objectively, always and everywhere and under all circumstances of life. It is because of this basic truth that when someone asked the Mother whether it is absolutely... (vii) to have direct knowledge of the realities of the suprasensuous supraphysical worlds; (viii) to go through forms to the Formless beyond; (ix) to open one's consciousness to the action of the Divine Shakti; (x) to purify the habitual impure nature; (xi) to learn the secret of how to surrender oneself to the Divine; (xii) to find the solution of any specific problem of one's life; (xiii) to evoke ...
... n had to be sought. Being new and too young to understand all this, I asked Sri Aurobindo what exactly was this unique thing called "the Mother's Force". Was it the same thing as the divine Shakti? There came forth one of the most beautiful and comprehensive explanations on the Mother he has ever given me in a few lines: There is one divine Force which acts in the universe and in... stands for all these, but she is working here in the body to bring down something not yet expressed in this material world so as to transform life here - it is so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti working here for that purpose. She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine Force. The Master further explained ...
... defying the known limits and daring the Unknown and confidently pressing towards the supramental world of the Next Future. III Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - the incarnate Lord and the divine Shakti - were nevertheless, when seen from our human end, willing actors in the terrestrial drama, generally veiling their divinity but at the same time also permitting its progressive manifestation. What... to help humanity to work out with diligence and faith its own self-change and move towards transformation. It is thus necessary at every stage to distinguish between the poise of the incarnated Divine Shakti and the seeming surface jolts and veerings and changes in direction that, however, leave unaffected the incandescent purity and power of the poise within. While the launching of the Arya in ...
... surrender has been integral and complete, Grace descends and takes up the charge of the being, and begins its victorious work of purification and transformation. Personal effort then ceases, and the divine Shakti expresses and fulfils her Will in the world through the liberated and universalised individual. According to Sri Aurobindo there are three stages of this long discipline. At the first "you have... second stage, when surrender has progressed far and the ego is fading out of existence, "you will feel more and more that you are the instrument and not the worker... .You will realise that the divine Shakti not only inspires and guides, but initiates and carries out your works; all your movements are originated by her, all your powers are hers; mind, life and body are conscious ¹ The ...
... his being, but that power is herself and we are that in her supernature. If we would realise Page 371 a higher formation or status of being, then it is still through her, through the Divine Shakti, the Consciousness-Force of the Spirit that it has to be done; our surrender must be to the Divine Being through the Divine Mother: for it is towards or into the supreme Nature that our ascension ...
... speak of a miraculous nativity. Sri Aurobindo regards it as a symbol of the Avatar's direct derivation from the Higher Spiritual Nature - Para-Prakriti, Para-Maya, the Supernature that is the Divine Shakti, the creative Goddess-Power which is ever pure, the Virgin Mother of all beings and things. He says: "In the Buddhist legend the name of the mother of Buddha [Maya-Devi, Maha-Maya] makes the symbolism ...
... “You certainly know Hindi.” And then he spoke in Hindi explaining what is meditation. During our stay of eight days, several other things happened. Sri Aurobindo asked me to try to see the Divine Shakti of the Lord that is at work everywhere, in everything. When I asked him what books I should read, he told me to read Prakriti Rahasya (Secret of Nature) in Gujarari and Shandilya's Bhakti Sutra ...
... things to you. As directed by you I sit in meditation but do not get any joy in it. Although I do wish to meditate, I cannot do it with joy. And as told by you, during the meditation I pray to the Divine Shakti but cannot surrender myself to you. While trying to surrender, my eyes burn and my head feels heavier and heavier. Once during meditation something happened, but only for a second. What happened ...
... Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour" who, carrying within his bosom Man's eternal aspiration, dares "the unplumbed infinitudes" and brings to earth-consciousness the Divine Shakti who will redeem her once for all. His adventure of consciousness and joy represents on the human level the struggle and endeavour of every aspirant and thus embodies the typal spiritual efforts ...
... truth of the highest self or the law of the divine nature, to find one's own divine capacities, great and small, and fulfil them in life as a sacrifice to the Highest or as a true instrument of the divine Shakti. About the latter ideal I may write at some later times. At present, I shall only say something about the difficulty you feel in fulfilling the ordinary ideal. This ideal involves the building ...
... will take up the Yoga. All that can be done by Man's strength and courage and the divine soul in him is accomplished by Aswapati: What more needs to be done for earth and men is the work of the Divine Shakti. The remaining twenty-four steps of the Yoga belong to Savitri alone. This story is told in Parts Two and Three. We who are at the beginning of the path have far to go. The world-plane of ...
... half-enlightened, limited in its field, very partially effective in its power. If a spiritual transformation, not a mere illumining modification of our nature, is to be done at all, we must call in the Divine Shakti to effect that miraculous work in the individual; for she alone has the needed force, decisive, all-wise and illimitable. But the entire substitution of the divine for the human personal action ...
... that way. She is all that which holds death and supports the cycles of existence. The creation is a part of that Reality and the functioning its well-meant movement. Savitri has become the full divine Shakti in Space and Time. VIII: 3 Death in the Forest The fated day of Satyavan's death has arrived and Savitri gets ready well before the sunrise. In that auspicious ...
... tion of the vital movements, it can be done only on condition you allow your psychic being, the soul in you, to awake fully, to establish its rule and opening all to the permanent touch of the Divine Shakti*...." 18 It should be evident from what has been stated above that the concept of mastery in yoga is much deeper than what it connotes in the West. It may be said that in the West, mastery ...
... declare her an Avatar: ‘The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme.’ 15 ‘The Mother was inwardly above the human even in childhood … It is so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti … She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine.’ 16 When some of his beautiful letters about the Mother had been collected ...
... the example of the double-poled, complete Avatar, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the present human qualities and way of being will be supramentalized. We have heard Sri Aurobindo say that only the Divine Shakti can accomplish the integral yoga of this transformation. He consequently also said: ‘It is a great mistake to suppose that one can “do” the Purna Yoga [the complete or integral Yoga] … No human ...
... Bhakti; as an incarnation, he manifests the union of wisdom (Jnana) and works and leads the earth-evolution through this towards union with the Divine by Ananda, Love and Bhakti. The Devi is the Divine Shakti—the Consciousness and Power of the Divine, the Mother and Energy of the worlds. All powers are hers. Sometimes Devi-power may mean the power of the universal World-Force; but this is only one side ...
... silence, freedom, peace that is felt—that is called Atman or Self. When action takes place, it is according to the realisation either felt as forces of Nature working in that wideness, as the Divine Shakti working or as the cosmic Divine or various powers of him working. It is not felt that the Self is acting. One may be aware of the silent static self without relation to the play of the cosmos ...
... go through the still greater inner difficulties of the sadhana. The very first lesson in this Yoga is to face life and its trials with a quiet mind, a firm courage and an entire reliance on the Divine Shakti. It is true that a great patience and steadfastness is needed. Be then firm and patient and fixed on the aims of the sadhana, but not over-eager to have them at once. A work has to be done ...
... Consciousness and a greater action of Force: his natural existence would be the instrumentation of a superior Power, an overmental and supramental Consciousness-Force, the power of the original Divine Shakti. All the processes of the evolution would be felt as the action of a supreme and universal Consciousness, a supreme and universal Force working in whatever way it chose, on whatever level, within ...
... and all thought and initiation come from above. The secret Master of our activities will be slowly unveiled to us and from the security of the supreme Will and Knowledge give the sanction to the Divine Shakti who will do all works in us with a purified and exalted nature for her instrument; the individual centre of personality will be only the upholder of her works here, their recipient and channel, ...
... the man of will and works which can easily be led away by the pursuit of power. Power comes inevitably by the supramental change, it is a necessary condition for a perfect action: but it is the Divine Shakti that comes and takes up the nature and the life, the power of the One acting through the spiritual individual; it is not an aggrandisement of the personal force, not the last crowning fulfilment ...
... and knowledge. The next question is that of the Force which is poured into the instruments, karaṇa , and the One who works it for his universal ends. The force at work in us must be the manifest divine Shakti, the supreme or the universal Force unveiled in the liberated individual being, parā prakṛtir jīvabhūtā , who will be the doer of all the action and the power of this divine life, kartā . The ...
... thought and will have to stand back detached from desire, troubling emotion, distracting or mastering impulse and to act in their own right until they can discover a greater guide, a Will, Tapas or divine Shakti which will take the place of desire and mental will and impulse, an Ananda or pure delight of the spirit and an illumined spiritual knowledge which will express themselves in the action of that ...
... of the Ignorance. Page 941 This is the first result, but the second is a free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experience, experience of the Self, experience of the Ishwara and the Divine Shakti, experience of cosmic consciousness, a direct touch with cosmic forces and with the occult movements of universal Nature, a psychic sympathy and unity and inner communication and interchanges of ...
... the nature of the supreme and universal Self seen indeed in the play of multiple individuality but without the veil of ignorance, with self-knowledge, in its multiple oneness, in the truth of its divine Shakti. In the Vijnana the right relation and action of Purusha and Prakriti are found, because there they become unified and the Divine is no longer veiled in Maya. All is his action. The Jiva no longer ...
... called the siddhi of the temperament or nature in the lower system, in the internal triloka of mind, life & body, manas, prana, annam. To put it from a higher standpoint, it is the siddhi of the divine Shakti working in these three principles. वीर्यं शक्तिश्र्चण्डीभावः श्रद्धेति शक्तिचतुष्टयं । Virya, shakti, chandibhavah, sraddha, iti shaktichatusthayam. Virya The Chaturvarnya By ...
... descends from above the mind and the inferior universal Energy with all its different forms, movements, waves and currents that come into you from outside. The inferior Energy proceeds from the Divine Shakti, but it has fallen from the truth of its source and has no longer its direct guidance. When these universal energies come into touch with the Divine Force, rise to meet it and allow it to take ...
... make a cover for your desires, egoistic demands and vital insistences, if you put Page 3 these things in place of the true aspiration or mix them with it and try to impose them on the Divine Shakti, then it is idle to invoke the divine Grace to transform you. If you open yourself on one side or in one part to the Truth and on another side are constantly opening the gates to hostile forces ...
... possess the nature. The physical inertia from which you suffer is likely to lessen and disappear only when strength from above descends into the system. Remain quiet, open yourself and call the divine Shakti to confirm the calm and peace, to widen the consciousness and to bring into it as much light and power as it can at present receive and assimilate. Take care not to be over-eager, as this may ...
... should be clung to which come in the way of this one aspiration and one object of the life. One must be ready to renounce all these completely as soon as the demand comes from above and from the divine Shakti. (2) A fundamental calm, peace and purity in the mind, vital being and all the nature. The hours of meditation should be devoted to the formation of these two conditions in you, by aspiration ...
... its likes and dislikes, its fancies, its desires, its bad habits, it becomes your master and peace and happiness are no longer possible. It becomes not your instrument or the instrument of the Divine Shakti, but of any force of the Ignorance or even any hostile force that is able to seize and use it. Yes, that is the nature of the vital. It can make the absolute and enthusiastic surrender as ...
... mistakes. The Mother does not make people commit mistakes; it is the Prakriti that makes them do it—if the Purusha does not refuse his consent. The Mother here is not this lower Prakriti, but the Divine Shakti and it is her work to press on this lower Nature to change. You can say that under the pressure, the Prakriti stumbles and is unable to reply perfectly and makes mistakes. But it is not the Mother ...
... force and bliss over which the Mother stands as the unveiled eternal Page 52 Power." 1 The Transcendent Mother thus stands above the Ananda plane. There are then four steps of the Divine Shakti: (1) The Transcendent Mahashakti who stands above the Ananda plane and who bears the Supreme Divine in her eternal consciousness. (2) The Mahashakti immanent in the worlds of Sat-Chit-Ananda ...
... stands for all three, but she is working here in the body to bring down something not yet expressed in this material world so as to transform life here—it is so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti working here for that purpose. She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine Force. 16 June 1933 ...
... ordinary life. But to enter into a path of yoga whose whole object is to substitute for these human things the law and power of a greater Truth and the whole heart of whose method is surrender to the Divine Shakti, and yet to go on claiming this so-called freedom, which is no more than a subjection to certain ignorant cosmic Forces, is to indulge in a blind contradiction and to claim the right to lead a double ...
... Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. This outer side appears here to be mechanical, a play of the forces, Gunas, etc. Behind it is the living Consciousness and Force of the Divine, the divine Shakti. The Prakriti itself is divided into the lower and higher, - the lower is the Prakriti of the Ignorance, the Prakriti of mind, life and Matter separated in consciousness from the Divine; the higher ...
... to Page 3 rescue the Purusha from subjection to Prakriti; one must transfer the allegiance of the Purusha from the lower Prakriti with its play of ignorant Forces to the Supreme Divine Shakti, the Mother. It is a mistake to identify the Mother with the' lower Prakriti and its mechanism of forces. Prakriti here is a mechanism only which has been put forth for the working of the ...
... prevents you almost radically from making any effort for transformation. Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo has said that one must find Page 142 a light within, then surrender to the divine Shakti. Now that the Supermind has come down, will this be easier? Well, that is the light within, now. What is the difficulty? Where do you see any objection or contradiction? What is your difficulty ...
... This was the original meaning of the cross also, but that was not as perfect as the flower, for it was one, two, and three. It was not so good—the flower is perfect. The divine Mother is the divine Shakti, that is, the creative Force. She is identified with the cosmos. How can she have a transcendent aspect? But perhaps the divine Mother was there before the creation! She must certainly have ...
... the miracle will be complete! First, about your yoga. You wish to give me the charge of your yoga and I am willing to take it, but that means to give its charge to Him who is moving by His divine Shakti [Energy], whether secretly or openly, both you and me. But you must know that the Page 268 necessary result of this will be that you will have to walk in the special path which He ...
... my own efforts and example. Transform your nature from the animal to the spiritual, grow into a higher divine consciousness. All this you can do by your own aspiration aided by the force of the Divine Shakti." That, if you please, is not the utterance of a madman or an imbecile. I have said, "I have opened the Way ; now you with the Divine help can follow it." I have not said "Find the way for yourself ...
... bondage of the gunas in spite of her using them? By the transformation of the gunas eventually. Till then by using them without attachment as the will and as the instrumentation of the Divine Shakti. But before the transformation, how can the Prakriti use the gunas without attachment, since it is with a great difficulty that even the Purusha manages to be detached? How ...
... advantage are: (i) sincerity; (ii) right attitude; (iii) aspiration; (iv) ardent willpower; (v) heartfelt prayer; (vi) self-surrender to the Divine; (vii) an unshakable faith and confidence in the Divine Shakti. Any of these factors rightly introduced will modify the rigour of the law of determinism, alter the course of fate, and help the sadhaka to move towards his final Goal along a more sunlit ...
... my own efforts and example. Transform your nature from the animal to the spiritual, grow into a higher divine consciousness. All this you can do by your own aspiration aided by the force of the Divine Shakti." That, if you please, is not the utterance of a madman or an imbecile. I have said, "I have opened the Way; now you with the Divine help can follow it." I have not said, "Find the way for yourself ...
... manifestly Thou!" *** "Let my aspiration rise constantly higher and higher towards Thee so that I may offer all in me, at each moment, to the Divine for purification and transformation by the Divine Shakti, by Thee, Mother Divine. Oh! Mother! How can I ever express my joy and gratitude for Thy innumerable blessings which ever come to me, at each moment, in so many ways and leave an eternal smile of ...
... cover for your desires, egoistic demands and Page 182 vital insistences, if you put these things in place of the true aspiration or mix them with it and try to impose them on the Divine Shakti, then it is idle to invoke the divine Grace to 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 action. The second result is the ascent of consciousness in the superconscient and even towards the Transcendence, which results in the experience of the Self, experience of the Ishwara and Divine Shakti, experience of cosmic consciousness. This inflow of spiritual experiences has effects on the lower Prakriti of mind, life and body, and there are illuminations of the mind by knowledge, illuminations ...
... nature, he couldn't have done it all by himself, as you have done. I also did not do it all by myself, if you mean by myself the Aurobindo that was. He did it with the help of Krishna and the Divine Shakti. I had help from embodied sources also. I should say that Avatars are like well-fitted, well-equipped Rolls Royce machines. All sufficient to themselves—perfect and complete from the beginning ...
... silence, freedom, peace that is felt — that is called Atman or Self. When action takes place, it is according to the realisation either felt as forces of Nature working in that wideness, as the Divine Shakti working or as the Cosmic Divine or various powers of his working. It is not felt that the Self is acting. Is not the self a portion of the Divine? It is the individual ...
... aware of and dominant over the action of the universe. It is then that there comes about a real and effective and total integralisation. It will then be found that it is the supra-mental power, the divine shakti that descends within us, and it is that power that effects the accomplishment of the object of the integral yoga. The unveiling of the psychic being and the bringing of the psychic entity into ...
... Once money has been won from the hands of the vital forces whom it serves, it has to be diverted into the developing channels of the divine work. Not to the animal or the Asura in man, but to the Divine Shakti, the supreme Creative Force alone has it to be offered; for, it belongs to Her and has been created by Her for the purpose of Her work in the material world. "In your personal use of money look ...
... from Her eyes. Then the Mother herself explained the difficult concept of ‘purusha’ and ‘prakriti’ so simply and so beautifully that we could not believe it! And when we went on to read “The Divine Shakti” from Sri Aurobindo’s The Synthesis of Yoga I realised I had finally understood! The Mother had a natural gift of being able to explain clearly in simple language difficult philosophical concepts ...
... death. I felt the same after hearing these reassuring words from the Mother. This world-encompassing churning will be followed by the appearance of the white horse, Ucchaishrava, that is the Divine Shakti. After the Mother’s work in the Inconscient is over, after the halahal is removed, the spiritual Shakti will awaken. From the Inconscient the Mother will re-emerge carrying the pot of amrita ...
... that you do not place any value on it.” Hearing these words from the Mother I was somehow filled with pain. I told the Mother: “Gods and goddesses or sages and rishis know You as the Eternal Divine Shakti but You are our Mother, You are our Friend. It is true we see You also as the Eternal Shakti but it is more as our Mother and our Friend that we really know You. That is why we make such demands ...
... April 7, 1920. Dear Barin, First, about your yoga. You wish to give me the charge of your yoga and I am willing to take it, but that means to give its charge to Him who is moving by His divine Shakti, whether secretly or openly, both you and me. But you must know that the necessary result of this will be that you will have to walk in the special way which He has given to me, the way which I ...
... individual. He says, in fact, what was said long ago by the Upanishads and the Gita. It is not a cult of worship of little gods and goddesses but the general dependence on the inner spirit, on the Divine Shakti, Bhawani, that is in the race. 41. Girija says also that in modern times people do not believe in religion and in the miracles of spirituality. He forgets that the 20th century is not devoid ...
... heart cried when I read the news of our friend's death in the paper. No, this is not possible — they have killed her. Never in my life have I met with such a beautiful Instrument, such a pure and divine Shakti, so joyful and full of possibility for a terrestrial work. I still cannot accept this death, it is a crime, it is a loss for the Earth. And it is one more sign that this "obstinately asuric" ...
... have become magnified and there was a light pervading her and the face was of a Goddess. I can only say that it was the face of Maheshwari. Sri Aurobindo has written of this aspect of the Divine Shakti: "Imperial Maheshwari is seated in the wideness above the thinking mind and will and sublimates and greatens them into wisdom and largeness or floods with a splendour beyond them .... Tranquil ...
... April 7,1920 Dear Barin, ...First about our yoga. You wish to give me the charge of your yoga and I am willing to take it, but that means giving its charge to Him who is moving by His Divine Shakti, whether secretly or openly, both you and me. But you must know that the necessary result of this will be that you will have to walk in the special way which He has given to me, the way which I ...
... guidance of a divine Will that surpasses Page 24 us. And last, the supreme result, to be exalted into an identity in knowledge, force, consciousness, act, joy of existence with the Divine Shakti; to feel a dynamic movement not dominated by mortal desire and vital instinct. and impulse and illusive mental free will, but luminously conceived and evolved in an immortal self-delight and ...
... of God in Matter. Its aim is the most comprehensive ever conceived by man, its appeal is at once intimate and universal, and its method—if method it can be called—an integral surrender to the Divine Shakti and Her Grace. It grips the thought, feeling and will of man and, forging them into an organic unity round the psychic or soul centre, lifts them all into the embrace of the Divine. It is a lif ...
... the supreme Godhead, to live in the highest spiritual nature with the individual and natural being delivered from shortcoming and ignorance and made a conscious instrument for the works of the divine Shakti is the perfection of which humanity is capable and the condition of immortality and freedom. But how is this possible when in fact we are enveloped in natural ignorance, the soul shut up in the ...
... there. Stone image of Shiva = the realisation of the silent Self or Brahman there (peace, silence, wideness of the Infinite, purity of the witness Purusha). Out of this silence emerges the Divine Shakti concentrated for the transformation of the material. Sunlight = Light of Truth. 12 October 1936 Whenever I have seen snakes in dream or anywhere else, I have had to go through many di ...
... serious difficulties, danger from the Asuric forces and an insufficient strength in the Adhar. On the other hand the vision of Kali with the dagger followed by that of the boy might mean that the Divine Shakti will destroy the difficulties and make the way clear for the service of Krishna. Nothing however can be definitely said from this kind of experience. If her call to Yoga is real, it will declare ...
... anyone: "Now that you are noble, you are disinterested, you have no egoism, you belong only to me, I am going to make you triumph. We are going to see if you will hold out." In what way does the divine Shakti act against the Asuras? I don't hear a thing!... Acts against the Asuras? Why do you want to know that? It is interesting! (Laughter) Perhaps to them also She gives what they want to ...
... 1954 This talk is based upon Chapter 6 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Sweet Mother, I didn't understand this: "This is the power of Mahalakshmi and there is no aspect of the Divine Shakti more attractive to the heart of embodied beings." That means men. It is another way of saying human beings upon the earth, beings upon earth. There are also... it means animals also. She is ...
... your own ignorance instead of the Mother's knowledge and your faith will naturally disappear and you will get into a wrong condition and a wrong attitude. March 1928 Put your faith in the Divine Shakti, set your mind at rest and let the Mother's Force work. 26 August 1933 There is no reason to be discouraged. Three years is not too much for the preparation of the nature and it is usually ...
... the character of the Ignorance. This is the first result, but the second is a free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experience, experience of the Self, experience of the Ishwara and the Divine Shakti, experience of cosmic consciousness, a direct touch with cosmic forces and Page 105 with the occult movements of universal Nature, a psychic sympathy and unity and inner com ...
... self-regarding ego. All your life must be an offering and a sacrifice to the Supreme; your only object in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfil, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works. Sri Aurobindo Page 91 By the Divine and for the Divine When I say, "If you are sincere, you are sure of victory", I mean true sincerity: to ...
... know, this is very good"—it is perhaps very good for him but not for everyone. "Your only object in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfil, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works." Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , p. 15 When you act your only object is to serve, that is, instead of acting for your personal good, you act with the feeling of serving, of ...
... time. We shall stop here. Page 357 × "It is thus by an integralisation of our divided being that the Divine Shakti in the Yoga will proceed to its object; for liberation, perfection, mastery are dependent on this integralisation, since the little wave on the surface cannot control its own movement, much less ...
... assigned to himself in the human creature. But its first condition for this liberality is that our works in the world too must be part of the sacrifice offered to the Highest and to none else, to the Divine Shakti and to no other Power, in the right spirit and with the right knowledge, by the free soul and not by the hypnotised bond slave of material Nature. If a division of works has to be made, it is between ...
... le instrument for all action of the Divine Power on the material world and the physical nature. It is therefore only when this vital is transformed and made a pure and strong instrument of the Divine Shakti, that there can be a divine life. Then only can there be-a successful transformation of the physical nature or a free perfected divine action on the external world; for with our present means any ...
... be rejected and to accept and keep to all that is true consciousness and true experience. Passivity of the mind is good, but take care to be passive only to the Truth and to the touch of the Divine Shakti. If you are passive to the suggestions and influences of the lower nature, you will not be able to progress or else you will expose yourself to adverse forces which may take you far away from the ...
... surrender. The object of the self-opening is to allow the force of the Divine to flow in bringing light, peace, Ananda etc. and to do the work of transformation. When the being so receives the Divine Shakti and it works in him, produces its results (whether he is entirely conscious of the process or not), then he is said to be open. Opening to the Divine In this Yoga the whole principle is to ...
... work given without bringing in the ego. This is the basis of the divine life. One cannot become altogether this at once, but if one aspires at all times to it and calls in always the aid of the Divine Shakti with a true heart and straightforward will, one grows more and more into this consciousness. Sincerity in Sadhana Men are always mixed and there are qualities and defects mingled together ...
... when the surrender is complete that the full flood of the sadhana is possible. Till then there must be the personal effort with an increasing reality of surrender. One calls in the power of the Divine Shakti and once that begins to come into the being, it at Page 207 first supports the personal endeavour, then progressively takes up the whole action, although the consent of the sadhak continues ...
... our whole consciousness and its action into their mould and into the substance of their power and luminous capacity is found in practice to be the greater part of the natural method used by the divine Shakti. A fourth method is one which suggests itself naturally to the developed intelligence and suits the thinking man. This is to develop our intellect instead of eliminating it, but with the will ...
... supramental change possible. To speak of "receiving power from the supramental when we are not conscious" is strange. When one is not conscious, one can still receive a higher force; the Divine Shakti works often from behind the veil, otherwise in the ignorant and unconscious condition of the human being she would not be able to work at all. But the nature of the force or action is modified to ...
... get into the higher and deeper consciousness which knows and lives consciously in the Divine, we have to get rid of the forces of the Page 7 lower nature and open to the action of the Divine Shakti which will transform our consciousness into that of the Divine Nature. This is the conception of the Divine from which we have to start—the realisation of its truth can only come with the opening ...
... is accustomed to the descent and grows wide enough to admit it. The first result of the descent is the calm which he experiences; for it is only in a calm mind and vital ( manaḥ-prāṇa ) that the Divine Shakti can do her work rightly. When there is a pressure of the Force on the Adhar to work on it or enter, this [ feeling of heaviness in the head ] is often felt, especially if there is a working ...
... greater power to command the money-force for the divine work. Equality of mind, absence of demand and the full dedication of all you possess and receive and all your power of acquisition to the Divine Shakti and her work are the signs of this freedom. Any perturbation of mind with regard to money and its use, any claim, any grudging is a sure index of some imperfection or bondage. The ideal Sadhaka ...
... plane of the consciousness and every movement to the Divine and the Shakti. Page 6 In proportion as the surrender and self-consecration progress the Sadhaka becomes conscious of the Divine Shakti doing the Sadhana, pouring into him more and more of herself, founding in him the freedom and perfection of the Divine Nature. The more this conscious process replaces his own effort, the more rapid ...
... realisation it is not enough to rescue the Purusha from subjection to Prakriti; we must transfer the allegiance of the Purusha from the lower Prakriti with its play of ignorant Forces to the Supreme Divine Shakti, the Mother. Sometimes when I feel the necessity of standing apart from the play of Prakriti, I also have the counteracting feeling that this would mean a belittlement of the Mother. It ...
... divine Personalities, for nothing can be in manifestation except by her and as part of her being. But what was meant in the Visions Page 67 and Voices 1 was that the Ishwara and the Divine Shakti were one Person or Being in two aspects and it puts forward this union of them as Krishna-Mahakali as of great power for the manifestation. 20 October 1936 ...
... work and to the work itself has been excised from the heart, so also the last clinging attachment to the idea and sense of ourselves as the doer has to be Page 222 relinquished; the Divine Shakti must be known and felt above and within us as the true and sole worker. The renunciation of attachment to the work and its fruit is the beginning of a wide movement towards an absolute equality ...
... renounced, cast away: the sadhaka must either choose an active peace and complete inner silence or lose individual initiation, saṅkalpārambha , in a unity with the universal will, the tapas of the divine Shakti. The passive way is to be inwardly immobile, without effort, wish, expectation or any turn to action, niśceṣṭa, anīha, nirapekṣa, nivṛtta ; the active way is to be thus immobile and impersonal ...
... solely biune with her. There is no longer the baffling play of Nature with the soul in the Ignorance; all is the conscious play of the soul with itself and all its selves and the Supreme and the divine Shakti in its own and the infinite bliss nature. This is the supreme mystery, the highest secret, simple to its own experience, however difficult and complex to our mental conceptions and the effort of ...
... Existence acts without any binding necessity and without any compelling ignorance. Even in doing works he does not work at all; he undertakes Page 265 no personal initiative. It is the Divine Shakti that works in him through his nature; his action develops through the spontaneity of a supreme Force by which his instruments are possessed, of which he is a part, with whose will his will is identical ...
... of the One True God and the one and only Saviour by the Christian monotheist and Jesus-preacher. So I should be expected to be very eager to see a link between Christianity's intuition of the Divine Shakti and the historical figure of Jesus' mother. To say, as you do, that I am "not disposed to believe in the Virgin Birth" is both insensitive and senseless. You have completely misconceived and ...
... and Sri Aurobindo called "supramentalisation" - that is, the total "divinisation" of the physical being. Right up to her ninety-third year the Mother was visibly true to her role of Divine Shakti on earth, but her best manifestation as the Ageless One was round about her eightieth year. For, contrary to expectation, it would have been the extreme of ineptitude to say on her eightieth ...
... of Sri Aurobindo's yoga. But there is a long and difficult way to go, a hard task of self-consecration, self-purification, self-discipline, a development on many lines and an opening to the Divine Shakti and Her working on all the planes to be carried through before this Page 69 decisive condition can he reached. That an opportunity may be given to others for ...
... delivered from all troubles and in possession of peace, turns away from life and action and becomes attached to the peace and ease of inaction. Remember always that you too are Brahman and the divine Shakti is working in you; reach out always to the realisation of God's omnipotence and his delight in the Lila. He bids Arjuna work lokasaṅgrahārthāya , for keeping the world together, for he does not ...
... “You certainly know Hindi.” And then he spoke in Hindi explaining what is meditation. During our stay of eight days, several other things happened. Sri Aurobindo asked me to try to see the Divine Shakti of the Lord that is at work everywhere, in everything. When I asked him what books I should read, he told me to read Prakriti Rahasya (Secret of Nature) in Gujarati and Shandilya's Bhakti Sutra ...
... my own efforts and example. Transform your nature from the animal to the spiritual, grow into a higher divine consciousness. All this you can do by your own aspiration aided by the force of the Divine Shakti.” That, if you please, is not the utterance of a madman or an imbecile. I have said, “I have opened the way; now you with the Divine help can follow it.”’ 16 These are the words of Sri Aurobindo ...
... spiritual seekers. His Yoga is called the yoga of Transformation or the Integral yoga and the way to it is perfect and unreserved surrender to the Divine Mother who Page 9 is the Divine Shakti and the mystery behind the whole creation. "Those who wish to help the Light of Truth to prevail over the forces of darkness and falsehood can do so by carefully observing the initiating impulses ...
... when the surrender is complete that the full flood of the sadhana is possible. Till then there must be the personal effort with an increasing reality of surrender. One calls in the power of the Divine Shakti and once that begins to come into the being, it at first supports the personal endeavour, then progressively takes up the whole action although the consent of the sadhak continues to be always ...
... You have painted his beard as if it was false and stuck... better paint it again—another portrait of Aswapathy. And I did so. For picture seventeen I had to draw the "Yantra"—symbol of the Divine Shakti (Power). The Mother said jokingly: Now look, we must paint the "Yantra" correctly; otherwise, wise people will surely find out our mistakes... I said to her that I would surely copy it nicely ...
... Shyamsunder and Piero who had been seeing the construction of the Matrimandir. About this power and personality of the Mother, Sri Aurobindo has written: ... there is no aspect of the Divine Shakti more attractive to the heart of embodied beings.... For she throws the spell of the intoxicating sweetness of the Divine .... Harmony and beauty of mind and soul, harmony and beauty of the thoughts ...
... tened, limited in its field, very partially effective in its power. If a spiritual transformation, not a mere illumining modification of our nature, is to be done at all, we must call in the Divine Shakti 100 to effect that miraculous work in the individual; for she alone has the needed force, decisive, all-wise and illimitable. 101 Commenting on the supreme secret of the Gita, Sri Aurobindo ...
... in order to tackle, through birth, the divine issue present in this world of birth, in the mortal creation, mrityuloka . He realises that the issue can be handled victoriously only if the divine Shakti would condescend to come down upon the earth and deal with the otherwise obstinate and intractable problem of mortality, presented in the Figure of Death. She agrees. Savitri comes down here ...
... February close to the Mother's birthday, 21st February? On 21st February the earth received into its bosom the child that was destined to become the manifestation and embodiment of the Divine Shakti, the Mother who, sacrificing the heavens for a mortal birth, came so that she might ensure the fulfilment of the Supreme Endeavour, the Supramentalisation of earth's nature. She was destined, in ...
... what she and Sri Aurobindo called "supramentalisation"—that is, the total "divinisation" of the physical being. Right up to her ninety-third year the Mother was visibly true to her role of Divine Shakti on earth, but her best manifestation as the Ageless One was round about her eightieth year. For, contrary to expectation, it would have been the extreme of ineptitude to say on her eightieth birthday ...
... should be clung to which come in the way of this aspiration and one object of the life. One must be ready to renounce all these completely as soon as the demand comes from above and from the divine Shakti. (2) A fundamental calm, peace and purity in the mind, vital being and all the nature. The hours of meditation should be devoted to the formation of these two conditions in you, by aspiration ...
... aspiration has its effect, if you are sincere you will grow into the divine life." Again, "One cannot become altogether this at once, but if one aspires at all times and calls in the aid of the Divine Shakti with a true heart and a straight- forward will, one grows more and more into the true consciousness." It is of course said that the success will come sooner or later—it is for that reason that ...
... nature of the man, which is mortal, is transformed into the higher nature of unity and infinity, which is immortal. That infinite consciousness of Aditi is the giver of sweet milk, since she is the Divine Shakti of Self-existent conscious Delight, Sachchidananda. Page 53 (d) Again, it is said: "O Ribhus, in your pervasion you made young again the Parents, you who seek the straight path and ...
... our whole consciousness and its action into their mould and into the substance of their power and luminous capacity is found in practice to be the greater part of the natural method used by the divine Shakti." 22 A fourth method consists of developing intellect instead of eliminating it; but the development is aimed at heightening the capacity right up to its utmost borders where the objects on ...
... discovery of Brahman, Purusha and Ishwara at different levels of the superconscient that lie beyond the mind. These experiences include those of the Self, Page 50 of Ishwara and the Divine Shakti of cosmic consciousness and of direct touch with cosmic forces and with occult movements of universal Nature. As a result of a free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experience, one receives ill ...
... dual attitude of (i) the sense of utter impotence so far as his personal egoistic capabilities are concerned but at the same time (ii) the sense of complete conviction hit the omnipotence of the Divine Shakti. The sadhaka should have abiding faith in this double formulation: "O Divine, without you I am nothing, I know nothing, and I can do nothing; but with you I can be everything, I can do everything ...
... sadhana of the just precedingstage is entirely completed. The sadhana-life of an aspirant in the Integral Yoga is a life of the unexpected. And which foolhardy person would dare dictate to the Divine Shakti when her Grace should act or should not and how much and in which fashion, in the life of a particular sadhaka? So the succession of the stages as indicated below need not be taken too literally: ...
... that are contrary to his cherished goal. And since in this preliminary stage of self-preparation he cannot too hastily claim to leave everything overtly and exclusively to the charge of the Divine Shakti, there must perforce be a stress on personal effort. Now the personal effort demanded of the sadhaka has three limbs: an ever-mounting flame of aspiration, a ceaseless process of rejection ...
... nature. You said yesterday: "It is only after you become conscious that the surrender can be complete." Which consciousness was spoken of here? How am I to receive it from the Divine Shakti? The right consciousness by which you become aware of all that is going on in you and of the real character of the movements and aware too of the right working. You can get it by aspiration ...
... Symposium. Of the Mother's many Aspects, Powers and Personalities, the face of Love was the most significant and nectarean, and it was as the Mother of Love that she manifested a power of 'the The Divine Shakti not hitherto witnessed - or witnessed to an equal degree - in the world. The symphonic Divina Commedia of Dante concludes with a peal in of praise of "the Love that moves the Sun and the ...
... occult hierarchy of powers corresponding to the hierarchy of the invisible worlds, and one should beware of false loyalties. One should therefore be careful to rely on the Divine alone, on the Divine Shakti, - not on the false or flawed lower manifestations. One should also refrain from using terms like individual, universal and transcendent as though they are mechanical formulas: Page 528 ...
... unsleeping Power keeps the cosmic play in a perpetual progressive motion, and prevents it from tumbling into disintegrating chaos. 'But there are many planes of Her creation, many steps of the Divine Shakti. At the summit of this manifestation of which we are a part, there are worlds of infinite Page 91 existence, consciousness, force and bliss over which the Mother stands as the unveiled ...
... the past efforts and achievements. Furthermore, the descent Page 4 spoken of here is the descent, not of a divine consciousness—for there are many varieties of divine consciousness—but of the Divine's own consciousness, of the Divine himself with his Shakti. For it is that that is directly working out this evolutionary transformation of the age. It is not my purpose here to... the result and is already at work is not any individual human power, however great it may be, but the Divine himself, it is the Divine's own Shakti that is labouring for the destined end. Here is the very heart of the mystery, the master-key to the problem. The advent of the superhuman or divine race, however stupendous Page 3 or miraculous the phenomenon may appear to be, can... lines of activity and the results brought about. For it is indeed an actual descent that happens: the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work there— although it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action—for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness ...
... the Divine himself, it is the Divine's own Shakti that is labouring for the destined end. Here is the very heart of the mystery, the master-key to the problem. The advent of the superhuman or divine race, however stupendous or miraculous the phenomenon may appear to be, can become a thing of practical actuality, precisely because it is no human agency that has undertaken it but the Divine himself... Page 4 of the past efforts and achievements. Furthermore, the descent spoken of here is the descent, not of a divine consciousness – for there are many varieties of divine consciousness – but of the Divine's own consciousness, of the Divine himself with his Shakti. For it is that that is directly working out this evolutionary transformation of the age. It is not my purpose here to... lines of activity and the results brought about. For it is indeed an actual descent that happens: the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work there although it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action-for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness ...
... Fullerism plus hooliganism, nor prosecution under cover of legal statutes can slay Nationalism now that it has entered the arena. Nationalism is an avatara and cannot be slain. Nationalism is a divinely appointed shakti of the Eternal and must do its God-given work before it returns to the bosom of the Universal Energy from which it came. Page 750 ... powerful drips blood in vain. For the idea is Page 746 God's deputy and life and death, victory and defeat, joy and suffering have become its servants and cannot help ministering to its divine purpose. The idea of Indian Nationalism is in the second season of its life history. The Moderate legend of its origin is that it was the child of Lord Curzon begotten upon despair and brought safely ...
... dynamically executive, working out all things under the witnessing eye of the Conscious Being, the Self or Spirit; it is the conscious Power of the Divine Being, Shakti, which is both conceptively creative and dynamically executive of all the divine workings. These three aspects and their powers base and comprise the whole of existence and all Nature..." 15 Here Sri Aurobindo mentions... Sat and Chit-Shakti, double but inseparable, that the total truth of things can become manifest to the inner experience. This other side was developed by the Shakta Tantriks. The two together, the Vedantic and the Tantric truth unified, can arrive at the integral knowledge.... It is already indicated in the Gita's teaching of the Purushottama and the Parashakti (Adya Shakti) who becomes... Self, Spirit, one entirely real existence that the ancient Indian mind seized spiritually and philosophically. This mind declared: "Force is inherent in Existence. Shiva and Kali, Brahman and Shakti are one and not two who are separable. Force inherent in existence may be at rest or it may be in motion, but when it is at rest, it exists none the less and is not abolished, diminished or in ...
... with its multiple mansions - came to be reared. Soon after his complete withdrawal on 24 November 1926, Sri Aurobindo had written his great little book. The Mother, and while describing the Divine Shakti's four chief powers and personalities, he had incidentally also brought out the Mother's own marvellous and many-sided ministry. It was, perhaps, the inspired portraiture of Mahasaraswati - a prose-poem... Mother said: It is the Divine in the inconscient who aspires to the Divine in the consciousness. That is to say, without the Divine there would be no aspiration; without the consciousness hidden in the inconscient, there would be no possibility of changing the inconscience to consciousness. But because at the very heart of the inconscient there is the divine Consciousness, you aspire, and... a total consecration to the Divine. Let the flame of this sincerity rise high above the falsehoods and the deceptions of the world. 23 And while talking to Jay Smith in connection with the working of these Centres, the Mother made the important distinction between work for the Divine and the Divine's work. It wouldn't be enough to offer our work to the Divine in a spirit of niskāma karma; ...
... the certitude of its success. This Adya Shakti takes birth in our mortality and accepts the name of Savitri. She is "the patroness of magic priestcraft, Brahmanhood" and is, as Heinrich Zimmer rightly says, "the female counterpart and divine energy, Shakti, of Savitra-Brahma, the Creator of the world; she is the all-moving, all-inspiring divine principle of creation." 47 Consort of Brahma in... Meditation, witnesses the divine reality of her own self, that reality vaster and mightier than Death whom she is presently confronting as a dark terrible Shadow. Savitri now merges her will with the will of the transcendent Power who is ever burning in the depth of her soul, in the jewel-bright cave of her heart. That Adya Shakti herself is Savitri, luminous, in the Yajna of the Divine. In the deepest... which pervades the world and is behind all its workings." 30 Savitri first steps into that House where her "silent will" joins the Will of the Divine in the Universe. Such is the nature of this Vedic Yajna going on in her heart. Sat-Purusha and Adya-Shakti A. B. Keith in his long introduction to the Taittiriya Sanhita belonging to the Veda of the Black Yajus School mentions that it, like ...
... the Swadeshi Movement. "Now they are beginning to find themselves, especially after India's Independence, and to realise that they are portions of the divine universal Shakti. Unfortunate indeed is the land where women are downtrodden. The Divine Mother comes upon earth from time to time to break such bonds. This time she has come down as the Mother herself in all her Power. All of you children live... become evident tomorrow. Even if all of you don't, at least some of you will perceive them. The Divine's Love and Grace alone can transform the world." "Is it true, as some say, that if the Mother had notcome here, your Yoga would have remained incomplete?" "Absolutely true. The Mother is the Shakti, and hers is the force that realises and manifests Truth. If she had not come here, neither would... described by Bankim in his Anandamath was not wholly imaginary." "How exactly did you meet Nivedita?" asked Pooja. Page 115 "She already knew me as a revolutionary; 'a worshipper of Shakti', was the term she used. That is, perhaps, why she came to Baroda to meet me. Also, to draw the Maharaja into the Revolutionary Movement. That she was part of the Movement I knew, and therefore somewhat ...
... However corrupted and misused, as Love and Knowledge too are corrupted and misused, Power is divine and put here for a divine use. Shakti, will, Power is the driver of the worlds and whether it be Knowledge-Force or Love-Force or Life-Force or Action-Force or Body-Force, is always spiritual in its origin and divine in its character. It is the use made of it in the Ignorance by brute, man or Titan that... aquamarine, and vast, vast, tranquil, without a ripple – such indescribable freshness, truly the feeling of bathing in the Source. Indeed, this "descending force" is the very Force of the Spirit – Shakti . Spiritual Force is not just a word. Ultimately, it will no longer be necessary to close our eyes and withdraw from the surface to feel it; it will be there every second of our life, no matter what... smallness of our receptivity and capacity. When the disciples speak of their experience with this descending Force, they call it "Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's Force." But they do not mean that this Shakti is the personal property of Sri Aurobindo and Mother; they merely express, unwittingly, the fact that it has no equivalent in any other known yoga. Here, experientially, we touch upon the fundamental ...
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